Dick Cavett News

Mel Brooks has a new book coming soon! Penguin Random House's Ballantine Books will publish All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business on November 30, 2021. Click here to pre-order today!

A juke box collection of hits from the 60’s where pleasant memories were evocative from that less provocative era. The production was curated such that only ‘girl groups’ or female solo artists were featured. An ensemble of singers and dancers carefully cast by Director/Choreographer Jody Anderson.

On July 1, 2021 Birdland will open its doors to the public for the first time since March 2020. To mark the grand reopening, Birdland is bringing back 1949 prices as a thank you to returning patrons.

Students can now share the stage with award winning actor Jeffrey Tambor when he returns with his new Improvisation Class:  Beyond the Script. 

LEGENDS AND BRIDGE is a comedy imagining former, silver-screen legend Joan Crawford (matronly, washed-up, and pickled on spiked Pepsi) who invites Judy Garland (recently fired from her CBS TV show) and Bette Davis (bitter at no longer being the “Queen of Hollywood”) up to her Manhattan apartment in 1964 to live with her as they work on a “secret” film project. I find it difficult to believe anyone reading this does not already know about the three screen legends featured in the show. But just to be sure, I decided to interview the three actors portraying them to find out more about what it was like to portray such well-known personalities.

Rian Keating puts himself out on a line when he performs his club acts, but this deaf cabaret singing storyteller also puts himself on a line every day, living the life he wants to and helping those in need... and from the day the teenage Rian arrived in New York City, that's been his way.

Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, the writers and directors of MY LITTLE SISTER, author Yaron Brook, and Vanilla Fudge's Carmine Appice are Tom Needham's special guests on THE SOUNDS OF FILM.

Make 2021 the year that you take your acting aspirations to the next level!  With Zoom classes at The Ridgefield Playhouse beginner and advanced acting students will have the opportunity to work with Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jeffrey Tambor (The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development, Transparent), with two new workshops – Scene Study Tuesdays, January 26 – March 16, 2021 and The Art of the Personal Monologue Mondays, February 1 – March 22, 2021.  

Featuring new performers with every show, Piano Bar Live! A Night at Rose's Turn, Part 3, streams tomorrow Tuesday, December 22nd at 7:15 pm ET, with hosts Scott Barbarino and Mark Alan celebrating the now iconic club, Roses Turn.

When actress Katharine 'Kat' Kramer made her debut on Richard Skipper Celebrates podcast this past Saturday, she announced that she would be featured in the first episode on the new YouTube channel that HMP Celebrity Showcase has just launched.

These chatty Cathys have made sure that, during the show business shutdown, there was a way for fans to get to know their favorites a little better, and each host developed their own voice and vision. Let's talk about the shows nominated for Broadway World Awards for BEST REGULARLY SCHEDULED CHAT SHOW.

No matter where you live you can learn from award-winning instructors from the comfort of your own home! The Ridgefield Playhouse continues to make their most popular classes available via Zoom this fall!

Vineyard Theatre Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern have announced the weekly schedule for Lessons In Survival, beginning October 6, and the return of 'The VT Show' on the last Tuesday of each month beginning September 29 at 5:30 pm ET.

The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (The Kate) announced today that the one and only Cher will receive the 5th annual Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award during The Kate's virtual gala on Saturday, October 3 at 7:30 pm.

From Hollywood to Vegas and all around the world, no one has continued to delight us, surprise us, and entertain us like Cher. And she's not done yet! For the first time ever, all the spectacular highlights of Cher's remarkable career are together in one electrifying collection: THE BEST OF CHER.

AXS TV presents an insightful look back at one of America's most important decades in the all-new Sunday morning series The 1960s Rediscovered—airing Sundays at 9 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. CT through August 9.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen actor Fred Willard has died at age 86 of natural causes.

SF Sketchfest announced a new series of Live from the Archive videos that will be released each Tuesday beginning on May 5, 2020. The series will feature many never-before-seen performances, tribute conversations and panel discussions from the past 19 years and will include appearances by many comedy and entertainment luminaries.

Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on how Muhammad Ali was able to speak his mind on The Dick Cavett Show about racial inequality. Watch Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes now on HBO.

Television legend Dick Cavett toasts his first visit to the Late Show with an orange juice and Campari cocktail, a drink introduced to him by none other than Marlon Brando. Check out Cavett's new HBO special, 'Ali and Cavett: The Tales of the Tapes.'