Stephen Holden News

Fans of the legendary diva thrill over the news that her sold-out concert from 2015 will show online.

KAREN MASON - the acclaimed Broadway star and concert artist - will present a special online video broadcast of her acclaimed show 'Mason at Mama's in March,' recorded at the legendary New York nightclub Don't Tell Mama in 2015.

Now, as New York City struggles to get back on its feet after long COVID-19 shutdowns, and theaters are still months from being able to reopen, St. Ann's Warehouse, which turned 40 this year, has found a range of meaningful ways to program for New Yorkers and more far-flung audiences.

On September 25th, Tony nominee and award-winning Broadway veteran Kate Baldwin will perform a one-night only benefit concert for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at their new Back Yard Stage in Florham Park, NJ.

Lincoln Center at Home is maintaining connections to the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic. A free, one-stop portal to all digital offerings from across the iconic campus, offerings include Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom, #ConcertsForKids, and an array of archival and livestream performances.

You may know T. Oliver Reid as an in demand Broadway performer, TV actor, MAC Winning Cabaret singer, a MetroStar Challenge winner and a Professor at NYU.  He is an artist that wears his heart on his sleeve in all that he does on stage or screen.  

MICHAEL GARIN was in his fourth year performing at The Roxy Hotel in Tribeca, just having fun & attracting celebrities from Whoopi Goldberg to A$AP Rocky. Then came COVID-19 & just about every musician in town was out of work. But now, thanks to TPTB at The Roxy Hotel, you can enjoy Michael from his home to yours, Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays, from 6pm-7pm on the Roxy Hotel Instagram page @theroxyhotelnyc

Award-winning vocalist Celia Berk returns to Birdland Theater on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 7pm with a show of all-new material. Berk is again joined by pianist and collaborator Sean Gough, with whom she earned a 2019 BroadwayWorld Best Duo award nomination. Meeting at an intersection between jazz and cabaret, their unique program will again feature hidden gems by great songwriters, including Carly Simon, Johnny Mandel, Jerry Herman, and Billy Goldenberg, who has entrusted Celia and Sean with songs never before heard by New York audiences.

Singer/Actress Marissa Mulder moved to New York City in 2007 from Syracuse, NY and has gone on to become one of the most successful young cabaret artists on the Manhattan scene. In 2011, she beat out 60 other singers to win the Metro Star Challenge at the Metropolitan Room, an American Idol type contest for up and coming cabaret artists. Since then she has performed in several of her own shows. Stephen Holden of the New York Times called her show ' Tom...In His Words, the songs of Tom Waits', 'Far and away the season's best show, everything the genre can be but almost never is.'

Today, Feinstein's at the Nikko announced an exciting lineup of national and local artists who will take the stage at San Francisco's premier intimate nightclub this spring. Additional artists will be announced at a later date. Tickets for all shows are on-sale now by visiting www.feinsteinssf.com or calling 866-663-1063. Ticket prices are subject to change without notice.

Crown & Anchor Cabaret Series 2020 in Provincetown, MA will return this summer at The Crown & Anchor's Paramount Theatre and Cabaret Room and at Town Hall Auditorium. 

This month and beyond artists at Joe's Pub a?" a program and venue of The Public Theater a?" will honor legends and inspirations from across the universe of music. From shows featuring the indelible classic hits of singers like The Rat Pack, Chaka Kahn, and David Bowie to tributes of Dolly Parton and Bette Midler at the beginning of their careers, audiophiles and nostalgists have plenty to look forward to at Joe's Pub.

Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals are have announced the release of the new digital single, 'Something That You Do' performed by Kate Baldwin, the first song from her concert and forthcoming third solo album, How Did You Get This Number?

Bay Area Cabaret presents the return of Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Stacey Kent to the Venetian Room on Thursday, February 27 at 7:30 pm, fresh from a worldwide tour on the back of the success of her award-winning album, I Know I Dream, The Orchestral Sessions, (Jazz Japan Awards, 'Best Vocal Album of 2018'). The platinum-selling artist will perform a program of Bossa Nova, jazz standards and original songs by composer/saxophonist Jim Tomlinson and his lyricist  partners Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro and Nashville-based Cliff Goldmacher.

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. 

The iconoclastic British singer Barb Jungr returns to New York for the US premiere of 'Bob, Brel and Me,' her latest live-show-and-recording project, in an exclusive two-night engagement at Joe's Pub in February. Jungr performs songs from her new album, which released in the UK in September to sterling reviews, on Friday and Saturday February 14 & 15, both at 7pm. With Mark Hartman on piano, this is Jungr's first Joe's Pub appearance since July 2018. She began appearing at the club in 2003.

Ana Gasteyer ('Saturday Night Live,' 'The Goldbergs,' Netflicks' Wine Country) is sweetening up the holidays with the release of her new holiday album, Sugar & Booze. Brimming with creative arrangements on standards such as 'You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch' and a retro Mambo 'Sleigh Ride,' Gasteyer's soulful, clear vocals breathe a fresh new, and often bemused take on these beloved classics and evokes Holiday nostalgia on its original songs, such as 'Nothing Rhymes with Christmas' and 'Blue Black Friday.'

ScoBar Entertainment continues PIANO BAR LIVE! every Monday night at 7pm at Brandy's Piano Bar on the Upper East Side. Joining Piano Bar Maestro, MICHAEL McASSEY at the keys, will be a veritable Who's Who of Cabaret & Broadway! PIANO BAR LIVE! is an interactive, live-streaming Piano Bar experience. THERE IS NO COVER CHARGE for PIANO BAR LIVE! but there is a two drink minimum.

TOM WOPAT will return to The Beach Café (1326 Second Avenue) on Monday, December 30 at 9:00 PM for a special Christmas concert. Coming on the heels of his five-week residency at the venue this fall, the evening will feature seasonal classics and holiday hits, including highlights from his recent album Home for Christmas. Wopat will be joined by his longtime music director Tedd Firth on piano, in addition to Peter Grant on drums, and Ed Howard on bass, with Wopat himself featured on guitar.

Today, Feinstein's at the Nikko announced an exciting lineup of artists who will take the stage at San Francisco's premier intimate nightclub this winter. Additional artists will be announced at a later date. Tickets for all shows are on-sale now by visiting www.feinsteinssf.com or calling 866-663-1063. Ticket prices are subject to change without notice.