Date of Birth: May 12 (2023)
Ben Rimalower directed and produced the New York premiere of John Fisher's Joy and its Off Broadway run at The Actors' Playhouse (Out Magazine: "Top Ten Theatre 2005" #6 & HX Award nomination: "Best Musical"). Other directing credits include Snoopy the Musical (starring Sutton Foster), And/or (Dixon Place) and Sodom the Musical (Kraine Theatre) as well as staged readings for Second Stage, The York Theatre Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Mostly recently Ben conceived and directed Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches at San Francisco’s Empire Plush Room after a wildly acclaimed four-month-run at Joe’s Pub (Special Time Out New York MAC Award). While in San Francisco Ben directed workshops of The Geeks the Musical (coming soon to New York) and The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero which he will direct and produce at the DR2 Theatre this June. Ben has also directed a slew of solo shows including Lindsey Alley's Look Ma, No Ears (six week run at the Laurie Beechman Theatre), Scott Nevins’ Celebutant (MAC nomination: "Best Musical Comedy – Male”), John Hill's Skinny Corpse, Kate Pazakis' The Sexless Years (MAC nomination: "Best Musical Comedy - Female"), Lance Horne's How Love Goes, and Natalie Joy Johnson with Our Lady J and the Pink Champagne Orchestra featuring the Bubblies (Ars Nova, The Cutting Room and Joe's Pub). Assistant Director credits include Lonny Price’s productions of A Class Act (Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway and Tokyo) and A Little Night Music (starring Patti LuPone, George Hearn and Zoe Caldwell) as well as the Emmy-winning Sweeney Todd. Ben studied Dramatic Art at U.C. Berkeley where he was the founding Artistic Director of BareStage (now celebrating its 12th anniversary.)
Poetry/Cabaret, “NYC’s Variety Salon” came to a close last Friday at The Green Room 42. This edition, “DRY AGED” was a celebration of the show’s fifth year—and host Thomas March’s 50th year in this mortal form. See photos from the show.
Sunday night was a very special occasion here at BroadwayWorld. The best of Broadway gathered at Sony Hall to celebrate a huge milestone- our 20th Anniversary! The concert event benefitted Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Check out photos from the red carpet!
The Broadway Podcast Network is launching new podcast, “Giants in the Sky: How Sondheim and Lapine Went Into the Woods” hosted by Ben Rimalower, makes its series debut. Listen now!
One of the RuPaul alumni, Blair St. Clair is, clearly, also an alumni of a musical theater training program.
On February 2 and 3, The Green Room 42 will present the nightclub debut of Blair St. Clair, the drag star, recording artists and vocalist, in 'Legally Blair,' a new show about their life, liberty, and the pursuit of dreaming wide awake. Blair recently checked in with BroadwayWorld to chat all about the new show!
THE GREEN ROOM 42 will present the nightclub debut of Blair St. Clair, the drag star, recording artists and vocalist, best known for their appearances on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 10 and All Stars 5, on Thursday, February 2 at 7:00 PM and Friday, February 3 at 9:30 PM.
The Green Room 42 will present a live podcast taping of Giants In The Sky: How Sondheim and Lapine Went Into The Woods featuring original Into The Woods star Chip Zien in conversation with Ben Rimalower on Sunday, October 23.
When the NIGHT OF A THOUSAND JUDYS concert kicks off tonight, event producer Dan Fortune will be crazy busy... but this morning, Broadway World Cabaret has him for an in-depth interview.
The Green Room 42 has announced their June line-up for in-person performances. Located inside YOTEL Times Square (570 Tenth Avenue, Fourth Floor), The Green Room 42 is Broadway's newest and most spacious cabaret club.
The June edition of Poetry/Cabaret-NYC's 'Variety Salon'-celebrates the first year of Grand, the Journal of One Grand Books, founded by Editor-in-Chief Aaron Hicklin.
Christopher Metzger-Timson puts a new twist on Musical Mondays with his FREE Broadway trivia show, MT Trivia. Each week, the audience breaks into teams and competes in three rounds of musical theatre trivia, testing their knowledge against Broadway’s biggest stars.
Joe’s Pub will present the next installment of “Assorted Fruit” with host Justin Elizabeth – the new monthly, queer variety show from the people that brought you The Meeting* – on Sunday, April 24 at 9:30 PM.
Susie Mosher puts the focus on the cabaret community this week at THE LINEUP.
Club Cumming (Alan Cumming, Darren Dryden and Benjamin Maisani) will present “Cast Offs” with Ben Rimalower and Daniel Nolen – the new variety and game show from Broadwayworld/Broadway Podcast Network's 'Next Year, Some Year' and 'Broken Records' co-hosts – in a new time slot every Monday evening at 8:00 PM. “Cast Offs” is proudly presented free of charge with no cover or minimum. Club Cumming is located at 505 East 6th Street in New York.
Club Cumming will present “Cast Offs Opreciate Donna Murphy” with Ben Rimalower and Daniel Nolen – the new variety and game show from BroadwayWorld/Broadway Podcast Network's 'Next Year, Some Year' and 'Broken Records' co-hosts – every Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM, before “Cabernet Cabaret” with Catherine Cohen.
Club Cumming (Alan Cumming, Darren Dryden and Benjamin Maisani) will present “Cast Offs Opreciate Liza Minnelli”with Ben Rimalower and Daniel Nolen – the new variety and game show from Broadwayworld/Broadway Podcast Network's 'Next Year, Some Year' and 'Broken Records' co-hosts – every Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM, before “Cabernet Cabaret” with Catherine Cohen.
Club Cumming will present “Cast Offs Opreciate Betty White”with Ben Rimalower and Daniel Nolen – the new variety and game show from Broadwayworld/Broadway Podcast Network's 'Next Year, Some Year' and 'Broken Records' co-hosts – every Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM, before “Cabernet Cabaret” with Catherine Cohen.
Club Cumming (Alan Cumming, Darren Dryden and Benjamin Maisani) will present “Cast Offs Opreciate Judy Garland”with Ben Rimalower and Daniel Nolen – the new variety and game show from BroadwayWorld/Broadway Podcast Network's 'Next Year, Some Year' and 'Broken Records' co-hosts – every Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM, before “Cabernet Cabaret” with Catherine Cohen.
Club Cumming will present “Cast Offs Opreciate Patti LuPone”with Ben Rimalower and Daniel Nolen – the new variety and game show from Broadwayworld/Broadway Podcast Network's 'Next Year, Some Year' and 'Broken Records' co-hosts – every Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM, before “Cabernet Cabaret” with Catherine Cohen.
BroadwayWorld's own Daniel Nolen has paired famous commercial clips with Stephen Sondheim songs in new video.
Ben Rimalower has written 1 shows including Patti Issues (Playwright).
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