On Thursday, June 8th, 2017 at 7pm, the 2017 New York Fashion & Lifestyle Festival (NYFLF) was launched on the 63rd floor of One World Trade Center, hosted jointly by Globe Fashion Week Inc. and WG Empire. This year, NYFLF celebrated the fashion spirit with the grand opening of WG Empire at the iconic building One World Trade Center. In the meantime, the WTC building lighted up with the NYFLF hot pink color.

Casting has been announced for THE SUMMONING at the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival. The new play by Charlotte Ahlin will run at the Connelly Theater this July.

As part of a groundbreaking advertising campaign for Amazon Music, OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT), one of the largest out-of-home media companies in North America, and Rapport, the out-of-home media buying and planning agency of IPG Mediabrands, today unveiled a 79-foot-tall Amazon Echo replica in New York City's Times Square.

ASIAN AF, the hit sellout Los Angeles comedy show, is making its New York debut on June 27 at UCB East, and will feature comedians Kevin Yee (Mary Poppins OBC, tours of Wicked and Mamma Mia) and Aparna Nancherla (Conan, Late Night With Seth Meyers).

Out of the Box Theatrics has announced the cast of their upcoming concert 'Which Comes First: The Music and Lyrics of Matt and Matte.'

The New York cabaret scene has found itself a new star, whether or not anyone was asking for it. Broadway album designer and social media demagog Robbie Rozelle, who has previously created solo shows for Melissa Errico and Kate Baldwin, decided it was finally Robbie's Turn and brought us SONGS FROM INSIDE MY LOCKER. When he regally ascended to the stage at Feinstein's/54 Below on June 9 as though he were the goddamn mayor's wife, it became immediately evident that this was a man set to lay it all out there for the enjoyment of the masses.

On Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 8:30AM ET, BIG APPLE CIRCUS star Erendira Vazquez Wallenda will attempt to break a World Record (previously set by her husband BIG APPPLE CIRCUS headliner Nik Wallenda) by hanging from a helicopter by her teeth at 300 feet, over Niagara Falls.

The United Palace of Cultural Arts (UPCA) presents Danza Debuts, a program that features emerging choreographers who create original works in our new studios and debut it on the United Palace stage.

On Friday, June 16, beloved New York fixture Malachy McCourt receives the first Origin in Bloom Literary Award, a new annual Bloomsday award honoring the work of an Irish or Irish-American author.

The New York Premiere of Meira Warshauer's In Memoriam for solo cello and strings will be given by The North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, conductor, with soloist Leo Grinhauz on Tuesday, June 20 at 8 PM at Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 120 West 69th St. (between Broadway & Columbus Ave.) in Manhattan.

New York Musical Festival presents THE LIGHT RAIL, with book by Chelsea Hickman, and music & lyrics by Kira Stone, at The Green Room 42 at Yotel, running July 23 - July 24.

Casting has been announced for the new play CHILDREN OF CAMELOT by Nakisa Aschtiani, which will run at the Connelly Theater this July as part of the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival.

The Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) has conferred playwright Joe Gulla's 'GARBO' with their 2017 Audience Award.

In Melissa Errico's latest show, MELISSA ERRICO SINGS SONDHEIM, at the famed Feinstein's/54 Below, she may have performed some of the composer's must oversung showstoppers, but it felt as though the audience was hearing them for the first time.

On Thursday July 13th, a new monthly variety show hits the New York circuit. The Comedy Blender is 75 minutes of nonstop laughs, giving some of the brightest names in the business a chance to bring you a night of their best sketches, stand up and comedic performances!

Claudia Catania, founder and Artistic Director of Playing on Air, has announced the release of Playing on Air's 50th podcast: acclaimed actors Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson starring in Kate T. Billingsley 's A Man of His Time, directed by Estelle Parsons. A Man of His Time is now available for streaming and download along with Playing on Air's entire archive.

Dancer/choreographer Martita Goshen presents the premiere of 'Sanctuary,' her final work honoring the legacy, greatness and goodness of the magnificent racehorse Barbaro, who died tragically. 

Published every Monday, BroadwayWorld Cabaret writers will pick their top recommendations for shows throughout NYC during the upcoming week.

Actress / comic Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome, whose background includes appearances in the film 'Pretty Woman' and on FX Network's 'Louie' hosts a Pride month comedy celebration with several of her talented, funny best friends at Q.E.D. Astoria on Wednesday, June 28 at 7:30pm.

FJK Dance, led by Iraqi Artistic Director Fadi J. Khoury, hopes to facilitate an understanding between cultures and break boundaries through its distinctive dance fusion. Three diverse works, modern dance mix with Middle Eastern influence, to be presented by ten FJK company dancers at 7pm on June 13 at Kaye Playhouse.

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade in association with SOULO Theatre will present a one-night only performance of The Clergy Project, directed by Tracey Erin Smith, on Monday, July 17 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

Italian actor/director Dario D'Ambrosi will speak his 'Integrated Theatre of Emotion,' a university-level program for mentally disabled people, at the United Nations on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 in a panel entitled 'Communication as a Key for Inclusion and Participation,' part of the Tenth Conference of States Parties to the Convenion on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces Catharsis, the first show of the TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series, on Monday, June 12, 2017 at 7pm at Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, NYC.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (RWJ Hamilton) held the Project WE vs. C event this past weekend, a two-day event including awe-inspiring performances led by Roxey Ballet and breast cancer survivors timed to coincide with National Cancer Survivors Day. Scroll down for photos!

What do you get when you cross Mad Libs with Clue, add a group of theatre vets, and sprinkle in a dash of philanthropy? Why, it must be VILLAIN: DEBLANKS! The comedy event, held at Feinstein's/54 Below, served as a benefit for the ACLU, with Billy Mitchell, who wrote the skeleton script for the show, serving as the night's emcee.