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Charlie Johnson
In an email promoting his show "CHARLIE! Anything but Basic" at the Metropolitan Room, Charlie Johnson made a few rather grand claims. He described it as "a terrific new act"...
Cheyenne Jackson
Two Cheyenne Jacksons are making their Café Carlyle debut: Cheyenne Jackson the handsome actor-singer of stage, film, and television; and Cheyenne Jackson the man, who has faced a number of...
Melinda Hughes
The Weimar Republic was created shortly after the end of World War I, giving Germany the first democratically elected parliamentary government in its history. After only fourteen years, this period of unprecedented...
Liam Forde
The title of Liam Forde's offering at Stage 72—"A Fleet Phantasmagoria!"—is a bit much and a little precious, isn't it? Well, the show, itself, is a lot much and very precious—with...
Amy Beth Williams
Amy Beth Williams's latest show is an exciting hour of risk-taking, a bravura display of artistic derring-do. She has us, in turn, fascinated, laughing delightedly, astonished, and moved to tears....
Lauren Stanford
When Lauren Stanford competed in last year's MetroStar Talent Challenge, she seemed to flower as the weeks progressed: the range and depth of her skills became more and more evident,...
Darron Cardosa
Actor-singer Darron Cardosa has performed professionally for twenty-five years, and he's waited tables for nearly as long. Since 2008 he's been writing "The Bitchy Waiter," a very popular blog about...
Current and Recent Shows
In this column I discuss one show that is currently running, a handful of others that played within the past couple of months, and two that will be returning. In...
Vivian Reed
The last time I saw Vivian Reed perform was at Rainbow & Stars in 1996, when she was one-third of the cast of a revue called "20th Century R&B…A Musical...
Joshua Dixon
At one point during the opening night performance of his show "Fly Up!" at The Duplex, Joshua Dixon mentioned how nervous he'd been all day in anticipation of making his...