Michael Sgouros News

For its 13th season, A Christmas Carol the Musical by Brenda Bell and Michael Sgouros is back at The Players Theatre!

Michael Sgouros (music) and Brenda Bell (book & lyrics), an Off-Broadway writing team who have written 12 musicals together, are among the theatermakers returning to the stage and tonight they will celebrate the opening of their 50th production – Sleepy Hollow the Musical at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village.

Learn about Sleepy Hollow, an original musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell, which opens on September 24th at The Players Theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, reveals a haunting deeper than the woods of the hollow. Its shadows are cast from the darkness of the human soul.

Golf is a killer of a game but dead bodies in the sand traps? Something about this new golf course is not up to par!  Be Bold Productions has adapted Agatha Christie’s 1923 novel “Murder on the Links” for Off-Broadway at the Players Theatre.

Chick Flix is opening Off-Broadway May 21, 2021.

The thrilling show takes audience members through an unforgettable experience as Dino Valentino (Anthony Giordano) and Francis Merryweather (Artie Brennan) host a live taping of a fictional TV show. The award-winning (and vaccinated) cast is full of memorable characters, socially distanced games, prizes and more.

The Super Crazy Funtime Show, Off-Broadway's first show since the pandemic is set to open April 2, 2021. Dino Valentino (Anthony Giordano) and Francis Merryweather (Artie Brennan) invite you to their live taping of a fictional TV show in an unforgettable Off-Broadway experience.

After a year of ghost lights patiently waiting to relight the footlights, The Players Theatre’s fairy godmother has waved her magic wand allowing the Off-Broadway theatre to open its doors once again.  Company – in – residence Literally Alive Family Theatre will open their original musical – Cinderella – on May 1st.

On Thursday, November 12, Attorney Jim Mermigis and a group of 12 Off Broadway theaters and comedy club owners will argue that by allowing small venues with enhanced air filtration systems to open at 25% capacity, countless artists and theater professionals will be able to go back to work – enabling venues to earn revenue, so they can begin paying rent to landlords also hit hard by the pandemic – a move they say will also provide customers for the thousands of retail stores, restaurants and garages that surround their venues. 

New York City's gyms, schools, restaurants and even bowling alleys are open – yet small independent theaters remain closed – with no planned reopening date proposed by city and state leaders. 

How is Bravo the Theatre Dog celebration International Dog Day you ask? By preparing for next week's story time, of course! Bravo and his pals, Brenda Bell, Michael Sgouros, Emily Sgouros, and other crucial members of the Players Theatre have been hosting musical story time every Tuesday since New York City first shut down in March. And although things are slowing starting to open up, including Bravo's Book Nook shop reopening in June, Bravo still loves to host readings online every Tuesday.

Bravo will be back on Tuesday, April 14th at 2pm for another story time! Although his mom, Brenda, continues to battle those pesky technology mishaps, Bravo is determined to persist. He commented 'look, we're theatre people (and well, dog). My mom [Brenda] is way more accustomed to live performances and hates having to fuss around with 'going digital'. BUT I assured her that all my friends and fans wanted to stay connected and so they can see how badly I miss their bellyrubs and cheeks for kisses!'

Bravo Bell, a friendly pup who is resident mood-booster and Director of First Impressions for Off-Broadway's Players Theatre in NYC, is feeling lonely during these quarantine times. So, he and the co-owners of recently opened Bravo's Book Nook, Brenda Bell and Michael Sgouros, have launched a virtual Storytime every Tuesday at 2:00pm.

The critically acclaimed new musical about local news is heading Off- Broadway! Good Morning New York: A New Musical opens at the Players Theatre January 11, 2020. 

As any parent will tell you, viewing life through the eyes of a twelve year-old girl can be quite a trip and Lewis Carroll made it a trip down a rabbit hole in his beloved classic Alice in Wonderland.  Wishing to honor Carroll's unique insight into this curious world, creators Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell have created a musical that will capture the imaginations of every child ages 1 to 101.  The musical premiered in NYC in 2012 and Literally Alive Family Theatre is reviving the production as a special tribute for their 20th Anniversary Off-Broadway.

Off-Broadway's Good Morning New York cast is putting the finishing touches on their highly-anticipated original cast album.

The cast is announced for Off-Broadway's new musical comedy GOOD MORNING NEW YORK.

Following a wildly successful run at the New York Theatre Festival, producers Keena McDonald and Patricia Tierney, in association with Michael Sgouros, announce the Off-Broadway Premiere production of a new, deeply-relevant musical, Humanity's Child: A Musical for Today!

What happens when the sting of betrayal's flame is fanned by the heat of the Nile? MURDER! Agatha Christie's classic play Murder on the Nile, celebrates its 75th birthday this year having opened in Scotland at the Dundee Reparatory Theatre on January 17, 1944. Be Bold Productions has mounted a faithful production of her smoldering work Off-Broadway at the Player Theatre.

An original musical adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast", inspired by the 1740 French Novella, and decidedly not Disney, has been revived at the Players Theatre, and located at 115 MacDougal Street (between West 3rd and Bleeker) in the West Village.  The production features a live chamber ensemble with music by Michael Sgouros and book and lyrics by Brenda Bell.