Sort of a Martini Bar, St. Vincent Returns to the Café Carlyle

St. Vincent is back at the Café Carlyle this week for three nights, October 27 to 29, and tonight, Wednesday, is the middle one, according to The Carlyle's event page.

East 76th Street is quiet at a quarter to nine. Inside the hotel, the room is not.

The Carlyle bills the stand as a special three-night engagement, with songs from across her career, from the favorites to the deeper cuts. The hotel calls her a six-time Grammy winner with eight albums, three of them winners of Best Alternative Music Album. The listing pitches the run as intimate and exclusive. It gives no set length and no list of songs.

Why Is St. Vincent Playing a Supper Club?

Because it worked the first time. St. Vincent, the stage name of Annie Clark, played three shows at the Café Carlyle in October 2025, and Relix reported in August that this year's return makes it an annual tradition.

Clark described last year's run in a March interview with Spectrum Culture. "The template for this is this little residency that we did at Café Carlyle in New York, which is sort of a martini bar," she said. She was talking about a bigger show in Portland built on the same idea. "I love these little duo cabaret shows," she added.

I love these little duo cabaret shows.

The duo, last year, was Clark on voice and guitar with the keyboardist Rachel Eckroth, Spectrum Culture's Holly Hazelwood writes. Clark's band stayed home. The Carlyle has not said who joins her this week.

Relix reports that the 2025 nights had covers from well outside her catalogue. She sang Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" and Rufus Wainwright's "Poses" on consecutive nights.

That is the appeal. An artist known for guitar noise and big stage pictures, in a room where the audience can hear the ice in the glass.

Who Else Is on the Carlyle Calendar?

A lot of New York's favorite voices. Playbill's Andrew Gans reported on Tuesday that the room has added three more names. Here is the season in date order, as Suite 646 has gathered it from Playbill's listing.

Christine Andreas, a two-time Tony nominee, plays Halloween night, October 31. John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey follow from November 3 to 14. The Righteous Brothers play November 17 to 19. Lena Hall, the Tony winner from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, plays November 20 and 21. Earl Rose and Friends with Tessa Lark play November 22, and Isaac Mizrahi plays November 27 and 28.

Kelli O'Hara returns December 1 to 12, and Peter Cincotti takes the room December 21 to 31. Kevin Griffin plays February 23 to 25, 2027. Adrienne Warren, the Tony winner from Tina, has an eight-show run next spring, but Playbill's listing gives an impossible range, starting May 22 and ending April 1, 2027. Check the Carlyle before you plan around it.

By our count, that is nine acts booked between St. Vincent and the end of February, with Warren to follow. O'Hara's December stand ties Pizzarelli and Molaskey for the longest span on the list, twelve calendar days each, and it comes before she heads to Broadway with Tom Hanks next fall.

The Carlyle's own rhythm is steady. Dinner reservations start at 6:30 and performances at 8:45, according to the Café Carlyle page.

What to Know Before You Go

The Café Carlyle is inside The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, at 35 East 76th Street. It opened in 1955. Reservations go through the hotel's Tock booking page or by phone at 212-744-1600, and the hotel does not post ticket prices on its event page.

Dress for it. The hotel calls the Café one of the best-dressed rooms on the Upper East Side and asks guests to skip hoodies, sweatpants, shorts, tank tops, baseball caps and athletic sneakers.

The room has a way of attracting big names for small nights. Earlier this month Bernadette Peters hosted the Fetch Pet Gala there.

St. Vincent played Radio City Music Hall with the New York Philharmonic in September, Relix notes. Relix also lists a February 20 date for her at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In between, she plays a martini bar.

On East 76th Street, that counts as the bigger night.