The Duplex News

Melanie McSweeney and Elise Williams will return to the stage at Evolve Lounge NYC this month to pay homage to the great Broadway legend Elaine Stritch. Join this dynamic duo on June 17th at 6pm in Let's Stritch It Out: A Pantsless Cabaret. The duo will be belting in their chest voices and slinging back Elaines signature drinks while telling stories of their young careers in the brash and daring style of Stritch. Come have a drink, don't wear your pants and then stay and celebrate by singing your favorite tune at Bring It, Sing It, the weekly installment hosted by Patrick Connolly.

It's happening. Adam Enright and James Jackson Jr. are coming to The Green Room 42. Together. For the first time. Why?

After selling out their first three performances, Trans Voices Cabaret returns to The Duplex for a special Pride week show with an even bigger cast of transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming performers on Saturday, June 23rd, 2018 at 6:30pm, with direction by Donnie Cianciotto and musical direction by Anessa Marie.

LAUNDRYFEST will make its world premiere at The Soap Box, 110 Saratoga Ave, Brooklyn NY 11233. The show will be comprised of site specific and site responsive pieces in an actual laundromat. The festival, produced by The Motor Company (Lillian Meredith, Artistic Director; Jessica Schmidt, Producing Director), will feature new short plays and musicals by Sean Pollock, Billy Recce, Ben Holbrook and Cherry Lou Sy. Directors include NJ Agwuna, David Kahawaii, Phoebe Padget, and Lillian Meredith. The festival is co-curated and co-produced by Sean Pollock. The performance schedule is Friday, June 8th, Today June 9th, Friday, June 15th, and Today June 16th at 9:00PM; Sunday June 10th and Sunday June 17th at 7:00PM. Admission is free of charge to the public.

THE DUPLEX, NYC's historic cabaret theater, presents Guilty Pleasures Cabaret in 'Ticket to Coney Island' on Friday, June 22, 2018. The premier song + dance variety show is bringing summertime beach vibes to the big city. Step right up to a cabaret show featuring songs, dance, and comedy dedicated to the iconic New York beach getaway, Coney Island. Mermaids, Side Show Performers, Hot Dogs...Oh my!

THE DUPLEX, NYC's historic cabaret theater, presents the Guilty Pleasures Cabaret Sirens on Friday, June 8th, 2018. This fierce group of female singers showcase tight harmonies and leading lady vocals that seamlessly blends retro vibes, pop tunes, and musical theatre stylings to deliver a star-quality show. Audiences will even catch cameos from the high-kicking and hair-flipping dance troupe The Fishnet Follies.

New Generation Theater Company brings back its summer cabaret series at the Duplex Cabaret Theater with a stellar line up, after a successful 2017 season. All productions will play at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, located at 61 Christopher Street, New York City. Doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain. Tickets are $15 pre-sale and $20 at the door. 2 drink minimum, ages 21+.

The Pride Arts Center's summer season will kick off on Sunday, June 3 at 7:30 pm in the PAC's Broadway venue with Melissa Young's OUT AND PROUD: A RAINBOW CELEBRATION.  Young will perform and emcee a musical and comedic tour of LGBTQ history that will also feature in its cast Nick Sula, Daryl Nitz, Jeannie Tanner and Dan Riley, performing some of the most iconic songs of the LGBTQ movement.

La Ti Do Productions (LTD) brings together Washington, DC's best in partnership with DC Metro Theater Arts (DCMTA) to sing-a-long to Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda's music to celebrate the musical tour's residence at The Kennedy Center this summer. DCMTA and LTD are pleased to announce the featured artists and partner organizations.

La Ti Do Productions celebrates Asian American Heritage Month with the city's first all Asian American cabaret to support The National Asian Artists Project, and is pleased to announce the featured artists and partner organizations.

Drunk Musicals, a Broadway World Award Nominated cabaret series, is premiering their show, Wasted: The Untold Story of Some Drunk Bitches From Oz on May 26th at The Duplex. Wasted is a fun parody musical with actors who get wasted and try to do highlights of a show while the audience sends them drinks! This night is guaranteed to be a fun one and is one night only!

LAUNDRYFEST will make its world premiere at The Soap Box, 110 Saratoga Ave, Brooklyn NY 11233. The show will be comprised of site specific and site responsive pieces in an actual laundromat. The festival, produced by The Motor Company (Lillian Meredith, Artistic Director; Jessica Schmidt, Producing Director), will feature new short plays and musicals by Sean Pollock, Billy Recce, Ben Holbrook and Cherry Lou Sy. Directors include NJ Agwuna, David Kahawaii, Phoebe Padget, and Lillian Meredith. The festival is co-curated and co-produced by Sean Pollock. The performance schedule is Friday, June 8th, Saturday June 9th, Friday, June 15th, and Saturday June 16th at 9:00PM; Sunday June 10th and Sunday June 17th at 7:00PM. Admission is free of charge to the public.

Honeck-Moss Productions is proud to present 'In The Works.'  This exciting series is in it's second season was conceived as an opportunity for composers to try out new work in front of an audience and see how it plays in a supportive environment.  It is also an opportunity to create community among the composers and their performers.

Broadway's Future Songbook Series - presented by Arts and Artists of Tomorrow - continues its twenty-seventh season on Monday, May 21st in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center located at 111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street.

Cabaret patroness Madame Mathieu has selected Lindsey Brett Carothers (Bring it On, Wicked), and Josh Walden (Ragtime, A Chorus Line) as guests of honor at the May 17th edition of Bistro Awards Critics' Pick Madame's Soiree. The Broadway duo will be joined on the program by a distinguished group of emerging artists from a variety of disciplines.

On Sunday night at the 6th annual #giveback concert, Broadway Unlocked raised $48,000 to benefit the Crime Victims Treatment Center at WNYC's The Greene Space.

Internationally renowned, multiple award winning performer, Yael Rasooly, brings "Glamour in the Dark" to New York City for two performances in June: Tuesday, June 5th at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at 7pm and Saturday, June 30th at the Duplex at 7pm.

Last seen at the Duplex a month and a half into the Trump presidency, No Evil: A Cabaret of Resistance, returns in 2018 older and wearier, but still here. This second incarnation of 2017's sold out run remains dedicated to creating musical space for rage and resistance.

It's happening. Adam Enright and James Jackson Jr. are coming to The Green Room 42. Together. For the first time. Why?

Broadway Unlocked founder Jessica Ryan announced today that the performance lineup for the sixth annual #giveback concert slated for Sunday, May 13 at 7.30pm at WNYC's The Greene Space (44 Charlton Street) has been updated.  Along with producers Kelly Weaver and Mike Borges, Broadway Unlocked is bringing Broadway favorites together to perform and raise funds for the Crime Victims Treatment Center, a not-for-profit organization committed to helping people heal from violent crime.  The live concert is directed by Nathan Tysen (Tuck Everlasting, Amelie).