Leonard Bernstein Archives - Woman Around Town

Take it from me, celebrating the work of a talented, even iconic artist is not a slam dunk. Narrative, direction, and performance must live [...]

February 27, 2018

New York City Opera has risen like a phoenix from threats to its demise. Lavish staging of Candide by the estimable Harold Prince is, but [...]

January 10, 2017

Louis Rosen, composer/songwriter/librettist/musician/author/educator is a Jewish white man for whom black experience profoundly resonates. [...]

October 4, 2016

Maestro begins with a lesson in music theory and construct (be patient, it will pass) and unexpectedly ends with a passionate outburst of [...]

September 12, 2016

One person’s perfectionism is the other’s neurosis. So let’s stop quibbling over how to label it and figure out how to fix it. It [...]

July 10, 2016

For its 90th revival, Musicals Tonight! chose 1953’s Wonderful Town, originally starring Edie Adams and Rosalind Russell. The Tony Award [...]

April 8, 2016