By Myra Chanin   Carole Cook, looking like a wealthy, handsome woman in her early ‘60’s, steps up on the dais of Feinstein’s/54Below on the arm of a handsome young man, strolls unaided past her music director Christopher Marlowe’s grand piano and wiggles into a waiting...

The 30th Anniversary Reunion of Legs Diamond held a rehearsal for press and Genevieve Rafter Keddy was on the scene to capture photos along with Magda Katz on video.   Broadway’s Supper Club, Feinstein’s/54 Below, will present the Original Broadway cast of the much heralded musical...

    By Marilyn Lester   Here’s a sure-fire formula for success: take a groundbreaking musical masterpiece, add an immeasurably talented cast of singers, a skilled music director (Matthew Martin Ward), a genial and informative host, plus a few bells and whistles, and achieve a...

    By Sandi Durell     It’s always delightful when I can speak with a star and it’s like talking to one of my girlfriends. And so it was with Lucie Arnaz who is about as down to earth as anyone I can think of, and will appear on Monday, September 25 at Feinstein’s/54...

  Review by Brian Scott Lipton   If aging is indeed optional, Tovah Feldshuh has clearly made the choice not to do so. Seeing her on the stage of 54 Below reprising her 2013 show of the same name (albeit in a revised version), the extraordinarily talented star – a multiple Emmy and...

  A robust, sensual take on our favorite patriotic musical.           By Joel Benjamin     “So, sue me, sue me, what can you do me,” *I prefer 1776 to the theatrical juggernaut Hamilton. If the recent robust and inspiring performance of a trimmed down...

  A newly minted American citizen takes the Broadway repertoire to Brazil and back.       By Joel Benjamin   Paulo Szot’s Salute to Broadway was as close to perfect as a cabaret act can be. This newly minted American citizen sang a generous set of Broadway songs,...

    It was a smashing night of entertainment and star power as Feinstein’s/54 Below’ celebrated its 5th Anniversary with an all-star celebration featuring treasured resident artists and audience favorites from “Broadway’s Living Room.”  Participants included Charles Busch, Liz...

       by Linda Amiel Burns   Two of Broadway’s finest singers opened their show “Broadway and Beyond” to a packed house at Feinsteins/54 Below on May 29, 2017 at 7:00 and 9:30pm. This engagement marks, not just their 20th Wedding Anniversary, but also 20 years of singing...

          by Steve Nardoni   In a special return engagement at Feinstein’s/54 Below, Kim Maresca showed once again why she’s such an overwhelmingly talented and beloved singer and performer. Wednesday evening, May 3, she bathed her audience in the warm spa water...

    Can it already be five years that Feinsein’s/54 Below opened?  Since June 2012 New York’s Nightclub has created a wide array of programming and musical styles and can claim over 4000 shows with countless artists.  The cabaret club venue has grown exponentially,...

    By Eric J. Grimm   The stories of potential gems that fell just short of playing on Broadway eclipse the shows themselves in 54 Below’s first (and hopefully not last) edition of Broadway Bound, which premiered on March 21st. It’s a fascinating program that effectively balances...

      The Drama Desk Board is pleased to let you know that Laura Benanti and Javier Munoz (Hamilton) will announce the Drama Desk Awards nominations 10 am Thursday, April 27 at Feinstein’s/54 Below. Benanti, a two-time Drama Desk winner and four-time Drama Desk nominee, hosted...

    by Matt Smith     Brandon Uranowitz certainly knows how to make an entrance. Leg sprawled across the railing of the steps leading down from the bar, he shouts, “I love being Marvin! I love being Marvin! And Marvin always eats the finest breakfast in town!” So begins...

    Nellie McKay brings her show “A Girl Named Bill” (about the life and times of Billy Tipton) back to 54 Below beginning tonight January 26, thru 28 at 7 pm.  Billy Tipton was a midcentury Jazz bandleader and it wasn’t until his death, that the discovery was made...

    By Eric J. Grimm     Christopher Guest’s joyous mockumentaries received the Broadway treatment at 54 Below on January 22nd. A sprawling cast worked through most of the musical numbers from five of Guest’s beloved films in a rollicking and worshipping concert, directed...

    by Matt Smith   “It’s good to see me, isn’t it?” the bubbly Carrie St. Louis asks, with a laugh, at the top of her act, which premiered last Sunday at Feinstein’s/54 Below. (For those living under a rock, it was her opening line as Glinda in Wicked). There’s no question...

      By Joel Benjamin     The warmth that filled Feinstein’s/54 Below during Scott Siegel’s Broadway Originals! was the perfect antidote to the freezing weather and the perilous news filling the airwaves outside the elegant cabaret venue. If anyone doubts the value...

    By Jordan Cohen   Shoshana Feinstein and Benjamin Rauhala were back with the third iteration of their hit show, Not At This Performance, at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Tuesday night after producing two successful versions back in 2013 and 2014. The concept hasn’t changed: a...

    by Sandi Durell   Brrrrrr. . . baby, it is cold outside! But warm and toasty in the clubs and cabarets where you find talent galore here in New York City. After a busy holiday season and New Year, you would think – – time to take a break and relax! No, no, no!...

    by Matt Smith     As she steps onto the stage at the intimate Feinstein’s/54 Below, comedienne Christine Pedi — radiant in a Christmas-y red — purports: “There’s no magic like snow magic / The whole world seems to glow.” Whether or not you agree with that statement —...

  by Marilyn Lester     For anyone despairing that classical music is on the wane, the all-male string quartet Well-Strung is here to say different. In A Well-Strung Christmas, the group celebrated the holiday season with their trademark blend of adept musicality applied to a...

    The one and only Charles Busch is returning to Feinstein’s/54 Below on December 31 at 7 pm – New Years Eve – for one show!  The two-time MAC Award winner, Tony nominated playwright and star (The Divine Sister, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom) and drag legend will...

      by Marilyn Lester     Preceding Ben Vereen’s dazzling entrance to the stage at Feinstein’s/54 Below, a short video montage of the actor-singer-dancer provides a small taste of this showbiz legend’s career – an effort scarcely necessary, for the moment Vereen...

  by Marilyn Lester     Andrea Marcovicci, a certified icon of the cabaret world, who’s been dubbed the “Queen of Cabaret,” is no less than an experience. As she herself said to her admiring audience, with a large, impish smile, “This is what I’m like.” What she’s like is a...