Mary Spencer Knapp News

See photos from Artemisia LeFay's Spirit Soiree at The Back Room.

Artemisia LeFay'a Spirit Soirée is vintage-inspired variety show featuring vaudeville, cabaret, burlesque, hot jazz, and much more and will showcase Miss LeFay's original music on Sunday, January 21st at 8pm at The Back Room.

Join Urban Stages for the 15th Annual WINTER RHYTHMS 2023, featuring 22 shows, over 11 days, and more than 100 performers. From cabaret to jazz and everything in between, this award-winning series is a must-see event for music and performance lovers. Don't miss out on this spectacular showcase!

After four years of 'swingin', swayin', and cabaretin'' Ghosts of Weimar Past around New York City, Artemisia LeFay will be bringing her Orchestra of the Depraved to the upstate Rochester Fringe Festival, housed very fittingly at the Spirit Room's Conjure Box.

Urban Stages will present its 39th annual benefit, taking place on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 starting a 6:30pm at the legendary club The Players - 16 Gramercy Park South, NYC. 

Chanteuse Artemisia LeFay returns to Don't Tell Mama this June for her highly acclaimed cabaret shows Ghosts of Weimar Past.

Chanteuse Artemisia LeFay and The Orchestra of the Depraved (Hannah Mount, Mary Spencer Knapp and Natasha Thweatt) returned to The Triad with GHOSTS OF WEIMAR PAST on April 1. Check out photos from the show here!

Natasha Thweatt, actress, singer and multi-instrumentalist, will debut in the upcoming cabaret-sical GHOSTS OF WEIMAR PAST returning The Triad Theatre this Saturday, April 1st at 7pm.

​​​​​​​PLG Arts announces its inaugural indoor Spring Arts Fair, Saturday, March 18, 2023, at BKLYN Commons. The free event features over 25 local visual artists whose work is for sale, family art making, live music, and refreshments from Hibiscus Brew. PLG Arts promotes the arts for the benefit of residents of Prospect Lefferts Gardens and surrounding neighborhoods to nurture a vibrant and diverse creative community.

'Ghosts of Weimar Past' is an au courant invocation of the cabarets and nightclubs of 20th-century Europe's Sodom & Gomorrah-- namely, Weimar Republic Berlin.

Get a first look at opening night photos of Jaime Lozano’s new Mexican musical DESAPARECIDAS started its performances last week at JACK.

Jaime Lozano has arranged some of Florencia Cuenca's favorite Broadway tunes to match her Mexican heritage and the result is an exciting new way of looking at some of our own favorites, too.

GHOSTS OF WEIMAR PAST will make its debut at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3 on Friday, September 2 at 8:30pm. From the gritty 20s, tumultuous 30s, and uncertain 40s, cabaret existed as a way to criticize and defy the faults of society.

Join chanteuse Artemisia LeFay & the Orchestra of the Depraved (Mary Spencer Knapp on accordion and Hannah Mount on piano) as they resurrect the songs of Michael Jary, Mischa Spoliansky, Kurt Weill, Friederich Hollaender, and more.

Chanteuse Artemisia LeFay's original show GHOSTS OF WEIMAR PAST made its highly anticipated Birdland Theater debut to an enthusiastic and packed house last week.

We were there to hear and see the late-night denizens of the stage sing, play, and make dark innuendos about life, sex, gay sex, and all the things that made the party before the Nazi party … well, ... a party.

BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB will present Karen Mason in her show “Kander & Ebb…And All That Jazz” on Monday, March 28 at 7:00 PM. The evening honors John Kander and Fred Ebb, the Tony Award-winning songwriters behind Broadway’s Cabaret, Chicago and more.

BIRDLAND will present drag legend Coco Peru in the new show “Bitter Bothered & Beyond!” for two special performances. The first show at Birdland Jazz Club on Monday, March 21 at 7:00 PM quickly sold out, so an encore performance has been added for Tuesday, March 22 at 8:30 PM downstairs at the Birdland Theater.

At Birdland Jazz Club, catch The Cookers, Celebrating the Slide Hampton Octet, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Grace Fox Big Band, Maqueque, Sean Harkness Quartet, Monty Alexander, and Emmet’s Place Live.

Joe's Pub bids farewell to February and welcomes March with the third in a five-part concert series exploring Shakespeare's women, black female ambition, and music, Whitney White: Think, And Die; Joe's Pub Working Group 2020 member Salty Brine continues their dazzling exploration of pop music with Living Record Collection - THESE ARE THE CONTENTS OF MY HEAD: The Annie Lennox Show