Stephen Sondheim

After 21 shows in 12 days (whew!) to benefit a worthy outreach program, Urban Stages traditionally ends its annual Winter Rhythms Festival [...]

December 25, 2017

Zero Hour is a helluva piece of writing. Now tightened from two acts (first premiering in 2006) to intermissionless, time-stopping [...]

July 3, 2017

The New York Public Library for The Performing Arts is currently host to a small, gem of an exhibition featuring the art/design of [...]

May 15, 2017

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

Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein 1905-1994) was a British American songwriter who contributed to over 1500 published songs (“All of which [...]

November 12, 2016

“Every song I will sing tonight will be about someone who helped me get here. Every note and every word will be shared in the spirit of [...]

November 1, 2016

I would call this an appreciation. I’ve listened to Stranger in a Dream several times now, hearing something new or drifting at different [...]

October 5, 2016

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

October 4, 2016