209 stories by "Andrew Poretz"
Back by popular demand, Isaac Mizrahi returns to 54 Below with his band in Isaac Mizrahi: A Brief History, August 28-31. With music ranging from Billie Eilish to Cole Porter, Isaac will leav…
The New Group proudly announces its 2024-2025 Season, celebrating the company's 30th Anniversary. The season launches with the New York premiere of Babe by Jessica…
Concert Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . The young jazz singer Samara Joy, only a few years out of SUNY Purchase, continued her fast-rising star journey with a sold-out, two-night stand at th…
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . Award-winning singer and songwriter Carolyn Montgomery had been away from the performing side of cabaret for some years, spending much of her time as …
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Chanteuse Artemisia LeFay is a unique throwback performer, best known for embodying the type of Weimar Republic cabaret star of a century ago, as port…
Music review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Quintin Harris is one talented fellow. The young pianist and singer has become a favorite of this reviewer since his days as the crooner/"straight man" …
Concert Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . The world-renowned entertainer and music historian Michael Feinstein graced Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall's underground concert space) with Because of Yo…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Broadway star Karen Mason has long been a beloved fixture on the New York cabaret stages since she was the first performer at Don't Tell Mama back in …
Music review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When is the last time you saw an entire audience clapping, singing along and dancing to a 78-piece orchestra? The New York Pops orchestra has had some o…
Cabaret review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When last we saw young French Canadian crooner David Marino, in July 2023, he was making his New York cabaret debut downtown (read HERE). He was quite…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . At Pangea last month, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Gretchen Cryer and Richard Malby, Jr. converged on this intimate venue to reprise their popular …
CD Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Margot Sergent is a marvelous French performer I've caught a couple of times, including her Edith Piaf show at Birdland (reviewed HERE). As a jazz harpist,…
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . Those cabaret fans who've experienced the joy of a Lianne Marie Dobbs show have been anxiously awaiting a new one. This reviewer caught three iteratio…
Caberet Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . The always glorious Broadway and cabaret star, Melissa Errico, whom this writer has reviewed often (including HERE and HERE in 2023), unveiled her exq…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When beginning this article, a line describing the heart and soul of cabaret star Ari Axelrod felt awfully familiar. That's because the words matched …
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Marissa Mulder has been making her mark on the cabaret scene for more than a decade. The Syracuse native is known for her girlish voice that evokes Bl…
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Some of the greatest acts in show business history have been family acts, going back to the days of vaudeville. Some of these were musical acts, some we…
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . There's this weird week between Christmas and New Year's when everyone's done with "the holidays" and await the New Year. Every possible holiday song …
You could call Bryce Edwards, a rising star of 1923 " make that 2023 " a throwback performer, but Bryce more accurately, and magically, stepped through time a hundred years ago. His vaudevil…
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Peter and Will Anderson, twin brothers who hail from Maryland, are strapping, clean-cut young men whose musical sensibilities hail from another time. Th…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Tony-award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Alice Ripley is best known for her big voice as a Broadway star in musicals like The Who's Tommy, Ne…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . This writer reviewed Karen Akers' well-received Water Under the Bridge cabaret show at Birdland Jazz in September 2022 (read it HERE). Ms. Akers broug…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, a seemingly endless stream of stories about personal encounters with the legend appeared on …
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Bucky Pizzarelli was one of the greatest and most recorded jazz guitarists of all time and one of only a handful of acclaimed seven-string guitarists. (…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . A Los Angeles cabaret party came to The Green Room 42 with the New York debut of LA's The Right to Cabaret on November 4, hosted by Hillary Rollins, M…
