A California native, Sandra happily calls Manhattan (her city of choice for the last several decades) home. Enjoying an enduring passion for the theatre, her plays have been produced in several off-off Broadway venues, and an original drama for television was produced by the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her journalism credits include among others, reviews and profiles for Our Town, A Manhattan Weekly, The New Orleans Review, and Show Business Weekly. She is currently at work on a novel about cinematic illusions and a collection of stories about women in unfamiliar landscapes. Her paintings were featured in the opening exhibition this year at the Seti Gallery in Kent, CT. She believes every subject finds its medium—film, fiction, theatre, fine art—and she loves the journey. An inveterate traveler, she still finds stimulation and surprise in New York, and her cat Pazza, her greatest inspiration.
Sandra Bertrand — Author
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The Beat Generation in Paris: A New Film from Alan Govenar
William Burroughs is writing his incendiary Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso is creating his “Bomb,” a bombastic poetic send-off to the nuclear age, and Allen Ginsberg is cooking up his...
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‘Teresa’s Ecstasy’: A Taste for Gazpacho
Don’t think that just because the protagonist of Teresa’s Ecstasy, currently playing at The Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village in New York, is making a menopausal pilgrimage back...
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“Eternal Equinox” – Not So Eternal
The equinox, in case you don’t recall, is that time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth’s equator and day and night are of equal length. In Joyce Hokin Sachs’ ménage a...
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The Art of Fender-Bending: John Chamberlain at the Guggenheim
In a car-obsessed culture, everyone’s got another crash, another pile-up story to beat all. In sculptor John Chamberlain’s case, his fender-benders were no accident. The metal parts...
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Abe Lincoln Comes Home To New York City
Honest Abe, at home in the Big Apple?
Yes, we’re talking about that same tall and gangly-limbed senator from Illinois who freed the slaves and gave...
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The 187-Year-Old Lady Gets a Facelift and an Opening
She has a prestigious address, 1083 Fifth Avenue, just a block north of that venerable, but still brash-looking neighbor, The Guggenheim Museum. Housed in a lovely six-story, Beaux-Arts...
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The World of Crime Through Two Photographers’ Eyes
Two photographers, two visions; born 30 years apart, one in 1899, and one in 1929, with only one naked city—New York—between them. Gritty, grotesque, compassionate, corrupt; the...
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The Devil’s Woman: “The Devil’s Music, The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith”
Some shows and their stars just don’t know when to quit. And it’s a good thing, because Miche Braden, the brilliant, ball-busting Bessie Smith of this blockbuster hit has been making...
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A Company to Watch: A Look into InProximity’s New Production
The Fall to Earth, a new full-length play by playwright Joel Drake Johnson, opens to the stark furnishings of a motel room—the king-sized bed, the requisite desk and bureau with a...
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The Duchess of Alba Is Alive and Well on Audubon Terrace
One hundred and eight years ago, American philanthropist Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955) founded the Hispanic Society of America in a beautiful Beaux Arts building at 155th and...