Left to right: Ehud Asherie, Lezlie Harrison, Arthur Pomposello, Brianna Thomas, Hilary Gardner. Photo by Michael Stever. by Barry Bassis Arthur Pomposello aka Pompie, spent 18 years as the host and booker at the Algonquin’s Oak Room. While there, he presented such fabled singers as Julie Wilson and Andrea Marcovicci. He also promoted up…
PHOTO BY Richard Termine By Elliot Rush On March 13th, Sutton Foster, one of Broadway’s reigning leading ladies, made a remarkable return to the stage of Carnegie Hall as a guest of The New York Pops, just five days before her 40th Birthday. In what became her penultimate number, Sutton told the packed crowd…
L to R: Leslie Kritzer, Darius de Haas, La Tanya Hall, Billy Stritch, Jeffrey Schecter, Klea Blackhurst Photo credit: Richard Termine by Linda Amiel Burns There are so many great songs written about New York and the 92nd Street Y Lyrics & Lyricist Series latest program on March 21-23, 2015 was a love letter to the…
by R. Pikser Rex Nettleford and Eddy Thomas founded the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica 53 years ago and to celebrate Jamaican culture and its African roots. Now, with former Associate Director and lead dancer Barry Moncrieffe directing the group, it still speaks to the Jamaican diaspora. Mr. Moncrieff has chosen to keep Mr….
Frankie Moreno, Storm Large, Ryan Silverman, and Tony DeSare Photos by Richard Termine By Stewart Schulman Frank Sinatra made a “legendary opening” at New York’s Paramount Theater on December 30, 1942, inspiring Jack Benny to say: “I thought the goddamned building was going to cave in. I never heard such a commotion … All this for a…
by R. Pikser Zhang Huan, who directed this production of the Canadian Opera Company’s Semele makes no bones about his directorial experience: He is a performance artist and this is his first opera. In this piece, he has worked with some excellent musicians. Sopranos Jane Archibald as Semele and Katherine Whyte as Iris, were…
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS: CONVERSATION & PERFORMANCE WITH THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM OF THE HIT BROADWAY SHOW With TONY DANZA, ROB McCLURE and BRYNN O’MALLEY JULIE JAMES set to Moderate Sunday, March 15, 8:15 pm, tickets from $30 “A deeply-satisfying, sophisticated Broadway musical in a way few shows are anymore” – New York Times #HoneymoonBway is…
Bart Feller & Stacy Shames with NJSO orchestra photo by Fred Stucker by Deirdre Donovan Maestro Johannes Debus and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) recently breezed into the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) with its program, “Mozart & Mendelssohn,” on February 27th. The first half of the program presented Mendelssohn’s rarely-performed The…
by Linda Amile Burns Lights, camera, action! Making his L & L debut, the multi-talented performer, playwright Charles Busch presented and hosted a dazzling program of music and song entitled “Here’s To The Girls! – Hollywood’s Leading Ladies” on February 7-9, 2015. He put together a terrific creative team with musical director/arranger John McDaniel…
by Deirdre Donovan Valentine’s Day arrived a little early this year, thanks to the baton of the renowned Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In his recent program at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) at Newark, he brought Shakespeare’s beloved Romeo and Juliet to life, not through high-flown rhetoric, but…