Robert Windeler

Robert Windeler is the author of 18 books, including biographies of Mary Pickford, Julie Andrews, Shirley Temple, and Burt Lancaster. As a West Coast correspondent for The New York Times and Time magazine, he covered movies, television and music, and he was an arts and entertainment critic for National Public Radio. He has contributed to a variety of other publications, including TV Guide, Architectural Digest, The Sondheim Review, and People, for which he wrote 35 cover stories. He is a graduate of Duke University in English literature and holds a masters in journalism from Columbia, where he studied critical writing with Judith Crist. He has been a theatre critic for Back Stage since 1999, writes reviews for BistroAwards.com, and is a member of The Players and the American Theatre Critics Association.

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Alan Winner: The Boy Who Loved Bassey

"The Boy Who Loved Bassey," the crisp, hour-long show Alan Winner performed (and co-wrote with Ben Cameron, who directed) at the Metropolitan Room (and earlier this year at the Laurie...

Richard Weidlich & Susannah Mars

Susannah Mars, Richard Weidlich, Bill Wells Susannah Mars and Richard Weidlich, longtime performing partners from Portland, Oregon, breezed into town for what probably was, judging from...

Adam B. Shapiro

There was much to like in Adam B. Shapiro's newest show, "Nothing Normal," seen at Urban Stages for one night as part of the theatre's annual Winter Rhythms series (and...

Judi Mark

It must be ever harder for cabaret performers to come up with a fresh theme for a show. Once the tributes to single (and singular) artists and composers have seemingly...

Kim Grogg

"Go Where the Love Is," the title song of Kim Grogg's current show at Don't Tell Mama, speaks volumes. First, it establishes her as a solid, self-confident singer of infectious...

Amanda McBroom and George Ball

Amanda McBroom and George Ball's recent show at 54 Below was titled "Some Enchanted Evening: An Evening of Love Songs for Grownups." Even more importantly, this was a cabaret show performed...

Carol Fredette

Carol Fredette has decided that she is not going to sing any more downbeat songs, at least when it comes to their lyric content. That sweeping decision has eliminated all...

Isabel Rose

Expensively produced flash-and-trash is often able to find an enthusiastic audience, even at the high end of the cabaret world. This one-night effort proved that anew, and you didn't have...

Louis St. Louis

The cabaret act as backers' audition is not a brand new concept. But Louis St. Louis took it to extremes in this outing, with generous selections from five of the shows...

Sharon McNight: Red Hot Mama – The Sophie Tucker Farewell Tour

Those relative few of us who remember Sophie Tucker at all can recall only a stout, corseted old lady in the black-and-white days of the Ed Sullivan TV variety show,...