Ryan Scott Oliver News

It is with great pleasure that The West Bank Café announces upcoming performances to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre. The West Bank Café is located at 407 West 42nd. St., at Ninth Avenue.

On Monday, August 25, New York Theatre Barn will be presenting its latest installment of its monthly show highlighting new composers, writers and artists, NYTB at the Duplex.

'The Battery's Down,' a new online television series, will premiere its fifth episode this Sunday, June 1, featuring a slew of Broadway guest stars.

On May 30, the first season of 'Spotlight', A Benefit to Support the Society of Singers Chapter East will close with a tremendous line-up of performers including Tony Award-winner B. D. Wong.

NEO 4, the fourth in a series of annual benefit concerts celebrating emerging musical theatre writers took place on Monday May 19th, 2008 at the Theatre at Saint Peter's, 619 Lexington Avenue (on 54th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues).

The SPOTLIGHT Cabaret series, which benefits the Society of Singers Chapter East, is produced by Ryan Scott Oliver and has been presented monthly at the Beechman since January. Past guests have included I Love You Because writers Ryan Cunningham and Josh Salzman, Kleban winner Joe Iconis, Katrina Rose Dideriksen, Sally Wilfert, Michael Winther, and more.

A slew of outrageously talented performers will gather together along with the cast of The Battery's Down to support the Society of Singers Chapter East on Saturday, April 26 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at 7pm.

'The Battery's Down,' a new online television series, will premiere it's third episode this Tuesday, April 1, on YouTube featuring a slew of Broadway guest stars.

On Monday, March 31, New York Theatre Barn will be presenting its next installment of its monthly show highlighting new composers, writers and artists, NYTB at the Duplex.

Sally Wilfert (Assassins at Studio 54, Make Me a Song) and Michael Winther (B'way's 1776, Mamma Mia!, The Crucible) will join a company of New York's finest to support the Society of Singers Chapter East on Friday, March 28 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at 8pm.

'The Battery's Down,' a new online television series, will premiere its second episode this Saturday, March 1, on YouTube featuring a slew of Broadway guest stars. '

'The Battery's Down,' a new online television series, will premiere this Friday, February 1 on YouTube featuring a slew of Broadway guest stars. Filmed in a style similar to 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'The Office,' 'The Battery's Down' chronicles the life of young actor, Jake Wilson, in New York City.

New SPOTLIGHT Cabaret Series kicks off with 'I Love You Because's Cunningham and Salzman, featuring Austin, Checchia, Huberman, Johson and Overett on January 20.

On Monday, November 26, 2007 New York Theatre Barn will be presenting the last installment of its NYTB in the D-Lounge series. Performances begin at 8PM at the Daryl Roth D-Lounge

Some of New York's finest up-and-coming talents will appear in 'Save Our Song!' to support the Society of Singers Chapter East on November 14 at 6PM at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Pittsburgh CLO and Carnegie Mellon School of Drama are proud to announce a new partnership with The ASCAP Foundation and composer/lyricist and Carnegie Mellon alumnus Stephen Schwartz to develop new musicals as part of the Pittsburgh CLO/Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama New Works Program. The ASCAP Foundation and Mr. Schwartz will select musicals for this initiative from participants in the prestigious ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop.

Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don't Know But Should will be presented on August 31st and September 1st at 8:00 p.m.

As part of their very first collaboration together, the brand-new and quickly growing New York Theatre Barn will produce an evening of cabarets on May 17, 2007, including Kim Cea, Katie Thompson, and RSO.

Nick Spangler chats about a performing career that has led him to the current Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, in which he plays the Mute

The ASCAP Foundation has announced that four new musical works have been selected for presentation at its annual ASCAP Foundation / Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in New York