The Duplex News

SALON - that unique, MULTIPLE AWARD WINNING, Weekly Open Mic Event, created and hosted by Mark Janas will return to Etcetera, Etcetera - 352 West 44th Street, NYC 10036 - on Sunday, January 14th from 7-10:00PM. (Sign-Up Begins at 6:15.)

Following their sold-out debut performance at the Duplex, the Ethnic Chameleons are thrilled to bring their show, Re:Mix, to The Green Room 42 on Friday, January 19th at 7:00 P.M., located at 520 Tenth Avenue, inside Yotel (4th Floor).

See the lineup of fantastic shows coming to Joe's Pub for the 2018 Under the Radar Festival.

The Encore Musical Theatre Company proudly presents Million Dollar Quartet, running February 1st through 25th, 2018, directed by Tobin Hissong, and music directed by R. MacKenzie Lewis.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) is pleased to share the news that The Kleban Foundation's 28th Annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre for the most promising musical theatre librettist has been awarded to Christian Duhamel for his work on My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, a musical that received its world premiere at MRT in Lowell in April 2017.

The Kleban Foundation just announced the recipients of the 28th Annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre. Adjudication in the 2018 Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist category resulted in a tiebetween Alan Schmuckler and Amanda Yesnowitz, andthe 2018 Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre librettist has been awarded to Christian Duhamel. The 2018 prizes will be presented on Monday, February 5, 2018, in a private ceremony (by invitation only) hosted by ASCAP and BMI at ASCAP.

Cabaret patroness Madame Mathieu has selected Natalie Charle Ellis (School of Rock, Les Miserables), and F. Michael Haynie (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wicked) as guests of honor at the January 18th edition of the Bistro Awards Critics' Pick Madame Mathieu's Soiree. The duo will perform alongside a distinguished group of artists from a variety of disciplines in the first edition of Season 3 of the show. The winners of the first ever Denovan Residencies, the most comprehensive development grants in New York cabaret, will be announced at the event.

Come out to The Duplex Cabaret Theatre on January 21, 2018 at 6:30pm and drink for a good cause. The Duplex is hosting Typecast: A Benefit Concert for Life After Hate and Drama Club NYC.

Lea Anderson Sings Whitney Houston: A Six-Year Anniversary Tribute Show comes to B.B. King Blues Club and Grill on February 11. The show stars Lea Anderson and features many special guest singers including Carla Gibson, Dale Novella Anderson, Taprena Augustine...and many more to be announced soon!

Byron St. Cyr returns to Don't Tell Mama with a final visit to 4600 Mithra: My New Orleans on Monday, January 15th at 7pm. This swinging night of jazz was debuted in March 2017, and he's back with his trio and some new and old standards that remind him of home. He will be joined by his musical director Drew Wutke; with direction by Jim Brigman once again.

The Exponential Festival and The Tank team up to present the world premiere of HOLIDAYS IN / COYOTE (a geological, indigenous history of north-east Kansas as dreamt by the Topeka Holidome on 6th & Fairlawn, spring 1989) from January 14-20th at The Tank's new mid-town venue.

The Duplex, NYC's historic cabaret theater, presents Guilty Pleasures Cabaret in the third anniversary of the 'Naughty or Nice Xmas Spectacular' today, Saturday & Sunday, December 15 - 17.

Honeck-Moss Productions is proud to present In The Works. This exciting series is in it's Second Season and 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.

On Today, December 13th at 6:30pm, the second installment of the new cabaret series Beyond The Binary entitled Beyond The Binary Holiday Edition: The 12 Gays of Christmas will be presented at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (Tisa Chang, Artistic Producing Director), in tandem with 'Day of Remembrance', opens its 41st season on themes of social justice and historic amnesia with the special return engagement of the acclaimed play NO-NO BOY by Ken Narasaki, based on the groundbreaking novel by John Okada. Directed by Ron Nakahara, the cast will feature Leanne Cabrera, Dinh James Doan, Chris Doi, David Huynh, Scott Kitajima, Karen Tsen Lee, Claro de los Reyes, Shigeko Sara Suga, Hansel Tan, and Tony Vo.

The Peoples Improv Theater has announced the return of KEVIN!!!!!, the New York Innovative Theatre Award-nominated show from Recent Cutbacks (Hold On To Your Butts and Fly, You Fools!), tonight, December 8, through December 30, 2017.

On Wednesday, December 13th at 6:30pm, the second installment of the new cabaret series Beyond The Binary entitled Beyond The Binary Holiday Edition: The 12 Gays of Christmas will be presented at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Jorge Luiz Altamirano in Thoroughly Modern Broadway on Friday, February 23, 2018. Don't miss Jorge as he makes his Feinstein's/54 Below debut, performing fan favorites from contemporary Broadway Musicals including Rent, Finding Neverland, Kinky Boots, Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton! This revue will introduce the audience to the newest characters and songs from recent and current shows being performed on the Great White Way! Musical Direction by Phil Kadet.

After a sold-out run at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, the New York run of Lover Lover will be presented with an expanded script, a new director, Derek Nicoletto, and a New York cast on Saturday, December 2 at 9:30 p.m. and Today, December 7 at 9:30 p.m. at the legendary Cabaret at The Duplex at 61 Christopher Street, New York, New York.

Award-winning Brooklyn actor-writer, Dan Ruth, brings his tour-de-force black comedy, A Life Behind Bars (Winner United Solo 2016, Best Autobiographical Show) to Los Angeles for two performances in association with Whitefire SoloFest 2018.