Laurie Beechman News

Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, January 8, 2012 - Sunday, January 8, 2012.

Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal; Side Show) will play a series of concerts in New York City later this month, it was announced today. "Alice Ripley's Daily Practice," which features Ms. Ripley on vocals and guitar (along with a few surprise guests), will play Don't Tell Mama (343 West 46th Street) on Monday, January 9 and January 30 at 9:15 PM and The Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 West 42nd Street) on Monday, January 16; Sunday, January 22 and Tuesday, January 24 at 9:30 PM.

An encore performance has been announced for 'In The Valley,' the debut concert evening of songs by musical theater composer Zach Zadek at The Laurie Beechman Theater.

Ryan O'Connor, the YouTube star who brought his show 'Ryan O'Connor Eats His Feelings' to the Laurie Beechman this spring, was married in December. View the couple's first dance, with Shoshana Bean performing Bruno Mars' 'Just the Way You Are,' below!

Adam Shenk (pop/soul singer & songwriter) will appear with his full band at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal; Side Show) will play a series of concerts in New York City later this month, it was announced today. "Alice Ripley's Daily Practice," which features Ms. Ripley on vocals and guitar (along with a few surprise guests), will play Don't Tell Mama (343 West 46th Street) on Monday, January 9 and January 30 at 9:15 PM and The Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 West 42nd Street) on Monday, January 16; Sunday, January 22 and Tuesday, January 24 at 9:30 PM.

An encore performance has been announced for 'In The Valley,' the debut concert evening of songs by musical theater composer Zach Zadek at The Laurie Beechman Theater.

David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) makes his long-awaited return to New York with the premiere of MY TAWNY VALENTINE. Written by and starring Drake, this drag tragicomedy with music is directed by David Briggs (film: Karen Black Like Me) featuring musical direction by Lance Cruce (Joan River's longtime pianist, Karen Finley's Make Love).

The fifth episode of Outside the Box has been posted. In the latest episode, TV, film, and Broadway star Gregory Harrison (Trapper John, Broadway's Steel Pier and Chicago) is asked to star in a new musical. What's the musical? Will he accept the challenging role? Find out below!

Adam Shenk (pop/soul singer & songwriter) will appear with his full band at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Broadway's Autumn Hurlbert (Legally Blonde) and Andrew Kober (Hair) will sing as part of In The Valley, the debut concert evening of songs by musical theater composer Zach Zadek at The Laurie Beechman Theater. The concert will take place Monday, January 9th at 7pm.

History repeats itself as the cabaret provocateur Mark Nadler extends his mile-a-minute musical survey of 1961 into 2012. The special 51st anniversary of "Crazy 1961" plays three consecutive Sundays at 1pm - January 15, 22, 29 - at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd Street.

Simply Streisand, New York's long-running hit revue, will make a special, one night only appearance in Putnam County on Sunday, January 15th at 7pm at the Philipstown Depot Theatre, located on Garrison's Landing in Garrison, NY.

Tony Award winner Alice Ripley just concluded a series of solo concerts titled Alice Ripley's Daily Practice at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, a cabaret space downstairs at West Bank Cafe. In the music video below, she sings 'Essence' from her album, 'Daily Practice: Vol. 1.' The video, shot on location in Seattle, was directed by John Carucci.

Godspell's Julia Mattison is joined by fellow cast members from Broadway's Godspell, in a holiday comedy rock show at the Beechman on December 19th. The concert will debut a number of new twisted holiday tunes, with songs like "Frostbite! Awesome!" and "Santa is the Ultimate Creeper". Mattison and friends will bring the laughs with these new tunes and some fresh takes on old classics.

Musical theatre performers Andy Taylor (currently off-Broadway and about to be on Broadway in Once; The Producers; Moon Over Buffalo), and Alet Taylor (The Brain From Planet X, The Producers, several Encores productions, and wife of Andy) are asked to star in a new musical for the Outside The Box Musical Theatre Company. What is the musical? Will they accept? Find out by clicking below!

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director) has announced the return of The Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular.

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre, called "a riotously funny and campy variety show" by Next Magazine, and 'a rollicking, wry affair complete with funny political commentary on current events' by Gay City News, will present their newest edition on Thursday, December 15 at 9:30 PM.

Feinstein's At Loews Regency, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post continues its Winter 2012 season with the return of three-time MAC Award nominee Jenna Esposito in "Italian Undercover!" In this one-night only appearance, Jenna revisits the music of some of the most popular and influential Italian-American pop singers of the 20th century, each of whom changed their names and performed "undercover".

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre, called "a riotously funny and campy variety show" by Next Magazine, and 'a rollicking, wry affair complete with funny political commentary on current events' by Gay City News, will present their newest edition on Thursday, December 15 at 9:30 PM.