The Duplex News

Actor, musician and songwriter Jeremiah Downes will bring Highways and Daydreams: The Songs of Jeremiah Downes to New York City this October 14th at The Duplex. Sarah Bolt (Wicked, Sister Act), Amanda Brizzi, Dan Callahan, Larry Hamilton (MADAME: The Musical), Joy Mayweather and Janet Rowley will lend their talents to Downes' words and music. A revue, Highways and Daydreams features songs written over the last decade, as well as material from Downes' other works in progress, Radio Flyer and Seven. Highways and Daydreams had its premiere in 2011 at the Martin and Biello Studio in Philadelphia with Janet Rowley, Alex Keiper and under the musical direction of Christopher Ertelt.

Actor, musician and songwriter Jeremiah Downes will bring Highways and Daydreams: The Songs of Jeremiah Downes to New York City this October 14th at The Duplex. Sarah Bolt (Wicked, Sister Act), Amanda Brizzi, Dan Callahan, Larry Hamilton (MADAME: The Musical), Joy Mayweather and Janet Rowley will lend their talents to Downes' words and music.

LML Music previously announced the August 2013 release of SHADES OF BLUE, a new recording from singer Harold Sanditen. Sanditen recorded SHADES OF BLUE live at The Pheasantry, London UK in November 2012, supported by a lively crowd of players including Michael Roulston, Dave Olney, Paul Merser, Bob Sydor and Steve Bentley-Klein. He will celebrate with one show at The Metropolitan Room in New York City tonight, October 9 at 7 p.m. Shows in Tulsa and London are also planned.

Jude Treder-Wolff, a creative arts psychotherapist and writer/performer brings her solo storytelling show Crazytown: my first psychopath to The Pit-The Peoples Improv, 123 W. 24th St, New York, NY on Sunday November 3 at 8 pm.

For the first DG Conservatory event of the fall, the Dramatists Guild is thrilled to team up with the writers who created Behind the Music-al, Kyle Ewalt and Michael Ian Walker, today, October 8, 2013, at 6:00 p.m. The event will take place at the Dramatists Guild's New York office, in the Frederick Loewe Room, 1501 Broadway (between 43rd and 44th Streets), Suite 710. This free seminar is opening a limited number of seats to the public and reservations are required.

Kick off your Halloween celebrations with a killer night out at 54 Below, during their new late night series Late Nights with Mamma Rice! The festivities are set for Oct 30th at 11:30 p.m.

Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre kicks off its 44th season with the first play of 'The Ed Bullins Project' - two revivals from his 'Twentieth Century Cycle of Plays' - In The Wine Time, to be followed by The Fabulous Miss Marie this spring. In The Wine Time, directed by Mansoor Najee-ullah, will begin performances October 25th at Castillo Theater (543 West 42nd Street), continuing through November 24th. Opening Night is set forThursday November 7th.

The D* Word - A Musical (*Ditched, Dumped, Divorced and Dating), the new party musical from the Creator/Writer of Menopause The Musical, Jeanie Linders, premieres at Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Terry Theater tonight, October 4th, and runs through November 24th.

For the first DG Conservatory event of the fall, the Dramatists Guild is thrilled to team up with the writers who created Behind the Music-al, Kyle Ewalt and Michael Ian Walker, on Tuesday, October 8, 2013, at 6:00 p.m. The event will take place at the Dramatists Guild's New York office, in the Frederick Loewe Room, 1501 Broadway (between 43rd and 44th Streets), Suite 710. This free seminar is opening a limited number of seats to the public and reservations are required.

The Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma will welcome musical pop songwriter Joey Contreras for a concert of his songs, Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 4pm in the Pitman Recital Hall of the Catlett Music Center.

'PATTI ISSUES' - the hit solo play written by Ben Rimalower - continues its hit New York run with Sunday night performances now through October 27, starring Broadway's Robin De Jesus, star of the film Camp and two-time Tony Award nominee for In the Heights and La Cage Aux Folles (also soon to be starring opposite Laurie Metcalf and Jeff Goldblum in Lincoln Center Theater's Domesticated, opening November 4.) Click below for a first look at Robin onstage in the show!

2013 New York City Bistro Award winner, Michael Hughes, brings his internationally acclaimed, Canadian Comedy Award nominated one-man show Mickey & Judy, to the Gravenhurst Opera House September 28th, 2013.

Drag star MargOH! Channing is back with an all new show aptly titled 'MargOH! Sings the Booze' October 23 and 26 9:30PM at the world famous Duplex Cabaret,61 Christopher St, NY,NY. The evening is directed by Thom Fogarty with Musical Direction by Tracy Stark. Tickets are on sale nowhttp://margohsingsthebooze.brownpapertickets.com/

Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre kicks off its 44th season with 'The Ed Bullins Project' - two revivals from his 'Twentieth Century Cycle of Plays' - In The Wine Time and The Fabulous Miss Marie. Bullins, winner of the prestigious NY Drama Critics' Circle Award and OBIE Award for The Taking of Miss Janie, has greatly influenced American theatre, especially Black theatre. His work, characterized by disdain for ineffective political rhetoric as a substitute for action, most often examines the lives of Black people in the inner city. In 1968, Clive Barnes, writing in the New York Times called Bullins 'a welcome addition to the ranks of New York playwrights.' Four years later, Barnes added 'Bullins writes the way Charlie Parker played: It is all so easy and effortless. It sounds improvised, and yet it doesn't sound improvised, simply because it is the improvisation of formality.' Today, Bullins is regarded as a seminal force in the American theater.

This fall, Sanditen will return to The Pheasantry on September 18th and New York's Metropolitan Room on October 9th at 7pm to launch 'Shades of Blue.'On November 30th, he will be Oklahoma-bound for his first ever concert at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.

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As he prepares to take over Ben Rimalower's one-man play at the Duplex, Robin de Jesus talks about creating and recreating roles and lives onstage and off.

An all-star cast will take the stage at The 5th Avenue Theatre this fall in the celebrated organization's 15th new musical, Secondhand Lions. Based on the beloved film starring Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, Secondhand Lions springs to musical life in Seattle with a superbly talented cast of Broadway stars and Seattle musical theater actors. Lead by Tony Award nominees Gregg Edelman and Mark Jacoby, this adventure story also features Jason Danieley, Jenny Powers, Kevin Earley, Jared Michael Brown, Kendra Kassebaum, Sophia Anne Caruso, and Justin Huertas. Johnny Rabe, star of Broadway's A Christmas Story, takes center stage as Walter.

One of the biggest downers perpetrated by American culture is the characterization of Labor Day weekend as the 'unofficial end of summer.' But given what has passed for cabaret entertainment-at least the shows I was able to attend--since the 'unofficial start of summer' on Memorial Day weekend, the end of summer can't come soon enough. But my dismay over the hours lost watching average shows this season was tempered a bit by the pride and joy I felt watching the June performances of three strikingly attractive and talented 30ish brunettes with powerhouse voices-- Jackie Kristel, Karen Gross and Jodi Beck, who all staged entertaining shows as spring was turning to summer.