by Steve Nardoni   Seven years ago Phil Geoffrey Bond had a brilliant idea: start a monthly series featuring Stephen Sondheim’s music with singers accompanied only by a piano. Undistracted by full orchestration, the audience could then focus on...

      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 Martha Wade Steketee     The sixtieth edition of the Sondheim Unplugged concert series, that began its monthly adventures at the beloved Don’t Tell Mama venue on West 46th Street and is now ensconced at the more upscale Feinstein’s 54 Below, enchanted the crowd this...

    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 Sandi Durell     The long red-haired lovely Sarah Rice is an ethereal soul whose warm and enchanting vocals navigate through the mysteries of opera, to cabaret and to Broadway, where she starred in the original production of Sweeney Todd in the role of...

  Lyricist Michael Colby, otherwise known as The Algonquin Kid, has been under a bright and lucky star as of recent months.  First the release of his book The Algonquin Kid and now the release of Tales of Tinseltown on Jay Records (music by Paul Katz) together with the re-release of...

    Michael Colby (lyricist) will be hosting a much lauded CD launch at The Duplex April 9 at 4 pm featuring stars of theatre and cabaret. He’s been working tirelessly on the recordings with many of the best in the business. Movieland Musical Tales of Tinseltown and (the...

  The Cabaret Community may be small, but it is mighty!  Mighty close and caring. It’s coming together to help one of its own  – Erin Cronican – actor, director, performer – a young talent in her 30s battling breast cancer.  A benefit concert will take place as...

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        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,...

                      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 Joe Regan Jr.     Joseph Macchia has been producing a series of “Gone Too Soon” tributes at the Metropolitan Room and the September 12 program was “Gone Too Soon: Madeline Kahn Tribute” in connection with the publication of a biography “Madeline Kahn: Being the...

    Review by Joe Regan Jr.     Tudor City Greens Concerts in the Park produced by Raissa Katona-Bennett and her husband Dr. Garrett Bennett is a free event presented on certain Wednesdays in the summer. The last of the series was presented September 2 to a large crowd and...