2019 BISTRO AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR 2016 MAC AWARD WINNER FOR FEMALE VOCALIST 2014 BISTRO AWARD WINNER FOR OUTSTANDING THEME SHOWA MASTER STORYTELLER. VERSATILE. ONE OF A KIND.
Broadway World Cabaret and Concert editor Stephen Mosher picks his favorite moments of 2021. by Stephen Mosher Dec. 31, 2021 As the minutes tick by on the clock on the wall (everyone still has a ticking clock on the wall, right?), there is much satisfaction in looking through the list of shows I have, […]
It’s hard to tell what shines brightest – the lights, the blue silk suit, or Frank McDonough’s ebullience by Stephen Mosher Dec. 17, 2021 Although Frank McDonough’s new show LEGENDS OF LAS VEGAS is about the music of the famed entertainers who made Las Vegas the Entertainment Capital of the World, the legend of […]
It’s the time of The Woman, and it’s long overdue, and Marnie Klar has something to sing about it. by Stephen Mosher Dec. 3, 2021 Walking through the Piano Bar at Don’t Tell Mama, toward The Brick Room, I spotted Steven Ray Watkins chatting with Matt Scharfglass. As I rounded the corner, I saw Don Kelly, seated, waiting to go on. Boy, […]
Nov 30, 2021 | Music & Cabaret By Andrew Poretz . . . For the music lover, it is thrilling to discover “unknown” artists who were in plain sight all along. On this evening, November 22, at Don’t Tell Mama, it was a double dose of discovery, with the introduction to both the lovely Stephanie […]
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… On November 22, at Don’t Tell Mama, Stephanie Trudeau, who was my colleague in the Arts Project of Cherry Grove’s “Rainbow Connection” this past summer, introduced us to out lesbian singer Chavela Vargas (1919-2012), who was born in Costa Rica, but made […]
Every actor has that one role that is the lynchpin of their career and Bruce Sabath shares his in his new show. by Stephen Mosher Nov. 9, 2021 Remember the old days, when people would gather in the living room and watch a carousel slide show of photos from the family vacation, or the […]
Nov 2, 2021 | Music & Cabaret By Myra Chanin . . . Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway never disappoints. It’s an entertainment extravaganza devised by Ricky Ritzel, a one-man-band-with-a-brain who selects, interprets, relates and musically directs the magnificent More Than Ready for Prime-Time Players zesty samples of three Broadway Musicals on the final Friday night of […]
The not-to-be-missed show puts Tanya and twenty-five songwriters in the best light to be found. by Stephen Mosher Oct. 19, 2021 The monologue play is a time-honored genre of theater that audiences have been enjoying for many years, producing works of art like Talking With, The Vagina Monologues, Love, Loss, and What I Wore […]
October 18, 2021 | By Betsyann Faiella | Add a Comment Rian Keating (Photo: Susan Kirby) The skilled storyteller Rian Keating‘s Time Stamps—Life Fragments in Story and Song is a series of personal stories with music. The show took its structure from the assignments in a memoir writing class Rian attended. The device worked well, the stories time-stamped and […]
TIME STAMPS: Fragments of a Life in Story and Song is a Beautiful Evening by Ricky Pope Oct. 11, 2021 As long as there have been humans on this planet, we have gathered around a fire to tell stories of ourselves. Heroic stories, sad stories, funny stories, stories of journeying and love and battles, […]