STAGE TUBE: Laura Bell Bundy Impersonates Sophia Grace and Rosie!July 30, 2012Laura Bell Bundy pulled double duty as she impersonated excitable six year old web sensations Sophia Grace and Rosie in a new video on her YouTube channel. The little girls, made even more noticeable by their appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, are known for their hot pink ensembles and high-pitched squeals.
STREEP TEASE Honored, Returning With Extended Run, 8/4-25July 30, 2012On the heels of their 'Best of Hollywood Fringe' Award for their sold-out headlining performances at the Outlaugh Comedy Festival/Hollywood Fringe Festival, STREEP TEASE: AN EVENING OF MERYL STREEP MONOLOGUES, performed by an all-male cast returns for an extended run Aug. 4-25 at Theatre Asylum, announced by the show's creator & co-Executive Producer Roy Cruz. A celebratory, wicked, yet loving satire of scenes from the most unforgettable movies from one of our greatest contemporary actresses, STREEP TEASE is performed by an ensemble cast.
SONGS FROM A GLASS HALF FULL Gets Sharon Springs Workshop, 7/27-28July 27, 2012Gail P. Luna and 204 Main presents SONGS FROM A GLASS HALF FULL, a musical revue, about the different perspectives we take toward the moments in our lives, with lyrics by Sharon Springs' very own Drew Taylor and music by Robert Cioffi, will be tested tonight, July 27 and July 28th at BANK in Sharon Springs, New York, in anticipation for its Manhattan premiere. The premiere in Sharon Springs will help to benefit the renovation/restoration of Chalybeate Park.
Metropolitan Room Presents Almost-All-Yiddish Vaudeville Revue, 8/8July 26, 2012On Wednesday August 8 at 9:30PM some of New York's most gifted singers, comedians,and novelty performers will bring 2nd Avenue and the Lower East Side of a century ago back to side-splitting, tear-jerking life! Playing the Metropolitan Room, 34 West22nd Street, for one night only, "You Don't Have to Speak Yiddish to Understand the Truth" is produced by Media Blitz Entertainment, and hosted by master of ceremonies Shane Baker.
Rising Indie Bands Highlight Joe's Pub This AugustJuly 26, 2012Independent artists are a cornerstone of the programming at Joe's Pub. Come see what rising singer-songwriters like NYC-locals Annie and the Beekeepers and Brooklyn's Shenandoah and the Night have up their sleeves from now through August.
Alan Rickman Set to Lead KRAPP HOUR at Flea Theatre in 2013July 25, 2012Jim Simpson, artistic director and Carol Ostrow, producing director, announced today the line up for the upcoming 2012/2013 season at The Flea. Says Ostrow, "We are incredibly excited to unveil a season of astonishing World, American and New York City premiere productions."
Roger Rees, Rick Elice Lead Reading of Dustin Lance Black's 8, 7/27July 25, 2012All Out Arts, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights
(AFER) and Broadway Impact, is proud to announce as part of the Fresh Fruit Festival a one-night only reading of 8, a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to
California's Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and AFER founding board member Dustin Lance Black.