Brenda Bergman News

CANDIED CAMERA LIVE! at LA MAMA - Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the 'Storied' Public Access TV Program - opens tonight. Don't miss this on-stage variety show with special guests Michael Musto, Kevin Aviance, Lauren Ezersky, and Linda Simpson.

La MaMa will present “Candied Camera LIVE!” – Nora Burns’ tongue-in-chic variety show (think “The Comeback” meets Spinal Tap) with guests, monologues, a multi-media mix of video clips and, of course, go-go boys.

LA MAMA will present “CANDIED CAMERA LIVE!” - a variety show celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 'Storied' public access TV program. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets!

Some of the most important playwrights and performers in avant-garde theater present staged readings of new works in progress at the intimate, ultimate downtown theatrical event: Writers Block 2016 presented by Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project to showcase the vision of contemporary writers, performers and artists, many of whom got their start in the nightclubs, seminal performance spaces, and theaters in the EV/LES.

The musical comedy about nightclub singers and night-time musical fantasies - Humpty Dumpty Cracks Up: The Nightmare of Cabaret --- will be performed in Manhattan on November 23, 24, and 25. The cast includes cabaret singers themselves in prominent and cameo roles, along with singer-actors who are kids, teens and adults (senior citizens among them). In the year marking her triumphant nightclub return, not resting her laurels or her tuffet, singer KAREN WYMAN is featured as Little Miss Muffet, writer of self-help books for arachnophobes and bullied teens. Cabaret-goers will find other favorites in the cast such as TERESA FISCHER as the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Rotating guests in cameo and featured roles include such folks as RICKY RITZEL at the first performance, The Duplex's THOMAS HONECK at the middle performance, and CHRISTINE LAVIN on the Monday night. As the legendary Little Bo Peep, TANYA MOBERLY sheepishly appears at the first and third performances. The plot concerns a first-time cabaret performer (WENDY RUSSELL), her singer pal (BRENDA BERGMAN) and strange dreams about nursery rhyme characters putting on cabaret acts.

The Howl Help Festival presents A PATCH OF BLUR, An Un-authorized, Satirical Jukebox Musical, Fractured & Directed by Kevin Malony, tonight, October 18 - 21, 2012 at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street @ Pitt LES NYC.

The Howl Help Festival presents A PATCH OF BLUR, An Un-authorized, Satirical Jukebox Musical, Fractured & Directed by Kevin Malony, October 18 - 21, 2012 at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street @ Pitt LES NYC.

The RRazz Room, San Francisco's premier nightclub, will welcome back acclaimed entertainer Lypsinka for a special two-week engagement from tonight, September 4 to 16 to celebrate Lypsinka's 30th anniversary. She will recreate the widely popular show 'The Passion of the Crawford' - a fab fantasia about the refraction of celebrity and addiction to fame - for the first time in the Bay Area in more than five years.

The RRazz Room, San Francisco's premier nightclub, will welcome back acclaimed entertainer Lypsinka for a special two-week engagement from September 4 to 16 to celebrate Lypsinka's 30th anniversary. She will recreate the widely popular show 'The Passion of the Crawford' - a fab fantasia about the refraction of celebrity and addiction to fame - for the first time in the Bay Area in more than five years.

HOWL! Arts Project and TWEED Music Series present REMEMBER: THE SONGS OF HARRY NILSSON - a tribute to one of the latter 20th Century's greatest singer/songwriters -- on Wednesday, October 12 at 8:00pm at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks Place) in Manhattan, as part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011. Carol Lipnik curates the evening directed by Kevin Malony, with musical direction by Charly Roth.

HOWL! Arts Project and TWEED Fractured Classicks Series present WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE starring Penny Arcade and Brenda Bergman tonight and Sunday, October 9 at 8:00 pm at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks Place), as part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011.

Join Miss Linda Simpson and Mr. Murray Hill, two of Downtown's wittiest and side-splittingly funny Bingo Callers and Drag Legends, for an evening totally dedicated to America's favorite sit-down sport- BINGO! - as part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011 tonight at Theatre 80 St Marks (80 St Marks Place).

HOWL! Arts Project and TWEED Music Series present REMEMBER: THE SONGS OF HARRY NILSSON - a tribute to one of the latter 20th Century's greatest singer/songwriters -- on Wednesday, October 12 at 8:00pm at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks Place) in Manhattan, as part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011. Carol Lipnik curates the evening directed by Kevin Malony, with musical direction by Charly Roth.

Join Miss Linda Simpson and Mr. Murray Hill, two of Downtown's wittiest and side-splittingly funny Bingo Callers and Drag Legends, for an evening totally dedicated to America's favorite sit-down sport- BINGO! - as part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011 on Thursday, October 6 at Theatre 80 St Marks (80 St Marks Place).

HOWL! Arts Project and TWEED Fractured Classicks Series present WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE STARRING PENNY ARCADE AND BRENDA BERGMAN on Saturday, October 8 and Sunday, October 9 at 8:00pm at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks Place) in Manhattan, as part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011.

TWEED Theaterworks and God's Love We Deliver are excited to announce that Caroline Rhea, Robert La Fosse as Isadora Duncan, Frank DeCaro and Gina Vitro's Flopera! will be joining the already stellar line up at FOLLY: The Grand Street Follies 2009, being held at Abrons Arts Center on Friday February 27 and Saturday February 28.

TWEED TheaterWorks, in association with Robbi Kearns, will bring back the vaudeville Follies when such beloved artists as Rufus Wainwright, Lypsinka, Jackie Hoffman, Julie Halston, David Ilku, Brenda Bergman and Lady Bunny participate in 'FOLLY: The Grand Street Folles, 2009,' a fundraiser for God's Love We Deliver and TWEED Theaterworks on February 27 and 28, 2009 at 8pm at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St.) in Manhattan. 'FOLLY: The Grand Street Follies, 2009', inspired by the follies of the 20's -- but billed as a 'Vaudeville for the New Depression' -- will be an 'old school' vaudeville show featuring live acts: comedy, intriguing skits, unusual musical numbers, spectacle extravaganzas and more than a few surprises.