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The best concerts in NYC this week

Get set, go! We've rounded up the best gigs in the five boroughs during the next seven days

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Update: With the current ban on public gatherings of any size, many of the concerts  and events below may be postponed to a later date or canceled. 

As any NYC music fan will tell you, there are no off nights here. If you're game for going out, the city's guaranteed to have a gig for you, whether it's a pop blowout, a cozy country show, a set at a world-famous jazz club like the Village Vanguard or a raging metal bill. Our monthly concert calendars are your first stop for news on shows coming up, but this list of the best concerts in NYC is designed to help with your last-minute showgoing plans. Why not take a chance on a new name? Every gig you see below gets the Time Out New York stamp of approval.

RECOMMENDED: See our guide to concerts in NYC

  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • Hell's Kitchen
  • price 2 of 4
  • Recommended
Part cabaret, part piano bar and part social set, Cast Party offers a chance to hear rising and established talents step up to the microphone (backed by the slap and tickle of Steve Doyle on bass and Billy Stritch at the ivories, plus the bang of Daniel Glass on drums). The waggish Caruso presides as host.
  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • East Village
  • Recommended
He’s worked with Liza Minnelli, Kylie Minogue and just about every downtown act in NYC. Now composer, pianist and performer Lance Horne hosts his own wild night of singing, drinking and dancing, strip-teasing and bad behavior at the East Village nightlife hub Club Cumming. Expect advanced show-tune geekery and appearances by Broadway stars looking to get down by the piano. Plan to sleep in on Tuesday.
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  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • Midtown West
  • price 3 of 4
  • Recommended
The complementary Callaway sisters—sunny Broadway belter Liz and shady-toned jazz swinger Ann—twine voices once again in a 15th-anniversary reprise of their duo show Boom!, a set of songs from the 1960s and 1970s that includes material by Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, the Beatles and the Simons Carly and Paul.
  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • Noho
  • price 2 of 4
  • Recommended
Jason Kravits is a character actor (The Practice) and clever songwriter who won notice with "Harrison," which imagined a Hamilton-like musical about the short-termed president William Henry Harrison. His extremely funny full-length show is devoted to improvisational comic songwriting based on audience suggestions—a high-wire act that is guaranteed to put a grin on your face.
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  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • Noho
  • price 2 of 4
  • Recommended
As an actor, the astute Emily Bergl has distinguished herself onstage and onscreen; she also sings with real charm. On her night off from the Broadway musical Just in Time, in which she plays Bobby Darin's sister, she continues her distinguished cabaret side hustle in a set that ranges from Broadway greats like Cy Coleman and Rodgers and Hammerstein to current hitmakers like Sabrina Carpenter and SZA.
  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • Midtown West
  • price 3 of 4
  • Recommended
The superb Brazilian operatic baritone Paulo Szot, who made Lincoln Center audiences swoon in his Tony-winning turn as Emile De Becque in South Pacific, returns to 54 Below with a set of music drawn from musical theater traditions around the world, including Broadway and the Spanish zarzuela. Luke Frazier serves as musical director, joined by members of the American Pops Orchestra.
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  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • Noho
  • price 2 of 4
  • Recommended
Actor-musicians Lauren Molina (Sweeney Todd) and Nick Cearley (All Shook Up) are not only talented at playing the cello, ukulele and glockenspiel but also at performing stripped-down versions of pop songs in their underwear, with multiple Broadway guest stars sharing their talents in the flesh. Guest hotties at this latest edition include Matt Doyle, Andrew Keenan Bolger, Andy Mientus, John Riddle, Nora Schell, Kuhoo Verma and Maria Wirries.
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