Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright brings a legendary New York legacy to the stage by interpreting Laura Nyro’s songs inspired by Manhattan—in all the sweeping emotion, stirring poetry, and pioneering genre-defiance the city brought out in the infinitely wise-beyond-her-years artist when she was just coming into adulthood. Wainwright also performs selections from her own body of work that resonate thematically with Nyro’s songs. 

 Produced by BAM President Emerita Karen Brooks Hopkins and producer/director Carol Polakoff and featuring Thomas Bartlett (the pianist/producer/singer known as Doveman) and multi-reedist Doug Wieselman (both frequent Wainwright collaborators), Martha Wainwright Sings Laura Nyro brings a fresh interpretation to the astonishing songwriting of a voice lost far too early, in an evening equally engaging for Nyro aficionados and neophytes alike.

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