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Ira Gershwin

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Matthew Broderick Is Back On Broadway: My Review

    Apparently Rent never happened. Neither did Spring Awakening. Even Oklahoma! never took place. Nice Work If You Can Get It floats us back to 1920s froth full of absurd plot twists, incongruous couplings, and bouncy/dreamy songs. A trunk show inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Seventy On Seventy: The 70 Best Bob Dylan Songs, A To Z (Part One)

    ​About a year ago, I was putting a book about Bob Dylan to bed. Since I was looking at year's lead time, my plan was for Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (Yale) to be released on Dylan's 70th birthday, for obvious reasons. I learned early on at my grandfather's funeral the biblical significa ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 5, 2011

    Raissa Katona Bennett

    ​About a year ago, I was putting a book about Bob Dylan to bed. Since I was looking at year's lead time, my plan was for Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (Yale) to be released on Dylan's 70th birthday, for obvious reasons. I learned early on at my grandfather's funeral the biblical significa ... More >>

  • Theater

    December 1, 2010

    Finishing the Hat--the Lyrics and Kvetches of Stephen Sondheim

    The Broadway composer looks back at the first decades of his career

  • Theater

    December 10, 2008

    Hammerstein's Complete Lyrics Tells the Story of One Man's Struggle

    The Broadway composer looks back at the first decades of his career

  • Theater

    May 29, 2007

    The Paradox Man

    More than half a century after his death, composer Kurt Weill still provokes strong reactions

  • Music

    December 27, 2005

    Extraordinary Machines

    We didn't get what we wanted but we haven't entirely lost what we had

  • Music

    November 30, 2004

    Against Interpretation

    Rod Stewart finds a brand-new batch of catchy and literate songs he can put his mark on

  • Film

    June 18, 2002

    Zero for Conduct

    Rod Stewart finds a brand-new batch of catchy and literate songs he can put his mark on

  • Books

    December 11, 2001

    Cheek to Cheek

    Rod Stewart finds a brand-new batch of catchy and literate songs he can put his mark on

  • Theater

    December 26, 2000

    The Moment's Musicals (II)

    Rod Stewart finds a brand-new batch of catchy and literate songs he can put his mark on

  • Music

    November 14, 2000

    Music

    Rod Stewart finds a brand-new batch of catchy and literate songs he can put his mark on

  • Music

    September 19, 2000

    Music

    Rod Stewart finds a brand-new batch of catchy and literate songs he can put his mark on

  • Music

    October 12, 1999

    Show-Offs on the Rise

    Multitalented Local Leads Resurgence in Cabaret

  • Theater

    May 11, 1999

    Novel Approach

    Multitalented Local Leads Resurgence in Cabaret

  • Music

    March 23, 1999

    Couth and Coolth

    The Cream of Cabaret Month

  • Music

    September 29, 1998

    Border Crossings

    The Cream of Cabaret Month

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