The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Cabaret.
This year is the centennial of entertainment legends such as vocalists Billie Holliday and Edith Piaf, singer-actors Frank Sinatra and Alice Faye, composers Billy Strayhorn and Bart Howard, and pianist Cy Walter.
DEDICATIONS shares the lives and loves of 'The Love God's' listeners as they call in to a Late Night Radio program inspired by Sydney Radio personality Richard Mercer's 'Love Song Dedications'.
The Toxic Avenger, based on Lloyd Kaufman's character and film by the same name and winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, returned to New York City on Monday night for a special one-night-only concert reunion at 54 Below.
Linda Lavin's most recent show at 54 Below (which had a three-night run between June 4-6), Starting Over--"Because that's what I've done all my life"--illuminates a succession of chapters in her career.
The packed audience showed their appreciation with continuous bursts of applause and laughter.
Last week, Betty Buckley returned to Joe's Pub to debut her newest cabaret concert DARK BLUE-EYED BLUES.
Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano are in a really good mood.
One of the joys of reviewing cabaret is being fortunate enough to discover a remarkable talent.
It takes a woman of considerable wit, style, and maturity to tackle (let alone celebrate) the subject matter of men.
In her new cabaret show Thirsty! (which returns to Joe's Pub for a second show on June 1 at 9:30), Scott regales the audience with tales of a young(ish) single woman living in New York City as an aspiring musical theater performer, whose antics tend to run toward the debauched, since she has 'no mor
On Sunday evening, 54 Below celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the musical Grand Hotel on Broadway in high style with two performances crackling with energy and featuring a talented roster of performers including 13 from the original cast.
On Saturday May 23 actor/singer Bill A.
Alexis Cole makes it look easy.
Stacy Sullivan is a warm and amusing storyteller with an entertaining family history.
With her new show at the Metropolitan Room that opened last night—Groupies: The Muses Behind the Legends of Rock & Roll--the usually smart and meticulous Lauren Fox (as evidenced by her shows that celebrated the music of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen and later the Pop/Rock that emerged from Laur
I like Megan Hilty because she laughs a lot.
One might easily call Susan Winter's Monday night show at Don't Tell Mama, A Woman for All Seasons: Part Two as half its numbers were in the first show by this name she performed during a run starting last September at the Metropolitan Room.
Cy Coleman and Ira Gasman's musical The Life explores the human flotsam and jetsam of Times Square in the 1980s--prostitutes, pimps, dealers, runaways, the seedy, lost and desperate.
To paraphrase a Peter Allen song, she could have been a sailor.
Three of Cy Coleman's Broadway leading ladies invite you to a celebratory shindig buoyed by talent, palpably warmed by affection.
Back by popular demand, March's SIDE SHOW: ADDED ATTRACTIONS concert returned to 54 Below this week.
Tribute shows to iconic entertainers celebrating a centennial birthday in 2015 seem to be all the rage this year.
James Snyder got this week off to a great start when he brought James Snyder: Prince Charming to Birdland as part of the venue's ongoing Broadway at Birdland concert series.
Four recent shows at Don't Tell Mama featured performers either making their debuts on the New York cabaret scene (Evelyn Sullivan and Erin McCracken) or who returned this spring in hopeful anticipation of sharing their artistic vision with audiences (Rob Sutton and Eve Eaton).
Judy Collins, who celebrated her 76th birthday on May 1, has been entertaining us for 56 years "not including childhood.
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The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour BIRDLAND (9/14-9/14) |
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Adam Blotner & Friends - The Jewish Year: Greatest Hits 54 Below (11/19-11/19) |
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Bells Are Ringing 70th Anniversary Concert 54 Below (10/07-10/07) |
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Lionel R. Shockness: Awakening(s)…Mixologist to Psychologist Don't Tell Mama (9/27-9/27) |
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Ethan Iverson: The Beatles (aka Pepperland) Joe's Pub (10/27-10/27) |
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The Burn Book Cabaret 54 Below (11/13-11/13) |
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Lea Salonga 54 Below (12/04-12/04) |
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Jekyll & Hyde: In Concert! Feat. Christiane Noll & more 54 Below (9/05-9/05) |
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Carols for a Cause 54 Below (10/11-10/11) |
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The Bowery Boys: Ghost Stories of Old New York Joe's Pub (10/29-10/29) |
