by Matt Smith   “Cabaret — there’s nothing like it,” exclaimed performer Robin Kradles, taking the stage to accept her award for Best Drag Artist. “I mean, where else can you meet hundreds of people brimming with talent, eventually get to call many of them friends, and not get...

  The Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) presented the fifth annual They Write the Songs on November 20 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center’s Engelman Recital Hall. The evening was hosted by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Julie Gold and directed by Lennie Watts with...

    By Marcina Zaccaria   Stepping away from the piano and to the microphone, Christopher Howatt takes the stage at Don’t Tell Mama for Hear My Song. A Music Director and Accompanist who has played for Tyne Daly, Rita Moreno, and David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Howatt is...

  MAC Remembers cabaret legend Julie Wilson with show and dedication of memorial plaque at Don’t Tell Mama       by Linda Amiel Burns       On Sunday, October 30, 2016 a sold out crowd gathered to honor the memory of Julie Wilson with a show and dedication...

Late bloomer, Jim Speake, sings a pleasant program celebrating his new CD release   By Joel Benjamin   By his own admission, Jim Speake was a late bloomer—a very late bloomer—starting voice lessons in his forties and turning professional at sixty. Now seventy, he is celebrating a...

  by Joe Regan Jr.     Jim Speake, who just won the LaMott Friedman Award at the MAC Awards this year for his recording of “Sweet Life The Show” chose to do a show celebrating this win at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on April 12 with the full complement of the musicians and...

  by: Eric J. Grimm   The 30th annual MAC Awards celebrating outstanding achievements in cabaret, comedy, and jazz took place on Tuesday, March 29th at the historic B.B. King’s Blues Club in Times Square. The best of New York’s nightlife entertainers filled the Music...

    The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs is pleased to announce the 2016 MAC Award nominees and complete list of honorees for the 30th Annual MAC Awards. The awards presentation and show will take place on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 7:30pm, at BB King Blues Club &...

  Since moving to NYC in 2000, Jim Speake has sung in most of New York’s Cabaret venues. He was nominated for Best Musical Comedy Performer 2013, and Best Male Vocalist 2015, by MAC, The Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs. In 2010, he produced his first recording, “My...

    Review by Joe Regan Jr.     Kristoffer Lowe. who won both the 2015 Bistro Award and 2015 MAC Award (for his debut show, “Waiting For The Sun To Shine“ at Don‘t Tell Mama), also won the MetroStar 2014 contest which guaranteed him a show and CD. Lowe told us that he was...

    By: Myra Chanin   According to his wiseass bio, Ricky Ritzel was last seen on Broadway hailing a cab. Actually Ricky is a formidable Cabaret stalwart who spends most of his time at off and off-off Broadway venues arranging, creating, directing, performing and playing for...

    by Joe Regan Jr.   On July 15 Gregory Nalbone returned to the Metropolitan Room after a two year absence with an entirely new show, The Sounds of My Heart. A capacity crowd of over 110 filled the room. Nalbone has an entirely new production team: Kenneth Gartman on piano...

    NY Cabaret Review By Eric J. Grimm   Georga Osborne is back with a solo show after a ten year absence. The singer’s new show, appropriately titled “back,” features an assortment of pop songs and show tunes that the Kentucky native skillfully interprets....