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Cabaret Review: LAURIE ROLDAN – A SONG FOR YOU: THE MUSIC OF KAREN CARPENTER & FRIENDS! (The Green Room 42 / New York)
A TRIBUTE WITH HEART Laurie Roldan honors Karen Carpenter with affection, authenticity, and grace. Singer Laurie Roldan could easily be elected president of the Karen Carpenter Appreciation Society. Her concert tribute at The Green Room 42, A Song for You: The Music of Karen Carpenter & Friends!, reflects a lifelong devotion to the singer/drummer while…
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Music: BRYCE EDWARDS: MY PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
THE OLD SOUL OF THE NEW CENTURY Singer, multi-instrumentalist, vaudevillian, songwriter, musical historian—and one of today’s most irresistible entertainers Halfway through 2026 may seem a little early to name a Performer of the Year, but I’m comfortable making the call. Bryce Edwards has earned it. I’m forever crawling under the table to retrieve my socks…
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Theater Review: MELISSA MANCHESTER: FIFTY THREADS: AN ARTIST’S JOURNEY (54 Below, NY)
MAN, OH MAN! MANCHESTER IS IN FINE FORM A warm, witty retrospective celebrates fifty years of songs, stories, and an artist still at the top of her game. Regulars at 54 Below may have done a double take upon entering the room for one of Melissa Manchester‘s four May performances. First, the piano had been…
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Cabaret Review: MY 40 YEARS ON BROADWAY: BRENT BARRETT (CV Rep / Cathedral City)
HE’S CLOSER THAN EVER Brent Barrett proves that artistry only deepens with experience There’s a big difference between a great singer and a true veteran of the stage, and Brent Barrett proved exactly why he’s the latter during his performance at CVRep Thursday night. Bringing his retrospective show, My 40 Years On Broadway, to the…
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Cabaret Review: YESTERDAY ONCE MORE: THE SOUND OF KAREN CARPENTER (Joanne O’Brien at Coachella Valley Repertory / Cathedral City)
WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN… SINGING ALONG Joanne O’Brien celebrates Karen Carpenter with warmth, superb vocals, and a room full of happy fans If you were at CV Rep this past Tuesday night, you already know we were treated to something special. Joanne O’Brien brought her Karen Carpenter tribute show to the stage, and for anyone…
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Cabaret Review: BACK TO BARBRA (Melissa Errico / 54 Below / New York City)
A SUAVE, STREISAND- CENTRIC SOIGNÉE SOIRÉE Errico eloquently echoes superstar Streisand with style Musical mega-talents cast long shadows. Any performer who builds a show around their repertoire risks comparison, yet that hasn’t stopped a parade of vocalists from tackling the songs associated with Barbra Streisand. In The Streisand Effect: Back to Barbra at 54 Below,…
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Theater Review: GOING BACHARACH: THE SONGS OF AN ICON (Apollo Theater / Chicago)
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW A charming revue reminds us why Burt Bacharach’s songs remain timeless An overture! An honest-to-goodness overture! All right, so maybe I’m overreacting a bit, but I adore overtures, and they have been largely missing—or severely truncated—in musicals over the last several years. Not so in Going Bacharach: The Songs of…
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Cabaret Review: 54 SINGS THE SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM (54 Below / New York)
SECOND HELPINGS OF STREISAND A talented roster of singers at 54 Below revisit an early Streisand classic with style, affection, and plenty of bonus treats “My new album is called The Second Barbra Streisand Album because that’s just what it is. Why should I give it some fancy name that no one remembers anyway?” That’s…
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Highly Recommended Show: HOT COMBINATION: BRYCE EDWARDS, MIKE DAVIS & BAND (Sunday, June 7 at Birdland)
OLD SONGS GET NEW LIFE FROM TALENTED YOUNG GUYS WHO ARE OLD SOULS Zip and zing with musical fizz and sparkle Hooray! They’re back!! Bryce Edwards—the mercurial, merry multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist and sassy singer—reunites with brilliant brass player Mike Davis, debonair dazzler, along with some top-drawer colleagues for a repeat of the sensational show they premiered…
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Comedy Review: THE ARABISH IMPROV SHOW (The Arabic Theater Company / Balance Arts Center)
LOST IN TRANSLATION? NOT TONIGHT The Arabic Theater Company blends improv chaos, bilingual comedy, and cultural specificity into a fun night of laughs First, take eight appealing actors, all with roots in the Arab world. Add fluency in both English and Arabic. Throw in considerable comedic talent and a desire to “amplify Arab voices” in…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company at AMT Theater)
WHO KILLED EDWIN DROOD? WELL, IT’S UP TO THE AUDIENCE The musical whodunit is done with panache by the reliable J2 Musical Theater Company The unpleasant fact about life is that everybody dies. In 1870, before completing his last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in which the title character dies—apparently by murder—the author himself…
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Music Review: NELLIE McKAY (City Vineyard)
ECCENTRIC CHARM, SWEET AND STRANGE Enjoying an eclectic, engaging evening with Nellie McKay Light-hearted but with some heavier thoughts,Out-and-out outgoing on the outside,Sometimes intense on the inside,Engaging all the way through With a playful twinkle in her eye and her trademark sunny sound, savvy singer Nellie McKay fills a room with charm in her eclectic…
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Comedy Preview: UNITARD – “UNI-VERSARY: 25 YEARS OF UNITARD” (Joe’s Pub, NYC)
STILL RUDE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS The cult comedy trio celebrates 25 years of saying what you’re thinking—and shouldn’t If you like your comedy sharp, shameless, and just a little dangerous, Unitard is back to celebrate a quarter-century of gleeful bad behavior. The long-running trio—Mike Albo, Nora Burns, and David Ilku—returns to Joe’s Pub on…
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Cabaret Review: MARILYN MAYE (54 Below, NY)
THE QUEEN OF CABARET STILL REIGNS A birthday-month run proves that Marilyn Maye at 98 remains unstoppable Memo to fans of solo singers who’ve been living in a cave for more than half a century: Marilyn Maye is the most entertaining, dazzling, and beloved old-school nightclub vocalist of any age on any stage. The powerhouse…
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Comedy Club Review: GREENPOINT COMEDY CLUB (Brooklyn)
LAUGHS LAND IN GREENPOINT A new venue brings stand-up—and a sense of community—to north Brooklyn Attention north Brooklyn residents! A new comedy club is born in Greenpoint—the first comedy club to come to the neighborhood and appropriately bearing its namesake. Settled at 66 Greenpoint Avenue, steps from a stunning view of the East River, stands…
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Cabaret Review: DONNA McKECHNIE – A MUSICAL MEMOIR (Laurie Beechman Theatre, NYC)
A LEGEND STILL IN MOTION A radiant, nostalgic evening with a Broadway icon who continues to charm and connect Gracious, graceful, gratifying, glowing, glamorous. Some cabaret shows are everything you wish they could be, everything you hope they might be, or everything you actually expect them to be, given the performer’s track record. The monthly…
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Cabaret Review: JULIE BENKO: EUPHONIC GUMBO (Birdland in NYC and West Coast Tour)
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL WITH A TWIST Julie Benko’s Mardi Gras–flavored cabaret delights with energy and polish: a tasty Gumbo On a Monday night at Birdland Jazz Club, with a twinkle in her eye, singer Julie Benko refers to her work the rest of the week as being involved in “a little show called…
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Cabaret Review: SHOW UP (Matthew Morrison at The Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs)
There is a specific kind of magic that happens in a historic venue like the Plaza Theatre, but this past Sunday, the most compelling magic wasn’t the stagecraft—it was the heart and authenticity. Matthew Morrison brought his Show Up tour to the desert, and within the first few numbers, he did something few headliners of…
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Cabaret Review: DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (LEO: Letztes Erfreuliches Operntheater in Vienna)
LOVE LANGUAGES A cabaret performance in Vienna’s smallest opera house In Vienna, there’s the Staatsoper (very large, very elegant, very impressive, opened in 1869) and the Volksoper (not quite as large, more relaxed, somewhat whimsical, opened in 1898), and then there’s the LEO, the Letztes Erfreuliches Operntheater, rendered in English as the Last Enjoyable Opera…
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Cabaret Review: “THE WIZARD AND I” ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT (Liz Callaway Sings Schwartz [& Sondheim] at 54 Below)
TWO STEVES WITH LOVE, TWO TRIBUTES, ONE SUPREMELY SATISFYING WEEK From Schwartz to Sondheim, Callaway revisits rich collaborations with warmth, wit, and deeply felt interpretation Once upon a time in the previous century, very early in her career, on the very same day, Liz Callaway received two pieces of good news: both about being offered…
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