By Marilyn Lester   What a great title for a cabaret: I Can’t Trace Time. It’s intriguing. There’s a fascination there that sparks curious interest. It also happens to be a line in the third song of the set, David Bowie’s “Changes” (sung as a quiet duet with piano man Jude...

  by Myra Chanin   Margo Brown, with the aid and input of her director, the splendid Jeff Harnar, made her New York debut at Don’t Tell Mama’s in a bold, interesting and exceptionally well-planned show in which Margo, a Boca Raton native, sang her “favorite 700” of the 1400 to 1500...

    by Sandi Durell    A most unexpected pleasure is the debut of film icon Kathleen Turner at the sumptuous Café Carlyle. One doesn’t have to look at the stage, but just close your eyes to hear that familiar husky, low, low deep throaty voice to know who it is. Although...

  Feinstein’s/54 Below does New York a favor with its 54 Sings Man of La Mancha.     By Joel Benjamin   There probably are numerous productions of Man of La Mancha circulating around the world right now, but New York hasn’t seen this imaginative take on Don Quixote since...

     by Sandi Durell    Summer in the City can be quite a treat if you’re looking for some good talent in the cabarets and clubs. Talent abounds . . . and whatever the temperature, you’ll be feeling just right listening to many of the best in town.   Here’s a short list of some...

    by Peter Haas   Every seat was filled in Don’t Tell Mama’s intimate Brick Room on a Sunday evening in April as friends and fans gathered to enjoy the talents of two of cabaret’s most distinctive performers. On stage: guitarist Sean Harkness and singer Marcus Simeone,...

  by Susan Hasho     Lucille Carr-Kaffashan took us to school in the best possible way with her show “Unwritten.” Subtitled “Celebrating ­­­­21st Century Female Singer-Songwriters,” the evening was a fascinating search into the minds of the current generation of young women...

    by Linda Amiel Burns     There are only two more chances to see the remarkable Todd Murray’s CROON show at The Triad on 8/23 & 8/25. You won’t want to miss this first-rate performance!   The lights go down at The Triad Theater as the music begins to play. A...

  by Marilyn Lester   T. Oliver Reid has created one heck of a cabaret show – an intimate, highly personal journey of the American experience through the lens of his own large and wondrous family. But, in the words of that famous Ginsu knife commercial, wait! there’s more! Made in...

  by Monica Charline Brown     Lucille Carr-Kaffashan pieced together a truly enjoyable evening of cabaret in her latest stint at Don’t Tell Mama, one of midtown’s hottest cabaret boites. The show was called “Unwritten – Celebrating 21st Century Female Singer-Songwriters.”...

  by Joe Regan Jr. Jazz singer Martha Lorin held court May 18 at Café Noctambulo in a show entitled “Swing Can Really Hang You Up the Most,” with a great trio of jazz musicians:  Saadi Zain, Musical Director and on bass, Jon Weber on piano, and Sean Harkness on guitar.There was very...

by Linda Amiel Burns Scott Siegel’s Broadway By The Year began its 16th Season at The Town Hall with a fine cast singing songs from shows of the 1930s. Siegel, who created, writes, directs and hosts Broadway By the Year, initiated a new format for their 16th Season. The concerts will explore...

        by Joe Regan Jr.     Todd Murray and Sean Harkness were scheduled to do a repeat of his “Croon” show Sunday afternoon February 14 at the Metropolitan Room but his bass player got another job and his pianist, was indisposed, so Murray and Harkness put...

You voted for them folks! The fourth annual BroadwayWorld New York Cabaret Awards results are in and official, and for 2015 some bold-faced Broadway names, long-time cabaret stars, and some exciting newcomers were the people’s choices this year. More than 32,000 votes were cast for...

    Review Joe Regan Jr.     Celia Berk, fresh from her recent triumphs at the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention, where she was on the program celebrating World War II music and was surprised to suddenly receive the Margaret Whiting Award for excellence (including a cash...

  by: Joe Regan Jr.   Karen Oberlin, who has won almost every award in the cabaret world and whose previous well received shows were tribute shows to Doris Day, Frank Loesser, E. Y. Harburg, and who has done duo shows with Steve Ross, Miles Phillips, Sean Harkness, and T. Oliver...

      by Joe Regan Jr.   Daryl Glenn’s latest show, Daryl Sings Steve: Sings by Sondheim was originally presented at Feinstein’s at the Regency, and then was part of the Winter Rhythms series at Urban Stages in December of 2014. On July 9, he reprised the show at 54 Below,...

      by Joe Regan Jr.   Every two years Jillian Laurain, the Bistro Award-winning, classically trained singer, actress and vocal coach, does a new cabaret act and it’s always very special. On Saturday, June 27, a dark, stormy, thunder-punctuated night, Laurain began a...

Photo Montage /Video: Russ Weatherford – Eric Rudy by: Linda Amiel Burns The songs of composer Larry Kerchner was celebrated at Birdland with an all-star cast of singers    In a gala evening, produced by Sandi Durell, “Hidden Treasures IV – The Songs of Larry Kerchner” was held at...

                    by Marilyn Lester   Season eight of Concerts to benefit Tudor City Greens, a free, outdoor series, had its 2015 debut under sunny skies and dropping temperatures, made tolerable by the heat generated in sizzling...

      CD Review by Marilyn Lester       Pianist Ian Herman and guitarist Sean Harkness are both seasoned, highly-regarded freelance musicians: leaders, players and composers who evidently had the great idea to combine their multitudinous talents. The result is a...

      Cabaret Review by Marcina Zaccaria   Cabaret performers Kathleen France and Dawn Derow perform in “Revolution” at The Duplex, a show that looks at war and peace since 1776. There is something special about being in the West Village for cabaret, and in some ways, The...