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by Stephen Mosher Aug. 5, 2019   I recently did some undercover reporting. It wasn’t dangerous or glamorous, like Hunter S. Thompson or Nellie Bly, though it was both alluring and scary at times. I infiltrated the cabaret community to see what it’s like being a nightclub singer – and I had a really good […]

Cabaret Scenes | July 7, 2019 | 0 Comments A Conversation with Meg Flather and her Cabaret Sisterhood July 7, 2019 Meg Flather Meg Flather has made a name for herself in cabaret as a performer and songwriter. On July 14 and September 14 at 4:00 pm at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama, she gathers fellow […]

by BWW News Desk Jul. 16, 2019 Singer/Song writer Meg Flather brings together fellow singers on July 14 and September 14 at 4:00 pm at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama, in a performance of her songs for A Cabaret Sisterhood. The photos shown here are from the July 14th opening. Some of the performers seen here […]

Review: Susanne Mack “Where I Belong” at Pangea Written by: Navida Stein June 14, 2019 Singer Susanne Mack’s new show WHERE I BELONG, playing at Pangea, the best cabaret room in town, is a diverse mix of song and story that continually emphasizes our basic human need for authentic connection to both place and people. […]

Posted on Jun 24, 2019 in Music Reviews By Myra Chanin Friday night, as I was strolling toward Don’t Tell Mama for the latest edition of the multi-annual-award-winning Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway, I spied Madame R. catching a pre-performance breath on the stairs of an adjacent brownstone. Ricky was not attired in his usual, could-use-a-bit-more-ironing Elaine Stritch-ish […]

Susanne Mack May 20, 2019 | By Mark Dundas Wood Early in her new show at Pangea, Where I Belong, German-born singer Susanne Mack tells about growing up along the Swiss-German border. She speaks of being fascinated by a bridge with a line down the middle—a border marker that you could straddle so that your left […]

Dan Ruth @ City Winery 04/01/19 Posted by David Sabella | Apr 7, 2019 | Dan Ruth A Life Behind Bars City Winery Loft April 1, 2019 – 8PM Cabaret has long been the domain of the singer, and all things musical, or so we are told. But, every once in a while a solo […]

Marnie Klar By: Paulanne Simmons March 17, 2019: Bobbie Gentry is not exactly a name we hear often these days. Yet the singer/songwriter was one of the first female artists to compose and produce her work. Born in Chickasaw Country, Mississippi, she was hugely influenced by the music she heard growing up on her grandparents’ […]

Monday, March 18, 2019 J.W.’s Postcard from NYC: I was in New York City over the weekend for a business meeting and had the opportunity to squeeze in some theater and cabaret (well, a lot, actually). It was a memorable weekend and I wanted to share some thoughts: The Cher Show I went for the costumes and […]

Posted on Feb 27, 2019 in Music Reviews Erika Lustig By Myra Chanin Once upon a time there lived senior-ita, known for her veneration of mid-to-high culture, who acquired an Art Deco-ish abode with a view of a pond populated by perpetually quacking ducks in the land where boredoms – note the plural – reign supreme. The […]