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Review: CHRISTINE ANDREAS Goes On a Passionate Road Trip in TWO FOR THE ROAD at Cafe Carlyle
Christine Andreas has one of the finest of Broadway voices, an instrument with a huge expressive range capable of belting to the rafters and pliable enough to sing the gentlest lullaby....
Album Review: Opera Troubador Joshua Blue Proves Those Who Sing Can Also Jam On His New Album BLACK & BLUE
This is all by way of saying ... that Joshua Blue is one of these rare OPERA birds that has made a success of this bold move for himself....
Review: THE BEATLES BRUNCH at City Winery Features Bottomless Brunch, Booze, and Beatles
This family outing in NYC is musically sound and historically accurate at any time of day or night....
Review: LINDA EDER Always A Welcome Entertainer At 54 Below
Linda Eder's latest show was such a bit hit that, even before its conclusion, her next appearance at 54 Below was announced....
Review: Castrata Amazes and Amuses In MUSE VOL. II at Red Eye NY
Castrata and her Castrorchestra are next-level entertainment, drag or otherwise....
Review: Kate Baldwin and Aaron Lazar Throw a Casual Party in Cocktail Attire in ALL FOR YOU at 54 Below
It would be hard to think of a Broadway pairing who are capable of such bravura singing and are so at ease in each other's company. The evening they have created is a casual party in cocktail attire. It feels like a throwback to the days of after-show supper clubs where the elite came to meet and mi...
Album Review: Ari Axelrod Lives & Breathes & Sings At Birdland on ARI AXELROD LIVE AT BIRDLAND
In all, my angels, ARI AXELROD LIVE AT BIRDLAND is one of the best LIVE albums this rainbow writer has heard… maybe ever....
Review: Bianca Marroquín WHERE YOU ARE Makes 54 Below The Place You Want To Be
It was a night full of magical moments when Bianca played the basement with her band, boys, and all that jazz....
Review: Amy Irving Sings & Tells Stories Of How She Was BORN IN A TRUNK At City Winery
All in all, though, for her first time being shot out of a musical cannon, performing her own show in the singer spotlight in the HUGE (and packed) City Winery, Ms. Amy Irving landed on her feet and brought a lot of joy to the assembled parties....
Review: The Best Birthday Party of the Year is COME CELEBRATE WITH MARILYN MAYE at 54 Below
COME CELEBRATE WITH MARILYN MAYE, is ostensibly a celebration of her upcoming birthday. But it is so much more than that. It is a celebration of all the fans who have made Maye as loved and respected as she is. It is a two-way avenue of gratitude between an entertainer and those she entertains. It...
Review: Alan Cumming & Ari Shapiro, Art & Activism In OCH & OY! A CONSIDERED CABARET at Café Carlyle
It isn't only entertainment; in an interesting and important way, it is activism. See what our critic had to say.
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Review: John Boswell and Susie Mosher Return CASHINO To A Loving Audience at Birdland
As The Four Seasons once said: Oh, what a night....
Review: Melissa Errico The Ultimate Enchantress In TERMINAL INGENUE at The Green Room 42
A Melissa Errico cabaret is an event but this one was particularly special....
Review: LEOLA'S LADYLAND LOUNGE is the Talk Show You Didn't Know You Needed (You Do) at The Green Room 42
The self-proclaimed 'senior citizen, redneck, lesbian, diva' brought her post-modern talk show to the Green Room 42 last night. It was, as we say in the South, a 'ring-tail tooter' of an evening....
Review: JENNIFER SIMARD: CAN I GET YOUR NUMBER? is a Comic Treasure Trove at 54 Below
From the moment she appeared in the audience singing “One Night Only from Dreamgirls, sliding down a banister like a wacky Mame, you knew you were in for a comedic master class. She is an excellent mimic, a powerhouse singer, and in the end a sensitive and truthful actor. She is living proof of El...
Review: Katie Zaffrann Presents Personal MARRY ME A LITTLE: A COLD FEET CABARET at The Green Room 42
Katie Zaffrann's theatrical recounting of her walk down the aisle makes for good cabaret....
Review: JOHN LLOYD YOUNG Celebrates Our Shared History at Café Carlyle
John Lloyd knows exactly what his audience wants, and he is more than happy to provide....
Review: With A SEASONAL PLAYLIST at The Green Room 42, Singer-Songwriter Ryan Dunn Arrives On The Scene
Debuting one's original compositions never before seemed so easy....
Review: Ute Lemper Electrifies Her Audience In LILI MARLEEN – FROM WEIMAR TO THERESIENSTADT At 54 Below
In the end, through her sense of drama and the music of Holleander, Spoliansky, Brecht, and yes, even Seger, Ute Lember built a smokey, dimly lit, and incredibly exciting Kabarett room under 54th Street...
Review: WHAT'S GOING ON?: SONGS OF CHANGE Hits All the Right Notes at 92nd St. Y
A dynamic concert graced the stage of 92NY this past weekend....
Review: Jason Kravits Standing Room Only at Birdland Theater For OFF THE TOP!
With announced special guest Julie Benko and surprise special guest Jason Yeager, Jason Kravits sends OFF The TOP! audience home happy....
Music Review: Billy Porter Delivers A Lively Baby On The Dance Floor With His New BABY WAS A DANCER Single
The music is filled with driving rhythms that cry out for mixing on the nightlife dance floor. A disco anthem for today that is equal parts mainstream pop, soul/R&B blended together....
Review: THE MARVELOUS MARILYN MAYE Makes History And Legend At Carnegie Hall
Steven Reineke and The New York Pops were energized by a ninety-five-year-old Carnegie Hall solo show neophyte last week....
Review: Artemisia LeFay Fills The Triad Theater With PHANTOMS OF THE CABARET
Artemisia isn't afraid of death or the ghosts that linger; she embraces them....
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