Hello Beautiful People, On Sunday I had the pleasure of attending The Music Box – A Celebration of Lady Composers at the PTC Performance Space as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Oh. My. Goodness. If you missed it, well, kick yourself now. The writers, Masi Asare, Lydia Benecke, Suzy Conn, Julianne Wick Davis,…
Hello Beautiful People, I’m delighted to introduce you to our next author in the Beach Book Bonanza, Maryanne O’Hara, author of Cascade. Book blurb: In a small town fighting for its survival, a newly married artist faces an impossible choice between her passion and her promises. Desdemona Hart Spaulding was a Paris-trained, up-and-coming Boston artist when…
NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and CASTLE WALK THEATRE COMPANY LLC Proudly Present the World Premiere of CASTLE WALK Before Fred and Ginger, Vernon and Irene, the original dancing stars Book, Music and Lyrics by MILTON GRANGER Starring ASHLEY CHASTEEN, JAMES CLOW*, JESSE FACTOR*, CHRIS KANE, MAY-ELISE MARTINSEN, MIA MICHELLE McCLAIN, WAYNE W. PRETLOW*, STEPHANIE…
Julien Schwab’s critically acclaimed, mind-bending comedy rogerandtom is back by popular demand and begins previews Saturday, July 6th. The play, which moves to HERE’s Main Stage (145 Sixth Avenue – enter on Dominick) for an extended summer engagement opens Saturday, July 13th. Presented by Personal Space Theatrics, rogerandtom will continue for a limited run through Saturday, August 24th. The comedy is…
Hello Beautiful People, Truthfully, Happy McPartlin is like the essence of happiness, so her name is quite fitting. She is an actress, a singer, and absolutely fascinating person. I was so grateful that she took the time out of her busy rehearsal schedule to chat with me about theater, life, New York, education…and well, you…
Hello Friends, If you ever get the opportunity to spend a summer in New York City, do it! First off, there is so much free stuff to do, you could easily do this city on a dime. Check out Time Out Magazine’s guide to a New York Summer. New York City can evolve very quickly,…
Hello Beautiful People, Andrew Kober is quite possibly one of the kindest people I’ve ever met, and I’m confident in saying that you’d be hard pressed to find someone to say anything to the contrary. He’s an actor/singer that’s making quite the name for himself in Manhattan, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, and quite the…
Hello Beautiful People, I gushed about Jane Porter yesterday. Catch yourself up on why she’s just deliciously generous and lovely right here. TODAY, we give you, an AUTOGRAPHED copy of the second book in The Brennan Sisters Trilogy, The Good Daughter. OH WAIT, there’s more! Jane was kind enough to provide us with an autographed…
Drew Gasparini and Highlights from “I Could Use a Drink” at Joe‘s Pub Who: Drew Gasparini and… Alex Brightman, Blake Daniel, Kasie Gasparini, Chloe Gasparini, F. Michael Haynie, Andrew Kober, Eric Michael Krop, Julia Mattison, Lauren Pritchard, Krysta Rodriguez, Preston Sadleir, Alexander Sage Oyen, Kacie Sheik, Keith White… What: They sing. Badass tunes. Funny tunes. A…
Hello Beautiful People, I adore Jane Porter. Adore. She has to be one of the kindest, most generous, most truly geniune people I have ever met. So it should be no surprise that she’s contributed WONDERFUL elements to the Beach Book Bonanza, the first being a delightfully entertaining Q&A. TWT: Where did you come up…