In “Committed,” her new show at The Duplex, Stacie Koby ignores the old show-business warning about the dangers of being upstaged when working with animals or children. There are no critters in the act, but Koby is visibly pregnant with her second ch …Read more
In their current show at the Metropolitan Room, Delphi Harrington and Woody Regan, two pleasantly seasoned performers of a certain age, with help from director Ann McCormack, have managed to create the feel of performing ad hoc at a party in someone’ …Read more
In her current show at 54 Below, based on the work of an eclectic and worthy group of female singers and songwriters, Maureen McGovern evinces no diminution in her vocal and dramatic warmth and power. She may be, as she says on stage, “slouching towa …Read more
Watch all the action right here! Snippets of performances from Lillias White, Marilyn Maye, Dee Dee Bridgewater and many more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=libSqKvsDO8 This years recipients: Carol Fredette, Lillias White, Kristoffer Lowe, Celia Be …Read more
A photo advertising “Other People’s Parties”—the recent solo cabaret debut of William TN Hall, at The Duplex—shows a hangdog Hall slumped at a bar, nursing a drink with one hand and propping up a cigarette with the other. His expression is that of a …Read more
StageBuddy host Richard Skipper interviews Lillias White, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Marilyn Maye and many, many more celebrities on the Red Carpet of the 30th Annual Bistro Awards! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhqeaDoX5Fs&feature=youtu.be More intervie …Read more
The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs announced it’s 2015 nominees for the 29th annual awards show. Heeeeere;s the video…! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnyzqME6v3U#t=184
Earlier this winter the Metropolitan Room generated much publicity for setting the Guinness record for longest variety show ever. With Tim Realbuto’s “Bookseller in the Rain: A Tribute to the Music of Maury Yeston,” the club may well have quietly att …Read more
“With Love from Deeds and DIVA,” the Valentine’s weekend show at the Iridium, paired West Coast contemporary jazz singer Diane Schuur with the New York City-based DIVA Jazz Orchestra (15 strong for this booking) on songs about love, appropriately to …Read more
Have you ever met a person who’s the Mayor of something? You know, THAT GUY. The one people might know as the Mayor of East 3rd street. Or the Resident Emperor of the local bagel shop. Always holding court with multitudes of people as they come in an …Read more