By Marilyn Lester***To write about singer Sandy Stewart is not so much to review her as it is to acknowledge a bona fide master class in the art of vocal performance. The same can be […]
By Michael Barbieri***I took a trip back in time at Pangea recently. Gerry Geddes’ Fabulous First Fridays made a…well…fabulous return to the club in the East Village and as expected, the show did not disappoint! […]
By Marilyn Lester***From the moment singer-songwriter and recording artist Ty Stephens opened his show Standard Tyme at Birdland Theater with a slow, evocative opener of “Round Midnight” (Thelonius Monk, Thelma Murray), it was apparent that […]
By Marilyn Lester***In 2020, singer-songwriter Peggy Lee would have turned 100. To celebrate, KT Sullivan and The Mabel Mercer Foundation were going to honor the icon at its annual concert at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital […]
By Marilyn Lester***Actress-singer Ann Kittredge has developed a habit—and that is of putting together cabaret shows that seem to just get better and better. Her latest, reIMAGINE, celebrated her debut CD of the same name […]
By Marilyn Lester***When Leonard Cohen passed away in 2016 at the age of 82 he left a prodigious body of work. And what didn’t he tackle thematically! So when it came to developing her show, […]
By Marilyn Lester***If you subscribe to the notion that “there are no accidents” then Scott Evan Davis clearly had a destiny: to become a writer of songs with pleasing melodies and deeply realized lyrics. At […]
By Marilyn Lester***Who could resist an invitation from Madelaine Warren to reconvene after a pandemic-induced hiatus from live performance? In her new show, Invitation, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, many delights awaited in song and […]
By Bart Greenberg***“This was the gayest night on the Upper East Side in years!” So commented one attendee while departing the 92nd Street Y after attending (the rather unwieldly titled) XYZ Presents Paramount+ RuPaul’s Drag […]
By Michael Barbieri***Fanny Brice is alive and well and appearing in New York City. No, I’m not referring to the current Broadway revival of Funny Girl, which has received mixed reviews at best. I’m talking […]
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