Following a triumphant world premiere in the 2015 UNFringed Festival, at the Secret Theatre in Long Island City (where it placed second for Audience Favorite), award-winning writer/entertainer/radio personality Andrew Martin brings his critically-acclaimed original one-man play, AN APPETIZING YARN, to the world-famous Duplex Cabaret Theater, 61 Christopher Street (at the crest of 7th Avenue South and West 4th Street) in the heart of Greenwich Village, on Sunday, November 1st, at 6:30 PM.
Single tickets are on sale now for Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway productions of Our Mother's Brief Affair, the new play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTC's award-winning artistic director Lynne Meadow, starring Tony and two-time Golden Globe Award winner Linda Lavin; and The Father, the American premiere of the acclaimed new play by Florian Zeller, in a translation by two-time Tony winner Christopher Hampton, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, starring three-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Frank Langella.
Husband-and-wife duo Alpher & Litt bring their unique songwriters' perspective and tastefully heimische style to legendary cabaret Don't Tell Mama this fall with 'The Elegant & The Immigrant: Cole Porter & Irving Berlin Together,' a program of songs in matched pairs exploring the similarities and differences between these two master songwriters from Tin Pan Alley's golden age. The Elegant & The Immigrant will play a four-show run opening Friday, September 25, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, October 25, at 4 p.m., Saturday, November 14, at 5 p.m., and Sunday, December 20, at 4 p.m. Don't Tell Mama is at 343 W 46th St, NYC between 8th and 9th Avenues. There is a $15 cover plus a 2-drink minimum, with a $5 professional discount for MAC members. Call 212-757-0788 after 4 p.m. to reserve or visit: www.donttellmamanyc.com.The Elegant & The Immigrant: Cole Porter & Irving Berlin Together has played in concert at many venues on the East coast, including the Beacon Hill Concert Series, SummerKeys, Bard College, Custer Observatory, and the Hudson River Valley.
Three-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Frank Langella returns to Broadway to star in Manhattan Theatre Club's (Lynne Meadow Artistic Director; Barry Grove Executive Producer) American premiere of The Father.
Since BroadwayWorld.com launched its New York Cabaret Awards in 2012, the process of voting on preliminary nominees and final nominees for recognition in approximately 20 categories has been open to anyone registering to vote on the highly-trafficked entertainment website. For it's 4th Annual Cabaret Awards nomination period—this year beginning after Thanksgiving 2015--BroadwayWorld will now put the nomination process into the hands of its cabaret show reviewing staff (Alix Cohen, David Clarke, John Hoglund, Andrew Martin, Billie Roe, and Remy Block) and select industry experts, led by BWW Cabaret Editor and Awards Show Producer Stephen Hanks (who has also hosted the show since its inception). Once the final nominees are announced, the general public will again be offered the chance to vote online for the best performers and shows of the past year.
Jenni Barber, Quentin Earl Darrington, Bradley Dean, Dan Fogler, Ana Gasteyer, Josh Lamon, Aaron Lazar, Alyse Alan Louis and Rema Webb will join the previously announced Jonathan Groff in the Encores! Off-Center production of William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain, running June 24 - 27, 2015. The production will be directed by James Lapine, with choreography by Josh Prince.
Bernie Furshpan, operating partner of the Metropolitan Room served up Champagne at a reception to celebrate Julie Budd's Residency at the Cabaret. Lots of show biz friends turned out to congratulate Julie on her "new home". Julie's first show is on May 14th and Richard Skipper her publicist announced the the opening performance is almost sold out.
Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield has announced a New Play Commissioning Program and New Musical Commissioning Program, through which the Festival will commission and develop three to five projects annually from playwrights, composers and collaborative devisers from across the career spectrum. The program launches with inaugural artists Fernanda Coppel (whose new play King Liz premieres this summer at Second Stage), Halley Feiffer (I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard, which just finished an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theater Company), and Benjamin Scheuer (creator of the current Off Broadway hit The Lion). Each commission also includes a writing residency at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
White Plains Performing Arts Center presents a reading of a new comedy as part of the inaugural PAGE TO STAGE reading series. Join us tonight, February 21 at 7:00 pm for How To Kill Your Mother Without Really Trying (a comedy by a resentful son) Part 1-A, written by Steve Bluestein with special guest star Debra Jo Rupp (TV's The 70's Show).
White Plains Performing Arts Center presents a reading of a new comedy as part of the inaugural PAGE TO STAGE reading series. Join us on Saturday, February 21 at 7:00 pm for How To Kill Your Mother Without Really Trying (a comedy by a resentful son) Part 1-A, written by Steve Bluestein with special guest star Debra Jo Rupp (TV's The 70's Show).
Williamstown Theatre Festival just hosted its annual WTF Gala at City Winery in New York City (155 Varick Street) last night, February 9. The evening featured appearances and performances by Tony and Emmy Award-winner Martin Short, two-time Tony Award-winner and Williamstown veteran Katie Finneran, the acclaimed PigPen Theatre Co., up-and-coming singer/songwriter Benjamin Scheuer (The Lion), New York favorite Rebecca Naomi Jones and more. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the special night below!
White Plains Performing Arts Center presents a reading of a new comedy as part of the inaugural PAGE TO STAGE reading series. Join us on Saturday, February 21 at 7:00 pm for How To Kill Your Mother Without Really Trying (a comedy by a resentful son) Part 1-A, written by Steve Bluestein with special guest star Debra Jo Rupp (TV's The 70's Show).
White Plains Performing Arts Center presents a reading of a new comedy as part of the inaugural PAGE TO STAGE reading series. Join us on Sunday, January 25 at 7:00 pm for How To Kill Your Mother Without Really Trying (a comedy by a resentful son) Part 1-A, written by Steve Bluestein with special guest star Debra Jo Rupp (TV's The 70's Show).
Almost Maine is one of the countries most produced plays, this February; Royal Family Productions (Katie Avebe, Mary Bernardi, Chris Henry and Andy Theodorou, Founders) will present the New York premiere of John Cariani's follow-up play LOVE / SICK. Directed by Chris Henry and featuring choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter, LOVE / SICK will begin performances on February 6 and open on February 9 through February 26, 2015 at Royal Family's new home in Times Square at Royal Family Performing Arts Space (145 West 46th St.). Tickets are $18 and can be purchased by visiting royalfamilyproductions.org or by calling Ovation Tickets at (866)811-4111.
After four years reviewing cabaret shows, more than two for BroadwayWorld, our lead New York cabaret critic Stephen Hanks will be giving up reviewing shows to be the BWW Cabaret section's Editor and lead feature writer. Here's how he became a cabaret reviewer, why he's giving it up, and who he's brought on board to make up BWW's new cabaret reviewing team.
Acclaimed cabaret vocalist Stearns Matthews is proud to announce the release of his debut album, SPARK, today, November 1st, 2014. After six years of entertaining in cabaret rooms with “a voice as pure as rainwater” (William Westhoven, The Daily Record), Matthews leaps to the next stage of his career: recording.
The recording showcases Matthews' musical versatility as well as dynamic range, and features a mix of new arrangements of time-tested standards, musical theater favorites, as well as a never-before-recorded song by John Bucchino, My Alligator and Me.
After two successful runs in TORONTO in 2012 and 2013, Sharron Matthews and George Masswohl, acclaimed Canadian musical theatre couple, want to bring you a little (a lotta) Christmas, again! The duo are presenting another series of shows this holiday season in Toronto and Burnaby, Ontario.
