Allan Rich News

The Composers Showcase of Las Vegas marks a major milestone this spring, celebrating 20 years of live original music with a special anniversary gala at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. The event takes place inside Reynolds Hall on April 29.

Singer-songwriter Jason Gould, the only child of Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould, has released his new album Where We Fall, a collection that bridges contemporary dance-pop with standards. Listen to it now.

Interview: Lisa Donahey is an established and proven top draw for LA, Palm Springs and Las Vegas Cabaret. She took ten minutes to answer ten questions for Broadway World LA about carving out a niche for a successful Cabaret singer when not performing on ABC’s General Hospital as Nurse Lisa Myers.

Lisa Donahey is an established and proven top draw for LA, Palms Springs and Las Vegas Cabaret. She took ten minutes to answer ten questions for Broadway World LA about carving out a niche for a successful Cabaret singer when not performing on ABC’s General Hospital as Nurse Lisa.

This week, the Hollywood Museum’s Annual and LGBTQ+ Exhibit opening and Awards, Hollywood’s first LGBTQ+ Tribute/Exhibit and Awards, Donelle Dadigan (Founder/President of the Hollywood Museum) announced its 2024 salute to the LGBTQ+ community's contributions to the entertainment industry. Check out photos here!

Independent singer, songwriter, and creator Jason Gould releases his new EP 'Sacred Days.' The EP includes dancefloor-ready anthems like the first single “Laws of Desire” and “Run” to the emotionally charged ballad “World Gone Crazy.'

On the evening of April 6th, in advance of “NATIONAL PET DAY,” (April 11th), Founder/President of the Hollywood Museum, Donelle Dadigan, hosted a tribute exhibit to Acting Animals. See photos from the event.

Finally, LESSONS TO BE LEARNED by Melissa Manchester is a beautifully moving song reflecting that life’s rough spots are opportunities to learn from and gain wisdom, and who can argue with that?

Grammy award-nominee Marsha Malamet has announced the release of “Lessons To Be Learned,” recorded by GRAMMY award winner, Melissa Manchester. 

Powerful vocalist and inimitable performer Lisa Donahey is excited to bring back live music and kick off the holidays and celebrate the joyous, soulful sounds of the season–featuring songs off her critically acclaimed, stylistically eclectic holiday album Christmas in Our Soul.

BRANDEN & JAMES are bringing a soulful new sound to fans with the long-awaited release of their debut album, Chasing Dreams. A follow up to their critically-acclaimed 2018 EP, Hallelujah, the forthcoming album is set to drop worldwide on July 31st, 2020 and includes a duet with Broadway superstar and Billboard #1 recording artist, Shoshana Bean. 

This week's episode of Manoa Valley Theatre's new live streaming video series called MVT Live, features two wildly talented internationally recognized entertainers.

Powerful vocalist and inimitable performer Lisa Donahey will kick off the holidays and celebrate the joyous, soulful sounds of the seasona?"featuring songs off her critically acclaimed, stylistically eclectic holiday album Christmas in Our Soul.

Back to the Backlot, a live musical comedy variety show, will bring back many of West Hollywood's famed Backlot Theatre's original showcase stars to commemorate the end of an era of one of the country's most famous venues for live entertainment. The event will mark the beginning of the preservation project known as Robertson Lane, which will re-build the venue formally known as The Factory and the famous Studio One Nightclub. The historic building opened in 1929 as the home of Mitchell Cameras, an early and important movie camera maker for the large movie studios. It was then the Studio One nightclub/Backlot Theatre from the late 1970s through the 1990s.

Grammy nominated, multi-Platinum songwriter, out musician Marsha Malamet, is featured on the new Jason Gould CD Dangerous Man' to be released this Friday, December 15th, 2017.

For Telly Leung's sophomore album, SONGS FOR YOU, the acclaimed Broadway performer decided to make an album where each song is dedicated to the important people in his life. According to the liner notes that is where each of the classic tunes that compose the track listing found their breath of life, allowing Leung to "focus on the sentiment and energy of the song." Thus, audiences are presented with an album that almost sounds like a cabaret act, except it's clearly recorded in a studio.

Elaine Rich, personal manager to Fran Drescher, Peter Marc Jacobson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Donna Dixon, Sylvia Kristel, and many other stars of stage and screen, passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 81 on August 13th, due to a cardiac arrest.

On May 21 & 22, film and TV star Erich Bergen kicked off the Memorial Day weekend with the Los Angeles debut of his new show 'Erich Bergen - Live!' which sold out its two-evening engagement at Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood. Presented by Chris Isaacson Presents. Scroll down for photos from the concert!

Darrian Ford brings the music of "The King of Soul" Chicagoan Sam Cooke alive in THE COOKE BOOK - The Music of Sam Cooke at City Winery (1200 W Randolph St.) at 8 p.m. on August 4 and at Lincoln Hall (2424 N Lincoln Ave) at 8 p.m. on August 29 and August 30. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at citywinery.com and lincolnhallchicago.com.

As a young veteran of the New York cabaret scene and someone who rests comfortably in that performer's purgatory between celebrity and what the folks at the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) calls “Major Artist,” Marieann Meringolo certainly doesn't need validation from a Stevie-come-lately reviewer like me. But nobody bats 1.000—in baseball, life, or cabaret—and, frankly, I didn't cheer in print for her slightly pretentious 2013 show Orchestrated, which seemed to feature a band big enough to bust through the far wall of the Metropolitan Room and arrangements that were more than a tad overblown. But in 2011, I loved her annual holiday show, In The Spirit, and had heard nothing but great things about her 2012 tribute to the music of Michael Legrand, so I was willing to consider Orchestrated a mere hiccup—depending on what she came up with next. Well, next arrived on the afternoon of Saturday, April 5 afternoon with Meringolo's new show, Crazy Love, at the Metropolitan Room.