Photo Coverage: Inside Opening Night at the Birdland Theater
Gianni Valenti, the music world's gift to New York City, has created another venue for the performing arts. Jim Caruso made it official last night as he introduced Lucie Arnaz, who with her longtime friend and music director Ron Abel thrilled a celebrity filled opening night audience.
Photo Coverage: Nathan Lane, Betty Buckley & More Celebrate Len Cariou at 54 Below
A bevy of Broadway's best honored Broadway legend Len Cariou on the occasion of his 75th birthday , including appearances from James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane, Betty Buckley, Liz &Ann Hampton Callaway, Liz Robertson, Veanne Cox, Lee Roy Reams, Sarah Rice & many more! From his Tony award-winning role in Sweeney Todd to his creation of roles in A Little Night Music, Applause & Dance a Little Closer among many others, Broadway has been in love with Len for nearly 50 years. Check out photos from the special celebration below!
Photo Coverage: Inside HIDDEN TREASURES Benefit Concert
On November 5, the Theatre at Saint Peters (Home of the York Theatre) Lexington Avenue at 54th Street presented the songs of Larry Kerchner ("Somewhere in Time") sung by some of today's most formidable singers: Hilary Kole, Laurel Masse, Kevin Spirtas, Stacy Sullivan, Jeff Harnar, Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano, Karen Oberlin, Sidney Myer, Raissa Katona Bennett, Jill O'Hara and a host of others.
Check out photos from the event below!
2012 MAC Award Nominees Announced; Ceremony March 29th
The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) has announced the nominees for the 26th Annual MAC Awards. The winners will be announced live at the MAC Awards Show on Thursday, March 29th, at the world-famous B.B. King Blues Club & Grill.
Annex Theatre Presents THE GREAT HAPPINESS MACHINE, 5/2-18
Annex Theatre collaborates with Puppet This and presents THE GREAT HAPPINESS MACHINE, May 2nd through May 18th, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8pm. Tickets are $10 on Brown Paper Tickets - Tickets in Advance or at the door. TPS/Military/Seniors/Student tickets are $5.
Annex Theatre Announces New Late Night Comedy WOMEN IN PERIL From 4/29
Annex Theatre serves up a saucey satire of the Lifetime television genre in a new late night show WOMEN IN PERIL written by Joel Steinpreis & Craig Trolli and directed by Jason Sharp. Bad Actor Productions bring their campy nonsense and anarchic deviance to bear on the trashy world of 1990's Lifetime movies - the kind of trashy psychotic plot-defying guilty pleasure we secretly binged on with our moms!
Annex Theatre Presents 'The Tale of Jemima Canard', 4/22-5/21
The underbelly of Beatrix Potter comes to life in Brandon Simmons' 'The Tale of Jemima Canard'. An innocent girl falls under the romantic sway of a predatory cad, but as the author is interrogated by one of her own characters, layers of love, envy, jealousy, and much worse becomes revealed as the play delves into the initially whimsical loves of Jemima.
Annex Theatre Presents THE GREAT HAPPINESS MACHINE, 5/2-18
Annex Theatre collaborates with Puppet This and presents THE GREAT HAPPINESS MACHINE, May 2nd through May 18th, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8pm. Tickets are $10 on Brown Paper Tickets - Tickets in Advance or at the door. TPS/Military/Seniors/Student tickets are $5.
Annex Theatre Presents 'The Tale of Jemima Canard', 4/22-5/21
The underbelly of Beatrix Potter comes to life in Brandon Simmons' 'The Tale of Jemima Canard'. An innocent girl falls under the romantic sway of a predatory cad, but as the author is interrogated by one of her own characters, layers of love, envy, jealousy, and much worse becomes revealed as the play delves into the initially whimsical loves of Jemima.
Annex Theatre Announces New Late Night Comedy WOMEN IN PERIL From 4/29
Annex Theatre serves up a saucey satire of the Lifetime television genre in a new late night show WOMEN IN PERIL written by Joel Steinpreis & Craig Trolli and directed by Jason Sharp. Bad Actor Productions bring their campy nonsense and anarchic deviance to bear on the trashy world of 1990's Lifetime movies - the kind of trashy psychotic plot-defying guilty pleasure we secretly binged on with our moms!
Photo Coverage: Raissa Katona Bennett Opens at FEINSTEINS
RAISSA KATONA BENNETT BREATHING LIFE INTO KERN" AT FEINSTEIN'S THROUGH SATURDAY
The singer-actress Raissa Katona Bennett shows how "actable" the music of Jerome Kern is in her delightful new show, "Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern." Each song is a little play, and she's ready to feel every emotion as they occur, bringing us right up the emotional edge with her. At Thursday's premiere at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency, men melted and women swooned when she sang "Long Ago and Far Away," and "Why Do I Love You." An older gent exclaimed "hot dog!" several times at the end of several classics. The singers Lucy Arnaz, Karen Oberlin, Valerie Lemon and Christine Reisner were among the singers there to enjoy this show that plays through Saturday.
"Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern" is ably backed by music director Don Rebic on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass. The multi-threat actor/director/singer Eric Michael Gillett directs.
After the show Bennett who was Christine on Broadway in "Phantom of the Opera," and was in the first national tours of "Cats" and "Parade," told us "Oh, I feel like I performed a two hour play in one hour!" Bennett also produces and is the 2010 Bistro Award-winning host of "The Concerts at Tudor City Greens," an outdoor series that features many of New York's most noted singers.