Klea Blackhurst News

On Sunday, July 29 at 7 PM, 'Billy Stritch and The Girls' was presented as part of Broadway at Birdland.

The Mabel Mercer Foundation's 2007 New York Cabaret Convention will include the talents of Andrea Marcovicci, Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole and Julie Wilson

Ashley Brown, Lucie Arnaz, Michele Lee, Christine Ebersole, Stephanie J. Block and more have joined the July Broadway at Birdland line-up of performances.

This year's Bistro Awards for Oustanding Excellence in Cabaret were given out Mon., April 9, at the Gotham Comedy Club.

On Sunday, April 1st, jazz legend Marilyn Maye and Billy Stritch ended their SRO run at the Metropolitan Room

On March 29th, the Metropolitan Room hosted a star-studded edition of 'Jamie deRoy & friends,' as well as a performance by Marilyn Maye

Back Stage cabaret writers David Finkle and John Hoglund and editor-at-large Sherry Eaker just announced the winners of the 2007 Back Stage Bistro Awards for Outstanding Excellence in Cabaret in their current issue.

Ann Harada, Klea Blackhurst, Heidi Blickenstaff and more will perform in a reading of the new musical Gay Grimms on Thursday, January 11th at 7:30 PM at the York Theatre Company

The York Theatre Company, James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, and Jeff Landsman, Series Coordinator, will present as part of its Developmental Reading Series the first reading of Gay Grimms on Thursday, January 11th at 7:30. The York Theatre Company is located in The Theatre at Saint Peter's Church, 54th Street just east of Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Admission is free. For reservations, call: 212-935-5824, ext. 24.

From November 9th through November 12th, MAC Award-winning cabaret and theatre star Klea Blackhurst and pianist/singer Billy Stritch paid tribute to the great songwriter in 'Dreaming of a Song: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael.'

Charles Busch, Jim Dale, Melissa Errico, James Naughton and over a dozen others will pay tribute to Broadway bookwriter and lyricist Michael Stewart on November 20th

Marilyn Maye, who has been a respected jazz and cabaret singer for decades, appeared at the Metropolitan Room on Thursday, October 18th with her show 'Marilyn Maye with Billy Stritch'

Donna Murphy and Mary Cleere Haran are among the stars who recently joined the 17th Annual Cabaret Convention, held from October 16th through 20th

Nancy Anderson's Monday night concert at Birdland on August 14th celebrated the release of her new CD, 'Ten Cents A Dance,' and brought out scores of cheering friends, family and former coworkers

The Michigan premiere of The Great American Trailer Park Musical at Mason Street Warehouse (MSW) in Saugatuck, Michigan, starring Klea Blackhurst, opened on July 14th

The regional premiere of The Great American Trailer Park Musical will take place at Mason Street Warehouse (MSW) in Saugatuck, Michigan from July 14th through July 30th; Klea Blackhurst will star

Some of the most acclaimed talents in the cabaret and musical theatre worlds--including Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Mason, Ann Hampton Callaway and Julie Wilson--will gather for 17th Annual New York Cabaret Convention, which will take place at the Frederick P. Rose Hall's Rose Theater of Lincoln Center from October 16th through 20th

'Jule Styne in Hollywood,' a concert celebrating the release of a new PS Classics Inc. CD and featuring Maria Friedman and others, took place at Birdland on May 22nd

PS Classics is now selling the London cast album of Sunday in the Park with George, as well as CDs dedicated to the songs of John Bucchino and Jule Styne

Maria Friedman, Leslie Uggams, Norm Lewis and more will take part in Jule Styne in Hollywood, a May 22nd Birdland concert