“In the moonlight, black boys look blue.” Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, is perhaps the most beautiful film I’ve seen all season. While I have doubts about it’s ability to beat La La Land, mostly because the Academy likes pretentious films, it’s the film most worthy of the title of Best Picture in 2017. I…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Billy Anderson in #imwithripsey on March 4th, 2017 @ 11:30pm. Once upon an election night, Billy Anderson, an ardent Hillary supporter, had a few too many, and his intoxicated alter ego Ripsey crashed the party! This lead to an infamous public meltdown on social media, recapped in #imwithripsey, a…
Award-winning TOSOS, New York City’s oldest professional LGBTQ theater, returns with the second full length production of their 2016-17 season with Virginia Baeta’s Damaged Goods. The play is directed by Mark Finley (Penny Penniworth/Off-Broadway), and reunites the cast of the 2010 hit show, The Secretaries written by The Five Lesbian Brothers (FringeNYC/Fringe Encore Series). The…
DUETS with The Write Teacher(s) returns to Feinstein’s/ 54 Below for Volume 5 on April 22, 2017 at 9:30pm. Conceived and produced by Megan Minutillo (in association with thewriteteachers.com), the evening will feature music from across the musical theatre canon, pairing one Broadway hopeful with one Broadway professional who has inspired them in their show…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Michael Campayno, Will Roland plus many more in 54 Loves You: A Concert for Mental Health on Sunday, March 26th 2017 at 9:30pm. Stars of Broadway and film come together to celebrate life and bring awareness to the importance of mental health with an evening of uplifting hits and…
Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP) announces the presentation of two works by the radically imaginative and internationally celebrated theater artist and vocalist Ivo Dimchev, in partnership with the Bootleg Theater. His wildly participatory P Project and his elegantly intimate Songs from My Shows offer Los Angeles audiences a thrilling survey of Dimchev’s artistic breadth in…
“Through the Darkness” by Alan C. Breindel recounts the unimaginable journeys and true stories of four courageous men and women who left everything behind, including their loved ones, so that they might stay one step ahead of the Holocaust. They are composite characters that playwright Breindel built from interviews with Holocaust survivors. Three of the four characters managed…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents BMG recording artist and songwriter Carly Robyn Green in her NYC concert debut on February 23, 2017. Her adult-contemporary / smooth jazz repertoire includes fresh takes on American Songbook standards, stylized renditions of contemporary classics, and original love songs co-written with Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn. Hailed by AOL Music…
I sat at a high table with a perfect view of the stage at The Cutting Room. The two pieces of information that I carried into the club was that Emily Estefan released her album, Take Whatever You Want, on February 3rd and that she is the 22-year-old daughter of Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Then I…
I’ve never had a good Valentine’s Day. But I love Valentine’s Day. Why? I guess…because I just love the idea of love. – (one of my students) Happy Valentine’s Day, folks! One of my students gave me that pearl of wisdom last week – and I wanted to pass it along to all of…