The 2014 Bistro Awards Red Carpet, hosted by Kevin Scott Hall and Tanya Holt and recorded at Gotham Comedy Club on March 4, 2014. Enjoy these interviews with the winners, creative team, and others attending the show!
Memorable Moments Captured by Photographer Jim Baldassare. Click on photos to enlarge.
The legendary cabaret artist Marilyn Maye says of cabaret, “You don’t have to be anything but who you are.” Shakina Nayfack is the epitome of Maye’s comment. In her evening at Sophie’s at Broadway, she shares every inch of her six-and-a-half-foot, high-heeled, shaved head, tattooed, boy/girl, transgendered, feminist, Radical Faerie self with her audience. I […]
New York’s Next Top Drag Queen Contest
Perhaps taking his cue from the success of the club’s summer MetroStar Talent Challenge, the Metropolitan Room’s Joseph Macchia—one of the busiest cabaret producers on the scene—has come up with “New York’s Next Top Drag Queen Contest,” now in its second year. It runs every Monday night until the winner is crowned on May 5. […]
Roslyn Kind has returned to her hometown with the debut of her new club act, appropriately called “It’s Been a While,” at 54 Below. On opening night, an endearingly nervous Kind shared a set with her receptive audience that alternately reflected both her notable strengths and unique challenges as an artist. Looking sexy and trim in […]
Jane Monheit is a voluptuous beauty in the tradition of Jane Russell and Jayne Mansfield. The other night at Birdland, she came on stage dressed like a Christmas present in red lace with a big red bow around her waist. Her red hennaed, shoulder-length hair sexily flipped to accent the beats in this upbeat evening […]
Ben Vereen at the 2014 Bistro Awards
Watch Lifetime Achievement Award winner Ben Vereen perform “Here’s to Life” at the 2014 Bistro Awards!
Ben Vereen interviewed by Tonya Pinkins
Multi-award-winning actress singer Tonya Pinkins interviewed Ben Vereen for the Bistro Awards. TP: You are legendary. Who do you emulate and say, “I’ll steal a little of this and a little of that?” BV: Oscar Brown Jr—I love Oscar, Little Jimmy Scott, Carmen McRae. These are my cats. Charles Aznavour! TP: I don’t think […]
Memorable Moments Captured by Photographer Jim Baldassare. Click on photos to enlarge.
2014 Bistro Awards Red Carpet Highlights
The 2014 Bistro Awards Red Carpet, hosted by Kevin Scott Hall and Tanya Holt and recorded at Gotham Comedy Club on March 4, 2014. Enjoy these interviews with the winners, creative team, and others attending the show!
A few shows and a pet peeve This is my first Bistro Bits column since June 11, 1999. I trust you’ll forgive the slight interruption. In this return column, I discuss a few shows I’ve seen in the intervening years—more precisely, during the past few months. And I comment on a lamentable practice that has […]
