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54 BELOW, is proud to announce that Tony Award winner Andrea Martin will play a three-night engagement of her show "Andrea Martin: Laughing Matters" at 54 Below October 9, 10 and 11 at 7PM. (Originally scheduled to appear at the venue last June, Martin was forced to postpone her engagement due to a bronchial infection.) Seth Rudetsky (Sirius XM Satellite Radio, The Ritz) will join Andrea at the piano.

Check out photos inside from 54 BELOW featuring Ann Hampton Callaway, Lucie Arnaz, John Bucchino, and more!

Coming up this week, 54 BELOW, the new performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, rock-n-roll, the jazz world and the downtown scene, including Ann Hampton Callaway, Darlene Love, Janis Siegel, Barbara Carroll, Nathan Lee Graham and more!

In the last week the stars came out to 54 Below to see engagements featuring Linda Lavin with Billy Stritch, Eden Espinoza and Jason Robert Brown. Among those in the audience were Carol Burnett, Joy Behar, Hal Prince, John Davidson, Penny Fuller and Steve Bakunis.

Through 15, Jason Robert Brown is bringing his show to NYC's newest theatrical hot spot, 54 Below, Broadway's Nightclub, for seven performances. To celebrate his first time at the new club, he's bringing Shoshana Bean, and featuring music from Honeymoon In Vegas and The Bridges of Madison County as well as his forthcoming solo album (in addition to the usual favorites). Broawayworld brings you photos from the concert below!

Tony Award winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years, Songs for A New World)) and Tony Award nominee Christine Andreas (La Cage aux Folles, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Light in the Piazza) gave a special press preview from some of the upcoming engagements at 54 Below earlier today. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special event below!

Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie has been playing to standing ovations at her engagement at 54 Below, which runs through Saturday, September 8. Rita Wilson, Victor Garber and Liz Callaway were among the stars who came out came out to catch Mazzie's show.

You think you know three-time Tony Award Nominee Marin Mazzie from her corseted characters in RAGTIME and PASSION or maybe from the scene-chewing screwballs of KISS ME KATE and SPAMALOT or possibly you thought you gained a glimpse of her as the valium-induced bipolar star of NEXT TO NORMAL (heaven help us if that is really her in the guise of Margaret in CARRIE!). Come see and hear the real Marin Mazzie as she steps back into her formative years with an evening of fun and fantasy as we get inside the head of a Midwest girl and the music she loved. Mazzie will play 54 Below through September 8. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special event below!

Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie (Kiss Me Kate, Ragtime, Passion, Carrie), platinum Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ann Hampton Calloway (Swing), legendary jazz vocalist, pianist and composer Barbara Carroll, andcelebrated piano-vocalist Tony DeSare (Our Sinatra, Talk Show Confidential) gave a special press preview from some of the upcoming engagements at 54 Below earlier today. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special event below!

The producers of FLASHDANCE - THE MUSICAL, the stage adaptation of the 1983 smash hit movie that defined a generation, have just announced that the production will arrive on Broadway in August 2013 with a theater, dates and casting to be announced.

It was a starry week at 54 BELOW with performances from Faith Prince and Jason Graae, Maurice Hines and Tonya Pinkins. Among the celebrities who came out for their opening night performances were Elaine Stritch, S. Epatha Merkerson, La Chanze, Liiliane Montevecchi, Donna McKechnie, Ron Raines, Nona Hendryx, Andre de Shields, Adriane Lenox, Jeanine Tesori, Phillip Boykin, Jeff Calhoun, Mary Rodgers, George C. Wolfe, George Faison, Billy Porter, Brenda Braxton, Adrian Bailey, Mark Nadler, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Charles Randolph-Wright and Julie Budd. Check out photos from the events below!

Jason Robert Brown will bring his show to NYC's newest theatrical hot spot, 54 Below, Broadway's Nightclub, for seven performances. To celebrate his first time at the new club, he's bringing Shoshana Bean, and featuring music from Honeymoon In Vegas and The Bridges of Madison County as well as his forthcoming solo album (in addition to the usual favorites).

Tony Award-winner Faith Prince (Guys & Dolls, A Catered Affair) and Jason Graae (Falsettos, Ragtime, Forever Plaid), Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change, Jelly's Last Jam, The Wild Party), Tituss Burgess (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Guys & Dolls), and Eden Espinosa Wicked, Rent, Brooklyn) gave a special press preview from some of the upcoming engagements at 54 Below last week. BroadwayWorld's own Randy Rainbow was on the scene to chat with them about their shows, and you can check out what they had to say by clicking below!

Tony Award-winner Faith Prince (Guys & Dolls, A Catered Affair) and Jason Graae (Falsettos, Ragtime, Forever Plaid), Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change, Jelly's Last Jam, The Wild Party), Tituss Burgess (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Guys & Dolls), and Eden Espinoza Wicked, Rent, Brooklyn) gave a special press preview from some of the upcoming engagements at 54 Below earlier today. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special event below!

The stars were out this week at 54 Below. Stars ranging from Hollywood's Bradley Cooper and Academy Award nominee Amy Irving to Tony Award winners Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, David Hyde Pierce, Betty Buckley, John Benjamin Hickey, Ron Rifkin, John Kander, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman were in attendance for Victor Garber's final performance at the venue on August 20. Sarah RIce, who co-starred opposite Garber' as Johanna in the original Broadway cast of Sweeney Todd, also stopped backstage for a reunion. Earlier in the week, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson and vocalist Tom Postilio came out for Hilary Kole's opening night.

Dan Okrent, one of the creators of the off-Broadway hit OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES recently had a full color tattoo of the show's eye-catching tattoo permanently inked on his right shoulder.

The stars came out for Victor Garber's opening night at 54 Below. Garber's 'Alias' co-star Jennifer Garner, American Pie's Eugene Levy, Tony Award-winners Debra Monk and Susan Stroman were among the stars to visit with the star backstage following the performance. Check out photos of the celebrities below!

Just yesterday, 54 Below held a special press preview for its upcoming engagements, which included Tony Award nominee Chad Kimball (Memphis, The Civil War, Into the Woods), 2010 Bistro Award-winner Hilary Kole (Our Sinatra, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Rainbow Room), from "Sondheim Unplugged" Sarah Rice ('Johanna' in the original 1979 production of Sweeney Todd, The Fantasticks, A Little Night Music, Candide), compay members from Sing, Harlem, Sing! (created by Vy Higginsen and directed by Ken Wydro,). BroadwayWorld was there for the sneak peek and we bring you photos from the event below!

Marilyn Sokol, currently featured in the off-Broadway hit OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES is a guest on "How to Do Everything," the popular podcast created by the producers of NPR's "Wait, Wait…Don't Tell Me." On HTDE, listeners ask questions ranging from how not to sound stupid when ordering wine to how do I escape a charging rhino. The hosts answer them, or "usually, given how little we actually know how to do, we find experts who can help you out."