When Jeff Harnar and Maestro Jon Weber sat down to deconstruct Stephen Sondheim's lyrics into a story very personal to Harnar, they created a show and an album that might, well, be Jeff Harnar's crowning achievement.
As Jeff Harnar prepares for an opening night at the Laurie Beechman Theatre and a CD release, Braodway World Cabaret looks back at some of his stellar performances of the past.
KT Sullivan, Artistic Director of the Mabel Mercer Foundation hosted the finals of The 5th Adela & Larry Elow American Songbook High School Competition yesterday in the Laurie Beechman Theater at The West Bank Cafe. The competition prize money was endowed by Board Members Adela and Larry Elow to encourage teenagers to learn and perform The Great American Songbook, which was composed between the years 1900-1970.
PS CLASSICS, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American Popular Song, will present the new album from award-winning nightclub and concert artist JEFF HARNAR – I Know Things Now: My Life in Sondheim’s Words on CD and digital formats on Friday, June 17.
Following a sold-out performance at the famed “Ballena Azul,” CCK in Buenos Aires, the multifaceted “virtuoso extraordinaire,” (Wynton Marsalis), Leonardo Suarez Paz, brings his genre-redefining, multidisciplinary performance to NYU Skirball, sharing his unique vision of the genre across a century of immigrant struggles and triumphs. Leonardo honors his mentor, Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine born and New York raised composer by recreating Nuevo Tango as an evolving, daring, artistically complex, and emotionally moving art form.
The thirty-sixth annual MAC Awards were presented on Tuesday night in a ceremony that was widely remarked upon for the length of its duration.
The 92Y School of Music has announced new guests for their popular interview series, Cabaret Conversations, now in its second year. Previous speakers in the Manhattan Association of Cabaret Award and BroadwayWorld Cabaret Award-nominated series have included Chita Rivera , Lillias White, and Joe Iconis.
Michael Kirk Lane's cabaret interview program through 92Y announces impressive new guests for the spring and summer season.
From March 30 to April 17, Theater for the New City (TNC), located at 155 First Ave. (at E. 10th Street), will present 'Larry & Lucy,' a new play by Peter Welch directed by Joe John Batista.
THE SONGBOOK OF JULIE ANDREWS played Feinstein's on Sunday night, starring cabaret artist Shana Farr.
From March 30 to April 17, Theater for the New City will present 'Larry & Lucy,' a new play by Peter Welch directed by Joe John Batista.
The February 22nd episode of the live Variety Show THE LINEUP WITH Susie Mosher played last week, as the month winds up for the program. With March on the way, Ms. Mosher has her hands full as she continues to program guests new to the show and those who make regular appearances in the Birdland basement. As Susie works overtime to keep the lineup fresh and entertaining, Stewart Green doubles down on exquisite photographic images that document Mosher's industrious activity.
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present Shana Farr in Whistling Away the Dark: The Songbook of Julie Andrews on Sunday, March 13 at 7:00PM.
BIRDLAND will present acclaimed vocalist Jeff Harnar in his salute to Emmy, Grammy, Tony winning songwriter Cy Coleman in his award-winning show “A Collective Cy” on Monday, January 31 at 7:00 PM.
Davenport’s Piano Bar & Cabaret, Chicago’s premier location for enjoying music in an intimate setting, announces its roster of January performances in its Cabaret and Piano Bar. Davenport’s, 1383 North Milwaukee Avenue, is open Monday, Jan, 10; Fridays and Saturdays from 7 p.m. - 12 a.m. and Sundays from 6 - 11 p.m.
Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret, Chicago's premier location for enjoying music in an intimate setting, announces its roster of January performances in its Cabaret and Piano Bar. Davenport's, 1383 North Milwaukee Avenue, is open Monday, Jan, 10; Fridays and Saturdays from 7 p.m. - 12 a.m. and Sundays from 6 - 11 p.m.
It was another smash-hit week for Klea Blackhurst, who will return hosting duties to Susie Mosher next week.
Our readers set the nominees, and now voting is open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor events which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
It's business as usual at THE LINEUP, as Klea Blackhurst warms the hearth with another fine week of festive talent.
Urban Stages has announced its 13th annual awarding-winning cabaret series, Winter Rhythms, returning live to its 30th Street theater December 7th through December 19th and benefiting Urban Stages' Outreach, Arts in Education programs.
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