Category: Featured Writing

  • Garden Parties

    Garden Parties

    That Are Hardly Garden Variety

  • Shades That Really Shade

    Shades That Really Shade

  • Designing Decadence

    Designing Decadence

    The Revival of Cabaret

  • Being Black & Blue

    Being Black & Blue

    Birth of the Blue Man.

  • Spamalot!

    Spamalot!

  • Tampering With Tradition

    Tampering With Tradition

    The history, art and influence of the Geisha…Tampering with Tradition.

  • Behind The Mask

    Behind The Mask

    Since Michael Crawford performed the title role in The Phantom of the Opera’s Broadway opening in January 1988, there have been 12 actors who have played the starring role. Although the actors differed with the performances, the same woman has been behind all the men’s masks: make-up artist Thelma Pollard.

  • Wicked

    Wicked

    Joe Dulude II, make-up artist on the Tony-award winning musical “Wicked,” can safely say, “It’s not easy being green.”

  • Hobnobbing At Megna Glass Studio

    Hobnobbing At Megna Glass Studio

    Magnificent home accessories, doorknobs and cabinet pulls are made on the East End by master glass blower Martin Megna.

  • Design At The Top Of The Stairs

    Design At The Top Of The Stairs

    Interior designer, Penny Drue Baird, whose work is featured regularly in Architectural Digest splits a bedroom in half for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House.