“Ruby Sparks,” written by and starring Zoe Kazan, is a variation of the Pygmalion myth, featuring Paul Dano as a struggling novelist.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 11:24AMFor Alice Ripley, who is performing at the Metropolitan Room, tricky questions of musical identity arise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMThe high-end cabaret will close on Dec. 31 because of renovations at the Loews Regency Hotel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:27PMBen Vereen’s show at the Broadway cabaret 54 Below reflects his upbeat philosophy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:28PMBrian d’Arcy James is performing “Under the Influence” at 54 Below through Saturday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:43PMLaura Osnes mixed Broadway standards like “Till There Was You” and “A Wonderful Guy” with more eclectic fare at her New York cabaret debut at Café Carlyle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:58PMThe young performer Alex Getlin sang on Monday night about ambition, determination and big dreams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11AMPatti LuPone’s “Far Away Places” is the first show at the cabaret 54 Below.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMichael Feinstein hosted a Jazz at Lincoln Center program that explored how popular standards have been torn apart and remade as jazz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:20PM“Into the Garden,” Maude Maggart’s new show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, looks at double-entendres and double meanings in lyric writing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:17PMA concert performance of “The Sound of Music,” a benefit for Carnegie Hall, was lavish but serene, an all-star event without star performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMAt Café Carlyle, Clint Holmes acts out songs by Paul Simon and Cole Porter with the sweaty intensity of a man flirting with an emotional breakdown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09AMWhether or not you’re a purist who prefers the intimate movie soundtrack for “Once” to the more polished Broadway cast recording, both defy pop music’s trend toward ever larger, loud…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14AMDonald F. Smith, a champion of high-style cabaret who founded both the Mabel Mercer Foundation and the New York Cabaret Convention, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 79. The cause was con…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:22PMMarissa Mulder won a competition at the Metropolitan Room, and now she’s back, with a trio, singing about dreams and illusions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PMA state competition for California high school students is the subject of Alex Rotaru’s documentary “Shakespeare High.”
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 07:03PMJudy Kuhn, performing at Feinstein’s through Saturday, is able to convey a great deal of emotion with minimal acting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PM“Nothing to Lose but Your Heart,” a show by Eric Michael Gillett and La Tanya Hall, features the songs of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMLaura Benanti, the Tony-winning actress and singer, gave the final concert in the season’s American Songbook series at the Allen Room on Saturday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMThe Lincoln Center American Songbook series has ended its season with the British musical theater star Elaine Paige in her New York concert debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:47AMThe Lincoln Center American Songbook series has ended its season with the British musical theater star Elaine Paige in her New York concert debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PM“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown “with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.”
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 07:28PMWhat was thought to be an unpublished song by Irving Berlin turns out to have been composed in 1926 by the team of Lew Brown and Cliff Friend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00AMIn the American Songbook series on Saturday evening Michael Cerveris, of “Assassins” and “Sweeney Todd” fame, affected the look but not the attitude of a rambling musician from way b…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PMLin-Manuel Miranda performed “The Hamilton Mixtape,” his hip-hop song cycle about the life and death of Alexander Hamilton, at the Allen Room.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMThe songs of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn open the Lyrics & Lyricists season at the 92nd Street Y.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04AMMichael Feinstein and Barbara Cook shared musical lore and popular standards onstage at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04AMBaby Jane Dexter’s “Still Bad, Still Blue” at the Metropolitan Room resurrects, to some degree, her 1996 act, “Big, Bad and Blue.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00PMIn “Cotton Club Parade,” the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra joins singers and dancers to bring the swing to classics of the Harlem Renaissance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:20PM“Stories With Piano #3” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency features Bebe Neuwirth in her illusion-breaking mode.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11AMThe 83-year-old powerhouse Marilyn Maye is performing an all-Jerry Herman program at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency through Saturday.
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