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Club Review: Lauren White with The Quinn Johnson Trio
The casual elegance of the cabaret room at Pangea on an early June night was the perfect setting for Lauren White’s celebration of the COVID-delayed release of her CD, Ever...
CD Review: “Gary Brumburgh’s “Full Circle”
Gary Brumburgh was content to be a teacher until he happened to be cast in an amateur production of a Broadway musical; he was immediately smitten and left his former...
Club Review: Amanda McBroom’s “Crimes of the Heart,” with Michele Brourman
"The Portrait" is one of Amanda McBroom’s most beautiful and beloved creations. I was reminded of it during her delightful new show, Crimes of the Heart, at Birdland, not because...
Club Review: “David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show”
David Dean Bottrell is an actor, a writer, and a fixture on the storytelling circuit in New York City and Los Angeles. He is perhaps best known for his unforgettably...
Club Review: Therese Lee’s “Riding the Bus to the Red Carpet”
Singer/actress Therese Lee had her first taste of those "fifteen minutes of fame" interviewing stars whose fame has lasted longer than Warhol predicted. Her story of getting there, and what...
Club Review: “Andrea McArdle & Friends Celebrate the 45th ANNIEversary”
Andrea McArdle made a glamorous entrance on to the stage at Feinstein’s/54 Below to a vamp from “Annie” (Charles Strouse, Thomas Meehan) wearing a voluptuously feathery black coat that put...
Jimmy Webb on His Love of Cabaret, Its Traditions, Its Venues, Its Intimacy: A Conversation with the Bistro Awards’ 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
It was a special treat to be able to interview one of my two favorite songwriters (the other being a certain Mr. Sondheim) in advance of his receiving the 2022...
CD Review: Mark Winkler’s “Late Bloomin’ Jazzman”
Singer Mark Winkler is the genuine article. To borrow a quote from a classic Blossom Dearie song, “If it were hip to be hep he’d be hep.” He is a...
Club Review: Salty Brine’s Living Record Collection—”How Strange It Is”
The album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel, was released on February 10, 1998. The group was the brainchild of singer/songwriter Jeff Magnum, whose lyrics were...
Club Review: Karen Mack & Elliot Roth
The front lounge at Pangea has become a relaxed, friendly hybrid of cabaret and piano bar with no cover and no minimum. The talented duo of Karen Mack and Elliot...