Tim Realbuto News

Broadway vets, Danette Holden, who was last seen in Sacramento as Kitty in The Drowsy Chaperone and in New York City in the acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Cagney, the Musical and Kevin Csolak, currently in Ivo Van Hove's new West Side Story as Arab hitting the Broadway stage December 10th in previews and who just completed shooting Steven Spielberg's reboot of West Side Story as Diesel hosted the 2019 Stangl Stage Cabaret, Hunterdon's Brightest, Home for the Holidays charity event this past Saturday, November 30th at the historic Stangl Stage. 

The Olivier Award-winning, international sensation SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW returns to Broadway for a limited holiday engagement at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd St., NYC) through January 5, 2020.

The Indie Street Film Festival (ISFF) proudly announced its feature film lineup today. The opening night selection for its 2019 festival is GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH (a 2019 Tribeca Film Festival official selection). The documentary film follows Conductor Tim Seelig and 300 singers in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus as they embark on a tour of the Deep South in 2017 to confront a resurgence of faith-based anti-LGBTQ laws brought about in the Trump era. Director David Charles Rodrigues is a Greek-American-Brazilian filmmaker and equal rights activist. He's a Sundance New Frontier and Documentary Lab fellow. Gay Chorus Deep South is his feature debut. The film will be followed by a live musical performance by members of the Monmouth Civic Chorus.

YES, the new motion picture starring Modern Family's Nolan Gould and New York stage actor Tim Realbuto, will make it's New York premiere tonight at The Village Cinema East as the closing night film of the SoHo International Film Festival, after making it's world premiere two nights ago at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

The SOHO International Film Festival #SOHO10 returns this year to NYC. For the tenth year, the Festival's films will be flooding the screens at Village East Cinemas (189 2nd Avenue on 12th Street) for an entire seven days of cinematic magic, June 20 - 27, 2019.

Simone Norman Is: INTRUSIVE breaks down everything you thought you knew about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and intrusive thoughts. With so much abounding misinformation and stereotyping about OCD, hordes of people go undiagnosed for decades. Simone Norman, our tour guide through the hidden corners of the disorder, offers a darkly comedic take on the damages of fundamentally misunderstanding herself during her formative years. The audience inhabits Simone's earliest brushes with intrusive thoughts, which first developed when a relatively innocuous moment of public embarrassment at age 11 kicked off a cosmically dark shift in her psyche.

YES, the new motion picture starring Modern Family's Nolan Gould and New York stage actor Tim Realbuto, will make it's world premiere on Saturday June 22nd at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the heart of Hollywood. The movie, directed by Rob Margolies, will screen at 9:30 PM at the famed venue as part of the 22nd annual Dances With Films Festival. 

Assassins tells a story of nine individuals who succeeded or attempted to assassinate the President of the United States of their time. This musical mixes humor and drama to tell a story about people who are trying to understand themselves in all different parts of life. Director Lauren Shields puts a contemporary view on this 2004 Tony award winning musical. Assassins is a mix of history and fiction that will get the audience to talking & start questioning their own views. Come see Stephen Sondheim's Assassins at The Secret Theatre!

Tickets have officially gone on sale for Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical masterpiece ASSASSINS, opening May 2nd at Long Island City's Secret Theatre. The production will be directed by Lauren Shields.

Kevin Stevens, who currently stars as Leonard in the Off-Broadway musical parody of the hit TV show THE BIG BANG THEORY, will appear as a special guest vocalist alongside Tim Realbuto in his upcoming April 18th concert at The Triad Theatre in New York City. He joins previously announced special guests Gabi Faye, Hannah Howzdy, and Erin Leddy.

Gabi Faye (IMMORTAL; DIRTY GIRL), Hannah Howzdy (HAIR at The Hollywood Bowl; ASSASSINS at The Secret Theatre), and Erin Leddy (GHOSTLIGHT; CROSSROADS) will appear as special guest vocalists alongside Tim Realbuto in his upcoming April 18th concert at The Triad Theatre in New York City.

Film actor Tim Realbuto* has been tapped to play John Hinckley, the man whose obsession with a young Jodie Foster made him attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical masterpiece ASSASSINS, opening May 2nd at Long Island City's Secret Theatre. The production will be directed by Lauren Shields.

Simone Norman Is: INTRUSIVE breaks down everything you thought you knew about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and intrusive thoughts. With so much abounding misinformation and stereotyping about OCD, hordes of people go undiagnosed for decades. Simone Norman, our tour guide through the hidden corners of the disorder, offers a darkly comedic take on the damages of fundamentally misunderstanding herself during her formative years. The audience inhabits Simone's earliest brushes with intrusive thoughts, which first developed when a relatively innocuous moment of public embarrassment at age 11 kicked off a cosmically dark shift in her psyche.

New York stage actor and concert performer Tim Realbuto, who recently made his leading role film debut in YES (based on his Off-Broadway stage play), has secured his next acting project.

Beth Fowler, who won two SAG Awards for her performance as Sister Jane Ingalls on the hit Netflix series "ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK", will play Grandma Kurnitz in this Sunday's benefit reading of LOST IN YONKERS.

Celebrated actress Erin Davie, who made her Broadway debut (and won a Theatre World Award) for her breakthrough performance as Young 'Edie' Beale in Broadway's GREY GARDENS opposite Christine Ebersole, has been cast in the lead role of Bella Kurnitz in Neil Simon's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece LOST IN YONKERS (Ms. Davie will take on the role which won Mercedes Ruehl a Tony Award for Best Actress In 1991, a role she also recreated in the 1993 film version). 

Rita Gardner, the legendary New York actress who originated the role of Louisa in 1960 opposite Jerry Orbach in Off-Broadway's THE FANTASTICKS (the world's longest running musical) has joined the cast of the December 9th benefit performance of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize winning play LOST IN YONKERS.

Well-known character actor Liz McCartney, who has thrilled Broadway audiences for decades with her performances in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, LES MISERABLES, ANNIE, MAMMA MIA!, and the recent revivals of MY FAIR LADY, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and SOUTH PACIFIC, has joined the cast of Neil Simon's LOST IN YONKERS, a benefit evening conceived and co-directed by Tim Realbuto.

Sunday, November 25th at 7:00pm Broadway vets, Kevin Csolak, currently in Tina Fey's Mean Girls on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre and Danette Holden who was last seen in New York City in the acclaimed Off Broadway production of Cagney will host the return of Hunterdon's Stangl Stage Holiday Cabaret; Shine On! The annual 'home for the holidays' event will feature multigenerational homegrown Hunterdon County talent making their mark on the world stage on Broadway, in the music industry, in film, television and more.

Graham Alexander Sack, who starred as Arty Kurnitz in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's LOST IN YONKERS, has joined the cast of Tim Realbuto's revival, taking place on Sunday, December 9th at The Engleman Concert Hall in NYC.