Charles Osborne News

The mainstage season at Bristol Riverside Theatre (BRT) (120 Radcliffe  Street, Bristol, PA 19007) kicks off with the iconic Charles Ludlam comedy-camp-suspense-satire play The  Mystery of Irma Vep. The title is a nod to the 1915 French movie serial Les Vampires. Ludlam's cult  classic premieres on the BRT mainstage October 3 to 22.

Broadway's Ken Page attended the Wednesday matinee performance of 'Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn.'  The cast and director Justin Ross Cohen were thrilled to meet and chat with him after the show.  Check out the photos!

The Off-Broadway production of Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, with book and lyrics by Mark Saltzman, music adapted from classic Italian melodies, directed and choreographed by Justin Ross Cohen, and starring the original cast,  officially opened on Monday, May 16 at Theater 555 (555 West 42nd Street - between 10th and 11th Avenues).

The Off-Broadway production of Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, with book and lyrics by Mark Saltzman, music adapted from classic Italian melodies, directed and choreographed by Justin Ross Cohen, and starring the original cast, is now being presented at Theater 555.

Producer Eric Krebs, in association with Amas Musical Theatre will present the Off-Broadway production of Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, with book and lyrics by Mark Saltzman, music adapted from classic Italian melodies, directed and choreographed by Justin Ross Cohen.

Dorothy Bishop’s comedic impressions bring big laughs and music to the cabaret stage!

TikTok and Off-Broadway comedian Charles Osborne and composer Leo Hurley will present their new musical Paris Through the Window in concert at The Green Room 42 on Friday October 22nd at 7:00pm.

Jewelle Blackman (Hadestown) and Jose Luaces (A Christmas Story) join a star-studded Broadway lineup for the launch party for THANK YOU FIVE. The event will run from 7-10pm at The Artist Co-op (500 West 52nd Street), on Monday, October 21st. Advanced Sale Tickets are $20 and admission includes two drinks and a THANK YOU FIVE button. Tickets can be purchased at one-eyedrabbit.com.

The new film & television production company One-Eyed Rabbit will be throwing a star-studded launch party for their original short-form anthology series THANK YOU FIVE on Monday, October 21st, atThe Artist Co-op, 500 West 53nfd Street NYC. The event will run from 7-10pm.

Food of Love and Third Rail Projects announce a new production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed and choreographed by Third Rail Projects Co-Artistic Director Zach Morris (Then She Fell) and a menu by Emilie Baltz.

Add together a foggy night, dead body, clues that point in different directions, twists and turns, and what do you get? Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest. The Unexpected Guest opened in 1958 in the West End and was turned into a novel by Charles Osborne in 1999. Test out your detective skills at Little Theatre Mechanicsburg where The Unexpected Guest will take the stage April 26-May 12. I had the opportunity to take a sneak peak of the first act and to speak with two of the actors-Kaitlyn Booth, portraying Laura Warwick, and Nova Lorraine, playing Inspector Thomas.

Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost, a production of Shakespeare's comedy that serves its audience an eight-course tasting menu as the play unfolds, will play its final performance on Sunday, January 6, 2019. Featuring direction by Dan Swern (The Eleventh Hour) and movement by Victoria Rae Sook (Grease), Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost began performances on October 2, 2018 at a custom-built performance space at 94 Gansevoort Street (across from the Whitney Museum) and officially opened on October 13, 2018 for a limited run through January 6. At the time of its final performance, Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost will have played 11 previews and 95 regular performances at 94 Gansevoort Street.

Italian composer and pianist Francesco Lotoro brings the fruits of 30 years of painstaking research to Toronto for the first time with The Saved Music, a concert of chamber works composed by musicians who were persecuted in Second World War concentration camps

Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost, a new production of Shakespeare's comedy that serves its audience an eight-course tasting menu as the play unfolds, will open in New York this fall in a newly-created space in the Meatpacking District.

Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost, a new production of Shakespeare's comedy that serves its audience an eight-course tasting menu as the play unfolds, will open in New York this fall in a newly-created space in the Meatpacking District.

Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost, a new production of Shakespeare's comedy that serves its audience an eight-course tasting menu as the play unfolds, will open in New York this fall in a newly-created space in the Meatpacking District.

Honeck-Moss Productions is proud to present 'In The Works.'  This exciting series is in it's second season 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.

Following a 17-month run in the smash Off-Broadway spoof Spamilton, where she impersonated divas from Liza Minnelli to Barbra Streisand, Dorothy Bishop is primed to dazzle you on Friday, June 1st at 9:30 at the Triad Theater in her 'novel and hysterical' (Huffington Post) show 'The Dozen Divas.'

Thorton Wilder's Our Town tells the story of the everyday lives of the citizens of a fictional American small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, this show is uniquely suited for our King Avenue sanctuary.  You won't want to miss this telling of Our Town, during its 80th anniversary of its Broadway opening.  Performances run March 8, 9, 10 at 7:30 pm and March 11 at 3:00pm. All performances are at King Avenue United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave., Columbus, OH. Childcare is available during the Friday evening and Sunday matinee performances. Admission is free, but a $10 donation is encouraged.

This February, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.