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...

  Artists in Partnership (AIP), a non-profit cultural arts organization, will host its 16th Annual Cabaret Festival May 17-20  at the Long Beach Public Library, 111 West Park Avenue, Long Beach, NY. All performances are FREE to the public. The festival will be a celebration of the...

    by Alix Cohen    This is a perfect match of performer and writer. Stearns Matthews has just the kind of float and soar necessary to best showcase Bricusse. His light, tender renditions embrace sensitivity, while declamatory emotion arrives determined- in flight. Matthews...

     by Alix Cohen                                                                                                  On the last night of its 27th annual celebration, the New York Cabaret Convention pays homage to theater icons Sheldon Harnick and Charles Strouse, both in...

    By Myra Chanin   Charles Strouse (88) and Steven Carl McCasland (30) may view life from opposite ends of the age spectrum but boy, oh, boy, do they see eye to eye on the matters of art.   Just check their bios:   By the time Steven McCasland was 30 he was a...

        Cabaret Review by Joe Regan Jr.       When patrons entered the Duplex for “Stearns Matthews: Spark,” on November 1st, a big red ribbon was strung across the stage. When Matthews appeared behind that ribbon, he grabbed giant scissors and with a big...