Brad Simmons News

Tony Award winner Alice Ripley will return to The Green Room 42 in an encore performance of her acclaimed show "Ripley Prescription" on Saturday, August 18 at 7:00 PM. Featuring everything from pop/rock hits to musical theatre standards, this one night only engagement is a rare opportunity to experience an extraordinary evening of storytelling and song by a performer the NY Daily News called "a musical theatre legend." The evening features Brad Simmons on piano.

There's a new cocktail being served up at the Bridland Theater, and based upon it's debut last night, folks will be lining up to get into (or should I say down to).  It's being served up at the new venue underneath the legendary Birdland Jazz nightclub…. the Birdland Theater.   

What good is sitting alone in your room this week? If you don't already have plans to see a Broadway show, come out to see your favorite Broadway stars in a cabaret act instead. Highlights this week include:

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today the 2018 summer season of plays, musicals, and other works in development at the National Puppetry Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Playwrights Conference, and Cabaret & Performance Conference.

For the first time in the awards history, the nomination are being announced live simultaneously by The Morning Lounge with Jill and Rich on Legends Radio100.3FM along with the Carbonell Awards FacebookLive simulcast from 6am-10am today.

Megan Hilty ('Smash!', Wicked); Paul Williams ('The Muppet Movie,' 'Evergreen,' Bugsy Malone, Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas); and Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Wicked) are three stars confirmed for the 2018 Junior Theater Festival Atlanta (#JTF18, #JTFATL), happening January 12-14, 2018 at The Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, GA.

The fourth season of Rise Bar's RISING STAR competition continues tomorrow, Tuesday, December 5th. This week, contestants celebrate Mariah Carey!

Fitzwater's SECRET GARDEN is only a week into rehearsals, prominent and promising as the show could possibly be; his intimate, detail-oriented direction and meticulous manipulation of the stage is already making his Secret Garden a thrilling, sensational work.

The fourth season of Rise Bar's RISING STAR competition continues tonight, November 28th. This week, contestants sing songs the producers assigned.

The fourth season of the RISING STAR competition continues tonight, November 14th. This week, contestants sing songs from the year they were born.

The New York premiere of the film HELLO AGAIN took place on Monday night, November 6, at Cin polis Chelsea in NYC.

The New York premiere of the film HELLO AGAIN took place last night, Monday, November 6, at Cin polis Chelsea in NYC. Scroll down for photos!

The fourth season of the RISING STAR competition continues Tuesday, November 7th, at Rise Bar.

The fourth season of the RISING STAR competition continues today October 24th!

The fourth season of the RISING STAR competition continues Tuesday October 17th!

The fourth season of the RISING STAR competition continues Tuesday October 10th!

The fourth season of the RISING STAR competition begins Tuesday October 3rd!

This October, Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. Scroll down for details!

The Broadway at Birdland concert series presented the return of singer/actress Christina Bianco to the historic stage, along with rocker/pianist/musical director Brad Simmons, in an evening called 'The Long & The Short Of It,' on Monday, September 4. BroadwayWorld has photos from the concert below!