Rachel Bay Jones, Tony Award Winner for Dear Evan Hansen, Announced for Return to PTown Series Lineup - Chita Rivera, Melissa Errico, Miz Cracker, Faith Prince, Jason Graae, Roderick Ferguson, Donna McKechnie, Lillias White, Liz Callaway & Ann Hampton Callaway Are Stars Aligned in Mid-July Through Early August for Provincetown Art House & Town Hall - Alongside are New Virtuoso Series’ Rising Stars Alissa Leiser and Daniel Lelchuck

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/18/2022 -- Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale's acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series has announced that Rachel Bay Jones - Tony Award Winner for Broadway's smash hit Dear Evan Hansen and star of Pippin – will rejoin the summer 2022 series for one night only this August 9, with Seth Rudetsky as music director and host. Ms. Jones was originally scheduled for the venue's late June regular summer season kick-off weekend, however at last minute, Andrea McArdle stepped-in for her fellow B'way leading lady.

In Mid-July the Broadway @ The Art House series welcomes Faith Prince, Tony Award winner for Guys and Dolls & Jason Graae star of Broadway's A Grand Night For Singing, Falsettos, and an original cast member of the musical Forever Plaid. The pair will co-star in the Provincetown debut of You & Me But Mostly Me!, on July 17 & 18, with Alex Rybeck at piano. Roderick Ferguson comedian, singer-actor, storyteller, activist will star in Man Overboard, the hilarious, yet moving story of a comedian who fought for gay marriage in a small island nation, directed by Faith Prince, on July 18. Tony nominee Melissa Errico, star of Amour, My Fair Lady, and Passion returns to The Art House this summer in the critically acclaimed No One Is Alone: Melissa Errico Remembers Stephen Sondheim on July 22 & 23, with Tedd Firth at the piano. The Broadway star brings her unique expressive gifts, and the immaculate vocal style that Sondheim loved, all to bear in a concert of the greatest songs of the greatest Broadway composer of his time. Winding up the July chapter of the storied series is the legendary Donna McKechnie, Tony Award winner for her performance as Cassie in the original company of A Chorus Line, and regarded internationally as one of Broadway's foremost singing and dancing leading ladies. She has also starred in How To Succeed…, Promises-Promises, Company, and On The Town… and makes her anticipated Broadway @ The Art House debut on July 30 & 31, with Seth Rudetsky as music director and host.

Late-July star-power at The Art House adds gravitational pull to its reputation for cutting-edge comedy and music talent originating out of the LGBTQ club scene, and increasingly crossing-over to mainstream success. Mid-Summer 2022 multiplies that magnetism as RuPaul's Drag Race star and self-described "women's lifestyle brand" Miz Cracker touches down for the Provincetown debut of her hilarious stand-up comedy from July 20 through August 6.

Early August at The Art House will bring Tony Award nominated sisters Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway who will debut Broadway the Calla-way! for the Art House Bway series. Liz Callaway, Tony nominee for Baby and star of Cats and Miss Saigon and sister Ann Hampton Callaway, Tony nominated star of the hit musical Swing!, writer-singer of the theme song to TV's The Nanny, co-star on August 5 & 6, with Alex Rybeck at piano. Lillias White, Tony Award winner for The Life and star of CATS, Carrie, Dreamgirls, Once On This Island, makes her Art House return on August 12 & 13 with Seth Rudetsky as music director & host.

Summer 2022's Town Hall series, produced by Mr. Cortale at Provincetown's largest venue, will once again raise funds for Sandy Hook Promise and will also notably be the landing site for a stop by Living legend Chita Rivera, the two-time Tony Award winner who originated the Broadway roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, and appeared in the original casts of Guys and Dolls, Can Can, Jerry's Girls and many others, makes her Town Hall series debut on August 7 with Seth Rudetsky as music director and host.

Mr. Cortale's new "Virtuoso" series spotlighting six of the solo classical reps brightest stars, will also continue at Provincetown's Art House with debuts by Alissa Leiser, Piano on July 21, and Daniel Lelchuk, Cello, on August 11.

*** For Tickets and information about the full July, August, September, 2022 Summer season lineup & listing information, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.***

The 2022 Art House and Town Hall season produced by Mark Cortale is sponsored by Cape Air, Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, Provincetown Gym, Fanizzi's Restaurant, Brasswood Inn, Wild Flower and BroadwayWorld.

Additional 2022 Art House and Town Hall series sponsors include:

for Edmund Bagnell and Max von Essen: Gabriel's Provincetown Hotel

for Daniel Lelchuk: Provincetown Arts Society.

Mark Cortale is celebrating his eleventh anniversary season as Producing Artistic Director of The Art House in Provincetown, MA. Since 2011 he has presented artists that include Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth, Chita Rivera, Megan Mullally and Christine Ebersole. In 2019, he co-produced the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominated Off-Broadway musical Midnight At The Never Get. He founded the international Broadway @ Concert Series featuring Seth Rudetsky as music director and host in Provincetown in 2011 and has presented these concerts at theatres that include the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Broward Center, The Wallis, The Kimmel Center, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Huntington Theatre Company, The Herbst Theatre and the Leicester Square Theatre in London. Beginning in June of 2020 these concerts were offered virtually every Sunday during the pandemic as The Seth Concert Series in association with BroadwayWorld. Mark also founded the singing string quartet Well-Strung which debuted at The Art House in 2012. In 2019 he launched the developmental theatre lab New Works Provincetown. New Works Provincetown with producing partners Jonathan Murray & Harvey Reese has commissioned two new musicals to date: The Last Diva with a book by Jonathan Tolins, music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie and Maiden Voyage book & lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Carmel Dean.

PRESS CONTACT:

Tom Fervoy, Director of Marketing and Communications, MCP:
(646) 408-0368 / tom@miweb.cr

Listing Information: Mid-July to Early-August Show Openings
Mark Cortale Presents

Faith Prince & Jason Graae
You & Me But Mostly Me
w/Alex Rybeck @ the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
July 17 & 18 @ 7:00 PM ET

Roderick Ferguson
Man Overboard
Directed by Faith Prince
w/Alex Rybeck @ the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
July 18 @ 9:00 PM ET

Miz Cracker
RuPaul's Drag Race Star
Provincetown Debut
July 20 - August 6, Wednesdays - Saturdays @ 9:00 PM ET

Alissa Leiser, Piano
The Virtuoso Series
July 21 @ 7:30 PM ET

Melissa Errico
No One Is Alone: Melissa Errico Remembers Stephen Sondheim
w/Tedd Firth @ the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
July 22 & 23 @ 7:00 PM ET

Donna McKechnie
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Broadway @ The Art House
July 30 & 31 @ 7:00 PM ET

Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway
Broadway The Calla-way
w/Alex Rybeck @ the Piano
Broadway @ The Art House
August 5 & 6 @ 7:00 PM ET

Chita Rivera
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
The Town Hall Series
August 7 @ 6:30 PM ET

Rachel Bay Jones
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Broadway @ The Art House
Newly Rescheduled Date (previously scheduled for June 25-26)
August 9 @ 9:00 PM ET

Daniel Lelchuk, Cello
The Virtuoso Series
August 11 @ 7:30 PM ET

Lillias White
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Broadway @ The Art House
August 12 & 13 @ 7:00 PM ET

*** For Tickets and information about the full July, August, September, 2022 Summer season lineup & listing information, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.***

The Art House
214 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
Tickets & info: www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006. Box office hours 508-487-9222

Town Hall
260 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Couple to be part of Mark Cortale’s Broadway @ Town Hall summer concert series with Audra McDonald, Will Swenson, and Vanessa Williams

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/17/2015 -- Mark Cortale, Producing Artistic Director of The Art House in Provincetown, MA recently announced that Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will join his inaugural Broadway @ Town Hall series featuring SiriusXM radio's Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host for one night only on Monday, August 17th. Broderick and Parker will both sing and be part of an unforgettable evening that includes hilarious conversation and great songs. They have not appeared together on stage for nearly two decades since the Broadway revival of "How To Succeed…" Parker actually began her career on Broadway in the title role of Annie and also starred in the Broadway musical "Once Upon A Mattress." Matthew Broderick is a two-time Tony Award winner for Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Sarah Jessica Parker won four Golden Globe Awards, three SAG Awards and two Emmy Awards as Carrie Bradshaw on the long-running HBO series "Sex and the City". The couple will be appearing for one night only in Provincetown on August 17th at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM. The Broadway @ Town Hall concert series will benefit the Tyler Clementi Foundation.

For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Matthew Broderick made his debut at 17 opposite his father James Broderick in "On Valentine's Day," and won an Outer Critic's Circle Award as Best Supporting Actor in Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy." He has also starred on Broadway in the Neil Simon comedies "Biloxi Blues" and "The Odd Couple," as well as the recent hit "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and the record-breaking production of "The Producers" (with frequent co-star Nathan Lane), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award. His film career includes the critically acclaimed "You Can Count on Me" with Laura Linney and the Independent Spirit Award winner "Election" with Reese Witherspoon. He has starred in the blockbusters "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Glory," "War Games," as the adult voice of Simba in Disney's "The Lion King," and in the films "Tower Heist," "Margaret," "Bee Movie," "Then She Found Me," "Deck the Halls," "The Last Shot," "The Stepford Wives," "Inspector Gadget," "Godzilla," "Addicted to Love," "The Cable Guy," "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," "The Night We Never Met," "The Freshman," "Family Business," and "Max Dugan Returns." He will next be seen on screen in director Neil LaBute's "Dirty Weekend" with Alice Eve, and "The Untitled Warren Beatty Project" opposite Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Lily Collins.

Sarah Jessica Parker's additional films include "I Don't Know How She Does It," "Did You Hear About The Morgans?," "Smart People," "Failure to Launch," "The Family Stone," "State and Main," "Mars Attacks!," "Ed Wood," "The First Wives Club," "Miami Rhapsody," "Honeymoon in Vegas," "Flight of the Navigator," "Footloose," and most recently in "All Roads Lead to Rome." Parker will return to HBO in the comedy "Divorce" as star and executive producer, and serves as executive producer for the AOL Originals documentary series "city.ballet" which showcases the lives of dancers, choreographers, and other artists within the New York City Ballet. She made her Broadway debut as an 11-year-old in the revival of "The Innocents," and then starred in the title role of the Broadway musical "Annie" in 1979. She has also been seen in leading roles on stage in the Off-Broadway play "Sylvia," and on Broadway with her then future husband Matthew Broderick in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," in the Tony-nominated "Once Upon a Mattress," and most recently starred opposite Blythe Danner in Amanda Peet's playwriting debut, "The Commons of Pensacola" at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Last year Parker launched the fashion label that is her namesake, SJP, a collection of shoes, handbags and trench coats designed by Parker with George Malkemus III and carried by Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus online and Zappos Couture. She also serves as a Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors for the New York City Ballet, is a UNICEF ambassador, and was elected in 2009 by the Obama administration to be a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker join a who's who list of artists appearing this summer in the Broadway @ Town Hall series hosted by Seth Rudetsky in Provincetown. Rosie O'Donnell opened the inaugural season over Memorial Day weekend, and Tony and Emmy Award winning star Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, featuring Rudetsky as pianist/host, performed two shows, on August 10 at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM. Next up, history-making six time Tony winner Audra McDonald will perform with special guest Will Swenson, also accompanied by Rudetsky, for one show only on August 24 at 6:30 PM. McDonald will perform in Provincetown on the heels of a Tanglewood engagement in July as well as a Williamstown run in Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon For The Misbegotten" with Will Swenson. Vanessa Williams, star of TV's "Ugly Betty" and Broadway's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" will make her Provincetown debut this Labor Day Weekend, on September 6 at 6:30 PM.

For Tickets visit http://www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

The original, groundbreaking Broadway @ The Art House series has also returned to its annual summer home for its fifth season with another stellar lineup of Broadway's brightest stars, each featuring the series' long-time host and Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky at piano, except where otherwise noted. Still to come in August and September are: Christine Pedi, star of Broadway's "Chicago," "Talk Radio" and " Little Me" and daily host of SiriusXM Radio's On Broadway channel, on August 22 at 8:30 PM. Cabaret legend and P-town favorite Marilyn Maye returns for her fifth season with Billy Stritch at the piano, on August 25 - 29 at 7:00 PM. Broadway stars Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner who created the roles of Daisy & Violet Hilton in the original production of "Side Show" join forces with Rudetsky on September 1 and 2 at 7:00 PM. Comedian Judy Gold returns by popular demand September 3, 4, 5 at 7:00 PM - she is a Drama Desk and GLAAD Award winner for "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother," and host of TV's "Mom's Night Out" and a frequent guest host of ABC's The View.

For the complete summer 2015 lineup of top Broadway talent, internationally touring cabaret artists and drag superstars, please visit http://www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's ON BROADWAY as well as the host of SETH SPEAKS on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz and Phantom. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including "Dreamgirls" with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "HAIR" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). Recently, he co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Disaster!," a 1970's disaster movie musical which is now slated to transfer to Broadway in 2015. Right now, he tours the country performing with Broadway stars like Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and Audra McDonald. His newest book, Seth's Broadway Diary, was ranked as a number one bestseller on Amazon.com

For more info: www.SethTV.com.

About The Series
This Broadway @ concert series was inaugurated in 2011 by Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale @ The Art House in Provincetown featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. In its fourth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Alice Ripley, Cheyenne Jackson and Gavin Creel. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. In 2014-15 the series travelled to Santa Monica @ The Broad Stage, New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Dallas @ The Dallas Theater Center, and in Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts. In 2015-16, the series will launch in Philadelphia at The Kimmel Center on October 7th with Audra McDonald. Additional artists who have participated throughout this season include Vanessa Williams, Chita Rivera, Ana Gasteyer, and Joanna Gleason.

Info at markcortalepresents.com

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

Broadway @ The Art House has been sponsored since 2011 by the Anchor Inn Beach House, Cape Air, Ptown Bikes and Loveland

Listing Information:
Mark Cortale Presents
Broadway @ Town Hall
featuring Sirius XM Radio's Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Town Hall
260 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA
For tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call
800-838-3006

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker
Broadway @ Town Hall
Aug. 17 at 6:00 and 8:30 PM

Audra McDonald and Will Swenson
Broadway @ Town Hall
Aug. 24 at 6:30 PM

Vanessa Williams
Broadway @ Town Hall
Sept. 6 at 6:30 PM

Mark Cortale Presents
Broadway @ The Art House
featuring Sirius XM Radio's Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA
For tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call
800-838-3006

Christine Pedi
Broadway @ The Art House
Aug. 22 at 8:30 PM

Marilyn Maye
Broadway @ The Art House
Aug. 25 - 29 at 7:00 PM

Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley
Broadway @ The Art House
Sept. 1 & 2 at 7:00 PM

Judy Gold
Sept. 3, 4, 5 at 7:00 PM

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Star of Broadway's The Producers, Grease and The Life joins star-studded summer lineup for Cape Cod's famed Broadway @ The Art House series.

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/14/2015 -- Sam Harris, starred on Broadway in The Producers, Grease and The Life. He was also the first ever Grand Champion of TV's Star Search, and joins the star-studded lineup of Broadway @ The Art House on July 24 & 25 for two shows only at 7PM. This will be the first time that Harris is paired with Sirius XM Radio's Seth Rudetsky as interviewer and pianist. Given the pair have known each other for twenty years since the Broadway revival of Grease, the evening should prove to be hilariously entertaining and filled with incredible music. For tickets please visit ptownarthouse.com, or call 800-838-3006.

Sam's career has spanned successes as a singer and songwriter, as an actor on Broadway, film and television, as well as a writer, director and producer. On Broadway, he received a Drama Desk nomination for his role in Tommy Tune's Grease and a Drama-League Award as well as Tony, Outer Critic's Circle and Drama Desk nominations for his work in Cy Coleman's The Life. He also appeared on Broadway in the Mel Brooks musical, The Producers and in an extensive National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Sam also starred in Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret, Hair, Pippin, The Jazz Singer, The First Wives Club and the self penned shows Hard Copy, Different Hats, Revival and the smash hit one man show Sam.

On television, Sam was the winner of Star Search in its premier season, seen by an audience of 25 million. Armed with his powerhouse pop, gospel and theater-influenced vocals he has never looked back. He then starred as "Perry Pearl" on the CBS sitcom, The Class, for which the columnist, Liz, Smith labeled him "the comedy breakout character of the television season." He has also starred on TV's Rules of Engagement and CSI, and on Extra in his own segment called "Six Degrees of Sam.". His film work includes In The Weeds and Elena Undone. Behind the scenes, Sam co-wrote the TBS sitcom, Down to Earth, which ran for 4 years, and the Los Angeles produced musical Hurry! Hurry! Hollywood! He also co-produced the television special LOVE LETTER TO NEW YORK, supervised/directed several segments of MICHAEL JACKSON'S 30TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY at Madison Square Garden, co-wrote LIZA'S AT THE PALACE for Liza Minnelli, which won the 2009 Tony Award, and created and directed the concert event, NEW YORK'S FINEST: BROADWAY'S LEADING MEN. Most recently, Simon & Schuster released his first book, "HAM: Slices of a Life," which has been turned into a play of the same name, garnering rave reviews in New York with other productions in development. Sam is married to Danny Jacobsen and they are the proud fathers of Cooper Atticus Harris-Jacobsen.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's ON BROADWAY as well as the host of SETH SPEAKS on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz and Phantom. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including "Dreamgirls" with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "HAIR" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). In 2007 he made his Broadway acting debut playing Sheldon (singing "Magic to Do" in a devastating unitard) in "The Ritz" directed by Joe Mantello for The Roundabout Theater. Off-Broadway he wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Rhapsody in Seth" (directed by Peter Flynn) at the Actors Playhouse and has also appeared on TV on "Law & Order: CI" and had a recurring role on "All My Children." As an author, he penned the non-fiction Q Guide To Broadway, the novel Broadway Nights and the recently published My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan (Random House). Broadway Nights is available on Audible.com starring Kristin Chenoweth, Andrea Martin and Jonathan Groff and My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ana Gasteyer and Megan Hilty. Seth played himself on "Kathy Griffin; My Life on the D-List," was the vocal coach on MTV's "Legally Blonde" reality show and starred opposite Sutton Foster in "They're Playing Our Song" for the Actors Fund. Recently, he co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Disaster!," a 1970's disaster movie musical which is now slated to transfer to Broadway in 2015. Right now, he tours the country performing with Broadway stars like Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and Audra McDonald. His newest book, The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek was published earlier this month by Random House and is available on Amazon.com.

For more info visit: SethTV.com

About The Series
This Broadway @ concert series was inaugurated in 2011 by Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale @ The Art House in Provincetown featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. In its fourth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Alice Ripley, Cheyenne Jackson and Gavin Creel. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. This season of 2014-15 in addition to Santa Monica, the series travels to New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Dallas @ The Dallas Theater Center, San Antonio @ The Woodlawn Theatre, The Poconos @ The Pocono Community Theatre, Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts, Provincetown @ The Art House for its fifth consecutive summer… and at a city near you soon! Additional artists who have participated throughout this season include Vanessa Williams, Chita Rivera, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason and Christine Ebersole. Info at markcortalepresents.com.

Broadway @ The Art House has been sponsored since 2011 by the Anchor Inn Beach House, Cape Air and Ptown Bikes.

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

For photo and interview requests contact: tom@miweb.cr

LISTING INFO:
An Evening with Sam Harris
with Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Friday, July 24 & Saturday, July 25
7:00 pm

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Known as Big Boo in the Netflix hit series "Orange is the New Black," star also won Obie and Theatre World awards as Hildy in revival of Broadway's "On The Town."

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/10/2015 -- "Orange is the New Black" star Lea DeLaria will make her anticipated debut with the celebrated Broadway @ The Art House series in Provincetown, MA, produced by Mark Cortale, for two shows only on Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12, with series host and SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky at the piano. What differentiates this concert series from any other is the seamless mix of intimate, funny and revealing behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway's biggest stars and their stellar singing of musical theatre repertoire. For tickets and information visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Lea DeLaria seems to have achieved overnight stardom with her stand-out role as Big Boo in the Netflix hit series Orange is the New Black. And while she went from being able to walk around a city with the occasional "hey it's you" to not being able to walk into a Dollar Store in a suburb without getting asked for a picture, the fact is, Lea has been a professional lesbian for over 30 years. Before that, she freelanced. Lea was the first queer comic to perform on television in America which launched her into world recognition. Prior to her success on "Orange is the New Black," she worked extensively in both Film and Television, in "Awkward," "Californication," "The Oblongs," "One Live to Live," "Law and Order SVU," "Will and Grace," "Friends," "The First Wives Club," "Dear Dumb Diary," "Fat Rose and Squeaky," and "Edge of Seventeen."

Her on and off Broadway credits are numerous, her stand outs include her appearance on Broadway in "On the Town," for which she won Obie and Theatre World awards, as well as a Drama Desk nomination; an Ovation nomination for her performance in "The Boys from Syracuse;" and playing both Eddie and Doctor Scott in the Broadway revival of "The Rocky Horror Show." If that's not enough, Lea has five, records out on the Warner Jazz and Classics label and her book "Lea's Book of Rules for the World" is in its third printing at Bantam Doubleday and Dell. Follow Lea on Twitter and Instagram @realleadelaria and FaceBook.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's ON BROADWAY as well as the host of SETH SPEAKS on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz and Phantom. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including "Dreamgirls" with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "HAIR" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). In 2007 he made his Broadway acting debut playing Sheldon (singing "Magic to Do" in a devastating unitard) in "The Ritz" directed by Joe Mantello for The Roundabout Theater. Off-Broadway he wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Rhapsody in Seth" (directed by Peter Flynn) at the Actors Playhouse and has also appeared on TV on "Law & Order: CI" and had a recurring role on "All My Children." As an author, he penned the non-fiction Q Guide To Broadway, the novel Broadway Nights and the recently published My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan (Random House). Broadway Nights is available on Audible.com starring Kristin Chenoweth, Andrea Martin and Jonathan Groff and My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ana Gasteyer and Megan Hilty. Seth played himself on "Kathy Griffin; My Life on the D-List," was the vocal coach on MTV's "Legally Blonde" reality show and starred opposite Sutton Foster in "They're Playing Our Song" for the Actors Fund. Recently, he co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Disaster!," a 1970's disaster movie musical which is now slated to transfer to Broadway in 2015. Right now, he tours the country performing with Broadway stars like Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and Audra McDonald. His newest book, The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek was published earlier this month by Random House and is available on Amazon.com For more info visit: www.SethTV.com.

About the series
This Broadway @ concert series was inaugurated in 2011 by Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale @ The Art House in Provincetown featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. In its fourth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Alice Ripley, Cheyenne Jackson and Gavin Creel. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. This season of 2014-15 in addition to Santa Monica, the series travels to New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Dallas @ The Dallas Theater Center, San Antonio @ The Woodlawn Theatre, The Poconos @ The Pocono Community Theatre, Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts, Provincetown @ The Art House for its fifth consecutive summer… and at a city near you soon! Additional artists who have participated throughout this season include Vanessa Williams, Chita Rivera, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason and Christine Ebersole. Info at markcortalepresents.com.

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

Broadway @ The Art House has been sponsored since 2011 by the Anchor Inn Beach House, Cape Air and Ptown Bikes.

Listing Information:
Lea DeLaria
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
July 11 at at 7:00 PM and July 12 at 7:00 PM

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222
For additional photo and interview requests contact: tom@miweb.cr

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Two-time Tony nominee joins SiriusXM star Seth Rudetsky to kick-off Broadway @ The Art House 2015 season

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/26/2015 -- Two Time Tony Nominee and star of Broadway's "Cinderella" Laura Osnes will make her Provincetown debut on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 at 7:00 PM as she launches the star-studded 2015 Broadway @ The Art House season, with Sirius XM star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. For tickets and information visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Laura Osnes also starred on Broadway in "Bonnie and Clyde," for which she received her first Tony Award nomination, after creating the role at Asolo Repertory Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse. She appeared as Hope Harcourt in the Tony-winning revival of "Anything Goes," and received Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Astaire Award nominations, as well appearing as Nellie Forbush in Lincoln Center's production of "South Pacific," and in her Broadway debut as Sandy in the most recent revival of "Grease." She starred in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Carousel" this spring at the Lyric Opera of Chicago opposite Steven Pasquale under the direction of Rob Ashford.

Other New York credits include her Drama Desk Award-nominated work in "The Threepenny Opera" directed by Martha Clarke at the Atlantic Theater Company; Encores! Productions of: "The Band Wagon," Randy Newman's "Faust," and "Pipe Dream;" and a one-night-only concert of "The Sound of Music" at Carnegie Hall. On television, Ms. Osnes has been seen on the CBS series "Elementary", in the HBO pilot "The Miraculous Year" (written by John Logan and directed by Kathryn Bigelow), "Sondheim: The Birthday Concert" at Avery Fisher Hall, HBO's documentary "Six By Sondheim," and the Kennedy Center Honors salutes to Barbara Cook in 2011 and Dustin Hoffman in 2012. Her many concerts and cabarets include performing with Michael Feinstein, the NY Philharmonic, the NY Pops, and the Pasadena Pops and appearing in such venues as Carnegie Hall, The Cafe Carlyle, 54 Below, NJPAC, Las Vegas Smith Center, and the LA County Arboretum. In addition to being heard on several cast recordings, Laura has two solo albums, Dream A Little Dream: Live at The Cafe Carlyle and If I Tell You: The Songs of Maury Yeston.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's ON BROADWAY as well as the host of SETH SPEAKS on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz and "Phantom. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including "Dreamgirls" with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "HAIR" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). In 2007 he made his Broadway acting debut playing Sheldon (singing "Magic to Do" in a devastating unitard) in "The Ritz" directed by Joe Mantello for The Roundabout Theater. Off-Broadway he wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Rhapsody in Seth" (directed by Peter Flynn) at the Actors Playhouse and has also appeared on TV on "Law & Order: CI" and had a recurring role on "All My Children." As an author, he penned the non-fiction Q Guide To Broadway, the novel Broadway Nights and the recently published My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan (Random House). Broadway Nights is available on Audible.com starring Kristin Chenoweth, Andrea Martin and Jonathan Groff and My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ana Gasteyer and Megan Hilty. Seth played himself on "Kathy Griffin; My Life on the D-List," was the vocal coach on MTV's "Legally Blonde" reality show and starred opposite Sutton Foster in "They're Playing Our Song" for the Actors Fund. Recently, he co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Disaster!," a 1970's disaster movie musical which is now slated to transfer to Broadway in 2015. Right now, he tours the country performing with Broadway stars like Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and Audra McDonald. His newest book, Seth's Broadway Diary, was ranked as a number one bestseller on Amazon.com For more info: http://www.SethTV.com.

About the series
This Broadway @ concert series was inaugurated in 2011 by Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale @ The Art House in Provincetown featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. In its fourth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Alice Ripley, Cheyenne Jackson and Gavin Creel. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. This season of 2014-15 in addition to Santa Monica, the series travels to New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Dallas @ The Dallas Theater Center, San Antonio @ The Woodlawn Theatre, The Poconos @ The Pocono Community Theatre, Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts, Provincetown @ The Art House for its fifth consecutive summer… and at a city near you soon! Additional artists who have participated throughout this season include Vanessa Williams, Chita Rivera, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason and Christine Ebersole. Info at markcortalepresents.com.

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

Broadway @ The Art House has been sponsored since 2011 by the Anchor Inn Beach House, Cape Air and Ptown Bikes.

Listing Information:

Laura Osnes
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
June 27 & 28 at 7:00 PM
Student tickets are available for $25.

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Couple to be part of Mark Cortale’s Broadway @ Town Hall concert series with Rosie O’Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Audra McDonald, Will Swenson, and Jane Krakowski, hosted by SiriusXM star Seth Rudetsky

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/19/2015 -- Mark Cortale, Producing Artistic Director of The Art House in Provincetown, MA is thrilled to announce that Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will join his inaugural Broadway @ Town Hall series featuring SiriusXM radio's Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host for one night only on August 17th. Matthew Broderick is a two-time Tony Award winner for Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Sarah Jessica Parker won four Golden Globe Awards, three SAG Awards and two Emmy Awards as Carrie Bradshaw on the long-running HBO series "Sex and the City". She reprised her role and served as a producer of the two screen adaptations of the hit series. Broderick and Parker have not appeared together on stage for nearly two decades since the Broadway revival of "How To Succeed…" They will make their Provincetown debut with Rudetsky for two performances to include great songs and hilarious conversation on the Monday of Carnival Week, August 17th at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM. For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker join a who's who list of artists appearing this summer in the Broadway @ Town Hall series hosted by Seth Rudetsky in Provincetown. Leading off is comedian-actress Rosie O'Donnell, featuring Rudetsky as pianist and host, for one show only on Sunday, May 24 at 9:00 PM. Tony and Emmy Award winning star Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, featuring Rudetsky as pianist/host, will perform two shows only August 10 at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM. History-making six time Tony winner Audra McDonald will perform with special guest Will Swenson, also accompanied by Rudetsky, for one show only on August 24 at 6:30 PM. McDonald will perform in Provincetown on the heels of a Tanglewood engagement in July as well as a Williamstown run in Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon For The Misbegotten" with Will Swenson. Last but not least Tony-winner and star of "30 Rock," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and "Ally McBeal" Jane Krakowski also joins Rudetsky for one show only on August 30 at 6:30 PM.

The original, groundbreaking Broadway @ The Art House series returns to its annual summer home for its fifth season with another stellar lineup of Broadway's brightest stars, each featuring the series' long-time host and SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky at piano, except where otherwise noted. Two Time Tony Nominee and star of Broadway's "Cinderella" Laura Osnes makes her series debut on June 27 and 28 at 7:00 PM. Two-Time Tony-Winner and star of TV Land's new hit series "Younger," Sutton Foster returns to the series on July 3 at 7:00 PM and July 5th at 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM (the star will also be premiering her new art show at A gallery in P-town this summer). Star of Broadway, Stand-up Comedy, and TV's "Orange is the New Black" Lea DeLaria performs July 11 and 12 at 7:00 PM. TV's original Star Search winner and Tony-nominated Broadway star Sam Harris returns to the series on July 24 and 25 at 7:00 PM. Cabaret star Roslyn Kind (kid sister of Barbra Streisand) performs with Alex Rybeck at piano and directed by Richard Jay-Alexander on July 31 and Aug 1 at 7:00 PM. Norm Lewis, Tony-nominee for "Porgy and Bess" and star of Broadway's "Phantom of the Opera," will perform August 7 and 8 at 7:00 PM. Kerry Butler, Tony nominated star of "Xanadu" and "Rock of Ages" performs August 14 and 15 at 7:00 PM. Broadway & cabaret performer and SiriusXM radio personality Christine Pedi performs August 22 at 8:30 PM for one show only. Cabaret legend and P-town favorite Marilyn Maye returns for her fifth season with Billy Stritch at the piano, on August 25 - 29 at 7:00 PM. Broadway stars Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner who created the roles of Daisy & Violet Hilton in the original production of "Side Show" join forces with Rudetsky on September 1 and 2 at 7:00 PM.

The Art House is also now offering a special Broadway Season Pass to audiences for an overall savings of $315 for audiences wishing to purchase tickets for the entire combined Broadway @ The Art House & Broadway @ Town Hall concert series. The Broadway Season Pass allows purchasers to choose & reserve seats in the theaters' VIP Sections, and to transfer tickets to friends in cases where the ticket purchaser can't attend. For more information, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

As if the aforementioned lineup were not impressive enough, The Art House is nothing if not true to its roots and the cultural heritage of its locale. The venue under Cortale's leadership has gained an international reputation for hosting cutting edge comedy and music talent. Memorial Day weekend will kick-off with the one-two punch of Indie Rock star Melissa Ferrick back for her fifth consecutive season with two shows on May 23 at 6:30 PM and 9:00 PM, and the hysterical brand new drag comedy "Designing Women Meets The Golden Gals" starring Varla Jean Merman, Ryan Landry, Olive Another, and Liza Lott will open for a summer-long run on May 23 at 7:30 PM and run through September 5. Varla Jean will also debut her brand new solo show "Varla Jean's Big Black Hole" from June 28 through September 7, with Gerald Goode at the piano. Next up, Well-Strung, the singing string quartet return for a fourth consecutive summer to debut their all new show "Summer Lovin'" directed by Richard Jay-Alexander from June 30 through September 2.

RuPaul's Drag Race stars will invade the town all summer long: Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio will debut her "Rolodex of Hate" for P-town audiences from August 10 through September 3; Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon returns with cohort Major Scales in the all-new show "Jinkx Monsoon's The Inevitable Concert" to run from July 15 through September 18; Drag Race star Courtney Act will present "Boys Like Me" from June 30 to August 20; and Jinkx Monsoon and Peaches Christ will bring their "Return to Grey Gardens" to the venue from August 21 to September 20.

About The Art House and The Broadway series
The Art House is Provincetown's premier entertainment venue and Cape Cod's summer home to top Broadway talent, internationally touring cabaret artists and stand-up comics. The Art House, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, is the original home to the internationally acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series hosted by Seth Rudetsky. In its fourth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Alice Ripley, Cheyenne Jackson and Gavin Creel. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. This season of 2014-15 in addition to Santa Monica, the series travels to New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Dallas @ The Dallas Theater Center, San Antonio @ The Woodlawn Theatre, The Poconos @ The Pocono Community Theatre, Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts, Provincetown @ The Art House for its fifth consecutive summer… and at a city near you soon! Additional artists who have participated throughout this season include Vanessa Williams, Chita Rivera, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason and Christine Ebersole. More info at markcortalepresents.com.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's ON BROADWAY as well as the host of SETH SPEAKS on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz and Phantom. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including "Dreamgirls" with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "HAIR" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). Recently, he co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Disaster!," a 1970's disaster movie musical which is now slated to transfer to Broadway in 2015. Right now, he tours the country performing with Broadway stars like Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster and Audra McDonald. His newest book, Seth's Broadway Diary, was ranked as a number one bestseller on Amazon.com For more info: www.SethTV.com.

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

Broadway @ The Art House has been sponsored since 2011 by the Anchor Inn Beach House, Cape Air and Ptown Bikes.

Listing Information:

Melissa Ferrick
May 23 at 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM

Designing Women Meets
The Golden Gals
starring Varla Jean Merman and Ryan Landry
May 23 - September 5

Rosie O'Donnell
with Seth Rudetsky
featuring guest Melissa Ferrick
Broadway @ Town Hall
May 24 at 9:00 PM

Laura Osnes
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
June 27 & 28 at 7:00 PM

Varla Jean Merman
in Big Black Hole
with Gerald Goode at the piano
June 28 - September 7

Courtney Act
in Boys Like Me
RuPaul's Drag Race Star!
June 30 - August 20

Well-Strung
Summer Lovin'
All New Show!
June 30 - September 18

Sutton Foster
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
July 3 at 7:00 PM and July 5 at 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM

Lea DeLaria
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
July 11 & 12 at 7:00 PM

Jinkx Monsoon
The Inevitable Concert
with Major Scales at the piano
July 15 - September 18

Sam Harris
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
July 24 & 25 at 7:00 PM

Roslyn Kind
with Alex Rybeck
Broadway @ The Art House
July 31 & August 1 at 7:00 PM

Norm Lewis
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
August 7 & 8 at 7:00 PM

Bianca Del Rio
in Rolodex of Hate
Winner of RuPaul's Drag Race!
August 10 - September 3

Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ Town Hall
Aug 10 at 6:00 PM & 8:30 PM

Kerry Butler
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
August 14 & 15 at 7:00 PM

Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ Town Hall
Aug. 17th at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM

Return to Grey Gardens
starring Jinkx Monsoon and Peaches Christ
August 21 - September 20

Christine Pedi
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
August 22 at 8:30 PM

Audra McDonald
with special guest Will Swenson
and Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ Town Hall
August 24 at 6:30 PM

Marilyn Maye
with Billy Stritch
Broadway @ The Art House
August 25 - 29 at 7:00 PM

Jane Krakowski
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ Town Hall
August 30 at 6:30 PM

Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner
with Seth Rudetsky
Broadway @ The Art House
September 1 & 2 at 7:00 PM

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Drag Comedy Icon Launches “The First Annual Farewell Tour” At Provincetown’s Art House Theatre Running Through August 30.

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/09/2014 -- Goodbye, Varla Jean!? Just like a candle in the wind, Varla Jean Merman is blowing herself out! After what seems like endless years of life on the streets, whoops...life on the road, everyone's favorite drag chanteuse is thinking about packing it in with one final, endless blowout. As always, Varla will bring audiences to their knees with old favorites, new classics, flashy costumes and hair-raising wigs. The big question: Will this old attention whore be able to resist the lure of the spotlight? To find out the answer… Varla Jean Merman's "Relieving Herself" is currently running from June 30 - August 30 at The Art House in Provincetown, MA. For tickets and information, please visit The Art House website or call 1-800-838-3006.

Varla Jean Merman is the purported love child of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine. After a typically busy past couple of years starring to critical acclaim as the title roles in the original musical comedy farces Mildred Fierce in Boston, Scrooge in Rouge in New Orleans, Menotti's opera The Medium in New York, and her new show Twice Upon A Mattress…Will My Prince Ever Come? at The Art House in Provincetown, Varla also debuted her first show on London's West End in a decade with her popular hit The Book of Merman. The daffy diva-turned-author described her hit show as being "equal parts pop-up book, scratch 'n sniff, and Braille" as she invited audiences to "see, smell and finger her life story."

Jeffery Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman starred recently Off-Broadway in the musical Lucky Guy opposite Leslie Jordan at the Little Shubert, prompting The New York Times to say "If Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman had stood in front of the right pair of funhouse mirrors, they might have resembled Ms. Merman and Mr. Jordan in stature as well as comedic talent." He played the role of Mary Sunshine in the revival of Chicago on Broadway and in 2010 won Boston's Elliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance in The Phantom of the OPRAH. He returned to Boston last fall to star as Mother Superior in SpeakEasy Stage's The Divine Sister by Charles Busch. Jeffery as Varla Jean has filled concert halls and cabarets across the world including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the Public Theater, London's Soho Theatre, LA's Renberg Theatre, and San Francisco's Victoria Theatre. Jeffery recently completed shooting the feature films Girls Will Be Girls 2012 and Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads, which played the 2012 festival circuit and is currently available exclusively via Seth TV. He made his network television debut on All My Children, guest starred as Varla Jean in Ugly Betty's final season and on Bravo's Project Runway Season 5 as the winning model for the show's drag challenge.

Listing Information:
Varla Jean Merman's "Relieving Herself"
1st Annual Farewell Tour
featuring Gerald Goode at the piano
written by Jeffery Roberson and Jacques Lamarre
June 30 - August 30:
Mondays & Sundays @ 9:00 PM

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657
Box office: 508.487.9222
For tickets and information, please visit The Art House website or call 1-800-838-3006.

Press Contact: Tom Fervoy, Director of Marketing and Communications: tomfervoy@gmail.com or 646.408.0368

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

The Art House continues to be a magnet for Broadway’s biggest stars this summer, including Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Cheyenne Jackson, Megan Mullally, Andrea Martin, Ana Gasteyer, Adam Pascal, Alice Ripley, and more.

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/19/2014 -- Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, now entering his fourth season at the helm of Provincetown's Art House Theater, has made the picturesque Cape Cod town a must-do stop on the itinerary of Broadway's brightest stars. The Art House continues to somehow top itself with each successive summer's celebrity lineup. This season Cortale is presenting Emmy and Tony Award winning star Kristin Chenoweth directed by Richard Jay-Alexander with musical direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell for two performances on August 10th at Town Hall. The other dates in the Broadway series take place at The Art House and are hosted by Sirius/XM Radio star Seth Rudetsky, whom the New York Times dubbed "The Mayor of Broadway," and will run from June 28th through August 31. The theater notes that tickets may be purchased at www.ptownarthouse.com - and that fans now also have the option to purchase a Season Pass for the whole Broadway@ The Art House lineup and save over $100 overall on the season - more information is included below. The 2014 celebrity summer lineup includes the following artists:

- Andrea Martin - two-time Tony Award winner for "Pippin" and "My Favorite Year" and star of television's "Working the Engles" and the legendary original cast of "SCTV" as well as the "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" films, and many others. featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. June 28 & 29.

- Cheyenne Jackson - star of TV's 30 Rock and Glee and Broadway star of "Finian's Rainbow," "Xanadu," "All Shook Up," and "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and on Steven Soderbergh's HBO film "Behind The Candelabra" with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. July 4, 5, 6.

- Ana Gasteyer - star of TV's Saturday Night Live for six seasons, and most recently of ABC's "Suburgatory," and Broadway's "Wicked" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. July 12 & 13.

- Adam Pascal - star of Broadway's "Rent," "Aida," "Cabaret," "Memphis," "Chicago" and film's "SLC Punk," "School of Rock," and the screen version of "Rent." featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. July 26 & 27.

- Alice Ripley: Ripley Reflects Tony-winning Broadway star of "Next to Normal," Tony nominee for "Side Show," and star of Broadway's "The Rocky Horror Show," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Who's Tommy," and "Les Miserables." featuring Jessica Means at the piano. August 2 & 3.

- Marilyn Maye, Grammy-nominated cabaret legend returns after stand-out Art House shows in each of the last three seasons, featuring Billy Stritch at the piano, Aug. 5 - 9.

- Kristin Chenoweth - star of Broadway's original "Wicked" as Glinda and Tony-winner for "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown," and star of TV's "Glee" and Emmy-winner for "Pushing Daisies." Music Direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell; directed by Richard Jay-Alexander. August 10th at Town Hall.

- Megan Hilty - breakout star of NBC's "Smash" and starred on Broadway in "Wicked" and "9 to 5: The Musical." She most recently starred as Liz on NBC's "Sean Saves The World" with Sean Hayes of "Will & Grace" fame. August 13, 14, 15 & 18 featuring Brian Gallagher on guitar. Aug 16 & 17 featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host.

- Bryan Batt - star of TV's "Mad Men" and the Academy Award Winning film "12 Years A Slave," and Broadway's "La Cage Aux Folles," "Sunset Boulevard," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "Starlight Express," and "Cats." featuring Michael Lavine at the piano. August 24 & 25.

- Megan Mullally: Nancy & Beth. Two-time Emmy-winning Megan Mullally who starred as Karen Walker of TV's Will and Grace, and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein, and the revivals of How to Succeed… and Grease, Aug. 27 - 31. featuring the band Nancy & Beth also starring Stephanie Hunt.

The stellar summer lineup also includes six of the brightest acts in Comedy, Drag/Variety, Pop/ Rock. On Memorial Day Weekend, folk-rocker Melissa Ferrick returns with her band to open the season May 23, 24, 25. The Indie maverick and major label veteran is a 6-time Boston Music and GLAMA winner and has shared stages with Bob Dylan, Weezer and Ani DiFranco.

The Golden Gals: As The Examiner of New Orleans noted about the recent production of this parody there, "for those that followed the TV misadventures of four elderly Miami women in the classic NBC sitcom there is a bit of deja vu in the air…The material has been honed into two acts complete with cutaway fake commercials and commercials for zany products that will probably never seen the light of day again. While the action on stage mostly concerns men dressing and portraying women's roles, the fact is these actors are so good they make true believers of audience members. The situations the characters of Dorothy (Ryan Landry), her mother Sophia (Connie Tavanis), their oversexed roommate Blanche (Varla Jean Merman), and their clueless cohabitant Rose (Brooklyn Shaffer) get into are predictable, but it is a gloriously funny exercise in well-crafted comedy." This hilarious comedy will run June 5 - August 30.

The Vaudevillians, starring Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales. Jinkx Monsoon the alter ego of Jerick Hoffer and season five winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, will star in off-Broadway's hit production "The Vaudevillians" at The Art House. The drag-comedy sensation will reprise her role as Kitty Witless, alongside co-star and co-writer Richard Andriessen, better known as Dr. Dan von Dandy. The show makes its leap to Provincetown after extending its Off-Broadway run five times in New York earlier this season. The New York Times writes, "Straight or gay, everyone leaves this show with sides aching from laughter." Called "a pure delight" (The New York Times), "comedic genius" (Show Business Weekly), "hilarious" (BroadwayWorld), as well as "intelligent and entertaining" (TheaterMania), "The Vaudevillians" has amazed audiences since its inception. June 27 - Sept. 2

Well-Strung: Their new show Popssical will premiere in Provincetown at The Art House for a summer run beginning June 30th. Well-Strung's CD and tour information is available at www.Well-Strung.com. The Singing String Quartet, made their NBC Today Show debut on "T oday with Kathie Lee & Hoda" this past March. They have been referred to as "absolutely amazing" by BBC Radio host Jo Good during their recent London debut, and as "the hottest thing with a bow since Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games" by the New York Daily News. This brand new show written and performed by Well-Strung and is directed by Donna Drake with music arrangements by David Levinson featuring the music of Beethoven, Ravel, Madonna, U2 and Miley Cyrus. June 30 - September 20.

Varla Jean Merman: Relieving Herself. Varla Jean (Jeffery Roberson) is the purported love child of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine. After a typically busy past couple of years starring to critical acclaim as the title roles in the original musical comedy farces Mildred Fierce in Boston, Scrooge in Rouge in New Orleans, Menotti's opera The Medium in New York, and her new show Twice Upon A Mattress…Will My Prince Ever Come? at The Art House in Provincetown last summer. Varla also debuted her first show on London's West End in a decade with her popular hit The Book of Merman. The daffy diva-turned-author described her hit show as being "equal parts pop-up book, scratch 'n sniff, and Braille" as she invited audiences to "see, smell and finger her life story." The show feature Gerald Goode at the piano and runs July 1 - August 27.

Anthony De Mare in I Think About You: Re-Imagining Sondheim. is internationally recognized as one of the world's most versatile pianists, and one of its foremost champions of contemporary music. Having been praised by The New York Times for his "muscularly virtuosic, remarkably uninhibited performance [and] impressive talents," his provocative and engaging programs are known to have "a theatrical twist… more akin to a show than to a recital." In the process, he has inspired the creation of dozens of new works by some of today's most distinguished artists. I Think About You is the cabaret version of de Mare's latest initiative, Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano. Exclusive new works from Steve Reich, Ricky Ian Gordon, Duncan Sheik, Nico Muhly, Jake Heggie, William Bolcom and more, bring the work of musical theater maestro Stephen Sondheim into the concert hall. July 18 & 19.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius XM satellite radio. As a musician, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including "Ragtime," "Les Miserables," and "Phantom of the Opera." He was also the Artistic Producer and Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts, which included "Dreamgirls" with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "Hair" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy nomination). As a comic he was awarded "Funniest Gay Male in NY" at Stand-Up NY and is a three-time Emmy nominee as a writer for "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in "The Ritz" directed by Joe Mantello, and has appeared on television on "Law and Order C.I." and "All My Children." As an author, he wrote the books The Q Guide to Broadway, Broadway Nights, and just released his new novel My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan on Random House, and as an audio book on audible.com featuring "Modern Family's" Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "SNL's" Ana Gasteyer, "Smash's" Megan Hilty among others, and writes a weekly column on Playbill.com. He recently added "television mogul" to that long list as SethTV, his new, web-based entertainment network, launched. This past summer he co-produced of the critically acclaimed play Unbroken Circle by James Wesley, and is co-playwright and star of the hit new Off-Broadway 'disaster movie musical' "Disaster!" which recently ran at St. Luke's Theatre in New York. This Broadway @ The Art House series will be, by his own signature estimation, even more "A-MAH-zing" this summer than ever! For the complete summer season line-up, visit http://ptownarthouse.com/

For fans that wish to see all 10 of the theater's Broadway @ The Art House stars this summer (including Kristin Chenoweth at Town Hall), the venue provides the opportunity to reserve those seats with its Broadway @ The Art House Season Pass. It guarantees Season Pass holders best seats available, 'front-of-the-line' access, and an overall savings of $115 of the regular price when the full lineup is purchased individually. More info can be found at BrownPaperTickets.com: Broadway @ The Art House Season Pass.

Broadway @ The Art House concert series is sponsored by Cape Air, the Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, and SethTV.com

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

For photo and interview requests contact: tomfervoy@gmail.com

LISTING INFO:

Melissa Ferrick and her Band
May 23 and 25 at 7:00 pm
May 24 at 9:00 pm

The Golden Gals
starring Varla Jean Merman and Ryan Landry
June 6 - August 30

Jinkx Monsoon in
The Vaudevillians
also starring Major Scales
June 27 - September 20

Andrea Martin
featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
June 28 & 29

Varla Jean Merman's
RELIEVING HERSELF
with Gerald Goode at the pinao
July 1 - August 27

Well-Strung's All New Show:
POPSSICAL
June 30 - September 20

Cheyenne Jackson
with Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
July 4, 5, 6

Anthony de Mare
I Think About You: Reinventing Sondheim
July 18 & 19
7:00 PM

Adam Pascal
with Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
July 26 & 27

Alice Ripley
with Jessica Means at the piano
August 2 & 3

Marilyn Maye
featuring Billy Stritch at the piano
August 5 - 9

Kristin Chenoweth @ Town Hall
music direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell
directed by Richard Jay-Alexander
August 10th at 6:30PM & 9:00PM

Megan Hilty
August 13, 14, 15 & 18 with Brian Gallagher on guitar
August 16 & 17 with Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host

Bryan Batt
Batt On A Hot Tin Roof
featuring Michael Lavine on piano
August 24 & 25

Megan Mullally's
Nancy & Beth
also starring Stephanie Hunt
August 27 - 31

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

About the series
This Broadway concert series was inaugurated in 2011 by Mark Cortale at The Art House in Provincetown featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. In its third season last summer of 2013, the series presented Broadway superstars like Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Megan Hilty, Megan Mullally, Christine Ebersole, and Joanna Gleason. The Broadway @ series also premiered last season in New Orleans, in Australia with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. This season of 2013-14 the series travels to Los Angeles @ The Broad Stage, Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, The Poconos @ The Stroudsmoor, Woodstock, NY @ The Woodstock Playhouse, Hartford @ The Bushnell, and Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts… and at a city near you soon! More info at markcortalepresents.com.

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Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race moves Off-Broadway hit to Cape Cod with co-star Major Scales

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/30/2013 -- Jinkx Monsoon, the alter ego of Jerick Hoffer and season five winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, will star in off-Broadway's hit production "The Vaudevillians" at one of New England's most prestigious music and comedy venues in summer of 2014. Hosted by Provincetown's Art House Theatre, the drag-comedy sensation will reprise her role as Kitty Witless, alongside co-star and co-writer Richard Andriessen, better known as Dr. Dan von Dandy. Extended for the fifth time in New York, the show will leap to this popular Cape Cod summer destination from June 27 through September 20, 2014. For tickets and information, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com, or call 1-800-838-3006.

The New York Times writes, "Straight or gay, everyone leaves this show with sides aching from laughter." Called "a pure delight" (The New York Times), "comedic genius" (Show Business Weekly), "hilarious" (BroadwayWorld), as well as "intelligent and entertaining" (TheaterMania), "The Vaudevillians" has amazed audiences since its inception. Even RuPaul proclaimed the performance "a triumph!"

Time-travelers from a century ago, the show's starring duo are 1920s performers who toured speakeasies and burlesque theatres. They have emerged from a deep freeze in Antarctica to present their act just as they did before they were caught in an avalanche and frozen alive. Now, Witless and the good doctor are on a quest to reclaim their music—songs like "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," about the suffragettes, and "Drop It Like It's Hot," about the invention of the electric iron.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Jerick Hoffer is a graduate of Cornish College in Seattle. It was at Cornish as a fifteen-year-old theater major that Hoffer traces the early manifestations of Jinkx Monsoon, whom he refers to as a "zany, off-the-wall, irreverent, gorgeous anachronism." In 2006, Hoffer made the Guinness World Records as lead dancer in the world's largest drag queen chorus line. By 2012, the young performer was starring at top Seattle theaters - Moritz in "Spring Awakening" (Balagan Theatre), Angel in "RENT" (The 5th Avenue Theatre), and most recently, Hedwig in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" with the Seattle Theatre Group.

Landing the hot production of "The Vaudevillians" was a coup for The Art House, but it is not out-of-character for the upstart company, which has built an international reputation for cutting-edge, live entertainment for gay and mainstream audiences. If there were a "how-to" written about transforming venues in popular travel destinations, it might be the story of Provincetown's Art House.

Since artistic director Mark Cortale, along with his creative partner and music director Seth Rudetsky, launched their signature Broadway@The Art House series in 2011, the theatre has become the talk not only of Provincetown, but New York, and far beyond. The series now attracts notable names from Broadway and television, such as Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Megan Mullally, Christine Ebersole, and Jane Krakowski. This success spawned runs in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, The Poconos, Detroit - even overseas venues in Sydney, Melbourne, and London.

With the announcement of Jinkx Monsoon and "The Vaudevillians" joining The Art House lineup for summer 2014, this trailblazing venue remains true to its P-town roots, raising the bar on innovative entertainment.

Listing Information:

Jinkx Monsoon in "The Vaudevillians," starring Jerick Hoffer & Richard Andriesson:

June 27, 28, and 29 at 9:00 p.m.
July 1 - August 30 (Tuesday through Saturday) at 9:00 p.m.
Sept 4 - 20 (Thursday through Saturday) at 8:00 p.m.

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657
Box office: 508.487.9222

Tickets and information: www.ptownarthouse.com or 800.838.3006

Press Contact: Tom Fervoy, Director of Marketing and Communications: tomfervoy@gmail.com or 646.408.0368

About The Art House
The Art House is Provincetown's premiere entertainment venue and Cape Cod's summer home to top Broadway talent, internationally touring cabaret artists and stand-up comics. The Art House, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, is the original home to the internationally acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series with Seth Rudetsky, which this past summer of 2013 presented Broadway superstars Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Megan Hilty (of TV's "Smash"), Megan Mullally (of TV's "Will & Grace"), Christine Ebersole, Joanna Gleason, Sam Harris and Marilyn Maye in addition to other national-level music and comedy programming such as Varla Jean Merman, Melissa Ferrick, Judy Gold, and others. In 2012 the Art House also proudly presented Margaret Cho, Mario Cantone, Alice Ripley, Faith Prince, Charles Busch Judy Kuhn and Miranda Sings. The venue's new state-of the art sound system lends itself particularly well to making this top-draw talent feel at home. The Broadway @ series premiered last season in New Orleans, in Australia with Megan Mullally, on London's West End with Patti LuPone at Leister Square Theater, and makes its debut this season in Santa Monica, CA, Fort Lauderdale, Detroit, the Poconos, and a city near you soon!

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Rockers Melissa Ferrick and BETTY join comedy star Judy Gold for mid-October lineup

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/14/2013 -- The Art House in Provincetown will be in high gear again next month for Women's Week. Comedian Judy Gold returns by popular demand October 16 - 19. She is a Drama Desk and GLAAD Award winner for 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, and host of TV's Mom's Night Out, Tru TV Presents World's Dumbest, has been a guest host of ABC's The View and frequent guest on The Joy Behar show. Joining her on the bill is another P-Town favorite, Folk-rocker Melissa Ferrick who returns October 17 - 19 at 7pm. She is a 6-time Boston Music and GLAMA winner and has shared stages with Bob Dylan, Weezer and Ani DiFranco. And - returning for the first time since 2011, is BETTY, from October 17 - 19. This cult-favorite all-female New York pop-rock band led by Alyson Palmer and sisters Elizabeth and Amy Ziff wrote and performed the theme song for Showtime TV's The L Word, and have been heard extensively on radio, TV, film, commercials and political rallies. For tickets please click visit The Art House website or call 1-800-838-3006.

During the recent 6-month Off-Broadway run of Judy Gold's new one-woman show The Judy Show: My Life As A Sitcom, the New York Times made it a critic's pick and raved that it was "Highly entertaining! Brash, Buoyant & Infectiously nostalgic" and the Huffington Post called it "Comedic Gold. A funny & fantastic ride! It's the ultimate laughter-through-the-tears tale." Judy Gold was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for her other most recent solo show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, which also won the GLAAD award for "Outstanding New York Theater." The New York Times called the show "fiercely funny, honest and moving." A subsequent book based on the show was nominated for the prestigious Quill Award. She also won two Emmy Awards as writer and producer for The Rosie O'Donnell Show and was nominated twice for the American Comedy Award's funniest female stand-up. On television, Judy is the host of Nick's new comedy series Mom's Night Out. She can also be seen regularly on Tru TV Presents World's Dumbest, and has guest-hosted ABC's The View, and has appeared regularly on The Joy Behar Show on HLN.

Judy's other television appearances include The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Dr. Oz Show, The Wendy Williams Show, and recent episodes of The Glades on A&E and Are We There Yet on TBS, Ugly Betty, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Hollywood Squares, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Conan O'Brien Show and others. She hosted HBO's At the Multiplex with Judy Gold from 1999 – 2009, and Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time, as well as the GLAAD Media Awards on LOGO and VH1. Her stand-up specials include Comedy Central Presents: Judy Gold, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd Stands Up, and Judy's HBO half-hour special, winner of a Cable Ace Award. She was also seen in the hit film The Aristocrats, and the documentaries Making Trouble and I am Comic. Judy appeared in Nora and Delia Ephron's Off-Broadway play Love, Loss and What I Wore, and also hosts Hatched By Two Chicks on Sirius/XM radio and the Funny People series at the 92nd St. Y. She recently released the new comedy CD Judith's Roommate Had a Baby.

Indie Maverick and major label veteran Melissa Ferrick is an accomplished singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has shared stages with artists as wide-ranging as Bob Dylan, Paul Westerberg, Weezer and Ani DiFranco. She has released seventeen albums over the past eighteen years, including Everything I Need, which was named Album of the Year by the Gay and Lesbian American Music Association. For Women's Week 2013, she will make a special return to The Art House in Provincetown, MA.

Melissa performs over 150 shows a year - often for audiences of 7,500 or more. Her extraordinarily passionate, grassroots fan base began twenty years ago when she opened for British rocker Morrissey, and has grown into one of the most loyal followings in recent indie memory. With songs that, as CMJ noted, "cut to the bone thanks to their truthful, personal viewpoints," the native New Englander is a powerhouse vocalist and guitarist who has steadily released indie projects since her prior stints on Atlantic and W.A.R.? Records. She is a six-time Boston Music Award and GLAMA Winner who recently inked a 3-album deal with MPress Records. A passionate Out artist with a devoted LGBT following, Ferrick goes to great lengths to be accessible to fans, and is beloved for her magnetic personality, fierce honesty and lightning-speed rhythm guitar style. Among her almost non-stop touring, she teamed-up on the road with fellow folk-rocker Ani DiFranco for her recent 2011 album Still Right Here (her first studio album in five years) which featured DiFranco on guest vocals and an appearance by guitar virtuoso Kaki King. Her brand new album The Truth Is, released in June of 2013 is the eighteenth of her remarkable career, and features Grammy-winner Paula Cole among other guests.

BETTY is a five-piece New York pop rock band, led by Alyson Palmer and sisters Elizabeth and Amy Ziff. Known for their defiant attitude, tight harmonies, infectious melodies, and evocative lyrics layered over strong grooves, this world-touring group's songs have been heard extensively on radio, TV, film, commercials and political rallies. BETTY's national tour of their hit Off-Broadway show, Betty Rules (directed by Michael " Rent" Greif), their controversial theme song for Showtime Television's show, The L Word, and their acting appearances on that program have catapulted this deeply beloved cult band to wider international recognition. BETTY was the on-air 'house band' for the groundbreaking 1988 HBO series Encyclopedia. Activist entertainers, the band is known for fighting fiercely for what they believe: equal rights, feminism, finding cures for breast cancer and AIDS, Planned Parenthood, the Pro-Choice movement, an end to sexual violence and everybody's inalienable right to safely dance naked in the streets. A "BETTY Rules" t-shirt, an early marketing item of the band, appears on one of the AIDS quilts.

The Art House is sponsored by Cape Air, the Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, and SethTV.com

Listing Information:

Judy Gold
Oct. 16 - 19 @ 5:30

Melissa Ferrick
Oct. 17 - 19 @ 7PM

BETTY
Oct. 17 - 19 @ 9PM

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

About The Art House
Mark Cortale is the Producing Artistic Director of The Art House in Provincetown, MA. In his inaugural season in 2011, he founded the Broadway @ The Art House series with Seth Rudetsky, which this past summer of 2013 presented Broadway superstars Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Megan Hilty (of TV's "Smash"), Megan Mullally (of TV's "Will & Grace"), Christine Ebersole, Joanna Gleason, Sam Harris and Marilyn Maye in addition to other national-level music and comedy programming such as Varla Jean Merman, Melissa Ferrick, Judy Gold, and others. He is currently producing Seth Rudetsky's new reality series and other Broadway-themed entertainment that can be seen at www.SethTV.com. He also co-wrote and produced Well-Strung's runs this past winter and fall at New York's Marjorie S. Deane Theater. Mark produced the feature film "Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads," which played the 2012 festival circuit with a screening at Frameline in San Francisco. Mark also premiered the Broadway @ series last season in New Orleans, in Australia with Megan Mullally, on London's West End with Patti LuPone at Leister Square Theater, and will debut as well in Santa Monica, CA in fall of 2013, among other cities nationally and internationally.

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Three of entertainment’s leading ladies give superstar lineup an exclamation point!

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/26/2013 -- Megan Mullally is a two-time Emmy-winning star of TV's Will & Grace, and recent star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein. On August 28 & 29 she returns to Provincetown by popular demand - for three shows only - after her sold-out Art House debut last summer. Patti LuPone won her second Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, as well Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, for her performance as Rose in the most recent Broadway production of Gypsy, and created the title role in Evita on Broadway with her now legendary performance, for which she won her first Tony and Drama Desk Awards. On August 31 and September 1 she makes a triumphant Provincetown return for 4 shows only, after debuting at The Art House last summer. Chita Rivera is a living Broadway legend and a two-time Tony winner as Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Anna in The Rink. She originated the Broadway roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, and appeared in the original casts of Guys and Dolls, Can Can, Seventh Heaven, Mr. Wonderful, Jerry's Girls, and many others. She makes her Provincetown debut on Sept. 7 & 8 with two shows only. Series host and SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky joins each of the three leading ladies at the piano. For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com, or call 1-800-838-3006.

Megan Mullally is best known for playing the iconic role of Karen Walker on the groundbreaking hit TV series Will & Grace for which she won two Emmy Awards, from a total of seven consecutive nominations between 2000 and 2006. She is also a three-time winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, a winner with her cast-mates of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, is one of only two actresses to win a SAG Award three years in a row, and was nominated four years in a row for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She made her Broadway debut as Marty in the 1994 revival of Grease with Rosie O'Donnell and subsequently appeared as Rosemary in the hit 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opposite Matthew Broderick. In 2007, Mullally starred as Elizabeth in Mel Brooks' original Broadway musical, Young Frankenstein. She can be heard on the cast albums of all three productions.

Also appearing as a special guest each night will be actress Stephanie Hunt - who is Mullally's partner in crime in the band Nancy & Beth. Hunt has starred on TV's Friday Night Lights, Californication, and How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life). She recently appeared with Mullally and Seth Rudetsky on their sold-out Australian tour this past February for Mardi Gras in Sydney and Melbourne.

In addition to her breakout role on Will & Grace, Megan Mullally made her television debut in 1986 in The Ellen Burstyn Show. Since that time she has appeared on Seinfeld, Frasier, Wings, Ned and Stacey, Mad About You, Caroline in the City, Just Shoot Me!, and Murder, She Wrote. Following Will & Grace, she hosted her own talk show titled The Megan Mullally Show, and has hosted Saturday Night Live, the TV Land Awards, and guest-hosted The Late Show with David Letterman. Most recently she's been seen on 30 Rock, Kathy Griffin: My Life on The D-List, Campus Ladies, Parks and Recreation, the Starz series Party Down, Adult Swim's Children's Hospital, ABC's Happy Endings, and Fox TV's Breaking In. Her film work includes Anywhere But Here with Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman, About Last Night with Demi Moore and Rob Lowe, Speaking of Sex with James Spader, Stealing Harvard with Tom Green and Jason Lee, and the 2009 remake of Fame. Watch Seth Rudetsky's video sneak preview of Megan's show from SethTV!

Patti LuPone was recently cast in the third season of Ryan Murphy's hit television show American Horror Story to star alongside Academy Award winners Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates. Her extensive Broadway career also includes her recent appearance opposite her Evita co-star Mandy Patinkin in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, and just prior to that created the role of Lucia in the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for which she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. She has also been seen on Broadway in John Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations; Drama League Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre), Michael Frayn's Noises Off, David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood, Terrence McNally's Master Class, and her own concert Patti LuPone on Broadway. On London's West End, she won Olivier Awards for her performances as Fantine in the original production of Les Miserables and in the Acting Company production of The Cradle Will Rock, and also created the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and recreated her Broadway performance as Maria Callas in Master Class there. Since her Provincetown debut last summer, she and Seth Rudetsky have also launched the new Broadway @ NOCCA series in New Orleans, and this past June appeared together on London's West End to rave reviews for their seven show run at the Leicester Square Theatre.

Last season she made her debut with the New York City Ballet as guest soloist in The Seven Deadly Sins and starred as Joanne in the New York Philharmonic's production of Company. Other stage credits include her debut with the Los Angeles Opera in Weill-Brecht's Mahagonny, the world premiere of Jake Heggie's opera To Hell and Back with San Francisco's Baroque Philharmonic Opera, the title role in Regina, a musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes at the Kennedy Center, Fosca in a concert version of Passion, also broadcast on PBS' Live From Lincoln Center, a multi-city tour of her theatrical concert Matters of the Heart, City Center Encores! Production of Can-Can, NY Philharmonic's productions of Candide and Sweeny Todd, and three solo concerts at Carnegie Hall. She has also appeared each season at Ravinia Festival's Sondheim series, starring in Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Passion, Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, and Sunday in the Park with George.

In addition to her acclaimed stage career, Patti LuPone's film appearances include Union Square, Parker, City By The Sea, Heist, State and Main, Summer of Sam, Driving Miss Daisy, and Witness. Her TV work includes Glee, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Will & Grace, OZ, Frasier, Law & Order, Life Goes On, the Emmy winning PBS broadcasts of Passion and Sweeney Todd, PBS Great Performances' Candide and PBS' An Evening with Patti LuPone. Her recordings include Patti LuPone at Les Mouches, the 2008 Broadway Cast Recording of Gypsy, The Lady With the Torch, Sweeney Todd (2006 Broadway revival cast and 2000 NY Philharmonic live performance recording), Matters of the Heart, Pal Joey, Heatwave with John Mourceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Sunset Boulevard, and Patti LuPone Live. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, Patti LuPone: A Memoir. Watch Seth Rudetsky's video sneak preview of Patti's show from SethTV!

Chita Rivera, an accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer, has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received seven additional Tony nominations. She just concluded a successful run starring in the new Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood on Broadway. She starred in the Broadway and touring productions of The Dancer's Life, a dazzling new musical celebrating her spectacular career, written by Terrence McNally and directed by Graciela Daniele.

She recreated her starring role in The Visit, the new Kander/Ebb/McNally musical, at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA (originally done at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago in 2001). She also starred in the revival of the Broadway musical Nine with Antonio Banderas. She trained as a ballerina (from age 11) before receiving a scholarship to the American School of Ballet from legendary George Balanchine. Chita's first appearance, at age 17, was as a principal dancer in Call Me Madam.

On tour, Chita has been seen in: Born Yesterday, The Rose Tattoo, Call Me Madam, Threepenny Opera, Sweet Charity, Kiss Me Kate, Zorba, and Can-Can with The Rockettes. Chita was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on August 12, 2009. She received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, DC in December, 2002 and is the first Hispanic ever chosen to receive this award. Chita's current solo CD is entitled And Now I Swing. On October 7, 2013 she will be honored with a star-studded concert on Broadway Chita: A Legendary Celebration to Benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at a theatre to be announced. Her most treasured production is her daughter, singer / dancer / choreographer Lisa Mordente.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius XM satellite radio. As a musician, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera. He was also the Artistic Producer and Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts, which included Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy nomination). As a comic he was awarded "Funniest Gay Male in NY" at Stand-Up NY and is a three-time Emmy nominee as a writer for The Rosie O'Donnell Show. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in The Ritz directed by Joe Mantello, and has appeared on television on Law and Order C.I. and All My Children. As an author, he wrote the books The Q Guide to Broadway, Broadway Nights, and just released his new novel My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan on Random House, and as an audio book on audible.com featuring Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, SNL's Ana Gasteyer, Smash's Megan Hilty among others, and writes a weekly column on Playbill.com. This year he added "television mogul" to that long when he launched Seth TV, his new, web-based entertainment network.

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

Broadway @ The Art House concert series is sponsored by Cape Air, the Anchor Inn Beach House, Shor Home Furnishings, Ptown Bikes, and SethTV.com

For photo and interview requests contact: tomfervoy@gmail.com

Listing Information:
An Evening with Megan Mullally
featuring Seth Rudetsky at the piano
with special guest Stephanie Hunt from Nancy & Beth
August 28 at 7:00 PM
August 29th at 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM

An Evening with Patti LuPone
featuring Seth Rudetsky at the piano
August 31 & September 1
5:00 PM & 7:00 PM

An Evening with Chita Rivera
featuring Seth Rudetsky at the piano
September 7 at 8:30 PM
September 8 at 7:00 PM

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/09/2013 -- Audra McDonald, the five-time Tony Award winner and recent star of Porgy and Bess on Broadway and TV's Private Practice, makes her Provincetown debut with four shows only on July 21 and 22 at 5pm and 7pm. Sirius/XM radio star Seth Rudetsky, whom the New York Times just dubbed "The Mayor of Broadway," hosts again at the piano.

Audra McDonald became a three-time Tony Award winner by the age of 28 for her performances in Carousel, Master Class, and Ragtime, placing her alongside Shirley Booth, Gwen Verdon and Zero Mostel by accomplishing this feat within five years. She won her fourth in 2004 for her role in A Raisin in the Sun, a role she reprised for a 2008 television adaptation, earning her a second Emmy Award nomination. On June 10, 2012, McDonald scored her fifth Tony Award win for her portrayal of Bess in Broadway's The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess thus tying a record held by Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris for most Tony Awards won by an actor. She also maintains her ties to classical repertoire with an active concert and recording career, performing song cycles and operas as well as concerts throughout the U.S. Audra's many television appearances include four seasons as Naomi Bennett in Private Practice, as well as Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: SVU, Having Our Say, Mister Sterling, The Bedford Diaries, Kidnapped, the television remake of the musical Annie, and HBO's Wit with Emma Thompson and was announced recently as joining the cast of The Good Wife. Her film roles include Cradle Will Rock, Object of My Affection, It Runs in the Family, Best Thief in the World, and Seven Servants.

This season's Broadway @ The Art House series will run from June 28th through September 8th. In addition to Ms. McDonald, the lineup includes the following artists performing solo shows, with Rudetsky at the piano:

- Joanna Gleason, Tony Winner for Into The Woods will combine in each performance the East Coast premiere of a the hilarious and moving one act play BLOOM, written for her by Michael Patrick King (creator of Sex and The City & Two Broke Girls) with a second act of songs featuring special guests Well-Strung, June 28 & 29
- Sutton Foster, a two-time Tony-winner for the recent Anything Goes and previously for Thoroughly Modern Millie, and star of the ABC Family TV series Bunheads, July 4 & 5
- Audra McDonald, five-time Tony Award winner for Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, A Raisin in the Sun, and the recent Porgy and Bess on Broadway and star of TV's Private Practice, July 21 & 22
- Sam Harris, star of Broadway's The Producers, Grease and The Life, also the first ever Grand Champion of TV's Star Search, starred in Town Hall concert in P-Town last year, returns to town on Aug. 3 & 4
- Marilyn Maye, Grammy-nominated cabaret legend returns after stand-out Art House shows in each of the last two seasons, featuring Billy Stritch at the piano. Aug. 8 -10
- Christine Ebersole, 2x Tony-winner as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, and as Dorothy Black in the revival of 42nd Street, Aug. 17 & 18
- Megan Hilty, break-out star of NBC's Smash and of Broadway's Wicked and 9 to 5: The Musical, Aug. 24 & 25
- Megan Mullally, two-time Emmy-winning star as Karen Walker of TV's Will and Grace, and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein, and the revivals of How to Succeed… and Grease, Aug. 28 & 29
- Patti LuPone, legendary two-time Tony winner for creating the title role of Evita on Broadway, as Rose in the revival of Gypsy, among many other roles, Aug. 31 & Sept. 1
- Chita Rivera, legend and two-time Tony winner as Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Anna in The Rink, also originated the Broadway roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, original casts of Guys and Dolls, Can Can, and many others, Sept. 7 & 8

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius XM satellite radio. As a musician, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera. He was also the Artistic Producer and Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts, which included Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy nomination). As a comic he was awarded "Funniest Gay Male in NY" at Stand-Up NY and is a three-time Emmy nominee as a writer for The Rosie O'Donnell Show. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in The Ritz directed by Joe Mantello, and has appeared on television on Law and Order C.I. and All My Children. As an author, he wrote the books The Q Guide to Broadway, Broadway Nights, and just released his new novel My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan on Random House, and as an audio book on audible.com featuring Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, SNL's Ana Gasteyer, Smash's Megan Hilty among others, and writes a weekly column on Playbill.com. This year he added "television mogul" to that long when he launched Seth TV, his new, web-based entertainment network. His Broadway @ The Art House series will be, by his own signature estimation, even more "A-MAH-zing" this summer than ever! For the complete summer season line-up, visit www.ptownarthouse.com

Broadway @ The Art House concert series is sponsored by Cape Air, the Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, and SethTV.com. The Art House piano is made possible by a gift from Mary Fassett.

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

For photo and interview requests contact: tomfervoy@gmail.com

LISTING INFO:
An Evening with Audra McDonald
Featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
July 21 & 22
at 5pm and 7pm

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/08/2013 -- Varla Jean Merman (aka Jeffery Roberson) has been the acknowledged entertainment Queen of P-town for the past decade. Each summer brings the anticipated premiere of her latest, original and irreverent music-comedy show – a summer-long 'hot ticket' every year. After a typically busy year starring to critical acclaim as the title roles in the original musical comedy farces Mildred Fierce in Boston and Scrooge in Rouge in New Orleans, as well as in Menotti's opera The Medium in New York, Varla returns to P-Town to premiere "Twice Upon A Mattress…Will My Prince Ever Come?" at The Art House from July 1 – August 31, with MRF at the piano. For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com

In the new show, the artist explains, "Varla gives the mother of all gooses to everyone's favorite fairy tails. After years of kissing frogs, toads and other slimy creatures, Varla is tired of trying to make her prince come. Should she toss it all aside and embrace her inner Evil Queen? With Grimm stories, a castle's worth of couture and a libido that could wear out seven dwarves, this Ambien-addled Sleeping Beauty is wide awake and ready to give everyone a happy ending!"

2010 Elliot Norton Award Winner, Roberson's Varla Jean Merman has been featured on television as a guest on TV's Ugly Betty and on Bravo's Project Runway Season 5 as the winning model for the show's drag challenge. Other TV credits include his network television debut on All My Children in the recurring role of lady of the evening Rosemary Chicken, HBO's Dragtime, E!'s Fashion Emergency, E! Goes to Cannes, MTV's True Life: Mardi Gras, Francesca Page with Rossy DePalma, and has most recently appeared as Varla Jean on Logo starring in shorts for "Drag History Month." He shared the Outfest Film Festival "Best Actor" Award and the Aspen HBO Film Festival "Best Actress" Award with his costars Jack Poltnick and Clinton Leupp for his featured performance in the cult classic film Girls Will Be Girls (Sundance 2003) directed by Richard Day. This past January he filmed the sequel entitled Girls Will Be Girls 2012. When Varla (aka Jeffery Roberson) starred opposite Leslie Jordan spring of 2012 at the Little Shubert Theatre, the New York Times wrote "If Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman had stood in front of the right pair of funhouse mirrors, they might have resembled Ms. Merman and Mr. Jordan in stature as well as comedic talent." He also played the role of Mary Sunshine in the revival of Chicago on Broadway and appeared at the Long Wharf Theatre in Hartford Stage's production of The Mystery of Irma Vep directed by Michael Wilson performing the roles originally made famous by Charles Ludlam.

Jeffery as Varla Jean has filled concert halls and cabarets across the world including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the Public Theater, London's Soho Theatre, LA's Renberg Theatre, and San Francisco's Victoria Theatre. He was the opening act of Vienna's LifeBall, the largest fundraiser for AIDS research in Europe, where he shared the stage with Sharon Stone and Catherine Deneuve. His many Fraktured Classiks productions in New York include The Mailman Always Comes Twice, Screen Door and CAGED! with Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers and Isabella Rossellini, Lypsinka is Harriet Craig, The Miracle Worker (with Charles Busch) and Varla Jean Merman is The Bad Seedling. Recent engagements also include the title role in Auntie Mame, Scrooge in Rouge, Ricky Graham's production of Irma Vep at Southern Rep/Le Chat Noir, his recent solo show Varla Jean's The Loose Chanteuse featuring Tom Judson, which ran in Provincetown, LA, New York and New Orleans, and last summer's Topping Myself, which sold out its summer run.

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LISTING INFO:
Varla Jean Merman in
Twice Upon A Mattress…Will My Prince Ever Come?
July 1 – August 31
Mondays – Fridays at 9PM
Saturdays – check weekly schedule
The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA
www.ptownarthouse.com or 508-487-9222

Starring Varla Jean Merman
Conceived by Varla Jean Merman
Directed by Varla Jean Merman
Fight Choreography & Dialect Coaching by Varla Jean Merman
Featuring MRF on a piano provided by Varla Jean Merman
Written by Jeffery Roberson & Jacques Lamarre

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Hot off of two Off-Broadway successes this year, the group returns to The Art House theatre where their fast rise began. New show to run June 30 - Sept. 1.

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/08/2013 -- Called the "hottest thing with a bow since Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games" by the New York Daily News, Well-Strung: the Singing String Quartet will return to Provincetown's Art House theater this season. Since the group's 3-month run at the venue last summer, they've been on a roll - with two recent hit New York productions Off-Broadway and their first album released this spring. Well-Strung will debut an all-new show for the summer, running from June 30 – Sept. 1. It is directed again by Donna Drake, and will feature new arrangements of songs by Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift and Third Eye Blind among others as well as new material written by Jeffery Roberson (aka Varla Jean Merman). For tickets, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Two days before beginning their own extended run, the group will also make a guest appearance in Broadway star Joanna Gleason's show which will launch the theater's acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series this season on June 28 & 29. Joanna Gleason, Tony Winner for Into The Woods will combine in each performance the East Coast premiere of a one act play BLOOM, written for her by Michael Patrick King (creator of Sex and The City & Two Broke Girls) with a second act of songs featuring Well-Strung as special guests.

A hit last summer at this theater for their unique 'mash-up of string quartet and boy band,' the group features classical musicians who sing, putting their own spin on the music of Mozart, Vivaldi, Ke$ha, Pink, Adele, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and more. They are Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Christopher Marchant (second violin), Daniel Shevlin (cello) and Trevor Wadleigh (viola). Music arrangements are by David Levinson with additional arrangements by Daniel Shevlin. The show was directed by Donna Drake, conceived by Christopher Marchant & Mark Cortale and written by Ms. Drake & Mr. Cortale, with additional material contributed by Jeffery Roberson. Immediately after their upcoming P-Town run, the foursome will continue their career hot streak with a debut on London's West End in September at the Leicester Square Theater.

The group first began performing together in a workshop production of the show directed by Ms. Drake at Ars Nova in NYC on Feb. 28th, 2012. Musical arrangements were by Mr. Levinson with additional arrangements by Mr. Shevlin. That same show sold out at Joe's Pub in May of 2012 before having an extended run last summer at The Art House in Provincetown, MA and playing Off-Broadway at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater last fall. The group returned to Off-Broadway for the first three weeks of March, 2013, and sold-out the Highline Ballroom for one night in early May. The foursome's debut album was released on Twist Records on February 28, and was produced by Matt Farber (Founder of LOGO Network) and Mark Cortale.

Edmund Bagnell (First Violinist) played Tobias in the 1st National Tour of "Sweeney Todd" directed by John Doyle. He was most recently seen this fall in Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium" playing the role of Toby opposite Varla Jean Merman. Recent regional theater credits include Charlie Brown in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" (Summer Theater of New Canaan), Charlie in "The Big Holiday Broadcast of 1959" written by Joanna Gleason (Fairfield Theater Company), and Oramel Howland in "The Great Unknown" written by Jim Wann ("Pump Boys and Dinettes") and Bill Hauptman ("Big River") as a part of NYMF.

Donna Drake (Director) has appeared in the original Broadway casts of "A Chorus Line," "Sophisticated Ladies," "Woman of the Year," "The Wind in the Willows," "5678-Dance," "It's so nice to be Civilized" and the original production of "The 1940s Radio Hour." She was an Emmy nominee for "Dear Alex and Annie," and received 4 Drama Desk Nominations, a Mac Award Nomination and a Theatre World Award. She also directed John Tartaglia's "Imaginocean," which ran Off Broadway at New World Stages.

David Levinson (Arrangements) collaborated with Stacey Weingarten and Donna Drake on "Les Enfants de Paris" (world premiere NYMF 2011). David is also currently working on music and lyrics for "Boys Lost," "The Elliot's," and "Who Is Prester John?" which are in development.

Chris Marchant (Second Violinist) grew up singing and playing violin, but was not involved with theater until the end of his studies at Malone University in Canton, OH. Since then, he has been involved in numerous productions utilizing his multi-talents as a vocalist, actor, and musician. Career highlights include Tobias ("Sweeney Todd," National Tour), violinist ("Spring Awakening" National Tour), Dennis ("Sanders Family Christmas"), and "Naked Boys Singing."

Daniel Shevlin (Cellist/Arrangements) appeared off-Broadway in "The Sandbox" written and directed by Edward Albee, toured the U.S. and Asia in productions of "Rent" and "Cabaret" (Studio 54 version), and has worked regionally as both an actor and cellist in many theaters including the Arvada Center (CO), The Maltz-Jupiter Theatre (FL), Riverside Theatre (FL), Mason Street Warehouse (MI).

Trevor Wadleigh (Violist) is from Seattle and currently a member of The String Collective of New York. He has taught viola at the University of Puget Sound Community Music Community and is also a co-founder of the Puget Sound Animal Rescue.

Mark Cortale is the Producing Artistic Director of The Art House. In his inaugural season in 2011, he founded the Broadway @ The Art House series with Seth Rudetsky, which this summer of 2013 will present Broadway superstars Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Megan Hilty (of TV's "Smash"), Megan Mullally (of TV's "Will & Grace"), Christine Ebersole, Joanna Gleason, Sam Harris and Marilyn Maye in addition to other national-level music and comedy programming. He is currently producing Seth Rudetsky's new reality series and other Broadway-themed entertainment that can be seen at www.SethTV.com. He also co-wrote and produced Well-Strung's runs this past winter and fall at New York's Marjorie S. Deane Theater. Mark produced the feature film "Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads," which played the 2012 festival circuit with a screening at Frameline in San Francisco. Mark also premiered the Broadway @ series this season in New Orleans, in Australia with Megan Mullally, on London's West End this month with Patti LuPone at Leister Square Theater, and will debut as well in Santa Monica, CA in fall of 2013.

Well-Strung is sponsored by the Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, Mussel Beach and SethTV.com

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

For photo and interview requests contact: tomfervoy@gmail.com

Listing information
Well-Strung – The Singing String Quartet
June 30 – September 7 at 7:30PM
The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Joey Arias & Raven O, summer-long show on Cape Cod to run from July 6 to September 1 at The Art House

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/08/2013 -- Nightlife fixtures Joey Arias & Raven O are joining forces for the first time in a decade. This summer the two will bring their burlesque star-status to Provincetown with their new show Wanted Live at The Art House from July 6 to Sept. 1. For tickets, please visit http://www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Raven O just finished a six-year run as the "Ringleader of Debauchery" for the notorious The Box nightclubs in NYC and London, and more recently a six-month run at The Act in Las Vegas. His 2010 off-Broadway show Raven O, One Night With You was critically acclaimed, prior to which he was featured for three years in Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity.

Joey Arias has been a fixture of New York City's vibrant downtown performance scene for three decades, whose recent solo world tour included a concert at Central Park Summer Stage and The Southbank Centre in London. Prior to this, Arias With a Twist played to sold out crowds in NYC, Los Angeles, Washington DC, about which the New York Times proclaimed: "Eat your heart out Madonna." He also recently completed a 6-year run as the MC of Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity in Las Vegas and arrives in P-Town fresh off of a 4-week residence at NY's Joe's Pub.

The Dynamic Duo both have their roots in Jazz. Arias, a drag chanteuse, has been called "Lady Night" to Billie Holiday's "Lady Day". The androgynous Raven O is described as "the new face of jazz". The pair also plans to mix standards and pop with their unique chemistry and comedy which has flourished during their 20-year relationship as performers and close friends. "P-Town has grown into an amazing place for shows and art and Raven and I can't wait to be part of it" Arias said. "We want to make people's vacations complete, to dream and laugh at the world around us."

The Art House is sponsored by Cape Air, the Anchor Inn Beach House, and SethTV.com

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

For photo and interview requests contact: tomfervoy@gmail.com

LISTING INFO:
Joey Arias & Raven O
in "Wanted Live"
July 6 – September 1
Fridays and Saturdays at 10PM, Sundays at 9PM
The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

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Broadway @ The Art House Lineup Features All-Star Talent All Summer

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/18/2013 -- Joanna Gleason won the Tony Award for her leading role of the Baker's Wife in Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. She launches this season's Broadway @ The Art House season in Provincetown on June 28 and 29 with An Evening with Joanna Gleason. Each performance will combine the East Coast premiere of a the hilarious and moving one act play Bloom, written for her by Emmy and Golden Globe winning writer Michael Patrick King (creator of Sex and The City & Two Broke Girls) with a second act of songs featuring special guests Well-Strung, and hosted by pianist/host Seth Rudetsky. For tickets, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Bloom is a one-woman theatrical event – described by writer King as "part Ted talk, part stand-up comedy" – which investigates one of the great mysteries: "Everyone wonders what happens the moment after you die – but ever wonder what it's like the moment before you're born?" Variety called Joanna Gleason's performance in the West Coast premier "a tour de force." Her East Coast premier of the piece at Provincetown's Art House theater this summer will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids.

Joanna Gleason made her Broadway debut in 1977's I Love My Wife, for which she won the Theatre World Award. In addition to her Tony-winning performance in Into the Woods, she also appeared on Broadway in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Nick & Nora, and The Cartells. Her film appearances include Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors, Heartburn, Boogie Nights, The Wedding Planner, Mr. Holland's Opus, F/X2, The Boys, Fathers and Sons, The Good Wife, and The Pleasure of Your Company. Television performances include playing the role of Nadine Berkus on Love & War from 1992 – 95, and as Joan Silver on Temporarily Yours. She starred in Lifetime's series Oh Baby from 1998 – 2000, and directed several episodes as well. Other roles include the made-for-TV movies If These Walls Could Talk, For the Love of Aaron, Born Too Soon, and For Richer, For Poorer. Other television series include The West Wing, The Practice, King of the Hill, Friends, Tracey Takes On…, Murphy Brown, ER, Outer Limits and Diff'rent Strokes.

Hosted again this summer by Sirius/XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky, whom the New York Times just dubbed "The Mayor of Broadway," this season's Broadway @ The Art House series will run from June 28th through September 8th. In addition to Ms. Gleason, the lineup includes the following artists performing solo shows, with Rudetsky at the piano:

- Joanna Gleason, Tony Winner for Into The Woods will combine in each performance the East Coast premiere of a the hilarious and moving one act play BLOOM, written for her by Michael Patrick King (creator of Sex and The City & Two Broke Girls) with a second act of songs featuring special guests Well-Strung, June 28 & 29
- Sutton Foster, a two-time Tony-winner for the recent Anything Goes and previously for Thoroughly Modern Millie, and star of the ABC Family TV series Bunheads, July 4 & 5
- Audra McDonald, five-time Tony Award winner for Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, A Raisin in the Sun, and the recent Porgy and Bess on Broadway and star of TV's Private Practice, July 21 & 22
- Sam Harris, star of Broadway's The Producers, Grease and The Life, also the first ever Grand Champion of TV's Star Search, starred in Town Hall concert in P-Town last year, returns to town on Aug. 3 & 4
- Marilyn Maye, Grammy-nominated cabaret legend returns after stand-out Art House shows in each of the last two seasons, featuring Billy Stritch at the piano. Aug. 8 -10
- Christine Ebersole, 2x Tony-winner as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, and as Dorothy Black in the revival of 42nd Street, Aug. 17 & 18
- Megan Hilty, break-out star of NBC's Smash and of Broadway's Wicked and 9 to 5: The Musical, Aug. 24 & 25
- Megan Mullally, two-time Emmy-winning star as Karen Walker of TV's Will and Grace, and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein, and the revivals of How to Succeed… and Grease, Aug. 28 & 29
- Patti LuPone, legendary two-time Tony winner for creating the title role of Evita on Broadway, as Rose in the revival of Gypsy, among many other roles, Aug. 31 & Sept. 1
- Chita Rivera, legend and two-time Tony winner as Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Anna in The Rink, also originated the Broadway roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, original casts of Guys and Dolls, Can Can, and many others, Sept. 7 & 8

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius XM satellite radio. As a musician, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera. He was also the Artistic Producer and Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts, which included Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy nomination). As a comic he was awarded "Funniest Gay Male in NY" at Stand-Up NY and is a three-time Emmy nominee as a writer for The Rosie O'Donnell Show. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in The Ritz directed by Joe Mantello, and has appeared on television on Law and Order C.I. and All My Children. As an author, he wrote the books The Q Guide to Broadway, Broadway Nights, and just released his new novel My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan on Random House, and as an audio book on audible.com featuring Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, SNL's Ana Gasteyer, Smash's Megan Hilty among others, and writes a weekly column on Playbill.com. This year he added "television mogul" to that long list on June 18 as Seth TV, his new, web-based entertainment network, launched. His Broadway @ The Art House series will be, by his own signature estimation, even more "A-MAH-zing" this summer than ever! For the complete summer season line-up, visit http://ptownarthouse.com/

For fans that wish to see all 10 of the theater's Broadway @ The Art House stars this summer on Cape Cod, the venue now provides the opportunity to reserve those seats with its new Broadway @ The Art House Season Pass. It guarantees Season Pass holders best seats available, 'front-of-the-line' access, and an overall savings of $115 of the regular price when the full lineup is purchased individually. More info can be found at BrownPaperTickets.com: Broadway @ The Art House Season Pass.

Broadway @ The Art House concert series is sponsored by Cape Air, the Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, and SethTV.com

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

For photo and interview requests contact: tomfervoy@gmail.com

LISTING INFO:
An Evening with Joanna Gleason
Featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
With Special Guests Well-Strung
June 28 & 29
8:00 PM

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Broadway @ The Art House Lineup Features All-Star Talent All Summer

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/18/2013 -- Sutton Foster, a two-time Tony-winner for Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie and star of the critically acclaimed ABC Family series Bunheads will perform three shows during the upcoming July 4th holiday in Provincetown, MA. Her performances, as part of this summer's star-studded Broadway @ The Art House series, include 7pm on Thursday, July 4 and at 5pm and 7pm on Friday July 5. The popular concert series, now in its third season in Provincetown where it originated (and sprouting roots as well in New Orleans, Santa Monica, London, Sydney and elsewhere), is again hosted by Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky. For tickets, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Sutton Foster starred on Broadway in The Will Rogers Follies, Grease, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie, Les Miserables before her big break and Tony Award-winning performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has since then originated roles in the Broadway productions of Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, and Shrek the Musical. She most recently starred as Reno Sweeney in The Roundabout's revival of Anything Goes, a role that earned her the 2011 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire, and Broadway.com's Audience Favorite Awards. She was first seen on television on Star Search at age 15, and has more recently appeared in Johnny and the Sprites and Flight of the Conchords.

While in Provincetown, Ms. Foster will also be presenting a show of her artwork, together with artist Julien Havard, at A Gallery, from Wednesday July 3 through Tuesday July 9. There will be a reception at A gallery following her performance at The Art House on Friday, July 5. For more information visit http://www.agalleryart.com/

Hosted again this summer by Sirius/XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky, whom the New York Times just dubbed "The Mayor of Broadway," this season's Broadway @ The Art House series will run from June 28th through September 8th. In addition to Ms. Foster, the lineup includes the following artists performing solo shows, with Rudetsky at the piano:

- Joanna Gleason, Tony Winner for Into The Woods will combine in each performance the East Coast premiere of a the hilarious and moving one act play BLOOM, written for her by Michael Patrick King (creator of Sex and The City & Two Broke Girls) with a second act of songs featuring special guests Well-Strung, June 28 & 29
- Sutton Foster, a two-time Tony-winner for the recent Anything Goes and previously for Thoroughly Modern Millie, and star of the ABC Family TV series Bunheads, July 4 & 5
- Audra McDonald, five-time Tony Award winner for Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, A Raisin in the Sun, and the recent Porgy and Bess on Broadway and star of TV's Private Practice, July 21 & 22
- Sam Harris, star of Broadway's The Producers, Grease and The Life, also the first ever Grand Champion of TV's Star Search, starred in Town Hall concert in P-Town last year, returns to town on Aug. 3 & 4
- Marilyn Maye, Grammy-nominated cabaret legend returns after stand-out Art House shows in each of the last two seasons, featuring Billy Stritch at the piano. Aug. 8 -10
- Christine Ebersole, 2x Tony-winner as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, and as Dorothy Black in the revival of 42nd Street, Aug. 17 & 18
- Megan Hilty, break-out star of NBC's Smash and of Broadway's Wicked and 9 to 5: The Musical, Aug. 24 & 25
- Megan Mullally, two-time Emmy-winning star as Karen Walker of TV's Will and Grace, and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein, and the revivals of How to Succeed… and Grease, Aug. 28 & 29
- Patti LuPone, legendary two-time Tony winner for creating the title role of Evita on Broadway, as Rose in the revival of Gypsy, among many other roles, Aug. 31 & Sept. 1
- Chita Rivera, legend and two-time Tony winner as Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Anna in The Rink, also originated the Broadway roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, original casts of Guys and Dolls, Can Can, and many others, Sept. 7 & 8

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius XM satellite radio. As a musician, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera. He was also the Artistic Producer and Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts, which included Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy nomination). As a comic he was awarded "Funniest Gay Male in NY" at Stand-Up NY and is a three-time Emmy nominee as a writer for The Rosie O'Donnell Show. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in The Ritz directed by Joe Mantello, and has appeared on television on Law and Order C.I. and All My Children. As an author, he wrote the books The Q Guide to Broadway, Broadway Nights, and just released his new novel My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan on Random House, and as an audio book on audible.com featuring Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, SNL's Ana Gasteyer, Smash's Megan Hilty among others, and writes a weekly column on Playbill.com. This year he added "television mogul" to that long list when he launched Seth TV, his new, web-based entertainment network. His Broadway @ The Art House series will be, by his own signature estimation, even more "A-MAH-zing" this summer than ever! For the complete summer season line-up, visit http://ptownarthouse.com/

For fans that wish to see all 10 of the theater's Broadway @ The Art House stars this summer, the venue now provides the opportunity to reserve those seats with its new Broadway @ The Art House Season Pass. It guarantees Season Pass holders best seats available, 'front-of-the-line' access, and an overall savings of $115 of the regular price when the full lineup is purchased individually. More info can be found at BrownPaperTickets.com: Broadway @ The Art House Season Pass.

Broadway @ The Art House concert series is sponsored by Cape Air, the Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, and SethTV.com

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

For photo and interview requests contact: tomfervoy@gmail.com

LISTING INFO:
An Evening with Sutton Foster
Featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
July 4th at 7pm
July 5th at 5pm and 7pm

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Provincetown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/11/2013 -- (New York, NY, June 11) The dynamic duo of Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale and his creative partner and Music Director Seth Rudetsky, now entering their third season of collaboration, have quickly made their Broadway @ The Art House series the single most sought-after summertime ticket to see Broadway's musical mega-stars. Since launching the series two years ago in Provincetown, its success has most recently spawned runs in New Orleans, Sydney, Melbourne, this June in London and this coming fall/winter in Santa Monica. What differentiates the series from any other perhaps, is the seamless mix of intimate behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway's biggest stars – prompted by the encyclopedic-minded Rudetsky's probing, funny, revealing questions – and their stellar singing of unique repertoire. As has been the creative team's habit, this season is somehow even more impressively star-studded than the last. No mean feat, when last summer's lineup opened with four sold-out intimate concerts by none other than Broadway legend and two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. She returns this year joined by a veritable who's who of Tony Award history of the past four decades. Hosted again this summer by Sirius/XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky, whom the New York Times just dubbed "The Mayor of Broadway," this season's Broadway @ The Art House series will run from June 28th through September 8th. In between, the lineup includes the following artists performing solo shows, with Rudetsky at the piano:

- Joanna Gleason, Tony Winner for Into The Woods will combine in each performance the East Coast premiere of a one act play BLOOM, written for her by Michael Patrick King (creator of Sex and The City & Two Broke Girls) with a second act of songs featuring special guests Well-Strung, June 28 & 29
- Sutton Foster, a two-time Tony-winner for the recent Anything Goes and previously for Thoroughly Modern Millie, and star of the ABC Family TV series Bunheads, July 4 & 5
- Audra McDonald, five-time Tony Award winner for Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, A Raisin in the Sun, and the recent Porgy and Bess on Broadway and star of TV's Private Practice, July 21 & 22
- Sam Harris, star of Broadway's The Producers, Grease and The Life, also the first ever Grand Champion of TV's Star Search, starred in Town Hall concert in P-Town last year, returns to town on Aug. 3 & 4
- Marilyn Maye, Grammy-nominated cabaret legend returns after stand-out Art House shows in each of the last two seasons, featuring Billy Stritch, Aug. 8 -10
- Christine Ebersole, 2x Tony-winner as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, and as Dorothy Black in the revival of 42nd Street, Aug. 17 & 18
- Megan Hilty, break-out star of NBC's Smash and of Broadway's Wicked and 9 to 5: The Musical, Aug. 24 & 25
- Megan Mullally, two-time Emmy-winning star as Karen Walker of TV's Will and Grace, and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein, and the revivals of How to Succeed… and Grease, Aug. 28 & 29
- Patti LuPone, legendary two-time Tony winner for creating the title role of Evita on Broadway, as Rose in the revival of Gypsy, among many other roles, Aug. 31 & Sept. 1
- Chita Rivera, legend and two-time Tony winner as Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Anna in The Rink, also originated the Broadway roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, original casts of Guys and Dolls, Can Can, and many others, Sept. 7 & 8

The stellar summer lineup also includes four of the brightest stars of Comedy, Drag/Variety, Pop/Classical:

Well-Strung: the Singing String Quartet. A hit last summer at this theater for its unique 'mash-up of string quartet and boy band,' the group features classical musicians who sing, putting their own spin on both classical and pop repertoire. Called the "hottest thing with a bow since Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games" by the New York Daily News, Well-Strung returns hot off of two recent hit productions Off-Broadway in New York and a new album release this spring on Twist Records. The group will debut an all-new show for the summer, running from June 30 – Sept. 1, with new arrangements of songs by Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift and Third Eye Blind among others as well as new material written by Jeffery Roberson. Immediately after their upcoming P-Town run, the foursome will make their debut on London's West End in September at the Leister Square Theater.

Joey Arias & Raven O bring their famed burlesque star-status to P-Town with Wanted Live at The Art House from July 6 to Sept. 1. Raven O just finished a six-year run as the "Ringleader of Debauchery" for the notorious The Box nightclubs in NYC and London, and more recently a six-month run at The Act in Las Vegas. His 2010 off-Broadway show Raven O, One Night With You was critically acclaimed, prior to which he was featured for three years in Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity. Joey Arias has been a fixture of New York City's vibrant downtown performance scene for three decades, whose recent solo world tour included a concerts at Central Park Summer Stage and The Southbank Centre in London. Prior to this, Arias With a Twist played to sold out crowds in NYC, Los Angeles, Washington DC, about which the New York Times proclaimed: "Eat your heart out Madonna." He also recently completed a 6-year run as the MC of Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity in Las Vegas and arrives in P-Town fresh off of a 4-week residence at NY's Joe's Pub.

Varla Jean Merman (aka Jeffery Roberson) has been the acknowledged entertainment Queen of P-town for the past decade. Each summer brings the anticipated premiere of her latest, original and irreverent music-comedy show – a guaranteed summer-long sell-out each year. After a typically busy year starring to critical acclaim as the title roles in the original musical comedy farces Mildred Fierce in Boston and Scrooge in Rouge in New Orleans, as well as in Menotti's opera The Medium in New York, Varla returns to P-Town to premiere Twice Upon A Mattress…and other Fairy Tails at The Art House from July 1 – Sept. 1. In it, the artist explains, "Varla gives the mother of all gooses to everyone's favorite fairy tails. After years of kissing frogs, toads and other slimy creatures, Varla is tired of trying to make her prince come. Should she toss it all aside and embrace her inner Evil Queen? With Grimm stories, a castle's worth of couture and a libido that could wear out seven dwarves, this Ambien-addled Sleeping Beauty is wide awake and ready to give everyone a happy ending!"

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius XM satellite radio. As a musician, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera. He was also the Artistic Producer and Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts, which included Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy nomination). As a comic he was awarded "Funniest Gay Male in NY" at Stand-Up NY and is a three-time Emmy nominee as a writer for The Rosie O'Donnell Show. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in The Ritz directed by Joe Mantello, and has appeared on television on Law and Order C.I. and All My Children. As an author, he wrote the books The Q Guide to Broadway, Broadway Nights, and just released his new novel My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan on Random House, and as an audio book on audible.com featuring Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, SNL's Ana Gasteyer, Smash's Megan Hilty among others, and writes a weekly column on Playbill.com. This year he added "television mogul" to that long list as Seth TV, his new, web-based entertainment network, launched. His Broadway @ The Art House series will be, by his own signature estimation, even more "A-MAH-zing" this summer than ever! For the complete summer season line-up, visit http://ptownarthouse.com/

For fans that wish to see all 10 of the theater's Broadway @ The Art House stars this summer, the venue now provides the opportunity to reserve those seats with its new Broadway @ The Art House Season Pass. It guarantees Season Pass holders best seats available, 'front-of-the-line' access, and an overall savings of $115 of the regular price when the full lineup is purchased individually. More info can be found at BrownPaperTickets.com: Broadway @ The Art House Season Pass.

Broadway @ The Art House concert series is sponsored by Cape Air, the Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, and SethTV.com

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

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LISTING INFO:
Melissa Ferrick and her Band
May 25 & 26
9:00 PM

Judy Gold
May 25 & 26
7:00 PM

Joanna Gleason
June 28 & 29
8:00 PM

Well-Strung
June 30 – September 7
7:30PM

Varla Jean Merman
July 1 – August 31
9:00PM

Sutton Foster
July 4 at 7:00 PM
July 5 at 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM

Joey Arias & Raven O
July 6 – September 1
Fridays and Saturdays at 10:00 PM, Sundays at 9:00 PM

Audra McDonald
July 21 & 22
at 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM

Sam Harris
August 3 & 4
7:00 PM

Marilyn Maye
with Billy Stritch at Piano
August 8, 9, 10
7:00 PM

Christine Ebersole
August 17 & 18
7:00 PM

Megan Hilty
August 24 & 25
7:00 PM

Megan Mullally
August 28 & 29
7:00 PM

Patti LuPone
August 31 & September 1
at 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM

Chita Rivera
September 7 at 8:30PM
September 8 at 7:00PM

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
or call 800-838-3006.
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

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