2020 Bistro Awards Winners Announced
Celebrated Songwriting Team RICHARD MALTBY, JR. and DAVID SHIRE Among the Honorees at the 35th ANNUAL BISTRO AWARDS Gala Monday, March 9 at Gotham Comedy Club Charles Busch, Lorna Dallas, Michele Brourman, and Spencer Day Also Recognized Among the 19 Winners New York City, January 30, 2020 —One of the longest-running musical partnerships in Broadway […]
The Bistro Awards Honored with Board of Directors Award from Manhattan Association of Cabarets
The Bistro Awards are being honored with a Board of Directors Award from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets for its 35 years of recognizing, encouraging, and nurturing cabaret and jazz artists through its insightful reviews, online articles, and its annual awards. The presentation will take place at the annual MAC Awards on Monday, March 30.
Richard Maltby, Jr. & David Shire to Receive the 2020 Bistro Award for Lifetime Achievement
New York, NY – (January 21, 2020) —Lyricist and director Richard Maltby, Jr. and composer David Shire will be honored at the 35th annual Bistro Awards where they will be receiving the Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bistro Award’s highest honor, for their more than 50 years of musical accomplishments. The songwriting team, one […]
Legendary Singer-Songwriter JUDY COLLINS Among the Honorees at the 34th ANNUAL BISTRO AWARDS Gala
Monday, March 11 at Gotham Comedy Club Frances Ruffelle, Lee Horwin, Luba Mason, and Sidney Myer Also Recognized Among the 15 Winners Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and Grammy Hall-of-Famer Judy Collins will be honored, along with a diverse group of 14 other outstanding artists, at the 34th Annual Bistro Awards on Monday, March 11 at Gotham […]
The title of Lianne Marie Dobbs’s recent show at The Green Room 42—Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man…?—is a loaded question. Rather than tackling the question head-on, Dobbs left it open, approaching a few possible angles as she considered female identity, offering a few of her own thoughts along with those of […]
Why do we hold on to souvenirs of childhood and adolescence, even when these artifacts are highly embarrassing? Pictures from the junior prom that look like Clearasil commercials, notebooks crammed with first attempts at becoming a haiku master, macaroni sculptures created in day camp that appear to have traveled through a world war or two—these […]
Wendy Scherl is such an immediately inviting and obviously talented singer, that one wanted to surrender completely to the charms of her new show, Town and Country, which recently had an encore performance at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. There were a number of wonderfully winning moments throughout the show, starting with her opener, a nicely […]
Amy Jo Jackson’s show The Brass Menagerie brings Tennessee Williams to the cabaret stage at the Duplex with astonishing results. While the playwright may not at first glance seem ideal fodder for such a venue, the show pulses with such intelligence, wit, passion, comedy, heart, and musical acumen that any reservations dissolve in seconds. Jackson’s […]
Joe’s Pub Tuesday February 25, 9:30 pm Thursday February 27, 9:30 pm Transforming himself completely with each new show, the brilliantly creative Salty Brine returns, this time with These Are the Contents of My Head, the latest edition of his Living Record Collection series. Each entry in the series cunningly and fascinatingly interweaves performances of […]
Laurie Beechman Theatre Final encore performance: Thursday February 27, 7:30 pm After a successful operatic career, Regina Zona has embraced the art of cabaret performance, making her debut with Becoming… the Queen 2.0: When One Coronation in a Lifeime Isn’t Enough. Her rich soprano has plenty of heft, which serves the cabaret aesthetic well, she […]
Joe’s Pub Monday March 2, 9:30 pm Justin Sayre, winner of a Bistro Award for comedy artistry, presents Chairman’s Choice, the next edition of his comedy-variety series The Meeting*, now in its eleventh year. (He hosts the proceedings as Chairman of the centuries-old International Order of Sodomites.) Sayre can be acerbically political, playfully silly, or […]
