Used York City

The Ethel Barrymore Theatre Presents Death Of A Salesman

I was decidedly not going to review the current Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” for the Used York City readership. For starters, it has been discussed endlessly in the press before it even opened. Then the ticket costs are “divinely deep” and it has consistently set box office financial sales records in preview, [...]

Accomplice: New York: One Part Theater, One Part Tour, All Parts Terrific

I got a voicemail Saturday night from a man with a thick Italian accent that went a little something like this: “Jessica Tiare, listen carefully and do exactly what I say.  And after you listen, destroy the phone.”  On any normal Saturday night in New York City this message may be enough to make even [...]

Other Desert Cities Plays At The Booth Theatre

When you enter the Booth Theater for a performance of “Other Desert Cities”, you immediately face the gracious Palm Springs living room of “Polly” (played by Stockard Channing) and “Lyman Wyeth” (played by Stacy Keach), a retired, affluent, political “establishment” couple, reminiscent of the Reagans.  This set is awash in sand-colored, neutral beige tones with [...]

The Richard Rodgers Theatre Presents The Gershwins’ Porgy And Bess

George and Ira Gershwin, alongside DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, altered the course of musical history in 1935 with their landmark work “Porgy and Bess.”  Their respective ears for authentic dialect, alongside astonishing tonality augmented by soaring lyrics, should have been bronzed. Yet this musical piece has always been an anomaly:  Is it opera, folk opera, [...]

Lips: The Best In Drag Dining

I recently had the responsibility of planning a 50th birthday party.  Now, 50 is one of those landmark birthdays you simply can’t mess up…or who will be blamed until the end of time?  The party planner, that’s who.  I wasn’t willing to take that risk.  So in Googeling ideas for the big 5-0, I quickly [...]

Love, Loss, And What I Wore At The Westside Theatre

For all you ladies that have ever stood in front of your closet, hands thrown up in sheer desperation, uttering those famous words, “I have nothing to wear!”, boy do I have the perfect theater-going experience for you! Slip into your timeless little black dress, step into that killer pair of stilettos (you know, the [...]

Million Dollar Quartet At New World Stages

Growing up, car rides with my dad were always unique.  Instead of bopping our heads to the sounds of Madonna and Prince, we were more likely crooning along with the good ol’ boys: Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and the King of Rock and Roll himself: Elvis Presley.  Needless to say, when I [...]