Photo: Nicole Freezer Rubens

First, for all who are observing this weekend, we wish you a Happy Passover! And we continue to pray for the release of all the Hamas-held hostages. In a little over a month, we will be gathering at the Scandinavia House for our 9th Renewal Summit. Our Long Island reporter highlights 4 women who will inspire your morning routine! Cabaret is alive and well and we celebrate this year’s MAC winners and a fundraiser for the new season of cabaret in the Hamptons. And we’re highlighting three special museum exhibits now open.

May 16. Renewal Summit Panel Highlight: Your Body from Head to Toe

This engaging session brings together 6 leading doctors and health experts to guide you through a comprehensive journey of health and well-being, covering every aspect from head to toe. In dynamic 15-minute segments, you’ll hear from renowned experts who will provide invaluable knowledge to help you maintain and enhance your overall health and vitality. Check out this session and the full day’s program. GET THE DETAILS.

4 Women Who Will Inspire Your Morning Routine

Our Long Island reporter Andrea Peponikis says there’s something magical about April mornings on Long Island—the way the light stretches a little longer, the birdsong grows a little louder, and hope seems to arrive with the sunrise. For many women, especially those in their golden years, these early hours are more than a peaceful pause—they’re a sacred ritual, a reset, a chance to step into the day with clarity and intention. She highlights the morning rituals of 4 women. READ ON.

Tomatoes Got Talent Alum Take Home MAC Awards

Randie Levine Miller, Roni Jenkins, and I are thrilled to announce that two remarkable alumni of our Tomatoes Got Talent shows were recognized with prestigious awards at the MAC Awards last night, a ceremony dedicated to celebrating excellence in cabaret, jazz, and comedy performances. Susan Mack received the award for Best Female Vocalist, while Sheree Sano was honored with the award for Best Female New York Debut. The MAC Awards, presented annually by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, shine a spotlight on outstanding artists and contributions to the performing arts community. It’s a wonderful achievement for these talented individuals! CHECK OUT THE FULL LIST.

May 7. Friendraiser for Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea

Masters of the art of cabaret will gather at Triad Theater in Manhattan for the 2nd annual friendraiser for the upcoming season of Hamptons Summer Songbook By the Sea at LTV Studios, cabaret’s home in East Hampton. Raise a glass with these fine vocal interpreters in NYC before heading East for a summer of melodic fun!

LTV Studios hosts a roster of the world’s best cabaret and Broadway artists, including Eric Comstock, Barbara Fasano, Steve Ross, Karen Murphy, Maria Abous, David Alpern, Mark Nadler, KT Sullivan, Marta Sanders, Natalie Douglas, Craig Rubano, and more to be announced. Many of these artists will make an advance appearance at The Triad on May 7, in this musical salute to the new season of Hamptons Summer Songbook By the Sea. (Performers subject to change.) Produced by Donna Rubin and LTV’s Creative Director Josh Gladstone, Hamptons Summer Songbook By the Sea, an annual concert series celebrating the American Songbook as performed and interpreted by the region’s finest artists, is presented in the unique environs of LTV’s intimate Studio Three Theater in Wainscott, NY. The performance schedule for summer 2025 will be announced soon: https://www.ltveh.org/hamptons-summer-songbook.

TRIAD THEATER

158 West 72nd St, 2nd floor | New York, NY 10023 | www.triadnyc.com

$75 + 2 Drink Minimum per person

TICKETS: https://shorturl.at/oQALq

Roving in the Gold

Our roving photographer, Nicole Freezer Rubens, writes:

Go and glow up at the Brooklyn Museum’s Solid Gold exhibition. This thorough tribute to the glorious metal gold, showcases how the element has inspired and impacted all arenas from jewelry to fashion, fine art, furniture, cinema and religion. My favorite perspective conveyed is how it has been constantly utilized in couture clothing. Some shining examples include Christian Dior, Diane Von Furstenberg, Halston, Yves Saint Laurent and even Nike.This show is one of several marking the museum’s 200th anniversary. It concludes with a classic poem by Robert Frost that is mounted by the exit of the show.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Like all that is fleeting, this show is on view through July 6th. It’s an enchanted world worth visiting before it disappears. GET TICKETS.

~Nicole Freezer Rubens is the author of “The Long Pause and the Short Breath”

Sargent and Paris at the MET

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition titled “Sargent and Paris” from April 21 to August 3, 2025. This exhibition explores the early career of John Singer Sargent, focusing on his transformative decade in Paris. It features around 100 works, including preparatory sketches, daring masterpieces, and the iconic portrait Madame X.

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Musée d’Orsay, and after its run at The Met, it will move to Paris from September 22, 2025, to January 11, 2026. If you’re interested, you can find more details here.

Now-August 10. Amy Sherald Portraits at the Whitney

The exhibition “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This is Sherald’s first major solo exhibition in New York and features nearly 50 paintings spanning her career from 2007 to the present. The show includes iconic works such as her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, alongside new pieces and early works rarely seen before. Sherald’s use of grayscale for skin tones and vibrant backgrounds creates a striking visual narrative that challenges traditional notions of American identity.