Mike Birbiglia News

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 10/30/2022.

With the release of MIDNIGHTS, Taylor Swift has broken the all-time record for the biggest album ever released globally in Spatial Audio on Apple Music. Additionally, Taylor sets the record for the biggest pop album of all time on Apple Music by first-day streams.

Taylor Swift has announced release week festivities for her new album, 'Midnights.' The releases will feature two new music videos, an album teaser trailer, a 'very chaotic surprise,' the YouTube Shorts #TSAntiHeroChallenge, lyric videos for every track on the album, and appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and The Graham Norton Show.

Due to a scheduling conflict, the previously-announced show IS THIS A ROOM will not be presented at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Alex Edelman’s JUST FOR US will instead be performed at Woolly Mammoth.

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced programming for its Autumn 2022/Spring 2023 season. Learn more about the full season here!

Top stories include Beetlejuice setting its closing date for January 2023. Plus, additional casting has been announced for Guys and Dolls at the Kennedy Center, and more.

The new solo play Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool will open on Broadway this fall at the esteemed Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.

Playhouse Square will welcome unique shows to its stages this September, spanning comedy, dance, music and theatrical performances.

Mike Birbiglia is an undoubtedly remarkable storyteller. The way his latest solo show, The Old Man and the Pool, which is playing now at CTG’s Mark Taper Forum, is structured is clean, snappy, clear, and concise.

Alex Edelman’s critically acclaimed comedy show Just For Us has announced a final extension for its limited engagement at the Greenwich House Theater. It will now play through Friday, September 2, 2022. The production has also released new production photos and behind the scenes photos. See the photos here!

BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Check out the selections for June featuring the LA Phil, Ahmanson Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, and more.

This July, Berkshire Theatre Group will present Songs For a New World, the first musical by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown at The Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, MA, and also the 2022 Colonial Concert Series: Featuring Broadway Luminaries Chita Rivera and Charl Brown at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA.

Join comedian Alex Edelman for a conversation with Stephen Colbert (host, executive producer, and writer of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) at 92NY about his hit solo show, Just for Us. The event will take place July 17. 

The world premiere of “Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool” will open at Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum on August 3 and continue through August 28 with previews running July 27 through August 2, 2022. This one-man show is written and performed by Mike Birbiglia and directed by Seth Barrish.

Mike & Carlee Productions, the team behind Oh Hello, Jacqueline Novak's Get On Your Knees, Chris Gethard's Career Suicide, and most recently, Alison Leiby's Oh God, A Show About Abortion, have announced their Summer of Comedy at Cherry Lane!

On the heels of his award-winning Broadway show “The New One,” which made its West Coast premiere on the Ahmanson stage, comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia returns to Center Theatre Group with a tale of life, death and a highly chlorinated YMCA pool.

Comedian, storyteller, director, producer, and actor Mike Birbiglia comes to Playhouse Square Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 7:00 PM.

​​​​​​Berkshire Theatre Group has announced casting for shows in BTG’s Late Summer 2022 Season. The full season will feature B.R.O.K.E.N code B.I.R.D switching, a world premiere play and an award recipient of the GRANTS FOR ARTS PROJECTS from the National Endowment for the Arts; Once, a Tony Award-winning musical; Songs For a New World, the first musical by a Tony Award winner; Dracula, a classic gothic tale of horrors; and Edward Albee's Seascape, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. 

Alex Edelman’s critically acclaimed comedy show Just For Us has extended its limited engagement at the Greenwich House Theater (27 Barrow Street, NYC), producer Mike Birbiglia announced today ahead of its return to New York City on Monday, June 13, 2022.

On Tuesday, May 28, 2022, Bay Street had a kickoff cocktail party celebrating the start of their Summer season! Hosted by Tracy Mitchell with creatives from bay Street's first summer Production, Windfall, Emmy nominated composer and writer of Windfall Richard Kind, and comedy legend and director Jason Alexander. Artistic Director Scott Schwartz, Board members, and patrons all gathered by the water to celebrate the return after two years of virtual or socially distanced shows. Both Scott Schwartz and Tracy Mitchell spoke at the party about the upcoming season and marked the true return to theatre at Bay Street!