CABARET THEATER REVIEWS

Day two of the 2019 Mabel Mercer Foundation's 2019 New York Cabaret Convention filled Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center with a lot of Heart and Soul and the music of Frank Loesser last night. The Convention audience was immersed with the music of one of the greatest Broadway songwriters as one...

Award winning cabaret singer Lucille Carr-Kaffashan recently did a run of shows at Don't Tell Mama in which she looked at the works of some of rock and roll's great male singer songwriters....

Day one of the 2019 Cabaret Convention presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation featured Deborah Grace Winder hosting, 'The Sunny Side of the Street: Celebrating Dorothy Fields & Great Women Songwriters' starring Christine Andreas, Karrin Allyson, and more!...

The popular Variety/Talk/Game Show continues its run at Feinstein's/54 Below and Robbie Rozelle secured some exclusive photos of the action taken at a recent performance by Kristin Pulido. Take a look at the fun!...

It was a spectacular start to the four night 2019 Cabaret Convention at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater Last night....

In Matt Baker's rousing, modernistic tribute to Gershwin at Birdland, Gershwin tunes inspired an evening of jazz, the music taking familiar tunes like a?oeRhapsody in Bluea?? to haunting new places....

Alexandra Silber lives out her Broadway dreams in her Feinstein's/54 Below show I Wish: The Roles That Could Have Been. In the second installment of Silber's concert, Broadway stars flocked to the venue to sing songs from roles that have passed them by for one reason or another....

KAREN AKERS brings Legendary Style to The Beach CafeKaren Akers holds that rarest of interpretive gifts: she makes a song feel as if you are experiencing it for the first time. Reimagining Cole Porter's 'It's Alright By Me' as a haunted beguine, she begins tremulous; a would be lover breathless with...

Cabaret superstar Jeff Harnar revisits his past and the work of songwriting legends Comden and Green with a 30th anniversary performance of his breakout show....

The revered cabaret singer Dawn Derow is warming hearts and inspiring laughs with a cabaret show built around that rare thing: a happy family....

For her Freshman outing, Wendy Kaufman Harper chooses to tell a personal tale of her life, using pop, rock and folk songs to tell her audience that which she has learned along the way....

Acclaimed singer and voice teacher Corinna Sowers Adler returned to The Laurie Beechman Theatre with a new show titled SECOND STORIES and fans old and new have been delighting in her musical storytelling....

The star of Mr Robot and ER is releasing a new CD called FOR ALL WE KNOW and brings her grown up, adult, sophisticated, swinging, sexy night of intimate vocals and guitar to 54 Below with FROM BALLADS TO BOSS...

Current reigning National Miss Comedy Queen, Tina Burner, in association with Club Cumming, present a one-of-a-kind musical take on everybody's favorite Halloween Classic: Hocus Pocus for 5 performances....

The talented singer-songwriter-comedian Julian Velard takes on toddlers and piano karaoke in his latest look at life in the Generation X fast lane, WHAT AM I DOING HERE?...

Popular NYC Concert Series BROADWAY SINGS has been presenting an UNPLUGGED version at The Green Room 42 with some of the best voices in town, and it is worth catching...

A musical coincidence occurred in Manhattan last night. Marilyn Maye was swinging on the West Side at Feinstein's/54 Below and Tom Wopat was doing the same on the East Side at the Beach Cafe. They are a bit similar in Night Club performance. I'm purposely using the word Night Club as opposed to C...

Two-time Tony Award nominee and one-time Duke of Hazzard Tom Wopat brings a five week concert series to the charming Upper East Side eatery and saloon The Beach Café, and his opening night was a memorable night of Manhattan magic....

Eric Michael Gillett seems to describe himself as a sort of enigma who's just come to New York by chance. His latest soul-searching tour returned him once again to that happy place, the stage, where he could share the story of his career using witty retorts and of course, singing (something he's pre...

Like a classic culinary creation, capable of continually and forever exciting the senses and defying the hazards of repetition, Marilyn Maye satisfied her audience's expectation for greatness last night with her performance at Feinstein's/54 Below. The perfect wine to compliment this musical feas...

The greatest living cabaret singer is back at 54 Below and joking about her age - only the joke is on us because she's the youngest person in the room...

Mr. and Mrs. Young, Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young, bring their first ever duo concert to Birdland for a special one-night event that, hopefully, will become the first of many because the evening was a rollicking night of fun and feels, not to mention astonishingly good music....

Death is a cabareta?'a riotous cabaret in Sherry At A Funeral, which just opened its two-night run to a sold-out crowd at Pangea. The show is created by Zachary Clause and Reed Whitney (Whitney also acting as director), performed by Mr. Clause and Courtney Cowart, with musical direction by Karl Sain...

Among the many fans of Michele Brourman at her show Love Notes at the Birdland Theater last night were a host of singers, songwriters and theatrical folks. They came to hear one of our most gifted singer/songwriter and pianists probably best known for her collaboration and partnership with Amanda M...

Flawlessly adept soprano Jen Fellman celebrated the release of her cd FORBIDDEN DRIVE with two sold-out shows at Feinstein's/54 Below...