The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns with its new edition Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter, tonight, Monday, August 20 at 7pm at the Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street, with Tovah Feldshuh and Cady Huffman joining the cast.
The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns with its new edition Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter, tonight, August 20 at 7pm. Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter performs at the Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street. The cast is scheduled to include Vanessa Bayer (from "Saturday Night Live"), Mario Cantone, Tony Danza, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, and Alan Zweibel.
Jackie Beat, the self-professed bastard child of 'Weird' Al Yankovic and buxom Bette Midler, returns to Times Square with JACKIE BEAT'S GREATEST TITS at The Laurie Beechman Theater (inside West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street -- at Ninth Avenue, accessible from the A,C,E,N,R,V,F,1,2,3 trains at 42nd Street). Performances are Thursday, September 13- Sunday, September 16 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $22 plus a $15 food/drink minimum. To purchase tickets call 212-352-3101 or visit www.SpinCycleNYC.com. A full bar and waiter service is available throughout the performance.
The Comedy Pigs, Maryland Ensemble Theatre's (MET) hilarious sketch and improv group, will be celebrating 19 years of laughter on August 24 and 25 at 8pm with their 19th Anniversary Weekend. Pigs past and present will perform audience favorites such as the Star Wars/Madonna send up 'Empirial Girl' or the cooking show 'Food for Thought', that have had audiences laughing for almost two decades.
When Lauren Robert powerfully performed her early August show at Iridium Jazz Club, her 12-song set of blues, R&B and gospel tunes included four original songs off her recently-released CD, Listen-I Mean It. But if her live show was just offering a titillating CD tease, the disc itself is a soulful seduction-a 15-song package of passion, intimacy, vulnerability, and risk, all wrapped in lyrical expressiveness, melodic intensity, and some of the best blues/rock/gospel singing to come down the pike since Janis asked the Lord to buy her a Mercedes Benz.
Green Day will give the first televised performance of new music from the album trilogy, Green Day ¡Uno! during the '2012 MTV VMA's' on Thursday, September 6 on MTV at 8:00pm ET/PT.
Coming up this week, 54 BELOW, the new performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54thStreet, will present Victor Garber, Natalie Joy Johnson and more.
Having whipped Fringe audiences into something of a big gay frenzy last year with their enormously charming and very much sold-out offering 'Little Shop of Homos', the London Gay Men's Chorus Ensemble - a new name; last year they were known as Far From Kansas - are back. 'Hi-De-Homo', their holiday camp-set new show, may not offer much to please fans of subtlety and nuance but those who fancy an hour of musical comedy glee in the company of a varied and talented group of gay men will find it delightful. Or at least I did.
AIDS Walk Los Angeles is the world's first fundraising event of its kind, and the event continues to keep the public engaged in the HIV/AIDS crisis. Last year, a passionate crowd of 30,000 walkers and 2,500 volunteers raised $3 million for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and advocacy programs. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $72 million to fight the disease in Los Angeles County.
Paul Wesley and Torrey DeVitto, stars of the hit CW series "The Vampire Diaries," will serve as hosts of The Humane Society of the United States' H-Couture 2012. The fashion show will debut on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, at a private Brentwood estate. Celebrating fashion forward style, designed not to be harmful to animals, H-Couture 2012 will showcase the latest in designer menswear and womenswear for conscious living.
Oxygen Media will return its new buzzed about docu-series ALL THE RIGHT MOVES with an original premiere of episode two now airing on Tuesday, August 21 at 10pm ET/PT.
Max von Essen is scheduled to again step into the role of 'Che' for six performances, August 6-11, in the new Broadway production of EVITA while Ricky Martin is on vacation.
Producer Clifford Bell (www.Cabarabia.com) brings an eclectic collection of the best of the best working in the Cabaret Scene-Brad Ellis of 'Glee' and 'The Glee Project', recent Emmy nominee for his work on Jason Segel's Muppets Song on 'Saturday Night Live', Eli Brueggemann, the newest musical director, composer and arranger on 'SNL' (www.elibmusic.com), Joanne Tatham, direct from 'Feinstein's At Loews Regency' in New York, with a preview of her new show 'CINEMA NYC: Music From Movies Made In Manhattan' (www.joannetatham.com), Kid Hollywood, a hot new up and coming band generating a lot of buzz (www.kidhollywood.net), and a special appearance by singer-songwriter Sarah White (soundcloud.com/sarah_white), tonight, August 5 at 8 p.m.
Les Michaels Sundays In Summer at the Arthur Newman Theater in Palm Desert will present the multitalented impressionist Bethany Owen direct from the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas.
The 17th year of The Elisabeth Morrow School Summer String Festival will be held from August 13-17, 2012 at The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, NJ for children ages four to thirteen. For five days in August, over 200 young violinists, violists, cellists, harpists and bassists will rehearse and perform Bach, Holst, Handel, and Vivaldi in an intensive music training program.