Lee Seymour News

BroadwayCon is officially underway! Yesterday, Friday, January 11, the convention kicked off, as many panels and events were held. Yesterday also marked the convention's Industry Day. BroadwayWorld was there for Industry Day, and you can check out the photos from the reception below!

Limited tickets remain for BroadwayCon Industry Day next week on Friday, January 11. Macy's, JetBlue, Rent the Runway, GREATS shoes, and Wanderlust are all joining the conversation. Will you? 

As we count down the last days of 2018, New York City's top theatre critics have been taking stock of the theatre season- deciding on their personal choices for their favorite productions of the year. With so many stellar plays, musicals, revivals and new works, both on Broadway and off, a slew of shows have gained recognition from the critics this year.

BroadwayCon Industry Day is only three weeks away and tickets are going fast!

What happens when middle school students are invited to take over a Broadway theatre? Situation Project wanted to find out.

On July 6, 2018, Glam Award winner Sutton Lee Seymour and Bistro Award-winning Cacophony Daniels (aka Jersey Boys's Courter Simmons) will open their brand new show, Bedraggled Broadway, at the legendary cabaret venue, Don't Tell Mama.

For two more performances, July 14 & 28, 2018, Bistro Award-winning Cacophony Daniels (aka Jersey Boys's Courter Simmons) marches into New York's storied Don't Tell Mama with 'Wanna Bette?,' a live-singing cabaret tribute to the one and only Bette Midler.

For two more performances, July 14 & 28, 2018, Bistro Award-winning Cacophony Daniels (aka Jersey Boys's Courter Simmons) marches into New York's storied Don't Tell Mama with 'Wanna Bette?,' a live-singing cabaret tribute to the one and only Bette Midler.

For two more performances, July 14 & 28, 2018, Bistro Award-winning Cacophony Daniels (aka Jersey Boys's Courter Simmons) marches into New York's storied Don't Tell Mama with 'Wanna Bette?,' a live-singing cabaret tribute to the one and only Bette Midler.

On July 6, 2018, Glam Award winner Sutton Lee Seymour and Bistro Award-winning Cacophony Daniels (aka Jersey Boys's Courter Simmons) will open their brand new show, Bedraggled Broadway, at the legendary cabaret venue, Don't Tell Mama.

On June 22, 2018, Bistro Award-winning Cacophony Daniels (aka Jersey Boys's Courter Simmons) marches into New York's storied Don't Tell Mama with 'Wanna Bette?,' a live-singing cabaret tribute to the one and only Bette Midler.

On this episode of BroadwayWorld's theatre business podcast, 'The OHenry Report,' Broadway producer and investor Oliver Henry Roth goes inside the Tony Award season. Oliver opens the episode by talking to first-time nominee Itamar Moses, the bookwriter for Best Musical favorite 'The Band's Visit.' Oliver also spoke to 2016 winner and 2018 nominee Clint Ramos about going through the process again, and they get into Ramos' costume designs for 'Once on this Island.'

On June 22, 2018, Bistro Award-winning Cacophony Daniels (aka Jersey Boys's Courter Simmons) marches into New York's storied Don't Tell Mama with 'Wanna Bette?,' a live-singing cabaret tribute to the one and only Bette Midler.

Sutton Lee Seymour is NYC's Live Singing Camp Queen of Stage and Screen bringing 'old school drag' BACK in a brand new way! Parodying everything from Disney, Broadway, and Hollywood to spoofing Pop Divas like Celine Dion, Tina Turner, and Madonna, Sutton Lee will have you rolling in the aisles with her many celebrity impersonations (or assassinations). Having appeared on Andy Cohen's 'Watch What Happens Live,' sailing the seas with Atlantis Events, or travelling to several vacation towns like Puerto Vallarta, Ogunquit, and Saugatuck, Sutton Lee Seymour can't wait to come home to Kalamazoo with her show!

As we count down the last days of 2017, New York City's top theatre critics have been taking stock of the theatre season- deciding on their personal choices for their favorite productions of the year. With so many stellar plays, musicals, revivals and new works, both on Broadway and off, a slew of shows have gained recognition from the critics this year.

As we count down the last days of 2017, New York City's top theatre critics have been taking stock of the theatre season- deciding on their personal choices for their favorite productions of the year. With so many stellar plays, musicals, revivals and new works, both on Broadway and off, a slew of shows have gained recognition from the critics this year.

Dancers Over 40's last event of 2017, the 9th Annual Legacy Awards and Holiday Dinner, is its most joyous. This celebration honoring our very own members will be held on Monday, December 11th, from 6 to 9pm at LIPS Restaurant, 227 East 56th Street and will be hosted by TONY nominee Carol Lawrence (also a DO40 Advisory Board Member AND Legacy Award honoree), with live performances by Legacy Honorees Mary Jane Houdina and Ron Young, as well as consummate entertainer Sutton Lee Seymour!

Welcome to CAMP KWEEN, where Sutton Lee Seymour is devoted to teaching the mystical art of drag. At the Laurie Beechman Theatre on August 11, the drag queen's methods were a little unconventional-just look at the list of scheduled activities, which include 'throwing shade' and 'water sports'-and, at times, perhaps a little haphazard.

We can gain insight into our current polarized politics from Shakespeare's plays on the Wars of the Roses. That's why Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, presented by The Drilling Company, presents 'Henry VI Part 3' tonight, July 27, to August 12.

On July 19, 2017, Cacophony Daniels (2017 Bistro Award winner Courter Simmons) splashes into the Fresh Fruit Festival in 'Under the 'C',' a fun and inspirational cabaret tribute to Grammy- and Oscar-winning playwright and lyricist Howard Ashman that celebrates the lovable misfit in us all.