BROADWAY THEATER REVIEWS

THIRST uses the structure of Dante's Inferno to examine the role of suffering in the human experience. Throughout the work Song-Begin, costumed in layers of black, performs an on-going solo. The audience accompanies Begin-Song, like Virgil accompanies Dante, into the various realms of the underworl...

Over the last 20 or so years, there have been three nightclubs in New York that have been considered the venue Holy Grail for cabaret singers. Two of them--the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel and Feinstein's at the Loews Regency--have in the past year or so sadly died a corporate death, leaving the ...

Sutton Foster may be a Tony-Award winning Broadway Musical Theatre darling, but if her opening-night show this past Wednesday at Café Carlyle (which launched her current three-week run until September 28) is the best she can do, she's far from also being considered a nightclub/cabaret diva....

In mid-August, the news website Bloomberg.com reported that 54 Below, the popular new nightclub that opened last June in the basement of the old Studio 54, needed a major cash infusion in the six-figure range if it was going to survive. Perhaps if they just book Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway on a reg...

A diverse evening of dance, with pieces ranging from contemporary to classic jazz to hip hop, presented by Peridance Center's faculty, entertained an eager audience on Saturday evening, informing them of New York's vibrant and diverse dance scene....

BWW Reviews New York International Fringe Festival's Peter Pan and the Stardust Dances, a tale of Peter Pan, Esmerelda, and floating lanterns told in five acts....

In cabaret, there are variety shows and there are VARIETY shows. Going on close to three years as a reviewer and attending a myriad of these affairs that can range in feel from Ed Sullivan to the Gong Show, I no longer have much patience for the lower case version. But every once in a while there's ...

Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival is happening all over Brooklyn right now, with live performances featuring artists from all over the world. For their dance portion last week, held at the Bandshell in Prospect Park, BRIC presented three works from Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal....

Given the insular and in-clubby world that is the New York cabaret scene (by nature, not by design), it can be a struggle for non-celebrity, out-of-town performers to generate an audience when they mount shows in Manhattan. One singer facing that dilemma is lovely, Boston-based Lynda D'Amour, a terr...

The second wave of feminism not only brought issues of reproductive rights and social inequality into the forefront of American conversation, it also produced the first hit Off-Broadway musical completely written by women....

The skills and strengths of Cirque du Soleil's balancing, contorting and hand/eye coordinating artists are still awe-inspiring and gasp-inducing....

Devin Bing's show last Thursday night (the fourth of five dates at the Metropolitan Room over this spring and summer, with the next one on August 15) may have been performed in a cabaret club, but it was more a contemporary jazz/pop concert than it was a 'cabaret show.' The story theme on this occas...

Sutton Foster leads Encores! Off-Center's outstanding concert production of Tesori and Crawley's underappreciated gem....

About halfway through Jim Brochu's Saturday, June 29 performance at the Metropolitan Room of his new show Character Man, I realized I was witnessing what was probably the best cabaret show I'd seen this year, and perhaps was one of the best in my almost three years of reviewing cabaret. By the time ...

Anika Noni Rose and Raul Esparza star in Marc Blitzstein's historic pro-labor protest musical....

Back on April 1, when he posted his third compilation of delayed cabaret reviews from shows staged during the winter, BroadwayWorld.com's lead New York cabaret reviewer promised Number 4 would come with arrival of summer. Okay, so he missed his self-imposed deadline by a couple of weeks. but here's ...

Savion Glover and company performed their newest full-length tap concert, 'STePZ,' to a sold out house at the Joyce Theater. The fresh and fun show runs through July 6th....

It is hard enough to know what we really see and experience. Are you feeling all life has to offer, is your head down or are you alive? It is even harder to know what others feel. When two people see art do they see the same thing? No, definitely not. Lynn Stein and I enjoyed a day in NYC at the...

Only two nights removed from the last of my three solo debut shows at the Metropolitan Room celebrating the Don McLean Songbook, I was already experiencing the post-performance depression I'd heard tell about from cabaret veterans. I needed someone to lift me up where I belonged, so my instincts too...

Manhattan Youth Ballet's spring recital showcased a diverse array of American choreography, performed by students ages eight to eighteen. The evening was a an interesting historical journey, reminding the audience that the art form has, and will, continue to evolve....

The modern African-American cabaret quartet presents a set of classic jazz standards...

He's baa-aack! James Levine returns to Carnegie Hall....

About a third of the way into Tony Award-winner Faith Prince's new show at 54 Below last Wednesday night (the second of a five-show run over six days), it hit me that I could be watching a potential future cabaret legend in action. You know, in the Barbara Cook, Marilyn Maye, Andrea Marcovicci, Ann ...

As a big fan of cabaret shows that incorporate horn sections (as does Terese Genecco's monthly 'Little Big Band' efforts at Iridium or Carole J. Bufford's 2012 show, speakeasy., which featured Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks), I was more than a little jazzed to hear that compelling Streisand sound...

Beautiful technicians and haunting visages, the women seemed to be involved in some sophisticated conversation of an old forgotten world, where the women were impossibly strong and passion was the necessity of life....