Alexandra de Suze News

On October 26th, cabaret director James Beaman returned to the nightclub stage as a performer for the first time in twenty years and Broadway World Cabaret has the photos.

James Beaman has come out of retirement but he has also come out as a cabaret artist working under his own name and persona in an extremely personal nightclub act.

Everybody loves a comeback.

​​​​​​​Everything is pure fun in the production of Nunsense currently playing at The Barnstormers Theater in Tamworth as it enters its 93rd season.

The theater community rallied together once again with spirited skits, dynamic dance and brilliant bonnets as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ Easter Bonnet Competition returned April 24 and 25, 2023. The performances celebrated in-theater Red Bucket appeals that raised $3,601,355 for meals and medication, health care and hope for those who need them most.

Prospect Theater Company has announced the performers who will be appearing in its 2022 Musical Theater Lab Concert presentation: Caption This. Thirty actors from Broadway and beyond will bring their talents to the stage to celebrate the hot-off-the-presses new works generated in this year's lab process. 

 Prospect Theater Company has announced the full cast for a special one-night-only concert performance at NYC’s Symphony Space (2537 Broadway @ 95th Street). On Wednesday, November 17th @ 7:30pm the company will present RULE OF THREE, a concert evening featuring hot-off-the-presses offerings generated in its annual Musical Theater Lab.

New Perspectives Theatre Company (NPTC) is pleased to announce SAFE SPACE, readings of three new plays under the auspices of the NYC Artist Corps Grant program, hosted by NPTC's Women's Work Project.

This unique event invited audience members to walk through the Crabapple Grove in Riverside Park guided by an ensemble of artists, and choose from a selection of original flash-fiction short stories penned by 15 theater writers.

Prospect Theater Company has announced its first in-person, live arts program of 2021: TREE TALES. This unique event invites audience members to walk through the Crabapple Grove in Riverside Park guided by an ensemble of artists, and interact with original flash-fiction short stories penned by 15 theater writers.

Full casting is announced for David and Paul Rigano's 8th Annual Ides of March Extravaganza. The award-winning songwriting duo of the Brothers Rigano (known as The Rigano Songbook) will be livestreaming their annual concert for free on March 15 at 7pm.

On Brand Productions is an up and coming fully Black-Owned production company taking over the industry. After a successful Digital Drama Fest, August series, and Fall Series they decided to do multiple plays each month until the reopening of Broadway.

The Rigano Songbook, brothers David Rigano and Paul Rigano, are offering a special limited time discount to their 7th Annual Ides of March Extravaganza, playing at The Duplex on Friday March 13th at 6:30pm.

Full casting has been finalized for the previously announced 7th Annual Ides of March Extravaganza at the Duplex on March 13 at 6:30pm. Every year The Rigano Songbook gathers to sing original songs, muse on fate and hubris, and celebrate the anniversary of the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar.

Christmas Rappings is back in a very special 50th Anniversary concert production of this beloved Greenwich Village tradition-a Christmas oratorio unlike any other. When Al Carmines introduced audiences to Rappings on December 14, 1969, they had come to expect the surprising range and inventiveness of this multiple Obie-award winner, but perhaps not an evening that faithfully tells the Christmas story through such a high-spirited, often funny, collision of musical genres, from country to classical to blues to gospel, and even with a rousing tango.

Casting has been announced for THE FLOOD, an original musical inspired by the historic 1993 Mississippi River Floods. This one night only special concert presentation will take place at TheTimesCenter (242 West 41st Street) on Saturday, September 8 at 8pm. Produced by the Prospect Theater Company, THE FLOOD kicks off their 2018-2019 season and this IGNITE series concert is presented in partnership with Greymatters Productions. 

Host Alexandra de Suze and Musical Director Marilynn Seits host an evening of performances by singers, songwriters and musical lovers alike.

Author / storyteller Tom Pryor's next show 'CITY STORIES: STOOPS TO NUTS' is scheduled for Tuesday, February 12 @ 6:00pm at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan. Featured guests will include writers Alexandra de Suze, Daniela Schiller, Mickey Wyte and musician Sherryl Marshall. $8.00 admission includes a free drink. Pryor, whose photographic exhibit 'New York Scenes From A Bicycle' is currently on display at the Cafe, has had articles published in The New York Times, featured on public radio's 'This American Life' and PBS's 'Baseball: A New York Love Story' -. Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY.

No Name Presents: The Uptown Cabaret is an opportunity to play; to enjoy your music; your art; an opportunity to share this joy with your fellow singers, composers and lyricists. Bring that new audition song! Bring that song that you'd never get to sing otherwise! Bring that new material for your BMI class and test it out in a safe and fun place!

No Name is starting the year off right tonight, January 17th with its next installment of No Name Presents: The Uptown Cabaret SPOTLIGHT featuring singer/songwriter and now Inwood local PHIL ROY. The concert begins at 8:00PM at the Indian Road Cafe, 600 West 218th Street at Indian Rd. Hosted by Alexandra de Suze.