Emily McNamara News

This Sunday, RISE BAR is seeking it's next RISING STAR! Hosted by Broadways Marty Thomas (Xanadu, The Secret Garden, Wicked), the RISING STAR competition begins Sunday March 6! The contestants will be competing in an 8 week elimination style contest for a $1000 cast prize and paid bookings at RISE Bar with their respective solo show. In addition to it's cash and prize package, RISING STAR is offering networking opportunities with guest celebrity judges, fantastic exposure and valuable live stage experience.

Joe's Pub at The Public has just announced its nightly lineup for February 24 - March 6, 2016. Scroll down for details or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!

Joe's Pub at The Public has just announced its nightly lineup for February 24 - March 6, 2016. Scroll down for details or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!

The York Theatre Company welcomes the return engagement of the game show for musical theater lovers called Tune in Time,presented by Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields, hosted by Emily McNamara, with Musical Director Nate Buccieri and annoyingly insistent timekeeper Sheila Head at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54thStreet, just east of Lexington Avenue).

Kevin Smith Kirkwood, of KINKY BOOTS and THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, will make his nightclub return tonight, February 16th at new Hell's Kithchen hot spot, RISE.

Kevin Smith Kirkwood, of KINKY BOOTS and THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, will make his nightclub return this Tuesday, February 16th at new Hell's Kithchen hot spot, RISE. 

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced details for the 2015 NYMF's NEXT BROADWAY SENSATION competition.

Tonight, November 10th, Broadway's most distinctive vocalists will celebrate five-time Grammy award winner Mariah Carey at Feinstein's/54 Below in a concert featuring a career-spanning setlist of her most beloved hit singles, including 'Vision of Love,' 'Hero,' 'We Belong Together,' 'Always Be My Baby,' 'Heartbreaker,' 'Fantasy,' and countless others!

This week Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. Scroll down for details!

Question: Would you buy an orchestra ticket (or any ticket for that matter) to an experimental Broadway musical called The Sweaty Smorgasbord where the 11 o'clock number is "Supper Sings Tonight?" How about checking out a derivative Jason Robert Brown musical titled The Gassy Breakthrough, where the song "Too Soon" is about whether the protagonist should fart on the first date? Here's one that potential musical theater show investors would love: A new Disney style musical called The Sticky Snake. Of course these aren't real or even prospective Broadway musicals. They are ideas that have emerged from the creative minds of some young composers and lyricists who might very well have their musicals gracing Broadway theaters some day. But in the meantime they have been conjuring up these wild concepts in Tune In Time, a musical theater game show staged semi-regularly at The York Theatre Company on East 54th Street (the next installment will be on Monday, November 9 at 7:30 pm) that could have been created by some hybrid of Chuck Barris (of The Gong Show fame) and Mel Brooks. As the show's creators and producers Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields are fond of promoting about Tune In Time, "Anything goes . . . and usually does."

On November 10th, Broadway's most distinctive vocalists will celebrate five-time Grammy award winner Mariah Carey at Feinstein's/54 Below in a concert featuring a career-spanning setlist of her most beloved hit singles, including "Vision of Love," "Hero," "We Belong Together," "Always Be My Baby," "Heartbreaker," "Fantasy," and countless others!

NEWSical The Musical, the 2011 winner of the Off-Broadway Alliance Award, is excited to celebrate its 2,000th performance tonight, November 2nd, at Theatre Row.

This November, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW presents an exciting lineup of the brightest talent from Broadway and beyond. Located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street.

The November installment will feature lyricists Meghan Kelleher (songwriter), Sukari Jones (Location, Location, Location!!!), and Kathleen Wrinn (Ten: The Story of Grace and Joe) and composers Bobby Cronin (unlucky in Love, 2014 NEO writer at the York), Andy Roninson (creator of the podcast Take a Ten Musicals), and Adam Spiegel (Cloned! and a returning TUNE IN TIME champion).

The York Theatre Company hosted the return engagement of the game show for musical theater lovers called TUNE IN TIME, presented by Amy Engelhardtand Heather Shield, with host by Emily McNamara, Musical Director Nate Buccieri and annoyingly insistent timekeeper Sheila Head on Monday, August 31, 2015 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's. Scroll down for photos!

The York Theatre Company will host the return engagement of the game show for musical theater lovers called Tune in Time, presented by Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields,  hosted by Emily McNamara, with  Musical Director Nate Buccieri and annoyingly insistent timekeeper Sheila Head.  The August/September installment will be presented on Monday, August 31, 2015 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). 

Marty Thomas Presents DIVA is a celebration of fabulous female vocalists paying tribute to histories most over the top icons. In it's 5th fabulous year, the show performs every Monday at industry Bar in midtown Manhattan. Read more at www.martythomaspresentsdiva.com. Follow on twitter and instagram @martysdivas.

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director; Andrew Levine, Executive Director), and producers Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields, will present the June installment of the game show for musical theatre lovers called Tune in Time, hosted by Emily McNamara, with Musical Director Nate Buccieri and annoyingly insistent timekeeper Sheila Head on Monday, June 8, 2015 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peters (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).

The York Theatre Company and producers Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields, will present the May installment of the new game show for musical theater lovers called Tune in Time, hosted by Emily McNamara.  Musical Director Nate Buccieri  and annoyingly insistent timekeeper Sheila Head rejoin the company on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peters (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). 

The York Theatre Company and its Artistic Director James Morgan and producers Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields, will be presenting the 8th edition of the quirky and popular musical theater game show Tune in Time, on Tuesday May 5 at 7:30 pm with a new cast of contestants and celebrity judges. Joining the songwriting fray for this round are Alan Gordon (Kleban Award for The Usual), Kathryn Hathaway (Afterland), Bill Nelson (Harmony, Kansas), Rachel Peters (curator of Cornelia Street Cafe's Otherwise Unsung series), Brad Simmons (musical director of Broadway's Lysistrata Jones), and Benjamin Velez (Pain in the Aztec). Among the celebrity judges for the next show will be Broadway Producer Ken Davenport (Altar Boyz), casting director Michael Cassara (NYMF, A Time for Singing at the York) and performer Rachel Rhodes-Devey (Merrily We Roll Along at APAC).