Saturday, December 31, 2022
Once upon a time the great Duke Ellington designated the equally great Ella Fitzgerald as “beyond category,” an honor to be used sparingly. So while she’s widely known now as “The Ma…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:00PMThursday, December 1, 2022
The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props…” so go the lyrics to Irvig Berlin’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (Annie Get Your Gun). It’s all there and very muc…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:23PMWednesday, October 26, 2022
Anyone who’s read the source material for the IT franchise knows the 1986 Stephen King book was unrelentingly terrifying. Less so by a smidge were the film adaptations—a 1990 television …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:42PMWednesday, October 19, 2022
By Marilyn Lester***If ever a performer was born to the stage, it’s actor-singer Marilyn Maye, dubbed the “Marvelous.” To that we’d gladly add “magnificent,” “mind-blowing” a…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:55PMMonday, September 26, 2022
Having known a couple of opera divas in our time, be assured that the (former) lyric soprano, Amanda Reckonwith, who triumphed in her return to the stage at Pangea, after a 25-year absence, …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:10PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Teenage love is complicated at the best of times. When it happens during war the stakes are beyond imagining. Such is the setting of This Beautiful Future, playing at the Off-Broadway Cherry…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:51PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Not only do Evangaline Johns and Ariana Johns share a surname, by virtue of DNA they are also mother and daughter—as well as a duo of certifiable charm and talent. How delightful that they…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:13PMActress Ann Talman is no stranger to the stage as a gifted monologist. Talman is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a four-time Broadway vet, so she knows her way around storyte…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:51PMThursday, August 11, 2022
Could it be possible that the wondrous Karen Mason could outdo herself on the cabaret stage? Anyone present for her recent triumph at Broadway at Birdland with 30…and Counting would have t…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:25PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
Possibly the only “down side” of singer-songwriter-pianist Tony DeSare is that he doesn’t appear in New York City often enough. Pandemic not withstanding, it’s been quite a while sin…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:50PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
For 14 years, the Broadway Rising Stars concert, created, written, directed and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall, has been presenting new talent, most often fresh from their course o…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:01PMThursday, June 30, 2022
The long-awaited musical, Love Quirks, has finally opened at the AMT theater after a dozen years of fits and starts, which included the now all too familiar pandemic pause. A kind of take on…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:38PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
To write about singer Sandy Stewart is not so much to review her as it is to acknowledge a bona fide master class in the art of vocal performance. The same can be said of the two musicians w…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:57PMSunday, June 12, 2022
From the moment singer-songwriter and recording artist Ty Stephens opened his show Standard Tyme at Birdland Theater with a slow, evocative opener of “Round Midnight” (Thelonius Monk, Th…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:42PMMonday, June 6, 2022
In 2020, singer-songwriter Peggy Lee would have turned 100. To celebrate, KT Sullivan and The Mabel Mercer Foundation were going to honor the icon at its annual concert at Carnegie Hall’s …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:29PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Actress-singer Ann Kittredge has developed a habit—and that is of putting together cabaret shows that seem to just get better and better. Her latest, reIMAGINE, celebrated her debut CD of …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:43PMFriday, May 27, 2022
If you subscribe to the notion that “there are no accidents” then Scott Evan Davis clearly had a destiny: to become a writer of songs with pleasing melodies and deeply realized lyrics. A…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:30PMSunday, May 22, 2022
Who could resist an invitation from Madelaine Warren to reconvene after a pandemic-induced hiatus from live performance? In her new show, Invitation, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, many del…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:05PMSunday, May 15, 2022
Drawing mostly from his latest CD, Early Blue Evening, award-winning jazz composer, arranger and saxophonist, Andy Farber, brought his orchestra to Birdland Jazz Club for an early evening of…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:08PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
Back in 1977, Elizabeth Swados’ Nightclub Cantata premiered at the now defunct, but legendary Village Gate, with a rave review from equally legendary New York Times critic, Clive Barnes. T…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:54PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Vocalist and soprano sax-master, Danny Bacher, is one of those performers who truly loves what he does, and it shows in his every performance. Versatile and multi-talented, this outing at Pa…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:29PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Broadway triple-threat, T. Oliver Reid can always be depended on to deliver plenty of polish and great satisfaction in his cabaret shows. A Sunday Kind of Love on Valentine’s Eve at Birdla…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:53AMSaturday, March 12, 2022
Cabaret tribute shows can be tricky—the task is for the creator to find a balance between inhabiting the persona of the honoree while maintaining an identity of self. In Dawn Derow Sings E…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:50PMMonday, March 7, 2022
In the way that royalty is preceded by a fanfare, the entrance of Norm Lewis on the Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage was ushered in by the majestic sound of The New York Pops, u…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:15PMSunday, February 6, 2022
There were so many points in this amazing evening of A Collective Cy that a collective sigh of unanimous appreciation for Jeff Harnar turned the atmosphere of Birdland Jazz Club electric. Pa…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:18PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
Impresario Scott Siegel does what impresarios do best—which is to produce shows modest to grand with consummate ease and expertise. In this delightful outing at home base, Feinstein’s/54…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:29PMWednesday, January 19, 2022
A heck of a lot happened in 1941. This is a fact that came to Dawn Derow’s attention several years ago, and upon which she built the superlative cabaret show, My Ship: Songs from
1941. S…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:17PMTuesday, January 4, 2022
Impresario Scott Siegel most often hits ’em out of the park, but this time the Universe pitched him a curve ball. The Omicron variant of the covid virus caused some of Siegel’s planned g…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:27PMMonday, December 20, 2021
If there’s a soul left in the world who doesn’t yet know why Broadway and cabaret doyenne and concert-recording artist Karen Mason is a star—capital “S”—they need only look to he…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:08PMWednesday, December 8, 2021
For those who know pianist Tedd Firth mainly as a crackerjack accompanist/musical director/arranger to stars such as Melissa Errico, Karen Akers, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christine Ebersole, M…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:30PMFriday, November 26, 2021
One of the launching points of Andrea Bell Wolff’s Vegas Adventure at Don’t Tell Mama is an admission of age by the singer-actress. She just celebrated a birthday that’s quite a few de…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:20PM 
