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Off-Broadway Review: STILL (Loreto Theatre, The Sheen Center)
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT, WILL EX-LOVERS REUNITE OR FIGHT? After decades apart, can the passion of once-young lovers sizzle again, like leftover pizza zapped in the microwave? Picking up an old relationship isn’t as easy as picking up takeout—food doesn’t come with the “Can we be a couple again?” dilemma. Still, playing at…
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Cabaret Review: BEYOND THE WALLS OF JOE ALLEN (Backstage Babble at 54 Below)
BACKSTAGE BABBLE AT STUDIO 54: TOPS WITH FLOPS Not every musical is a hit, and some barely get a chance to stumble before vanishing into obscurity. The midtown Manhattan nightclub 54 Below has an ongoing concert series that explores Broadway’s Greatest Hits—but what about Broadway’s greatest flops? Last night on February 19, Beyond the Walls of…
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Event Review: BroadwayCon 2025 (Days 2 & 3, Marriott Marquis)
BroadwayCon Continues & Concludes with Conversations & Connections Part II of a Look & Listen to the 3-Day Theatre Event (Part I reviewed here) There are Broadway stars and Broadway fans with stars in their eyes. The latter is present in droves—devotees of theatre, eager to gain information and insights inside interview rooms and to…
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Cabaret Review: DIANNE REEVES: WITH LOVE (Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater)
DIANNE REEVES’ WITH LOVE RECEIVED WITH LOVE If Grammy-winning singer Dianne Reeves’ suitcase could talk (and I’m guessing that it can’t), it would tell tales of trekking all over the world for her engagements, packed with flowing stage garb and memories. Recent and upcoming months include gigs in such exotic places as China, Germany, Japan,…
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Cabaret Review: LOVE IS IN THE AIR (Davis Gaines, The Green Room 42 at YOTEL)
EVERYTHING TO GAINES AND NOTHING TO LOSE No, he doesn’t sing “My Funny Valentine” in his entertaining show called Love Is in the Air on the night before Valentine’s Day at Green Room 42 (repeated on the holiday itself). Nor does Davis Gaines revisit any numbers from The Phantom of the Opera, a musical in…
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Off-Broadway Review: EMILIO’S A MILLION CHAMELEONS (SoHo Playhouse’s International Fringe Encore Theater Series)
A COLORFUL, KINETIC AND PUPPET-FILLED POW Emilio’s A Million Chameleons at Soho Playhouse offers family-friendly, fabulously frenzied fun. Like many offerings aimed at, or at least semi-targeted, to kids, it’s brief—just under an hour—but packed with energy. And that’s an understatement. But the frantic, almost unrelenting, race and pace is justified, not only catering to…
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Event Review: BroadwayCon (Day One, Marriott Marquis)
TODAY, I’M A BROADWAY CON MAN My first assignment as a new staff writer here at Stage and Cinema finds me going to an event at 9:30. As I’ve been reviewing theatre and music-related programs for years, this would not have been unusual IF we were talking about a cabaret show at 9:30 in the…
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by Croydon Fernandes | October 14, 2026
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by Emma S. Rund | October 9, 2026
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