CABARET THEATER REVIEWS

So what is the show, you may ask - the show is Mark. He is the show, the show is him and SONGS AND SCANDALS OF THE 1920S is merely the vehicle to deliver Mark to his adoring audience - an audience that goes with him wherever he plays. Mark is an unparalleled musician and singer whose piano playing i...

The noted trio of jazz music-makers is at The Birdland Theater showing crowds why they are so noted....

You may ask,Bobby was the evening sexy for any crowd, gender or persuasion - ABSOLUTELY! Was the evening any fun??? A completely fun, enjoyable, really full night of entertainment and that's why Bobby gives LE SCANDAL CABARET 4 ½ Rainbows Out Of 5...

Bursting onto the Jazz at Lincoln Center stage like a chariot tackling the final stretch of the Race of Champions, Ali Stroker doesn't wear a bib on her sleeve, but if she did, you can bet rather than a number, it would bear but a single word: 'moxie.'...

What is great about H&S is that it shows some real promise; maybe not for the show itself, but for its writer/composer-lyricist Feldman who was wise enough to start with writing what he knows. Taking his own coming out experience and putting words and music to it in a story that, while nothing reall...

What started out as a 17 minute tap session full of some pretty slick moves became a nearly two hour romp backed by one of the world's classiest jam bands highlighted by Jonathan Michel, probably the world's best double bassist and talented pianist, accompanist Mark Meadows who defined sleek with th...

Ten years after becoming the must-see event in New York Theater, Yank! reunited many from the original cast and creative team, welcomed members of the casts from the original productions in the UK, Australia and Brazil, to celebrate the little ground-breaking musical that could... And did...

Birdland collects songs about NYC in the return of the three-singer revue New York: Big City Songbook the same week that Marilyn Maye reigned supreme once again at Dizzy's. Lots of solid entertainment....

Continuing their mission of curating history by bringing back ghosts of musical theatre past in staged concert performances, F/54B wisely chose the Zellniks' beautiful patchwork quilt of pastiche, put it on their tiny stage and gave friends, fans, and a few newbies a look back at a show that looks b...

Everything that I could say about the plot, which was good and thoughtful, wouldn't be enough to capture the essence of what Raftery's show was. He certainly did troll Ivanka even thought that wasn't the whole show. The show was less about trashing Ivanka and more about [Ivanka the heroine] The hero...

Emerson Steele and Kelly Lamor Wilson put together a dynamite show to celebrate female empowerment. Whether it was Charlotte Maltby's slightly quirky, 'Grace Kelly' or Laura Bell Bundy's differently quirky, 'Digital Disease' or Annie Golden's emphatic, warrior anthem, 'White Picket Fence,' each song...

J. Mark McVey's reference point was Broadway (mostly) with some bombast, with a band and guests, while Alexis Cole showed that less can be more with relaxed, classy jazz stylings....

Singer-songwriters doing their own material cuts out the usual intermediary interpreter so we get the intentions and first take from the horses' mouth, so to speak. Recent examples; Susan Werner and Brian Gari....

Many Great American Songbook standards and jazz classics fill the air as Jane Monheit settles into her two-shows-a-night run til the very end of February, with four strong musicians....

Australian cabaret performer landed at The Green Room 42 with his show COLE and for a while it was touch and go -- until he really let go....

During Eva Noblezada's introduction to the stage of The Green Room 42 last night, the audience was informed of this eye-popping fact: Eva Noblezada's show has been heralded as the most successful run of any cabaret show since Patti LuPone at Les Mouches, and has sold out more than twenty times at Th...

Eden Espinosa: Unplugged and Unplanned plays The Green Room 42 WITH COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS February 28 & March 6th, 15th & 22nd. For information and tickets please visit The Green Room 42 website....

In her debut cabaret, Lauren Frazza is making all the right choices and it is sure paying off....

The city's preeminent Sondheim tribute show celebrates 91 episodes by proving they are just as good as they ever were....

When Jerry Herman's songs fill the air, it's always 'The Best of Times.' 92Y's Lyrics & Lyricists concert series proves that again with a strong presentation to enrich afternoons and night-time (February 22-24). The sturdy arts hub continues to honor Broadway's best, whether with a grand staged prog...

On Sunday nights at Club Cumming can be found some entertaining series shows that are different every week because one is an Open Mic and one is a drag competition, but they both have this in common: Fun....

The Feinstein's/54 Below Staff Show recently showed off the performing talents of the nightclub's employees and the audience couldn't have been more glad they came out....

The alt-cabaret star has created her most personal journey to date and it is Worth. Catching....

The new open mic brunch at Pangea is already proving to be a great idea from Sue Matsuki and Gregory Toroian, and it's only had two day!...

The cast, the music, the history all under the adept direction of Russ made extra beautiful by the music from Kinosian's fingers made THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS: IN CONCERT one of the finest nightclub outings so far this year and, because Bobby CANNOT wait to see this flower bloom, we give this Work In P...