Arthur Shafman

As usual, the Equity professional, award-winning East Lynne Theater Company is accepting items for the Food Closet during the run of its holiday show. What is needed most are cereal, soup, bar soap, tuna, peanut butter, and dry spaghetti. For monetary donations, makes checks payable to The Community Food Closet of Cape May.

MUMMENSCHANZ, der unerreichte Mythos des Figuren- und Maskentheaters aus der Schweiz, wird im Juli 2015 eine Woche in Berlin gastieren. Von Shanghai uber Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Kapstadt und Jerusalem bis Teheran hat es noch kein Publikum gegeben, das von MUMMENSCHANZ nicht begeistert gewesen ware. Die Meister der Fantasie eroberten wiederholt den Broadway und feierten dort zuletzt im Dezember 2012 eine ausverkaufte Spielzeit am New Yorker Skirball Center.

Broadway producer Arthur Shafman passed away July 28, 2014. He was 75.

Another event, another packed house! DO40 presented its fourth annual Legacy Awards at their Holiday Dinner, this year again at the over-the-top LIPS restaurant in NYC. Honorees Norma Doggett-Bezwick, Larry Fuller, Carol Lawrence, George Marcy and Lee Roy Reams felt the warmth waft up to the dais. Check out photos from the awards inside!

48 solo singers are competing in the fifth annual "MetroStar Talent Challenge" at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street. The seven-week, jury-and audience-voted competition completes three weeks of trials next Monday July 23 (showtime at 7pm), after which the contest will announce the Top 18 contestants who will advance to the next round.

Rex Reed in 'The New York Observer' states KT Sullivan is in 'a league of her own,' and Stephen Holden in 'The New York Times' claims that watching her is 'a thrill ride.'

Award-winning cabaret star Andrea Marcovicci performed 'I'll Be Seeing You...Love Songs of World War II' at Town Hall on Friday, February 23 at 8 pm.