MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) is currently accepting submissions for the MAC sponsored Dottie Burman and John Wallowitch Songwriting Awards. You do not need to be a MAC member to submit for these awards. Submissions are open unt …Read more

On opening night of her new show, “back,” beloved cabaret singer and comedienne Georga Osborne was greeted like a rock star as she made her way to the stage through a packed room at Don’t Tell Mama—she was “back” for her first solo outing in ten year …Read more

There could hardly be a more appropriate song for Ira Lee Collings to open his show “Off the Charts!” with than “I Want to Be Happy” (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans), which he performs with a childlike energy and joy, even inviting his audience to sh …Read more

The cabaret act as backers’ audition is not a brand new concept. But Louis St. Louis took it to extremes in this outing, with generous selections from five of the shows for which he has written music (and mostly co-written lyrics) that have yet to ma …Read more

When a chanteuse as talented as Teresa Eggertsen Cooke takes the stage, gently playing the piano and singing songs that you had almost forgotten were your favorites, there is almost nothing better. Eggertsen Cooke, her smoky voice reminiscent of Carl …Read more

Luba Mason slinked onto the stage of the Metropolitan room in a cream floor-length gown accented with blue brocade flowers riding the curves of her lithe frame. Her hips swayed, her shoulders kept the beat, her voice soared from smoky bassoon to blar …Read more

A versatile veteran of New York’s cabaret scene, Patrick DeGennaro has become known not only for the many hats he wears (singer in many styles, musical director, songwriter, and vocal coach), but also for the way he has transformed his look over the …Read more

Jason Morris certainly has talent. He is blessed with a malleable singing voice with a pleasing timbre. He seems at home with the conventions of contemporary pop singing. He favors melisma, but keeps it in check. For his show “Musically Yogic” at the …Read more

Stephen Sondheim is so special, so specific, so idiosyncratic. Sung by everyone, everywhere, how could anyone possibly do anything new and unique? In “Our Time – Sullivan & Harnar Sing Sondheim” at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Jeff Harnar and KT …Read more

The title of Liam Forde’s offering at Stage 72—”A Fleet Phantasmagoria!”—is a bit much and a little precious, isn’t it? Well, the show, itself, is a lot much and very precious—with both adjectives now used in their most plauditory sense: much signify …Read more