The Laurie Beechman Theatre is pleased to announce the return of the new talk/variety evening, Saturday Night Underground. The evening will be a casual variety show, featuring interviews and performances from some of New York's most intriguing personalities. And the fun doesn't stop there, audience members are encouraged to get up on stage and sing a song or tell a joke, recommend a great restaurant or complain about a bad date. Host Ben Rimalower will mingle with the crowd, inviting people to join the show. So bring your sheet music or guitar, your funny stories and your axes to grind. From 11pm til 2am, join host Ben Rimalower (director of The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero, Joy and Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches), the fabulous Dreams (Larry Hamilton, Rob Tucker and Jamaal Wilson) and pianist Mark Hartman (Avenue Q) for this regular event in the theatre district.
The second interactive Sweeney Todd character card features Mrs. Lovett!
As part of the new Vlada lounge Tuesday night musical theater/cabaret series at Vlada, Kate Pazakis will be performing and hosting joined by Marty Thomas, Kristy Cates, Brad Bass and Damon Gravina. Music direction by Brian J. Nash. The show is scheduled for 10:30 PM.
Ars Nova presents Wendy Ho in 'The Gospel According to Ho' on Friday, December 14 at 11PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street). All tickets are $10. Ben Rimalower directs; Brian Nash as musical director.
Check out the first interactive character card, for Sweeney Todd himself!
Emerging Artists Theatre continues their bi-annual EATfest, a collection of 18 one-act plays in three series. Series B, the second 6 plays, are about how people are not always what you expect from appearances.
A holiday tradition continues this Halloween when Tim Burton's classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas, makes a return to the big screen in stunning Disney Digital 3.
Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley will be honored at the CineVegas Film Festival
The Cape Playhouse is celebrating its 81st Anniversary Season with six main-stage productions with performances scheduled June 18th through September 8th.
It's silly as a flying cow and shrewdly brilliant; a smorgasbord of simply smashing humor…It's Spamalot!
Broadway actors Andre DeShields and Jayne Houdyshell will star in a benefit reading of Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks' VENUS this Monday March 5th (7:30pm) at Harlem Stage at the Gatehouse.
Principal photography has begun in London on 'Sweeney Todd'; starring Johnny Depp in the Tim Burton directed screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller.
19-year old Jayne Wisener will play imperiled ingenue Johanna in Tim Burton's upcoming film version of Sweeney Todd
Stage and screen star Alan Rickman will play the villainous Judge Turpin in the upcoming DreamWorks film version of Sweeney Todd
WHO: UMBC Department of Theatre @ UMBC Theatre WHAT: The Faulkner Project: As I Lay Dying WHEN: Dec. 1 & 2 8PM, Dec. 3 & 7 4PM, Dec. 8 & 9 8PM HOW MUCH: $10 general, $5 students and seniors. Dec. 7 perf. Free for UMBC Community
Sacha Baron Cohen--whose film Borat has become a pop culture phenomenon over the last 2 weeks--has been confirmed to play the role of duplicitous barber Pirelli in the upcoming DreamWorks film version of Sweeney Todd.
Variety reports that Helen Bonham Carter has signed on to the Sweeney Todd film to star opposite Johnny Depp as the devilish Mrs. Lovett.
'MTV Show Choir'--created by Hairspray and The Boy from Oz star John Hill--has been greenlighted by the popular cable network
The upcoming film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the demon barber of the title, will begin filming in February of 2007
DreamWorks Studios announced today that Johnny Depp has been set to star and Tim Burton to direct Sweeney Todd, the award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical thriller
As part of Dixon Place HOT! Festival, KeiTriK Productions will present And/or, four dark comedies (and one live music video) written by Stan Richardson and directed by Ben Rimalower, from August 2nd through 19th
It is with great pleasure and pride that The West Bank Café announces the July, 2006 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre. The West Bank Café is located at 407 West 42nd. St., at Ninth Avenue. For reservations, please call 212.695.6909, between the hours of 12pm and 8pm.
In place of John Hill, who will be shooting a TV pilot for MTV, Scott Nevins and Natalie Joy Johnson will perform at the Duplex on May 22nd
| 1986 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | John Tillinger |
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