Lennie Watts News

The Invigorated Ingenue brought Joan Darragh back to the cabaret stage and community, where she belongs. Isolation has brought her talents as motivator and baker to the social media. Here, the Ingenue talks with Stephen Mosher about life before and after her return to the stage.

Jump into the pool of SINGNASIUM'S summer online classes. Train with some of New York's best teaching artists and sing your story, expand your repertoire, or learn a new style!

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today the 2020 summer season which will be held entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

From cabaret to country, the most popular musical genres and styles are all on the roster and on-line this summer at Singnasium, featuring a top-notch, award-winning line-up of highly accomplished New York teaching artists. 

The O'Neill Cabaret & Performance Conference Moves Online For Summer 2020 Program with instructors like Natalie Douglas and Betty Buckley.

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.

Cabaret artist in two different ways, Helane Blumfield is as comfortable onstage as she off, but onstage she has a microphone in her hand and offstage it's a camera

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.

With the Coronavirus stopping all social gatherings and causing the closing of Don't Tell Mama for the duration, MAC has made a change from the previously announced event which was to be held at the club.

With the Coronavirus stopping all social gatherings and causing the closing of Don't Tell Mama for the duration, MAC has made a change from the previously announced event which was to be held at the club.

The MAC Awards were scheduled to be celebrated on March 30th at Sony Hall. Instead they will be announced via Facebook Live from Lennie Watts' home. The times are a little different now, but the celebration of art is the same.

Stephen Mosher's Pandemic Playlist continues to showcase some of the talents of the cabaret community and some of his favorite numbers, so fans of the art form can learn more artists to love.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) has announced the 2020 MAC Award nominees. The nominees were determined by votes cast by the active MAC membership, except for the four song and recording categories, which were determined by special committees.

Award-winning singer/songwriter, Meg Flather and Musical Director, Tracy Stark, make their Beach Cafe debut by revisiting past shows with a few new surprises mixed in. From Paul Simon to Rodgers & Hammerstein, this “Cockeyed Optimist” shares her stories of love, loss, and lipstick through song. Directed by Lennie Watts.

The Bistro Award winning director, producer and performer is having the busiest time of her career. So what better way to celebrate than create the most challenging series of shows possible? That's Tanya Moberly for ya...

Opera star Liora Michelle has entered the cabaret world and audiences couldn't be happier

Last night “Those Girls” celebrated Karen Mack's birthday at The Laurie Beechman with special guests Susie Mosher and Leslie Carrara-Rudolph who brought Lolly Lardpop and a special birthday message for Karen.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) has made its initial announcement of the upcoming 34th Annual MAC Awards. The awards presentation and show will take place on Monday, March 30, 2020 at 7:00 pm, at SONY Hall on 46th Street in New York City.

Stephen Mosher looks back at the cabaret scene, as captured by his camera in 2019

In the final moments of her one-woman musical play OUTBOUND PLANE, Meg Flather compares the process of recovering from pain and failure and loss to being trapped in mud. The analogy immediately conjures images of the saying about the Lotus -- that is when one realizes that Meg Flather is the living, breathing, walking, talking embodiment of that philosophy. All the parts of Meg Flather make up the ideology of the Lotus and the Mud. She is the earth, and she is the water; together she makes the mud. And out of the mud has bloomed the blossom. Meg Flather has, herself, created that which makes her bloom so bright, so fresh, so replete of color, of fragrance, of peace and of tranquility. Meg Flather is everything that she, herself, needs to shine brightly in a world rife with the dingy and the dank.