Cabaret Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 45

BWW Review: IF IT ONLY EVEN RUNS A MINUTE CELEBRATES THE UNDERAPPRECIATED MUSICALS OF HAL PRINCE at Feinstein's/54 Below Scores High Marks
by Stephen Mosher - October 26, 2021

The long-running series played two performances with a special focus on Hal Prince, and the theatrical legend would have been pleased....

Photo Coverage: Isaac Sutton Returns to New York City at the Green Room 42
by Stephen Sorokoff - October 25, 2021

Isaac Sutton, concert and cabaret performer supreme is one of Israel’s treasures and he made his Green Room 42 debut last night.  If there is a definition of “crowd pleaser” in the dictionary it should give the name Isaac Sutton as an example.  ...

BWW Special Event: TIN PAN ALLEY DAY Fills The Air With Music and The Streets With Dancing
by Stephen Mosher - October 25, 2021

In honor of Tin Pan Alley being named a designated New York City landmark, the cabaret community threw a lengthy four-hour free concert right under the Flatiron Building....

BWW Review: Carmen Cusack is Breathtakingly, Beautifully, Brilliantly BARING IT ALL at 54 Below
by Stephen Mosher - October 24, 2021

The Tony Award-nominated actress has been keeping a secret, but after last night, the secret is out: Carmen Cusack is a spectacular songwriter, and this week she is singing her songs at 54 Below....

BWW Review: With JACKIEVISION: THE TOUR, Jackie Cox Commands The Stage With Television's Coming Of Age At The Green Room 42
by Bobby Patrick - October 23, 2021

Sometimes performing her own spoof lyrics to familiar numbers and other times belting the songs as intended with power and panache, Jakie moved from the 1950s to the modern-day stopping off in each era to make fantastic costume changes and a hilarious mishmash out of the television wasteland....

BWW Review: LORNA LUFT: GRATEFUL Has Them Dancing in the Aisles at 54 Below
by Ricky Pope - October 22, 2021

Lorna Luft is a consummate entertainer. That’s no surprise of course. She was born to entertain. Her mother, Judy Garland was arguably the greatest entertainer of the 20th century. And Lorna has been entertaining professionally herself since she was 14 years old. Her high-profile turns in the film G...

BWW Review: PRONOUN SHOWDOWN Makes Sold-Out Return To Feinstein's/54 Below
by Stephen Mosher - October 22, 2021

The popular series that rethinks and reinvents famous songs is back for another go-round....

BWW Review: Seth Sikes is Fresh As Paint in SETH SIKES SINGS THE '20S ETC.! at Feinstein's/54 Below
by Stephen Mosher - October 21, 2021

Billed as a 'cabaret sensation', Seth Sikes shows a full house of 54 Below patrons why, exactly, he is....

BWW Review: Impressive Talent Populates BROADWAY BOOKER AT BIRDLAND
by Stephen Mosher - October 21, 2021

Spencer Howard and Kate Rockwell have a new company to promote and that led to a wonderful evening of musical entertainment at Birdland this week....

BWW Review: Klea Blackhurst Lovingly Toasts Jerry Herman in ONE OF THE GIRLS at Birdland
by Ricky Pope - October 21, 2021

Blackhurst is no stranger to the world of Jerry Herman. She played Dolly Levi in the 50th-anniversary production of Hello, Dolly! at the Goodspeed Opera House with the enthusiastic endorsement of Herman himself. Her show is a loving tribute, filled with the big hit songs as well as some more enchant...

BWW Review: PHIRO CHANTE PIAF returns to Birdland Theatre
by Brady Schwind - October 19, 2021

Myriam Phiro revisits her celebrated jazz tribute to Edith Piaf...

BWW Review: Tanya Moberly Sets The Standard With I LOVE NEW YORK SONGWRITERS PART II at Don't Tell Mama
by Stephen Mosher - October 19, 2021

Audiences should flock to Tanya Moberly's new show to see a true-blue musical monologist in action, and to get to know the works of the cream of the crop of New York songwriters....

BWW Review: MARILU HENNER: MUSIC & MEMORIES! Is a Treat For the Heart & the Mind at 54 Below
by Ricky Pope - October 18, 2021

How would you feel if you could remember every single day of your life? That is the focus of MARILU HENNER: MUSIC & MEMORIES!, which returned this evening to 54 Below. Ms. Henner walked us through some of her favorite memories from her decades in show business. It would actually be more accurate to ...

BWW Review: MELISSA ERRICO SINGS HER NEW YORK Is a Love Letter at 54 Below
by Ricky Pope - October 17, 2021

At its heart, MELISSA ERRICO SINGS HER NEW YORK is not a show about New York, or songs about New York, although both of those things are prominently featured. Rather it is about one woman's lifelong experience of New York City, with all of the dreams, obsessions, joys, heartbreaks, terror, and raptu...

BWW Review: Christina Bianco Gathers Hearts During A LOT TO UNPACK at Birdland Theater
by Stephen Mosher - October 16, 2021

As the air at Birdland is filled with Bravas, Christina Bianco says goodbye in style....

BWW Review: AN EVENING WITH SERGE CLIVIO AND FRIENDS, VOL. 2 Rocks the House at 54 Below
by Ricky Pope - October 16, 2021

The room at 54 Below tonight was rocking with the beats of many genres of music blended together into an evening of joy and gratitude. The show was billed as AN EVENING WITH SERGE CLIVIO AND FRIENDS VOL. 2. There is truth in advertising. There were many friends who graced the stage with Clivio. This...

BWW Review: Kelli Barrett & Jarrod Spector KINGS & QUEENS Is A Jewel In The Feinstein's/54 Below Crown
by Stephen Mosher - October 14, 2021

Jarrod and Kellie have taken their big voices and beauty and added them to an intricately scripted, meticulously rehearsed, and blissfully spectacular new show that, just last night, came into the light....

BWW Review: Barbara Bleier & Austin Pendleton Enchant in LIFE, AND LOVE, AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? at Pangea
by Ricky Pope - October 14, 2021

Barbara Bleier and Austin Pendleton are at it again. But to be honest, even during the pandemic they were never gone. They created a show that Pangea streamed for virtual audiences. Tonight that show LIFE, AND LOVE, AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE?  had its debut in front of a live audience in the back room...

BWW Review: Angela Bacari Brings Some Real Razzle-Dazzle to ONE NIGHT ONLY! at Don't Tell Mama
by Ricky Pope - October 13, 2021

Angela Bacari is 78 years young. But nothing in either her appearance of performance belies that fact. The woman has pipes and she knows how to use them. She is a jazz stylist who can rank with some of the greats. She can belt to the rafters but is also capable of very tender passages. She has an am...

BWW Review: The Silver Screen Era Is Alive and Well When Ann Kittredge Presents MOVIE NITE at Birdland Theater
by Stephen Mosher - October 12, 2021

Who doesn't love the music of the movies? Well Ann Kittredge does and it shows in her latest show, a deep dive into decades of tunes from the flickers....

BWW Review: This “Beauty” QUEEN Spins Laughs & Holds On To Her Crown In MISS RICHFIELD 1981: 40 YEARS ON THE THRONE at The Triad
by Bobby Patrick - October 11, 2021

The hour and a half show, from which the Minnesota queen took really only 1 short break... left the audience breathless with laughter, and then, the moments where Miss R let the audience have it with her broad baritone voice left everyone breathless in another way......

BWW Review: Amy Beth Williams is, Herself, A THOUSAND BEAUTIFUL THINGS at Don't Tell Mama
by Stephen Mosher - October 11, 2021

A singing actress with many qualities similar to the greatest stage actress of her day, Amy Beth Williams has a new cabaret show that takes the audience on a musical trip around the world....

BWW Review: RIAN KEATING Tells Boldly Confessional Stories In TIME STAMPS at Don't Tell Mama
by Ricky Pope - October 11, 2021

Rian Keating is a masterful storyteller. His stories are filled with humanity. And even though his tales are very personal and specific, they remind us all that at the heart of things, we are all struggling with the same emotions and challenges. We are all looking for our place in the world while de...

BWW Review: Kelli Rabke Makes Music and Magic With TINY GIANTS at The Green Room 42
by Stephen Mosher - October 11, 2021

After an extended postponement, Kelli Rabke's much-anticipated show about tiny women with gargantuan voices has come into the light....

BWW Review: Justin Vivian Bond Is Magnificent IN STORMING THE GLAMPARTS at Joe's Pub
by Ricky Pope - October 10, 2021

Justin Vivian Bond brought vself new show STORMING THE GLAMPARTS to Joe's Pub inside the beautiful Public Theatre this week. I was lucky enough to catch Thursday night's performance and was dazzled by the brilliance of Bond's talent, brains, and beauty. V is a true one-of-a-kind entertainer. V is ou...