FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Brian Charles Rooney (The Threepenny Opera – Broadway; Bedbugs!) and Bart Shatto (War Paint – Broadway; Les Misérables – Broadway) in Session Girls on March 6, 2018, 9:30PM. A raucous and heartfelt evening of original tunes about three working women in the music industry, Session Girls gives us the…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Aurora Barnes in Somewhere Between Sondheim and Lullabies on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 7pm. A portion of the proceeds from the show will benefit TADA! Youth Theater. Come hear songs ranging from Sondheim to Bob Dylan to Aurora’s original compositions. Aurora has played many venues, including Central Park’s…
Sara Jean Ford (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats) will star in two concert presentations of the Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster’s musical Calamity Jane at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Monday, January 29th, 2018, at 7:00pm and 9:30pm. Ford will be joined by Christopher Gurr (Cats, Memphis), Tyler Hanes (Cats, A Chorus Line), Kara Lindsay…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Jorge Luiz Altamirano in Thoroughly Modern Broadway on Friday, February 23, 2018. Don’t miss Jorge as he makes his Feinstein’s/54 Below debut, performing fan favorites from contemporary Broadway Musicals including Rent, Finding Neverland, Kinky Boots, Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton! This revue will introduce the audience to the newest…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents The Ladies Who Lunch: An Evening for Planned Parenthood of NYC, on February 1st, 2018, at 9:30 PM. Directed and produced by Claire Manship and the evening’s performers, The Ladies Who Lunch is a night featuring songs that help woman verbalize, vent, and discuss their specific issues, wherein a portion of…
The final book in The 12 Days of Books in 2017 is Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls Volumes 1 and 2. The official book blurb is thus: Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls is a collection of stories that celebrate extraordinary women. Real women of the the past and the present who have achieved…
I am currently reading this next pick – All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. And while I am not quite finished yet, it has been a favorite of The Write Teacher(s), and you can read Elise’s review here. Here’s the official book blurb: All the Light We Cannot See is about a blind…
We could not go through The 12 Days of Books without talking about one of my all time Christmas favorites – The Polar Express. Before it was a beautiful movie, (Hi, Tom Hanks!), it was a children’s holiday classic, and with good reason. Here’s the official book blurb: One Christmas Eve many years ago, a…
The eighth book this year is one of my favorites, and it also happens to be a Christmas classic – The Gift of the Magic. Here’s the official book blurb: In a shabby New York flat, Della sobs as she counts the few coins she has saved to buy a Christmas present for her husband,…
For me, it’s always fun to read a play just for fun – as a director and writer and theatre professional, when a play finds it’s way into my hands is usually for research, so when I get the opportunity to read the words of a new playwright, it feels like Christmas! SWEAT is one of…