Don't Tell Mama News

The 92Y School of Music Expands Cabaret Course Offerings With Michael Kirk Lane Instructing New Classes

92Y has announced new cabaret events, a new date for a featured conversation Beanie Feldstein and more!

Piano man Michael McAssey hosts Piano Bar Live! this Tuesday, May 12th at 7:15 pm, following New York City's 7 O'Clock Cheer. This week's guests will be Karen Mason, Leslie Anderson, Joe Regan, Mama Tits and Jon MJ Cooper.

American Repertory Theater has shared a clip of Gavin Creel singing Don't Tell Mama from Cabaret in A.R.T's production of ExtraOrdinary! Check it out below!

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the best musical theatre characters from 1940-2020; see if your favorites are on our list of the best characters from Broadway musicals.

Stephen Mosher's Pandemic Playlist Number Twenty-Two is one for the ladies!

Crowdfunding Efforts Within The Arts Community Grow And Give Hope

Recent MAC Award Winner Michael Kirk Lane is one of the cabaret community's greatest assets, and most gifted performers, teachers, and leaders. One the celebration of his birth, Stephen Mosher takes a look at the life that has led to this moment in time.

Monologues and Madness, the 13 year old writing and performance series conceived and produced by writer-actor, Tulis McCall, goes live online for the first time, April 22nd at 6pm.

Acclaimed composer and lyricist Scott Evan Davis, who won a BroadwayWorld Award for the song 'If We Say Goodbye' in 2012, is releasing a series of virtual collaborations. He was set to do a concert at the Green Room in NYC in June, but that has since been cancelled due to the shutdown.

MAC Award winner Ricky Ritzel isn't just sitting around at home - he's taking this time to learn, to create... and to binge-watch British detective shows.

In this difficult time three more crowdfunding pages have been created to help the employees of cabaret rooms and nightclubs on their feet.

Stephen Mosher compiles and presents a list of shows presented online in their entirety. It's enough to get you through an entire week of isolating. Or a day, if you binge-watch.

Stephen Mosher continues his ongoing series designed to show Broadway World readers what they are missing in cabaret and who they should see when the clubs reopen.

Today's Pandemic Playlist is Ladies Day, as Stephen Mosher looks at some of the great women of song in cabaret today.

Thirty years after his start in the business Lennie Watts is still going strong, and he's not about to let a quarantine stop him from getting things done, including an interview with Stephen Mosher.

After producing, emceeing and accompanying 583 weekly musical theatre talent showcases at renowned midtown cabaret venue Don't Tell Mama since 2007 featuring over 3,000 performers, award-winning off-Broadway composer/lyricist Seth Bisen-Hersh is excited to bring his cabarets to the internet! 

On Monday, March 30th, the 2020 MAC Awards were broadcast via Facebook Live from the living rooms or Lennie Watts and Amy Wolk/Lorinda Lisitza in a split-screen presentation in which The Three Stooges of Cabaret made their community of artists laugh with many hi-jinks, giggles, grins, silliness, and an ongoing series of the new MAC Award theme song, penned by Wolk and Lisitza themselves. The intent was to bring some levity to a difficult time in the world and, judging by the comment scroll during the home-made telecast, the hardworking trio tickled the funnybones of many. As names were announced, recipients called in to say a few words (apropos to the proceedings, Mr. Watts' telephone ringtone is the Benny Hill theme song) and particularly moving speeches from the proceedings came from Lisa Viggiano, Meg Flather, and Jeff Harnar. The entire show can be seen on Broadway World HERE. Results of the voting can be seen below.

Two-time MAC 2020 nominee Lena Moy-Borgen is a renaissance woman with a lot of ideas and energy, all of which she is using to change the world, whether in a classroom or a cabaret room. Stephen Mosher has a chat with the creative spitfire from her current base: home.