Christine Pedi of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY put her impression skills to work for a parody of Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' video channelling Liza Minnelli and Carol Channing in the places of Lady Gaga and Beyonce. Click Below to view her take impression of 'Minnelli and Channing do 'Telephone.'
Richard Pryor Jr. (1st-born son of the late great) stars in International CringeFest '10, the seriously irreverent annual festival presented by NY Artists Unlimited at the Producers' Club, 358 W. 44 St., July 19-August 8. Richard appears in multiple roles in the theme evening SEX ENCOUNTERS OF A DISTURBED MIND, directed by Robert Bartley. SEX ENCOUNTERS opens on Friday, July 23rd, the night the Honorary Golden Pineapple Awards will be presented to Broadway, off-Broadway, and independent theatre movers 'n shakers...
The Mabel Mercer Foundation has announced the performers for The 21st New York Cabaret Convention. Among the performers for this celebration of cabaret will be Elaine Stritch and Christine Ebersole.
On Friday, July 23rd, at the Honorary Golden Pineapple Awards of International CringeFest '10, the coveted golden fruit will be served up to: Broadway/ off-Broadway playwright-actor Charles Busch, Broadway/ off-Broadway playwright Israel Horovitz, off-Broadway playwright & gay rights activist Doric Wilson, Backstage's Editor-at-Large Sherry Eaker, and Dixon Place's Founder & Executive Director Ellie Covan.
Beginning August 13, Artists Repertory Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company will bring a world-class production of EuGene O'Neill's gut-wrenching autobiographical play Long Day's Journey Into Night to Portland. So close to his own life, Long Day's Journey Into Night is a story O'Neill did not want shared until 25 years after his death.
YAY! Directors and writers have been lined up for International CringeFest '10, which opens on Monday, July 19, and closes on Sunday, August 8, in the Grand Theatre at the Producers' Club, 358 W. 44 St.
Directors and writers have been lined up for International CringeFest '10, which opens on Monday, July 19, and closes on Sunday, August 8, in the Grand Theatre at the Producers' Club, 358 W. 44 St. These are REALLY GOOD & HILARIOUS works that are irreverent, politically incorrect, politically satirical, naughty, and utterly zany -- don't you want some of that?! The schedule is M-F @ 8 pm, Sat. @ 5, 8 & 10:30 pm, Sun. @ 4 & 7 pm.
Long Day's Journey Into Night is bound to be the 'hot ticket' in the Pacific Northwest this year. This world-class co-production between Portland's Artists Repertory Theatre and Australia's Sydney Theatre Company (STC) stars Oregonians William Hurt and Todd Van Voris, as well as three Australian actors including the legendary Australian actress Robyn Nevin, Luke Mullins and Emily Russell
Actors and singer-actors are sought for the outrageous International CringeFest '10 to be presented in the Grand Theatre at the Producers' Club, 358 W. 44th St., July 19-August 8. All types, ages 18 to way up, non-singers to legit singers, cross-dressers welcome!
There will be no cold readings this Monday March 15 as the Director and staff will be attending A.R.T New York 's Curtain Call at the Laura Pels Theatre. It is an event celebrating the Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway community. Cold readings will resume on Thursday March 18.
ATTENTION ACTORS, WRITERS, DIRECTORS & CIVILIANS... This week, NY Artists Unlimited launches its second series of cold readings for International CringeFest '10.
ATTENTION ACTORS, WRITERS, DIRECTORS & CIVILIANS... This week, NY Artists Unlimited launches its second series of cold readings for International CringeFest '10. Since these scripts have passed the first round, they should be really exciting to read! COME ON DOWN every Monday and Thursday through the end of March.
ATTENTION ACTORS, WRITERS, DIRECTORS & CIVILIANS... This week, NY Artists Unlimited launched its cold readings of hundreds of submissions for International CringeFest '10. COME ON DOWN every Monday and Thursday through the end of March.
ATTENTION ACTORS, WRITERS, DIRECTORS & CIVILIANS... On February 1, NY Artists Unlimited launches its cold readings of hundreds of submissions for International CringeFest '10. COME ON DOWN every Monday and Thursday through the end of March.
The best of New York cabaret will be out in full swing as the 20th Annual Cabaret Convention commences on October 7, with a special performance titled 'Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate!' The convention, produced by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, will run at Jazz at Lincoln Centre in Manhattan for a three-evening spectacular.
Fresh off reports that he will be returning to the Australian stage next year in DIARY OF A MADMAN with Sydney's Company B, Variety reports today that Geoffrey Rush will star in the Australian premiere of 'The Drowsy Chaperone,' the first show of the Melbourne Theater Company's 2010 season.
Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and who she's seen in the world of cabaret in the past week. The past week's events included Cast Party, The Oak Room Salon, and Sharon McNight at The Metropolitan Room!
Your Money or Your Art is the theme of the July 24 benefit night at International CringeFest '09 at the Producers' Club. The theme evokes the struggle of the artist, especially in an economic downturn, and all the plays that evening are comically razor-sharp: A Dark & Stormy Night (producer tortures writer 'for his own good'), The Poorly-Written Play Festival (lambasts whilst demonstrating bad playwriting), Worst. Play. Ever. (live radio drama with a maniacal twist), and Piss Play Is about Minorities, So It's Really Important (just how far will one go for funding?).
John Waters superstar MINK STOLE is the latest celeb summoned to be crowned with an Honorary Golden Pineapple on Friday, July 24, at International CringeFest '09. Often cast as the foil for Divine in such cult classics as Hairspray, Female Trouble and Pink Flamingos, she also appeared with Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom.
Look out, New York! The Bad Plays and Bad Musicals Festivals have morphed into International CringeFest '09, which this year also includes Bad Films. The festival will again be taking over the Grand Theatre at the Producers' Club, July 20-August 9, M-Sat. @ 8, Sundays @ 2 (films), and late-night Saturday at 10:30.
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