Irving Berlin

Monday night, the National Arts Club hosted Shana Farr and Steve Ross in a unique concert spotlighting Christmas and some of the [...]

December 14, 2017

Unlike most of his iconic peers, Cole Albert Porter was neither Jewish nor of immigrant heritage. Born to an extremely wealthy Indiana [...]

February 15, 2017

Simon Green and David Shrubsole made their New York debut at 59E59 Theaters in 2008 with the Noel Coward show A Changing World. I [...]

December 19, 2016

Noel Coward wrote and shelved Hoi Polloi in 1949. To discover why and how this production developed, click to read my preview article. [...]

November 4, 2016

If you’ve been hiding under a rock, the beloved 1942 Christmas film Holiday Inn starred Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as successful song [...]

October 11, 2016

Sunday afternoon I took a mini-vacation with Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano- well, me and the rest of the audience at Birdland. Like [...]

July 20, 2016

Queens born Ethel Merman (1908-1984) sang publicly from the age of nine. Completing school, determined to forge a show business career, she [...]

April 20, 2016