Laurie Beechman News

2010 MAC Award-Winning Vocal Group MARQUEE FIVE (Julie Reyburn, Sierra Rein, Adam West Hemming, Mick Bleyer, and Vanessa Parvin) returns with their critically-acclaimed show '8-Track Throwback' for one night only.

The Laurie Beechman Theatrehas announced the line-up for their upcoming benefit for Japan: THE GEISHA GIG. The event will take place April 10 at 8PM.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series is proud to present the return of composer/lyricist Scott Alan to the stage on Monday, April 18 at 7pm.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series is proud to present the return of composer/lyricist Scott Alan to the stage on Monday, April 18 at 7pm.

Veteran actress, singer and comedienne Andrea Wolff will star in "Loose Screws," an original musical comedy beginning on Friday, May 6th (7PM) at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 West 42nd Street, located in the lower level of the West Bank Cafe on Theatre Row).

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) celebrates April Fool's Day with a one-night-only concert presentation of founding member Peter Mills' comic song cycle Lonely Rhymes, on Friday, April 1st at 9:30pm.

Negin Farsad and Amy Albert present the brand new weekly standup show, Comedy School Dropout.

Musical Comedy Premieres DELILAH DIX: SHOWIN' MY BUSINESS plays March 19 - 26 at Laurie Beechman Theater

The Laurie Beechman Theatre has announced that Tony Award-winner DONNA McKECHNIE, one of Broadway's most beloved and esteemed performers, will return to The Laurie Beechman Theatre with her critically-acclaimed solo show, My Musical Comedy Life, which will play the midtown venue on Monday, April 4th at 8pm. Currently co-starring off-Broadway in Love, Loss & What I Wore, Ms. McKechnie returns to The Beechman for one night only.

Following eleven sold out shows, The Laurie Beechman Theatre will continue their hit series, SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED, for a twelfth installment, Monday, March 28 at 7pm. Included in the cast are an array of Broadway and cabaret alums, including Karen Akers (Nine, Grand Hotel), Christina Bianco (Drama Desk nominee, Forbidden Broadway), Eric Michael Gillett (Kiss Me, Kate, Sweet Smell of Success), Steve Ross (Present Laughter), Steven Lutvak (Kleban & Larson award-winner) and Alysha Umphress (American Idiot). We're also pleased to welcome back three very special guests, all of whom created roles in Sondheim musicals: Annie Golden (Assassins), Teri Ralston (Company, A Little Night Music) and Sarah Rice (Sweeney Todd). Recently, Sondheim Unplugged received the 2011 Bistro Award for Outstanding Cabaret Series.

Alina Gutiérrez and Ashley Mas are pleased to announce Composers Sing Composers featuring Gaby Alter, Joey Contreras, Drew Gasparini, Jonathan Reid Gealt, Adam Gwon, Brian Lowdermilk, Ryan Scott Oliver and Zoe Sarnak, a one-night-only concert event taking place Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 7pm.

Internationally renowned singer, recording artist, and humanitarian Dionne Warwick and the legendary musical theatre performer Carol Channing will be honored, along with 16 other members of the New York cabaret and jazz community, at the 26th Annual Bistro Awards, which will take place on Tuesday, April 26 at Gotham Comedy Club, located at 208 West 23rd Street (between 7th & 8th avenues).

Acclaimed character actress, comic, and YouTube sensation Nadya Ginsburg will present the New York premiere of her solo comedy MADONNALOGUES.

Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, announced today the complete Stage 2 season- the Musical Theatre Lab premiere of Mormons, Mothers and Monsters, two cabarets Surviving the Avalanche and Hell Raisers, and the Berkshire premiere of Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev-as well as the previously announced productions of Zero Hour and Going to St. Ives.

Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, announced today the complete Stage 2 season- the Musical Theatre Lab premiere of Mormons, Mothers and Monsters, two cabarets Surviving the Avalanche and Hell Raisers, and the Berkshire premiere of Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev-as well as the previously announced productions of Zero Hour and Going to St. Ives.

On Monday, March 7th, twelve performers joined composer Keith Varney onstage for a showcase of his original songs, Inappropriate for an Office, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Artistic Director) is proud to present MUSICAL LEGENDS, a series of four unique, self-contained theatrical tributes, each celebrating the music and life of one of the following legends: Pearl Bailey, Kaye Ballard, Marlene Dietrich, and Nat 'King' Cole at Urban Stages (259 West 30th Street) from February 24 - March 13, 2011.

Fifty years after her legendary Carnegie Hall debut, The New York Pops remembers Hollywood icon Judy Garland with a song-for-song re-creation of the 1961 performance that is referred to by so many as "the greatest night in show business history".

Taking over Joe's Pub for the first time at 9:30PM on March 27th, 2011, musical theatre songwriter Joey Contreras celebrates the release of his internationally selling debut album, 'Love Me, Love Me Not' with an evening of energetic and emotionally charged music.

The award-winning Jennifer Sheehan brings her much-lauded celebration of the Great American Songbook, 'You Made Me Love You,' to the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, for three weeks in March.