by Michael Bracken   Celia Keenan-Bolger has grown up. The girl who played Laura in The Glass Menagerie is no ingenue in Bruce Norris’s A Parallelogram, produced by Second Stage Theater. She’s a woman, and she deftly carries the very engaging if not completely...

    by Sandi Durell     The Broadhurst Theatre will celebrate its 100th Birthday this year and 54 Below will hold a fabulous centennial evening of songs and stories on August 16 at 7 and 9:30 pm, performed by many who graced the stage, hosted by Jennifer Ashley Tepper and...

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     by Alix Cohen                                                                                                  On the last night of its 27th annual celebration, the New York Cabaret Convention pays homage to theater icons Sheldon Harnick and Charles Strouse, both in...

  By Brian Scott Lipton     It’s been over 20 years since My Fair Lady has had a Broadway run, and if any question remained that the show’s brilliant score by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner deserves to be heard nightly, 54 Sings My Fair Lady delivered a resounding answer...

        by Jordan Cohen   The 72nd annual Theatre World Awards, presented to twelve outstanding performers making their Broadway and off-Broadway debuts this season, took place on May 23rd at Circle in the Square Theatre. The evening was filled with laughter and tears...

    by Joe Regan Jr.     Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller returned to the room where they did “Sin Twisters” in 2014, a show title a spooner on “twin sisters” on February 24 to a sold out house full of Broadway celebrities. Once again “Sin Twisters, Too” was superbly...

        by Marilyn Lester Part cabaret and part awards show, the first annual International Cabaret Festival (ICF) kicked off at The Metropolitan Room with a gala featuring performances and inductions into the newly-formed Cabaret Hall of Fame (CHOF). Cabaret Scenes...

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                      The ZIegfield Society presented a variety show called Ziegfeld Cavalcade of Stars at Lang Recital Hall at Hunter College on September 26th. This is a monthly concert and coming up October 24 is Whoopee – the...

      Review by Marilyn Lester Toward the end of “Merman’s Apprentice,” David Merrick appraises Ethel Merman and says he realizes a person can be hard and soft at the same time. In much the same way, this Stephen Cole-David Evans musical can be two things at once: a hilarious...

          by: Sandi Durell   There will never be another you . . . Julie Wilson!  And so the celebrations continue again/still at 54 Below where, on May 9th, many of cabaret’s best sang their hearts out for the lady known as the Queen of Cabaret . . . the...

  Making the Rounds with Russ             by: Russ Weatherford This lady, and I’m talking about the fabulous Anita Gillette, captures the room at Birdland on March 30th with her vocal talents and her magical stage presence. Her director is the glorious...

                NY Cabaret Review by Marilyn Lester   It was fitting that on Johnny Mercer’s 115th birthday – he was born on November 18, 1909 – his memory was lovingly honored by a talented cast of singers and dancers to benefit the 20th anniversary of...

    Review by Joe Regan Jr.     For some years, Cheryl Raymond has presented Steve Ross in programs at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium. Admission is free and they are always packed with celebrities. October 30 was no exception: “Tap Too and Hallowe’en..Boo!” was...

            by: Sandi Durell   Finding a musical revue, with many obscure songs written by the master Porter, is certainly exciting news. It was Paris, 1928 when “La Revue des Ambassadeurs” was first presented in a chic nightclub and it was not until 2012...

  The MAC Award Winning New York Sheet Music Society held it’s monthly meeting at Musician’s Union Hall on April 12, 2014. As part of these programs, the entertainment was none other than that sparkle plenty ball of fire, Tony nominated Anita Gillette.  It was a packed house...

            by: Joe Regan, Jr.   At 54 Below in New York City underneath the Roundabout‘s Studio 54 theatre where another revival of the classic musical “Cabaret” is previewing, actresses Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller, both of whom played Sally Bowles in...

    Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. Metropolitan Room December 10, 2013       Anita Gillette, one of Broadway’s busiest ingénues in the late Fifties and Sixties, returned to New York two years ago after many years in Hollywood working in films and TV, most notably as the...

    Expect a deliciously delightful evening of music from Tony Award nominated actress Anita Gillette at the Metropolitan Room on December 9th & 10th and 16th & 17th (all at 7:00 pm).  The show is filled with touching memories and a hilarious look behind the scenes from...

      Two beloved Tony-nominated Broadway actresses Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller join forces for a delectable evening of humorous reflection and harmonious song in Sin Twisters, a show with a devilish spoonerism of a title. On the streets of Manhattan and Los Angeles, these...