Mark Dundas Wood

Mark Dundas Wood is an arts/entertainment journalist and dramaturg. He began writing for BistroAwards.com in 2011. Currently, he writes the "Bistro Bits" column for the site. Other reviews and articles have appeared at theaterscene.net and talkinbroadway.com, as well as in American Theatre and Back Stage. As a dramaturg, he has worked with New Professional Theatre and the New York Musical Theatre Festival. He is currently literary manager for Broad Horizons Theatre Company.

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Kathryne Langford

"Jazz and Cocktails" Don't Tell Mama  –  September 14, October 5, November 11, December 9 Music critic Henry Pleasants once wrote of Peggy Lee: "She knows that when an actor...

Michael Hughes

"Mickey and Judy" The Duplex  -  September 10, 15, 20 We've seen it before, of course. The one-person confessional about how an obsession with show business, most often in the...

Jason Robert Brown

54 Below  –  September 10 - 15 There are many sorts of songs in the Jason Robert Brown songbook—songs of quiet yearning, songs of loss, straight-ahead-funny songs. But perhaps the...

The Cat Pack

Iridium  –  August 22 The Cat Pack is the 1960s' Rat Pack in an alternative universe—a place almost identical to the one that those earthlings lived in, but strangely devoid...

Tituss Burgess

"Because I Feel Like It" 54 Below  –  August 26 Though he’s known as a theatre singer (Jersey Boys, The Little Mermaid), Tituss Burgess flourishes off the boards in the...

KT Sullivan and Larry Woodard

"Glamorous Summer Nights" Laurie Beechman Theatre  -  June 20, July 24, August 22, September 19 At the top of their show at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, KT Sullivan and Larry...

Marc Eliot

Jazz at Kitano  –  August 8 Leading off the "About Marc" page on singer-composer Marc Eliot's website is a quotation from the widow of Sammy Davis Jr. She claims that when...

Barbara Elena Adamoli

Don't Tell Mama  –  July 10, 11 In her first few numbers at Don't Tell Mama, lyric coloratura soprano Barbara Elena Adamoli didn't make a particularly positive impression. While the...

Jackie Hoffman

54 Below  –  June 3, 17, July 8, 15, 22, 29 Momentously, Patti LuPone opened the 54 Below cabaret space this June. But she wasn't the first artist to play there....

Jack Jones

Feinstein's at Loews Regency  –  June 26 - 30 "I know your image of me is what I hope to be." When Jack Jones sang that line from Leon Russell's...