Alice in ChristmasLand: A Musical About a Place Where It’s Christmas 24/7 from the Play Nice Inter-generational Theatre Company, Benefits Local Charities In a wacky winter Wonderland, lives an odd assortment of characters and due to a magic spell, for 12 years, day in and day out,...

      By Sandi Durell   Photos: Magda Katz     For the few who actually remember hearing the chilling CBS Mercury Theatre radio program of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, with Orson Welles in 1938, the clever powers that be at Abingdon Theatre decided to...

  Betty Buckley, Misty Copeland, Kelli O’Hara, Bernadette Peters, and Janice Reals Ellig present the 20th Anniversary of Nothing Like a Dame on Monday, October 24, 2016 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 W. 47th Street).  The evening, which features all singing, all dancing, and all...

  by Alix Cohen     Founded in 2007, Helpusadopt.org is the only grant program in the United States that fosters all types of families (married couples, single parents and LGBT partnerships) without discrimination as to race, religion, or sexual orientation. It helps enable all...

    Robin Westle and HelpUsAdopt.org are set to present another benefit evening of song and story on September 19 at 7pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre . Robin, once again hosting the event, has put together a wonderful array of talent starring KT Sullivan (Artistic Director Mabel...

    On September 19, 2016, The New York Pops will return to Feinstein’s/54 Below in Manhattan, NY, for a cabaret performance starring Tony nominees Montego Glover and Tony Yazbeck. The night will be an intimate evening of dining and entertainment led by Music Director Steven Reineke...

    by Linda Amiel Burns    The Encompass New Opera Theater held its summer jazz cabaret benefit at a splendid Tribeca Penthouse with performances by Broadway and Cabaret stars, Liz Callaway and Jason Graae.   The Encompass New Opera Theatre is one of the nation’s leading...

  Academy Award, Golden Globe Award & BAFTA winner and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace & Reconciliation, Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, The Butler, Bird, Broadway’s Hughie) hosted the Performers4Peace benefit concert Monday, May 9, 2016 at 8pm at 42West (514 West 42nd...

  Academy Award, Golden Globe Award & BAFTA winner and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace & Reconciliation, Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, The Butler, Bird, Broadway’s Hughie) will host the Performers4Peace benefit concert Monday, May 9, 2016 at 8pm at 42West (514 West...

                      by Brian Scott Lipton     No one throws a benefit like MCC Theater, which scored another home run with this year’s Miscast benefit at the Hammerstein Ballroom. In addition to honoring MCC alum, Oscar winner...

    by: Sandi Durell             Host-producer David Kenney has been championing the Great American Songbook on WBAI (99.5 FM) for a long, long time on favorite Sunday program “Everything Old Is New Again.”  Last night at the Metropolitan...

    Upper West Siders, Victoria Clark, Jessica Fontana, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Howard McGillin, Mary Beth Peil, Sherie Rene Scott and Allyson Tucker and other Broadway favorites, Derrick Baskin, Joe Carroll, Corey Cott, Brian Cross, Chris Houlihan, Andrea Jones, Erin Mackey,...

    The Everything Old Is New Again Holiday Concert to benefit WBAI, hosted by DAVID KENNEY, is back at the Metropolitan Room on Thursday, December 17 at 6:00 pm.  The concert celebrates 35 years of Everything Old Is New Again on WBAI because of listeners like YOU! On the bill are:...

        GIRL BE HEARD (girlbeheard.org), a New York City-based nonprofit theatre company that brings global issues affecting girls center stage by empowering young women to tell their stories, is proud to honor long-time partners and supporters, Dr. Shirley Cason Reed,...

                    by: Sandi Durell         Michael Arden, Kelli Barrett, Bill Berloni, Robert Fairchild, Sutton Foster, Lesli Margherita, Andrea McArdle, Orfeh, Hugh Panaro, Kate Rockwell, Jarrod Spector and Alysha...

    Jamie deRoy (triple Tony Award winner as producer on A Gentleman’s Guide . . ., Vanya and Sonia . . . The Norman Conquests) will be celebrating her 25th Anniversary of her Multi MAC Award-winning Variety Show Jamie deRoy & Friends at her 40th Annual 30th Birthday! (OK...

        Interview by Marilyn Lester   When Broadway powerhouse Craig Schulman headlines the upcoming Robin’s Nest/A Benefit for HelpUsAdopt.org it will be as one who knows whereof he speaks. In 1998 Schulman and wife Monica Robinson experienced the unthinkable: the...

    Robin Westle has more than proved her mettle in spearheading Helpusadopt.org, a national non-profit 501(c)(3) financial assistance grant program providing qualified couples and individuals — regardless of race, ethnicity, marital status, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or...

  Jason Graae and Alex Rybeck entertain patrons and supporters of The Encompass New Opera Theatre for its Annual Jazz Cabaret Gala at Chip Seelig’s Tribeca penthouse.   by Linda Amiel Burns On June 29th, 2015, patrons and supporters of The Encompass New Opera Theatre gathered at...

    Get ready for Monday, May 4, 2015, as The New York Pops marks its 32nd birthday with a grand gala evening celebrating the work of Music Honorees Kathleen Marshall and Rob Marshall and Corporate Honoree Carrie and Ted Pryor, Greenwich Harbor Partners. Serving as Honorary...

                  Impressario Scott Siegel and, his right hand, wife Barbara, rounded up the creme de la creme of Broadway and Cabaret in a benefit evening on January 19th at Don’t Tell Mama to raise funds and solidify the continuation of the...

                      Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr.   For several years now, in many different venues, KT Sullivan has presented a program dedicated to a specific year featuring songs that were written in that year, performers,...

  On Monday October 6th Kelli O’Hara and Friends, in a Benefit Evening of Music and Dining, hosted by the NY Pops beloved Steven Reineke, filled 54 Below to capacity with supporters of the PopsEd at Ronald McDonald House program that helps children fighting cancer discover their...

          By: Joel Benjamin August 24, 2014       Only Seth Rudetsky, delightfully hyper-active, colorful and connected, could have assembled such a panoply of Broadway stars for his Not Since High School gala benefiting the music program of Middle School...

Join KAREN WYMAN, CHRISTINE LAVIN, RICKY RITZEL and many more in this musical comedy about nightclub singers and night time musical fantasies.The Crack Up occurs on November 23 and 25 at The Play Room Theater, 151 West 46th Street (8th Fl.) and on November 24th at The Duplex, 61 Christopher...