Lively Arts Productions News

Leave the kids at home! Abandon all sense of propriety! Embrace the risqu ! Because the Calamari Sisters, Delphine and Carmella, are at the beach, dishing out hot plates of irreverent, edgy, and bawdy humor, all seasoned with equally hot saucy quips. As they note, without equivocation, this is nothing like a New England clambake far from it. (They're kicking up a storm at the Herberger Theater Center in downtown Phoenix through January 21st.) Jay Falzone and Stephen Smith are a great team!

The critically acclaimed comedic duo, The Calamari Sisters will perform a benefit performance of A MUSICAL COOKING LESSON on Sunday, April 19th for Emerging Artists Theatre in support of their mission to be an incubator for new voices from page to stage. Emerging Artists previous productions include Urban Momfare (FringeNYC Encores 2014), The Sensational Josephine Baker (Theatre Row), and the NY Times acclaimed Penny Penniworth.

The newest smash hit in Philadelphia, the all-singing, all-dancing, all-cooking hit musical "Cooking With The Calamari Sisters," has been extended by popular demand at the Society Hill Playhouse through March 10, 2013.

A new smash hit in Philadelphia, the hysterical all-singing, all-dancing, all-cooking hit musical "Cooking With The Calamari Sisters," currently playing at the Society Hill Playhouse, has been extended through Sunday, Dec. 2.

Stars from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and primetime TV are set to appear in "Four Scores and Seven Shows Ago...", a new musical revue by New York theater composer Daniel Lincoln, which premieres in concert at the Laurie Beechman Theater tonight, May 14 at 9:30pm as a benefit for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights Aids.

Green List Productions has announced that Broadway's Lucia Spina has joined the cast of "Four Scores and Seven Shows Ago...", a new musical revue by New York theater composer Daniel Lincoln, which will premiere in concert at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Monday May 14 at 9:30pm as a benefit for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights Aids.

Stars from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and primetime TV are set to appear in "Four Scores and Seven Shows Ago...", a new musical revue by New York theater composer Daniel Lincoln, which will premiere in concert at the Laurie Beechman Theater on May 12 at 9:30pm as a benefit for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights Aids. The evening will include performances by Broadway's Brian Cali ("Master Class") and Michelle Dowdy ("Hairspray"), and television personalities Ryan Raftery ("Ugly Betty," "Law and Order:SVU," "Malcolm in the Middle"), and Sasha Weiss (ABC Primetime's "What Would You Do," "Jerry Springer, The Opera" at Carnegie Hall.) Also performing are Ricky Schroeder ("Naked Boys Singing"), Anne Frasier Thomas ("The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" - US & International Tours), Kyle Kleiboeker (Nat'l Tours: "Hairspray," "Rent"), MAC and BISTRO Award Winning singer and nightlife personality Brandon Cutrell, Jody Cole Wood, Brittany Marie Arnao, and Dimitri Joseph Moise.

What happens when you pair up a New York nightlife icon and one of the premiere vocalists of the South? New York City is about to find out this summer at the Triad Theater. Daniel Lincoln and JWalker, who have been collaborating on the album Photos on the Floor for over a year, will take to the stage in a series of concerts promoting the album's upcoming release by Green List Productions.

The York Theatre Company, James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, as part of its Developmental Reading Series, Jeff Landsman, Series Coordinator, presents SWING FOR VICTORY! on March 11th at 3:00 PM. The all-new 1940's big band revue is presented in collaboration with the show's conceivers, Lively Arts Productions (James Bedell, Daniel T. Lavender and Michael Ruby). The 45th Street Theatre with Lively Arts will present the show on March 10 at 8:00 PM for industry only as well.

The York Theatre Company, James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, as part of its Developmental Reading Series, Jeff Landsman, Series Coordinator, presents SWING FOR VICTORY! on March 11th at 3:00 PM. The all-new 1940's big band revue is presented in collaboration with the show's conceivers, Lively Arts Productions (James Bedell, Daniel T. Lavender and Michael Ruby). The 45th Street Theatre with Lively Arts will present the show on March 10 at 8:00 PM for industry only as well.

Christiane Noll and Michael Minarik, co-stars of the Urinetown National Tour, will reunite in a by-invitation only reading of the new musical Ethan Frome: An American Romance on Sunday, May 6.

Ethan Frome: An American Romance - a new musical based on the classic 1911 novella by Edith Wharton - will receive its first staged reading at The York Theatre on Tuesday, May 9th at 3 PM and 7:30 PM