Special Feature
Recent News
Love Me Tinder: Midtown Int’l Theatre Festival
By Elli – The King Of Broadway   

Love_Me_TinderValentine’s Day, roses, a card and romance fill the air as Tom prepares for a romantic evening at home with his girlfriend of 9 years, Cindy. While Tom is setting up and waiting for Cindy to come home after work, a knock at the door reveals Dusty, Tom and Cindy’s high school friend who has reappeared after a 12-year absence. What starts out as a friendly conversation about catching up and discovering where Dusty has been and what he has seen along the way, turns into a disturbing reunion when Cindy comes home and unexpectedly sees Dusty standing in her living room. It turns out that they were a couple back then. 

Read more...
 
TV Junkie: They’re Back, Back, Back…
By Penny Landau   

TV_Junkie_FINALMemo to: The Emmy nominating committee…what are you guys thinking? “Big Bang Theory” Jim_Parsonsis the best comedy on TV and NO EMMY NOMINATION FOR BEST COMEDY??? Whatever! At least Jim Parsons got a The_Big_Bang_Theorynomination as quirky geek-of-the-century Sheldon.

 

 

 

 

Read more...
 
WE WANT YOU: A MetroStar Is Born -- Musings on Singing Contest, Part 2 in a series
By Kathleen France   

Kathleen_France_ Once again, we invite Kathleen France, singer and blogger, to comment on Metropolitan Room's weekly rounds of the singing competition. It's held each Monday at 7pm. Here is her report from the second night of preliminaries. She is a former competitor herself, and last year, was a MAC nominee for her debut cabaret show.

Read more...
 
IT ALL HAPPENED THEN: A WALK DOWN CABARET”S MEMORY LANE (Gotham)
By Andrew Martin   

 

David_McDaniel_Michael_Pace__Gary_HerbIt seems inconceivable at times that the openly-gay male vocal trio known as Gotham was once not merely one of the single bestselling cabaret acts on the globe, playing to sold out houses at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Country Cousin in London and the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, besides such 1970s hotbeds of the New York club scene as Reno Sweeney, the Bottom Line and the Grand Finale, as well as aboard RSVP cruise lines and recording several albums, but that besides their remarkable harmonies and rapport both on-stage and off, they stuck with it as a team for nearly two decades…until life intervened and they had to call it quits.

Read more...
 
Tudor City Greens FREE Outdoor Concert Series
By Scott Barbarino   

Tudor_City_GreensThe new season of the Tudor City Greens FREE outdoor concert series continues on Tuesday, August 3rd at 6pm. (Rain date: Wednesday, August 4th) This event will feature performers from Broadway and the New York City cabaret scene. The concert will be hosted by Tudor City resident, Broadway and cabaret performer Raissa Katona Bennett (Phantom of the Opera, Chess). Performers scheduled to appear in the concert – entitled A Night at the Opera: Vocal and Instrumental Classics - are Willy Falk (Tony nominee for Miss Saigon), the cast of I’ve Got a Little Twist (Bistro Award), Bistro and MAC Award winner Mark Janas, The Metropolis Opera Project, Sarah Rice (the original Johanna in Broadway’s Sweeney Todd), cabaret artist Maureen Taylor and composer/lyricist Bill Zeffiro.

Read more...
 
Demas Deliciously Blazes Across the Beechman
By Andrew Martin   

Carole_DemasLike so many million other schoolchildren from New York in the 1970s, your humble writer and his siblings would race home every day to watch "The Magic Garden," the daily half-hour TV show presented by co-hostesses Carole Demas and Paula Janis on WPIX-TV Channel 11; therein, the two took their throng of youthful spectators through a magical thirty minutes of song, stories, short plays, lessons about the world, and such characters as Sherlock the pink squirrel and Flapper the bird (both given virtual life by the great puppeteer Cary Antebi) as well as journeys with the Storybox, the Chucklepatch, and the Magic Tree growing lollipop sticks.

Read more...
 
It's No Secret: "Raft" Sails Triumphant
By Andrew Martin   

thumb_Raft_Of_The_Medusa_CastAlthough Joe Pintauro may not be a playwright who instantaneously leaps into the consciousness when discussing the modern masters, it's admirable to think that nearly every piece with his name on it ever presented for the stage has made a sizable splash in its debut, and more often than not in revivals as well. A recent example of same is his Raft of the Medusa, presented by the Secret Theatre in Astoria and not only gloriously directed by Alberto Bonilla, but featuring one of the most talented ensemble of actors enjoyed by this writer in many a moon. One might think, in our present age of medical advances towards combating HIV/AIDS,

Read more...
 
Honorary Golden Pineapple Award Presented July 23rd
By Scott Barbarino   

thumb_Bad_Plays_Bad_Musicals_Bad_FilmsOn Friday, July 23rd, at the Honorary Golden Pineapple Awards of International CringeFest '10, the coveted golden fruit will be served up to: Broadway & Off-Broadway playwright-actor Charles Busch, Broadway & Off-Broadway playwright Israel Horovitz, Off-Broadway playwright & Gay Rights activist Doric Wilson, BackStage's Editor-at-Large Sherry Eaker & Dixon Place's Founder & Executive Director Ellie Covan. The event takes place in the Grand Theatre at the Producers' Club. Admission for the evening's theme, Sex Encounters of a Disturbed Mind, directed by Robert Bartley & starring Richard Pryor Jr.,

Read more...
 
Rebecca Spencer and Philip Fortenberry at Birdland
By Scott Barbarino   

BirdlandJim Caruso is pleased to announce the Birdland debut of Rebecca Spencer and Philip Fortenberry on Monday, July 26 at 7pm.  This event will be part of the long-running Broadway at Birdland concert series. Rebecca Spencer & Philip Fortenberry perform as solo artists, and as a duo with symphonies and in major concert hall and performing arts center engagements, nationally.  Each performer has Broadway, Las Vegas and Hollywood credits, and their collaboration is a magical exchange that stimulates the mind and enriches the soul. 

Read more...
 
WHAT WAS I THINKING? In Glorious Black and White
By Peter Napolitano   

What_Was_I_ThinkingHello, NiteLife Exchange Readers!  Before you read on, please look at the logo of this website.  You’ll notice the slogan “It’s All About Entertainment,” not   “It’s All About Cabaret.”  On this site, you’ll find Penny Landau’s irreverent column “The TV Junkie,” as well as reviews and articles about current plays, CDs, web sites, etc. This is a smart policy.  If cabaret is to take its rightful place on the entertainment food chain, it needs to mix with the other items on the menu! 

Read more...
 
FALLING FOR EVE God’s Little Secrets!
By Sandi Durell   
Falling_For_EveThe Garden of Eden has a new twist in this musical one act romp currently at the York Theatre as we're privy to some of God's little known secrets!

Tony Award Winner Joe DiPietro's latest offering (he wrote Memphis), puts a new spin on the real first couple and procreation. With Angels Sarah (Jennifer Blood) and Michael (Nehal Joshi) as narrators never far behind, droll matter-of-fact God (Adam Kantor) tells it like it is in a swinging pop opening "God, It's Good To Be Me" – "when you are the architect, you get respect!"

Read more...
 
WHAT WAS I THINKING? The Joy of Discovery and Spreading the Word
By Peter Napolitano   

What_Was_I_ThinkingHello, NiteLife Exchange Readers!  First off, I’d like to thank those of you who sent me comments on my first piece last week entitled Sondheim at the Cabaret.  The response was gratifying, and leads me to believe there’s a need for a column that puts the nightly events in the cabaret world in a larger perspective.  Please know that the blurb at the bottom of your screen is for real – if you have a strong (or weak!) reaction to my musings, I’d like to hear from you.  And do pass on the link to those you think might be interested.  Now, on to the show that’s my jumping-off point of the week.  Let’s hope the pool I jump into holds water!

Read more...
 
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>

Page 1 of 22

Pick of the week

Kat Gang

Kat__Gang

Read more...

Banner_for_Kitano-1

digital-rick-click-here

AR-ad

NiteLife180x180ad

Mostly_Sondheim_Bannerjcbb_banner_standalonecabaretscenees