290 stories by "STEPHEN HOLDEN"
Paulo Szot is making his New York cabaret debut at the Café Carlyle with a mixture of Brazilian standards and show tunes.
Raúl Esparza brought out the Afro-Cuban lineage in the American songbook at the Allen Room.
The New York Pops orchestra, joined by singers, played Stephen Sondheim songs in peppy arrangements at Carnegie Hall.
Barbara Carroll sings for Sunday brunch at the Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel.
Lainie Kazan recounts her life and sings the standards at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
The religious aspect is absent from Michael Feinstein’s annual end-of-the year shows at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
The Collegiate Chorale and the American Symphony Orchestra performed a concert version of “Knickerbocker Holiday,” Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s 1938 Broadway show.
Judy Collins began her latest residency at the Café Carlyle singing meditations by Stephen Sondheim, Jacques Brel and Tim Buckley.
Margaret Whiting, a daughter of Hollywood’s golden age, was a loving caretaker of the American Songbook.
Steve Tyrell, a Burt Bacharach protégé from Houston, is in his sixth season at the Café Carlyle.
The New York Pops, with Judy Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft and guest singers, tries the impossible: to recreate Garland’s famous 1961 Carnegie Hall concert.
Jane Monheit brought a playful approach to her pop-jazz stylings at Birdland on Wednesday evening.
“On a Clear Day: The Musical Vision of Burton Lane,” at the 92 Street Y, yielded a program of the composer’s Broadway and film tunes, including the frisky Irish-flavored sc…
Amanda McBroom’s show at the Metropolitan Room on Thursday mixed emotional songs with comic zingers and a humorous call for the return of Monica Lewinsky.
Christine Ebersole’s new show at the Café Carlyle includes songs from her Broadway hit “Grey Gardens” in a larger meditation on youth and age.
“Stage Door Canteen: Broadway Responds to World War II,” a Lyrics & Lyricist show at the 92nd Street Y, was informative history and a breezy evocation of national solidarity.
The former “American Idol” finalist Melinda Doolittle sang soul numbers, show tunes and pop snippets at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
In a return engagement, the suave baritone Paulo Szot tries to complete his crossover from opera singer to pop crooner.
Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein sing a program of standards at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
The British entertainer Bonnie Langford delivers a compendium of songs and showbiz anecdotes in “Bonnie Langford Spends Christmas in New York.”
“Michael Feinsten’s American Songbook” showcases a singer’s love of collecting the building blocks of music’s history.
“Made in Dagenham” is a feminist fairy tale based on actual events whose heroine, a composite of real-life women, leads Ford workers in the battle for equal pay.
In “Songs My Mother Taught Me: The Judy Garland Songbook” at Feinstein’s, Lorna Luft performed tunes made famous by Garland and offered biographical tidbits.
John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, husband and wife, sing standards at the Café Carlyle.
October brings the Cabaret Convention and the Broadway Cabaret Festival, related events that peacefully co-exist in a small cultural niche.
