CABARET THEATER REVIEWS

Former Cabaret Festival Artistic Director, David Campbell, and Broadway Composer, John Bucchino, presented a marvellous performance....

Peggy Eason is one of those characters who seem to have been made for the New York cabaret scene. She's a bodacious woman who is ubiquitous at the local clubs, possesses a passion for singing, and bills herself as the 'Chocolate Diva,' although on stage she's more like a Red Hot Mama. Eason opened h...

Little Bird was commissioned by the company especially as a platform for Paul Capsis, and what a magnificent performance he gives....

Musical theatre fans rushed to see Anthony Warlow and Faith Prince: Direct From Broadway....

Kylie Ferreira, Louise Messenger, and Valeska Laity have done a superb job of bringing the sounds of the Boswell Sisters to life again....

Robert Davi does not try to mimic Sinatra's voice, or blatantly copy his phrasing and styling....

Rhonda Burchmore is song and dance lady of the first order who really knows how to please an audience....

Jamie Jewell, as Candy Chambers, is a very rare thing, a drag queen who relies on sheer talent rather than bitchy sniping....

Hot August Night/Neil Diamond tribute concert with Dean Colley/at Monroe Forum Theare, El Portal, NoHo/through June 15...

Seven years was a long time to wait for another appearance by the fabulous Parisian cabaret chanteuse, Caroline Nin, but the wait was more than worth it....

Adelaide local Megan Doherty brings her next instalment of her personal growth to the stage with her new show DIRTY THIRTY....

On Sunday June 1 Joan Ryan brought her 2013 BWW award-winning show to the Catalina Jazz Club. The show was recently retitled On the Edge. The evening was a benefit for the Trevor Project and brought a special guest star to the stage Will and Grace's Eric McCormack....

The best cabaret hurts your heart a little, it tells you something about life, and love. This, then, is cabaret at its finest. Bucchino's songs are beautifully detailed accounts of his life - of love affairs, and mistakes, and risks taken - essentially, all the things worth singing about....

I never thought that writing a rave review would be more difficult than constructing a less than positive critique, but Carole J. Bufford, damn her, is causing me creative problems. That's because for the third time in three years I'm compelled to praise this attractive powerhouse cabaret singer to ...

On Sunday May 18 at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal phenomenal Broadway singer Terri White brought down the house with her all new cabaret show Two Score with musical direction by the incomparable Bryan Miller. The slightly under one hour set marked the second appearance, by popular demand, of th...

The youngest female Tony winner ever came to 54 Below with her new one-woman show about pregnancy, motherhood and all the changes a new baby can bring....

If you are even a semi-regular reader of this column of reviews, you know that about every three or four months, I post a compilation of observations of shows from the previous quarter of the year. This cabaret critiquing mash up happens for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I admi...

Ageless 86-year-old cabaret superstar and living legend Marilyn Maye performed her second show of yet another run at 54 Below (which continues May 9 and 10 at 8:00 pm, and May 13 at 7:00 pm), this time built around a tribute to the iconic comedian and talk show host Johnny Carson whose pet name for ...

Scott Siegel is two-for-two. The diminutive and indefatigable nightlife/cabaret impresario of such productions as Broadway By the Year and the Nightlife Awards at Town Hall, as well as regular variety shows like Broadway Unplugged and Broadway Ballyhoo, last fall decided to give the already skyrocke...

The clamor for tickets was probably for good reason. Those that were lucky enough to obtain tickets were able to see how truly versatile a vocal performer she is and how she can really command a room with just her voice and natural charm....

When Mark Nadler last performed a solo show at 54 Below, it was a very personal musical exploration of Germany's Weimar Republic of the 1920s, a place and an atmosphere that was dark, dangerous and decadent. I'm a Stranger Here Myself was such a compelling tour de force that it was expanded into a h...

I'll drink what he's drinking. Because given the youthful aura and energy 75-year-old Broadway legend and nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune displayed on Tuesday during the opening night of his debut run at the Cafe Carlyle (Really? After 55 successful years in the biz?), he must be knocking bac...

It took Lucie Arnaz her entire professional life to get booked for a solo nightclub/cabaret show at the Cafe Carlyle. It turned out to be worth the wait-for herself and her audiences-and her weeklong run at the stylish club (that began on April 13 and ends with shows tonight at 8:45 and 10:45) would...

The multi-award winning performer, Aindrias de Staic, flew in especially for this one night performance....