There’s something to be said about being able to put on a show that seems fresh and unexpected even after one has been in show business for nearly 50 years. Indeed, Lucie Arnaz’s cabaret performance at the Kennedy Center had the mark of someone who clearly has honed her craft throughout the years and finds […]
Special Agent Galactica and Peter Fields at L’Enfant Cafe
At the crossroads of Adams Morgan and Dupont, L’Enfant Café spills candlelight and savory aromas onto the street corner. Tureens of onion soup and buttery mussels steam up the snug little bistro, a couple tug on the loose ends of a mountain of French fries like they’re playing Janga. It’s an Old-World date spot that […]
The Marcy and Zina Show
The thing I hate about cabaret singers is that you can’t critique them. Cabaret is communicating your humanity – good cabaret singers make you care about them and disarm critics. They sing/speak like you’re hanging out in the kitchen over homemade chocolate chip cookies and a bottle of wine, perhaps occasionally and casually remembering that […]
Sutton Foster at Strathmore
It may not be the first time that two-time Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster has performed in concert in our area, but the crowd at the extraordinary Music Center at Strathmore may have been the largest she’s had yet. Certainly, those who attended her sold out cabaret at the Kennedy Center several years back or her […]
Special Agent Galactica holds court at the Black Fox Lounge
Special Agent Galactica, a regular on the DC club scene, seen here at the Black Fox Lounge. Special Agent Galactica sashays up to the stage and looks out at the narrow cavern of the Black Fox Lounge. It’s go time. For her first act, Galactica delivers American standards with a mix of irony and earnest […]
Nadine Zahr and Sharon Kenny: The Love-Junk Chronicles
Closing out Signature Theatre’s first Autumn Cabaret Festival, Nadine Zahr (understudy for Brother Russia and Side by Side by Sondheim) returned to the intimate Ark Theatre along with fellow NYC-based singer-songwriter Sharon Kenny. The duo – with background vocals from Signature favorite Madeline Botteri – explored Nadine’s serial dating tendencies in Los Angeles and New […]
Heidi Blickenstaff in cabaret at Signature
Like any respectable musical theatre nerd, I reveled in seeing Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen’s ‘little show that could,’ [title of show], make it to Broadway in 2008. The hilarious musical theatre jokes, strong score and book, and more than solid cast, it was all so good that – after seeing the insanely electric first […]
Chelsea Packard: My Yellow Brick Road
Signature Theatre’s popular Sizzlin’ Summer Cabaret series may have just wrapped up, but the ambitious theatre company is certainly not done with providing DC area music lovers another large dose of cabaret performances. This week, Signature Theatre’s first Autumn Cabaret Festival got underway and over the next three weeks it will include performances from musical […]
Colleen McHugh: Wish You Were Here – Songs from Faraway Places
New York City cabaret mainstay Colleen McHugh has returned to Signature Theatre yet again in its annual Sizzlin’ Summer Cabaret series. Rather than resting on her laurels as many do – particularly when they have a regular, captive audience as can be the case with such yearly cabaret festivals – she came in with a […]
Sandy Bainum’s Cabaret: “S’Wonderful” – A Night of Ira Gershwin
A night of Gershwin music? We’ve all been there and done that, right? If DC musical theatre mainstay Sandy Bainum’s cabaret at Signature Theatre is any indication, the answer may be “well, not exactly.”
Euan Morton in concert: As You Like It
Signature Theatre favorite and Tony/Olivier Award nominee Euan Morton kicked off Signature Theatre’s annual Sizzlin’ Summer Cabaret festival with a bit of a twist. In addition to lending his powerful pop-rock vocal talent to a series of songs he selected, he also permitted the audience members to select songs they most wanted to hear via […]
The Swing Set with Alex Cook
— Can a man follow two passions at the same time? A familiar DC actor supports his theatre company by launching a new career – Alex Cook seems a little like every one of us who harbors a secret love or obsession, only he bears his for all to see. And it would be very […]