Laurie Beechman News

After a highly successful run, and a 2017 BroadwayWorld Nomination for Best Show, JERSEY GIRL is back for one more performance, Friday January 19th, 7pm at Don't Tell Mama.JERSEY GIRL is a musical celebration of Lisa's home state with songs written, performed and even arranged by some of the greats who all grew up in NJ. Selections include legends from Frank Sinatra to Janis Ian, Bruce Springsteen to Nelson Riddle and many more. Directed by Lina Koutrakos, Music Direction by Rick Jensen. With Tom Hubbard on Bass, and Steven Bargonetti on Guitar.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from all of us at Broadway Sessions! We recently celebrated the season with our annual All Star Holiday Show. Broadway Sessions guests returned to share their favorite holiday tunes. Enjoy these highlights from The Book of Mormon's Bud Weber, Kinky Boots' Delaney Westfall, Hamilton's Erin Clemons, Spongebob's Jai'len Josey, Aladdin's Juwan Crawley and Deonte L. Warren, Bandstand's Mary Callanan, Wicked's Emma Hunton, Hairspray's Michelle Dowdy and Sessions team members Michael Kirk Lane and Joseph Barry Strickland and our amazingly talented Rising Star Jordan Grizzard. And of course our signature 12 Days of Christmas, albeit a particularly dirty rendition this year. We wish the very best of the holidays and a very happy New Year!

Michael Kirk Lane returns to Fenton Village Players with a benefit concert titled 'A Christmas Wish' on December 22, 2017 at 7:00pm.

Russ Woolley and The Laurie Beechman Theater ANNOUNCE The Cast of the next edition of Richard Skipper Celebrates... CELEBRATING LEGENDARY BROADWAY Actress Carol Channing

Zachary Clause proudly announces added performances of Zachary Clause Does Bette Midler at The Continental Baths, 1971 on Monday, January 15, Saturday, January 27 and Saturday, February 3 at Pangea (178 2nd Avenue). Doors open at 6:00pm with shows beginning at 7:00pm. The show originally premiered at Pangea in November 2017.

Hi friends! This week we find ourselves smack dab in the middle of the holiday season. A time for giving, caring and gathering with family and friends. And there's nothing quite as magical as the wonder and awe of kids during this festive time. We recent;y gathered some insanely talented Broadway youngsters to belt it out for us at Sessions. We wrangled up Matilda's Talia Ryder, South Pacific vet Lala as well as 3 talented gents who currently star in the great big show at the great big hall over on 6th avenue- Robert Montano, Hunter Kovacs and Will Ehren. Ok ok, we also let some fabulous adults take the mic including Side Show's Josh Walker, Anthony Fett, Colleen Harris, Kate Corsaro and more open mic dazzlers. Enjoy highlights here!

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Gina Morgano in 'Once Upon a December' today, December 14th at 9:30 p.m.

BROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron (Bway Wicked, Aida and Footloose) and features musical director Joshua Stephen Kartes on piano. This Thursday night, December 14th, Broadway Sessions welcomesback past guests to perform their favorite holiday tunes.

A new concert version of guitarist Gary Lucas's celebrated salute to '30s Chinese Pop, featuring Feifei Yang (vocals) and Erhu with Jason Candler (saxophone, clarinet and percussion) is coming to the Laurie Beechman Theater (407 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) in 'Gary Lucas: The Edge Of Heaven' on Friday, February 16, 2018 at 7 p.m.

A dream is a wish your heart makes. I dreamed a dream in time gone by. To dream the impossible dream . well anyway, you get it. Broadway loves to dream. And nobody facilitates those dreams quite like the Broadway Dreams Foundation. We welcomed the Broadway Dreams Foundation to Sessions recently to celebrate on the week of their annual NYC showcase. Join us were BDF faculty members Quentin Earl Darrington, Christopher Hanke, MiMi Scardulla, Todd Buonopane, Noah Ricketts, Galen Williams and more. Beyond that, we were thrilled to welcome international BDF students from Russia, Brazil and Sweden who brought the house all the way down. Showtunes in foreign languages! Enjoy these highlights from a perfectly dreamy night!

Tori Scott will return to Joe's Pub at The Public with her annual holiday show, Vodka is the Reason for the Season - an evening of holiday regret, slurred autobiographical stories, and brassy songs written by other people.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, present The Songs of Josh Freilich and Kate Chadwick on December 9th, 9:30pm.

Tonight, December 7th, BROADWAY SESSIONS welcomes cast members from the Broadway critical darling The Band's Visit and more.

Garden Street School of the Performing Arts announces the 7th Annual Production of the original musical, 'A Hoboken Tale' with a special guest star hosting the show for opening night. Broadway's Ben Cameron from Broadway and Playbill fame will not only kickoff opening night December 15th, but will lead a special question and answer session after the show.

Award-winning Brooklyn actor-writer, Dan Ruth, brings his tour-de-force black comedy, A Life Behind Bars (Winner United Solo 2016, Best Autobiographical Show) to Los Angeles for two performances in association with Whitefire SoloFest 2018.

This Thursday night, December 7th, BROADWAY SESSIONS welcomes cast members from the Broadway critical darling The Band's Visit and more.

It's always special night when we open the microphone up to the multitude of amazing voices out there. Many of which you may not of heard of yet. Operative word here is YET! Check out some highlights from our recent monthly All Open Mic party. You may wanna write down some if these names you'll be hearing from them again. And let's be honest, who doesn't love saying, 'I saw them back when!'

The 13th Annual Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals, produced by Goodspeed Musicals' Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre, kicks off its much-anticipated three-day festival of brand-new works on Friday, January 12, 2018 at The Goodspeed with a staged reading of the rousing new musical Five Points by Ethan D. Pakchar (Music) and Douglas Lyons (Music and Lyrics), and McKnight Fellowship winner Harrison David Rivers (Book).

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Gina Morgano in 'Once Upon a December' on Thursday, December 14th at 9:30 p.m.

Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts (PTPA) has announced the return of American Dance Theatre of Long Island's (ADTLI) production of 'Clara's Dream.