Michael Hartney News

'America's Next Top Glow Up Runway Project' debuts at Caveat on Feb. 22! Get tickets for the live show or livestream.

Ian Lockwood's Girlfriend Pageant is coming to the New York Comedy Festival! Will Brooklyn's most unhinged beauty-pageant-comedy-show win the hearts of America?

From attending fan conventions to engaging with cray cray Instagram fans, former teen stars Harley Jane Kelly and Leighton Spencer Ryan will do anything to inspire interest in their once-beloved teen drama One Horse Town.

Symphony Space will present Wall to Wall Selected Shorts, a monumental celebration of short fiction, March 26 in Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharp theater in New York City (2537 Broadway at 95th Street).

Squirrel Comedy Theatre will begin a residency at Lower East Side venue Caveat (21 A Clinton Street) on Saturday, June 5th. Founded in late 2020 by alumni of Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre NY, The Squirrel will offer in-person improv, sketch, and variety shows Saturday, Sunday, and Monday nights. 

'COUNTRY GAL' is a catchy, original song written by Eliza that roasts the country music industry for becoming more and more like mainstream pop. Her country diva persona, 'Deanne Shirleen', collaborates with country-rapper persona 'Joey Eastcoast' (played and written by Douglas Widick) to destroy country music as we know it.

Union Hall has released its upcoming schedule. See below for details!

WE LOVE YOU: A f**kING POSITIVE COMEDY SHOW is coming to Union Hall. Ariel and Amanda love you. Amanda Giobbi and Ariel Gitlin love you. We may not have met you but we love you. We love you for being bad at puzzles, for being lactose intolerant, and for pretending you didn't like Game of Thrones when you actually just didn't understand what's going on.

See the lineup of shows on their way to Union Hall!

Ariel and Amanda love you. Amanda Giobbi and Ariel Gitlin love you. We may not have met you but we love you. We love you for being bad at puzzles, for being lactose intolerant, and for pretending you didn't like Game of Thrones when you actually just didn't understand what's going on.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock - The Musical will end its final Broadway performance on Sunday evening by welcoming back dozens of former young cast members back to the Winter Garden Theatre stage for one last epic jam session.

UCB Theatre will produce the musical sketch comedy show 'Pop Stars Are Dumb (But We Love Them)' at their Hell's Kitchen theater on January 16th and 30th before the show heads to Los Angeles in February. Check UCBTheatre.com for additional dates, as the show has an open ended run.

UCB Theatre will produce the musical sketch comedy show 'Pop Stars Are Dumb (But We Love Them)' at their Hell's Kitchen theater on January 16th and 30th before the show heads to Los Angeles in February. Check UCBTheatre.com for additional dates, as the show has an open ended run.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents a monthly run of SHIZ beginning Friday, January 18th at 11:30 PM. Your favorite musical theater characters find themselves smack in the middle of sketches in this Broadway-meets-comedy mash-up show, written by UCB's finest and featuring actors from the casts of Wicked, Great Comet, Fun Home and more. Imagine if the Tonys were hijacked by SNL.

Tony nominee Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, School of Rock the Musical) will help celebrate the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre's 1st anniversary in their new Hell's Kitchen space on Monday, December 10th at 8pm for a one-night only event: Brigade Meets Broadway.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Al Fallick & Clark Baxtresser in 'Movies, Musicals, and Me: An Evening With Me, Halpert Evans' on November 29th at 11:30 pm. Set in a world where all musicals are movie adaptations, Movies, Musicals, and Me is a career retrospective cabaret of Broadway star-- nay, legend-- Halpert Evans (played by Al Fallick). He and his loyal accompanist, Courtney (Clark Baxtresser), perform for you songs from such fictional Broadway smashes as FORREST GUMP: THE MUSICAL, THE TERMINATOR: THE MUSICAL, THE SOCIAL NETWORK: THE MUSICAL, and more. Special Guests include Ashley Park (Mean Girls), Michael Hartney (School Of Rock, UCB), and Cameron Jones (Spamilton, The Lion King). Movie nerds and musical theatre junkies alike will find much to laugh about in this brilliant musical satire.

Town Stages presents That Must Be Fun, an evening of comedy to raise awareness for mental health, hosted by Audrey Stanfield on Friday, October 19, 2018 at 9:30pm at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC. The show features David Bluvband, Lindsay Calleran, Becky Chicoine, Catherine Cohen, Molly Gaebe, Michael Hartney, Aaron Jackson, Mike Kelton, Alison Leiby, X Mayo, Sam Reece, Connor Sampson, Brandon Scott Jones, Alex Song, Gianmarco Soresi, and more! Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/that-must-be-fun-tickets-50863152057. Proceeds will be donated to Vibrant Emotional Health, NYC.

After a hit three-year run at theUp Comedy Theatre in Chicago, #DateMe: An OkCupid Experiment, will have a reading on Thursday, October 4.