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By Penny Landau
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Memo to the WORLD!!! KIRSTIE ALLEY IS BACK!!! Yes, peeps, our girl Kirstie is back and better than ever! Starting this March 21st, “Kirstie Alley’s BIG LIFE” is coming to A&E! Cameras follow our girl around the house, along with her two kids, assorted animals, assistant and the assistant-in-training, just being Kirstie. What’s not to love about this? Here’s the trailer, courtesy of the Huffington Post – who else? Love her thin, love her fat…maybe it’s just me, but I think our girl is hot either way. What do you all think?
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By Andrew Martin
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A lightly-packed house can go one of two ways for a cabaret artist; at best it can either cause a groundswell of enthusiastic support from the small crowd gathered, or it can become a virtual snoozefest for all. Given the ghastly and snowy weather pounded forth upon New York several days prior to this writing, it was unsurprising that vocalist Wendy Lane Bailey did, in fact, have an audience that was far below capacity, at the Metropolitan Room on February 27th. However, both she and her self-titled show, though not completely without scant shortcomings, proved that the lady is nothing if not a consummate crowd-pleaser.
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By John Hoglund
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The box office at the Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street) opens Monday, March 1 for Red, the critically acclaimed Donmar Warehouse production of a new American play by John Logan, about the master of twentieth century abstract impressionism, Mark Rothko. Red opens on Broadway on Thursday, April 1, for a limited 15-week engagement. Previews begin on Thursday, March 11. Red stars Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne, who created their roles in the world premiere production this winter at the Donmar. The production is directed by Donmar artistic director Michael Grandage. Red marks playwright Logan’s Broadway debut.
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By Daryl Glenn
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I must reveal, the first few tracks did not thrill me. Nothing wrong with them, they just seemed pedestrian, but suddenly Ms. Brown launched into an infectious arrangement of the oh-so-famous Charlie Chaplin composition “Smile,” and her joyous rendition of this classic song, set to a rousing samba, grabbed and held my attention! In case you don’t know, Ms. Brown was the original Mary Poppins, in its Broadway incarncation, and this album is a testament to how she landed this prestigious engagement. I would have preferred she had opened the disc with one of the uptempo selections (“Saturday Night Is The Lonliest Night Of The Week” or “Let’s Fall In Love”),
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By Andrew Martin
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For nearly two decades, and whether at its previous location near Lincoln Center or its current home on Broadway and 51st next door to the Winter Garden Theater, Iridium Jazz Club has endured as one of the finest jewels in the crown of Manhattan nightlife. Not merely a mecca for jazz fanatics to catch such soon-to-be legends of their day as Diana Krall, or more recently when the Stanley Jordan Quartet took the stage, proprietress Ellen Hart Sturm (the brains behind Ellen's Stardust Diner) has launched a venue which people will most fondly remember as the room where legendary guitarist Les Paul held court every Monday night for years until his lamented passing.
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By Scott Barbarino
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The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs, advancing the Art and Business of Live Entertainment, which is designed to heighten public awareness of the field’s contributions and vitality, to honor its creativity, to build its current and future audiences, and to speak out as an influential voice on behalf of MAC members and the industry at large is pleased to announce that tickets for the 2010 MAC Awards are now on sale at www.MACNYC.com |
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By Penny Landau
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Memo to ABC
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for bringing “FlashForward” back to us. Now let’s hope it makes sense, so that we can love it like a long “Lost” cousin.
YAY!!!
Well, she’s done it again, and this time it’s a double-header! Betty White will be starring in a new sitcom on TVLand called “Hot in Cleveland,” along with Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick, as three best friends "of a certain age" from LA,
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By Scott Barbarino
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The riotously acerbic cabaret legend Sharon McNight makes her hotly anticipated return to The Metropolitan Room, beginning Saturday March 13 at 9:45pm, setting off a weeklong explosion of good cheer and bonhomie! Her new show, Sharon McNight: The First 30 Years, plays a total of seven performances over a two-weekends through Monday March 22, at 7pm.
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By Lucy Galliher
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Pat Holley at the Metropolitan Room. Singer/actor Pat Holley brought a quartet of musicians into the Metropolitan Room on February 28, 2010 to do her show called “Tall Songs and Forgotten Gems.” In the band were: Ian Herman, pianist and Musical Director; Tommy Morimoto, tenor sax; Seth Lewis, bass and Steve Little on drums. Looking sleek in a black sleeveless top, long satin skirt and silk scarf, Pat was in high spirits as she entertained the full house of friends and family.
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By Andrew Martin
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The legendary folk-comedy duo of David Buskin and Robin Batteau have, for nearly four decades, captivated all manner of audience in every venue imaginable, up to and including their unforgettable appearance in the late Mary Travers' folk music seminar at the New School For Social Research in 1986, which also featured Odetta, Richie Havens, Judy Collins and, of course, Peter Paul & Mary. It was, therefore, no surprise to the capacity crowd that gathered at the Metropolitan Room on January 22nd to see the team as part of the Jamie deRoy and Friends series, that the two still manage to assume their place on each and every stage, regardless of size, as though they were about to appear before half a million spectators at Woodstock.
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By Scott Barbarino
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St. George's Society of New York , Arts for St. George, is proud to present Colin Bailey, Chief Curator of the Frick Collection in "Buying British," an illustrated talk about Henry Clay Frick and the creation of the Frick Collection. Colin Bailey has been Chief Curator of the Frick Collection since 2000, and is only the second holder of the position since 1935.
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By Scott Barbarino
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Take Wing And Soar Productions proudly presents Steve Carter’s Pecong, at the National Black Theatre, for a limited engagement, from March 12th – March 28th. Directed by award winning actor and director Arthur French, Pecong stars celebrated film, television and stage actress Phyllis Yvonne Stickney*. On a mythical Caribbean island, circa 1890, Pecong -- based on the classic Greek play, Medea -- tells a poignant tale of music, magic, laughter, betrayal, sex, power and revenge!
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