We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert by Jeanne Lieberman photos by Phil McAuliffe Is the prematurely canceled concert celebrating New York’s victory over Covid a metaphor for incomplete victory as the Delta variant looms over us? The crowd came in exultant and in a celebratory mood. Their party personae reflecting the theme…
Photograph: Shaye Weaver/Time Out We got a first look at the gorgeous Immersive Van Gogh exhibit coming to NYC Get ready to take an emotional journey through the artist’s incredible paintings By Shaye Weaver Posted: Wednesday May 26 2021, 5:04 PM FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsApp Donning a hard hat covered in painted sunflowers, I stepped into the highly-anticipated “Immersive Van…
By Edward Rubin A pre and post-COVID-19-slanted offering much peppered with condemnation of Trump and the current administration – was presented one time only this past September–was HBO’s Coastal Elites. Originally written to be performed as a play at New York City’s Public Theater by playwright, and novelist Paul Rudnick, widely known for his humorous…
Claire Mazza and Daniel White. photos are by Nan Melville Kathryn Posin Dance R. Pikser Kathryn Posin continues to delight us all with her wide-ranging interests, her imagination, and her wit. Lately, she has turned more to ballet, rather than modern dance, as her movement medium, though here and there whole body-movements sneak through…
Samson Schmitt The Django Reinhardt NY Festival Makes a Triumphant Return to Birdland By Barry Bassis Producer Pat Philips-Stratta brought her semi-annual Django Reinhardt NY Festival back to the Birdland jazz club (315 W. 44th St.). As she explained in her introduction to the sold-out show, this is the 20th year of the festival…
An Evening with Gavin Creel by Deirdre Donovan . Theatergoers recently got a real taste of Broadway at the 92nd Street Y with “An Evening with Gavin Creel” on July 17th. The program, which was part of their popular Concert series, showcased the Tony Award winner Creel who regaled the audience with some…
Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar By David Schultz Hard to believe that this uber talented performer has been dazzling audiences for thirty years. His onstage performances are legendary. His film roles are few, but his live theater performances are delicious and invigorating. This new piece, potentially his last… he is toying with running for…
Photo by Hugh Kretsthmer John Bayless – One Hand One Heart – My Life and My Music by: Mary L Smith John Bayless returns to his beloved New York for the World Premier of his new show “One Hand One Heart” at Landmark On Main Street in Port Washington. John…
Rigoletto By Barry Bassis Rigoletto is Giuseppe Verdi’s opera based on a Victor Hugo play, “Le roi s’amuse” (“The king takes his amusement”), about the corrupt king of France during the 16th century, François I. When the opera ran into censorship problems, Verdi and his librettist Francesco Maria Piave moved the locale to Italy…
Lori Belilove The Isadora Duncan Dance Company By R. Pikser Isadora Duncan was a dancer at the beginning of the 20th century who was, in many ways, part of the turmoil of the time. World War I, a struggle for domination among the European powers and which of them was going to be preeminent…