Laurie Beechman News

The fifth annual Broadway Sings for PKD, a concert benefiting the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, will be offered Thursday, February 25 at 7:00 pm at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Kevin Smith Kirkwood, of KINKY BOOTS and THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, will make his nightclub return tonight, February 16th at new Hell's Kithchen hot spot, RISE.

This Thursday, February 18th, BROADWAY SESSIONS welcomes cast members from Broadway smash ON YOUR FEET! The Story Of Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Cast members will be bringing the heat with an all singing, all dancing extravaganza.

It was an epic night at Broadway Sessions Thursday, February 11th, as cast members from School of Rock descended from the top of Mt. Rock (aka The Winter Garden Theater) and invaded the Laurie Beechman Theater. The kids in the band, and some adults, wielded their instruments like light sabers, slaying tune after tune.

Kevin Smith Kirkwood, of KINKY BOOTS and THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, will make his nightclub return this Tuesday, February 16th at new Hell's Kithchen hot spot, RISE. 

BroadwayWorld is excited to announce our latest collaboration. Beginning this Sunday, well be bringing you exclusive video content from Ben Cameron's Broadway Sessions- NYC's Ultimate Post Theater Extravaganza. Each week, Broadway Sessions welcomes a new Broadway cast or guest to perform, interact with the audience and bare their souls in this fast paced, zany, musical theatre variety show. Anything can, and will, happen when Broadway lets it's hair down.

Tonight, February 11th, BROADWAY SESSIONS welcomes cast members from the new Andrew Lloyd Webber hit SCHOOL OF ROCK and more. School of Rock cast members will perform new arrangements of rock classics with a full band as well as solo and duet offereings.

This Thursday, February 11th, BROADWAY SESSIONS welcomes cast members from the new Andrew Lloyd Webber hit SCHOOL OF ROCK and more. School of Rock cast members will perform new arrangements of rock classics with a full band as well as solo and duet offereings.

David Davila returned to the Laurie Beechman Theatre in Times Square with an all-star Broadway cast to present: DAVID DAVILA & THE MAGIC TIME MACHINE, a time travel song extravaganza that reflects on revisiting mistakes you shouldn't have repeated. The concert featured original songs from Davila's latest work plus audience favorites from MANUEL VERSUS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, #52SONGS, and VOX POP. Scroll down for photos!

NYC based cabaret, concert and recording artist Travis Moser has released his new album, This Can't Be Love: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart. 

Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) just announced a week-long celebration of exciting collaborations and networking opportunities with artists including Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara (The King & I, Bridges of Madison County), Emmy Award-winning actor and comedienne Judy Gold (HBO, Comedy Central, Clinton the Musical, 25 Questions..., The Judy Show), playwright Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other), Academy Award-winning writer Alexander Dinelaris (Co-writer, Birdman, Broadway's On Your Feet; Co-producer, The Revenant), and writer Cusi Cram (A Lifetime Burning, 'The Big C', 'Arthur').

Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) just announced a week-long celebration of exciting collaborations and networking opportunities with artists including Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara (The King & I, Bridges of Madison County), Emmy Award-winning actor and comedienne Judy Gold (HBO, Comedy Central, Clinton the Musical, 25 Questions..., The Judy Show), playwright Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other), Academy Award-winning writer Alexander Dinelaris (Co-writer, Birdman, Broadway's On Your Feet; Co-producer, The Revenant), and writer Cusi Cram (A Lifetime Burning, 'The Big C', 'Arthur').

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, February 4th, Broadway Sessions welcomes UK star Zoe Birkett, Bonnie Milligan and more

Nothing but blue skies at Crazy Coqs this March.

Broadwayworld.com interviewed Phil Geoffrey Bond, Producer of 'Simply Streisand' at NJPAC on 2/6.

David Christensen and Sarah Ziegler wrote a new opening number for Broadway Babylon 101: Everything Old Is New Again at Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, Tomorrow, January 31st at 9:30 P.M.

Concert and cabaret performer LISA JASON--who has earned raved reviews for her singing from Provincetown to New York to the Caribbean--will make her debut at the celebrated “Broadway Supper Club” Feinstein's/54 Below on Friday, March 4, 2016 (9:30 pm) with her heartfelt Judy Garland Tribute Show called THE WISH. Featuring Manhattan Transfer Musical Director Yaron Gershovsky as Musical Director, Arranger, and Pianist--Lisa Jason celebrates the true essence and artistry of the legendary singer and movie star, not only through Garland's classic songs, but through her poignant poetry and revealing interviews and monologues, creating a new understanding of her timeless interpretations and her iconic persona.

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, January 28, Broadway Sessions welcomes performers from the roster of talent management house, Whole Artist Management, run by Rich Martino and Cori Gardner.

Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Goodspeed Musicals will join to celebrate 70 years of Tony Award-winning music in a blockbuster one-night-only concert event on Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford.

The University of the Arts' Ira Brind School of Theater Arts announces the 2016 lineup for Polyphone, a "festival of the emerging musical" on the UArts campus in Philadelphia.  Running March 20-27, the 2016 the Polyphone festival produces staged concerts of new musicals and re-imagined canonical works offering professional composers, librettists and directors an opportunity to develop their work among the rich creative community of the Brind School at UArts.  The festival will program five musicals, including both classical and new works, with three performances each.