Craig Carnelia News

Applications are being accepted for the 3rd Annual Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project.

The West Bank Café announces our March, 2008 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is very pleased to announce 'Life on Earth, The Songs of Craig Carnelia.' The evening will feature the work of the acclaimed composer, running for three performances only: Sundays, March 2 & 9 at 9:30PM, and Monday, March 17 at 6PM.

Hurry! Only a few tickets are left to celebrate New Year's Eve right-off Times Square with a three-course dinner and live musical performances from two of New York's most acclaimed vocalists at The New Year's Eve Bash at the Laurie Beechman Theatre!

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is pleased to welcome Gabrielle Stravelli in her brand new show, 'Gabrielle Stravelli: Don't Tempt Me' on Saturday, November 17 at 9:30PM.

Friday, November 2, 'The After Party' welcomes Grease's Kirsten Wyatt and Her Song's Gabrielle Stravelli. Both will be on hand to greet fans and perform a few numbers as only they can.

Leading lady Anna-Jane Casey returns to the West End to headline Christmas in New York, the West End's unique celebration of contemporary seasonal show tunes and festive favorites, for one night only at the Lyric Theatre on Sunday, December 9.

'New Voices 3,' presented on August 6, was the third in a series of showcase concerts giving voice to Seattle's next generation of musical theatre performers.

Scott Siegel's summer series came to a close with a dazzling display of song and dance from Broadway's brightest.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University, in association with the Johnny Mercer Foundation, has announced the participants selected to take part in the second Johnny Mercer/Power of the American Popular Song, running from Aug. 12 to 18, on Northwestern's Evanston Campus

The ASCAP Foundation has announced that four new musical works have been selected for presentation at its annual ASCAP Foundation / Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in New York

This week we talk with Georgia Stitt who just released her first solo CD, 'This Ordinary Thursday,' on PS Classics. She discusses the making of the CD and her role as vocal coach on 'Grease: You're the One That I Want.' Plus, to top it off, we get to hear two songs from the CD.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) of Northwestern University is searching for talented young song writers and song writing teams (aged 18 to 30) to participate in the free workshops and master classes that are part of the Aug. 12 to 18 program titled 'Power of the American Popular Song.'

Jeb Brown will replace Will Chase in the one-night only, newly-adapted concert version of Working, a benefit for the Actor's Fund of America, which will take place next Monday, February 19, 2007 at The Zipper Theatre

On Monday, March 5, The Actors Fund will present a one-night-only benefit concert of Working, a unique and extraordinary musical based on the classic Studs Terkel book.

Constantine Maroulis guests at the After Party on February 9th

Two-time Tony Award-nominee Mary Testa has been added to the one-night only, newly-adapted concert version of Working, a benefit for the Actor's Fund of America,

The Zipper Theatre, Ryan Hill and John Johnson are pleased to announce a one-night only, newly adapted concert version of WORKING, the 1978 musical adapted from the acclaimed non-fiction book by Studs Terkel. This one-night only premiere concert event to benefit the Actor's Fund of America will take place on Monday, February 19, 2007 at The Zipper Theatre (336 West 37th Street, between 8 th and 9th Avenues).

Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to present John Mahoney (Old Man), Annie Parisse (Rita) and Alan Tudyk (Peter) in a new Broadway production of Craig Lucas' romantic drama Prelude to a Kiss with Robin Bartlett (Mrs. Boyle) and James Rebhorn (Dr. Boyle), directed by Daniel Sullivan at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd St).

The Laurie Beechman Theatre, located within The West Bank Café (407 West 42nd St.), is pleased to continue THE AFTER PARTY, an informal social gathering for the theatrically inclined. Every Friday from 10:30pm till 2am, join hosts BRANDON CUTRELL (MAC & Bistro Award winner) and ALYSHA UMPHRESS (XL Star), as well as RAY FELLMAN (Captain Louie) at the piano, for this weekly party in the heart of Manhattan's theatre district.