Belfast Girls – Between a Rock and a Hard Place History The Great Famine tore through Ireland from 1845 to 1849. Potato blight, absentee landlords, and single-crop dependence were [...] May 21, 2022
The Minutes– Revisionist History What could be duller than a suburban town meeting? NOT. Arriving in set designer David Zinn’s beautifully detailed, barrel-vault chamber, [...] May 20, 2022
Scandals and Secrets of Paris’s Père Lachaise Based in part on a lecture by Historian Andrew Lear Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery is one of the most visited in the world. Established [...] May 18, 2022
The Orchestra Now Ends Its Carnegie Hall Season on a Poignant Note In the final concert of its Carnegie Hall season on May 12, The Orchestra Now (TON) performed four seldom-heard works from the late 1930s. [...] May 17, 2022
HERE presents Two from Puppetopia There are other venues in New York that present contemporary puppet work, but none so committed and connected as the Basil Twist lead [...] May 16, 2022
Mr. Saturday Night – Add Music and Stir The 1992 film Mr. Saturday Night was met with a “meh” reception. Billy Crystal’s valentine to Borsht Belt-style comedy found itself [...] May 14, 2022
American Songbook Association Gala – For Good: A Celebration of Stephen Schwartz From the title song of Butterflies Are Free through musical theater (most recently, the juggernaut that is Wicked), film, television, [...] May 11, 2022
The Funny Girl in Me – Josephine Sanges Sings Fanny Brice It takes real guts to debut a Fanny Brice/Funny Girl show while negative reviews of the Broadway revival continue to land squarely on the [...] May 10, 2022