Patrick Christiano, Randy Jones
DADDY, a new romantic gay drama by Dan Via, opened at TBG Theater on 36th Street. The well acted love triangle is an intriguing tale about hidden truths, which comes together nicely making for an engaging evening with a jolting climax. Randy Jones, the Cowboy from The Village People, was  having a really good time at the opening night party.

Barbara & Scott SiegelChristine EbersoleScott Siegel outdid himself this year at the 2010 NIGHTLIFE AWARDS  hosted by a raucous Bruce Vilanch at Town Hall. Conceived and produced by Scott the awards honor the critic’s selections from the New York club world – cabaret, jazz, and comedy. The winners perform instead of giving the usual acceptance speechs. Everyone was wonderful, but Christine Ebersole, Cheyenne Jackson, Tovah Feldshuh, and James Barbour were stand outs from the marvelous evening directed by Scott Thompson with musical direction by Tedd Firth

Race, sex and rock ‘n roll are a powerful combination in the new Broadway musical Memphis written by David Bryan, and Joe DiPietro. The sizzling new musical is a sheer delight and somewhat of a surprise with no star headliners, but don’t tell these passionate performers. The cast is an absolute knock out!

Catherine Zeta-Jones
With her name above the title at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones makes  for great box office in the entertaining revival of Stephen Sondheim’s  A Little Night Music.  The screen beauty plays Desiree, the fading actress at the center of the elegant classic.  If her glamorous presence is not exactly a perfect fit, she generates enough star power in the Trevor Nunn production to pack the houses in spite of the evening’s shortcomings.

Andrew Goffman: Photo Barry GordinAndrew Goffman’s outrageously silly one man show opened Off-Broadway at the Players Theater, 115 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. The funny Goffman under Charles Messina’s guidance delivers a slick physical performance in his semi-autobiographical account of a childhood dominated by pornography, after finding his father’s collection of XXX-rated videos. The evening unfortunately is one comment delivered in three or four variations by the skilled Goffman.

                    The Senior Superlative Musical... By Isa Goldberg
Just when every girl in high school is yearning to be Lea Michele and every boy, Jonathan Groff, the teen idols of Television’s “Glee,” “Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative Musical” comes strutting down the corridor. The show, at Greenwich Village’s Players Theatre, stars real teenagers from Syosset’s Long Island High School for the Arts in a musical spoof that covers the playing field, mostly high school musicals and reality TV shows with a tad of the Olsen Twins and Harry Potter thrown in for good measure.

Hair, opened on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Tuesday March 31, 2009, what follows is a review of the original central park production.

Bartlett Sher’s elegant staging of The Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” is an enchanted evening of splendid music and shimmering picture perfect post card images. As the five minute overture swells, the stage slides back to reveal a full 30 piece orchestra playing Robert Russell Bennett’s lush original orchestrations of the beloved songs transporting us to another place and time for a sweeping romantic tale set on a tropical island in the middle of the South Pacific.

James GandolfiniMarcia Gay HardenTelevision heavyweight James Gandolfini, who plays Tony Soprano on the HBO series “The Sopranos,” heads a dazzling cast in Yasmina Reza’s lasted dissection of contemporary social hypocrisy, God of Carnage. The 90 minute biting satire directed with the bold stylized force of a blunt instrument by the gifted Matthew Warchus is a welcome audience pleaser. Reza, the Tony Award winning playwright of Art, took on similar territory over a decade ago in Art, but here she steps up the ante with a lethal dose of hostility that lies just beneath the surface in her portrait of two married couples.