Mark Dundas Wood

Mark Dundas Wood is an arts/entertainment journalist and dramaturg. He began writing for BistroAwards.com in 2011. Currently, he writes the "Bistro Bits" column for the site. Other reviews and articles have appeared at theaterscene.net and talkinbroadway.com, as well as in American Theatre and Back Stage. As a dramaturg, he has worked with New Professional Theatre and the New York Musical Theatre Festival. He is currently literary manager for Broad Horizons Theatre Company.

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Marta Sanders and Leanne Borghesi

Showbroads—a battling-diva entertainment with Marta Sanders and Leanne Borghesi—appeared late last year at Birdland. Recently, the lively show, under the direction of Nicolas Minas, was repeated at the same venue....

Emily Koch

Why do we hold on to souvenirs of childhood and adolescence, even when these artifacts are highly embarrassing? Pictures from the junior prom that look like Clearasil commercials, notebooks crammed...

Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation!

The first version of writer/director Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway was staged 38 years ago, and the hardy satirical revue has gone through various permutations over the decades. The latest version—Forbidden...

Goldie Dver

After a decade away from cabaret performing, Goldie Dver returns to the stage in an energetic and polished show called Back in Mama's Arms (directed by James Beaman). The "Mama"...

Julie Reyburn

Julie Reyburn has been relatively inactive in the cabaret scene in recent years, but that doesn't mean that she has been otherwise idle. She's been busy raising children and working...

Michele Brourman

Watching Michele Brourman play to a packed house in a recent one-nighter at Birdland Theater, I felt that I gained a deeper understanding of the work of singer-pianists in cabaret...

Robin Westle

1969 was famous as a year full of political tumult and social upheaval. Richard Nixon began what would be a troubled presidency in January. A draft lottery was instituted to...

Scott Raneri

The Marvelous Mr. Marzo (written by Joey Virgo and directed by Mark Copron) is one of those cabaret shows that is also a confessional monodrama. But instead of telling and...

Maureen Taylor

With her lilting voice and sunny stage presence, Maureen Taylor puts the cabaret listener in a receptive frame of mind, whatever she is singing. In her recent show at Don't...

Lorna Dallas

Lorna Dallas—an American who made a name for herself as a young singer in London, and then decided to make a life there—returned to New York City's Birdland Theater recently...