(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- NiCori Studios & Productions will present the fourth annual New Jersey Cabaret Festival at Chu Family Hall, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship on Sunday, November 30, 2025. Showtime is 4:00pm.
The festival is hosted by multi-award-nominated vocalist and educator Corinna Sowers Adler and award-winning vocalist and educator Stearns Matthews. Musical Direction is by 17-time MAC Award-winning pianist / arranger / conductor / singer-songwriter Tracy Stark.
The New Jersey Cabaret Festival hosts performers who were born, currently live, or have performed exclusively in New Jersey. This year's lineup features (in alphabetical order): Wendy Lane Bailey, Ami Brabson, Jeff Foote, Eric Yves Garcia, James Horan, Rosemary Loar, Matthew Luminello, Carolyn Montgomery, Nicole Spano, Susan Speidel, THOSE GIRLS, Laurie Vega, Lisa Viggiano, Lisa Yaeger, and more!
Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for seniors. Tickets are available for purchase online. Tickets at the door: $35 (CASH only). Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Chu Family Hall is located at 21 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown, New Jersey.
Corinna Sowers Adler is Founding Artistic Director and Nicholas Adler is Executive Director of NiCori Studios & Productions, dedicated to bringing Theatre and Vocal Arts Education programming and performance to the next generation of the American Songbook.
Corinna Sowers Adler has been nominated for the special Excellence in Theatre Education Tony Award every year since its inception in 2015. She made her solo New York Cabaret Debut in 2010 at the Laurie Beechman Theater in Stories...A Cabaret. Since then, Corinna has been in high demand, performing solo shows in NYC at the Triad, the Duplex, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Metropolitan Room, 54 Below, The Green Room 42, and the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center where she debuted the concert series Music Over Manhattan. Corinna was honored to make her Lincoln Center debut as a featured singer on The 24th Annual Cabaret Convention held at Jazz at Lincoln Center presented by The Mabel Mercer Foundation and has appeared several times on the convention since then. She has performed her concert entitled Corinna Sowers Adler in: Something Beautiful around the US and in The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center to rave reviews. Corinna will perform her new show, All that Matters, for a fourth time at Don't Tell Mama, on Saturday, December 6.
Stearns Matthews is a MAC and Bistro Award winning vocalist based in New York City whose recent appearances include The Town Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Feinstein's/54 Below, and The Metropolitan Room. His critically acclaimed debut album SPARK won the 2015 Bistro Award for Outstanding Recording as well as the LaMott/Friedman Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs Award for Outstanding Recording. He also won the 2015 MAC Award for Best Male Vocalist. Stearns holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Theater from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2017, Matthews released his recording of the song cycle December Songs, words and music by Maury Yeston. This marks the first time the cycle has been recorded with a male singer. His private voice studio has a diverse client list from beginners to experienced Broadway performers. His work as a director has been seen at Emory & Henry College, Narrows Community Theatre, Westminster Choir College, and Smoke Rise Children's Theatre.
Tracy Stark, Pianist/Arranger/Conductor/SingerSongwriter, is a 17-Time MAC Award winner (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs), in the categories of Music Director, Piano Bar Entertainer, and Song of the Year. She is also a Bistro Award winner for Musical Direction, a Broadway World winner for Music Direction, and has won Cabaret Hotline's Songwriter of the Year Award. Tracy has worked with Sarah Dash (Labelle), Nona Hendryx (Labelle), Randy Jones (Village People), Lesley Gore, Phoebe Snow, Karen Black, Barb Jungr, Brenda Braxton, Eric Millegan (Bones), Tonya Pinkins, Nathan Lee Graham, and hundreds of other rock, jazz, and broadway vocalists. She stays busy creating and music directing 75-100 different shows per year, in addition to her ongoing work as music director for the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Conference since 2013. She has conducted, played, and sung at all the finest and the sleaziest venues all over the world. She has played/conducted on numerous television shows, including The Today Show. She has 3 CD's of original music in her catalogue, and her songs are included on at least 20 different compilations, and have been winning accolades in songwriting competitions for the past 2 decades. Her 3rd CD of original music, Shades of Beautiful, was released on the Miranda Music label, exquisitely produced by Richard Barone, with world class vocalists, including Lillias White, Nona Hendryx, Ann Hampton Callaway, Lesley Gore, Jane Monheit, Janis Siegel, Karen Black, Barb Jungr, and other great artists.
Chu Family Hall is a new addition to the Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, located at 21 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ. The 4,000-square-foot space serves as the primary gathering place for the congregation. It's used for worship, meetings, special events, and to support the Fellowship's social justice and charitable work. The new hall also includes classrooms, a modern kitchen, a welcome gallery, and sustainable features, while complementing the original historic Thorne Mansion building, currently the headquarters for the Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Thorne Mansion, also known as Thorne Oaks, was built in 1912 for William V.S. Thorne, a wealthy financier in the railroad industry. The red brick house was designed by the architectural firm Delano & Aldrich and features neo-Georgian style. Thorne Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978, for significance in architecture, commerce, and social history.
NiCori is dedicated to educating both amateur and seasoned performing artists alike. Voice lessons, musical theatre classes, acting workshops, songwriting workshops, dance classes, and technical theatre workshops are all part of the curriculum that makes NiCori the place to create grow as an artist, a performer, and a person. NiCori Studios and Productions believes that nurturing the whole person is as important as training the instrument of our performers.
