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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Sally Olson

Creating a cabaret tribute show can start with a performer's simple, perhaps youthful, admiration for the chosen subject. Internet searches may provide at least the bare bones of a biographical...

Polly Gibbons

Though her label, Resonance Records, and her New York club of choice for this engagement, Iridium, are both bastions of mainstream jazz, her London home base, Ronnie Scott's, can be...

Rochelle and Paul Chamlin

In their splendid new show, based on songs written for the movies and directed by Marilyn Maye, Rochelle and Paul Chamlin demonstrate not only a clear and contagious love for...

Gay Marshall

Gay Marshall is the first to admit that feelings about Paris, and groups of songs expressing those feelings, are seriously in danger of evoking narrative and musical clichés. In her...

Micky Dolenz

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Susanne Mack

Anyone who can legitimately include the Patsy Cline country standard "I Fall to Pieces" (Hank Cochran, Harlan Howard) in a show about a German girlhood near the Black Forest certainly...

Marta Sanders

A deft three-song medley of "Follow Me" (Lerner & Loewe), "Gotta Move" (Peter Matz), and "The Gypsy in My Soul" (Clay Boland, Moe Jaffe) perfectly sets up the trip that is...

Jana Robbins

When this show was previously done at Feinstein's/54 Below, it was called "I'm Still Here!" but for this second outing at the club, it was newly named "Jana Robbins Returns!"...

Rebecca Kilgore

In a welcome, too-rare, and too-brief return to New York cabaret, the Portland (OR)-based Rebecca Kilgore proved anew that sometimes just singing the song more or less how it was...

Lee Squared

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