Robert Windeler

Robert Windeler is the author of 18 books, including biographies of Mary Pickford, Julie Andrews, Shirley Temple, and Burt Lancaster. As a West Coast correspondent for The New York Times and Time magazine, he covered movies, television and music, and he was an arts and entertainment critic for National Public Radio. He has contributed to a variety of other publications, including TV Guide, Architectural Digest, The Sondheim Review, and People, for which he wrote 35 cover stories. He is a graduate of Duke University in English literature and holds a masters in journalism from Columbia, where he studied critical writing with Judith Crist. He has been a theatre critic for Back Stage since 1999, writes reviews for BistroAwards.com, and is a member of The Players and the American Theatre Critics Association.

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Lauren Fox

"Canyon Folkies" Metropolitan Room  -  October 11, 12, 26, November 11 How green was my valley—until it wasn't anymore. In the late 1960s and early 1970s I was living in...

Bettye LaVette

Highline Ballroom  -  September 28 She sang as a child and grew up in Detroit alongside Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding, but she never became part of the...

Judy Collins

Café Carlyle  –  September 11 - 29 Here's a lesson in how to maintain a singing career that still thrives after fifty-one years: always choose impeccable material; keep your voice...

Rebecca Kilgore

"The Jazzy Side of Judy Garland" Feinstein's at Loews Regency  -  July 31 - August 11 This is not your grandmother's Judy Garland. Nor is it intended to be. Rebecca...

Carla DelVillaggio

"Streisand: The Greatest Star" Laurie Beechman Theatre  -  July 11, 18, 25 If you, like me, long ago grew tired of men in drag lip-synching to Barbra Streisand records and...

The Sensational Josephine Baker

Beckett Theatre–Theatre Row  -  June 26 – September 8 As a singular performer in the famed night clubs of Paris in the 1920s and for decades thereafter, the American-born Josephine...