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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 […]

This Week in Cabaret–It’s All About the “M” Word: Marnie, Marissa, Miss Cast, My Island Home, and More January 22, 2018 By ROB LESTER***Cabaret in NYC always offers many choices. Here are some to consider that are happening this week. To narrow it down, I’ve just picked ones that all can be filed under the […]

Tanya Moberly: The Jon Weber Show Bart Greenberg | January 3, 2018 Tanya Moberly The Jon Weber Show Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, December 29, 2017 Reviewed by Bart Greenberg for Cabaret Scenes Tanya Moberly In the last of her series of six shows over the last few months of 2017, each with a different accompanist […]

Amy Beth Williams: A Thousand Beautiful Things Alix Cohen | December 21, 2017  Amy Beth Williams A Thousand Beautiful Things Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, December 18, 2017 Reviewed by Alix Cohen for Cabaret Scenes Amy Beth Williams Amy Beth Williams has a voice with wings. There’s something about its tenor and texture that buoys material. […]

Marnie Klar November 16, 2017 | By Penelope Thomas Delightfully bookended by “Stay Awake” (Robert B. & Richard M. Sherman), Marnie Klar’s new show, Bedtime Stories, features nighttime, fairy tale, and storybook songs. Skillfully directed by Tanya Moberly, Klar presents her theme in a brief but illuminating introduction, in which we learn that this her […]