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Theatre Review: FINDING DOROTHY PARKER (Laurie Beechman Theatre)
SARCASM ON STEROIDS To say that Dorothy Parker had a way with words would be the understatement of the century—and she spanned two of them, being born in the last decade of the 1800s and hanging on until 1967. Even her own death was subject to one more pithy punchline. In a story with herself…
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Cabaret Review: BOOM! 15TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway at 54 Below)
BOOM! IS A BLAST! Separately, each is terrific. Together, the two are sublime. When singing sisters Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway combine their voices and sensibilities—echoing each other’s lines, with glorious harmonies weaving and soaring through songs—it’s one of the best things you can do for your ears. At 54 Below, through Saturday, January…
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Cabaret Theater Review: FINDING DOROTHY PARKER (Laurie Beechman Theatre)
WIT, WOUNDS, AND A GREAT SET OF PODIUMS A smart, lively cabaret revue that reminds us Parker was more than just a quote machine. Those of us who remember Dorothy Parker think of a sharp-witted, often biting writer and wise observer of human nature. Her one-liners, such as “Men seldom make passes at girls who…
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Cabaret Review: DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER & BILL CHARLAP (Birdland)
A PLEASING PAIR Standards stretched, teased, and joyfully reimagined The song “’S Wonderful” will be a century old next year, so it’s not a new thing to wonder if its titular positive adjective might describe the rendition du jour and the full live set or recording in which it has appeared. In the case of…
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Cabaret Review: CHRISTMAS MAMMARIES (Billy L’Amour at the Palm Springs Cultural Center)
Billy L’Amour just showed everyone how it’s done If you weren’t at the Palm Springs Cultural Center this past Sunday, you seriously missed out. The second Billy L’Amour entered from the back of the house, the room was hers. Period. There was no “warming up” the crowd or easing into the set—she just clocked the…
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Cabaret Review: HARLEM HOLIDAYS (Renée Elise Goldsberry for The Classical Theatre of Harlem)
AN INTIMATE HOLIDAY CONCERT Renée Elise Goldsberry does everything joyfully right; And yes, it helps keep The Classical Theatre of Harlem thriving Founded in 1999, The Classical Theatre of Harlem produces two to three shows a year and also conducts extensive educational programs. Since Ty Jones took over as Producing Artistic Director in 2009, the…
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Concert Review: CHEYENNE JACKSON (Carnegie Hall Debut / National Tour Launch)
A BROADWAY BARITONE TAKES STOCK A career-spanning concert that blends ambition, gratitude, and sheer vocal muscle When Cheyenne Jackson stepped onto the stage of Carnegie Hall on December 8 and announced, “This is a dream come true in real time,” it didn’t feel like a rehearsed line. It landed as a genuine moment of arrival—one…
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Off-Broadway Review: NUTCRACKER ROUGE (Company XIV at at Théâtre XIV in Bushwick, Brooklyn)
THE NUTCRACKER: NOW WITH 69% MORE CRACK Because sometimes holiday spirit comes in fishnets and a martini glass While The Nutcracker graces stages worldwide, Brooklyn’s Company XIV continues to reinvent tradition with its famous Nutcracker Rouge, New York’s most sumptuous and indulgent winter holiday treat, at Théâtre XIV in Bushwick’s Graffiti Alley. Combining dance, music, acrobatic…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: J. HARRISON GHEE and SETH RUDETSKY (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
UNPLUGGED, UNFILTERED, AND UNMISSABLE A detonation of wit, soul, and Broadway voltage in this once-in-a-lifetime, one-night-only musical high-wire act The Wallis in Beverly Hills lays claim to being the place to see and be seen on Wednesday November 19, 2025, as one of Broadway’s brightest stars, J. Harrison Ghee, headlines a one-night-only special cabaret event….
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Cabaret Review: LT’S MUCH TOO GAY CABARET: A PERFORMANCE FOR LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN (Revolution Stage Company)
MUCH TOO GAY? JUST GAY ENOUGH! This past Thursday evening, Revolution Stage Company presented a dazzling, high-energy celebration of LGBTQ+ pride, self-acceptance, and joy—filled with wit, glitter, and heart—in LT’s Much Too Gay Cabaret: A Performance for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Everyone in Between. The show embraced the gay experience in all its vibrancy, tackling everything…
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Off-Broadway Review: CIRQUE LE SWING (Immersive Supper Club Experience at Swing 46)
SWING ON IN! If you want to have the time of your life, you can’t do better than get a ticket for Cirque Le Swing, an immersive supper-club experience that combines a three-course dinner, jazz standards and acrobatics for an evening of sizzling entertainment. The audience arrives early for a Happy Hour at the bar….
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Cabaret Review: WASTED GIRL (Artemisia LeFay at 54 Below)
You might have thought it was the 1920s, and you were in a cabaret in Berlin. But it was really 2025 and you were in 54 Below watching Artemisia LeFay perform her new show, Wasted Girl. A rising star in the cabaret world, thanks to her two past shows, Ghosts of Weimar Past and Phantoms of the…
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Recommended Cabaret: THE ROOST REVUE (Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at The Roost Lounge)
Following the wildly successful, sold out premiere on August 27, The Roost Revue continues to captivate audiences with its vibrant celebration of song, story, and connection. On Wednesday, September 24, The Roost Lounge will once again come alive with the magic of cabaret, bringing another unforgettable evening to the Coachella Valley. Curated and hosted by…
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Cabaret Review: HOT COMBINATION: THE CLIFF EDWARDS / RED NICHOLS PROJECT (Mike Davis, Bryce Edwards@Birdland)
The names Red Nichols and Cliff Edwards may not be recognized by any but a few aficionados of 1920s jazz these days, but after seeing Mike Davis and Bryce Edwards‘ Hot Combination at Birdland, most people will certainly remember their music. Ukulele-toting, mouth-trumpeting Cliff Edwards was one of the era’s most innovative pop vocalists and an early…
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Cabaret Review: THE ROOST REVUE (The Roost Lounge)
SONGS FOR A SUMMER EVENING Palm Springs during summer becomes – well – a desert. All of the theatres close for the summer, and a large percentage of the winter population heads back to their northern homes for the hot months. So it was exciting when the Roost Lounge, technically in Cathedral City, launched The…
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Cabaret Review: BETH LEAVEL SINGS SONDHEIM (54 Below)
FUN & DRAMATIC: A MATTER OF LAUGH AND BETH With her fans bursting into fond applause as she entered, sang, joked, or mentioned in passing a couple of shows on The Great White Way in which she’d made a great big splash, it’s no wonder that Beth Leavel treated her 54 Below attendees like old…
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Cabaret Review: BROADWAY AT 50!: THE MUSICALS OF 1975 FROM A CHORUS LINE TO THE WIZ (54 Below)
REWIND FIVE DECADES AND STIR THE MEMORIES On an August night at a nightclub in Manhattan, in a concert focused on musicals from 1975, Robert Cuccioli revealed that “the seed was planted” in his desire to make musical theatre his career when he saw and was inspired by John Cullum playing the lead in Shenandoah….
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Music Review: COME FLY WITH JIMMY VAN HEUSEN (Songbook Sundays at Dizzy’s)
THE ROAD TO DIZZY’S (DETOUR: PALM SPRINGS, COCKTAILS & SINATRA) If you’ll allow some wild exaggeration about the Great American Songbook, let’s say that “All roads lead to Jimmy Van Heusen.” The work of that composer (1913-1990), the focus of the August 3 installment of the series called Songbook Sundays at Dizzy’s, includes melodies created…
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Cabaret Review: PETER FILICHIA & FRIENDS: BROADWAY TALES AND TUNES (54 Below)
13,000 SHOWS LATER, FILICHIA STILL DRAWS A CROWD: THIS TIME, THE STARS CAME OUT FOR THE GUY WHO’S SEEN IT ALL The number in the next sentence is NOT a typographical error: Peter Filichia, who recently regaled an audience at 54 Below with anecdotes about theatre productions he attended (some of which he reviewed), has…
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Music Review: JOHN PIZZARELLI & SWING 7 (Birdland)
JOHN + SWING 7 = JAZZ HEAVEN Attend a set by John Pizzarelli and you’re set for a satisfying songfest, whether it’s a solo affair with just the mega-musical Mr. P. playing guitar and singing or sharing the stage with any number of other instrumentalists or singers. His latest of many nestings at Birdland was…
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