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Kibbutz and Kibbitz with Sandra Bernhard

By Brian Scott Lipton · Jul 20, 2000 · New York City

Brian Scott Lipton kibbitzes with SANDRA BERNHARD about Songs I Sang on the Kibbutz, her mostly-music gig at Joe's Pub.

Review

Death in England

By David Finkle · Jul 20, 2000 · New York City

Perhaps playwright Sam Bobrick fancied a cross between a Noel Coward confection and Woody Allen's Death Knocks. Perhaps he was tickled by the notion of blending an Agatha Christie country house mys...

Theater News

Broadway (and Off-Broadway) Originals

By Michael Portantiere · Jul 19, 2000 · New York City

Michael Portantiere reviews CD issues of original cast recordings spanning six decades, from Oklahoma! to Saturday Night to two (2) versions of The Wild Party.

Review

Big Kiss

By Jason Anthony · Jul 19, 2000 · New York City

Sure, you've seen it before: A bunch of crazy Broadway hopefuls get up on stage and tell us what they did for love. Or, let's be blunt, love and money. But these kids are different. Theirs is the...

Review

RedFest 2000

By Jason Anthony · Jul 19, 2000 · New York City

There is a tradition of late-blooming playwrights. Ibsen didn't write his prose plays until he was a ripe 50. Shaw was another mid-life convert, as was Genet. There is something inspiring in this, e...

Theater News

The stars come out for Gore Vidal...Legends redux...Whither Little Women?

By Charles Nelson · Jul 18, 2000 · New York City

What's up with The Best Man, those Little Women, and James Kirkwood's legendary Legends?

Theater News

Remembering David Merrick

By David Finkle · Jul 18, 2000 · New York City

The so-called Abominable Showman, who died in April, is memorialized at the St. James Theatre.

Review

Durang vs. Ives

By Adam Klasfeld · Jul 18, 2000 · New York City

Do not be fooled by the traditional "re" in the spelling of Confluence Theatre. Its current work, Durang vs. Ives, running July 13 through 23 at the Blue Heron Arts Center, features four one-act p...