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Barry Manilow sang many of his greatest hits in a one-hour-and-50-minute concert on Tuesday that marked his return to Broadway for the first time in decades.
A Tuesday preview performance was canceled because of bronchitis.
"Broadway Romance," a program of theater songs performed by Howard McGillin, Rebecca Luker and Ted Sperling, brings nostalgia to the Café Carlyle.
Marilyn Maye and Leslie Uggams were among the winners at the 11th annual ceremony honoring traditional Broadway, jazz and cabaret performers.
Idina Menzel performed at Carnegie Hall on Sunday night, accompanied by the Orchestra of St. Lukes under the direction of Rod Mounsey.
For the first time in its four-decade existence the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series devoted a program to W. S. Gilbert.
Linda Lavin, the actress and singer, demonstrated passion, vigor and versatility in her show at 54 Below.
Donna McKechnie's new cabaret show extends the story of her "Chorus Line" character, Cassie, into the present.
Donna McKechnie's new cabaret show extends the story of her "Chorus Line" character, Cassie, into the present.
Justin Vivian Bond mixes pessimism with optimism in a show at 54 Below.
The singer Steve Tyrell, in his cabaret show at the Café Carlyle, resurrected the gold age of the swinger.
In Lisa Albright's turgid family drama, Bernadette Peters plays a faded Broadway diva with two daughters who starts life over in a rented, graffiti-scarred shack in Nashua, N.H.
Brian Stokes Mitchell, performing at Alice Tully Hall for an Actors Fund benefit, makes songs into detailed character studies of carnival barkers and knights.
The age-old struggle between humanity's higher and lower impulses is the subject of Sherie Rene Scott's very personal show, "Piece of Meat."
Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano, performing at the Metropolitan Room, combine midnight reveries and lighter numbers with mixed success.
Betty Buckley's new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency is rich in musical theater lore and spicy autobiographical tidbits.
The singer Andrea Marcovicci, long a fixture at the Oak Room, appeared to be invigorated by her new surroundings at the Café Carlyle.
In "Making Love Songs" Tony DeSare brings his original tunes and some standards to 54 Below.
The singer-songwriter-playwright Jason Robert Brown performed a set of his songs that are just short of being cabaret staples at 54 Below.
Marin Mazzie, in her show at 54 Below, uses cabaret as a time machine to revisit her musical past.
Michael Feinstein and Marilyn Maye, delivering pop and jazz standards at Feinstein's, are a perfect show-business fit.
"Bachelorette," the film version of Leslye Headland's play, comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire.
"Bachelorette," the film version of Leslye Headland's play, comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire.
Raissa Katona Bennett brings new songs and standards to Feinstein's at Loews Regency for her show there, "Another Kind of Light."
"The Prince and the Show Boy," at 54 Below, features Faith Prince and Jason Graae.
