Jody Shelton News

The hottest musical improv show in NYC has been extended! Vern: Off Broadway will run at the Players Theatre until the end of December 2022.

Vern: Off-Broadway! launched at The Players Theatre main stage for a socially distanced red carpet premiere on Saturday night.

After six years of thrilling New York audiences with their spontaneously created musicals - and one year in quarantine performing primarily for their pets - the legendary improv group Vern returns to the stage with a brand-new show.

The York Theatre Company is presenting the 2020 Musical Theatre Training Program (MTTP) Summer Program Intensive, a special 4-week virtual journey nurturing the next generation of students and songwriters.

Musical improv meets Broadway in a big way in Lights Up On..., the newest show from rising improv producing team Kiki Mikkelsen and Ali Reed at Improv Asylum. The brand new show features a Broadway star as they throw away the script and score and improvise a musical for the very first time!

February is festooned with fun treats from beginning to end as a rainbow assortment of artists of many persuasions continues to take risks and break ground at the Downtown supper club Pangea.

The London Based singer and comic does a four night sit down at Pangea with some of the most blisteringly hilarious laid back stand up around.

Musician and comedian Jen Kwok's Songs for One began as a live series where she performed daringly intimate, interactive concerts for one person at a time. Jen created the series in 2016 in the midst of the presidential elections and a string of violent attacks on queer people and people of color (Pulse nightclub shooting, the shootings of Philando Castile & Alton Sterling, etc.). Combining music, meditation and visual imagery, this series fostered real life human connection as an antidote to the disconnection and divisiveness created by the social and political climate at the time, as well as the effects of social media and the 24 hour news cycle. The series spread through word of mouth and Jen ultimately performed for over 100 people, one at a time!

London's King of Comedy Swing is back in NYC at the legendary Pangea with his signature mix of nightclub crooning with stand-up swagger in 'David Mills: Sexy Time!'. Featuring Jody Shelton on piano, Mills delivers smart, sharp, laugh-out-loud comedy cabaret for adults sick of being scolded by celebrities and policed by children. Trump, Brexit, Meghan Markle, Hollywood dementia - Mills breaks it all down and gets you through the coming apocalypse feeling dynamite!

London's King of Comedy Swing is back in NYC at the legendary Pangea with his signature mix of nightclub crooning with stand-up swagger in 'David Mills: Sexy Time!'. Featuring Jody Shelton on piano, Mills delivers smart, sharp, laugh-out-loud comedy cabaret for adults sick of being scolded by celebrities and policed by children. Trump, Brexit, Meghan Markle, Hollywood dementia - Mills breaks it all down and gets you through the coming apocalypse feeling dynamite!

London's King of Comedy Swing is back in NYC at the legendary Pangea with his signature mix of nightclub crooning with stand-up swagger in 'David Mills: Sexy Time!'. Featuring Jody Shelton on piano, Mills delivers smart, sharp, laugh-out-loud comedy cabaret for adults sick of being scolded by celebrities and policed by children. Trump, Brexit, Meghan Markle, Hollywood dementia - Mills breaks it all down and gets you through the coming apocalypse feeling dynamite!

After a run of ten weeks that presented 130 one-person theatre productions from six continents, the world's largest solo theatre festival concluded its ninth season at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York by presenting this year's awards. On behalf of the United Solo Academy, Omar Sangare, the artistic director of the festival, presented the United Solo Special Award to Renee Taylor for her solo show "My Life on a Diet." In her acceptance speech, Ms. Taylor said: "I'm very grateful for receiving an award from Untied Solo - it's a very prestigious honor" and added "I'm very happy to be touring the country with 'My Life on a Diet' - and now I can say I am an award-winning show!"

Song of Seamus and the Psychedelic Squirrel takes you to Fort Tryon Park, under the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, where the animal gangs of gritty 1970's New York are fighting over our garbage. Battling the forces of pigeons (and other monsters), and the hazards of sex, drugs and rock & roll, one squirrel will give everything he has to save his brother!

Now in the wake of Lin Manuel's smash Broadway hit Hamilton, North Coast is here to help quench the people's thirst for historical raps at ANYBODY. Join North Coast for this very special historical performance as the team takes your favorite historical figure and performs a fully improvised 'hip-hopera' around that figure's life. Nikola Tesla? Bawse. Frederick Douglass? Flawless. Louisa May Alcott? Mic drop. Stand on the right side of history and drop by Caveat during North Coast's residency at Caveat, Thursdays in March!

Brooklyn-based theater company The Village is pleased to present the World Premiere of its inaugural production, The Village of Vale, in a three-performance limited engagement as part of LC Kids' 2017-2018 Season at The Clark Studio Theater (165 West 65th Street, 7th Floor). LC Kids performance dates are October 28th and 29th at 2pm, and November 4th at 2pm.

ANYBODY: An Improvised Historical Hip-Hopera, created by the critically-acclaimed improv group, North Coast, will play at the Connelly Theater in the East Village starting on September 20.

Actor Rachel Schmeling presents the NYC premiere of her cabaret, YOU, ME, AND ANXIETY as a part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival. August 28th-31st and September 7th.

Actor Rachel Schmeling presents the NYC premiere of her cabaret, YOU, ME, AND ANXIETY as a part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival. August 28th-31st and September 7th. Part stand up, part audience interaction, part musical journey, part anxious disaster, this cabaret takes Rachel and the audience on a wild hour-long ride through her journey with mental health. Written and performed by Rachel Schmeling. Music director and accompanist Jody Shelton, directed by Ellen Lindsay, PSM Margaret Baughman, lighting design by Elizabeth M. Stewart.

'You, Me, and Anxiety' is a solo cabaret show, written and performed by Rachel Schmeling, on the subject of mental health. This show is part stand up, part audience interaction, part musical journey and part panic disaster. Schmeling takes her audience on a wild one-hour ride into the mental state of someone dealing with anxiety and panic disorder.

ANYBODY: An Improvised Historical Hip-Hopera, created by the critically-acclaimed improv group, North Coast, will play at the Connelly Theater in the East Village starting on September 20. The fully improvised hip-hop musical is directed by Jody Shelton (Baby Wants Candy) and will run for five performances through Saturday, September 23.