Archive - Barry Singer (on The ARTS and Otherwise)

Liner Note #2: ARI AXELROD'S "A PLACE FOR US - A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH BROADWAY"

This, my second recent liner note, came out of the blue.

Jul 11 •

Liner Note #1: "MARIAN McPARTLAND AT THE PENINSULA LIBRARY 1972"

It’s rare that I get to write a liner note anymore, but recently I found myself with two such assignments — one for an actual LP!

Jul 1 •

June 2025

May 2025

"FLOYD COLLINS:" How Glory Goes & Comes Again

On an April evening in 1991 I ventured out to Brooklyn to see my friend Karen Trott in a show I knew nothing about.

May 30 •

"SMASH:" Two Musicals in None

If Smash on TV was about anything at all, it was about believing, with ruthless faith, in your bad idea for a musical.

May 16 •

More 'Mincemeat': FELIX HAGAN at 54Below (& After)

Underlying my admiration for Operation Mincemeat, the new musical from London that this past week became a multi-Tony-nominee, was one unanswered…

May 6 •

April 2025

"TAPPING INTO THE TWENTIES" On A Sunday Afternoon with The American Symphony Orchestra

I rarely get to Sunday afternoon concerts anymore, but it’s a lovely time to hear music.

Apr 22 •

"LOVE LIFE:" S.S. ECHOES AT 'ENCORES!'

I don’t remember ever discussing Love Life with Stephen Sondheim but I do remember him talking about Alan Jay Lerner from time to time, the revered My…

Apr 8 •

"MINCEMEAT" & CHURCHILL

I’ve already written glowingly (HERE, almost two years ago) about Operation Mincemeat, the wonderfully unlikely new musical from London that just opened…

Apr 2 •

March 2025

"GHOSTS" at LCT: All About Parentage

I can’t remember the last time I saw Ibsen’s Ghosts live onstage, but it must have affected me deeply because I don’t usually draw such a blank about my…

Mar 28 •

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