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Lucille Carr-Kaffashan
Having created and performed two prior shows that featured the work of female composers, in her recent offering at Don't Tell Mama, Lucille Carr-Kaffashan focused exclusively on the output of...
Broadway’s Next Hit Musical
Satirical improvisation based on audience suggestions is tricky enough when it merely involves words and actions in unrelated set pieces. But add impromptu music, lyrics, and a quirky overarching theme...
Christine Aziz
It's always encouraging to see a performer, too young to have personally experienced the subject of her tribute show, go to great lengths to impart to her audience a real-life...
Nancy McGraw
They were both born in Georgia. And as members of the Southern diaspora and living most of their lives elsewhere, Down Home was so often in their thoughts. He was...
Lynda Rodolitz
In the show she performed in 2016, Lynda Rodolitz declared, convincingly, that she was "Off Her Rocker." She underscores, maybe even expands, that comic assertion in her laugh-rich current show,...
Daryl Glenn
You would think that by now there couldn't possibly be a new way to present an all-Sondheim cabaret show. But, as Daryl Glenn proved in this recent Don't Tell Mama...
Ronnie Marmo: I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce
Like most comics who came of age in the middle of the last century, Lenny Bruce started out on a fairly conventional path. After coming home from the World War...
Andrea Wolff
In her new show, I Can't Trace Time, directed by Dan Ruth and currently at The Green Room 42, Andrea Wolff stays true to her title premise by not offering...
Kenneth Gartman
When doing any cabaret show that takes the form of a travelogue, it must be very tempting to open the show with "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van...
Branden & James
Both classically trained, but also separately exhibiting long-held pop and "legit" tendencies, singer Branden James and cellist James Clark have combined their considerable talents and have been touring internationally as...