Elijah Taj Gee and Avery Sommers in The Devil’s Music. (Photo by Alex Shapiro) For the third show of his first season at the helm of The Theatre at Arts Garage, Keith Garsson has selected a bioplay-cum-concert featuring the song stylings of Bessie Smith, the Depression-era performer considered to be the “Empress of the Blues.” Featuring over a dozen musical numbers delivered … [Read more...]
Sommers debuts promising new cabaret act at Colony
Most of the featured acts at the Colony Hotel’s Royal Room are fixtures of the New York cabaret scene. While West Palm Beach’s Avery Sommers has made some inroads in that world, she is better-known for her musical theater work, on Broadway and across the country on tour. So it is understandable that her latest act, a one-hour set that opened Friday evening and continues at … [Read more...]