The Duplex News

This Thursday, May 31st, Broadway Sessions welcomes Lee Siegel, Carly Sakolove and Alexis Smith to The Laurie Beechman Theater. (more...)

Producer John Forslund presented OFF THE BOOKS: A Cole Porter UNPUBLISHED CABARET evening at The Duplex Piano Bar & Cabaret, New York on May 16, with additional performance coming up on May 26. Check out photos from the concert below! (more...)

Producer John Forslund presented OFF THE BOOKS: A Cole Porter UNPUBLISHED CABARET evening at The Duplex Piano Bar & Cabaret, New York on May 16, with additional performance coming up on May 26.Check out highlights from the concert below! (more...)

Dawn Ward Lau returns to the cabaret stage as Debbie Goldberg with her new show “The Hole in my Bucket List”, at Don't Tell Mama 343 W 46th St 212 757-0788 for 2 performances in June, Friday June 15 and Friday June 22 at 9:15 p.m. Sharing the stage will be multi mac award winning musical director Ricky Ritzel. (more...)

Marissa Pontecorvo today announced her first tour. (more...)

Now Entering the Crossroads of Theatre presents THE MUSIC OF JULIA MEINWALD, Tuesday, May 22nd at 9:30pm at The Duplex (61 Christopher St @ 7th Ave). (more...)

The Duplex, in association with Ward More UND DIE LIEDER BEGINNEN with Frank Loman May 24. There is a $15 music charge. Information and reservations can be found by calling 212-255-5428. (more...)

New York City native Lionel Shockness invites you to gather on May 20th & May 30th for “Here’s To Life!” - an afternoon and evening of songs celebrating life and every joy it brings at legendary piano bar / restaurant Don’t Tell Mama (on Restaurant Row) in Manhattan. (more...)

NBC has released a clip from its new medical drama, DO NOT HARM which will star stage veterans Steven Pasquale, Phylicia Rashad and Michael Esper. View a sneak peek of the new series as well as an interview with Pasquale below! (more...)

Hot off his forty-city book tour promoting his book Blackouts and Breakdowns, Mark Brennan Rosenberg is bringing his musical book reading series “How to Date A F+++ing Loser” which enjoyed three sold-out performances last fall, back for a one-night only event benefiting the Forty-Sixth Street Clubhouse, an organization that helps the LGBT community deal with problems related to alcoholism. The event will take place on Saturday June 23 at 9:30 at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre located at 61 Christopher Street in New York. (more...)

New Village Arts presents the World Premiere of BRILLIANT MISTAKE, written and directed by Suzanne Bachner, beginning May 30. (more...)

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre, called “a riotously funny and campy variety show” by Next Magazine, and "a rollicking, wry affair complete with funny political commentary on current events" by Gay City News, will present their newest edition on Thursday, May 17 at 9:30 PM. (more...)

One of the best of the recent dynamic duos to hit the New York cabaret scene may be the songwriting/performing team of Mary Liz McNamara and Ritt Henn, who recently brought their cheeky and charming show Take That! back to The Duplex after debuting last November. (more...)

August Strindberg's Chekhovian comedy, "Playing With Fire" (Leka med elden, 1893), in a translation by Ulrika Brand that has been newly adapted by Obie-winner Leslie Lee, Executive Director of Negro Ensemble Company, will be presented May 18 to June 10 with an all-black cast as the inaugural production of August Strindberg Repertory Theatre, directed by Robert Greer. The play, to be staged at New School for Drama, 151 Bank Street (West Village), will be a co-production of August Strindberg Repertory Theatre and Negro Ensemble Company in association with Theater Resources Unlimited. (more...)

What happens when two downtown divas pair up for one night of magic? A double bill of epic old-timey proportions. This 1940’s themed cabaret/radio show is presented byJoe’s Pub (425 Lafayette NYC, NY 10003) on Sunday, May 27th at 7pm. Tickets ($15) are available online (www.joespub.com) and at the door. (more...)

4@15: Four New Fifteen-Minute Musicals, performed in conjunction with University of California, Irvine, will commence performances Friday, April 20, for three performances only at Roy Arias Theatre Center. Tammy Holder serves as Music Director; Brian Blythe directs. (more...)

Real-life therapist/performer Jude Treder-Wolff takes you down the rabbit hole in CrAzYToWn,Saturday, April 28 at Stony Brook University, written and performed by Jude Treder-Wolff with musical direction and songs co-written by Wells Hanley. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at www.smarttix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444. (more...)

On Monday April 23rd, Vanessa Ragland and Sarah Ziegler will host a fundraiser cabaret for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The night will feature new works by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair (Murder For Two), Sam Carner and Derek Gregor (Unlock’d), Adam Michael Kaufman and Martin Landry, Adam Overett, Ian Weinberger, and Oran Eldor and Sarah Ziegler. In addition to contributing new medically-themed material, Kinosian, Landry, Overett (Light in the Piazza) and Ziegler will also be performing. Other performers include Holly Buczek, Mark Campbell (Mamma Mia!), Janice Landry, Vanessa Ragland, Ari Rossen, Erin Sjostrom, and Cecelia Ticktin. (more...)

The YALE INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC THEATRE (Mark Brokaw, Artistic Director) has selected two original book musicals, Mighty Five’s Infinite Funk Odyssey with music and lyrics by Zach Abramson and Derek Muro and book by Phil Aulie and Xaq Webb and Mortality Play with music by Scotty Arnold and book and lyrics by Alana Jacoby, to be developed in an intensive lab setting in New Haven, June 4-17. (more...)

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre will present their newest edition on Thursday, April 19 at 9:30 PM. (more...)