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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Duchess

For those of us who occasionally crave a close-harmony dose of the Boswell Sisters or the Andrews Sisters in our cabaret-attending lives (and there may be more of us than...

Laura Osnes

  Many—perhaps too many—cabaret performers frame their autobiographical shows in terms of songs that influenced their decisions to aspire to a show business career, or that they eventually got to...

Billie Roe

For her current show at the Metropolitan Room, "Monopoly," Billie Roe has fashioned, with the assistance of director Mark Nadler and musical director Steven Ray Watkins, a compelling and affecting spoken-and-sung...

David Sabella

In his current show at the Metropolitan Room, his first in many years, David Sabella proves to have a powerful, wide-ranging voice (from standard legit up through counter-tenor to an...

Lynn Henderson

Her getup signals the overall tone of Lynn Henderson's current Don't Tell Mama show, directed by Barry Kleinbort, even more than does its title song, "'T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I...

…And Then You Die

Despite its possibly off-putting title, this 70-minute revue by David B. Goldberg, which had a recent four-night run at Don't Tell Mama, was a mostly benign, even breezy, look at...

Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki

At the start of their current new show at Don't Tell Mama, Anya Turner, the lead-vocal half of this married couple's self-written evening of what she calls "modern cabaret" songs,...

Lynda Rodolitz

Truth in advertising is always welcome, when it comes to cabaret shows as much as anywhere else. For her recent show at Don't Tell Mama, "Lynda Rodolitz Is Off Her...

Ira Lee Collings

When both the singer and his accompanist took the stage wearing red rubber clown noses, the audience could have been forgiven for thinking the pair of them were up to...

Helane Blumfield

"Gender blending," as Helane Blumfield described the premise of "Call Me H!," her recent show at Don't Tell Mama, is not the same thing as gender bending. Rather, Blumfield employed...