Seth Bisen-Hersh News

You'll please forgive me if I've run out of superlative adjectives with which to describe the work of Marilyn Maye, who, after a 15-year absence from New York's cabaret scene, just opened her 4th Metropolitan Room show in a baker's dozen months.

For the fourth year in a row, Seth Bisen-Hersh will perform a solo show at Theater Ten Ten. This year in Seth Sings Bisen-Hersh, he will sing highlights from his six cabaret acts of original songs.

'Pirates!' opening night at Paper Mill Playhouse

A free screening of the new sitcom 'Breaking In' will be held Sunday evening at 9:00 PM, April 1st in Theater 1 at New World Stages

Neurotic Tendencies, billed as 'an abnormal act of original songs' by and starring Seth Bisen-Hersh, will play Don't Tell Mama on September 7th at 8:30 PM, September 9th at 6 PM and September 10th at 8 PM.

A delightful Noel Coward revue that presents his songs in the uncloseted atmosphere that wasn't acceptable in his lifetime

Seth Bisen-Hersh, composer of the award-winning Fringe Festival musicals Meaningless Sex (Audience Favorite Award 2003) and The Spickner Spin (Audience Favorite Award 2004), returns to the cabaret scene with his 3rd originally composed cabaret, Meaningful Sex, an act about the ins and outs of relationships.

ont size="2"> When you go to a fringe theatre festival it's expected you'll be choosing your entertainment from an assortment of one-person plays, avant-guarde pieces, multi-media productions and cutting edge social commentaries. In such an atmosphere, perhaps the most experimental type of theatre piece you can do nowadays is a traditionally structured, show-tune laden book musical with a ten piece orchestra (no synthesizers), a full singing/dancing/acting chorus and a plot that lightheartedly spoofs American politics without holding a particular politician or party up to ridicule. Back in the 1930's, before Saturday Night Live and The Onion, theatregoers would often get their political satire by taking in the latest hit Broadway musical. But shows like I'd Rather Be Right and Leave It to Me, big hits in their day, would be quickly be considered unrevivable because, as satire, the issues they dealt with dated quickly. But one exception was the Pulitzer Prize winning Of Thee I Sing, which eschewed taking it's plot from the latest headlines and instead explored the timeless theme of swaying public sympathy. That silly, gentle-humored spirit is re-created in Seth Bisen-Hersh (music and lyrics) and Daniel Scribner's (book and lyrics) charming gumdrop of a musical, The Spickner Spin.