To the actor-singer, the writer-producer, the director-educator, this one’s for you. This Q and A explores the art (and challenges and thrills) of becoming a multi-hyphenate. I sat down with writer-casting director Jen Rudin to talk about her new play Beautiful Pasadena, opening this month as part of the She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival….
Category: Theater
12 Lessons To Learn From Lin-Manuel Miranda
It was recently announced in The New York Times that Lin-Manuel Miranda, along with three of his Hamilton collaborators, (Thomas Kail, Jeffery Seller, and James L. Nederlander), purchased the much adored Drama Bookshop in New York City. Soon there will be a statue of Lin in Times Square. I’m kidding – although I’d happily join…
KWANZAA FESTIVAL AND MARKETPLACE AT NJPAC
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Kwanzaa Festival and Marketplace featuring FREE Kwanzaa Family Festival and Forces of Nature Dance Theatre beginning Friday, December 14th – Saturday, December 15th. Experience NJPAC’s Prudential Hall lobby transformed into a Kwanzaa Artisan Marketplace where vendors display creative, unique and many one of kind hand-crafted items satisfying all gift-giving needs beginning Friday, December 14th…
Behind the Scenes with Janet Krupin
There’s something about Feinstein’s/54 Below. The lush red and gold curves, the way the lights ooze and burn purple and blue and green, the heavy shine of the baby grand and the twinkle of dark liquids in whisky glasses. Simultaneously fresh and young and immediate, yet classic and vintage and refined. I love it. My…
COMING SOON: Aftertaste of Love
THE GREEN ROOM 42 presents Danny Marin and Kyle Coughlin in Aftertaste of Love on April 20 at 7pm. Aftertaste of Love is a musical tribute to the popular VH1 reality show Flavor of Love starring Flavor Flav of Public Enemy. Featuring songs by some of your favorite pop divas, Aftertaste of Love promises to get you…
Laura Josepher to Direct DEPARTURES at Feinstein’s/54 Below
Feinstein’s/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, welcomes director Laura Josepher to the creative team of Departures: The Songs of Gualtieri & Sisco. The concert is set for Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 9:30pm and will feature, under Josepher’s direction, Ta’Rea Campbell (Hamilton, Sister Act), Alexandra Foucard (Les Misérables, Guys and Dolls), Amy Justman (Carousel, A Gentleman’s…
A Write Teacher(s) Spotlight – Let’s Drink To That: The Music and Lyrics of Drew Gasparini
Lights down at Feinstein’s/54 Below. An announcer is heard: “Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome….DREW GASPARINI!”….and Zack Zadek took the stage. Huh?! Mid parody song about Drew, the same announcer gave an emphatic “NEXT” and once again proclaimed, ““Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome….DREW GASPARINI!”….and Noel Carey took the stage. Now we get it! His “audition” for…
New Works by Noel Carey at 54 Below
A radio show. A literal closet. A folkloric town. Ebenezer Scrooge’s home. A cave. A figurative closet. German-occupied France. Salem, Massachusetts. 9 settings. 9 stories. 9 opening numbers. That’s what occupies the mind of Noel Carey, the composer featured on the penultimate evening of the New Writers @ 54 series presented by Feinstein’s 54 Below….
Lucie Pohl: “Hi, Hitler” at the Cherry Lane Theatre
German-Jews. Immigrants. And Aliens. Oh my! Meet Hi, Hitler, Lucie Pohl’s newly reworked solo-show. Directed by Kenneth Ferrone (Colin Quinn’s New York Story, Tina Landau’s Spongebob Squarepants) and presented by Austin Pendleton (Tony Award Nominee, Drama Desk Award Winner), Hi, Hitler runs at the Cherry Lane Theatre this month. Pohl tells the story of a German-Jew (herself) who grows up…
COMING SOON: Temple of the Souls
MULTISTAGES is pleased to announce the new musical by award-winning Anita Velez-Mitchell, platinum-winning composers Dean Landon and Anika Paris, TEMPLE OF THE SOULS, with musical direction by Bruce Baumer and directed by Artistic Director Lorca Peress. TEMPLE OF THE SOULS will play a limited engagement as part of the New York Musical Festival at Off-Broadway’s…