Alan Jay Lerner’s 100th Birthday Celebration Rocks the 2018 Cabaret Convention Finale       by Myra Chanin   Alan Jay Lerner supplied rhymes for one unfinished and 17 produced Broadway Musicals as well as librettos for several of them. He wrote the words for the...

    By Sandi Durell     I had a terrific phone conversation with cast member, the lovely Kelli Rabke (Children of Eden, Les Miserables, Joseph. . .), appearing in Small Town Confessions, to find out more about Phil Geoffrey Bond‘s comedy (directed by Stephen...

    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 Brian Scott Lipton   Both a celebration of her newest CD and a glorious retrospective of 30-plus year performing career in cabaret, Karen Mason’s It’s About Time showed, once again, why she is one of this singular art form’s greatest practitioners.  ...

    by Alix Cohen   Hey, old friend, are you okay/Old friend?/What do you say, old friend/Are we or are we unique?/Time goes by/Everything else keeps changing/You and I/We get continued next week…(Merrily WeRoll Along). On their 5th New York Cabaret Convention collaboration,...

    by Marilyn Lester
   Take two talented, seasoned performers and set them loose to develop a cabaret act and the result is a swell evening of prime, solidly-anchored entertainment. Sally Mayes and Jeff Harnar, working together for the first time, have created a sweet show...

A joyous celebration of offbeat, whacky songs performed by a cast whose enthusiasm was contagious. By Joel Benjamin   Broadway’s Best Musical Comedy Stars at Feinstein’s/54 Below was just what the doctor ordered after a week of dreadful news: a breath of life affirming fresh air, a...

    By Joel Benjamin   David Meulemans, a Florida-based performer, has found a home away from home in New York City: the legendary Metropolitan Room where he is “Artist in Residence.” His Lucky to Be Me was a stroll through his life in song on March 19.   He told of his...

    By Sandi Durell   David Meulemans is not an unknown to theater or cabaret. A Florida popular leading man, he’s had a varied musical theater background having played a variety of roles in Company (Bobby), La Cage Aux Folles (Za Za), Stop the World . . . (Little Chap) as well...

        By Jordan Cohen             Stephen Sondheim has become cause for monthly celebration at Feinstein’s/54 Below, and who better to celebrate twelve times a year than the writer of Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Passion,...

    By Joel Benjamin     Two great singers join forces for an entertaining evening.         Although the two phenomenal singers, Sally Mayes and Jeff Harnar, generated no fireworks, there was a great deal to savor for the cabaret connoisseur in their...

      by: Sandi Durell     When I told a friend I was going to 54 Below to hear songs that Meryl Streep has sung, they gave me a funny look as if I had lost it, saying “Meryl Streep is an actress, not a singer.” Be enlightened – Mary Louise Streep, born in...

                              On Tuesday evening, April 28th, The Town Hall was filled with many from the cabaret and theater communities, fans and friends who were present to celebrate the loving, supportive and...