Jim 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. 

Hello, 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! 

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!"

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 14th Annual Festival from August 13 - 29, 2010. This year, the festival will present programming by 197 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies in 20 venues in Lower Manhattan.  Attendance at last year’s festival topped 75,000 people,

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

 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.

It 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.