Joan Rivers News

NYC's Favorite Drag Grinch Returns for 12th Annual Holiday Show JACKIE BEAT: ALCOHOLIDAYS! December 18 - 20 at The Laurie Beechman Theater

Legendary comedian JOAN RIVERS will continue to make The Laurie Beechman Theatre in Times Square her home base this fall.

NYC's Favorite Drag Grinch Returns for 12th Annual Holiday Show JACKIE BEAT: ALCOHOLIDAYS! December 18 - 20 at The Laurie Beechman Theater

Return to Melonville with the new public television special SCTV Golden Classics featuring some of the most hilarious skits from the legendary sketch comedy television series, starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, and Dave Thomas.

Inspired by the amazing experience of Gospel Brunch enjoyed at House of Blues clubs and BB King's Blues Clubs across the country, Comedy Works South is hosting a Gospel Brunch on Sunday, December 13. The organization hosted the first Gospel Brunch in January of 2009 to a full house. Monthly Gospel Brunches followed in the spring with rave reviews for the music and food. Join us this fall and winter as we roll into another season of Gospel Brunches at Comedy Works South.

To celebrate The Second City's 50th Anniversary, the legendary comedy theatre will host a weekend of performances, panel discussions and screenings at its intimate theatres on Wells Street and in The Piper's Alley Complex in Chicago on Friday, December 11th through Sunday, December 13th. See below for a complete list of events for the weekend.

Have you ever wondered what it was like to swim in a giant martini? The SpyAnts Theatre Company presents the long-awaited Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's delightful, kaleidoscopic play, 'bobrauschenbergamerica'.  Director Bart DeLorenzo teams up with choreographer Ken Roht to dish up Mee's rollicking collage-montage tribute to Robert Rauschenberg that captures the happy, improvisational quality of the artist's singular vision. 'bobrauschenbergamerica' opens at [Inside] the Ford on January 23, with Pay-What-You-Can previews on January 21 and 22.

To celebrate The Second City's 50th Anniversary, the legendary comedy theatre will host a weekend of performances, panel discussions and screenings at its intimate theatres on Wells Street and in The Piper's Alley Complex in Chicago on Friday, December 11th through Sunday, December 13th. See below for a complete list of events for the weekend.

TONIGHT!! Friday, December 11th THE AFTER PARTY is thrilled to welcome Broadway's DANIEL REICHARD

To celebrate The Second City's 50th Anniversary, the legendary comedy theatre will host a weekend of performances, panel discussions and screenings at its intimate theatres on Wells Street and in The Piper's Alley Complex in Chicago on Friday, December 11th through Sunday, December 13th. See below for a complete list of events for the weekend.

Jackie Beat, drag queen, singer, and actor, brings her new show, Jackie Beat Celebrates the Holidays Her Way, to The Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco, for a 3 night run, Dec 3-5 at 10:30 PM.

Return to Melonville with the new public television special SCTV Golden Classics featuring some of the most hilarious skits from the legendary sketch comedy television series, starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, and Dave Thomas.

On Thursday, December 17 at 9pm, SCTV Golden Classics will feature legendary sketch comedy skits by The Second City alumi John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, and Dave Thomas. The exclusive broadcast on WLIW21 honors the 50th anniversary of The Second City, which opened its first theatre December 16, 1959 in Chicago, and spawned the Emmy Award-winning SCTV in 1976, launching the careers of comedy luminaries ranging from Alan Arkin and Joan Rivers to John Belushi, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, and Stephen Colbert. Distributed by WLIW21 in association with WNET.ORG, SCTV Golden Classics will air nationwide on public television stations beginning March 2010 (check local listings).

Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Matt Weaver & Scott Prisand, two of ROCK OF AGES' lead producers and co-owners of the LA-based Corner Store Entertainment, have two films in the top dramatic category at Sundance Film Festival. The films, which star a host of stage stars, are SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS (Mark Ruffalo, Laura Linney, Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis) and HESHER (Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon Levitt).

Jay Mohr March 12 - 14 Friday 7:30pm & 9:30pm $30 Saturday 7:00pm & 9:30pm $30

Back by popular demand with an all new Christmas Extravaganza, Christopher Peterson, offers a theatrical event not to be missed! North America's foremost Female impersonator is awe inspiring in his one man- many women extravaganza 'Christmas with Christopher Peterson's Eyecons.' Christopher had standing ovations every single performance last year.

Jackie Beat, drag queen, singer, and actor, brings her new show, Jackie Beat Celebrates the Holidays Her Way, to The Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco, for a 3 night run, Dec 3-5 at 10:30 PM.

Inspired by the amazing experience of Gospel Brunch enjoyed at House of Blues clubs and BB King's Blues Clubs across the country, Comedy Works South is hosting a Gospel Brunch on Sunday, December 13. The organization hosted the first Gospel Brunch in January of 2009 to a full house. Monthly Gospel Brunches followed in the spring with rave reviews for the music and food. Join us this fall and winter as we roll into another season of Gospel Brunches at Comedy Works South.

NYC's Favorite Drag Grinch Returns for 12th Annual Holiday Show JACKIE BEAT: ALCOHOLIDAYS! December 18 - 20 at The Laurie Beechman Theater

Returning to the Suncoast Showroom is Las Vegas legend Clint Holmes, along with his wife Kelly Clinton and sister Gayle Steele, to perform songs of the holiday season December 25, 26 and 27.