Jacques Brel News

Vocal powerhouses, Ritter Hanz and Kevin Smith Kirkwood are proud to be back in NYC for two nights only to delight audiences with their new cabaret, 'Comme Tu Veux,' performing Monday and Tuesday, September 22nd and 23rd at the 42nd Street's acclaimed Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Judith Owen, Euan Morton, Klea Blackhurst & Billy Stritch, Tim DiPasqua, and Jeff Harnar return to the Metropolitan Room in the coming weeks. Neile Adams, Gay Marshall and Jill Whelan are among those making their Metropolitan Room debuts.

Prospect Theater Company's 10th anniversary concert will be held Sept. 21 at Off-Broadway's 37 Arts. Falsettos' Stephen Bogardus will host the 9 PM concert, which will boast the talents of David Abeles, Jim Bauer, Jennifer Blood, Matt Cavenaugh, Gavin Creel, Jennifer Damiano, Malcolm Gets, Piper Goodeve, Adam Jacobs, Jose Llana, Jeff McCarthy, Meghan McGeary, Mark Mozingo, Brian Munn and Liz Power as well as members of the cast of the upcoming Prospect production of Illyria: Dan Sharkey, Ryan Dietz, Jim Poulos and Tina Stafford. 37 Arts is located in Manhattan at 450 West 37th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues. Tickets, priced $25, can be purchased by calling (212) 352-3101 or by visiting www.nymf.org.

Four Glenwood Avenue Arts District theatres - Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, Lifeline Theatre, Side Project Theatre Company, and Theo Ubique - are combining to offer a flexible subscription pass to see productions in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood throughout this season, running from September 15, 2008, to July 1, 2009.

Casting has been completed for a brand new jewel box production of the Tony Award-winning musical Camelot at White Plains Performing Arts Center playing September 26- October 5, 2008.

In an exclusive four-week engagement at the Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th Street, the Nightlife, MAC and Bistro Award-winner Karen Kohler stars in Little Death, a provocative new musical performance exploring the erotic synergies between sex and death.

Vocal powerhouses, Ritter Hanz and Kevin Smith Kirkwood are proud to be back in NYC for two nights only to delight audiences with their new cabaret, 'Comme Tu Veux,' performing Monday and Tuesday, September 22nd and 23rd at the 42nd Street's acclaimed Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Last season, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was reborn as a highly anticipated new musical opening at off-Broadway's 37 Arts. On Thursday, September 4th, company members of Frankenstein the Musical reunited for a CD release celebration at The Irish Rouge located at 365 West 44th St.

The finale of Rubicon Theatre Company's celebratory 10th Anniversary 'Festival' Season is the delightful Bock & Harnick musical comedy SHE LOVES ME.

Asolo Repertory Theatre's Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards announces the creative team for the theatre's upcoming production of Barnum the musical and names Brad Oscar in the title role.

Last season, Mary Shelley's novel was reborn as a highly anticipated new musical opening at off-Broadway's 37 Arts. This September, Frankenstein, a new musical, will release an original cast recording. Distributed by Friends of Ghostlight, an extension of Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight Records, Frankenstein, a new musical will be available online (iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, etc.) September 2nd and available in stores September 30th. ($14.99 at www.sh-k-boom.com, ISDN# 791558800128.)

Jack W. Batman, Executive Producer of the White Plains Performing Arts Center, announced that Robert Cuccioli will be returning to the theatre to play King Arthur in this season's opening production, Camelot. This is a brand new production of the Tony Award-winning musical that will play a limited engagement from September 26 - October 5, 2008.

42nd Street Moon, the company that celebrates and preserves the art and spirit of the American Musical Theatre, opens its 2008-09 Season in with one of the big hits of the 1960-61 season, the saucy Irma La Douce, the hit Parisian musical which was a sensation in London before its Tony-winning New York run.

That roar you heard in Chicago's Loop Monday evening, June 30th, was the enthusiastic opening night audience at the Goodman Theatre, where the volcanic excitement generated by a summertime, homegrown production of the 'Fats' Waller musical 'Ain't Misbehavin' will very nearly blow the roof off the place for the next month or so.

Goodspeed Musicals, the only two time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, announces the cast of 'Half a Sixpence', a delightful musical comedy which promises to be fun for the whole family. 'Half a Sixpence' will run July 11 through September 19, 2008, at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.

Sheera Ben-David will return to the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel with an exclusive engagement from June 17 - 28.

Due to popular demand, the Marin Theatre Company (Mill Valley, CA) production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris' has been extended through June 22, 2008.

Sheera Ben-David will return to the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel with an exclusive engagement from June 17 - 28.