Photo Coverage: Raissa Katona Bennett Opens at FEINSTEINS
by Stephen Sorokoff
- Jan 25, 2011
RAISSA KATONA BENNETT BREATHING LIFE INTO KERN" AT FEINSTEIN'S THROUGH SATURDAY
The singer-actress Raissa Katona Bennett shows how "actable" the music of Jerome Kern is in her delightful new show, "Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern." Each song is a little play, and she's ready to feel every emotion as they occur, bringing us right up the emotional edge with her. At Thursday's premiere at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency, men melted and women swooned when she sang "Long Ago and Far Away," and "Why Do I Love You." An older gent exclaimed "hot dog!" several times at the end of several classics. The singers Lucy Arnaz, Karen Oberlin, Valerie Lemon and Christine Reisner were among the singers there to enjoy this show that plays through Saturday.
"Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern" is ably backed by music director Don Rebic on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass. The multi-threat actor/director/singer Eric Michael Gillett directs.
After the show Bennett who was Christine on Broadway in "Phantom of the Opera," and was in the first national tours of "Cats" and "Parade," told us "Oh, I feel like I performed a two hour play in one hour!" Bennett also produces and is the 2010 Bistro Award-winning host of "The Concerts at Tudor City Greens," an outdoor series that features many of New York's most noted singers.
New Season, New Director Set For Kingsborough Performing Arts Center
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Sep 8, 2010
Kingsborough Performing Arts Center's 2010-2011 season of Music, Dance, Theatre, Literature, and Family shows is now on sale and with a new season brings a new executive director and a new vision for Kingsborough's oceanfront performing arts center.
Review - Isaiah Fest & Wonder of the World
by Michael Dale
- Jun 12, 2010
When Isaiah Sheffer first walked into the dilapidated movie house on Broadway and 95th Street in the late '70s he saw some kind of makeshift boxing ring on the creaky stage. But what he envisioned was a great center for the arts on the Upper West Side that filled the wide cultural gap between Lincoln Center and Columbia University.
Brown, Freeman, Hammerle, Larsen Cast In BOOMERS At York Theatre, Begins 5/1
by Gabrielle Sierra
- May 1, 2009
The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce casting for Boomers, the next offering in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series. As always, these readings are open to the general public and admission is free, but reservations are suggested, and can be obtained by e-mailing Reading Series Coordinator Jeff Landsman at jlandsman@yorktheatre.org or calling 212-935-5824 x24.
James Naughton Takes Part In THALIA FOLLIES: AMERICA REBORN
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Feb 3, 2009
James Naughton will take part in Thalia Follies: America Reborn?
One month into the new administration in Washington, the Follies tries to figure out how things look and just what exactly has happened.
Thu, Feb 19 at 7:30 pm
Fri, Feb 20 at 7:30 pm
Sat, Feb 21 at 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Day of Show $30; Advance $25; Members $20
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