Nov 26, 2020 | Picture of the Day, Theater
For the Picture Of The Day, here’s Broadway star Brad Oscar (“Something Rotten,” “Spamalot,” “The Producers”) singing a parody version (written by Joe Keenan) of a “Guys and Dolls” song aimed at the...
Oct 15, 2020 | Television, Theater
In May, 2019, I raved after seeing Heidi Schreck’s “What The Constitution Means To Me” on Broadway: The show is mostly a monologue by Schreck about how the founders ignored women (and others) when writing the US Constitution, and about efforts —...
Sep 17, 2020 | Magicians, Theater
Three weeks ago, I wrote about how much my wife and I enjoyed a performance over Zoom by magician Siegfried Tieber. He had a limited audience of just a couple dozen viewers and established a very nice rapport with many of us as he chose people to take part in his...
Jun 19, 2020 | Television, Theater
A year and a half ago, I wrote about going to Lincoln Center to see a wonderful revival of Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady,” one of the great American musicals that can still pack a theater more than a half-century after its Broadway debut. In 1956,...
Jun 17, 2020 | Movies, Theater
When “La La Land” first hit theaters in late 2016, I raved about it, rated it a 9.5 out of 10, and named it the Best Movie Of The Year. A few months later, when “Moonlight” won the Oscar for Best Picture (after the wrong-envelope disaster), I...
Apr 19, 2020 | Picture of the Day, Theater
Picture Of The Day: forty-four members of the cast of the 2006 revival of “A Chorus Line” created this quarantine edition of the opening number of the show. My favorite parts of this are the children of the dancers who are caught on camera trying to...