Frank Loesser: Lyricist– Thoroughly Engaging Going out with a bang, Lyrics and Lyricist’s final show of the season offered David Loud’s presentation of “not lesser Loesser, but [...] June 8, 2018
Steve Ross: Travels with My Piano– An Extravagant Voyage When a journalist covers an artist over time, there’s one thing that inevitably happens and another that should. Over the years, changes [...] June 6, 2018
Just Make Them Beautiful – Hollywood’s Golden Age Costume Designers “Just make them beautiful,” Louis B. Mayer (head of MGM) said dismissively to film costume designer Helen Rose in Hollywood’s glamour [...] June 4, 2018
Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart — Oh, The Music! Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) is one of the best known Russian composers of the romantic period. He’s often cited as the [...] June 1, 2018
The Beast in the Jungle – A Compelling Dance Play On the evening of a painful funeral, art dealer John Marcher (Peter Friedman) returns to his apartment exhausted and bereft only to be [...] May 29, 2018
Paradise Blue – Suffering Through Jazz and Urban Renewal Music wafts through the empty bar long enough to be called an overture. Though it’s uncomfortably extended, to the production’s credit, [...] May 29, 2018
Devil of Choice -Truth and Consequences Pepper (Elizabeth Canavan) and Sal (David Zayas) have reached a threadbare juncture in their marriage where his burgeoning hostility [...] May 29, 2018
All the Way: The Music of Jimmy Van Heusen & Friends Sixteen year old disc jockey, Edward Chester Babcock (1913-1990), unhappy with his given name, was inspired to change it to Van Heusen when [...] May 28, 2018