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The best cabaret shows in NYC this week

Get up close and personal with the best nightclub singers in New York every week at Gotham's best cabaret shows

Adam Feldman
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Adam Feldman
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In an age of globalism, cabaret is a fundamentally local art: a private concert in an intimate nightclub, where music and storytelling merge at close range. And no city offers as wide a range of thrilling cabaret artists as New York City, from Broadway and pop legends like Patti LuPone and Debbie Harry to outrageous downtown provocateurs like Bridget Everett and Taylor Mac, drag stars like Alaska and Dina Martina and world-class interpreters like Alan Cumming and Meow Meow. Here's where to find the best of them this week.

Best Cabaret Shows in NYC This Week

  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • price 2 of 4
  • Hell's KitchenOpen run
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
  • price 0 of 4
  • East Village
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
  • price 2 of 4
  • Hell's Kitchen
Mosher is one of those talents you need to see to believe: warm, funny, biting, ferociously committed. In her weekly series at the downstairs Birdland Theater, she invites a gaggle of performers from Broadway and beyond to show their talents. 
  • Music
  • Cabaret and standards
  • price 2 of 4
  • Hell's Kitchen
Bask in the glow of rising stars at this bimonthly après-theater variety show, hosted by the gregarious Ben Cameron, where cast members of current Broadway musicals—a different show each time—unwind from that night's performance, show off their triple-threat talents and play games with the audience. Come early to win shots by getting up and singing yourself. The cast of the Neil Diamond jukebox musical A Beautiful Noise joins the fun on March 2.
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