Tanya Moberly News

There's a reason these open mic shows are so popular, and a reason they are nominated for a BROADWAY WORLD AWARD - just ask the entertainers who fill their rosters.

Get ready for a virtual cabaret extravaganza! It's an epic evening of song brought to you by the talents of Don't Tell Mama, a New York piano bar mainstay.

Newly named MAC Award Recipient for Best Male Debut, Sean Patrick Murtagh is keeping very busy during the quarantine with household projects, long isolated runs, and nachos. Lots and lots of nachos.

Continuing our ongoing look at the great wealth of talent in the cabaret community, Stephen Mosher provides another Pandemic Playlist

With the Coronavirus stopping all social gatherings and causing the closing of Don't Tell Mama for the duration, MAC has made a change from the previously announced event which was to be held at the club.

The MAC Awards were scheduled to be celebrated on March 30th at Sony Hall. Instead they will be announced via Facebook Live from Lennie Watts' home. The times are a little different now, but the celebration of art is the same.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) has announced the 2020 MAC Award nominees. The nominees were determined by votes cast by the active MAC membership, except for the four song and recording categories, which were determined by special committees.

The Bistro Award winning director, producer and performer is having the busiest time of her career. So what better way to celebrate than create the most challenging series of shows possible? That's Tanya Moberly for ya...

Much-lauded cabaret artist Susanne Mack continues to prove why she has developed the reputation she has earned as an artist, with her show WHERE I BELONG in a recent performance at Don't Tell Mama

Actor/cabaret singer Stephanie Trudeau will perform a return engagement of her docu-cabaret, 'Chavela: Think Of Me,' at Don't Tell Mama, 343 West 46th Street, NYC, December 12, 2019 at 7:00 PM. She had debuted the piece at Pangea Supper Club in the East Village, performed at Don't Tell Mama last May and has been invited back in response to the appreciation of her audience. (Please see the review from Pangea.)

Award winning vocalist Lisa Viggiano celebrates twenty years in the business with a new cabaret that debuted at The Beach Cafe on January 4th

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

Award winning cabaret singer Lisa Viggiano enters her 20th year in cabaret by kicking off 2020 at The Beach Cafe with a new show. Stephen Mosher chats with the powerhouse performer as 2019 comes to a close.

Actor/cabaret singer Stephanie Trudeau will perform a return engagement of her docu-cabaret, 'Chavela: Think Of Me,' at Don't Tell Mama, 343 West 46th Street, NYC, December 12, 2019 at 7:00 PM.

Storyteller Rian Keating uses soliloquy and song to tell the entertaining and heartwarming story of his teenage journey into manhood, all through the magic of musical theater, in his new show IN THIS TRAVELING HEART.

During Lisa Viggiano's critically-praised 2018 Bruce Springsteen Tribute Shows (which helped earn her a 2019 Bistro Award for “Outstanding Vocalist”), she included a section of songs by iconic musicians and singers discovered over five decades by talent scout/record producer John Henry Hammond, who also championed Springsteen and recorded “The Boss's” first demo. Now, like a spinoff from a hit TV sitcom, Viggiano has created an entire cabaret show featuring songs and performers produced by Hammond during his long career at Columbia Records. In FROM LADY DAY TO THE BOSS: 50 YEARS OF TALENT DISCOVERED BY LEGENDARY COLUMBIA RECORD PRODUCER JOHN HENRY HAMMOND, Viggiano will deliver her unique renditions of classic tunes recorded by Bessie Smith, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Harry James, Count Basie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Leonard Cohen, George Benson, and Springsteen.

Johnstown, PA native and Brooklyn, NY based actor, writer Dan Ruth returns to the Pittsburgh area with his multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed black comedy solo work, A Life Behind Bars, at Carnegie Stage in Carnegie, PA this coming October 24th, 25th and 26th at 8pm. The tour-de-force show performed to sell-out houses in Pittsburgh earlier this year.

Back by popular demand, Susanne Mack will bring Where I Belong back to Pangea, 178 Second Avenue, NYC, for two encore performances on Friday, October 4th & Friday, October 11th. Both Shows at 7 pm.

Petite Powerhouse Lisa Viggiano covers a range of music with her rangy voice in a tribute show for a man who discovered a lot of talent, and who would have loved hers.

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