Michael Mayer

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Tangled Tuner Tune-up Try

Harry Connick Jr. gives it his best in a big revamp

On A Clear Day... With Harry Connick, Jr: My Review

Sexual reassignment surgery has gone on at On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Alan Jay Lerner/Burton Lane musical about a gal with ESP whose grief-stricken psychiatrist is obsessed with the gal's past-life persona, Melinda. In this version -- with a rethought book by Peter Parnell and dir ... More >>

The Illusion--Pierre Corneille Gets Tony Kushner-ed

An adaptation of the classic concludes the Signature's season

My 10 Favorite Concerts Of 2010, Starring Jay-Z, Pavement, And Michael Bolton

Stephen Malkmus, at the first of Pavement's 50 shows here. Pics by Rob unless noted otherwise.​The 100-plus shows I saw this year spanned from the Cake Shop to Radio City Music Hall, from Williamsburg block parties to Michael Bolton's house in Connecticut, the events that occurred therein all ... More >>

Sunday Best Finds A New Home; This Weekend's Party (With Dâm-Funk!) Is On

This guy's real happy to hear the news. The shocking announcement a few weeks back that BKLYN Yard was permanently shutting down -- robbing Brooklyn of one of its best outdoor venues, and marooning several great reoccurring summer parties -- still lingers, but perhaps the highest-profile of those ... More >>

BKLYN Yard Shut Down: Sunday Best (And Every Other Party There) Left Homeless

Yeah, this place was pretty great. Shit. BKLYN Yard, the improbably wonderful banks-of-the-Gowanus-Canal outdoor venue that played host to outstanding summer dance parties -- including the increasingly beloved Sunday Best series, which had started this year's slate just this past weekend with a Mi ... More >>

The Toxic Joys of Sunday Best

How the best weekly dance party in town wound up alongside the Gowanus Canal

'Sunday Best Presents Michael Mayer'

Broadway Star Makes AIDS and Jesus Funny!

The Limelight's born again, and so am I

American Idiot, Sondheim on Sondheim, Promises, Promises Lack Luster

On Green Day's Vivid, Lurid, Somewhat Vapid American Idiot Musical

WASTED YOUTH

Green Day does showtunes

Interview: Glee Star Lea Michele On Central Park, Comedy, and a Sweaty Co-Star

"Now I'm in Glee and I get to have Slushees and fettuccine alfredo thrown in my face." Glee's Lea Michele Born in the Bronx and raised in Tenafly, New Jersey, Lea Michele debuted on Broadway at age eight in Les Miserables. From the time she was 14 until she was 20, she starred in Steven Sater and ... More >>

Sunday Best with Justus Kohncke

News Roundup: Pearl Jam, Wavves, Green Day, Dr. Dog

​--Pearl Jam have put together an online scavenger hunt to promote upcoming album Backspacer. The band has placed nine images (designed by political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow) thoughout the internet (view one here). If you find all nine images, Eddie Vedder will play a private acoustic concert i ... More >>

Rebeck's Our House and Wallace's Dry Hours Bring News We've Already Heard

Everyday Rapture Glimpses (Funnily) into Tug Between Narcissism and Discipline

HOUSE RULES

When reality TV becomes too real

'Fixed Presents Superpitcher'

'Fixed with Michael Mayer'

Spring Guide: David Levine Messes with Imperfection in Venice Saved: A Seminar

Why We Love Justice (and Shouldn't)

The perils of hyping dance music you can't really dance to

Tonys, Tonys, Tonys

The picks of the litter. In other business: Travolta's not exactly Divine, is he?

Cutting Remarks

Vagina dialogues, wildly theatrical theatrics, and some of zee most outrageous zings you've heard

Newies but Oldies

Pop music kick-starts an 1890s drama but fails a record-store musical

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There's No Winking in Hell

Liberal heathens imitate fundie Christians denouncing liberal heathens. Sweet.

'Flicka'

Prussian Blues

Duncan Sheik's puberty musical: Barely heavy breathing

Dancing in Your Sleep: Label Microcosm Calms the Nerves

Club Crawl

Bed Mates

Hanging with Ego Trip, the Wiggle Tour, and minimal pasta

Theater

Join the Party: A Politically Charged Bash Ignites the Movement

Bitter Experience

Roundabout has means and opportunity, but its results may make you ponder its motives

NY Mirror

Music

Music

Pro-Finnish

A classic house producer leaves them breathless

Music

Clubs

A Little Night Music

Music

Glitchy Glitchy Ya-Ya

Crackles and Whirrrs and Glubs-Oh Mi(crohouse)!

Heartless Hotel

Prison Contracts and Homeless Crisis Built Empire

Old Things Considered

What Price Spirituality?

Pleasures and Paints

Pro & Con Artists

NY Mirror

Alas, it's not clear which is the gay Wiggle, since the one who wears purple doesn't also carry a magic purse.

Jazzmen Bloweth