Friday, April 18, 2025
TAKE ONE: J2 AND A TALE OF TWO SMILES: THE FINAL SCORE AND WHAT CAME BEFORE While some companies reviving musicals long after their time on the Great White White might restore one or more so…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:52AMThursday, April 17, 2025
IT WON’T LAST FIVE YEARS, BUT IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO (THE RELATIONSHIP AND THE BROADWAY MUSICAL) Although the traditional wedding vow includes the pledge to stay together “‘til death do…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:25AMA REWARDING TIME SPENT SUSPENDED WITH THE ARTISTS OF SUSPENDED IN TIME Some musical performances—in concert or on recordings—while unquestionably or undemandingly enjoyable, may go in on…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:25AMSunday, April 13, 2025
MAKING THE IMPLAUSABLE APPLAUSEABLE, SMASH IS A WILD, WACKY, WONDERFUL WOW “S” is for “splashy”; “M” is for “Marilyn Monroe”; “A” is for “audience-pleasing”; “S” …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:53AMTHE NONPAREIL NONAGENARIAN REMAINS A NON-STOP WHIRLWIND OF TALENT There’s a problem with singer Marilyn Maye’s appearances. And it’s this: For reviewers, all the positive adjectives ha…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:53AMGRINS, GOWNS, AND GRIT: A WINNING SMILE SASHAYS BACK ONSTAGE In the year 1919, the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway featured an ode to female finery as a bevy of beauties graced the stage to the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:53AMThursday, April 10, 2025
MR. GREENSPAN, PARTY OF FOUR Here’s a one-of-a-kind, one-person, one-act play in which one man plays four women—simultaneously—without ever leaving the stage. Three (sometimes all four…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:12PMMonday, April 7, 2025
HERE’S THE SCOOP ON BOOP! ENDEARINGLY CUTE, ASTUTE AND A HOOT Some things are meant to last. Cartoon character Betty Boop has been around for 95 years and has been rejuvenated—as youthfu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:17PMThursday, March 27, 2025
QUITE A NIGHT WITH MISS WHITE The series of concerts by Lillias White at 54 Below—running nightly through March 29 (and live streamed on the 28)—is billed as Divine Sass: A Tribute to Sa…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:24PMMonday, March 17, 2025
NOW HEAR THIS! Film may be first and foremost a visual medium, but where would it be without music to bring out the emotions, heighten the drama, quicken the heart, create tension, and tie t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:25PMSunday, March 16, 2025
A GRANDLY GREASE-Y SPOOF! Poking fun, flinging a pun, prizing satirizing — that’s the paradise that is parody and Vape!, blatantly billing itself as “The Grease Parody,” aims its pla…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:25PMSaturday, March 15, 2025
Songs and gab at this swell cabaret Starting the party is Mame‘s “It’s Today.” Hear the cheer in the singer’s voice With this merry Jerry Herman choice. The room has no gloom. Ther…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:47PMAN AMAZING NIGHT OF STARS GALORE –AND IT’S COMING TO PBS Filmed to be shown on PBS stations later this year, the concert cavalcade called Broadway’s Leading Ladies at The Town Hall on …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:47PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Marital Mayhem and Matrimonial Mishaps: My First Ex-Husband’s Second Cast Delivers Divorce Tales with Bite “Do you take this man — To have and to hold — from this day forward — for…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:15PMTICK, TICK… ENCORE! LARSON’S TRUNK SONGS SHINE If you’re a fan of potent post-Golden Age theatre music, you should check out a show that just officially opened downtown last night. The…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:15PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
WHEN CHILDREN’S THEATER IS A BEAUTIFUL THING Two “P” words—“professional” and “pleasant”—describe the stage production in Greenwich Village with two “B” words in its ti…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:47AMSaturday, March 8, 2025
THINGS ARE O.K. WITH MR. K For decades, three words—“by Barry Kleinbort”—have often appeared in cabaret and theatre credits, typically preceded by “directed” or “written.” At…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:00PMA DATE WITH KATE She looks and sounds radiant, and the audience knows it. Tonight, March 6, she was greeted with some of the most enthusiastic and sustained cheers I’ve heard in a long tim…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:37PMSunday, March 2, 2025
HOW TO URN AUDIENCE SYMPATHY This one-man show is described as an “immersive” experience, and the immersiveness begins right at the entrance of the particularly fitting venue, the oh-so-…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21PMThursday, February 27, 2025
BRIGHT, BROMIDIC BRYCE AND HIS FREEWHEELING FRABJOUS FRIVOLITY Take note, nightclub-goers: Attending an edition of the spiffy soiree The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour might just make you beli…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:01PMSunday, February 23, 2025
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT, WILL EX-LOVERS REUNITE OR FIGHT? After decades apart, can the passion of once-young lovers sizzle again, like leftover pizza zapped in the microwave? Picking up an…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:27PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
BACKSTAGE BABBLE AT STUDIO 54: TOPS WITH FLOPS Not every musical is a hit, and some barely get a chance to stumble before vanishing into obscurity. The midtown Manhattan nightclub 54 Below h…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:36AMMonday, February 17, 2025
DIANNE REEVES’ WITH LOVE RECEIVED WITH LOVE If Grammy-winning singer Dianne Reeves’ suitcase could talk (and I’m guessing that it can’t), it would tell tales of trekking all over the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:07PMSunday, February 16, 2025
EVERYTHING TO GAINES AND NOTHING TO LOSE No, he doesn’t sing “My Funny Valentine” in his entertaining show called Love Is in the Air on the night before Valentine’s Day at Green Room…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:28PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
A COLORFUL, KINETIC AND PUPPET-FILLED POW Emilio’s A Million Chameleons at Soho Playhouse offers family-friendly, fabulously frenzied fun. Like many offerings aimed at, or at least semi-ta…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:19PMTuesday, December 31, 2024
Here are three releases that celebrate songwriters, each from a long-careered, stylish female singer. Karen Mason mines the oeuvre of the team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Including selectio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
If you walk through Manhattan's theatre district, you pass locations of theaters owned by a man who wrote many shows (music, lyrics, book) and directed, produced, and often performed in them…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Reviews of new theatre and cabaret recordings.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:06PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Let's start with a recent Off-Broadway cast recording of a show that takes on religion, relationships, and right wing propaganda. Then it's love's ups and downs taking center stage for two s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:32PMMonday, May 6, 2024
Maybe the musical Lucky Stiff wasn't enormously lucky the first time around, managing only 15 performances in its 1988 Off-Broadway debut, but it has continued to pop up over the years aroun…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:46PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
There's a place for a glib, undemanding, unpretentious old-school musical comedy that seeks to entertain and just wants to make someone happy. "Make Someone Happy" was the big song that came…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PM 
