A cabaret is a small room, a big piano, and a singer who 

  tells us the story of our hearts. The singular beauty of 

  cabaret is its intimacy. The singer is right there to enchant

  us. The songs can be from anywhere. If American Popular 

  Song from the 1920s through the 1950s tends to be so big

  a part of cabaret, it's because the wit and beauty of the 

  standards serve the form so well. (Some would say they 

  created it in America.) But cabaret is a big tent, and jazz,

  contemporary pop and show tunes, fol and rock all carry 

  weight. It's up to the singer and the show. The best cabaret  

  singers show us what it is to be in love and out, to be

  funny, angry, joyous, lonely, vulnerable, strong, hungry, 

  witty, smart, self-possessed, sad and fierce. It is revealed to

  us in their stories , in the lyric, the melody, the acting, the 

  theatre, and in the souls of the performers who show us 

  just enough of themselves. The best cabaret shows lead us

  through an arc with a beginning, a middle, and an end,  

  when we know we've been touched and moved. Come join

  us. Cabaret is a home for the heart. It makes a kind of 

  magic that happens nowhere else.