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DELIGHTFUL!
By Alix Cohen
September 8, 2025: Without other similarity to the character Baby June from Gypsy, Rachel Matz Hunter might be called "a five foot two bundle of dynamite." Dimin…
By Isa Goldberg
September 8, 2025: A scream alert bursts your ears -- stabbing the subconscious, evoking fear, and demons that become real -- more than mere apparitions. Exorcistic: The Ro…
By Alix Cohen
September 4, 2025: An instrumental "After You've Gone" (Turner Layton/Henry Creamer) sashays in. Trombone surges, cornet and clarinet shimmy, sax kicks up. Tonight's band is …
Jaime Lozano and performers. Photo Credit: Rebecca J. Michaelson
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 31, 2025: Magic, as Jamie Allan, the appealing British magician now holding forth at one of the venues in Off-Broadway's New World Stages, explains, goes back…
By David Sheward
August 31, 2025: You might expect a lot more snark from comedian Jeff Ross in his one-man show Take a Banana for the Ride at the Nederlander. After all, he is nicknamed th…
By Alix Cohen
August 27, 2025: With this 11" x 17" book, you too can put a Hirschfeld on your wall or gift an uber-fan. There are 58 pages, 50 drawings and 25 glossy, thick, ready to frame…
HOT SHOTS featuring Russell Young on view at The White Room Gallery through September 21
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 21, 2025: At last! The Delacorte Theatre, home of Free Shakespeare in Central Park has reopened, after a two-year renovation costing a reported $85 million, with…
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 18, 2025: In our currently niche-dominated entertainment world, including the infinitesimal number of choices on cable, streaming, and broadcast TV, it's easy…
By Paulanne Simmons
August 16, 2025: Late in her life, Ava Gardner decided to write an autobiography. She didn't so much want to tell her story as raise money. She was low on funds and as …
CHARMING AND ENTERTAINING
By Alix Cohen
August 14, 2025: "Every story begins with a spark of imagination…" Jamie Allan was eight when his parents bought him a Fisher Price magic set. Dad…
By Paulanne Simmons
August 14, 2025: When theater star and Nashville recording artist Rachel Potter turned forty, she was living in Nashville doing corporate real estate. After many yea…
By David Sheward
August 12, 2025: Bubba Weiler's new play Well, I'll Let You Go at the Space at Irondale in Brooklyn breaks a few rules and doesn't seem to have much going for it at first.…
By Isa Goldberg
August 11, 2025: Oddly, Bubba Weiler's new play at the Irondale Brooklyn, Well, I'll Let You Go, begins where the story ends …after Marv's death. Being iconoclastic of st…
By David Sheward
August 7, 2025: "The story you are about to see is true…except for the parts that aren't." So reads a disclaimer flashed on the curtain before the start of Ava: The Secr…
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 7, 2025: In 1988, former screen star Ava Gardner, famed much more for her sultry glamor ("the world's most beautiful animal") than her thespian artistry (althoug…
A hauntingly beautiful reimagining of Bonnie & Clyde by Scott Schwartz inhabits the stage in Sag Harbor.
By Patrick Christiano
By David Sheward
August 1, 2025: Joy, subtitled a New True Musical, Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels, is a serviceable enough product to entertain intermittently for two hours, but it's basi…
The White Room Gallery hosted an opening reception for RED CARPET, which will be on view through August 17, 2025.
July 28, 2025: The White Room Gallery, 2 Railroad Avenue in East Hampton, …
By Paulanne Simmons
July 28, 2025: Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were only married five years. Even though he was thirteen years older, she was married to SNLÂ guitarist and bandleader G.…
Uplifting!
By Alix Cohen
July 27, 2025: We live in an Instagram, Tick-Tock driven society that makes successes of Influencers. Had Joy Mangano come up with her product a little later, she…
By Alix Cohen
July 25, 2025: Having noticed "a couple of blank squares" on his calendar, Sean Harkness shares his inner troubadour with an evening of instrumentals, songs and stories. The m…
By Samuel Leiter
July 25, 2025: The Vietnam war and the theatre have not exactly been strangers, although nowhere near as many shows, especially good ones, have taken their cue from it as …
By Paulanne Simmons
July 24, 2025: Rolling Thunder was the name of a Bob Dylan concert tour that also featured performers such as Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. And it…
