Lina Koutrakos News

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Regina Zona and Sean Harkness has a party and a show to celebrate the release of their Christmas album and Helane Blumfield attended with her camera.

 Eve Eaton, an award winning singer, will join Doris Dear and the all-star cast of “The Doris Dear Christmas Special” for the Friday night show playing at The Triad Theater in NYC  Dec 16th & 17th at 7pm.

Soprano Emily Kate Gentile is joining the cast of the “Doris Dear Christmas Special” running this Friday and Saturday, the 16th and 17th of December, at the off Broadway Triad Theater in NYC. 

Voting is now open for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Celebrating her seventh year of holiday magic, award winning artist Doris Dear, “America's Perfect Housewife”, announces that the “Doris Dear 2022 Christmas Special, Christmas Through the Ages'”will be raising funds for The Alzheimer's Association.

Award winning cabaret artists Regina Zona and Sean Harkness have just the album for the holidays, and just the way to release it: with a Christmas show.

URBAN STAGE's annual Winter Rhythms cabaret series has announced the full run-down of shows and acts to play in the 2022 season

Urban Stages has had great luck with their Winter Rhythms shows in the past and the calendar for 2022 is looking good. So is their Black Friday sale code.

Crystal Kellogg, from Broadways “School of Rock” and “Finding Neverland”, joins Doris Dear and the all-star cast of “The Doris Dear Christmas Special” playing at The Triad Theater in NYC  Dec 16th & 17th at 7pm.

Susan Mack debuted her new show at Birdland Jazz Club. Susan brought her jazz vocals to American Songbook and Popular songs from the 1930's to the 1990's. Directed by Lina Koutrakos and backed by Susan's trio of musicians including Tedd Firth (Piano), David Finck (Bass), Eric Halvorson (Drums), with guest appearance by Trumpeter Benny Benack III.

We all love to reminisce. A trip down memory lane is highly satisfying. In fact, for those of us who are devotees of The American Songbook, reminiscing is sort of our gig. Susan Mack has made it the theme of her evening, SUSAN MACK: YESTERDAYS, which opened yesterday at Birdland. And Ms. Mack is, indeed a singer worth remembering. She has a voice as full-bodied as honey, with impeccable pitch and delicious taste in music. She put together a program of classy, often rueful tunes about days gone by, both hers and ours. As she points out, the beauty of calling a show YESTERDAYS is that you can sing anything written before today.

Doris Dear, Telly Award winner for her streaming series, 'Doris Dear's Gurl Talk', on BroadwayOnDemand, 3-time MAC Award winner and Broadway World award winner, is back with her annual Holiday extravaganza, 'The Doris Dear Christmas Special'!

NiCori Studios & Productions have announced the next installment of the long running Bloomfield series 'Music at the Mansion' at it's new location at the historic Thorne Mansion, home to the Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Sunday, November 27 at 3pm. 

For three nights the Mabel Mercer Foundation presented their picks of artists for the 2022 Cabaret Convention at Rose Theater at Jazz At Lincoln Center.

Dorian Woodruff is exactly the sort of crooner the Bergmans wrote for. His voice is warm and dextrous, his diction is perfect without being ostentatious and he displays a wide emotional range. He found the rich subtext of the Bergman’s romantic themes and made it about his own heart. He concentrated on three of the great loves of his life and how the Bergman’s songs accompanied those romances.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this November with a full slate of nightly performances! 

Following her recent sold-out performances, Susan Mack returns to Birdland to debut Yesterdays, a new show with a diverse, uplifting and timeless set of Standards. These songs of yesterday transcend the era in which they were created; their messages and the emotions they elicit are still powerful, relatable, and relevant today.

Broadway World Cabaret is looking at the work of a group of artists we call THE SUPPORTING CAST.