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After selling all 5,378 tickets for her Edinburgh Fringe acting debut in the self-penned autobiographical play, 'Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress', US comedy icon Joan Rivers is to add an extra 4 performances on August 16, 17, 20 & 25.
Second Stage will continue to lease and operate their original theaters on the city's Upper West Side and in Midtown Manhattan.
Broadway veteran Anita Gillette appears with Jamie Farr in new comedy at New World Stages and talks about the show and life in theatre and film.
Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) announces its mainstage production of Little Shop of Horrors, a musical written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. It's a musical comedy to die for - literally! The musical is based on Roger Corman's 1960 sci-fi comedy and includes several show-stopping numbers including 'Skid Row (Downtown),' 'Somewhere That's Green,' and 'Suddenly Seymour,' as well as the title song. Little Shop of Horrors will run at the Millburn theatre from June 4 through July 6, 2008.
You'll please forgive me if I've run out of superlative adjectives with which to describe the work of Marilyn Maye, who, after a 15-year absence from New York's cabaret scene, just opened her 4th Metropolitan Room show in a baker's dozen months.
After a four month hiatus, legendary comedian JOAN RIVERS returns to The Cutting Room in Chelsea with her live stand-up act.
Back by popular demand, in her fourth Metropolitan Room engagement in a little over a year, Marilyn Maye celebrates her birthday in landmark style with a new show 'It's My Party… and I'll Sing 'Cause I Want To,' which runs from April 8 through April 16. In seven performances (five of which are late shows to heighten the party atmosphere) the amazing Maye, who turns 80 during the run, has concocted a gift bag of her favorite songs from a who's who of her favorite songwriters.
Internationally renowned pianist Byron Janis celebrates his 80th birthday in grand style with two special events in March at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
For anyone wishing to catch a glimpse of a bright star that by all means of logic should have faded decades ago, then Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress is a fantastic showcase of laughs and tears. And a note to any network executives reading this review, neither Ryan Seacrest nor Lisa Rinna can ever come close to the genius that is Joan Rivers on the red carpet...
The music legend talks about her career and recent Nightlife Award Win.
Charlie Hall and his comedy troupe have created new shows that celebrate the fun and foibles, scandals and vandals, politics and peculiarities of living in Rhode Island
Marilyn Maye scores big time at The Metropolitan Room while Young Frankenstein is a bit like a night at Scores.
Sandy Duncan, Fred Willard, Shonn Wiley and Mara Davi will join previously announced cast members Rosie O'Donnell and Beth Leavel in No, No, Nanette, the final 2008 Encores! presentation of the New York City Center season.
Singer Marilyn Maye opened her new show 'A Tribute to Johnny Carson' at the Metropolitan Room on November 7 at 7:30PM.
Jason Alexander hosted It's Magic!, a highly-anticipated one night only extravaganza at The Kodak Theatre on Sunday, October 7 at 7PM.
At an age when a certain amount of wear and tear on the voice is forgivable Marilyn Maye displays gleaming pipes and a rich sense of musicality and lyric interpretation.
Cabaret star Marilyn Maye and the Broadway legend Tammy Grimes are two of the leading lights in a line-up of female acting and vocal talent that will be featured at The Metropolitan Room this fall.
Tony Award-winner Charles Nelson Reilly, the acclaimed actor and director who became a familiar face to millions through his flamboyantly witty appearances on 'Match Game' and other game shows, has passed away at the age of 76
Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, writers of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, are the librettists for THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Drama Desk Award-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is writing the score, and Improbable Theater founders Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) will direct and design. EET plans to premiere THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the 2009-2010 Broadway season, preceded by an out-of-town tryout.
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