CREDIT: MONIQUE CARBONI Jennifer Allen, Florrie Bagel, Brandon Contreras, Sean Patrick Doyle, Brad Greer, Luke Grooms, Nathaniel Hackmann, Billy Hepfinger, Justin Keyes, Beth Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Loyacano, Terrence Mann, Tiffany Marin, Jill Paice, Will Swenson, Nichole Turner, Kim Steele. By David Schultz Wonder of wonders…this television parody of the Jerry Springer show still has something…
Matthew Fairlee as Dromio of Syracuse and Josh Walden as Antipholus of Syracuse in a scene from “The Boys from Syracuse” (Photo credit: Milliron Studios Photography) By Eugene Paul Raffish. Rambunctious. Ridiculous. Deliberately. Gay. Very. Enjoyable. Very. A totally pro shambles. But if you think this the first drag take on Richard Rodgers’, Lorenz…
The Cast of A Chorus Line Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman For its 208th production, WBT is presenting one of the most celebrated shows of the Broadway canon: A Chorus Line, the ode to those unsung actors without whom no musical could survive: the gypsies. A Chorus Line opened off-Broadway at the…
Amy Londyn in a scene from Eric B. Sirota’s new musical FRANKENSTEIN. Photo Credit: Adam Smith Jr. by Deirdre Donovan A new musical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel is now humming a ghoulish tune at St. Luke’s Theatre. Directed by Clint Hromsco, and with book, music, and lyrics by Eric B. Sirota,…
Devon Perry as Annie Oakley Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show has settled in Elmsford for Westchester Broadway Theatre’s year-end production, Annie Get Your Gun. Familiar real life characters, including Frank Butler, Buffalo Bill Cody, Pawnee Bill, Sitting Bull and the title character, Annie Oakley, inhabit the stage…
Kathleen Chalfant (© Joan Marcus) By Edward Medina No amount of pixie dust can make this emotionally laden Peter Pan take flight. Two time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee author Sarah Ruhl wrote For Peter Pan as a gift to her actress mother Kathleen Kehoe Ruhl who, in real life, joyously played…
David Lutken by Deirdre Donovan “Unless we do hear the work songs, war songs, love songs and dance songs of all the people everywhere, we are most apt to lose the peace, and this world right along with it.” That is a line from Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody…
Taylor Caldwell photos by Joan Marcus by Julia Polinsky Encores! Off-Center did a kids show? From the 70s? You could be pardoned for having visions of Sesame Street-level cuteness, updated with a multicultural cast with sass and attitude and pink feather boas. Well, that’s pretty much what you’d get, and it’s just…
Annie (Peyton Ella) & Sandy (Sunny) Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman Annie, that lovable Depression-era orphan, has found a foster home at the Westchester Broadway Theatre through September 10th. Mary Jane Houdina, who was dance captain and assistant to the legendary choreographer Peter Gennaro in the original Broadway production, directs and choreographs…
Count Wilhelm (Clint Hromsco) and Kabarett Headliner Rosie Penn (Amy Londyn) by Julia Polinsky If you like junior high drama-club level musical theater, you’ll love Write Act Repertory Theater’s production of Michael Antin’s Lili Marlene, currently running at St. Luke’s, on 46th Street, Tuesdays through the October. The show has all the…