Cabaret Review | Elaine Stritch: One Tough Dame Tells Heartfelt Tales
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The ground-level reality of show-business magic is the ability to spin a spellbinding yarn anytime, anywhere. Elaine Stritch has it at her fingertips.
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"Oystercatchers" (W. W. Norton &amp; Company. 306 pages. $23.95 hardcover), by Susan Fletcher: In a follow-up to the award-winning "Eve Green," author Susan Fletcher creates a character who is not always likable and so introverted that it takes the reader time &#151; and many pages &#151; to get to know her.
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"Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints" (Pantheon Books. 524 Pages. $30) &#151; Joan Acocella: While culling essays for her new collection, "Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints," Joan Acocella discovered a loose theme: the hardships that come with creation, and how various artists dealt with these obstacles &#151; or did not. The humbler virtues of perseverance, she came to see, are as important, and as laudable, as talent.
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Twenty years on, one of the engineers who helped create the Mac writes his memoirs. But programmer Andy Hertzfeld's account is no dry paean to code: It's funny, engaging and deeply human. Wired News interview by Leander Kahney.
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Religion isnât easy, but itâs rarely looked tougher than it does in this intimate and disturbing film.
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Marilyn Maye embodies a vanishing species: the big-hearted, never-say-die dame of advanced age belting out Jerry Herman show tunes for a fervent claque of mostly gay men.
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Bless Susan Stroman and New York City Ballet. With Ms. Stromanâs âDouble Feature,â august ballet audiences can indulge in an unaccustomed Broadway-style laugh riot.
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"Damage Control" (HarperCollins Publishing, 273 pages. $13.95) &#151; For one woman, sitting exposed and vulnerable on a masseuse's table rekindles painful memories of challenges her mother and grandmother endured. For another woman, a bad haircut leaves her in a choking rage.
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Anna Deavere Smithâs first major show in more than a decade is rich in anecdotes and observations, but also frustrating in the scope of its reach.
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Bobby Madritsch&#39;s rise to the major leagues is a story of perseverance: He grew up in a gang-filled area on Chicago&#39;s South Side, dropped out of college, pitched for four independent
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In Karen Oberlinâs tribute show âThe Wizard of Words: Yip Harburgâs Songs of Wit and Wisdom,â at the Metropolitan Room, she skillfully balances the two sides of the lyricist E. Y. Harburgâs sensibility.
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A look at engagements at the CafÃ© Carlyle, and a new show for Jackie Hoffman.
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By Margarita Bauza, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 19--Kathy Angel has a hard time controlling her sweet tooth, particularly at the office.   There's the morale club's monthly cake celebration. The doughnut holes. The candy dishes.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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Hereâs to Marian Seldes and Angela Lansbury, who make acting look much easier than it is.
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âMy First Timeâ is a new Off Broadway play in which four actors recount stories about peopleâs first sexual experiences.
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âOffenbach Cabaret: Jacques in the Big Apple,â presented by OpÃ©ra FranÃ§ais de New York and the French Institute Alliance FranÃ§aise, promised a satirical and âsaucy musical review.â