Cabaret in Review by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Reviews of Karen Akers at the Oak Room; Cleo Laine and John Dankworth at Le Jazz Au Bar; Steve Ross at the Stanhope Park Hyatt Hotel.
Reviews of Karen Akers at the Oak Room; Cleo Laine and John Dankworth at Le Jazz Au Bar; Steve Ross at the Stanhope Park Hyatt Hotel.
Alan Cumming discusses how I Bought A Blue Car Today helped him overcome terror, why Shakespeare is like homophobia and the reason he's miffed with a certain candy coated chocolate.
Amra-Faye Wright, recently seen as Velma Kelly in the Broadway production of Chicago, goes it solo beginning Dec. 27 at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan.
A Scrapbook of Songs That Adhere to a Life by STEPHEN HOLDEN
John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey speak in jazz.
They may be secretaries or they may be surgeons, but each has a longing to sing. These New Yorkers are learning how to perform cabaret-style.
Barbara Cook Coaxes Singers Onto Stage Solo
Gwyneth Herbert is 23, a English jazz singer with slightly gawky enthusiasm, special control over her low notes and, beyond that, youth.
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'Phantom's' Gaines reveals indelible presence and charm by David C. Nichols
A superb voice goes to work on unerringly chosen material in Long Beach.
Cabaret singer David Gurland, a fixture on the New York scene for two decades, died on Jan. 1 in New York City. He had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage on Dec. 29. He was 43.
Chris Mazzilli runs Manhattan's newest cabaret space, The Metropolitan Room.