Matt Baker News

'Let's go on with the show'! And what a show it's been thanks to the host with the most, Mr. Jim Caruso!

As New York City hits the ten-week mark of quarantine, the artists of the cabaret and concert community are getting solid footing on how their art form will evolve. There may be some doubt, but they all know the truth: They will survive.

Beloved music and theater maestro John McDaniel has decided to have some fun online and it all starts Mother's Day at 3 pm EST

Cabaret's most celebrated and venerated emcee didn't let a little thing like a shelter in place order keep him from entertaining the masses. He just took his cast party to bed. Everyone into your PJ's!

Melissa Errico Among Artists Showcased Online The Week of May 2

Renowned jazz pianist Matt Baker presents another live streaming concert from his living room.

And the hits just keep on coming! After learning how easy and how much fun it is to do, after watching their colleagues and friends get in on the action, more and more artists are using their isolation time to reach out to other people, to inspire, to entertain, to create, to keep us sane, and as these benevolent beings work to bring some human contact to us all, the news is rolling in at Broadway World. As it continues to come in to my desk at stephen@bwayworld.com, Broadway World Cabaret will bring it to our readers.

Respected jazz pianist Matt Baker joined his great friends at Birdland together for a benefit for his home country, Australia, and the people came out to support

Come to the Birdland Theater (315 West 44th street NYC 10036) for a Benefit for the Australian Bushfire Disaster. Matt Baker Hosts 'Oz-Relief 2020.' This is an all-star fundraising concert benefitting victims of the Australian bushfires on Tuesday, February 18 at 7pm (doors open at 5:30pm). The performers will soon be announced for this musical special event. Tickets ar $30 Bar seating; $40 General Admiussion table seating (these are 1st come 1st seated); $50 for VIP Table seating. There is a $10 minum for all. www.BirdlandJazz.com or 212-581-3080

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are pleased to present the schedule for the month of February! At Birdland Jazz Club, catch the iconic Lionel Hampton Big Band Featuring Jason Marsalis, current GRAMMY nominee Catherine Russell, the Birdland debut of AGUAS Trio with Omar Sosa, Yilian Cañizares and Gustavo Ovalles, and iconic vocalist Jane Monheit. Internationally recognized trumpeter Rachel Therrien, the Seth Weaver Big Band, and The Voice contestant Melinda Rose Rodriguez will also be performing upstairs. 

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

The crooner brings his sweet jazz stylings and swing beats to The Green Room 42, along with some Christmas carols and plenty of holiday cheer.

Qdos Entertainment today (2 December 2019) releases rehearsal images for the 2019 London Palladium Pantomime Goldilocks and the Three Bears ahead of its first performance on Saturday 7 December 2019. The production runs for a strictly limited 5-week season until Sunday 12 January 2020.

The festive season is a fantastic time for a London theatre trip to get together with friends and family and celebrate with a show full of seasonal goodwill, or just great drama, music, laughs and spectacle. Looking for theatre inspiration? Here are some of the best seasonal shows!

After separately entertaining audiences in jazz clubs, cabarets and concert halls around the world for years, Jacob Khalil and Jordan von Haslow join forces to announce 'Pure Imagination', the newest double act to play the Las Vegas Strip.

In Matt Baker's rousing, modernistic tribute to Gershwin at Birdland, Gershwin tunes inspired an evening of jazz, the music taking familiar tunes like a?oeRhapsody in Bluea?? to haunting new places.

The revered cabaret singer Dawn Derow is warming hearts and inspiring laughs with a cabaret show built around that rare thing: a happy family.

After two acclaimed performances this past June at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Dawn Derowbrings back The House That Built Me to The Laurie Beechman Theatre on Sunday, October27th at 1:00 pm and Thursday, November 14that 7:00 pm. Directed by multiple MAC Award- winning director Jeff Harnar, the show features musical direction by Matt Baker with Peter Calo on guitar and Steve Doyle on bass.

'Celebrating... Nat 'King' Cole', an evening of cabaret jazz saluting the iconic jazz/pop trailblazer in this his centennial birth year, starring vocalist Jordan von Haslow and pianist Matt Baker closes on Thursday, October 24.