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…
Bill Nighy and Carrie Mulligan Photos by John Haynes by Deirdre Donovan “I mean, to be a teacher, the only thing you really have going for you … there’s only one thing that makes the whole thing make sense, and that is finding one really good pupil.” Kyra, the schoolteacher character who is devoting…
Cromwell (Ben Miles) and King Henry (Nathaniel Parker) by Eugene Paul A huge, lavish, compelling retelling of the seething times of Henry VIII, how lust overcame religious duty Homo homini lupus. Hilary Mantel’s prize winning books, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” have been artfully fashioned by playwright Mike Poulton into a confident…
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 Deirdre Donovan Christina Bianco impersonates 40 personas in the behind-the-scenes world of kindergarten admissions at a fictive private Manhattan school. Christina Bianco reveals the behind-the-scenes world of kindergarten admissions at a fictive private Manhattan school in Application Pending, now running at the Westside Theatre. Co-written by Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg, this…
Ivette Dumeng and Sergio Castillo photos by Rosalie Baijer. by Deirdre Donovan Theater historians tend to extol the dramatic virtues of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, The Creditors, The Dance of Death, The Father, and A Dream Play. But Kristina? Hardly. This historical drama, in fact, seems to be more Strindberg’s step-child than one of…
Kristin Chenoweth as Lily GarlandPhoto: Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Screwball? Yes. Madcap? Yes. Zany? Yesss. Dizzying pace? Yes. Laughs? Galore. Laughs? Raucous. Laughs? Gut busters. Kristin Chenoweth? A scream. Peter Gallagher? A hoot. Andy Karl? A howl. Mark Linn-Baker, Michael McGrath, Mary Louise Wilson? Funny, funny, funny. Rick Faugno, Richard Riaz Yoder, Drew King,…
Elisabeth Moss and Jason Biggs Photos by: Joan Marcus by David Schultz Wendy Wasserstein’s award-winning play still packs a punch, but is more muted and wistful than it needs to be. Beginning in 1989 in a stuffy lecture hall, this wide-ranging play moves in episodic moments, both large and small. It attempts to show…
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….