Michael Feinstein News

Special guest stars Joy Behar, Bruce Vilanch, Sutton Foster, Ute Lemper, Maureen McGovern, and Kate Clinton will perform in honor of the winners!

The Winter Season, a series of 7pm Monday night concerts at BIRDLAND featuring top Broadway and cabaret performers, continues with composer/lyricists Amanda Green & Tom Kitt, who will be performing their original songs January 24th and 31st at 7pm. The duo will be joined by special guest stars Brooks Ashmanskas, Mario Cantone, Jenn Colella, Gavin Creel, Jerry Dixon, Matt McGrath, Julia Murney, Greg Naughton, Alice Ripley, Amy Spanger and the Tom Kitt Band. The writing team is currently adapting the popular book and film High Fidelity for the Broadway stage as a musical, and will premiere several songs from the musical during the concert.

Karen Mason, one of Broadway and cabaret's most powerful performers, is bringing her acclaimed yearly holiday concert, Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!, to Birdland (315 West 44th Street) on Monday, December 13th at 7pm. Cover charge is $30 with a $10 food/drink minimum.

BroadwayWorld.com favorite Kaitlin Hopkins, and star of shows like Noises Off, Bare, Bat Boy and many others has just released her first solo CD - Make Me Sweat. We checked in to get the scoop.

The stars turned out to honor two of the best beloved and most influential forces in the American theatre.

On November 21, The Metropolitan Opera Guild honored Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart at a benefit at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

Actress, operatic diva, and philanthropist Kitty Carlisle Hart talks about her husband Moss, the Marx Brothers, and raising funds for the Arts.

On Sunday evening, November 21, 2004, The Metropolitan Opera Guild will honor Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart at a gala benefit program and dinner at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. This unique double tribute --- affectionately entitled HART TO HART --- will celebrate the achievements and contributions of these two icons from the worlds of film, opera, radio, television, theater, and politics.

Co-hosts for the evening will be Julie Andrews and Beverly Sills. Appearances and performances will be by Jane Alexander, Orson Bean, Polly Bergen, Steven Blier, Mario Cuomo, Michael Feinstein, Robert Goulet ,Denyce Graves, Rosemary Harris, Celeste Holm, Audra McDonald, Sylvia McNair, Anna Moffo, Rise Stevens and Kitty Carlisle Hart, plus many more surprise guests.

Ars Nova continues the third season of its acclaimed Broadway Spotlight series with Wicked's Megan Hilty. Join Hilty for an eclectic evening of songs ranging from new composers all the way to old flops, adaptations of 80s pop favs, disco and legit art songs. Monday, November 1st at 8 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street, just west of 10th Ave.).

Some recent guests at Cast Party - Monday nights at Birdland.

Cabaret star Tom Andersen answers ten questions about his career and his latest album, WHO KNOWS?