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Amy Beth Williams November 7, 2017 | By Bistro Awards | Don’t Tell Mama Mondays November 13, December 18; 7:00 pm A Thousand Beautiful Things A new show from one of the most incisive artists to grace the cabaret stage in the past twenty-five years. She delivers a cornucopia of attitudes and emotions—at times with […]

Marnie Klar Bedtime Stories Bart Greenberg | November 9, 2017  Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, November 8, 2017 Reviewed by Bart Greenberg for Cabaret Scenes Marnie Klar Photo: Russ Weatherford Having admitted that her previous four shows, all with director Tanya Moberly, were based on very personal matters, Marnie Klar jubilantly announced that her new show […]

The 28th New York Cabaret Convention October 24, 2017 | By Bistro Awards | Add a Comment The 28th edition of the New York Cabaret Convention, presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, took place October 16-19 at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Penelope Thomas, Mark Dundas Wood, Gerry Geddes, and Robert Windeler […]

Tanya Moberly: The Sean Harkness Show Randolph B. Eigenbrode | September 29, 2017 Tanya Moberly The Sean Harkness Show Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, September 15, 2017 Reviewed by Randolph B. Eigenbrode for Cabaret Scenes Tanya Moberly Is there anyone in cabaret more enterprising than Tanya Moberly? Somehow, between a busy directing and producing schedule, Moberly […]

          Amy Beth Williams  June 22, 2017 | By Robert Windeler In her ravishing show Carried Away at Don’t Tell Mama, Amy Beth Williams proved to be a superb singer, a subtle actress, and a compelling interpreter of lyrics. Beautifully directed by Tanya Moberly, this 65-minute set displayed Williams as an […]

qlife magazine – new york June 1, 2017 Cabaret Chronicles 3 by Michael Barbieri Dan Ruth: A Life Behind Bars Towards the end of Dan Ruth: A Life Behind Bars, Dan tells us “If life gives you booze, make some art.” And make art he has.  His funny, moving one man show documents his life in […]

A Life Behind Bars May 10, 2017 Dan Ruth in A Life Behind Bars. Photo: Rolando Pellot. By Stanford Friedman Have you ever been to a bar where someone is being hilarious, but that someone is also, clearly, a self-destructive alcoholic? It is that kind of dark dichotomy that powers Dan Ruth’s monologue cum memoir […]

Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Life Behind Bars’ Written and Performed by Dan Ruth Posted by: Jon Sobel  April 28, 2017 Dan Ruth in ‘A Life Behind Bars’ Monologuist, comic, and bartender Dan Ruth has seen and heard an awful lot – and a lot that’s awful – in his decades treading the behind-the-bar boards in […]

A Life Behind Bars April 12, 2017 | By Gerry Geddes The title of Dan Ruth’s remarkable show, A Life Behind Bars (currently enjoying a run at the Laurie Beechman Theatre), might lead one to expect an exposé of the prison system, but the bars in question are of a much more common variety—the drinking […]

A Life Behind Bars Posted on Apr 8, 2017 in Theater Reviews by Steve Nardoni Toward the end of  A Life Behind Bars, a compelling, comedic, but chilling one-man autobiographical show (directed by Tanya Moberly), playing every other week at the Laurie Beechman through May 17, Dan Ruth rotates on the stage holding a photo […]