Lauren Bacall News

Billy, Klea and Jim are back for a twelfth year with their smash-hit holiday show... and lots of Christmas lights.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party (with Billy Stritch at the piano) will make a triumphant return to Nashville on Tuesday, November 16 at 8pm. The 'extreme open mic' will take place at The Franklin Theatre (419 Main Street, Franklin, TN).

Acclaimed actress, singer, and comedienne, Klea Blackhurst has been hailed as one of the top interpreters of the works of legendary composer, Jerry Herman. She brings her Broadway tune filled tribute, 'One of the Girls: The Worlds and Lyrics of Jerry Herman,' to Bucks County Playhouse for one special performance on Saturday, December 4 at 8 p.m.

Trouble In Mind officially begins previews tonight, October 29, at Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre on Broadway. Learn more about the cast here!

What is Bemelmans Bar without Caruso and Stritch? It's not the same, that's for sure, which is why the gentlemen return to The Caryle for Sundays in October and November.

What is it that we’re living for? On Wednesday, September 22nd, the answer will be the reunion of the hit 1970 musical Applause, produced by Backstage Babble and streaming on YouTube starting at 8:00 PM EDT.

Well, Well…Hello, Lee Roy! The York Theatre Company will present Broadway’s Lee Roy Reams in his new solo show _Remembering Jerry Herman*, celebrating his collaboration with the late great musical theater legend. Audiences will hear glorious songs and outrageous stories from shows that include La Cage aux Folles, Hello, Dolly!, and more.

Although Anita Gillette & Penny Fuller have been in show business for a very long time, their close friendship is not even a decade old yet. Fans frequently mistake them for each other. This is the premise of their show SIN TWISTERS which will open at 54 Below Monday, August 16. The title, of course, is a Spoonerism.  Fuller and Gillette explain that, and the mystery of their mistaken identities in the show. They also sing lots of fantastic numbers from the many stages of their careers. I recently caught up with Anita and Penny on Zoom. It was a chatty, delightful afternoon. 

The bronze statue is dressed as Mrs. Cunningham from the 'Happy Days' series, which ran for 10 years from 1974-1984 and was sculptured using a screen accurate replica of a costume that Marion wore on the show and is seated on a park bench reaching out to invite any passerby to join her.

Noted television director and producer John Erman, who directed episodes of many of the great television shows and TV movies and mini-series from the early sixties all the way into the 2000’s, died in New York on June 25th after a brief illness.

Cumming squeezed an enormous amount into his show.

In part two of our Broadway World Cabaret interview with these drag sisters, we learn about how their past is going to influence their future, and which Silver Screen goddess each lady obsesses over.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced that Jim Caruso’s Cast Party – the weekly talent celebration that has been in residence every Monday for seventeen years – will reopen on Monday, July 5 at 8:00 PM. Host Caruso will move his popular virtual variety show “Pajama Cast Party” to Wednesdays at 8:00 PM beginning July 7.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional award-winning theatre, announces the return of its summer cabaret series, MTC's Hot Summer Nights.

Carnegie Hall’s online series will continue in June featuring a range of programming for music lovers, including new episodes of Live with Carnegie Hall, historic filmed performances streamed as part of Carnegie Hall Selects, and a Lullaby Project Celebration Concert presented as part of Learn with Carnegie Hall.

'Namedropping in the Wings' is intended as a lighthearted memoir of how someone in his early twenties with no technical knowledge or training whatsoever became celebrated as a sound expert. It began when a very green 17-year-old got a job in a small London theatre where the artistic director was a young Peter Hall, the genius who went on to found the Royal Shakespeare Company.'

Andrew Polec, Doylestown native and star of the international tour of “Bat Out of Hell”, shakes up the Broadway Spotlight Concert Series with this exciting new concert “Legacy of Love.”

Broadway, film, television and cabaret artist, Sally Mayes will perform two shows at Bucks County Playhouse as part of recently announced Broadway Spotlight Concert Series.

Broadway, television and recording artist, Karen Mason will perform two shows at Bucks County Playhouse as part of its recently announced Broadway Spotlight Concert Series. 

Constantine Maroulis will perform two shows at Bucks County Playhouse as part of its recently announced Broadway Spotlight Concert Series. Entitled, “Constantine Maroulis, Don’t Stop Believing,” performances will be held at Bucks County Playhouse on Saturday, May 22 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 23 at 2:00pm.