Category: Concert

We could talk about the exquisite sensitivity and inescapable humanity of Kelli O’Hara singing “Christmas Lullaby,” a song which she said she couldn’t believe she hadn’t sung before… …or the crystalline brilliance of her performances from The Bridges of Madison County, recreated here with such defining authority… …or we could discuss the glories of this…

The solution seems further away than ever right now, I know. But we must remember them. We must fight for them. I believe – I truly believe – that we will get there, that we will get to a place and a time and a solution where what happened to these beautiful women and children…

It’s a dream to play my music with these superlative musicians every month, but I have other dreams as well. I had a dream that Norm Lewis would do an Elvis Presley impression. I had a dream that Katie Thompson would sing my disco song into oblivion. I had a dream that I would get…

I arrived at the Library of Congress building at 11 am for a video interview (which will become part of the permanent collection), and Mark Eden Horowitz, the chief archivist in charge of the Musical Theatre collections, had laid out some treasures from the archives. Here was a sketch from West Side Story in Bernstein’s…

I woke up on November 9 as though into some dystopian thriller. I stared at the headline in the New York Times and felt woozy, like my drink had been spiked. There was a way that Election Night was supposed to go, and then there was the nightmare that ensued. Like many other New Yorkers,…