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It was announced today that the award-winning comedienne Judy Gold would, for the first time, host the Nightlife Awards, which takes place on Monday, January 26th at 7 PM at The Town Hall. Also announced was Nightlife Legend Honoree Karen Akers who will, as trumpeted by the Nightlife Awards, make no acceptance speech but, instead, perform! And yet another winner has been found and agreed to come to Town Hall to perform: Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra (Outstanding Jazz Combo). Also announced today were guest stars Keith Carradine and Jim Caruso. So far, eleven of the thirteen award categories will be represented with a performance by their winners! Among those previously announced winners slated to perform are Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch, Marilyn Maye, Mike Birbiglia, Freddy Cole, Helen Baldassare, Allan Harris, Baby Jane Dexter, Brandon Cutrell, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Daryl Glenn and Jo Lynn Burks. Among the previously announced guest stars that will be performing are Stephanie J. Block, Larry Gatlin, Euan Morton, Noah Racey and The New York Tap Ensemble. And more soon to be announced!

On Monday, January 26 at 7 PM, the 7th Annual Nightlife Awards Concert, hailed as 'The Nightclub World's Equivalent of the Tony's' by Stephen Holden of the New York Times, returns once again with the most -- and the best -- entertainment of any awards show in the world. The reason is simple: there are no acceptance speeches at The Nightlife Awards.

It was announced today that the award-winning comedienne Judy Gold would, for the first time, host the Nightlife Awards, which takes place on Monday, January 26th at 7 PM at The Town Hall. Also announced was Nightlife Legend Honoree Karen Akers who will, as trumpeted by the Nightlife Awards, make no acceptance speech but, instead, perform! And yet another winner has been found and agreed to come to Town Hall to perform: Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra (Outstanding Jazz Combo). Also announced today were guest stars Keith Carradine and Jim Caruso. So far, eleven of the thirteen award categories will be represented with a performance by their winners! Among those previously announced winners slated to perform are Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch, Marilyn Maye, Mike Birbiglia, Freddy Cole, Helen Baldassare, Allan Harris, Baby Jane Dexter, Brandon Cutrell, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Daryl Glenn and Jo Lynn Burks. Among the previously announced guest stars that will be performing are Stephanie J. Block, Larry Gatlin, Euan Morton, Noah Racey and The New York Tap Ensemble. And more soon to be announced!

This past year's most outstanding performances in cabaret, comedy, and jazz have been chosen by more than two-dozen critics and experts who concluded their voting over the holidays (see below).

On Monday, January 26 at 7 PM, the 7th Annual Nightlife Awards Concert, hailed as 'The Nightclub World's Equivalent of the Tony's' by Stephen Holden of the New York Times, returns once again with the most -- and the best -- entertainment of any awards show in the world. The reason is simple: there are no acceptance speeches at The Nightlife Awards.

On Monday, November 17th at 8 PM, The Town Hall stage thundered with the sound of Broadway's greatest voices in the 5th Annual Broadway Unplugged. After the concert the cast 'unplugged' at the party to celebrate the successful evening.

On Monday, November 17th at 8 PM, The Town Hall stage thundered with the sound of Broadway's greatest voices in the 5th Annual Broadway Unplugged. The thunder was provided without any microphones; just with just terrific singers singing great Broadway show tunes.

On Monday, November 17th at 8 PM, The Town Hall stage will thunder with the sound of Broadway's greatest voices in the 5th Annual Broadway Unplugged. The thunder will be provided without any microphones; we do it with just terrific singers singing great Broadway show tunes.

More than a dozen Broadway and Cabaret Stars will be shaking the rafters in the 5th Annual Broadway Unplugged concert at Town Hall on Monday night, November 17th. Aaron Lazar, late of Tale of Two Cities will be joining a stellar cast that already boasts Broadway's Mary Poppins, Ashley Brown, as well as Marc Kudisch, Jeff McCarthy, Julia Murney, Matt Cavenaugh, Cheryl Freeman, Christiane Noll, William Michals, Lorinda Lisitza, Chuck Cooper, Erin Denman, Bill Daugherty, and Ron Bohmer.

On Monday, November 17th at 8 PM, The Town Hall stage will thunder with the sound of Broadway's greatest voices in the 5th Annual Broadway Unplugged. The thunder will be provided without any microphones; we do it with just terrific singers singing great Broadway show tunes.

The glorious experiment that began five years ago with a concert featuring great singers, singing great songs, but without microphones in a 1,500 seat theater, has blossomed into a annual celebration. The concert is attended every year by musical theater lovers who crave the sound of the pure human voice and the opportunity to hear great Broadway music the way it was originally performed, with nothing between the singer and the audience except the truth.

The Town Hall is pleased to present the final production of its 2007-2008 Broadway by the Year series with Broadway by the Year 1979 on Monday, June 16th at 8PM says Executive and Artistic Director Lawrence Zucker. Broadway By The Year is created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall, now in it's 8th season.

Lawrence Zucker, Artistic and Executive Director of The Town Hall is pleased to present the upcoming Broadway By The Year concerts. -- After the first two all-star, critically acclaimed, sold out concerts at The Town Hall, Broadway by the Year continues its year of unparalleled excellence by announcing just some of the stars that have committed to performing in the last two concerts of the season. Making their Broadway by the Year debuts in concerts on either May 12 or June 16 are Brian d'Arcy James, Mandy Gonzalez, Alice Ripley, Jeff McCarthy, Lorin Latarro, and Terri Klausner. Now in its eighth season, Broadway By The Year is created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall.

The fourth annual 'Broadway Unplugged' concert - featuring Broadway stars performing without microphones - will be presented Monday, November 19 at 8PM at The Town Hall.

The fourth annual 'Broadway Unplugged' - featuring Broadway stars performing without microphones - will be presented Monday, November 19 at 8PM at The Town Hall, with Sarah Uriarte Berry, Darius deHaas, Max Von Essen, Marc Kudisch, Aaron Lazar, Beth Leavel, Michael McElroy, Sarah Jane McMahon, William Michals, Paul Schoeffler, Emily Skinner and Martin Vidnovic.

Martin Vidnovic, who currently stars as 'Bellomy' in The Fantasticks, the world's longest running musical, will star for one night only in the finale concert of the 18th Annual New York Cabaret Convention to be held at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall (Broadway at 60th Street) on Thursday, November 8 at 6PM.

The Mabel Mercer Foundation's 2007 New York Cabaret Convention will include the talents of Andrea Marcovicci, Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole and Julie Wilson

Town Hall is presenting the final production of its Broadway By the Year 2006-7 series: Broadway By the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1964, Part II, on Monday June 18 at 8 PM.

The Town Hall will present 'Broadway By the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1959' on Monday April 30 at 8 PM.

This year's Broadway Unplugged concert may well have been the best of the three: every song and singer were perfectly matched and beautifully performed, and almost no singers were able to leave the stage without being called back for an extra bow