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June 23, 2022 | By Mark Dundas Wood For most any cabaret show, performers will want to share something about themselves. They’ll note, for instance, what a particular song in their setlist means to them personally and why they decided to include it. But certain shows go well beyond that. Such presentations are essentially spoken-word […]

April 6, 2022 NiteLife Exchange Cabaret Reviews By Marilyn Lester***Songwriter Jeff Flaster is by far not a newbie to the world of creating music, but he is in the world of cabaret. His singing and performing debut at Don’t Tell Mama can be certifiably stamped “success.” With Take the Moment, Flaster, in his sixth decade, […]

Bart Greenberg | April 2, 2022 Jeff Flaster Take the Moment Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, March 16, 2022 Reviewed by Bart Greenberg Jeff Flaster made a highly impressive solo cabaret debut with his show, Take the Moment. As with many such programs, the subject was autobiographical. One of the things that made the evening special […]

Mar 18, 2022 | Music & Cabaret By Andrew Poretz . . . The last time a numbers guy made a name for himself as an entertainer, the world got Bob Newhart, a former accountant.  Jeff Flaster has taken it a step further.  He became an actuary!  To go from a world of successfully gauging […]

Bart Greenberg | February 26, 2022 Marnie Klar A Woman’s Prerogative Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, February 23, 2022 Reviewed by Bart Greenberg Marnie Klar takes command of the stage. Planting her feet, she delivers her lyrics with both assurance and clarity. Her amazingly mobile face can appear amused, haughty, destroyed, or triumphant (and her choices […]

Broadway World Cabaret and Concert editor Stephen Mosher picks his favorite moments of 2021. by Stephen Mosher Dec. 31, 2021   As the minutes tick by on the clock on the wall (everyone still has a ticking clock on the wall, right?), there is much satisfaction in looking through the list of shows I have, […]

It’s hard to tell what shines brightest – the lights, the blue silk suit, or Frank McDonough’s ebullience by Stephen Mosher Dec. 17, 2021   Although Frank McDonough’s new show LEGENDS OF LAS VEGAS is about the music of the famed entertainers who made Las Vegas the Entertainment Capital of the World, the legend of […]

It’s the time of The Woman, and it’s long overdue, and Marnie Klar has something to sing about it. by Stephen Mosher Dec. 3, 2021       Walking through the Piano Bar at Don’t Tell Mama, toward The Brick Room, I spotted Steven Ray Watkins chatting with Matt Scharfglass. As I rounded the corner, I saw Don Kelly, seated, waiting to go on. Boy, […]

Nov 30, 2021 | Music & Cabaret By Andrew Poretz . . . For the music lover, it is thrilling to discover “unknown” artists who were in plain sight all along.  On this evening, November 22, at Don’t Tell Mama, it was a double dose of discovery, with the introduction to both the lovely Stephanie […]

by Bruce-Michael Gelbert                       ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… On November 22, at Don’t Tell Mama, Stephanie Trudeau, who was my colleague in the Arts Project of Cherry Grove’s “Rainbow Connection” this past summer, introduced us to out lesbian singer Chavela Vargas (1919-2012), who was born in Costa Rica, but made […]