Peggy Lee News

The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22 St. between 5th & 6th) announces its upcoming September concert schedule. Guests include Suzanne Carrico, Jimmy James, Penny Fuller, Cary Hoffman and Marilyn Maye.

After several engagements at Sterling's Upstairs in Studio City, Sylvia Brooks is making her debut performance at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, with two new shows on Thursday August 30 at 8:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m...

The cast and creators of High Fidelity, Peter Filichia, Charles Strouse, Marlene Ver Planck, Steve Ross and more will appear as part of the Any Wednesday series next month.

Sterling's Upstairs, located at Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City, CA., will celebrate its one year anniversary in June, 2007

Award-winning Lois Walden, Barry Kleinbort and Paul Greenwood will capture the life and legacy of an elusive songbird with 'Why Lee? A Musical Scrapbook About Lee Wiley,' which will run at the Laurie Beechman Theater at the West Bank Cafe in May

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) of Northwestern University is searching for talented young song writers and song writing teams (aged 18 to 30) to participate in the free workshops and master classes that are part of the Aug. 12 to 18 program titled 'Power of the American Popular Song.'

STERLING'S UPSTAIRS, the all-new supper club at the legendary VITELLO'S RESTAURANT in Studio City, CA. which will celebrate nine months of operation in March, 2007, welcomes EMILY ALLERTON and SYLVIA BROOKS as its mid-March headliners

The Metropolitan Room has announced its March schedule of cabaret performers.

The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has begun planning its line-up for the 2007/2008 season, which will include the West Coast premiere of Wendy Wasserstein's final play, Third, and a world premiere musical co-conceived by Larry Gelbart and David Zippel entitled The Best is Yet to Come, featuring songs by the legendary Cy Coleman.

A new musical revue at Birdland salutes women songwriters from Katherine Lee Bates and Nora Bayes to Donna Summer and Stevie Nicks

Award-winning Lois Walden, Barry Kleinbort and Paul Greenwood will capture the life and legacy of an elusive songbird with 'Why Lee? A Musical Scrapbook About Lee Wiley' on Tuesdays, February 6th and 13th at the Metropolitan Room

Stars celebrated the start of the holiday season with Jamie DeRoy in the Holiday Show 2006 edition of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, 'Jamie DeRoy & friends' on Wednesday, December 6th

Sterling's Upstairs, the all-new supper club at Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City, CA. has announced a September roster of performers that includes Toni Morrell, Renee Laramore, Demars and Reins, Nelson Kole and Nita Whitaker

Her Song, a revue celebrating the work of female composers and lyricists, will open at Birdland on September 24th

Nelson Kole, Russ Lorenson and Toni Morrell are the August headliners at LA's Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's in August

In 1987, a British actress in a shabby brown trenchcoat, newsboy cap and with a dirt-smudged face, sang of her solitude. Breaking all but the stoniest hearts of the Imperial Theatre's audiences, she scored numerous awards--including the Tony--before returning to the UK. Two decades later, Frances Ruffelle has come back to New York to perform a cabaret show

New York cabaret star Mary Cleere Haran, whose vocal stylings have been compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Doris Day and Rosemary Clooney, will bring her new show 'I Love Lyrics' to Caramoor in Katonah, NY for two performances, Wednesday, August 2 and Thursday, August 3 in the Donors' Dining Pavilio

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Singer/songwriter Kenny Rankin will perform at the Tribeca PAC on May 18th and May 19th

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University, in association with the Johnny Mercer Foundation, has announced that Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated lyricist David Zippel will serve as one of the 'master teachers' for 'The Power of the American Popular Song' festival that will be held on the Evanston campus Aug. 7 through 12