Janelle Lawrence News

Broad Views On Broadway, in collaboration with PlayThings Theatre, Presents: Queer POC Pride Cabaret!

To celebrate the work of MTF's Women, Trans and GNC Roundtable on Monday June 3rd, Musical Theatre Factory will present a one night only evening of new musical theatre works by and for women, trans and gender non conforming people. These invigorating, witty, compelling, complex and poignant songs explore a range of stories told by underrepresented voices- songs about life, love, coming-of-age, finding your power, and just plain ol' humanity! Curated by Molly Marinik, Maybe Burke and Janelle Lawrence A New Wave Gathering will take place at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St) on Monday, June 3 at 9.30pm. Tickets are $25 and are available at mtf.nyc/events.

Broad Views On Broadway will present their annual Summer Fresh Festival! This year their themes are Social Change, Unsung Heros ,Conflicts Within Minority Groups and Reproductive Rights. As we continue to face attacks on everyday human rights its important now more than ever to know we are not alone.

Janelle Lawrence is making her 2019 performance debut in her solo cabaret show 'Femme Fatale' at the Triad Theatre on April 6th at 7pm. The Triad Theatre has been home to Vanessa Williams, Brooke Shields, and Lady Gaga throughout its many years at 150 W 72nd St. and will be Janelle's first Off-Broadway cabaret.

 Throughout the 2018-2019 season, Broad Views on Broadway presents 10 Community Initiatives ('Recycle, Re-Use, Restore', 'Wellness Through The Arts', 'Pitching Yourself and Other Projects', and more) to connect their theatre community with its audience and resources.

Janelle Lawrence is making her 2019 performance debut in her solo cabaret show 'Femme Fatale' at the Triad Theatre on April 6th at 7pm. The Triad Theatre has been home to Vanessa Williams, Brooke Shields, and Lady Gaga throughout its many years at 150 W 72nd St. and will be Janelle's first Off-Broadway cabaret.

The Playthings Theatre, an LGBTQ+ Company in New York City, will be performing its gala concert PlayFresh on Monday, March 11th at 7:00pm. PlayFresh is an evening of new LGBTQ+ music performed by Broadway's finest. Playthings will be honoring Ricky Ian Gordon with The P.R.I.D.E. Performing Arts Award for his contribution to theatre and the LGBTQ+ community.

RING OF KEYS brings QUEERING THE STAGE to Birdland. QUEERING THE STAGE is directed by Janelle Lawrence with musical direction by Anessa Marie. This one-night only concert will play Birdland Theater on Thursday, November 15th at 9:45pm.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents presents MuseMatch XII: Forward on October 12th at 11:30pm.

Melissa Li's and Kit Yan's new musical Interstate, has been extended due to popular demand. Interstate, which opens the 2018 New York Musical Festival tonight at Theatre Row, will play to a sold-out house. An additional performance, has been added on Sunday, July 15 at 5:00 pm.

Interstate, a new musical created by Melissa Li and Kit Yan, has been selected as one of 12 productions to take part in the 2018 New York Musical Festival Next Link Project. The workshop production will open the festival and features a diverse mix of talent while showcasing the journey of two Asian transgender artists. Interstate is directed by Jessi D. Hill, choreographed by Jessica Chen, with music direction by Karen Dryer.

Interstate, a new musical created by Melissa Li and Kit Yan, has been selected as one of 12 productions to take part in the 2018 New York Musical Festival Next Link Project. The workshop production will open the festival and features a diverse mix of talent while showcasing the journey of two Asian transgender artists. Interstate is directed by Jessi D. Hill, choreographed by Jessica Chen, with music direction by Karen Dryer.

This summer, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (PCTF), the brainchild of arts professional Glory Kadigan, turns 10 years old. In that decade, PCTF has successfully changed the landscape of the theatre festival and all of New York independent theatre. The multi-award-winning theatre festival will celebrate in a big way by premiering more than 50 timely and topical plays and musicals written by the next generation of playwrights. Each play contains a powerful message serving as a parable of various world themes.

Mixing Marx With Madness is multi-cultural, multi-genre, and a mold of many mythologies!

I'd like to first say I'm so glad you've made in this far, 2017 has been a rough year. We've learned about how fragile our government, our societal progression, and our human rights can be. If there's one thing the we as a community can use right now, it's a feeling that we are not alone. Theatre allows the audience member to engulf themselves in someone else's life or see their own life heightened in front of them; it allows endless expression, from song, to dance, to stomping as an art as well as a response to art. With that being said theatre should reflect what we see in our current lives.

I'd like to first say I'm so glad you've made in this far, 2017 has been a rough year. We've learned about how fragile our government, our societal progression, and our human rights can be. If there's one thing the we as a community can use right now, it's a feeling that we are not alone. Theatre allows the audience member to engulf themselves in someone else's life or see their own life heightened in front of them; it allows endless expression, from song, to dance, to stomping as an art as well as a response to art. With that being said theatre should reflect what we see in our current lives.

It's one of those great New York real estate stories that underscores what only a New Yorker understands: your entire life depends upon your apartment. Even if broke, a decent place in the right part of town is they key to everything. And broke he was, working odd jobs as house cleaner, landscaper, and law firm transcriptionist (or something equally tedious). But one day, after getting paid $150.00, he splurged on the 'full package' at a Korean massage parlor downtown. The scene, with Hwang on the accordion, is a microcosm of a show that through laughter, music, and sometimes tears, presents a brave yet gentle portrait of an artist. Like the show and his life, the massage has a happy ending, but not the one you expect. It's a long way from Lancaster to upstate New York which Wells shares with his soon-to-be husband. In these terrifying times, when even the tough are rattled by the news, Wells and the outstanding ensemble of IT WILL ALL WORK OUT reminds us that things sometimes do.

A memory is simply a moment that we have entered into, unbeknownst to us, that would never be forgotten. We accumulate grand and trivial memories throughout our life and on November 26th Janelle Lawrence is going to take you on a journey of the moments that have become our memories.