Mike Birbiglia News

Westport Country Playhouse Hosts “Connecticut Comedy Festival,” in Partnership with Fairfield Comedy Club, from June 18-25

The Drama League announced today three-time Tony Award-winning producer, CEO, and Founder of BroadwayHD Bonnie Comley will become the organization's new Board President. Comley’s unique skill set has proved invaluable to The Drama League over the course of the last 16 months as the organization’s programming is abundant with digital capture.

Center Theatre Group has announced it raised over $700,000 through its RWQuarantunes fundraising event.

The Ally Coalition (TAC) has announced that its 7th Annual Talent Show will take place as a livestream event, for the first time ever, Monday, December 21 at 9pm EST exclusively on Twitch.

Mike Birbiglia was a guest on Monday's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to talk about his new book, The New One!

Comedian Mike Birbiglia was a guest on Thursday's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about turning his Broadway stage show, 'The New One' into a book!

Need something new to listen to, read, or watch? Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases, including Mike Birbiglia's The New One, the Sing Street cast recording, and more!

The Theatre Podcast with Alan Seales presents Keith Sherman! His favorite four-letter word, in response to both success and failure, is 'next'. After recovering from COVID-19, and with his career on pause, this Broadway publicist talks about the future of Broadway.

The Eugene Mirman (Bob's Burgers, Flight of the Conchords, Delocated) feature documentary “It Started As A Joke” is available today on VOD on Amazon, Google Play, Vudu, FandangoNow, Sony and Microsoft Xbox. 

Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has announced IT STARTED AS A JOKE will be released on-demand on Friday, April 3. The feature documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the EUGENE MIRMAN COMEDY FESTIVAL including the final farewell show. Packed with stars and offering an intimate look at the New York comedy scene, It Started As A Joke celebrates Eugene's unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement. Heartfelt and hilarious, the doc offers a bittersweet goodbye to an era and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life's circumstances.

Mike Birbiglia is coming to Paramount Theatre in Denver on Friday, June 5th at 7:00pm. Due to popular demand a second show has been added on Saturday, June 6th at 7pm. Tickets range from $29.50 to $39.50 plus applicable fees and go on sale Friday, March 6th at 10:00am at ParamountDenver.com. A limited number of Premium tickets are available which include a signed copy of Mike's new book for $55.00. Starting Monday, March 9th tickets will also be available for purchase at the Pepsi Center Box Office and Dick's Sporting Goods Park box office, or Paramount Theatre box office (event days only).

Mike Birbiglia is coming to Paramount Theatre in Denver on Friday, June 5th at 7:00pm.

The Den Theatre has announced the Chicago debut of the Off-Broadway hit Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees, the most highbrow show about blow jobs you'll ever see! Written and performed by comedian Jacqueline Novak, directed by John Early, executive produced by Mike Birbiglia and presented by Natasha Lyonne, Novak's one-woman show will play May 29 - June 18, 2020 on The Den's Heath Mainstage, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago.

Mike Birbiglia is coming to BAM on May 9 with a new show inspired by his new book The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad. This performance is part of BAM and Greenlight Bookstore's Unbound series of notable book launch events.

ATG Colonial has announced the Boston engagement of Jacqueline Novak's GET ON YOUR KNEES, fresh off its four-time-extended hit off-Broadway engagement. Written and performed by comedian Jacqueline Novak, directed by John Early, executive produced by Mike Birbiglia and originally presented by Natasha Lyonne, ATG Colonial presents the Boston engagement in the Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA for an intimate experience, the show will play a 16-performance run beginning Tuesday, March 31, 2020 and running through Sunday, April 12, 2020.

Netflix Is A Joke, Netflix's comedy brand, is throwing a week-long comedy festival, Netflix Is A Joke Fest. Produced by Netflix in association with Live Nation, the star-studded celebration of comedy will take over Los Angeles April 27th - May 3rd and feature live stand-up shows, special events and activations with Netflix comedians and artists from around the world. Featured Netflix talent include Ali Wong, Amy Schumer, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Jamie Foxx, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Kevin Hart, Martin Lawrence, Sebastian Maniscalco, the cast of Schitt's Creek and more. The fest will also include STAND OUT: An LGBTQ+ Celebration  with headliners Alan Carr, Hannah Gadsby, Margaret Cho, Rosie O'Donnell, Sandra Bernhard, Wanda Sykes and more.

In response to popular demand and critical acclaim, The Barrow Group, under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors Seth Barrish and Lee Brock and Executive Director Robert Serrell, is proud to extend the world premiere of 17 Minutes to March 1, 2020. This spellbinding new play by Scott Organ, which opened on January 22, takes an intimate look at how gun violence reverberates across a community.

Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees, written by and starring Jacqueline Novak, is back for a limited run, now through January 26. The show, 'a standup comedy set that inclines towards theater (New York Times),' plays the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, between Hudson and Bleecker Streets).

Last night was the premiere of John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch in New York City. The musical special's creator and star John Mulaney was in attendance alongside the The Sack Lunch Bunch children, guest stars David Byrne, Annaleigh Ashford, and Andre De Shields and special guests Mike Birbiglia and Nick Kroll.

Award winning comedian, writer and actor NATALIE PALAMIDES brings her hit solo show NATE back to New York by popular demand for a limited run February 11-16 at Improv Asylum. Winner of the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Total Theater Award, NATE is a dynamic must-see comedy show fearlessly performed by Palamides as her alter ego a?oeNatea??. Worthy of repeated viewings, NATE is a playful and powerful exploration of masculinity and consent hailed as 'funny and ferocious, broad and nuanceda?? by The New York Times and a?oeNever less than snortingly funnya?? by The Independent.