New York Theatre - Cabaret & Dance Reviews

Mad Dogs & Educated Fleas

Cabaret Review: 'Mad Dogs & Educated Fleas: Noël & Cole, a Battle of Wits'
This 92nd Street Y Lyrics & Lyricists series look at Noël Coward and Cole Porter is undercooked, faring best when Edward Hibbert and Harriet Harris perform. More »

Emily

Cabaret Review: 'Emily Bergl: NY I Love You'
Emily Bergl, best known for her stint on “Desperate Housewives,” has a limited voice but deserves an E for effort in her uneven set at the Café Carlyle. More »

Ethel Waters: Blues, Broadway, and Jazz

Cabaret Review: 'Ethel Waters: Blues, Broadway, and Jazz'
This tribute to the great Ethel Waters, with Michael Feinstein, Adriane Lenox, Tracie Thoms, and Catherine Russell, from Jazz at Lincoln Center, is a honey. More »

When Everything Was Possible

Cabaret Review: 'When Everything Was Possible: A Concert (with comments)
Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory, Broadway's go-to ingenues 40 years ago and once a couple, reunite at City Center in a wonderful "concert with comments." More »

Maye

Cabaret Review: 'Marilyn Maye: The Happiest Sound in Town'
Veteran chanteuse Marilyn Maye defies the calendar with an energetic and versatile hour of vocalizing at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. More »

Ballet Hispanico

Dance Review: 'Ballet Hispanico'
Ballet Hispanico presents a smart work by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, an uninspired premiere by Ronald K. Brown, and a flop by artistic director Eduardo Vilaro. More »

Touch

Dance Review: 'Last Touch First'
Choreographed by Jirí Kylián and Michael Schumacher and performed by former members of Nederlands Dans Theater, “Last Touch First” is a triumph. More »

'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Week 4 Results Show

'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Week 4 Results Show
Rock Week sent "The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd rolling out of the contest on the popular ABC competition show. More »

DWTS

'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Week 4 Competition Show
Super Bowl star Donald Driver borrowed from Gene Simmons' playbook to emerge victorious on Rock Week. Melissa Gilbert suffers an injury. More »

stars

‘Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Week 3 Results Show
Soap actor Jack Wagner is cut from the competition while Seal and Rascal Flatts provide musical entertainment on the ABC competition show. More »

'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Week 3 Competition Show

'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Week 3 Competition Show
Katherine Jenkins and William Levy score the first perfect tens of the season on ABC's popular competition show. More »

Dancing

'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Week 2 Results Show
Tennis great Martina Navratilova is the first to get the boot on ABC's popular competition show. More »

DWTS

'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Week 2 Competition Show
Judge Len Goodman admitted he was wrong to give such a low score last week to Donald Driver. More »

Anywhere I Wander: The Frank Loesser Songbook

Cabaret Review: 'Anywhere I Wander: The Frank Loesser Songbook'
The New York Philharmonic's one-night salute to songwriter Frank Loesser, featuring a starry cast including Bryn Terfel and Victoria Clark, is sensational. More »

David Neumann

Dance Review: 'David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group: Restless Eye'
In “Restless Eye,” modern choreographer David Neumann puts the responsibility for making meaning out of his dances squarely on the audience’s shoulders. More »

Dancing

'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Season Premiere
Welsh opera singer Katherine Jenkins stepped out as the one to beat in the March 19 season premiere of ABC's hit reality show. More »

Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company

Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company
At Lincoln Center for the first time, Paul Taylor Dance Company presents masterful choreography and stunning star dancing marred by weaknesses in its corps. More »

My Tawny Valentine

Cabaret Review: 'My Tawny Valentine'
David Drake creates a kooky, lovable drag version of a drugged-up D-lister who happens to be Joey Heatherton's niece in "My Tawny Valentine." More »

Brazil

Dance Review: 'Brazil! Brazil!'
This flashy, upbeat celebration of Brazilian music and dance is distinguished by its inclusion of freestyle footballers who delight us with soccer-ball juggling tricks. More »

Take Dance Salaryman

Dance Review: 'Take Dance: Salaryman'
This is a powerful one-act contemporary dance piece about Japanese businessmen to which its choreographer, Takehiro Ueyama, unfortunately has added a cumbersome 30-minute second half. More »

NYCB

New York City Ballet: All Wheeldon
A hallmark event, this performance of three ballets by Christopher Wheeldon, including the premiere of the luscious "Les Carillons," marks the company's first-ever all-Wheeldon program. More »

Petula Clark

Cabaret Review: 'Petula Clark'
The celebrated English pop singer and actor is making her first NYC nightclub appearance since 1970. Still in superb physical and vocal shape, she delivers an unmissable evening of great singing. More »

Dorfman

David Dorfman Dance: Prophets of Funk
Set to Sly & the Family Stone recordings, this work pays tribute to the music and contains only hints of the political choreography for which David Dorfman is best known. More »

Streb

Streb: Kiss the Air!
An undeniably unique display of physical daring, this show presents extreme athletic feats involving bungee cords, zip lines, springboards, and a rotating ladder yet is both exhilarating and maddeningly boring. More »

Merce

Merce Cunningham Dance Company: The Legacy Tour
This polished performance of Merce Cunningham's evening-length work set to a John Cage score inspired by James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" opens the famed modern dance troupe's penultimate U.S. engagement. More »

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