CABARET THEATER REVIEWS

Young Micaela Leon's fascinating new cabaret act captures the spirit of Weimar Berlin....

Broadway baby Bryan Batt begins a new stage in his career as a cabaret performer. And what a beginning!...

This week's Nightlife Awards ceremony at Town Hall was a plethora of the top talent the city has to offer...

A new musical revue at Birdland salutes women songwriters from Katherine Lee Bates and Nora Bayes to Donna Summer and Stevie Nicks...

At Least it's Pink is a delight- a raunchy, hilarious, surprisingly touching, potty-mouthed delight. ...

Maude Maggart brings her fascinating new show to the Algonquin's Oak Room....

The smooth-singing Steven Maglio pays tribute to one of the great interpreters of the American popular song ...

Andrea Marcovicci's salute to The Incomprable Hildegarde is currently running at the Oak Room....

A new star is ascending at the Metropolitan Room...

This year's Broadway Unplugged concert may well have been the best of the three: every song and singer were perfectly matched and beautifully performed, and almost no singers were able to leave the stage without being called back for an extra bow...

A thoroughly charming cabaret show saluting the international, bilingual star who has topped the pop charts in many countries, played leading roles in both Broadway and West End musicals, and even wrote a hit or two....

Cy Coleman's career is reviewed and celebrated in this classy and jazzy cabaret retrospective....

The second evening of the Broadway Cabaret Festival reunited the two Side Show stars to glorious effect....

Paula West's yearly visit to the Oak Room mixes the expected and the surprising...

Camille O'Sullivan's American cabaret debut certainly shows talent, confidence, playfulness and a desire to challenge her audience, but working without a stage director or music director, the evening is repetitive, clichéd and lacking in both originality and clarity...

Jason Wynn's new cabaret show features smooth, unaffected, well-phrased vocals and some terrific original material...

Nancy Anderson performed a live version of her new album at its Birdland release party....

This collection of songs by Bill Weeden is a welcome throwback to the type of simple, sophisticated musical revues featuring clever, intelligent lyrics that used to provide fizzy nightcaps for post-theatre crowds...

A talented cast of singer/actors deftly interpret an impressive collection of character-driven songs by this up and coming combo...

Richard Skipper not only looks and sounds like the original star of Hello, Dolly! and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, but his knowledgeable and loving portrayal gives us a realistic glimpse at the woman's passion for performing and desire to make a personal connection with the strangers who flocked to see...

1968 was a year of great transition (ask your parents!), and nowhere was that change better reflected than on Broadway....

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A charming and funny musical revue that promises straight people will get the jokes...

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They're witches! They wear bikinis! They sing and dance! What more could you ask for?...