I went to a marvelous partyWhere Billy and both the Teds (Billy Stritch, Tedd Firth, Ted Rosenthal)Played front to back pianos –A trio of thoroughbreds. We toasted Rodgers and Hart,Whose “Manhattan” everyone crooned,With voices both…
Matilde/Tilde (Katherine Reis) is an honor student – healthy, popular, pretty, and active. Named for the earworm song from Beetlejuice, she writes good poetry, prefers loud, heavy metal music, and doesn’t know how to do…
This is my first experience with Diane D’Angelo. I recommend her. The artist has a voice whose obvious power is selectively employed and deftly controlled, nuanced theatrical chops, a sense of playful, sometimes sexy fun,…
Liz Callaway might’ve been your favorite college roommate or the friend who best listens. She exudes warmth and genuineness. This valentine to composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz is highly personal. From having attended Pippin three times as…
In order not to repeat arriving in America with H.M.S. Pinafore only to discover 13 unlicensed productions, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (David Hyde Pierce and Preston Truman Boyd) tell us they personally brought Pirates…
“Tragically, I won’t be dancing this evening,” Madi Tanguay tells us alone on stage. The artist invites the audience back on May 11 when she’ll dance A Couple. “No one quite does it like I…
“Irving Berlin has no place in American music — he is American music.” Jerome Kern. The Anderson Brothers’ tutorial entertainments offer almost as much information as they do music. Will writes an illuminating biographical script…
“Anything inanimate that you animate is a puppet.” Basil Twist How does a program like HERE’s Dream Music Puppetry (producer of Puppetopia) get started in a country without traditions that historically evolved in Europe? This…
