Café Society Swing continues at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London until 16 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The stories of so many of America’s greatest black cabaret and jazz stars are dominated by Café Society, the club in New York’s Greenwich Village which ran for ten years from 1938 to 1948. When […]
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Cafe Society Swing – 59E59 Theaters, New York
Cafe Society Swing continues at 59E59 Theaters, New York until 4 January. Those still mourning the demise this past June of After Midnight, the scintillating Broadway revue of music from New York’s legendary Cotton Club, can find some solace in Cafe Society Swing. This new Off-Broadway offering celebrates another ground-breaking Manhattan nightspot, Cafe Society, which […]
