January/February 2024
Volume XXIX No. 1
PEOPLE&PLACES
Remembering John Hoglund
By Chip Deffaa
Remembering Steven Lutvak
The American Songbook
Sung or Played Instrumentally
By Harlan James
Chicago Cabaret Professionals:
2023 Gala: 25 Years of Song
And the Winner Is… LaRaisha DiEvelyn Dionne
By Frank Dain
34th New York Cabaret Convention
Michael Kirk Lane: A Cabaret Conversation
By Shannon Hunt
Picks
THIS&THAT
News
New York, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas
London, Los Angeles, Palm Springs
New Jersey/Pennsylvania, San Francisco Washington, D.C./Maryland/Virginia
National
ASA Donors
Cabaret Listings
SEEN&HEARD
Cabaret Reviews
ASA 2023 Gala, Peter Asher & Jeremy Clyde
James Beaman, Mimi Bessette, Jenn Brett
John Burns, New York Cabaret Convention
Courtney Corso-Casiano,Melissa Errico
The Fabulist Fox Sister, Michael Feinstein
Dianne Fraser, Friends of Alec Wilder
Jackie Gibson, Guilty Pleasures Cabaret
Setsuko Hata, Rian Keating, Becca Kidwell
Jeanne MacDonald, Joannie Mackenzie
Marilyn Maye, Katie McGrath & Chuck Flowers
Bob O’Hare, Mamie Parris, Craig Pomranz
CD Reviews
Ann Hampton Callaway, Dianne Fraser
& ON THE COVER
Lee Roy Reams
Uncensored!
By Rian Keating
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