By Marilyn Lester*** When Elena Bennett and Fred Barton recently debuted their new show, We Know A Swing Or Two at Chelsea Table + Stage, it was before an audience that included many cabaret friends […]
By Marilyn Lester***On the debut night of 54 Sings Broadway’s Greatest Hits! in 2015, a hurricane was just subsiding. On this particular Saturday night, a meteorlogically historic arctic freeze was coming to an end. Both […]
By Marilyn Lester***Once upon a time in the City of New York, hotel pianos bars were as much a part of the nightlife scene as jazz and cabaret rooms. But by the turn of this […]
By Marilyn Lester***Born to the stage is not an exaggeration for singer-actress Leslie Uggams. Arriving on the planet in 1943, she was a child performer in the early 1950s. In 1951 she acted in her […]
By Marilyn Lester***Among a handful of America’s top-tier, premiere dramatists, Tennesse Williams’ star shines as one of the brightest. He’s best known for classic and important works such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named […]
By Marilyn Lester and Maryann Lopinto***In August, 1992, with her long-time musical director, Brian Lasser, too ill to perform (he died of AIDS at age 40 that November), Karen Mason was paired with music director-pianist-arranger, […]
By Marilyn Lester***After two years of COVID curtailment, the 33rd annual Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention was back in fine form. Held in Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, a galaxy of cabaret stars […]
By Maryann Lopinto***An All-Star Swingin’ Broadway Jam! with Danny Bacher hosting and on soprano sax and vocals, Nicole Zuraitis on piano, Sean Harkness on guitar, Art Baron on trombone, Jennifer Vincent on bass and Alvester […]
By Marilyn Lester***After several performances last season at Don’t Tell Mama (see our review here), Andrea Bell Wolff’s Adventures in Vegas is now playing a limited run at the newly renovated AMT Theater on West […]
By Marilyn Lester***Possibly the only “down side” of singer-songwriter-pianist Tony DeSare is that he doesn’t appear in New York City often enough. Pandemic not withstanding, it’s been quite a while since this superlative entertainer has […]
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