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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Jeff Macauley

Probably no one but Jeff Macauley could have, or would have, fashioned such a narrowly focused cabaret show as his current offering at Pangea, Hollywood Party: Movie Songs 1928-1936. And...

Ann Kittredge

She was already two-thirds of the way into One Night Only, her recent show at Feinstein's/54 Below, before Ann Kittredge acknowledged that if she "had to pick one song" to...

Dawn Derow

In so many ways, 1941 was a very good year in America. It was the year Joe DiMaggio scored hits in a record 56 straight games, leading the Yankees to...

Dietrich Rides Again

I can't help it. I had planned on falling in love with Marlene all over again when I went to see Dietrich Rides Again. But, alas, it didn't happen. I...

Peter and Will Anderson

The Anderson Twins want us all to understand that Harold Arlen, this week's honoree in the brothers' ambitious month-long Songbook Summit series, is every bit the equal of the other...

The ManOPause Boys

The 1990s called. They want their clichés back. The ones about Viagra and the other aspects of male late-middle aging. Plus, the decade would like to retire at least some...

Meow Meow

In her recent show at Joe's Pub, she came on stage both tentatively and as if expecting to be showered with roses by her adoring fans. The woman who was...

Stephanie Trudeau

She rightly labeled Chavela: Think of Me, her recent show at Pangea, a "docu-cabaret." Indeed, Stephanie Trudeau's homage to ranchera singer Chavela Vargas, directed by Deborah Wright Houston, went far...

Linda Kahn and Maria Corsaro

Two suburban ladies of a certain age studied theatre in college, on separate coasts, some 40 years ago. They each worked in show business for a few years after graduation,...

Amy Beth Williams

In her ravishing show Carried Away at Don't Tell Mama, Amy Beth Williams proved to be a superb singer, a subtle actress, and a compelling interpreter of lyrics. Beautifully directed...