With his recent show exploring the life and career of entertainer Anthony Newley (at Stage 72 at The Triad), British singer-dancer-actor-writer Jon Peterson reminded the audience just how thrilling a well-executed tribute performance can be. In part …Read more

Barb Jungr is a great interpreter of songs. She is every bit as iconic as the singer/songwriters she chooses to translate and reinterpret. She’s a rock star; she looks and feels like the girl next door or your mom—if your mom were Patti Smith or Joni …Read more

Shepley Metcalf, cabaret and jazz vocalist, treated her audience to a delightful set of relatively unknown songs from the 1930’s to the 1950’s at the Metropolitan Room on Saturday night. Celebrating the release of her third CD, Don’t Bother to Knock, …Read more

For a dose of very adult Halloween entertainment (seriously, leave the kids at home for this one), I wholeheartedly recommend that your get your costumed butt over to St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo and snag tickets to one of the final performances of T …Read more

The 25th anniversary edition of the NYC Cabaret Convention, presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, took place October 20-23 at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Robert Windeler, Kevin Scott Hall, and Mark Dundas Wood covered the four nig …Read more

Fred Astaire’s relaxed grace on the dance floor spilled over into his whole onscreen persona—including his work as a singer. For Astaire, the bridge between speaking and singing was really nothing but a couple of steppingstones, over which he lightly …Read more

In his recent two-night return engagement, this time at The Duplex, the amiable Jim Speake once again gave himself the prodigious task of presenting the music of Cy Coleman, one of the most prolific and challenging composers of Broadway and jazz musi …Read more

In this one-off performance at 54 Below, young artists from New York’s musical theatre community teamed up with director Max Friedman, bassist/bandleader Charlie Rosen, and Rosen’s large ensemble of musicians (counting Rosen, 18 were listed in the pr …Read more

Amanda McBroom and George Ball’s recent show at 54 Below was titled “Some Enchanted Evening: An Evening of Love Songs for Grownups.” Even more importantly, this was a cabaret show performed by grownups. McBroom and Ball had last sung together in a cl …Read more

Carly Ozard, a cabaret singer based in San Francisco, brought her delightful show, “Midler on the Roof,” to Stage 72 at the Triad for a one-night show on October 7. Ozard is a Bette Midler super-fan, the kind who knows all the lyrics to every song an …Read more