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By Myra Chanin I arrived a bit early at Don’t Tell Mama a few days ago, notebook in handbag, led by my brain to believe that I would be hearing a comparatively unknown songbird warble classics from the Great American Songbook. Where in the world had I gotten that idea? Nowhere special. I am just aware […]

Ricky Ritzel (piano), Anna Anderson, Aaron Lee Battle, Tanya Moberly The Cast     By Sandi Durell   While the keeper of the flame for Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway, Myra Chanin, is traveling in Hawaii, I couldn’t let this auspicious evening of song pass me by without being part of the BIG anniversary celebration at Don’t […]

Warren Shein, Kristine Zbornik   By Myra Chanin   June 29, 2018 was very special. It was the date of the penultimate performance of Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway’s Triple-Consecutive Mac-Award-Winning Series before its Third Anniversary Celebration. Tada! Harrumph to them who said it wouldn’t last! Them couldn’t recognize an addicting substance when they injected it. Nevertheless, […]

Kendra Cunningham June 25, 2018 | By Mark Dundas Wood  Kendra Cunningham is a good human being. Or, at any rate, she’s trying hard to be one. Growing up in a Catholic, Irish-Lithuanian-American household, she began saying affirmations at age 13. Her favorite is “I love and adore myself,” a motto that has apparently morphed […]

Hollywood Fringe Fest 2018 A LIFE BEHIND BARS Storytelling can be casual.  It can be challenging.  It can be insightful.  Stories can be funny, sad, inspirational, depressing or so many other things.  When you find a performer who can seamlessly blend aspects of all the above into a single, insightful show… there is reason to […]

  THURSDAY JUNE 14 2018, 6:00 PM SUNDAY JUNE 17 2018, 10:00 PM MONDAY JUNE 18 2018, 8:00 PM THURSDAY JUNE 21 2018, 10:00 PM SUNDAY JUNE 24 2018, 12:00 PM 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival Lounge Theatre 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles Review NoHoArtsDistrict.Com Review “Life Behind Bars” Watching Dan Ruth prance, sashay, and […]

Lisa Viggiano April 22, 2018 | By Gerry Geddes  Singer Lisa Viggiano lives in New Jersey, so it is de rigueur that she be a Bruce Springsteen fan. But she feels a closer kinship to “the boss” than many others do, a kinship she celebrates in her new show, Lisa Viggiano Sings Bruce. She enlists the […]

Perspectives on Tuesday’s MAC Awards Show March 22, 2018 By Rob Lester for Cabaret Scenes “Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day” Ira Gershwin rhymingly wrote to his brother George’s melody. For those hoping for the good news of winning a MAC Award in addition to the earlier good news of being nominated, the […]

Lisa Viggiano: Sings Bruce on Christopher Chris Struck | March 7, 2018 Lisa Viggiano Sings Bruce on Christopher The Duplex, NYC, February 24, 2018 Reviewed by Chris Struck for Cabaret Scenes Luckily, Lisa Viggiano found a kindred spirit in Bruce Springsteen, a fellow Jersey kid gone Northern California adult and occasional stage singer. While Springsteen […]

Six Degrees of Cabaret Separation This Weekend: From Sequins to Springsteen to Salon February 23, 2018 Rob Lester Cabaret 0 By ROB LESTER****Our shortest month still has some NYC cabaret life in it with this last weekend.  Shall we play “Six Degrees of Separation”? OK. FIRST DEGREE: Rick Skye returns as Liza with a Z—that […]