Judy Collins: A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim
A familiar rich strum and gliding soprano fills Café Carlyle as Judy Collins opens, guitar in hand, with “Chelsea Morning” (Joni [...]
Playing Around
Me and Mr. B. = Anita Gillette and Irving Berlin
Young Anita Gillette was playing “a nymphomaniac coed” in Lee Adams/Charles Strouse’s All American at The Winter Garden Theatre [...]
A Walk in the Woods – The Caucus Dance of Diplomacy
Playwright Lee Blessing’s deft 1988 two-hander is, unfortunately, no less topical today. Two arms negotiators meet for treaty negotiation [...]
Angels in America – An Outstanding Production
This is the third time I’ve seen Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes including the original run and the 2003 television [...]
Babette’s Feast – Captivating
Based directly on Isak Dinesen’s short story, not the 1987 Danish film of the same name, this imaginative, stylized dramatization of [...]
WAT-CAST: Nicole Lewis Talks About August Wilson’s Two Trains Running at Arena Stage
Nicole Lewis, who has appeared on Broadway in Hair, Rent, and Lennon, will make her Arena Stage debut in August Wilson’s Two Trains [...]
The Stone Witch – A Monstre Sacré with Monsters of His Own
“The Great Man” lives in an upstate cabin in the woods. A wall of window shows us where we are. Two stained glass installations depict [...]
The Village: New York’s Bohemia – Illuminating and Entertaining
Though Barry Lewis is primarily an architectural historian, the New-York Historical Society has requested he feature notable women in this [...]
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