Stefan Basti News

MAC Award winner Amy Wolk is back with her first new show in five years, 'Hungry Like the Wolk.'

MAC Award and Bistro Award Winner Amy Wolk is back with her first new show in 5 years! New songs, new shenanigans! Sundays at 7PM

By the last August, I had fallen so far behind on writing reviews of cabaret shows from the spring and early summer (I guess it's a positive when there are more performers and shows in New York than days in the week) that I decided to play catch up by combining a bunch of critiques into one big column. I hadn't planned on doing that again, but this fall there were so many shows that once again I couldn't keep up. but at least I've beaten my self-imposed deadline New Year's Eve deadline of posting these reviews of 12 shows, all staged between September-December by lovely, attractive women (okay, so one is a gender-bender) of varying talents and levels on the cabaret depth chart, from established stars to MAC and Bistro Award-winners to comeback 'kids' to interesting beginners and occasional performers who are in the game to follow their bliss. Whether their performances were rave-worthy, earning of qualified praise, or not quite up to snuff, they all deserve kudos for taking the plunge.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival got off to a festive start with 'Opening Night: The Back-to-NYMF Fall Pep Rally,' which took place on September 10th at New World Stages