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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Jon Peterson

"Song Man Dance Man" Stage 72 at the Triad Theatre  -  May 7 Jon Peterson's talent as both singer and tap dancer is impressive. He provides an amiable, riveting stage...

Yvonne Constant

"One of a Kind" Metropolitan Room  -  April 30, May 7, 20 28 It takes a certain Gallic chutzpah to call your cabaret show "One of a Kind." Fortunately, Yvonne...

Teresa Fischer

"Hip To Be Happy" Don't Tell Mama  -  April 7, 16, 22 A bubbly redhead given to holding a smiley-face umbrella today as surely as she was given to wearing...

Tom Wopat

54 Below  -  February 25 He claimed, on stage, to be "as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs." If he really was, it didn't...

Rosemary Loar

"When Harry Met the Duke" Metropolitan Room - January 19, 27, 30, February 22 It must be getting harder to come up with titles, or even themes, for cabaret shows....

Bill Zeffiros Birthday Tribute to Frank Sinatra

Urban Stages  -  December 12 Just a few blocks away, rock-and-roll royalty of the past 50 years were blasting their 12‑12‑12 concert, raising millions for Hurricane Sandy victims. While at...

13 Things About Ed Carpolotti

59E59 Theaters  -  December 4 - 30 Is this cabaret? Is it theatre? Does it matter? This hour-long piece by Barry Kleinbort (based on a short play by Jeffrey Hatcher)...

Sue Raney

Feinstein's at Loews Regency  -  November 7 - 10 Cabaret critics are allowed at least the occasional crush. Come on, you know we are. So long as we've not actually...

Liz Rubino & James McClellan

"Playing His Songs: Liz Rubino and James McClellan Sing Marvin Hamlisch" Metropolitan Room  -  October 12 Performing a tribute to the composer Marvin Hamlisch soon after his death is a...

Hopelessly In Love: The Lyrics of Tom Toce

Metropolitan Room  -  October 10, 28, November 10 "Hopelessly in Love" is a triple pun. It can mean, roughly, "besotted with the right person," or "inevitably involved with the wrong...