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STILL ALIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
I returned to the Village Vanguard recently. At last. It had been quite a while—three years, at least; pre-pandemic for sure. It felt good. I was a…
Barry Singer
Mar 13
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BEHOLD "THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW"
Lorraine Hansberry knew. The poignant insufficiencies of well-intentioned political activism was a blindered secret of the activist 1960’s that we can…
Barry Singer
Mar 3
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February 2023
STEPPIN' OUT FOR JOHN GUARE
Among the many modest pleasures I missed during the depths of this Pandemic was the simple kick of hanging with New York theatricals — at the West Bank…
Barry Singer
Feb 14
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'BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY:' YOURS, MINE, OURS
In 1979 I moved into a rent-stabilized apartment on Riverside Drive — just a year after “Pops,” the fictional main character in Between Riverside and…
Barry Singer
Feb 8
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January 2023
FIERCE BLACK SPIRITS: 'OHIO STATE MURDERS'
I exited Ohio State Murders recently speechless with admiration, and sorrow. I remain so. The play, by Adrienne Kennedy, and the lead performance, by…
Barry Singer
Jan 9
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FIERCE BLACK SPIRITS: 'OHIO STATE MURDERS'
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December 2022
'BECKY NURSE OF SALEM'S WITCH TRIAL
I’ve got to get a word in on Becky Nurse of Salem, which will close this week at Lincoln Center Theater. Reviews of this show were pretty dismissive. I…
Barry Singer
Dec 26, 2022
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MORE THAN A MOVIESICAL: 'SOME LIKE IT HOT'
I still believe that no movie — good, bad, or even great (especially) —needs to be made into a musical. Musicals of movies (as opposed to movie…
Barry Singer
Dec 20, 2022
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November 2022
THE WHY OF ALL THINGS
There are “smashes” in the theater and then there are “flops.” Audiences can usually tell one from the other. Everything in between is a mystery…
Barry Singer
Nov 28, 2022
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October 2022
HEAVING POLITICAL THEATER
For at least a week now (it already seems a lifetime), you (and I) have been bombarded with news of self-identified “climate activists” flinging refuse…
Barry Singer
Oct 27, 2022
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BUCKLE UP: '1776'
By God, I have had this Congress. The line keeps rattling in my head —hollered by a hellion John Adams at the outset of 1776 — crying me home as I read…
Barry Singer
Oct 18, 2022
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September 2022
THE NATIONAL SONDHEIM THEATER COMPANY
I actually invested in the original production of Into the Woods. My memory of this has long since faded (along with my dough), but the memory, at…
Barry Singer
Sep 1, 2022
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July 2022
CHUCK FOLDS
A Skyscraper Jazz Luminary
Barry Singer
Jul 30, 2022
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CHUCK FOLDS
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