When I heard about this show, I had a feeling it would be fun and cute – and I wasn’t disappointed. “Those Girls” consists of four bright, bubbly and super-talented ladies who are veteran cabaret performers. Each of them brings a wit and charm to the …Read more

Over fifty years of a life lived in the theatre stands before this audience tonight. The eyes I look into have seen the likes of which most of us New York City theatre devotees can only imagine. He’s seen it all and done it all. Probably. He’d never …Read more

At the start of their current new show at Don’t Tell Mama, Anya Turner, the lead-vocal half of this married couple’s self-written evening of what she calls “modern cabaret” songs, acknowledges that this description might just be an oxymoron. Not to w …Read more

David Vernon’s new show is terrific. Before I elaborate, I’d like to back up to 2005, when I was introduced to his artistry through his CD “By Myself…” I was taken with his voice—pure, ethereal, hauntingly beautiful. I was struck by his eclectic musi …Read more

A comedian, actor, and author, Loni Love is probably best known as a panelist on television’s talk fest The Real. Her brand of stand-up may not necessarily stick out in a crowd—she trades in traditional comic staples: race and ethnicity, politics, re …Read more

Lindsey Brett Carothers has been in a number of musicals, among them the off-Broadway hit Mad Libs, and she has guest-starred in a number of cabaret reviews and tributes. (I first saw her at the Duplex in the ongoing series Madame Mathieu’s Soirée; s …Read more

Singer-songwriter Matt Alber’s “The End of the World” has become a staple in New York cabaret, which is not surprising considering its soaring melody and dramatic, poetic lyrics charting the break-up of a love affair. But as Alber showed in his recen …Read more

Since her early days of “diva-dom” at the legendary Continental Baths, to her triumphs on Broadway and in Vegas, to her decades of touring and recording and filming, Bette Midler has influenced generations of performers hoping to capture her uniquely …Read more

Austin Pendleton and Barbara Bleier have a sweet rapport with one another in their show “Late Nights in Smoky Bars” (at Pangea; directed by Barbara Maier Gustern). The two portray longtime friends who meet regularly over potent potables to sort out t …Read more

It’s always great to be surprised in cabaret. Sometimes it’s one song, one story, one character that can shake you out of your club-going assumptions and expectations and genuinely enthrall you. More rare is an entire show that surprises you. That’s …Read more