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Kendra Cunningham is a Great Storyteller by Ricky Pope Jul. 30, 2021   I came from this big Irish Catholic co-dependent family. So we weren’t rich. We didn’t have trust funds. We barely had trust. The search for trust seems to be the persistent theme of most of Kendra Cunningham’s stories. She confided in us […]

POSTED ON JUL 1, 2021 IN MUSIC REVIEWS By Sandi Durell How can life at Don’t Tell Mama ever be the same if it wouldn’t include award winning Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway? Well . . . it can’t and so he’s back!!! June 25th marked 15 months of a moratorium on performances, shows and the sociability of combining our […]

Cabaret Staple Ricky Ritzel Returns to Don’t Tell Mama by Ricky Pope Jun. 27, 2021   If you want to see a rarely performed musical from the past you have two options. You can either wait for the folks at Encores to get around to the show you love, or you can visit the Lincoln Center Library. Alternatively, […]

by Stephen Mosher Mar. 29, 2021   It’s springtime in New York and everywhere you look things are waking up, from the foliage to the wildlife, from the people in the streets to the businesses they frequent, and, with the rollout of vaccines and a return to society, the cabaret rooms of New York City […]

October 19, 2020 | By Mark Dundas Wood | Add a Comment Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #7 in this running series “Whoopee” on stage. Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn’s “Makin’ Whoopee,” first sung by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!—is a hardy comedic evergreen. While researching it, I was […]

Posted on Mar 7, 2020 in Music Reviews Michael Kirk Lane and Cast (Seussical) By Myra Chanin Monsieur Rick, Don’t Tell Mama, but I’ve been away from youse a long time! Only two months but long enough to realize I missed Ricky Ritzel and his More Than Ready for Prime Time Players high kick their way […]

by Stephen Mosher Feb. 9, 2020 T Tanya Moberly should be exhausted. She isn’t but she should be. With directing jobs all around her and a full time position booking talent into Don’t Tell Mama, as well as a part-time job away from the arts, she should take all her spare time to rest and […]

by Stephen Mosher Feb. 6, 2020 It is apropos that Susanne Mack mentions, in her opening monologue, that she is German, and that one of her songs includes the name of the legendary Marlene Dietrich because Misses Mack and Dietrich share many of the same qualities as performers. It isn’t the German thing, though one […]

Bart Greenberg | January 9, 2020 Rian Keating In This Traveling HeartDon’t Tell Mama, NYC, December 3, 2019Reviewed by Bart Greenberg Rian Keating is a natural storyteller, and he has quite a story to tell. During In This Traveling Heart, he took his audience from California to a lonely Ireland port (from which both the […]

by Rob Lester EDGE Media Network Contributor Tuesday Jan 7, 2020 While the calendar and life experience tell us that the year is unpredictable and new, the old tried-and-true traditions of cabaret and concert events and proven talents make predicting worthy upcoming shows pretty easy. Here, month-by-month, are some coming attractions for music in Manhattan. JANUARY […]