200 stories by "Andrew Poretz"
Cabaret review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When last we saw young French Canadian crooner David Marino, in July 2023, he was making his New York cabaret debut downtown (read HERE). He was quite…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . At Pangea last month, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Gretchen Cryer and Richard Malby, Jr. converged on this intimate venue to reprise their popular …
CD Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Margot Sergent is a marvelous French performer I've caught a couple of times, including her Edith Piaf show at Birdland (reviewed HERE). As a jazz harpist,…
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . Those cabaret fans who've experienced the joy of a Lianne Marie Dobbs show have been anxiously awaiting a new one. This reviewer caught three iteratio…
Caberet Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . The always glorious Broadway and cabaret star, Melissa Errico, whom this writer has reviewed often (including HERE and HERE in 2023), unveiled her exq…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When beginning this article, a line describing the heart and soul of cabaret star Ari Axelrod felt awfully familiar. That's because the words matched …
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Marissa Mulder has been making her mark on the cabaret scene for more than a decade. The Syracuse native is known for her girlish voice that evokes Bl…
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Some of the greatest acts in show business history have been family acts, going back to the days of vaudeville. Some of these were musical acts, some we…
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . There's this weird week between Christmas and New Year's when everyone's done with "the holidays" and await the New Year. Every possible holiday song …
You could call Bryce Edwards, a rising star of 1923 " make that 2023 " a throwback performer, but Bryce more accurately, and magically, stepped through time a hundred years ago. His vaudevil…
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Peter and Will Anderson, twin brothers who hail from Maryland, are strapping, clean-cut young men whose musical sensibilities hail from another time. Th…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Tony-award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Alice Ripley is best known for her big voice as a Broadway star in musicals like The Who's Tommy, Ne…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . This writer reviewed Karen Akers' well-received Water Under the Bridge cabaret show at Birdland Jazz in September 2022 (read it HERE). Ms. Akers broug…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, a seemingly endless stream of stories about personal encounters with the legend appeared on …
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Bucky Pizzarelli was one of the greatest and most recorded jazz guitarists of all time and one of only a handful of acclaimed seven-string guitarists. (…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . A Los Angeles cabaret party came to The Green Room 42 with the New York debut of LA's The Right to Cabaret on November 4, hosted by Hillary Rollins, M…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Grammy and Oscar winner Howard Ashman wrote lyrics for many of the best songs of the modern Disney catalog for films like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Producer and performer Jamie deRoy packed Birdland for another of her highly entertaining and philanthropic "Jamie deRoy and Friends" shows. The show benefitted Entert…
By Andrew Poretz … The delightful cabaret star Maude Maggart made a rare New York headliner appearance with "Here Come the Dreamers," her Birdland debut. She sold out the large room upstai…
By Andrew Poretz … Following two nights of sometimes heavy material " the first honoring the music of Kurt Weill, followed by a tribute to the music and somewhat tragic life of Doris Day, …
By Andrew Poretz … Ava Nicole Francis made her New York cabaret solo debut at 54 Below on October 10. The young singer, not quite out of her teens, is a San Francisco transplant, and has a…
By Andrew Poretz . . . We last wrote about the tremendously entertaining Bryce Edwards in January, when he had his impressive solo debut with a sold-out show at Don't Tell Mama (read HERE). …
By Andrew Poretz … Writer, dramatist and concert/revue creator Deborah Grace Winer continued her popular Songbook Sundays series at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club with more than a d…
By Andrew Poretz … Singer Kieran Brown, a very young, "up and coming" jazz and R&B singer with a strong proclivity for material from the Great American Songbook, took the stage at The …
By Andrew Poretz … Amanda McBroom, a singer-songwriter as well as a fine actress, sold out Birdland Jazz with an audience filled with bold-face names from the cabaret scene, including Mari…
