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View Comments During the COVID-19 pandemic, Melissa Errico found herself drawn to songs about isolation and the hope of renewal.  The Tony Award nominee ("Amour"), singer and writer recorded and released Alec Wilder’s “Blackberry Winter” and Michel Legrand’s “You Must Believe in Spring” during lockdown. Now, as we appear to be turning a corner on COVID, that hope she clung to is here, and she intends to have it on full display during "Sondheim by the Shore," part of Holmdel Theatre Company's "Broadway Outside the Barn" series this summer. "Now, I’m looking to bust out a litt...

View Comments One silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increased reach that many theaters have found through streaming. "Herding Cats" is taking it one step further — combining streaming and live theater for a performance with actors who span two continents. Jassa Ahluwalia ("Unforgotten," "Peaky Blinders") and Sophie Melville ("Pops," "Iphigenia in Splott") will perform the play by Lucinda Coxonfor an in-person audience on Soho Theatre’s London stage, while Greg Germann ("Assassins," "Grey's Anatomy") will join them via video, performing live from the United States. "He...

How a gala breathed new life, hope into George Street Playhouse, theater 'No One Else for Me' from George Street Playhouse's premiere of 'Last Days of Summer' Replay Video And he paused. "He stood there and as he was starting to sing, he just stopped and said, 'I need a minute,' " George Street artistic director David Saint said. "And he got very emotional and he said, 'I didn't realize how much it was going to affect me.' " It's no wonder.  Coming more than 14 months after the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered performance venues along with the rest of the world, the moment of return, of singing i...

"Fully Committed" is a comedy, a laugh-a-minute farce that leaves audiences roaring. And while George Street Playhouse's production has laughter in spades, what he really connected with, Maulik Pancholy said, is its heart. Sam, the main character (there are 40, all played by Pancholy, more about that in a minute), is stuck. He wants to see his family for the holidays. He feels his career is not taking off. And that takes him on a journey over the course of the show. "This past year, I think a lot of us have taken pause and thought about the things that are really important to us," Panchol...

As the reality of the Broadway shutdown set in, Seth Rudetsky figured he'd go online holding his phone up to the camera as Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara sang a few songs and they would attract some donations for The Actors Fund. Luckily, with some intervention from his husband, James Wesley, and a team of friends behind the scenes, the technology angle worked out a little better. But the spirit of using their talents to give back lives on.  At a one-year anniversary this week, with hundreds of episodes of "Stars in the House" behind them, "some donations" has turned into more than $715,00...