Laurie Beechman News

Jonathan Whitton (Bistro & MAC Award Winner, HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH) continues his critically lauded concert residency with guitarist Aaron Jones at Don't Tell Mama. BLACK SHEEP CARNIVAL. BLACK SHEEP CARNVAL will play the Brick Room at Don't Tell Mama every first Monday through 2013 with dates scheduled for Monday, July 8, August 5,September 2, October 7, November 4, & December 2. All performances are at 7:30PM. Tickets are $10 plus a two-drink minimum.

This week at Joe's Pub at the Public, June 24 through June 30, 2013, will feature: 2G: Sixteen Going on Seventeen, Nellie McKay, Philippe Quint, Michael Bacon: Downtown Express, The Gonzalo Gergara Quartet, The Impossible Girl, Global Noize: Sly Reimagined, JP Jofre Quintet, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Slavic Soul Party, NY Theremin Society, Ryan Amador, No BS! Brass Band, Zoe Sarnak: A Lasting Impression, Davell Crawford, Brown Girls Burlesque, John Kelly: Rebel Songs, and Symphonic Sundays with Mother Falcon. Details below!

MAMMA MIA!'s Zak Resnick performed 'I'm Your Man' at Broadway Sessions on June 13th, 2013. Watch him sing below!

BROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron (Bway Wicked, Aida and Footloose) and features musical director Joshua Stephen Kartes on piano.

After a smash debut this spring, cabaret singer and songwriter Karen Gross will bring her buzzed-about show'Cabaret Mixtape' back to The Metropolitan Room at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, 2013. Advance reservations are requested by calling 212-206-0440 or ordering at www.metropolitanroom.com.

Broadway's Nadia Quinn (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) will be performing her own original comedic songs as part of a one-night-only cabaret titled My Big Gay 'Gay Camp' Talent Show, playing at the Laurie Beechman Theatre tonight, June 24 at 7pm.

Today, June 23rd A Time To Shine Youth Cabaret presents: BROADWAY NOW and will be celebrating accomplished teens from the Broadway community at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at The West Bank Cafe 407 West 42nd Street at 1PM.

A few weeks before BroadwayWorld.com Cabaret Reviewer and Columnist Stephen Hanks was about to stage the opening night of his debut solo cabaret show on May 31, a number of cabaret performers asked him if he was going to write about the experience in some way, with some even encouraging him to keep a diary. 'It might be really interesting to read how your perspective about cabaret performers and performing might have changed and how it might impact your reviews now that you're doing it yourself,' commented one singer. 'It was a fascinating notion and one that I had already thought about,' Hanks admits, 'but between a full time job, attending shows, writing reviews, taking vocal lessons, rehearsing, etc., finding the time and the energy to keep even a weekly diary was not in the cards.' Hanks certainly didn't think he'd forget even the little things that have gone into making his journey what he calls 'an amazing, fantasy-fulfilling, almost surreal experience.' On the eve of his last performance of his three-show run (over three weeks) at the Metropolitan Room of Beyond American Pie: The Don McLean Songbook, BroadwayWorld.com sat down with our lead cabaret reviewer to get his insights and perspective on what's it been like to be on the performer end of things.

Brian d'Arcy James performed 'All Will Be Well' at Broadway Sessions on May 30th, 2013. Check out the video below!

BROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron (Bway Wicked, Aida and Footloose) and features musical director Joshua Stephen Kartes on piano. v

After a critically acclaimed one-year run at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency, ending only because the Regency closed for renovations, Scott Siegel's BROADWAY BALLYHOO re-launches at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, downstairs at the West Bank Cafe on Wednesday, July 24th at 10:30 PM (doors open at 10 PM).

Broadway's Nadia Quinn (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) will be performing her own original comedic songs as part of a one-night-only cabaret titled My Big Gay 'Gay Camp' Talent Show, playing at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Monday, June 24 at 7pm.

Scot Albertson (Vocalist - Performer - Producer - Recording Artist) - www.scotalbertson.com) announces his sixth CD release concert, set for tonight June 17, 2013 at 7:30p.m. at Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre, located at 2537 Broadway & West 95th Street, New York City, NY.

On May 6, Broadway came together to support those affected by the Boston Marathon Tragedy at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. All proceeds went to ONE FUND BOSTON, a charity set up to help the people most affected by the unfortunate event that occurred in Boston on April 15. Click below to watch all of the performances!

Ben Rimalower: 'PATTI ISSUES' - the hit Off Broadway solo play hailed as 'ecstatically vivid' by The New York Times and praised for its 'wit, feeling and conviction' by Time Out New York - has added a second performance for its Chicago premiere due to high ticket demand. In addition to the show on Thursday, June 13, there will be an additional show tonight, June 14. Both will be at Mary's Attic at 8:00 PM. After rave reviews and a host of awards, the New York production of 'PATTI ISSUES' was recently extended for the sixth time and will run through June 29 at The Duplex in the West Village. Other summer tour spots include Fire Island Pines and Provincetown, hot off a recent string of sold-out performances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Berkeley. Tickets for all shows can be purchased at PattiIssues.com.

On June 23rd A Time To Shine Youth Cabaret presents: BROADWAY NOW and will be celebrating accomplished teens from the Broadway community at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at The West Bank Cafe 407 West 42nd Street at 1PM.

Tickets are $22 (plus a $15 food/drink minimum.) A $40 VIP ticket including priority seating and meet-and-greet is also available. To purchase tickets, call 212-352-3101 or visitwww.SpinCycleNYC.com.

How do you know that nice, helpful guy in the next cubicle isn't a psychopath? You don't. CrAzYToWn: my first psychopath, is creative arts therapist Jude Treder-Wolff's comic take about a shocking encounter with a deceptive, dangerous person - the nicest guy you never want to meet. It's a comic true story about an over-eager therapist trying to get over herself when nothing else seemed to be working.

BroadwayUnderstudies.com once again invited some of Broadway's most talented understudies to the stage of the Laurie Beechman Theatre to share their rare talent-the ability to perform at a second's notice. They were thrown into the fire in 'Half Hour 3: A Last Minute Concert,' a show where even they didn't know what they'd be singing before they stepped up to the microphone. Check out highlights below!