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"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.
Laura Benanti, the Tony-winning actress and singer, gave the final concert in the season's American Songbook series at the Allen Room on Saturday.
The Lincoln Center American Songbook series has ended its season with the British musical theater star Elaine Paige in her New York concert debut.
The Lincoln Center American Songbook series has ended its season with the British musical theater star Elaine Paige in her New York concert debut.
"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."
What was thought to be an unpublished song by Irving Berlin turns out to have been composed in 1926 by the team of Lew Brown and Cliff Friend.
In 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 back.
Lin-Manuel Miranda performed "The Hamilton Mixtape," his hip-hop song cycle about the life and death of Alexander Hamilton, at the Allen Room.
The songs of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn open the Lyrics & Lyricists season at the 92nd Street Y.
Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook shared musical lore and popular standards onstage at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
Baby Jane Dexter's "Still Bad, Still Blue" at the Metropolitan Room resurrects, to some degree, her 1996 act, "Big, Bad and Blue."
In "Cotton Club Parade," the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra joins singers and dancers to bring the swing to classics of the Harlem Renaissance.
"Stories With Piano #3" at Feinstein's at Loews Regency features Bebe Neuwirth in her illusion-breaking mode.
The 83-year-old powerhouse Marilyn Maye is performing an all-Jerry Herman program at Feinstein's at Loews Regency through Saturday.
The 83-year-old powerhouse Marilyn Maye is performing an all-Jerry Herman program at Feinstein's at Loews Regency through Saturday.
Instead of science fiction, think of it as alchemy. That is one way to view John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey's brilliant new show, "When Worlds Collide."
Amanda McBroom, the Los Angeles cabaret singer and composer of "The Rose," is performing at the Metropolitan Room.
The soprano Audra McDonald, who has been away in the realm of television, showed her singing chops at Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening.
Clint Holmes presents a tribute to Bobby Short at the Café Carlyle, his musical home for decades.
Betty Buckley's two sides, Broadway diva and quasi-jazz experimentalist, meet in her show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
Betty Buckley's two sides, Broadway diva and quasi-jazz experimentalist, meet in her show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
Tony Bennett played the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday evening, conjuring an American spirit that has little to do with the hypercompetitive excesses of our new gilded age.
The ever-resilient Elaine Stritch is performing an all-Sondheim program at Café Carlyle and embracing those pesky obstacles that come with age.
Although Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder have strong, steady voices, the only times they blended comfortably in their show at Feinstein's were in the program's quieter moments.
Emily Bergl's cabaret material comes from a broad range of sources: the Andrews Sisters and June Christy, Lily Allen and Madonna.
