Rob Rokicki and Amanda Flynn join The 3rd Ugly Christmas Sweater Soiree – December 7th at Feinstein’s/54 Below. ROB ROKICKI is an award-winning songwriter, performer and music director. He is member of the Dramatists Guild and alum of the Tony Award-winning BMI workshop. Rob wrote the music and lyrics to the Lortel nominated Off-Broadway musical,…
Janine DiVita joins The Third Annual UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER SOIREE! On Broadway, DiVita has been seen in “Grease” (Rizzo), “Anything Goes” (Reno cover- performed), “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” (Wendy/Miss Isabel Yearsley, sole cover for Edwin Drood and Rosa Bud-performed), Elizabeth in the First National Tour of Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein, as well an Anne…
Just in time for the holidays, Jonathan Rockefeller’s That Golden Girls Show! will deck the halls and get a holiday makeover, script and all, for the entire month of December in That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody: Holiday Edition. Off-Broadway’s hit puppet parody, That Golden Girls Show! recently extended its stay at the Union…
DIVIDED, the powerful new musical by Kristen and Luanne Rosenfeld, and directed by Paul Stancato, will premiere in a concert performance by some of Broadway’s brightest stars at Feinstein’s/54 Below, in New York City on Sunday, November 20, 2016, at 9:30 PM. An explosive tale of young love and old prejudice set in Boston during…
Brian Merriman’s “Eirebrushed” opens Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 7pm, at Downtown Art, (70 E. 4th Street, between 2nd Ave. & Bowery), running through November 19, presented by TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), New York’s oldest professional LGBT theater, and the IDGTF, as part of Culture Ireland’s Ireland 2016 Commemorative Arts Programme. More info about…
Hate. Hate. Hate. I can’t take the hate. I can’t take the pictures of the hate, the people in pain, the horrific stories I’ve heard about since Donald Trump has became president elect. It quite literally keeps me up at night. So I’m doing what I know best, and putting goodness back into the world, and…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents “The Music and Lyrics of Ricky Alan Saunders” on November 17, 2016 at 9:30 p.m. The show will offer a night of hope, love and acceptance featuring songs that illuminate the human experience in the face of oppression. Saunders states, “I want to share my story with as many…
It’s been a bit of a day. Tears, laughter, confusion, confession… I had dinner with my parents tonight. I started crying when I read the following message from a former student of mine – “So in the wake of this quite terrible day, I wanted to let you know I was thinking of you. The…
This year I was asked to help the Stage the Change Conference in getting the word out about their work. I myself had never been to the conference before, but I had heard wonderful things from my colleagues who had attended in previous years. Stage the Change is an annual conference that was founded by Ruthie…
Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece ANNA CHRISTIE, a gripping drama of a woman torn between the expectations of men and the secrets of her past, gets a timely retelling under the direction of Peter Richards. This modern adaptation begins previews on December 2nd, opens on December 8th and plays a limited engagement through December 17th…