Margaret Cho News

The New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), in association with COMEDY CENTRAL, announced today additional events to its line-up, including a Times Talk discussion with Tracy Morgan at The Times Center

After selling out its initial performances in June, two encore performances in September and adding a 3rd performance, a fourth (and final) performance has been added to DINA MARTINA: SITTING OVATIONS at The Laurie Beechman Theater on Sunday, September 26 at 9:30pm

Cult sensation DINA MARTINA returns to New York with an encore engagement of DINA MARTINA: SITTING OVATIONS. After quickly selling out a two performance run in June, Martina brings this unique night of performance back to The Laurie Beechman Theater for three nights only beginning Thursday, September 23. After attaining cult status in her native town of Seattle and touring nationally, Martina's official New York debut in 2005 sold out in minutes. Her follow-up shows have left jaded audiences (including Whoopi Goldberg, John Waters, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cameron Mitchell, Margaret Cho, Rue McClanahan, Bruce Vilanch, Joyce Dewitt, and Jeff Stryker -- a list as strange has her shows) stunned and clamoring for more.

Lifetime Television has renewed its hit scripted series Army Wives and Drop Dead Diva for their fifth and third seasons, respectively, to premiere in 2011, during which 13 all-new episodes of each program will air on the network. The announcement was made today by Nancy Dubuc, President and General Manager of Lifetime Networks and HISTORY.

Cult sensation DINA MARTINA returns to New York with an encore engagement of DINA MARTINA: SITTING OVATIONS. After quickly selling out a two performance run in June, Martina brings this unique night of performance back to The Laurie Beechman Theater for three nights only beginning Thursday, September 23. After attaining cult status in her native town of Seattle and touring nationally, Martina's official New York debut in 2005 sold out in minutes. Her follow-up shows have left jaded audiences (including Whoopi Goldberg, John Waters, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cameron Mitchell, Margaret Cho, Rue McClanahan, Bruce Vilanch, Joyce Dewitt, and Jeff Stryker -- a list as strange has her shows) stunned and clamoring for more.

The 2010 New York Comedy Festival in association with Comedy Central will present Rosie O'Donnell live on Friday, November 5 at 8:00 PM, at Town Hall in New York City.

The Season 11 star-studded cast and their professional partners get ready to break in their dancing shoes on ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars' for the long awaited two-hour season premiere, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Comedian/actress Margaret Cho performs at The Pearl concert theater at the Palms Casino Resort September 17, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF) and The New York Comedy Festival (NYCF) partner for the fourth consecutive year to present Stand Up for Heroes at the Beacon Theatre in New York on Wednesday, November 3rd at 8 p.m.

Diminutive burlesque star & comic dynamo Selene Luna performs her show, SELENE LUNA: DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF, on Saturday, September 11 at 8:00 PM at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (inside the West Bank Cafe), 407 West 42nd Street at Ninth Avenue. Tickets are $15 advance/$20 at the door (if available). There is a $15 food/drink minimum, with a full dinner menu and full bar available. Tickets may be purchased online at www.SpinCycleNYC.com or by calling 212-352-3101.

Talk Show Listings for Tuesday, September 6, 2010.

The Season 11 star-studded cast and their professional partners get ready to break in their dancing shoes on ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars' for the long awaited two-hour season premiere, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Check out these portrait photos for the new contestants below.

Talk Show Listings for Tuesday, September 6, 2010.

The Season 11 star-studded cast and their professional partners get ready to break in their dancing shoes on ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars' for the long awaited two-hour season premiere, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Check out these rehearsal photos for the new contestants below.

After selling out its initial performances in June, two encore performances in September and adding a 3rd performance, a fourth (and final) performance has been added to DINA MARTINA: SITTING OVATIONS at The Laurie Beechman Theater on Sunday, September 26 at 9:30pm

The Season 11 star-studded cast and their professional partners get ready to break in their dancing shoes on ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars' for the long awaited two-hour season premiere, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

The new 'Dancing with the Stars' contestants have been announced by ABC, and the list includes: Brandy, Florence Henderson, Jennifer Grey, Bristol Palin, Margaret Cho, Audrina Patridge, Michael Bolton, Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino, David Hasselhoff, NFL quarterback Kurt Warner, and Disney channel's Kyle Massey and Rick Fox. The Fall 2010 season of 'Dancing with the Stars' premieres MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET).

In 'Viva la Evolución!' (www.vivalaevoluciontheshow.com), the comic actress Diana Yanez, a first-generation Cuban-American, takes us on her journey from Castro to Disco in a one-woman comedy of growing up Cuban and queer in Miami.

Dancing_with_the_Stars_20010101 Bristol Palin, Florence Henderson, Jennifer Grey, Rick Fox, and Margaret Cho are to appear on Season 11 of ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars,' Access Hollywood reports.

Diminutive burlesque star & comic dynamo Selene Luna performs her show, SELENE LUNA: DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF, on Saturday, September 11 at 8:00 PM at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (inside the West Bank Cafe), 407 West 42nd Street at Ninth Avenue. Tickets are $15 advance/$20 at the door (if available). There is a $15 food/drink minimum, with a full dinner menu and full bar available. Tickets may be purchased online at www.SpinCycleNYC.com or by calling 212-352-3101.