Mitchell Kaplan News

Singer Annette Warren, most famous for dubbing Ava Gardner in MGM's 'Show Boat,' will celebrate her 103rd birthday with an all-star show at the Catalina Jazz Club.

Esteemed executive, entrepreneur, and hip-hop enthusiast Lemar Ingram is set to captivate audiences with a Fireside Chat at Books & Books(3409 Main Hwy, Coconut Grove, FL 33133) on February 20th, from 7 pm to 9 pm, offering insights from his latest book, 'The G-Code: A Hip-Hop Connoisseur's Guide Through Corporate America.'

Cabarabia Productions, Clifford Bell, Producer and Director will present a fundraiser benefiting Project Angel Food entitled, The 25th Anniversary of Our Name Is Barbra, A Musical Celebration of Barbra Streisand's Birthday on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. at Catalina Jazz Club.

Nelson Aspen has announced that Carolyn Hennesy will join him on stage March 9 at The Gardenia and March 10 at El Cid. Nelson Aspen will be celebrating the launch of his new book, 'Your Home is Your Castle: Live Like an A-Lister in a Post Pandemic World,' with a new cabaret show appropriately titled 'Welcome Home.' 

Nelson Aspen returns to Los Angeles for a pre-Oscars engagement of his new cabaret offering, Welcome Home, a celebration of his latest book, 'Your Home is Your Castle: Live Like an A-Lister in a Post Pandemic World.'

Cabarabia Productions, Clifford Bell, Producer and Director will present For LIFE.  For LOVE.  For as long as it takes…A FUNdraiser Celebrating 33 Years of Project Angel Food on Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at Catalina Jazz Club

Focus Features will release LET HIM GO on Friday August 21, 2020 domestically in North America. Universal Pictures International will release internationally.

Robert Horn and Scott Ellis, the duo behind Tootsie on Broadway, have created a pilot that Fox has officially landed, according to Deadline.

Veteran Entertainment journalist Nelson Aspen has added a glamorous award-winner to his January 30 engagement at LA's popular Rockwell Table & Stage. Emmy winner & NYT best-selling author Carolyn Hennesy will join Aspen as his Guest-Star for an evening of songs and stories reflecting on his quarter century as one of Morning TV's most distinguished presenters. Hennesy is best known as the scene-stealing 'Diane Miller' on the ABC daytime drama 'General Hospital,' in addition to roles on 'True Blood,' 'Revenge' and 'Cougar Town.' She is not only an accomplished actor and author, but animal rescue advocate and trapeze artist(!).

Nelson Aspen is bringing his 'Showbiz Scrapbook' home to Hollywood.

Veteran Entertainment Personality, author and cabaret star Nelson Aspen is preparing to take his act way out of town as part of the distinguished '54 Below at Sea' series aboard the Azamara Quest's upcoming cruise around Australia, embarking from Sydney March 1 ('...As soon as I get through this year's Oscars,' he enthuses.)

All The Bright Places, the adaptation of the YA bestselling novel of the same name, starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith starts principal photography in Cleveland, Ohio today.

Veteran Entertainment Personality/Author Nelson Aspen returns to Hollywood with his all new cabaret show, 'Just in Time,' at the showroom at Au Lac, Bar Fedora. One night only, Thursday June 21, 2018.

The Actors Fund - the national human services organization that helps everyone in performing arts and entertainment in times of need, crisis or transition - has announced the complete cast and creative team for their upcoming "FAME" 35th Anniversary Reunion Concert, to be held on Thursday, July 13, 2017 at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. A one-night-only celebration of the music and memories that made the series "FAME" a worldwide phenomenon, this landmark reunion marks the first US concert by the cast since 1985. Tickets are now on sale at www.actorsfund.org/Fame.

The 2011 National Book Awardsfinalists have just been announced. The Winners in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature will be announced at the 62nd National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 16. Actor, writer, and musician John Lithgow will host the event. Poet John Ashbery will receive the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, to be presented by poet Ann Lauterbach. Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of the Miami Book Fair International, will receive the Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Literary Community, to be presented by writer Walter Mosley.

Ars Nova will present Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman on Sunday, August 20 at 7:00 PM and Monday, August 21 at 8:00 PM