Steve Ross Sings Love Songs at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Ross delighted a full house with his olde worlde charm and an array of magical melodies from the Golden Age of American musicals.
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Sirens of Swing: Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry
Sirens of Swing: Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry. Unbridled joy at the annual visit of the magnificent American singer/songwriter/pianist Ann Hampton Callaway mixes with melancholy as an era is coming to an end at Chelsea’s beloved cabaret room, The Pheasantry.
Five Questions With: Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway’s show Sirens of Swing arrives at London’s The Pheasantry this week, from 25-27 October 2024. The Tony-nominated will be performing selections from her highly acclaimed recordings To Ella with Love, From Sassy to Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project and Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration! as well as signature songs from singers Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Etta James and more.
Jeff Harnar Sings Sammy Cahn – The Pheasantry
Jeff Harnar Sings Sammy Cahn at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Holding the loving audience in the palm of his hand as as he has throughout the evening’s 60 minutes of pure musical bliss.
Such Good Friends: Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Such Good Friends: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A choice collection and every one a winner.
Five Questions With: Natalie Douglas
New York cabaret legend Natalie Douglas pays her thirteenth working visit to London when she plays The Pheasantry in Chelsea’s Kings Road from 9-11 May 2024. She’ll be singing songs from the 1960s, some of them from her new album Back to the Garden.
An Evening of Jake Thackray: Stefan Bednarczyk – The Pheasantry
An Evening of Jake Thackray: Stefan Bednarczyk at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s always a wonderful surprise when a show is twice as good as you expected it to be and this lovely evening with the charmingly old-school Stefan Bednarczyk, despite his name a quintessential English gentleman, regaling us with the oh-so-clever work of a half-forgotten singer-songwriter was all that and more.
Ann Hampton Callaway: Finding Beauty – Inspired Classics and Originals – The Pheasantry
Ann Hampton Callaway: Finding Beauty – Inspired Classics and Originals continues at The Pheasantry, London until 25 November 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Here Come the Dreamers: Maude Maggart – The Pheasantry
Here Come the Dreamers: Maude Maggart at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
From List to Lust: Steve Ross Sings Cole Porter – The Pheasantry
From List to Lust: Steve Ross Sings Cole Porter at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman – The Pheasantry
Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The great Harnar was at the top of his game, holding the loving audience in the palm of his hand. An affair to remember indeed.
INTERVIEW: Jeff Harnar celebrates his new album A Collective Cy at London’s The Pheasantry
Award-winning vocalist JEFF HARNAR will be celebrating the release of his album A Collective Cy: Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman – featuring both hits and rarities from the Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer of Sweet Charity, City of Angels and more – with two special London concerts at The Pheasantry on 27 and 28 September 2023.
Beautiful World: Janie Dee – The Pheasantry
Beautiful World: Janie Dee at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A ‘Beautiful World’ indeed… thank goodness there are caring people like Janie Dee and Alex Parker around to make it even more wonderful.
Christina Bianco’s Birthday Bash – The Pheasantry
Christina Bianco’s Birthday Bash at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Christina Bianco is far more than the sum of her near-200 impersonations and the pocket dynamo New Yorker used her two-night Pheasantry debut to tell the world she’s a serious singer-entertainer in her own right.
Autumn Serenades: Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
Autumn Serenades – Steve Ross at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Live… And Still Kicking! Bonnie Langford – The Pheasantry
Live… And Still Kicking! Bonnie Langford at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Is there anything that lovable, high-kicking, eternally youthful Bonnie Langford cannot do? For over half a century we’ve seen this incredibly versatile entertainer do pretty well everything in the worlds of musical theatre and television but what’s far less well-known is that she’s a fabulous cabaret performer with a great gift as a storyteller.
Songs My Mother Would Have Hated: Dillie Keane – The Pheasantry
Songs My Mother Would Have Hated: Dillie Keane at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Nina Kristofferson sings Billie Holiday – The Pheasantry
Nina Kristofferson sings Billie Holiday at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ On any list, there are only a small handful of popular singers like Lenya, Piaf and Garland near the top of it, who enter into the class of the singer-actor, investing their interpretations with an emotional charge […]
Lady Macbeth Sings The Blues: Amanda McBroom With Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry
Lady Macbeth Sings The Blues: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Dream Team were back in town – American cabaret great Amanda McBroom and her longtime songwriting partner Michele Brourman – and what a blast it was to see them again at […]
An Evening with Lee Mead – The Pheasantry
An Evening with Lee Mead at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is 15 years since Lee Mead’s life changed and, out of 10,000 applicants, he won Andrew Lloyd Webber’s TV talent show search for an unknown to play the title role in the 2007 West End revival of Joseph […]
I Know Things Now: Jeff Harnar Sings Sondheim – The Pheasantry
I Know Things Now: Jeff Harnar Sings Sondheim at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Dapper American cabaret star Jeff Harnar brought his unique, virtually sung-through Sondheim show back to The Pheasantry two years after he launched it at the famed Chelsea cabaret room and it was even better, even sharper than […]
Kerry’s Christmas: Kerry Ellis – The Pheasantry, Chelsea
Kerry’s Christmas: Kerry Ellis at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ How times change! The last time I reviewed Kerry Ellis at The Pheasantry long before all those endless lockdowns the place was rammed, as you would expect for a singer of her popularity, and the only table they […]
Singer-songwriter and actress Ann Hampton Callaway chats about life during lockdown & returning to the joy of live music and theatre
Chicago-born singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY was recently in London performing her show The Judy Garland Songbook at The Pheasantry and Cinematic Serenade at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho. In high school, Ann performed in musicals and after graduation studied acting at the University of Illinois […]
And So It Goes, Life & Love, Lost & Found: Christine Andreas – The Pheasantry
And So It Goes, Life & Love, Lost & Found: Christine Andreas at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s a mystery why the feisty and totally brilliant American songstress Christine Andreas does not have a bigger UK fan club as The Pheasantry was nowhere near as full as […]
The Judy Garland Songbook / Cinematic Serenade – Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry / Pizza Express Jazz Club
Ann Hampton Callaway performed The Judy Garland Songbook at The Pheasantry, London and Cinematic Serenade at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Superlative American diva Ann Hampton Callaway has been rocking my boat for 30 years now – I first saw AHC at Pizza on the Park […]
Looking Forward with Janie Dee – The Pheasantry
Looking Forward with Janie Dee at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From the moment a beckoning finger parted the curtain on The Pheasantry balcony, followed by a tantalising arm and then the full Janie package clad in a shimmering crimson-red dress, the captivating Miss Dee had us under […]
Love, Hate and Everything Between: Adele Anderson (with Dean Austin) – The Pheasantry
Love, Hate and Everything Between: Adele Anderson (with Dean Austin) at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Adele Anderson is full of surprises, all of them nice ones. The tallest member of Fascinating Aida finds songs no one else sings and only a few know, then turns them into little masterpieces we want […]
Broadway Meets West End: Matthew Goodgame – The Pheasantry
Broadway Meets West End: Matthew Goodgame at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What could be more apt on the eve of England’s most important football game since they won the World Cup 55 years ago than having the debonair Matthew Goodgame top the bill at The Pheasantry? Nobody […]
Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries: Maria Kesselman – The Pheasantry
Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries: Maria Kesselman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After 15 long months of cabaret deprivation, there was an undeniable buzz as The Pheasantry reopened with the delightful Maria Kesselman serenading a glad-to-be-back audience that would have been twice as big if Boris had […]
I Know Things Now: Jeff Harnar Sings Sondheim – The Pheasantry
I Know Things Now: Jeff Harnar Sings Sondheim at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Smooth, polished, inventive… dapper American cabaret star Jeff Harnar makes singing look easy, even when confronted by Stephen Sondheim’s notoriously difficult lyrics. The Californian, now 60 (but you’d never have guessed it), seems to […]
Book Review: The Pheasantry – The Untold Story
To coincide with The Pheasantry’s tenth anniversary as a seven-day-a-week cabaret venue, Joanna Strand, a performer there herself, has written a lavishly illustrated book tracing the history of the Chelsea nightspot right back to its 1865 roots when Jacko the ring-tailed monkey lived there. Way back in the last century ballet royalty Alicia Markova and […]
Nicky Haslam, Earl Okin and Elaine Delmar – The Pheasantry
Nicky Haslam, Earl Okin and Elaine Delmar performed at The Pheasantry, London (The Pheasantry’s tenth anniversary celebrations finale). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The last night of the tenth anniversary week at The Pheasantry presented another three of the venue’s favourite performers, as the previous shows had also done. Introducing them, […]
Fascinating Aida leads The Pheasantry’s tenth anniversary celebrations
Fascinating Aida, Summer Strallen and Dominic Alldis – The Pheasantry, London Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ You won’t find anyone better to launch a four-day festival celebrating the tenth anniversary of Chelsea nightspot The Pheasantry as a cabaret venue than the wickedly funny Fascinating Aida. Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza […]
I Have Lived: Jean Brassard Salutes Charles Aznavour – The Pheasantry
I Have Lived: Jean Brassard Salutes Charles Aznavour continues at The Pheasantry, London until 12 October 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ French-Canadian charmer Jean Brassard brings the European premiere of his Charles Aznavour tribute show to The Pheasantry and does full justice to the legendary singer-songwriter-actor once voted top entertainer […]
Chelsea nightspot The Pheasantry celebrates its tenth anniversary
Chelsea nightspot The Pheasantry celebrates its tenth anniversary since taking over the much-missed Pizza on the Park as Pizza Express’ flagship cabaret venue with four spectacular concerts in November. Cabaret, musical theatre, jazz, pop and comedy giants will join forces from 11-14 November 2019 for gala evenings which will start with a champagne reception. Fascinating […]
Gotta Have Hart and Hammerstein: Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
Gotta Have Hart and Hammerstein: Steve Ross at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Manhattan cabaret legend Steve Ross may be in his ninth decade but it’s all still there, the charm, the sophistication, the style of a bygone era and, above all, the knowledge. This was yet another […]
Songs of Bernadette: Bernadette Robinson at The Pheasantry
Songs of Bernadette: Bernadette Robinson at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ You got 11 divas for the price of one when Bernadette Robinson, an Australian actress-singer-songwriter with a massive talent for impersonation, made a striking debut at The Pheasantry. Little known in this country until garnering excellent reviews for her one-woman musical […]
Standards and Ann-dards: Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry,
Standards and Ann-dards: Ann Hampton Callaway at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When in the early 1990s the Prince of New York cabaret Steve Ross instructed me “on no account to miss” an exciting new name on the Manhattan beat when she debuted at Pizza on the Park. Little did […]
Love Notes: Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry, London
Love Notes: Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s not much of pianist-singer-songwriter Michele Brourman but what there is is pure gold. I am no expert on pianists but if there’s anyone who plays a more educated piano, whether jazzy and thrilling or slow and heartbreaking, than this Los […]
Here’s To Life: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry
Here’s To Life: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Any visit by the elegant Los Angeles singer-songwriters Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman is a cause for celebration and their four-day residency at The Pheasantry was its usual mix of sad songs, topical ones, […]
Vivian Reed – The Pheasantry
Vivian Reed performed at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For two special nights a magical event happened: the too long overdue London debut of a glittering Broadway star, Vivian Reed. Although she repeated in Paris her Tony Award-winning performance in the musical revue Bubbling Brown Sugar and subsequently had a […]
Looking Forward with Janie Dee – The Pheasantry, London
Looking Forward with Janie Dee at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The adorable, dee-licious and absurdly talented Janie Dee doesn’t believe in letting the grass grow under her feet and she managed to slip in a couple of cabaret nights at The Pheasantry as part of her crowded […]
Marti Webb – The Pheasantry
Marti Webb at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ British singers who have shows written specifically for them, particularly when those writers are as famous as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black, are few but their brilliant song cycle Tell Me On a Sunday transformed Marti Webb from singers’ […]
More Coward: Stefan Bednarczyk – The Pheasantry
More Coward: Stefan Bednarczyk at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is 66 years since Noel Coward wrote the wickedly prophetic ‘There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner’ but in these dark Brexit days the bitingly witty words could not be more timely. The redoubtable Stefan Bednarczyk brought his […]
CD Reviews: Christine Andreas: Piaf No Regrets & Michele Brourman: The Price of Love
Two regular transatlantic visitors to famed Chelsea cabaret room The Pheasantry, evergreen Broadway star Christine Andreas and Los Angeles pianist-singer-songwriter Michele Brourman, have brought out stunning CDs that are well worth a listen. Andreas, who took over from Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in the 1976 Broadway My Fair Lady and later was Tony-nominated for […]
Piaf – No Regrets: Christine Andreas – The Pheasantry
Piaf – No Regrets: Christine Andreas at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ One of the finest voices in the cabaret world, two-time Tony nominee Christine Andreas was at her electrifying best in a three-night residency at The Pheasantry. Superbly accompanied by composer husband Martin Silvestri on piano and […]
The Essential Dame Shirley – Natalie Douglas – The Pheasantry
The Essential Dame Shirley was performed by Natalie Douglas at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★★ ✩ The warm, big-voiced Natalie Douglas is one of the elite, award-winning names on the New York cabaret circuit so it was hugely disappointing that she had a small first-night audience when she brought her Shirley […]
Travels With My Piano: Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
Travels With My Piano: Steve Ross at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The London cabaret scene is a better place when New York legend Steve Ross is in town and on the first of a three-night stint at famed Chelsea nightspot The Pheasantry he took us on a magical […]
A Step Beyond the Rain: Karen Oberlin – The Pheasantry
A Step Beyond the Rain: Karen Oberlin at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The lustrous New York cabaret star Karen Oberlin brought back to London a show that she called Over the Rainbow at the Crazy Coqs in 2013 but is now tweaked and renamed A Step Beyond the Rain. Either […]
