Where All the Rivers Go to Sleep " A Magnum Opus in the Making
By Myra Chanin The concert version of a new work by husband Jesse Gelber (music, story and sensational orchestrations) and wife Kate Manning (book and l…
By Myra Chanin The concert version of a new work by husband Jesse Gelber (music, story and sensational orchestrations) and wife Kate Manning (book and l…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude Don't believe what you may have heard about the defeat of Napoleon: he just conquered Manhattan"in a splendi…
The cast of Broadway’s “Something Rotten!” was on hand at Barnes & Noble signing original cast recording CDs and singing some of the tunes from that Tony …
A comedy singer, pianist, songwriter, Ray Jessel became an integral part of the New York Cabaret community, frequently making his way from California to perform at the Mabel Mercer...…
A fresh, contemporary take on a Shakespeare masterpiece. Â By Joel Benjamin Playwright Patrick Thomas McCarthy has written an admirable, if not totally successful gloss on S…
by: Paulanne Simmons The Metropolitan Room is certainly an intimate cabaret venue, but Denise Spann-Morgan, lead singer of the "Marvelous" Marvelettes, positively turned…
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez: Perhaps it's not the most classic vision of contemporary marriage, but a fiery redhead and a smooth Latin lover managed to make it work, capturing our hearts eve…
Life With Lucy: It was an ignominious ending to the most brilliant career a television star had ever - or will ever - have. Lucille Ball's unexpected 1986 comeback became her only series fai…
What I Learned About Freelancing from Lucille Ball: I have a confession to make. As a child, I grew up watching repeats of I Love Lucy.