Michael Leonard

Stage West Opens Season With ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

How do you tell a real princess from a wannabe?  You’ll have a grand time finding out, as Stage West, in a co-production with Theatre TCU, presents the charming, classic fairytale musical Once Upon a Mattress, which begins a 3-week run on Thursday, October 19.  Learn more about the production here!

Trezana Beverley Stars in and Directs Virtual JULIUS CAESAR

On August 1st @ 6:30 pm PDT (7:30 MDT; 8:40 CDT; 9:30 EDT), Trezana Beverley will be acting with and directing a stellar cast from New York, Arizona's Southwest Shakespeare Company and others from across the nation in Julius Caesar.

Photo Flash: First Look at One-Eighth Theater's NUMBNESS: CHAPTER 2 At New Ohio Theatre

One-Eighth Theater's world premiere of NUMBNESS: CHAPTER 2, directed and choreographed by Daniel Irizarry, is part of The Archive Residency, a vital incubator for New York City's most electrifying independent theater companies.

Photo Flash: One-Eighth Theater's NUMBNESS: CHAPTER 2 Begins Performances At New Ohio Theatre

Previews begin tonight for One-Eighth Theater's world premiere of NUMBNESS: CHAPTER 2, a tragicomedy about the unfelt, directed and choreographed by Daniel Irizarry, running April 26 - May 18 (opens April 29) at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City.

New Ohio Theatre & IRT's Archive Residency Premieres From One-Eighth Theater & The Drunkard's Wife

The Archive Residency is a vital incubator for New York City's most electrifying independent theater companies. This two-year residency offers companies an artistic home for the development and presentation of a new work. Each residency culminates with a world premiere production. Now in its sixth year, the Archive Residency is a collaboration between New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater (likeminded neighbors in the historic Archive Building in the West Village).

INTAR Theatre & Puerto Rico's Casa Cruz De La Luna Company Present THE MARQUIS DE SADE IS AFRAID OF THE SEA

Puerto Rico's acclaimed Casa Cruz de la Luna Theatre Company and INTAR Theatre will present The Marquis de Sade is Afraid of the Sea, as part of INTAR Theatre's NewWorks Lab.  Performances will be Friday, February 23rd at 8PM, Saturday, February 24th at 8PM, and Sunday, February 25th at 4PM at INTAR Theatre, 500 West 52nd Street at 10th Avenue.  Tickets are available for $5  and may be purchased at intartheatre.org or by calling 212-352-3101.  Please note: production contains explicit adult content and nudity.

Liquid Monk's 'Hollywood' Video feat. Jaye Prime premieres via Billboard

The video for Liquid Monk's Hollywood featuring Jaye Prime is premiering via Billboard. The song is from the Detroit band's self-titled debut, out now on Beverly Martel. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/gTbuyo8F804.

Liquid Monk's Self-Titled Debut LP Out Today

The self-titled debut from Detroit band Liquid Monk is available now via Beverly Martel and is receiving widespread critical acclaim.

Liquid Monk's Video for 'On The Rocks' feat. Jaye Prime & Hugo Biggs Premieres

The song is from the band's forthcoming self-titled debut full-length due September 22 via Beverly Martel. Listen/share “On The Rocks”

BJ Ward to Sing the Music of Marshall Barer at The Crazy Coqs, March 21

Vocalist BJ Ward and pianist Simon Wallace return to London's The Crazy Coqs on March 21st 2016 at 8pm to perform the music of the late Marshall Barer.

BWW Review: Conjuring Cabaret's Heyday, Andrea Marcovicci Warmly Shares Some of Her Favorite Songs at Feinstein's/54 Below

These are timeless: Manners, elegance, wit, sincerity, lively intelligence; the ability to make it feel as if a vocalist inhabits a lyric, and as if she/he sees and is singing to you. Andrea Marcovicci, who brightened the heyday of stylish cabaret, remains undiminished in these qualities. Those who shone when the city was filled with sophisticated boites/clubs, and all fine hotels had cabaret rooms, tend to make the rest of the world look shabbier today.

VIDEO: Remembering Composer Michael Leonard's THE YEARLING With Three Barbra Streisand Recordings

While THE YEARLING was short-lived on Broadway, Barbra Streisand turned in classic performances of three of the score's songs.

BWW Reviews: TEACH, TEACHER, TEACHEST Electrifies Ionesco

The new absurdist comedy, Teach Teacher, Teachest, One-Eighth Theater and INTAR Theatre pits Ionesco against Lazy Town and other supercharged pre-school aimed shows for highly entertaining results.

INTAR Opens New Season with TEACH, TEACHER, TEACHEST, Now thru 10/5

INTAR presents the first production of its 2014 - '15 season: Teach, Teacher, Teachest by David Koteles, directed by Daniel Irizarry, beginning tonight, September 12th and continuing through October 5th only. Opening Night is set for Thursdsay, September 18th.

INTAR to Open New Season with TEACH, TEACHER, TEACHEST, 9/12-10/5

INTAR presents the first production of its 2014 - '15 season: Teach, Teacher, Teachest by David Koteles, directed by Daniel Irizarry, beginning September 12th and continuing through October 5th only. Opening Night is set for Thursday, September 18th.

New York Live Arts Announces Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 2014-2015 Touring Season

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, New York Live Arts' Resident Dance Company, announced today the touring programs and productions for the 2014-2015 Season. The Company will perform and conduct residencies in more than 11 cities in eight states over the next 12 months, making their debut at a number of venues across the U.S. Highlights of the 2014-2015 Season include the New York City premiere of Story/Time (35, 36, 37 & 38) November 4 - 8 and 11 - 15 on the Company's home stage at the New York Live Arts theater; the world premiere of Analogy (working title) in June 2015 at Montclair State University; the Company debut at Dancers' Workshop in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and more. Touring programs for the 2014-2015 season include Analogy (working title), the Company's newest work; Story/Time; Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music; Body Against Body; and A Rite.

CABARET LIFE NYC: KAREN OBERLIN and SEAN HARKNESS Concoct Romantic Musical Chemistry at the Metropolitan Room

Cabaret performers thinking about launching duo shows could certainly take a lesson in chemistry from watching and listening to singer Karen Oberlin and guitarist Sean Harkness in their current show, A Wish, which is based on their superb recently released CD of the same title, launched with two shows at Kitano on February 1 (to celebrate the CD release), and has taken up a once a month residency until late August at the Metropolitan Room (the next show is on June 25 at 9:30 pm). While theirs is not a romantic off-stage chemistry (both are happily quite happily married, thank you), on stage and in the recording studio Oberlin and Harkness have concocted a delicious musical interaction that conjures up romance to the nth degree.

BWW Reviews: Peggy Eason's New Cabaret Show at Don't Tell Mama is a Poignant Message of Personal Empowerment

Peggy Eason is one of those characters who seem to have been made for the New York cabaret scene. She's a bodacious woman who is ubiquitous at the local clubs, possesses a passion for singing, and bills herself as the 'Chocolate Diva,' although on stage she's more like a Red Hot Mama. Eason opened her third solo cabaret show, I'll Show Them All, at Don't Tell Mama on Monday night (she's appearing again at the club on Sunday at 7pm) with the decidedly politically incorrect titled song written especially for her by David Conforte, 'Black, Blind and Beautiful' (Hey, 'African American, Visually Challenged and Beautiful' doesn't have the same ring to it.). But there was little that was incorrect about her fast-paced and entertaining show that was often poignant and funny at the same time.

THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE World Premiere to Play OBERON, 5/29-30

The Weaver of Raveloe, a new musical based on Silas Marner, the classic novel by George Eliot, will have its world premiere at OBERON in Cambridge on May 29 and 30, 2014.

Firehouse Theater & Theatre Out Denver to Stage NEXT FALL, 8/30-9/28

Firehouse Theater and Theatre Out Denver present 'Next Fall' running August 30 through September 28 at the John Hand Theater/Colorado Free University, 7653 East First Place, Denver, CO. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, September 8 and 22 at 6:30 p.m. and Monday, September 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 Adult; $18 for Students/seniors; $15 on September 9 and are available by calling 303-562-3232. For more information, go to www.firehousetheatercompany.com.