Bryan Blaskie News

Making her Green Room 42 debut, Ruby Lewis brings her much anticipated one-woman show STARLET to the city for a one-night engagement. Journey back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and step into the shoes of cinema's most beloved leading ladies through song.

The Green Room 42 has announced their line-up for the next week. Located inside YOTEL Times Square (570 Tenth Avenue, Fourth Floor), The Green Room 42 is Broadway's newest, most spacious, and funkiest cabaret club.

THE SPOTLIGHT SERIES, abi-monthly livestream concert series created by A LITTLE NEW MUSIC will “spotlight” the upbeat music of composer/lyricist and ALNM's founding music director, Bryan Blaskie, on June 29th.

Season Two of The Latest Draft Podcast premieres this Friday, February 12. After receiving dozens of submissions, the producers narrowed down the season to eight podcast musicals and 20 cabaret songs.

New York Theatre Barn will host a free live stream of its award-winning New Works Series on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 at 7PM EST, featuring excerpts from the new musicals The Lesson and Nothing To See Here. The live 1-hour presentation will also feature a conversation with the writers and creative team. 

Stars of the stage and screen came together for a virtual performance of 'Six Feet Closer to You', a quarantine song written by Bryan Blaskie. The group includes performers from television, opera, and Broadway-including a Tony winner.

New York Theatre Barn will continue to host bi-monthly free live streams of its New Works Series on select Wednesday evenings at 7PM ET. Available on New York Theatre Barn’s YouTube channel & Broadway on Demand, each installment of the live 1-hour series includes excerpts from two new musicals and a conversation with the writers and creative team.

The new musical 57 Bus by RYAN M. LUEVANO and JILL HOFFMANN had a successful developmental reading in New York City on Monday February 24th, 2020. The reading took place at The Growing Studios and had a full house of over 80 theatre lovers. The audience submitted anonymous surveys after the presentation and used the following words to describe the musical: “Youthful, deep, powerful, insightful, heartfelt, thought-provoking, effervescent, important, relevant, informative, poignant, inspiring, and relatable”.

RYAN M. LUEVANO and JILL HOFFMANN, writers of the new musical, 57 BUS, have been selected to attend the Artist-In-Residence Program hosted at the Château d'Orquevaux in France July 17-31, 2020. The writers have also been awarded the Denis Diderot Grant for their residency abroad. The Los Angeles & Chicago-based writers will spend two weeks on the beautiful French countryside, continuing to build their new musical while gaining insight from the international pool of 15 artists-in-residence that will be joining them.

A developmental reading of the new musical 57 BUSby RYAN M. LUEVANO and JILL HOFFMANNwill be held in New York City on Monday February 24th. The reading will be directed by JUSTIN BRAUN, a NYC-based director who recently directed the Memphis premiere of Be More Chill. He holds an MFA in directing from the University of Memphis.

For anyone who happens to have ventured out to one of the Rescignos' holiday frolics over the last decade, you understand the incredible journey on which this epic twin duo takes their audience each year. Whether it's the puns and innuendos on Paul's latest costume, a massive stocking, or the 'serious-minded' Robbie cracking a grin after the audience erupts into teary-eyed laughter, this duo deserves a ton of applause for yet another well-orchestrated show.

Honeck-Moss Productions is proud to present a?oeIn The Works.a??  This exciting series is an opportunity for composers to try out new work in front of an audience and see how it plays in a supportive environment.  It is also an opportunity to create community among the composers and their performers.  

Twin brothers Paul Rescigno ('The Other Two'; 'The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'), and Robbie Rescigno ('The Resident'; 'The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt') will bring their award-winning comedy show back to The Duplex (61 Christopher St) in NYC, December 5-6. This year's brand new holiday installment titled, The Rescignos: Deck the Pauls with Boughs of Robbie, is written by the Rescigno brothers and Mike Hadge (NEWSical: The Musical), and features their distinct brand of comedy and original music.

In The Works is be presented monthly and feature three composers or composer teams, each presenting about 20 minutes of new material. This month features the works of composers: Seth Christenfeld, Sophie Danis Oberfield & Fernanda Douglas, and Kyle Segar & David Kornfeld. Special Guest: Amy Engelhardt. Hosted by: Thomas Honeck.

Bryan Blaskie and Manny Hagopian made their Off-Broadway debut with Assistants the Musical. The show opened on June 22, 2019 at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village. The cast includes Chance Brayman, Benjamin Diamond, Jamie Dillon Grossman, and Belén Moyano.

Video game writer Manny Hagopian, known for writing memorable characters like the mischievous Mirage in Apex Legends or the lovable machine BT-7274 in Titanfall 2, opens his first Off-Broadway musical on June 22. Instead of a battle royale or intergalactic warfare, the game is...Hollywood?

Honeck-Moss Productions will present "In The Works." This exciting new series was conceived as an opportunity for composers to try out new work in front of an audience and see how it plays in a supportive environment. It is also an opportunity to create community among the composers and their performers.

ALIEN VS. MUSICAL makes its NYC Premiere at NYWinterfest 2019 at the Hudson Guild Theater on January 14th, 18th, and 20th.

Sing Away the Stigma is a heartfelt, honest, life-affirming evening of brand-new songs by emerging musical theater composers and lyricists, inspired by true-life stories of those with mental health challenges. A dozen people from different backgrounds and walks of life, all living with a mental health condition, were interviewed and had their stories of struggle, strength, and hope turned into songs, which will be performed for the first time in this concert. Sing Away the Stigma is a testament to the power of musical theater, the strength of those living with mental illness, and the unique bond formed when the two meet.