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Alexa Ray Joel
The Café Carlyle is one of the last of its kind in New York City—a genuine night club, an elegantly appointed room harkening back to the days of the Empire...
Andrea Bell Wolff
Sometimes when a show goes wrong, it goes wrong in every way. Sad to say, Andrea Bell Wolff's "Bad Girls Do Cry," which is dedicated to the girl-group sounds of...
Meg Flather
I last saw Meg Flather at Don't Tell Mama in the mid-'80s and I remember being highly entertained by her voice and her show. Seeing her again at that venerable...
Matthew Connor
Seeing Matthew Connor at Rockwood Music Hall (the terrific multiplex of music rooms in the East Village) I was reminded of the first time I saw Tom Waits at the...
Nicholas Guest
Nicholas Guest is the son of a British diplomat and brother to Christopher Guest (of Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show fame) and to New York Times writer Anthony...
Jay Brannan
Jay Brannan walked out on stage at Joe's Pub in his recent performance as if he were entering his living room to greet some friends who had stopped by to...
Melissa Hamilton
It's an increasingly rare occurrence to encounter a vocal jazz performance at which, after only a bit of the first number, I can just relax in the realization that I...
The Engaygement
The Engaygement, the new musical with book, lyrics, and music by David Auxier-Loyola, (in which boy-meets-boy morphs into boy-weds-boy legally), is a hybrid—at once a workshop of a new musical...