It's always been a challenge to "Sunday Supper" that the birthdays of Pete Seeger and Judy Collins collide on the calendar. On this week's show we'll solve that by toasting them both — Judy's 85th on Wednesday and Pete's 105th on Friday — in a joint medley.
On Your Radar: Jess Klein, Jillian Matundan and Madeleine Roger
John Platt's On Your Radar has a new venue, the legendary Bitter End NYC.
Chekhov’s plays, like Shakespeare’s, are essential to the theater canon. His oeuvre isn’t as deep as Shakespeare’s, of course, but it is rich and thus open to multiple revivals. Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Uncle Vanya is satisfying in every way.
It really has been an amazing journey for Tommy since The Who released the original double album in 1969. Hyped as the first rock opera, it did have an operatic structure – an overture, an “underture,” certain recurring musical themes – and Pete Townshend’s expansive ambitions (including borrowing the “Amazing Journey” riff from his previous “mini-opera,” “Rael,” on The Who Sell Out). With some dissenters, it did generally get critical praise and strong popular support, driven in part by “Pinball Wizard” as a hit single.