The American Songbook Association (ASA)  presented its first Annual Gala, The Joint Is Jumpin’!, a joyous celebration of contributions to the American Songbook by Black songwriters and notable singers on September 17 and its first annual Lifetime Achievement Award to...

  Marilyn Maye Will Receive an ASA Lifetime Achievement Award Presented by Bob Mackie!     By Sandi Durell     Cabaret keeps growing because there are enough people and organizations to keep supporting its effort, keeping it alive and growing. The latest on the...

  by Marilyn Lester   Thirty years ago the AIDS crisis was at a terrible peak. Stirred by events of the time, poet and writer Bill Russell, with composer Janet Hood, wrote Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, as a theatrical response to the crisis. Three decades later, the...