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An encore performance of a 2024 Bistro Award-winning show featuring songs by Johnny Mercer, Yip Harburg, Chaka Khan, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Webb, and more!

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Grand Hotel: The 35th Anniversary Original Broadway Cast Reunion Concert brings together beloved original cast members for a special three-performance event at 54 Below. Featuring ...


Big Broadway Drag Brunch features NYC drag icon Marti Cummings as host, presenting a lively monthly series that blends Broadway hits with pop and disco ...

Juliet Ewing: Rise Up Singing - The Music of George Gershwin


In an encore performance of her solo cabaret debut, Juliet Ewing leads us on a journey through the music of George Gershwin via new arrangements ...

Broadway Magic Hour


The Broadway Magic Hour, featuring master magicians Jim Vines and Carl Mercurio brings mind-boggling mysteries and hilarious comedy for all ages to the heart of ...

Jason Sandagon with Vigor!


Fashion Designer Jason Sandagon will do anything for attention in this insane, heartfelt—and dare we say—greatest hour of vanity cabaret. Once described (in a dream) by ...

WASTED GIRL
WASTED GIRL
11/24


WASTED GIRL returns for an ENCORE performance at Don't Tell Mama's Original Room on November 24th at 7pm. Named after her in-the-works debut album WASTED GIRL, ...


A Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids Fundraiser honoring Elizabeth Taylor’s devotion to AIDS Awareness on  WORLD AIDS DAY December 1 st 2024 @ Don’t Tell ...

Ann Talman: Elizabeth Taylor and the Shadow of Her Smile (4PM)


A Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids Fundraiser honoring Elizabeth Taylor’s devotion to AIDS Awareness on  WORLD AIDS DAY December 1 st 2024 @ Don’t Tell Mama ...

Ann Talman: Elizabeth Taylor and the Shadow of Her Smile (7PM)


A Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids Fundraiser honoring Elizabeth Taylor’s devotion to AIDS Awareness on  WORLD AIDS DAY December 1 st 2024 @ Don’t Tell Mama ...

Shimmery Burlesque
11/29 - 12/1/2024


Shimmery Burlesque returns to the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne after a successful debut, offering a vibrant exploration of Burlesque through the eyes of Lady Shimmery, ...

Matthew Martin Ward: What I Love


MAMAWA Productions presents  Matthew Martin Ward: What I Love.  From playing the piano since he was 2½ years old, to local TV appearances in Milwaukee ...

Leola’s Lady Land Lounge
9/26 - 12/5/2024


Leola's Lady Land Lounge features Will Nolan as the charismatic host in a lively blend of variety and talk show formats. This monthly event brings ...


Michael Mott returns to The Green Room 42 on December 7th for his fifth annual holiday show, featuring a mix of traditional holiday favorites and ...


"The red-spangled-gowned dynamo known as Lena Moy-Borgen" is back with a new show, perfect for a nice Jewish girl - it's all about Christmas! Join her ...

A Very Jewish Christmas Story
A Very Jewish Christmas Story
12/10 - 12/13/2024


"The red-spangled-gowned dynamo known as Lena Moy-Borgen" is back with a new show, perfect for a nice Jewish girl - it's all about Christmas! Join her ...

A Very Jewish Christmas Story
A Very Jewish Christmas Story
12/10 - 12/13/2024


"The red-spangled-gowned dynamo known as Lena Moy-Borgen" is back with a new show, perfect for a nice Jewish girl - it's all about Christmas! Join her ...

A Dream (Role) Come True
8/23 - 12/14/2024


A Dream (Role) Come True is a concert series at Don't Tell Mama NYC, featuring singers performing their dream roles for one night only. The ...

The Doris Dear 10th Anniversary Christmas Special


Doris Dear brings her hit holiday show "The Doris Dear Christmas Special" back this December 13th & 14th at 7pm at the Triad Theater

Renee's Soirees


Pianist Renee Guerrero brings back her popular   Renée's Soirées   after a long hiatus and celebrates the holidays and her birthday with a fun-filled ...

Shapes & Forms
12/26 - 12/31/2024


Sandra Bernhard returns to Joe's Pub with her new show, Shapes & Forms, running from December 26 to December 31. This annual New Year's tradition ...

Life After
4/16 - 5/4/2025


Isabella Esler stars as Alice in the new musical Life After, directed by Annie Tippe. This production follows Alice, navigating her father's death and seeking ...



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Review: Lorna Dallas Picture Perfect In SNAPSHOTS at Chelsea Table + Stage


by Stephen Mosher - November 14, 2024

No mere case of a singer standing on a stage and singing notes is a Lorna Dallas performance - these are stories. ...

Review: Kim David Smith Vamping Through Hallo-Wien


by Chloe Yang - November 14, 2024

Kim David Smith captured Marlene Dietrich's essence in a Halloween-themed cabaret at New York's Café Sabarsky, with a repertoire spanning Weimar classics and pop mashups. Accompanied by pianist Tracy Stark, the show exemplified cabaret as a celebration of artistic freedom, and a vital sanctuary for ...

Review: BROADWAY MELODY Marries Story & Songs at 54 Below


by Rob Lester - November 15, 2024

Jack Viertel's new novel mixes some bits of actual theatre productions, people, places, and songs into its fiction. The author read excerpts from the book for a program he hosted and co-produced at 54 Below, with guest singers performing relevant/referenced songs....

Review: Marya Zimmet's Passion Shines Through at Don't Tella Mama


by Lydia Singer - November 13, 2024

Marya Zimmet’s Zimmet Time… And The Livin’s Too Easy at Don’t Tell Mama is a dose of classic cabaret. She draws on old standards as well as soft rock, and then mixes in a couple left field musical choices, making for an engaging experience....

Review: KAREN MASON AND ALL THAT JAZZ! Has Pizzazz at 54 Below


by Rob Lester - November 12, 2024

KAREN MASON AND ALL THAT JAZZ at 54 Below, with dates in Chicago this week, is a solid show by a musical pro and her long-time music director at the piano....

Review: PINK MARTINI Celebrates Their 30th Anniversary With a Blowout at Carnegie Hall


by Rebecca Kaplan - November 11, 2024

Carnegie Hall’s 2024-25 Originals series continued on 11/1 with a rousing concert by Pink Martini celebrating their 30th anniversary. They pulled out all the stops. It was completely joyful, ever-changing, and full of blazing hot musical talent....

Review: Lucky Are Those Who Caught THE SONGS THAT GOT AWAY at Carnegie Hall


by Rob Lester - November 11, 2024

THE SONGS THAT GOT AWAY was another trip through songs famous and not so famous with Michael Feinstein in fine form, as usual. This has got to be far and away one of the most enjoyable educational Michael Feinstein-led trips through Broadway history....

Review: Lianne Marie Dobbs Shows What Tributes Should Look Like at 54 Below


by Ricky Pope - November 10, 2024

In her show THE WINDMILLS OF MY MIND…FOR DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, Lianne Marie Hobbs draws comparisons between what she calls the “hamsters in her brain” and those that inhabited the similar ones in Dusty Springfield's brain....

Review: Jazz Singer VICKI BURNS Brightens a Sunday Afternoon at 92NY


by Rob Lester - November 08, 2024

Vicki Burns is a singer who pleases, scats, swings, and is a modest but solid presence. If you missed her concert in-person at 92NY, part of the free Faculty Concert Series, you can hear most of what you missed on her CD called Lotus Blossom Days....

Review: Goldie Dver Presents Next Level WHAT A MAN! at Don't Tell Mama


by Stephen Mosher - November 06, 2024

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