Kevin Scott Hall

Kevin Scott Hall performed in cabaret clubs for many years and recorded three CDs, including “New Light Dawning” in 1998, which received national airplay. He also worked at the legendary piano bar, Rose’s Turn, and has taught cabaret workshops and directed shows since 1995. Kevin earned his MFA in Creative Writing at City College of New York. He is an adjunct professor in the Theatre and English departments at City College and Borough of Manhattan Community College. His novel, “Off the Charts!” was published in 2010, and his memoir, “A Quarter Inch from My Heart” (Wisdom Moon), in 2014. Kevin writes a monthly column and entertainment features for Edge Media Network, writes reviews for BistroAwards.com, and freelances for other publications.

André De Shields

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"Black By Popular Demand" Laurie Beechman Theatre  –  May 4, 11, 18 It has been a while since André De Shields—celebrated for his work on and off Broadway, and once a fixture in New York nightclubs—has graced our cabaret stages. Thus, a packed house greeted him raucously at his show at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, "Black...

Peggy Herman

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"HERMAN ON HERMAN: Peggy Sings Jerry" Feinstein's at Loews Regency  –  May 6 It's hard not to make it a party when singing the songs of Jerry Herman, and singer Peggy Herman (not related by blood but definitely by admiration) certainly did her hostess-with-the-mostess best in her debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, celebrating the...

Alison Nusbaum

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"Ladies! A Raucous Homage to Mel Brooks' Broads" Don't Tell Mama  –  April 24, 27, 30 With ingenuity and inspiration, popular and award-winning piano bar entertainer Alison Nusbaum and her musical director, veteran and also award-winning Ricky Ritzel, have come up with a theme show that's entirely appropriate for the cabaret genre, but perhaps has...

Gregory Charles

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"Vintage" Café Carlyle – April 3-7 Canadian musician and singer Gregory Charles, very popular in his home country and abroad, has brought his show "Vintage" to none other than the posh and intimate Café Carlyle. The formula, which has apparently won him many fans in venues large and small, is simple: do an all-request show...

Nellie McKay

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"Silent Spring – It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature" Feinstein's at Loews Regency – March 20-31 Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," a book that many argue started the modern environmentalist movement, idiosyncratic singer/songwriter Nellie McKay has fashioned a one-woman show on her subject, shoehorning a mix...

Janice Hall

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"I'd Rather Be Doing This…" Metropolitan Room – February 12, March 5, April 18 If there is any lingering doubt that an intimate cabaret room can conjure up magic like little else, and that blazing stars can be made in those dark little spaces, one need only seek out Janice Hall and erase those doubts...

Susan Hodgdon

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"On the Bumpy Road to Love" Don't Tell Mama – February 25 When Susan Hodgdon enters from the back of the room at the start of her new show singing, sans mic, a ballad version of "Silly Love Songs" (Paul & Linda McCartney), touching the shoulders of audience members as she slowly makes her way...

Karen Oberlin

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"Stringing Along With Love" Metropolitan Room – February 14, 21, 28 Pretty and winsome Karen Oberlin, a fixture on the cabaret circuit in recent years, has brought her new act to the Metropolitan Room. "Stringing Along With Love" is an intimate evening of unusual love songs, both old and new, featuring Oberlin's jazzy vocal stylings...

Parker Scott

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"Selecting Souvenirs" Don't Tell Mama  –  January 28, then monthly In his new show, "Selecting Souvenirs" (also the name of the CD he released late last year), Parker Scott tells us that he recently realized that this was his fifteenth year of doing cabaret in New York and beyond. Now, after a break of a...

Jessica Sherr

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"Bette Davis Ain't for Sissies" The Triad  –  January 12 & 13 Jessica Sherr, who enjoyed a sold-out run at last year's New York Fringe Festival with her one-woman show about Bette Davis, has brought Bette Davis Ain't for Sissies back for a run in the clubs and has wisely chosen The Triad, with its...