A. Shapiro News

The award-winning musical The Bully Problem is coming to Hollywood Fringe, playing in June at The Broadwater - Main Stage.

The Mandel JCC of the Palm Beaches today invited literary fans to several upcoming cultural events under the auspices of the Mandel JCC Book Festival. The Mandel JCC has two locations in Palm Beach County-in Boynton Beach at 8500 Jog Road and in Palm Beach Gardens at 5221 Hood Road.

Winners of the prestigious international Search for New Musicals were announced today at New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles.

The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Music Director, will present the New York Premiere and the North American co-premiere of Dame Ethel Smyth's The Prison (Blachly edition) and Mozart's Requiem (Levin completion), Today, May 11 @ 8:00 PM at Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th St. and 7th Ave in Manhattan.

The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Music Director, will present the New York Premiere and the North American co-premiere of Dame Ethel Smyth's The Prison (Blachly edition) and Mozart's Requiem (Levin completion), Friday, May 11 @ 8:00 PM at Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th St. and 7th Ave in Manhattan.

The award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company is pleased to offer several evenings with Rogers, as portrayed by Tom Bryn, in 'Will Rogers' U.S.A.' This funny and smart show runs from June 14 through July 22, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:30 p.m.

The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Music Director, will present the World Premiere of A Garden Among the Flames, a commissioned work by Syrian composer Zaid Jabri on a Sufi text poem by Ibn Arabi, with additional text by Yvette Christiansë, on Saturday, May 6 @ 8:00 PM at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th St. and 7th Ave.

Debuting MONDAY, JUNE 5 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO, IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE OBIT, EAT BREAKFAST celebrates the art of enjoying life after age 90, aided by a good dose of humor. Reiner's nephew, George Shapiro (“Seinfeld”), produces and Danny Gold directs.

According to singer/actor Adam B. Shapiro, breakups can be one of the most devastatingly painful things in the world . . . but not if you know how to do them right. Four years after Shapiro launched his 2013 MAC Award-Winning show GUIDE TO THE PERFECT BREAKUP, Shapiro will reprise his hilarious and musically compelling show-with songs written by composers as diverse as Cole Porter and Weird Al Yankovic--in the BroadwayWorld Award-Nominated series NEW YORK CABARET'S GREATEST HITS at the Metropolitan Room on March 15 at 7 pm. The series is produced and hosted by Stephen Hanks (with Associate Producer Fr. Jeffrey Hamblin, MD).

Sony Classical proudly announces the release of Ghostbusters (Original Motion Picture Score) to accompany Sony Pictures' highly anticipated feature film Ghostbusters, in theaters today, July 15. Featuring a score by multi-award winning composer Theodore Shapiro, the album is available now digitally and on CD today, July 15.

Theatre Unleashed will bring back the critically acclaimed crowd favorite A Feast of Snacks to Hollywood Fringe at the Lounge Theater over the month of June

Theatre Unleashed will bring back the critically acclaimed crowd favorite A Feast of Snacks to Hollywood Fringe at the Lounge Theater over the month of June

Every year, Thodos Dance Chicago cultivates new dance creation through its nationally renowned New Dances series, Chicago's earliest and most extensive in-house choreography project, and always a highlight of the city's summer dance season.

Thodos Dance Chicago Founder and Artistic Director Melissa Thodos revealed today details about the company's 2015-16 season. Already announced is Sono's Journey, Thodos Dance Chicago's next world premiere, contemporary dance story, debuting January 9, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.

 While working in the Theatre Unleashed Writer's Group, generating content for the company's wildly popular show 25 Plays Per Hour, Wendy Gough Soroka noticed something about the scenes she was writing.

Acclaimed playwright Michael Gordon Shapiro figured out something vital to his career when he was in his twenties: Writing musicals is hard. "I decided that the way to get good at it was to write a number of short shows in varied dramatic and musical styles," he said. "Eventually I realized that I had written enough to get a free, full-length musical by glomming them all together."

 While working in the Theatre Unleashed Writer's Group, generating content for the company's wildly popular show 25 Plays Per Hour, Wendy Gough Soroka noticed something about the scenes she was writing.

Seventeen years after the original "The Power of Nice" changed the way people negotiate, author Ron Shapiro returns to share a refined and updated edition of his renowned classic. The new "The Power of Nice" empowers negotiators, including those seeking to overcome the disadvantage of financial status, rank, gender, race, age, insecurity, nerves or any other imbalance and maximize their return without burning bridges.

In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th Anniversary of World War II, Goethe-Institut Boston's German Stage, in association with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Israeli Stage, presents the American Premiere of A CASE NAMED FREUD in five locations this week. The opening night staged reading marked the tenth German Stage production since 2012 and provided a backdrop to the farewell for Goethe-Institut Director Detlef Gericke who has served in Boston for six years.

At the age of 14, actress Abigail Shapiro is quite the busy lady. With credits like Cindy Lou Who in HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! and the titular character in LIBERTY under her belt, she is currently gearing up to portray Sara Crewe in a special cabaret presentation of Andrew Lippa's musical A LITTLE PRINCESS. Recently, she and I sat down to discuss this exciting, new cabaret event.