Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/11/2017 -- Mark Cortale's Broadway @ Town Hall series in Provincetown is set to welcome Sutton Foster, Tony Award winner for "Anything Goes" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and star of the hit TV Land series "Younger" by "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, on Sunday, August 13 at 6:30pm with Michael Rafter at piano. She will be followed in the Town Hall series by Jessie Mueller, Tony Award winner for "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical" and most recently a Tony-nominee in Sarah Barielles' "Waitress," making her P-Town debut for the Broadway @ Town Hall series on September 3 at 6:30pm with Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. The series kicks off on August 6 at 6:30pm with Megan Hilty, breakout star of NBC TV's "Smash" and Broadway's "Wicked" and a Tony nominee for the recent Broadway production of "Noises Off", joined by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. The Broadway @ Town Hall series will be raising funds this year for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The 2017 Art House and Town Hall season produced by Mark Cortale is sponsored by Cape Air, Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, Loveland and Provincetown Gym. For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Sutton Foster is a two-time Tony winning actress, singer and dancer who most recently starred in the title role of the New Group's 50th anniversary revival of "Sweet Charity," directed by "Violet" director Leigh Silverman. She was nominated for another Tony Award in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley musical "Violet" at New York's Roundabout Theatre in 2014. She starred on Broadway in "The Will Rogers Follies," "Grease," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "Annie," and "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 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.

Sutton was first seen on television on "Star Search" at age 15, and has appeared in "Johnny and the Sprites" and "Flight of the Conchords." More recently, she was the star of the ABC Family TV ballet 'dramedy' "Bunheads," created by "Gilmore Girls" writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino. She is the star of the TV Land series "Younger" by "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, now in its 4th season, and co-starring Hilary Duff and Debi Mazar. She has also recently appeared on the prestigious 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast, where she performed a medley of hit Broadway songs made famous by honoree Shirley MacLaine, including "Something Better Than This," "Steam Heat" and "She's No Longer A Gypsy."

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 Miserables" and "The Phantom of the Opera." 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. 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). 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. He co-wrote and starred in "Disaster!" (which the NY Times called a "triumph") last season on Broadway. "Disaster!" also premiered to rave reviews in London's West End in November. Seth writes a weekly column on Playbill.com and tours the country with this Broadway concert series and performing his one-man show Deconstructing Broadway.

For more information visit www.sethrudetsky.com.

About Mark Cortale's Broadway @ Town Hall Series
This Broadway @ concert series was created in 2011 by Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale at The Art House in Provincetown featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. In its sixth season last summer the series welcomed back some of the entertainment world's biggest stars including Kristin Chenoweth, Vanessa Williams, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald. 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. The series has since travelled to Chicago @ The Steppenwolf, Beverly Hills @ The Wallis, New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Arizona @ Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Las Vegas @ The Smith Center, and Sarasota @ The Van Wezel among other cities. Other artists who have participated in the series include Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Darren Criss, Megan Hilty, Cheyenne Jackson, Gavin Creel and many other stars of stage and screen.

Info at markcortalepresents.com.

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Mark Cortale Presents:
Broadway @ Town Hall

SUTTON FOSTER
w/Michael Rafter at piano
Sunday, August 13 @ 6:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

JESSIE MUELLER
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Sunday, September 3 @ 6:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

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

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Mark Cortale and Seth Rudetsky’s famed Broadway @ series returns to Provincetown home base, along with a comedy and music cavalcade including Varla Jean Merman, Beth Malone, Alice Ripley, Marilyn Maye, Jinkx Monsoon, Bob The Drag Queen, The Atomic Bombshells, Tori Scott, Kitten N’ Lou, and more!

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/23/2017 -- For the seventh season since taking the reigns at Provincetown's Art House, Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale has announced his largest music and comedy lineup yet. Topping the bill again will be the internationally successful "Broadway @" series, which dynamic duo Cortale and creative partner Seth Rudetsky began in Ptown in 2011 and now makes its home in more than 15 major venues worldwide. For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Summer 2017's series at Town Hall produced by Cortale will include Bianca Del Rio, RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 winner, on July 10 at 8:30pm; Megan Hilty, breakout star of NBC TV's "Smash" and Broadway's "Wicked" and a Tony nominee for the recent Broadway production of "Noises Off", on August 6 at 6:30pm, with Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host; Sutton Foster, Tony Award winner for "Anything Goes" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and star of the hit TV Land series "Younger" by "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, on August 13 at 6:30pm, with Michael Rafter at piano; Laura Benanti, Tony Award winner for "Gypsy" and star on Broadway in "She Loves Me!", and TV's "Nashville", on September 3 at 6:30pm, with Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. The Town Hall series will be raising funds this year for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The seventh annual "Broadway @ The Art House" series for Ptown features another Summer avalanche of Broadway stars: Michael Cerveris, Tony Award winner as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for "Assassins" as John Wilkes Booth and Tony Award winner as Best Actor in a Musical for "Fun Home" as Bruce Bechdel, opens the series on July 1 & 2, with Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host; Alice Ripley, Tony winner for the Pulitzer Prize winning hit "Next to Normal" as well as the first-ever Tony co-nomination (with her co-star Emily Skinner) as the conjoined Hilton sisters in "Side Show", takes the stage on July 16 with Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host; Melissa Errico, Broadway star of "Finian's Rainbow" "High Society," "Anna Karenina," and a Tony nominee as Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady", stars on July 28 & 29, with Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host; Christine Pedi, star of Broadway's "Chicago," "Talk Radio" and "Little Me" and daily host of SiriusXM Radio's On Broadway channel, takes the stage on July 30 with Seth Rudetsky at the piano; Marilyn Maye, living legend cabaret singer and perennial Art House favorite returns from August 4 - 7; Beth Malone, Broadway star of "Ring of Fire" and Tony nominee for 2016's smash hit "Fun Home," makes her Art House debut on August 20 & 21; Faith Prince, Tony Award winner for "Guys and Dolls" stars on August 25 & 26 with Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host; Ana Gasteyer, star of TV's "Grease Live" "Saturday Night Live" and "Suburgatory" and Broadway's "Wicked" closes the Art House season on September 9 with Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host.

More music and comedy stars will fill The Art House's twin stages than ever: Indie music rock star Melissa Ferrick opened the festivities over Memorial Day weekend. The 2017 summer season gets into full swing in late June and the weeks to follow, with Varla Jean Merman, the grande dame of Ptown, returning with an all-new solo show "Bad Heroine" running June 23 through September 1, with Gerald Goode at piano; Steve Grand, a singer who burst onto the scene with his video An All American Boy and his #3 Billboard Independent Album, returns to The Art House for an extended stay this summer from July 5 - August 31; summer 2015's smash hit "Return to Grey Gardens" will return for a summer run starring Jinkx Monsoon and Peaches Christ from July 5 through September 7; "5 to 9" a hilarious parody of the hit movie "9 to 5", set in our even MORE absurd Oval Office! starring Varla Jean Merman, Ryan Landry and Peaches Christ and running from July 14 through September 9; Tori Scott, hailed as one of Time Out New York's Top 10 Cabaret Artists, returns after her triumphant debut last summer, on July 8 & 9, featuring Jesse Kissel at the piano; RuPaul's Drag Race Season Five winner Jinkx Monsoon returns to The Art House with a new show together with cohort Major Scales from July 8 through September 10; Kitten N' Lou, fresh from a critically-acclaimed, sold out smash run at Fringe World in Australia and Joe's Pub in NYC, everyone's favorite gay-married superduo dyke darlings, debut their "Holier Than Thou" at The Art House from July 9 to 24; Unitard, the comedy trio returns to Ptown by popular demand with "Tard Core! (There Are No Safe Words)"- which Time Out NY called "incredibly vicious and relentlessly hilarious" - starring Mike Albo, Nora Burns and David Ilku, directed by Paul Dobie, on July 19 & 20 and September 1 & 2; international touring pop-classical quartet Well-Strung bring their new show for five performances only, from July 23 - 27; "Idol Worship" a one-night-only happening in the form of a chat-variety show premieres on July 25 starring Peaches Christ and Mink Stole; Burlesque Supertroupe The Atomic Bombshells return to Provincetown celebrating their 10th Anniversary with an all new show entitled "Cream" from July 28 to August 29; Drag-comedy favorite Randy Roberts makes an anticipated return August 10 & 11; Bob the Drag Queen, star of RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 debuts at The Art House August 15 - 31; internationally acclaimed opera star Marisol Montalvo premieres her new show "Mad Scene" in Provincetown, directed by Jeffery Roberson, on August 27; Ben Rimalower's hit comedy tribute to Patti LuPone, "Patti Issues" which was the NY Times' "Critic's Pick" and Patti LuPone herself called "fantastic" comes to The Art House on August 28; and the Afterglow Festival - the live performance arts festival - takes up residence at The Art House from September 12 - 16.

The 2017 Art House and Town Hall season produced by Mark Cortale is sponsored by

Cape Air, Anchor Inn Beach House, Ptown Bikes, Loveland and Provincetown Gym.

For fans that wish to see each of The Art House and Town Hall stars this summer, the venue provides the opportunity to reserve those seats with its 2017 All Show Season Pass. It guarantees Season Pass holders best seats available, 'front-of-the-line' access, and an overall savings of $325 off the price of VIP seating. More info can be found at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2929272

About The Art House
The Art House is Provincetown's premier entertainment venue and Cape Cod's summer home to top Broadway talent, internationally touring cabaret artists, stand-up comics and America's cutting edge drag artists. Under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, The Art House in Provincetown, MA, is the original home to the internationally acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House concert series hosted by Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky, which premiered in 2011. 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. The series has since travelled to Chicago @ The Steppenwolf, Beverly Hills @ The Wallis, New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Arizona @ Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Las Vegas @ The Smith Center, and Sarasota @ The Van Wezel among other cities. Other artists who have participated in the series include Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Darren Criss, Megan Hilty, Cheyenne Jackson, Gavin Creel and many other stars of stage and screen. Info at markcortalepresents.com.

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

For interview and hi res photo requests, please contact Tom Fervoy, Director of Marketing and Communications: 646 408-0368 or tom@miweb.cr

Listing Information: (in chronological order)

MARK CORTALE PRESENTS:

VARLA JEAN MERMAN
Bad Heroine
New solo show
w/Gerald Goode at piano
June 23-Sept 1
Tuesdays-Fridays @ 9:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
At The Art House

MICHAEL CERVERIS
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
July 1 & 2 @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ The Art House

STEVE GRAND
All-American Boy
July 5-Aug 31
Tuesdays-Thursdays @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
At The Art House

RETURN TO GREY GARDENS
starring Jinkx Monsoon & Peaches Christ.
July 5-Sept. 7
Wednesdays & Thursdays @ 7:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
At The Art House

TORI SCOTT
w/Jesse Kissel at piano
July 8 & 9 @ 7:00pm
7pm at Art House
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
At The Art House

JINKX MONSOON
w/Major Scales at the piano
In an all-new show
July 8-Sept 10 @ 9:00pm
Saturday-Monday @9:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
At The Art House

KITTEN N' LOU
Holier Than Thou
July 9-24
Saturdays @ 9:30pm Sundays & Mondays @ 8:00pm
And Special Girl Splash show - Tuesday, July 18 at 8:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
At The Art House

BIANCA DEL RIO
Not Today Satan
July 10 @ 8:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Provincetown Town Hall

5 to 9
Starring Varla Jean, Ryan Landry & Peaches Christ
July 14-Sept 9
Fridays and Saturdays @ 7:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
At The Art House

ALICE RIPLEY
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
July 16 @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ The Art House

UNITARD
Tard Core
Directed by Paul Dobie
July 19 & 20 @ 9:30pm
September 1 & 2 @ 9:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

WELL-STRUNG
New show! 5 performances only!
July 23-25 @ 9:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

IDOL WORSHIP
July 25 @ 9:00pm
Hosted by Peaches Christ
Starring Mink Stole
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

MELISSA ERRICO
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
July 28 & 29 @ 8:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ The Art House

THE ATOMIC BOMBSHELLS
Cream
July 29-August 29
Saturdays @ 9:30pm, Sundays - Tuesdays @ 8:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
At The Art House

CHRISTINE PEDI
w/Seth Rudetsky at piano
July 30 @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ The Art House

MARILYN MAYE
August 4 - 7 @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ The Art House

MEGAN HILTY
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
August 6 @ 6:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ Provincetown Town Hall

RANDY ROBERTS
August 10 & 11 @ 9:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

SUTTON FOSTER
w/Michael Rafter at piano
August 13 @ 6:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ Provincetown Town Hall

BOB THE DRAG QUEEN
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race season 8
August 15 - 31 @ 9:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

BETH MALONE
Tony Nominee for Fun Home
Aug. 20 & 21 @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ The Art House

FAITH PRINCE
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Aug 25 & 26 @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ The Art House

MARISOL MONTALVO
International Opera Star
in "Mad Scene"
directed by Jeffery Roberson
August 27 @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway At The Art House

PATTI ISSUES
starring Ben Rimalower
August 28 @ 9:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

LAURA BENANTI
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
September 3 @ 6:30pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ Provincetown Town Hall

ANA GASTEYER
w/Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
September 9 @ 7:00pm
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
Broadway @ The Art House

AFTERGLOW FESTIVAL
September 12 - 16
For Tickets and information, visit http://www.afterglowfestival.org/

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

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

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Two time Tony winner and Broadway’s original Anita in “West Side Story” to perform at Merriam Theater with Sirius XM star Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host

Philadelphia, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/22/2017 -- Chita Rivera is a living Broadway legend and a two-time Tony winner who originated the 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. Producer Mark Cortale announced recently that she will be coming to Philadelphia for one show only on Saturday, June 3 at 8:00 PM.. SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky joins her as pianist and host for an evening of unforgettable songs and conversation. The format of the evening will be a seamless mix of intimate behind-the-scenes stories from one of Broadway's biggest stars – prompted by Rudetsky's insightful, funny, revealing questions – and Rivera singing some of the biggest hits from her musical theatre repertoire. This is a spontaneous evening of hilarity and show-stopping songs not to be missed. For tickets and information please visit www.KimmelCenter.org or call 215-893-1999.

An accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received eight additional Tony nominations for an exceptional 10 Tony nominations. She recently starred in "The Visit," the final John Kander/Fred Ebb/Terrence McNally musical directed by John Doyle and choreographed by Graciela Daniele on Broadway (2015), following the acclaimed production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2014. She starred in the Broadway revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," 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 and the revival of the Broadway musical "Nine" with Antonio Banderas. She trained as a ballerina (from age 11) before receiving a scholarship to the School of American Ballet from legendary George Balanchine. Chita's first appearance (age 17) was as a principal dancer in "Call Me Madam." Her electric performance as Anita in the original Broadway premiere of "West Side Story" brought her stardom, which she repeated in London. Her career is highlighted by starring roles in "Bye Bye Birdie," "The Rink" (Tony Award), "Chicago," "Jerry's Girls," "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (Tony Award), and the original Broadway casts of "Guys and Dolls," "Can-Can," "Seventh Heaven" and "Mr. Wonderful." On tour: "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 in 2009. She received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor in 2002 and became the first Hispanic woman ever chosen to receive this award. In November, 2016 she headlined at Carnegie Hall and in 2015, Great Performances aired their special "Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin' To Do," a retrospective of her extraordinary life and career nationally on PBS. Chita's current solo CD is entitled And Now I Swing. Her most treasured production is her daughter, singer/dancer/choreographer Lisa Mordente.

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 Miserables" and "The Phantom of the Opera." 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. 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). 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. He co-wrote and starred in "Disaster!" (which the NY Times called a "triumph") last season on Broadway. "Disaster!" also premiered to rave reviews in London's West End in November. Seth writes a weekly column on Playbill.com and tours the country with this Broadway concert series and performing his one-man show Deconstructing Broadway. For more information visit www.sethrudetsky.com.

About The Broadway Series
The Art House in Provincetown, MA, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, is the original home to the internationally acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series hosted by Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans at NOCCA, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. Between 2014 - 2016, the series has presented Broadway superstars such as Rosie O'Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Vanessa Williams, Matthew Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson and Megan Hilty. Producer Mark Cortale recently announced the Provincetown summer season lineup for Broadway @ The Art House and Broadway @ Town Hall!

More information at markcortalepresents.com. When searching for "what to do in Philadelphia", Chita Rivera live at The Kimmel Center is a musical entertainment event not to be missed!

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The Kimmel Center & Mark Cortale Present
Broadway Up Close
Chita Rivera, legendary two time Tony Award Winner
with Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Saturday, June 3, at 8:00 PM
Merriam Theatre
250 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102

For tickets and information please visit www.KimmelCenter.org or call 215-893-1999.

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Two time Tony winner and Broadway’s original Anita in “West Side Story” to perform at The Smith Center, co-starring Sirius XM star Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host

Las Vegas, NV -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/28/2017 -- Chita Rivera is a living Broadway legend and a two-time Tony 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. Producer Mark Cortale announced recently that she will be coming to Las Vegas for one show only on Sunday, April 30 at 3:00 PM. SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky joins her as pianist and host for an evening of unforgettable songs and conversation. Tickets are now on-sale - further information can be found at http://www.thesmithcenter.com or by calling 702-749-2000.

An accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received eight additional Tony nominations for an exceptional 10 Tony nominations. She recently starred in "The Visit," the final John Kander/Fred Ebb/Terrence McNally musical directed by John Doyle and choreographed by Graciela Daniele on Broadway (2015), following the acclaimed production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2014. She starred in the Broadway revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," 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 and the revival of the Broadway musical "Nine" with Antonio Banderas. She trained as a ballerina (from age 11) before receiving a scholarship to the School of American Ballet from legendary George Balanchine. Chita's first appearance (age 17) was as a principal dancer in "Call Me Madam." Her electric performance as Anita in the original Broadway premiere of "West Side Story" brought her stardom, which she repeated in London. Her career is highlighted by starring roles in "Bye Bye Birdie," "The Rink" (Tony Award), "Chicago," "Jerry's Girls," "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (Tony Award), and the original Broadway casts of "Guys and Dolls," "Can-Can," "Seventh Heaven" and "Mr. Wonderful." On tour: "Born Yesterday," "The Rose Tattoo," "Call Me Madam,: "Threepenny Opera," "Sweet Charity," "Kiss Me Kate," "Zorba," "Can-Can" with The Rockettes. Chita was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2009. She received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor in 2002 and became the first Hispanic woman ever chosen to receive this award. In November, 2016 she headlined at Carnegie Hall and in 2015, Great Performances aired their special "Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin' To Do," a retrospective of her extraordinary life and career nationally on PBS. Chita's current solo CD is entitled And Now I Swing. Her most treasured production is her daughter, singer/dancer/choreographer Lisa Mordente.

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 Miserables" and "The Phantom of the Opera." 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. 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). 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. He co-wrote and starred in "Disaster!" (which the NY Times called a "triumph") last season on Broadway. "Disaster!" also premiered to rave reviews in London's West End in November. Seth writes a weekly column on Playbill.com and tours the country with this Broadway concert series and performing his one-man show Deconstructing Broadway.

For more information visit www.sethrudetsky.com.

About The Broadway Series
The Art House in Provincetown, MA, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, is the original home to the internationally acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series hosted by Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans at NOCCA, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. Between 2014 - 2016, the series has presented Broadway superstars such as Rosie O'Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Vanessa Williams, Matthew Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson and Megan Hilty. Producer Mark Cortale recently announced the Provincetown summer season lineup for Broadway @ The Art House and Broadway @ Town Hall!

More information at markcortalepresents.com. When searching for "what to do in Las Vegas", Chita Rivera live at The Smith Center is a musical entertainment event not to be missed!

For interview and hi res photo requests, please contact Tom Fervoy, Director of Marketing and Communications: 646-408-0368 or tom@miweb.cr

Listing Information:

The Smith Center and Mark Cortale Present

Chita Rivera with Seth Rudetsky
Sunday, April 30 at 3:00 PM

The Smith Center
361 Symphony Park Ave
Las Vegas, NV 89106

For tickets and information, please visit http://www.thesmithcenter.com/ or call 702-749-2000.

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Two time Tony winner and Broadway’s original Anita in “West Side Story" joins Nourse Theater series, co-starring Sirius XM star Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/25/2017 -- Chita Rivera is a living Broadway legend and a two-time Tony 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. Producer Mark Cortale announced recently that she will be coming to San Francisco for one night only on April 29 at 8:00 PM, joining a stellar season that kicked off this past January with two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole. SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky joins her as pianist and host for an evening of unforgettable songs and conversation. The Broadway @ The Nourse concert series will help raise funds for San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Project Open Hand, and San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Tickets are now on-sale - further information can be found at www.cityboxoffice.com/broadway or by calling (415) 392-4400. The series offers a special 20% discount when purchasing tickets to the Chita Rivera performance, by using the discount code "Anita".

An accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received eight additional Tony nominations for an exceptional 10 Tony nominations. She recently starred in "The Visit," the final John Kander/Fred Ebb/Terrence McNally musical directed by John Doyle and choreographed by Graciela Daniele on Broadway (2015), following the acclaimed production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2014. She starred in the Broadway revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," 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 and the revival of the Broadway musical "Nine" with Antonio Banderas. She trained as a ballerina (from age 11) before receiving a scholarship to the School of American Ballet from legendary George Balanchine. Chita's first appearance (age 17) was as a principal dancer in "Call Me Madam." Her electric performance as Anita in the original Broadway premiere of "West Side Story" brought her stardom, which she repeated in London. Her career is highlighted by starring roles in "Bye Bye Birdie," "The Rink" (Tony Award), "Chicago," "Jerry's Girls," "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (Tony Award), and the original Broadway casts of "Guys and Dolls," "Can-Can," "Seventh Heaven" and "Mr. Wonderful." On tour: "Born Yesterday," "The Rose Tattoo," "Call Me Madam,: "Threepenny Opera," "Sweet Charity," "Kiss Me Kate," "Zorba," "Can-Can" with The Rockettes. Chita was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2009. She received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor in 2002 and became the first Hispanic woman ever chosen to receive this award. In November, 2016 she headlined at Carnegie Hall and in 2015, Great Performances aired their special "Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin' To Do," a retrospective of her extraordinary life and career nationally on PBS. Chita's current solo CD is entitled And Now I Swing. Her most treasured production is her daughter, singer/dancer/choreographer Lisa Mordente.

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 Miserables" and "The Phantom of the Opera." 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. 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). 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. He co-wrote and starred in "Disaster!" (which the NY Times called a "triumph") last season on Broadway. "Disaster!" also premiered to rave reviews in London's West End in November. Seth writes a weekly column on Playbill.com and tours the country with this Broadway concert series and performing his one-man show Deconstructing Broadway. For more information visit www.sethrudetsky.com.

About The Broadway Series
The Art House in Provincetown, MA, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, is the original home to the internationally acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series hosted by Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans at NOCCA, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. Between 2014 - 2016, the series has presented Broadway superstars such as Rosie O'Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Vanessa Williams, Matthew Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson and Megan Hilty. Producer Mark Cortale recently announced the Provincetown summer season lineup for Broadway @ The Art House and Broadway @ Town Hall! More information at markcortalepresents.com. When searching for "what to do in San Francisco", Chita Rivera in Broadway @ The Nourse is an evening of musical entertainment not to be missed!

For interview and hi res photo requests, please contact Tom Fervoy, Director of Marketing and Communications: 646-408-0368 or tom@miweb.cr

Listing Information:
Mark Cortale Presents:
Broadway @ The Nourse

Chita Rivera
Featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
One Night Only
Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 8:00 PM

A Concert To Help Raise Funds for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Project Open Hand & San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus

For tickets and information, visit www.cityboxoffice.com/broadway or call 415-392-4400.

The Nourse Theater
275 Hayes Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: 415-392-4400

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Hosted by Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky, the popular series kicks off 2016-17 season at Parker Playhouse on December 30

Fort Lauderdale, FL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/21/2016 -- Hosted by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky whom the New York Times dubbed "The Mayor of Broadway," this unique series returns this winter to The Broward Center for the Performing Arts' Parker Playhouse with three new concert dates for the 2016-17 season produced by Mark Cortale. Kicking off the season is Broadway's Gavin Creel, Olivier Award Winning star "The Book of Mormon" and star of "She Loves Me" performing on December 30 at 8:00 PM, immediately prior to his return to Broadway where he will co-star with Bette Midler in "Hello Dolly!." He is followed by Matthew Morrison, who has been nominated for a Tony Award for "Light in the Piazza" and Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for his starring role in the hit TV series "Glee" on February 17, 2017 at 8:00 PM, and comedy legend Andrea Martin, star of TV's SCTV and two-time Tony Award winner for the Broadway revival of "Pippin" and "My Favorite Year," on April 1, 2017 at 8:00 PM. What differentiates this concert 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 musical theatre repertoire. Producer Cortale and his creative partner Rudetsky have quickly made their Broadway @ series the single most sought-after ticket to see Broadway's musical mega-stars in concert. Since launching the series in 2011 at Provincetown's Art House, its success has lead to runs in London, Sydney, Melbourne, New Orleans, San Francisco and Philadelphia and many other cities. For tickets and information, please visit https://www.browardcenter.org/ or call 954-468-3280.

Gavin Creel most recently starred in the Broadway revival of "She Loves Me" this past season. He won the 2014 Olivier Award and the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor In A Musical for his starring role in London's West End production of "The Book of Mormon" in the role of Elder Price. Of his Tony-nominated role as Claude in the smash hit Broadway revival of "Hair," the New York Times hailed him as "the pure-voiced Gavin Creel," the Associated Press noted that "Gavin Creel, besides possessing a powerhouse voice, brings a sweet-tempered poignancy to Claude". Just three years after graduating from the University of Michigan, Creel was cast in his first Broadway show – "Thoroughly Modern Millie"– as Millie's (Sutton Foster's) love interest Jimmy Smith. He received his first Tony nomination for his performance. He also appeared on Broadway in the revival of "La Cage aux Folles" as Jean-Michel, as well as the Goodman Theatre/Kennedy Center production of "Bounce," American Repertory Theater's premiere of the new rock musical "Prometheus," the New York concert versions of "Hair" and "Bright Lights, Big City," and on London's West End in "Mary Poppins" and "Hair." On television he has been featured with Julie Andrews in "Eloise at the Plaza" and "Eloise at Christmastime." His studio recordings include GoodTimeNation, Quiet, Get Out and the single 'Noise'.

Matthew Morrison has been nominated for a Tony Award for "Light in the Piazza" and Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for his starring role in the hit TV series "Glee." He most recently starred as "J.M Barrie" in the Harvey Weinstein musical "Finding Neverland." The Broadway production, an adaptation of the 2004 film, follows the relationship between Barrie and the Davies family, who became the author's inspiration for the creation of Peter Pan. Morrison received two Drama Desk nominations for his role, and won the category of Favorite Actor in a Musical in the Broadway.com Audience Awards. In 2015, he wrapped the final season of Fox's musical comedy series "Glee," where he starred as the director of the glee club, "Mr. Schuester." The show was created by Ryan Murphy and received the Golden Globe award "Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical" in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Morrison starred in the Lionsgate film, "What to Expect When You're Expecting," which was based on the book of the same name, directed by Kirk Jones. The film also starred Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez and Dennis Quaid among others. Morrison played a famous dance show star who is faced with the unexpected demands of fatherhood. Morrison studied musical theater, vocal performance and dance at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and made his debut on Broadway in "Footloose." His big break, however, came when he was cast as heartthrob Link Larkin in the hit "Hairspray." He was later nominated for a Tony Award for his role in "The Light in the Piazza," and received a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Musical for "10 Million Miles." He also starred in the Tony-winning revival of "South Pacific" at Lincoln Center Theater in New York. Matthew Morrison was the first artist signed to Adam Levine's record label, 222 Records, where he released his Broadway standards album, "Where it All Began," in June 2013.

Andrea Martin is the legendary comedy star of SCTV and the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." She won her second and most recent Tony Award in 2013 for her performance as Berthe in the Broadway revival of "Pippin" and was nominated for another Tony Award last season for the 2016 production "Noises Off." She can currently be seen on the Hulu hit series "Difficult People" created by Julie Klausner. Martin's big break came when she got cast in the original Toronto production of Godspell, in what is now considered the legendary cast of Victor Garber, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Jayne Eastwood and Paul Shaffer, their musical director. She went on to join the famous SCTV troup winning two Emmy awards for writing, winning her first Tony award for Featured Actress in a Musical for "My Favorite Year,' and also garnering Tony nominations for her roles in "Young Frankenstein," "Oklahoma" and "Candide." Her film credits include "Breaking Upwards," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "All Over the Guy," "Young Triffie's Been Made Away With," "Stepping Out," "Bogus," "Wag the Dog," "New York Minute," "Black Christmas," and "Cannibal Girls." In addition to her legendary work on SCTV, her television credits include "My Big Fat Greek Life," "Ed," and "Nurse Jackie."

Seth Rudetsky, has hosted the Broadway Series at The Nourse for its three seasons, as well as in Provincetown for the six seasons since its inception, and nation-wide in many other major cities. He is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on SiriusXM Stars. As a pianist, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera among many others. As a comic, Rudetsky 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. His newest book, The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek was published by Random House and is available on Amazon.com. He co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed new musical "Disaster!" this past season on Broadway. "Disaster!" also premiered to rave reviews on London's West End at the Charing Cross Theatre on November 20th.

About The Broadway Series
The Art House in Provincetown, MA, 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 sixth season this past summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Patti LuPone, Matthew Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson, Megan Hilty and Vanessa Williams. 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. The series has travelled to Fort Lauderdale (The Broward Center), Philadelphia (The Kimmel Center), San Francisco (The Nourse Theatre) and this summer it had its inaugural season at the Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center. More information at markcortalepresents.com. For the must-see musical event in South Florida this season, you won't want to miss this Broadway concert series.

For photos and interview requests contact Tom Fervoy: tom@miweb.cr

Listing Information:

The Broward Center and Mark Cortale Present:
Gavin Creel
with SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
December 30, 2016 at 8:00 PM

Matthew Morrison
February 17, 2017 at 8:00 PM
featuring SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host

Andrea Martin
April 1, 2017 at 8:00 PM
featuring SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host

The Parker Playhouse
707 Northeast 8th Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
For tickets please visit the Parker Playhouse website or call 954-462-0222.

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Kimmel Center series hosted by Sirius XM’s Seth Rudetsky will also feature stars Vanessa Williams, Alice Ripley and Chita Rivera for 2016-17 season

Philadelphia, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/05/2016 -- Four of Broadway's biggest names will come to Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the second season of the "Broadway Up Close" series hosted by SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky, the man The New York Times called the 'Mayor of Broadway.' The series is produced by Mark Cortale and first up is Matthew Morrison, who has been nominated for a Tony Award for "Light in the Piazza" and Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for his starring role in the hit TV series "Glee" for one show only on Saturday, December 17 at 8:00 PM. Other stars appearing in the series this season will be Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominated superstar Vanessa Williams on Jan. 21, followed by Alice Ripley, Tony Award winner for "Next to Normal" on May 6, and last but not least, living legend and a two-time Tony winner Chita Rivera on June 3. What differentiates this concert series from any other 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 musical theatre repertoire. This annual concert series has become one of Philadelphia's most sought after music events. For tickets and information please visit www.KimmelCenter.org or call 215-893-1999.

Matthew Morrison has been nominated for a Tony Award for "Light in the Piazza" and Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for his starring role in the hit TV series "Glee." He most recently starred as "J.M Barrie" in the Harvey Weinstein musical "Finding Neverland." The Broadway production, an adaptation of the 2004 film, follows the relationship between Barrie and the Davies family, who became the author's inspiration for the creation of Peter Pan. Morrison received two Drama Desk nominations for his role, and won the category of Favorite Actor in a Musical in the Broadway.com Audience Awards. In 2015, he wrapped the final season of Fox's musical comedy series "Glee," where he starred as the director of the glee club, "Mr. Schuester." The show was created by Ryan Murphy and received the Golden Globe award "Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical" in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Morrison starred in the Lionsgate film, "What to Expect When You're Expecting," which was based on the book of the same name, directed by Kirk Jones. The film also starred Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez and Dennis Quaid among others. Morrison played a famous dance show star who is faced with the unexpected demands of fatherhood. Also in 2012, he hosted and narrated the PBS special entitled "Oscar Hammerstein II - Out of My Dreams," which focused on the Broadway producer's life and career, and was also featured that year in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, '8' – a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage. The performance raised money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.

Morrison studied musical theater, vocal performance and dance at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and made his debut on Broadway in "Footloose." His big break, however, came when he was cast as heartthrob Link Larkin in the hit "Hairspray." He was later nominated for a Tony Award for his role in "The Light in the Piazza," and received a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Musical for "10 Million Miles." He also starred in the Tony-winning revival of "South Pacific" at Lincoln Center Theater in New York. Matthew Morrison was the first artist signed to Adam Levine's record label, 222 Records, where he released his Broadway standards album, "Where it All Began," in June 2013.

Seth Rudetsky, has hosted the Broadway Series at The Nourse for its three seasons, as well as in Provincetown for the six seasons since its inception, and nation-wide in many other major cities. He is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on SiriusXM Stars. As a pianist, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera among many others. As a comic, Rudetsky 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. His newest book, The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek was published by Random House and is available on Amazon.com. He co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed new musical "Disaster!" this past season on Broadway. "Disaster!" also premiered on London's West End at the Charing Cross Theatre on November 20th.

About The Broadway series
The Art House in Provincetown, MA, 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 sixth season this past summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Patti LuPone, Matthew Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson, Megan Hilty and Vanessa Williams. 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. The series has travelled to Fort Lauderdale (The Broward Center), Philadelphia (The Kimmel Center), San Francisco (The Nourse Theatre) and this summer it had its inaugural season at the Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center. More information at markcortalepresents.com. When looking for what to do in December and into the new year, the Broadway Up Close concert series is considered one of the "must-do" events in Philadelphia.

For interview requests and additional high res photos please contact Tom Fervoy at tom@miweb.cr

Listing Information:
Kimmel Center & Mark Cortale Present

Matthew Morrison, star of TV's "Glee" and Broadway's "Finding Neverland"
Featuring Sirius XM's Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Produced by Mark Cortale
Saturday, December 17, at 8:00 PM

Perelman Theatre
300 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
For tickets and information please visit
www.KimmelCenter.org
or call 215-893-1999.

Vanessa Williams, star of TV's "Ugly Betty" and Broadway's "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
Featuring Sirius XM's Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Produced by Mark Cortale
Saturday, January 21, at 8:00 PM

Perelman Theatre
300 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
For tickets and information please visit
www.KimmelCenter.org
or call 215-893-1999.

Alice Ripley, Tony Award Winner for "Next to Normal"
Featuring Sirius XM's Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Produced by Mark Cortale
Saturday, May 6, at 8:00 PM

Perelman Theatre
300 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
For tickets and information please visit
www.KimmelCenter.org
or call 215-893-1999.

Chita Rivera, legendary two time Tony Award Winner
Featuring Sirius XM's Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Produced by Mark Cortale
Saturday, June 3, at 8:00 PM

Merriam Theatre
250 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
For tickets and information please visit
www.KimmelCenter.org
or call 215-893-1999.

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Oak Bluffs, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/12/2016 -- Kristin Chenoweth, star of Broadway's original "Wicked" and Tony-Winner for "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown," star of TV's "Glee" and Emmy-winner for "Pushing Daisies" will perform solo shows for Broadway @ The Performing Arts Center on Martha's Vineyard on August 14 at 6pm for one show only, and at Broadway @ Town Hall in Provincetown on August 16 for two shows at 6pm and 8:30pm. Both appearances will feature Mary-Mitchell Campbell at the piano. The concerts will help raise funds for the Tyler Clementi Foundation.

For tickets call 800-838-3006 or visit http://www.vineyardbroadway.com/ and www.ptownarthouse.com.

Emmy and Tony Award winning actress and singer, Kristin Chenoweth's career spans film, television, voice over, and stage, effortlessly. She received an Emmy Award for her work on the ABC series Pushing Daisies. In her role on Fox TV's "Glee's" quirky ex-songstress, April Rhodes, she was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a People's Choice Award in the category of "Favorite TV Guest Star." Though Kristin has often come into our living rooms on hit shows such as "The West Wing" (where she starred as Annabeth Schott) and as a guest judge on both American Idol and Project Runway, she may be most remembered by Broadway lovers everywhere for her origination of the role of Glinda the Good Witch in "Wicked," which earned her a Tony Award Nomination. In addition, her Tony-winning performance in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" stole the show, and many hearts, in the process. In 2015, she made her return back on Broadway as glamorous film star Lily Garland in the Roundabout Theatre Company's "On the Twentieth Century," which received rave reviews and earned Kristin a Tony Award nomination and the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award.

Chenoweth can be seen in the Universal film, "The Boy Next Door," with Jennifer Lopez, and "A Bet's A Bet" with Mena Suvari and Eric Roberts, as well as the indie teen drama "Hard Sell" and as a poisonous frog named Gaby, in Blue Sky Studio's "Rio 2." She was also featured in the TV Land series, "Kirstie,"? and returned for the 100th episode of "Glee." In addition to her much-anticipated appearances on both the small and big screens, Kristin sold out Carnegie Hall for the third time in May of 2014 in her show "The Evolution of a Soprano" with musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell and director Richard Jay-Alexander and that July performance at the celebrated Royal Albert Hall in London. A veteran of the concert stage, Kristin has performed to sold-out crowds in concert halls across the country. In 2013, she made her Australian national touring debut, headlining the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and performing at the famed Sydney Opera House. She made national headlines with her stunning renditions of Hollywood's most beloved songs from classic films, when she performed to a sold-out crowd at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2013, Kristin also performed to a sold-out audience at The Allen Room in New York's acclaimed Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, with her show – "Kristin Chenoweth: The Dames of Broadway… All of 'Em!!!," directed by Richard Jay Alexander, which also aired on PBS.

Additional touring highlights include: a sold-out Los Angeles solo debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, a sold-out solo concert at The Metropolitan Opera House as just the third theater star ever to present a solo concert at the MET, an evening at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, the Washington National Opera's 50th Anniversary Gala with Placido Domingo, a solo concert at Sam Mendes' acclaimed, Donmar Warehouse, as part of the Divas at Donmar series, and collaborations with renowned symphonies, including – The New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. In addition to her starring roles on stage and screen, in 2009, Kristin also wrote an upliftingly candid, comedic chronicle of her life so far, in, A Little Bit Wicked, which was released by Simon & Schuster, and debuted at # 12 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller List.

It's no secret that Kristin wears her heart on her sleeve when it comes to her love of theater, which was also the catalyst for her charity partnership with the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center (BA PAC) Foundation in her hometown (in Oklahoma). The Kristin Chenoweth Theater at the BA PAC, renamed in 2012 to celebrate its biggest advocate, supporter, and celebrated role model to aspiring hometown performers, welcomes internationally acclaimed concert artists and Broadway productions, provides educational outreach and master classes with touring artists, after-school and summer arts institutes, scholarship programs, community enrichment and opportunities for students to travel and perform on a national level. Kristin is also a passionate supporter of charities which dedicate their time and efforts to helping those in need, such as: The Red Cross, Broadway Cares EFA, The Point Foundation, ASTEP, breast cancer awareness, adoption advocacy and organizations supporting animal welfare. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Musical Theater and a Master's degree in Opera Performance from Oklahoma City University. She was also presented with Honorary Doctorate degrees from both University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and her alma mater, Oklahoma City University. Kristin is an inductee into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, as well as the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.

About the Tyler Clementi Foundation
The Tyler Clementi Foundation promotes safe and inclusive spaces for LGBT and vulnerable youth and families. The organization speaks in schools, churches and workplaces about turning bystanders into Upstanders, parents coming out, and supporting youth before crisis. Watch the video about the Tyler Clementi Foundation on YouTube.

For more information, please visit www.tylerclementi.org.

About The Broadway Series
The Art House in Provincetown, MA, 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 fifth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Rosie O'Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Audra McDonald, and Vanessa Williams. 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 in addition to Santa Monica, the series traveled 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 and Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts.

More information at markcortalepresents.com.

Both the Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center and The Art House in Provincetown are wheelchair accessible.

Listing Information:

Mark Cortale Presents
Broadway @ The Performing Arts Center - 2016 Inaugural Season
Kristin Chenoweth
with Mary-Mitchell Campbell at the piano
August 14 at 6:00 PM
Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center
100 Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Rd.
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557
Broadway @ The Performing Arts Center is sponsored by Cape Air, The Harbor View Hotel, and Hy-Line Cruises

For tickets please visit www.vineyardbroadway.com or for information call 800-838-3006.

Mark Cortale Presents
Broadway @ Town Hall
Kristin Chenoweth
with Mary-Mitchell Campbell at the piano
August 16 at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM
Town Hall
260 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA
Broadway @ Town Hall is sponsored by the Anchor Inn Beach House, Cape Air, Ptown Bikes, Ross' Grill and Provincetown Gym

For tickets visit http://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

Sirius XM Radio host Seth Rudetsky will perform as pianist and host.

Oak Bluffs, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/15/2016 -- The inaugural season of Broadway at The Performing Arts Center brings six of Broadway's leading ladies - and two of its leading men - to its new concert series on Martha's Vineyard this summer, produced by Mark Cortale. Debuting at the venue this month, Megan Hilty, breakout star of NBC TV's "Smash" and Broadway's "Wicked" and a Tony nominee for the recent Broadway production of "Noises Off", will perform on Saturday, July 16 at 8:00 PM, joined by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. The hotly anticipated 2016 debut season will also include superstars Vanessa Williams on July 9, Kristin Chenoweth on August 14, Audra McDonald and Will Swenson on August 22, Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman on August 29, and Patti LuPone on September 2. The concert series will help raise funds for the Tyler Clementi Foundation. For tickets and information please visit http://www.vineyardbroadway.com/ or call 800 838-3006.

In addition to her breakout roles on NBC TV's "Smash" and "Sean Saves The World" (starring opposite Sean Hayes), Megan Hilty made her Broadway debut as Glinda in "Wicked" shortly after graduating from prestigious Carnegie Mellon University. She has also appeared on New York stages as Lorelei Lee in the Encores! production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." For her critically acclaimed portrayal of Doralee Rhodes in Broadway's "9 to 5: The Musical" she received nominations for the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League Awards. This spring, Hilty received critical acclaim for her role of Brooke Ashton in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of "Noises Off." She earned nominations for a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Drama League Award and won a Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Featured Actress in a Play. On Television this year, she recurred on Bravo's dramedy "Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce" and the final season of CBS' "The Good Wife." This May, Hilty released a live album comprising of songs from her recent concert tour, entitled "Megan Hilty Live at the Cafe Carlyle." She also completed a residency at New York's Cafe Carlyle, where she previously performed the last two years. This summer, she will appear in Hulu's "Difficult People" and CBS' "BrainDead" and continue to tour abroad, making her Australian debut as part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. This November, she will be seen in "Rules Don't Apply," a feature film written, directed and produced by Warren Beatty. She will also complete production on the TV LAND pilot "The First Wives Club" alongside Alyson Hannigan.

Megan has previously performed with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and with the Cincinnati Symphony. Her voice was featured as Rosetta in Disney's "Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings" and also in Disney's "The Secret Life of Magic Gourd," "Phineas & Ferb," "Glenn Martin DDS," "American Dad," "Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games," "Robot & Monster" as well as singing as Snow White in the film "Shrek the Third," and in Summertime Entertainment's "Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return" with Kelsey Grammer, Hugh Dancy and Lea Michele. She can also be heard alongside Placido Domingo on the opera star's duet album. In 2013 Megan released her debut solo album, "It Happens All The Time," which included fresh interpretations of compositions by contemporary songwriters and producers.

Seth Rudetsky, has hosted the Broadway Series in Provincetown for the previous five seasons, since its inception. He is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on SiriusXM Stars. As a pianist, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera among many others. As a comic, Rudetsky 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. His newest book, The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek was published by Random House and is available on Amazon.com. He co-wrote and starred the critically acclaimed new musical "Disaster!" this season on Broadway.

About the Tyler Clementi Foundation
The Tyler Clementi Foundation promotes safe and inclusive spaces for LGBT and vulnerable youth and families. The organization speaks in schools, churches and workplaces about turning bystanders into Upstanders, parents coming out, and supporting youth before crisis. For more information, please visit www.tylerclementi.org.

About The Broadway Series
The Art House in Provincetown, MA, 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 fifth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Rosie O'Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Audra McDonald, and Vanessa Williams. 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 in addition to Santa Monica, the series traveled 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 and Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts. More information at markcortalepresents.com.

Both the Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center and The Art House in Provincetown are wheelchair accessible.

Listing Information:
Mark Cortale Presents
Broadway @ The Performing Arts Center - 2016 Inaugural Season
Megan Hilty
Star of NBC TV's "Smash"
with Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Saturday, July 16 at 8:00 PM

Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center
100 Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Rd.
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

Broadway @ The Performing Arts Center is sponsored by Cape Air, The Harbor View Hotel, and Hy-Line Cruises
For tickets please visit www.vineyardbroadway.com or for information call 800-838-3006.

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

Featuring Sirius XM Radio star Seth Rudetsky as Pianist and Host

New York, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/08/2016 -- Vanessa Williams, the Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominated superstar, will make her Martha's Vineyard debut at The Performing Arts Center on July 9 at 8:00 PM, and will kick-off Bear Week in Provincetown at Town Hall on July 11 at 8:30 PM. Both shows, featuring SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host, will help raise funds for the Tyler Clementi Foundation. Varla Jean Merman will be the special guest opening act for Vanessa Williams' performance in Provincetown.

For tickets call 800-838-3006 or visit http://www.vineyardbroadway.com/ and www.ptownarthouse.com.

Vanessa Williams has enjoyed one of the most varied and successful careers of any entertainer today. As a recording artist, she has sold over 25 million records worldwide, including #1 and Top 10 hits in genres stretching from Pop, Dance, R&B, Latin, Gospel, Jazz and more, including 17 total Grammy nominations. Her platinum single "Colors of the Wind" from the soundtrack to Disney's animated hit film "Pocahontas" won the Oscar for Best Original Song. On Television she starred as Wilhelmina Slater on "Ugly Betty," a role that brought her three Emmy nominations during the series' four-season run. She was just tapped by VH-1 to star in the new scripted series "Satan Sisters" based on the 2011 book by Star Jones which begins production this July.

On film, Vanessa has starred in "Soul Food," for which she won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress and the Black Film Award for Best Actress, as well as the films "Dance with Me," "Light It Up," "Shaft," "And Then Came Love," "My Brother," "Johnson Family Vacation," "Eraser," "Hannah Montana: The Movie," "Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor," among others. Among the award broadcasts she has hosted, are "The Essence Awards," "NAACP Image Awards," "TV Land Awards," "The Daytime Emmy Awards." Her Broadway performances include her Tony-nominated role in the revival of "Into the Woods," as well as "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Sondheim on Sondheim," "The Trip to Bountiful," "After Midnight," and Encores' "St. Louis Woman." Vanessa Williams has received both the Lena Horne "Lady of Soul" Award and the International Press Academy's "Mary Pickford Award" for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to The Entertainment Industry. In 2007 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her accomplishments as a performer. She also received the Human Rights Campaign "Ally for Equality" Award for Humanitarian Contributions, and is an advocate for equal rights, especially concerning the LGBT community and minorities.

Seth Rudetsky, has hosted the Broadway Series in Provincetown for the previous five seasons, since its inception. He is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on SiriusXM Stars. As a pianist, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera among many others. As a comic, Rudetsky 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. His newest book, The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek was published by Random House and is available on Amazon.com. He co-wrote and starred the critically acclaimed new musical "Disaster!" this season on Broadway.

About The Tyler Clementi Foundation
The Tyler Clementi Foundation promotes safe and inclusive spaces for LGBT and vulnerable youth and families. The organization speaks in schools, churches and workplaces about turning bystanders into Upstanders, parents coming out, and supporting youth before crisis.

For more information, please visit www.tylerclementi.org.

About The Broadway Series
The Art House in Provincetown, MA, 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 fifth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Rosie O'Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Audra McDonald, and Vanessa Williams. 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 in addition to Santa Monica, the series traveled 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 and Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts.

More information at markcortalepresents.com.

Both the Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center and The Art House in Provincetown are wheelchair accessible.

Listing Information:

Mark Cortale Presents
Broadway @ The Performing Arts Center - 2016 Inaugural Season
Vanessa Williams
with Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Saturday, July 9 at 8:00 PM
Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center
100 Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Rd.
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

Broadway @ The Performing Arts Center is sponsored by Cape Air, The Harbor View Hotel, and Hy-Line Cruises

For tickets please visit www.vineyardbroadway.com or for information call 800-838-3006.

Broadway @ The Art House and Mark Cortale Present
Vanessa Williams
featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host and
Varla Jean Merman as opening act.
Monday, July 11 at 8:30 PM
At Town Hall
260 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA

Broadway @ Town Hall is sponsored by the Anchor Inn Beach House, Cape Air, Ptown Bikes, Loveland and Ross' Grill.

For tickets 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

Next up are ABC TV “Smash” and Broadway “Wicked” star Megan Hilty on May 17 and 2015 Tony Award winner for “The King and I” Kelli O’Hara on June 14

Philadelphia, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/02/2016 -- The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia will welcome three of Broadway's biggest names as part of its new concert series at The Merriam Theater this season, produced by Mark Cortale. Sutton Foster, two-time Tony Award winner for "Anything Goes" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and star of TV's hit series "Younger" will perform for one concert only on March 3 with Michael Rafter at the piano. Megan Hilty, breakout star of NBC TV's "Smash" and Broadway's "Wicked" and the current Broadway production of "Noises Off" follows on May 17th, and Kelli O'Hara, Tony Award winner for the current "The King and I" on Broadway, will close the season on June 14th. Both Hilty and O'Hara will be joined by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host of the series that began in October with Audra McDonald. For tickets and information please visit http://www.KimmelCenter.org or cal 215-893-1999.

Sutton Foster (performing March 3, 2016) won two Tony Awards for her leading roles in "Anything Goes" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and stars on television's hit new series "Younger" on TV Land, which premiered last year to rave reviews, launched its 2nd season on January 13 - and has announced it has already been renewed for a 3rd season for next year. Sutton recently starred in the revival of Andrew Lippa's "The Wild Party" for Encores at City Center this past July. She was nominated for another Tony Award in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley musical "Violet" at New York's Roundabout Theatre in 2014. Sutton Foster has starred on Broadway in "The Will Rogers Follies," "Grease," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "Annie," and "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 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 appeared in "Johnny and the Sprites" and "Flight of the Conchords." More recently, she was the star of the ABC Family TV ballet 'dramedy' "Bunheads," created by "Gilmore Girls" writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino. She is the star of the new TV Land series "Younger" by "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, which co-stars Hilary Duff and Debi Mazar. Last year she also appeared on the prestigious 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast, where she performed a medley of hit Broadway songs made famous by honoree Shirley MacLaine, including "Something Better Than This," "Steam Heat" and "She's No Longer A Gypsy."

Megan Hilty (performing May 17th) in addition to her break-out roles on TV's "Smash" and "Sean Saves The World" (starring opposite Sean Hayes), Megan made her Broadway debut as Glinda in "Wicked" shortly after graduating from prestigious Carnegie Mellon University, and went on to perform the role in both the national tour and in Los Angeles. She has also appeared on New York stages as Lorelei Lee in the Encores! production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," for which she earned rave reviews. For her critically acclaimed portrayal of Doralee Rhodes in Broadway's "9 to 5: The Musical" she received nominations for the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League Awards, as well as the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award. She has previously performed with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and with the Cincinnati Symphony. Her voice was featured as Rosetta in Disney's "Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings" and also in Disney's "The Secret Life of Magic Gourd," "Phineas & Ferb," "Glenn Martin DDS," "American Dad," "Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games," "Robot & Monster" as well as singing as Snow White in the film "Shrek the Third." Megan recently wrapped production on Summertime Entertainment's animated film "Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return" with Kelsey Grammer, Hugh Dancy and Lea Michele, slated for release in 2013. She can also be heard alongside Placido Domingo on the opera star's duet album. Megan was recently signed to Sony Music in a partnership between Sony Masterworks and Columbia Records. Her new album, "It Happens All The Time," was released last spring, including fresh interpretations of compositions by contemporary songwriters and producers.

Kelli O'Hara (performing June 14th) most recently won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the critically acclaimed revival of "The King and I," in addition to Drama League and Outer Critics nominations. In 2014 she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for her performance as Francesca in the musical adaptation of "The Bridges of Madison County." That same year, she starred as Mrs. Darling in NBC's live telecast of "Peter Pan" in which she co-starred with Allison Williams and Christian Borle, and made her Metropolitan Opera debut in "The Merry Widow" with Renee Fleming. Other starring roles on Broadway include co-starring with Matthew Broderick in "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), "South Pacific" at Lincoln Center (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), co-starring with Harry Connick, Jr. in "The Pajama Game" (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critic's Circle Award nominations), "The Light in the Piazza" (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), "Jekyll & Hyde," "Follies," "Dracula," and "Sweet Smell of Success" opposite John Lithgow. Her film and television credits include "Sex and the City 2," "Blue Bloods," "All Rise," PBS's "Alexander Hamilton" with Brian F. O'Byrne, "NUMB3RS," "All My Children," and the animated series "Car Talk."

About The Series
This Broadway @ concert series was created in 2011 by Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale at The Art House in Provincetown featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. In its fifth season this past summer the series including some of the entertainment world's biggest stars including Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Audra McDonald, Rosie O'Donnell and Vanessa Williams. 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. Additional artists who have participated in the series include Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Chita Rivera, Cheyenne Jackson, Gavin Creel, Ana Gasteyer, and Joanna Gleason.

Info at markcortalepresents.com.

Listing Information:
Kimmel Center & Mark Cortale Present

Two-time Tony Award Winner Sutton Foster
Featuring Michael Rafter at the piano.
Produced by Mark Cortale
March 3, 2016 at 8:00 PM

NBC "Smash" star Megan Hilty
Featuring Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky as pianist/host
Produced by Mark Cortale
May 17, 2016 at 8:00 PM

Tony Award Winner Kelli O'Hara
Featuring Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky as pianist/host
Produced by Mark Cortale
June 14, 2016 at 8:00 PM

Merriam Theatre
250 S. Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
For tickets and information please visit
www.KimmelCenter.org
or call 215-893-1999

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

Broadway in New Orleans series continues third season with two of Broadway, TV and Film’s favorite leading ladies

New York, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/12/2014 -- The Broadway @ NOCCA series first launched in early 2013 when it made the leap from its now famous summer home at The Art House in Provincetown, MA. Beginning with no less than the legendary original "Evita" Patti LuPone, Broadway and Television's brightest lights have blazed a path to the Big Easy each season thanks to Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale and Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky. In this, the series' third season in New Orleans, the collective Broadway @ New Orleans series has already welcomed the debuts of Joanna Gleason - Tony-winner for "Into The Woods" and star of film's "Boogie Nights" and "The Wedding Planner" on on October 11 at Le Petit Theatre with special guests Well-Strung, the Singing String Quartet, followed by Cheyenne Jackson - star of TV's "30 Rock" and "Glee" and Broadway's "Damn Yankees" on November 7. This star-powered lineup continues into the new year with Ana Gasteyer - star of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," ABC's "Suburgatory" and Broadway's "Wicked" on March 28th, and Christine Ebersole - two-time Tony-winning star of Broadway's "Grey Gardens" and "42nd Street" on May 21, both at NOCCA and featuring Seth Rudetsky at the Piano.

For tickets please visit http://www.broadwaynola.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_campaign=NOLA2014 or call 800-838-3006.

Ana Gasteyer is best known for her incomparable work on "Saturday Night Live." During her six year stint, she created some of the most famous SNL characters including middle school music teacher Bobbie Moughan-Culp, NPR radio host Margaret Jo, Lilith Fair poetess Cinder Calhoun, as well as spot-on impressions of Martha Stewart, Celine Dion and Hillary Rodham Clinton. She recently returned to SNL as Margaret Jo in "NPR'S Delicious Dish" and the now infamous "Muffin Top" sketch with Betty White, which Gasteyer created and wrote. On stage, Ana Gasteyer made her triumphant Broadway debut as Columbia in "The Rocky Horror Show." Since then, Gasteyer earned raves as Elphaba in "Wicked" on Broadway, and originated the role for the Chicago production, earning a Jefferson Award nomination. Other New York theater credits include the Tony-nominated Broadway productions of "The Royal Family" directed by Doug Hughes, "The Threepenney Opera" with Alan Cumming and Jim Dale, Eve Ensler's acclaimed Off-Broadway hit "The Vagina Monologues," and Manhattan Theatre Club's hit production of "Kimberly Akimbo" by celebrated playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. On film, Ana has been seen in "Dare," "Mean Girls," "The Women," "What Women Want," "Woman On Top," "Dick," and "What's The Worst That Could Happen?" Other television credits include "The Good Wife," "Chuck," Showtime's "Reefer Madness," "Frasier," "Just Shoot Me," "3rd Rock from the Sun," "NYPD Blue," "Mad About You," "Law & Order," "Party of Five," "Seinfeld" (the "Soup Nazi" episode). Most recently Ana was seen in the Tyler Perry produced film "We The Peeples" opposite Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, Melvin Van Peebles and Diahann Carroll, and in HBO's hit series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" opposite Larry David.

Christine Ebersole won her second Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as virtually every Off-Broadway award, for her "dual role of a lifetime" as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in "Grey Gardens." The critically acclaimed musical was nominated for a total of ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the CD recording was nominated for a Grammy Award. Her extensive Broadway career also includes her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Black in the hit revival of "42nd Street," in addition to leading roles in "On the Twentieth Century," "Oklahoma," Gore Vidal's "The Best Man," the recent revival of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," and "Dinner at Eight" for which she received both Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominations. Concert appearances include the recent concert version of the opera "The Grapes of Wrath" at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony's tribute to Leonard Bernstein, the Boston Pops' concert version of "A Little Night Music," and on the PBS concerts "Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall" and "The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty." In addition to her acclaimed stage career, Christine Ebersole has also appeared in numerous hit films such as "Amadeus," "Tootsie," "Richie Rich," "Black Sheep," "Dead Again," "Folks!," "Ghost Dad," "True Crime," "My Girl 2," "Mac and Me," and "Confessions of a Shopaholic." Her television credits include appearances on "Retired at 35," "Royal Pains," "Ugly Betty," "Law and Order SVU," "Boston Legal," "Samantha Who," "Will and Grace," "The Nanny," "Just Shoot Me," "Murphy Brown," "Ally McBeal," "Valerie," "Ryan's Hope," "One Life to Live" and "The Colbert Report."

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, visit: www.SethTV.com.

About Mark Cortale Productions
Mark Cortale (Artist Manager & Producer) is the Producing Artistic Director at The Art House in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In his inaugural season in 2011, he founded the Broadway @ The Art House series featuring Seth Rudetsky as host and pianist. The artists he has presented on the series to-date have included Broadway superstars Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Megan Mullally, Megan Hilty, Jane Krakowski, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Ebersole, among others. He also co-founded Well-Strung, The Singing String Quartet and has produced their hit shows, each directed by Donna Drake, throughout the US, and in the U.K. In 2012 Mark produced the feature film Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads and launched Seth Rudetsky's new Broadway-themed web network at www.SethTV.com. Over the past three seasons he has produced the Broadway @ series in Provincetown, New Orleans, Australia (with Megan Mullally), London's West End (with Patti LuPone), Los Angeles, the Poconos, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Hartford, Detroit and just announced in San Francisco.

Listing Information:

Ana Gasteyer
star of Saturday Night Live and Broadway's "Three Penny Opera"
with SiriusXM Radio Star
Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
1 Show Only
Saturday, March 28 at 7:30PM
NOCCA
2800 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA
For tickets please visit http://broadwaynola.com/?limitstart=0&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_campaign=NOLA2014 or call 800-838-3006

Christine Ebersole
Two Time Tony-winning star of "Gray Gardens" and "42nd Street"
with SiriusXM Radio Star
Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
1 Show Only
Thursday, May 21st at 7:30PM
NOCCA
2800 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA
For tickets please visit http://broadwaynola.com/?limitstart=0&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_campaign=NOLA2014 or call 800-838-3006

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Three of Broadway’s Biggest Stars to Perform at Ft. Lauderdale’s Parker Playhouse in 2014/2015 Season

New York, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/12/2014 -- Seth Rudetsky's Broadway Concert Series @ The Broward Center for the Performing Arts' Parker Playhouse, produced by Mark Cortale, will welcome Audra McDonald - the historic 6-time Tony-winner and star of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," "Porgy and Bess," "Ragtime," "Master Class" as well as TV's "Private Practice," on January 8, 2015; followed by Cheyenne Jackson - star of TV's "30 Rock" and "Glee" and Broadway's "Damn Yankees" and "Xanadu" on February 14; and Sutton Foster - two-time Tony winner for "Anything Goes" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and star of ABC's "Bunheads" and the new TV Land series "Younger," on March 20. Each of the concerts will feature Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. What differentiates the series from any other 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 musical theatre repertoire.

For tickets please visit the Parker Playhouse website or call 954-462-0222.

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. This past June she made history by winning her sixth Tony Award for her role as Billie Holiday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill." 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 more recently as a cast member of "The Good Wife." In December 2013 Audra won critical acclaim for her performance as the Mother Abbess in NBC's live telecast of "The Sound of Music" with Carrie Underwood. Her film roles include "Cradle Will Rock," "Object of My Affection," "It Runs in the Family," "Best Thief in the World," and "Seven Servants."

Cheyenne Jackson has starred on both "30 Rock" opposite Tina Fey and "Glee" where he played the voice coach for the group Vocal Adrenaline, and can currently be seen in the Ira Sachs film "Love is Strange" opposite Marisa Tomei, John Lithgow and Alfred Molina. On Broadway, Cheyenne most recently starred in Encore's production of "The Most Happy Fella" at City Center, "Finian's Rainbow," "Damn Yankees," "Xanadu," "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and," "All Shook Up." Off-Broadway he was seen in the original cast of "Altar Boyz". He also recently appeared in "Behind the Candelabra," directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. Cheyenne has appeared in a number of films, including his portrayal of Mark Bingham in the 2006 Academy Award nominated "United 93," "The Green" opposite Julia Ormond and Illeana Douglas, "Price Check" with Parker Posey, and "Lola Versus." Upcoming 2013 films include; "Mutual Friends," and "Lucky Stiff." On television Cheyenne was seen on NBC's "30 Rock" portraying series regular Danny Baker and recently portrayed Dustin Goolsby, the new coach of Vocal Adrenaline on Fox's hit TV series "Glee." Other television credits include; "Family Practice," "Life on Mars," "Ugly Betty," "It Takes a Village," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Local Talent," "Mockingbird Lane," and "The Onion News Empire." In concert, he has sold-out Carnegie Hall twice. "The Power of Two" in 2010 with Michael Feinstein followed by his solo debut concert with the NY Pops "Music of the Mad Men Era" in 2011. "The Power of Two" was hailed by the New York Times as "passionate," "impeccably harmonized," and "groundbreaking." "Music of the Mad Men Era" was lauded by the NY Daily News which said "Cheyenne Jackson has got it all and he showed it all: the voice, the moves, the quirky self-effacing humor. He gleamed like Don Draper's Brylcreemed hair."

Sutton Foster starred on Broadway in "The Will Rogers Follies," "Grease," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "Annie," and "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 returned to Broadway this spring in a revival of the Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley musical "Violet" at New York's Roundabout Theatre at the American Airlines Theatre. She was first seen on television on "Star Search" at age 15, and has appeared in "Johnny and the Sprites" and "Flight of the Conchords." Most recently, she was the star of the ABC Family TV ballet 'dramedy' "Bunheads," created by "Gilmore Girls" writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino. It was announced recently that she will star in the pilot for the new TV series "Younger" by "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star. In December 2013 she appeared at the 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, where she performed a medley of hit Broadway songs made famous by honoree Shirley MacLaine, including "Something Better Than This," "Steam Heat" and "She's No Longer A Gypsy."

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/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_campaign=parker2014

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 this past 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 Fort Lauderdale, the series travels to New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, San Antonio @ The Woodlawn Theatre, The Poconos @ The Pocono Community Theatre, and Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts… and at a city near you soon! Additional artists participating throughout this season include Chita Rivera, Megan Mullally, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason and Christine Ebersole.

Info at markcortalepresents.com

Listing Information:
Mark Cortale Presents
Seth Rudetsky's Broadway Concert Series:

Six-Time Tony Winner
Audra McDonald
featuring SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
January 8, 2015 at 8:00 PM

Star of Broadway and TV's "Glee" and "30 Rock"
Cheyenne Jackson
featuring SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
February 14, 2015 at 8:00 PM

Two-Time Tony Winner
Sutton Foster
featuring SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
March 20, 2015 at 8:00 PM

For tickets please visit the Parker Playhouse website or call 954-462-0222.

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Group’s new hit show POPssical has begun a national tour directly following two sold out concerts with Chenoweth this past August in Provincetown, Massachusetts

New York,, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/28/2014 -- After seeing Well-Strung's debut music video, Kristin Chenoweth, Tony & Emmy winning star of Wicked and Glee, invited the group to appear in her two sold-out Provincetown concerts this past August at Town Hall. The group just posted their stirring performance of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah on their YouTube channel with an introduction by Chenoweth.

In October they were featured in Tony-winner Joanna Gleason's critically acclaimed new show in New York at 54 Below and New Orleans at Le Petit Theatre. Last week they shared the bill with Broadway performers Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess and opera star Deborah Voigt in a star-studded lineup directed by Richard Jay-Alexander to open Orlando's new Walt Disney Theater. Well-Strung has just launched their second national concert tour. In the past six months they have performed on NBC's TODAY Show with Kathie Lee & Hoda and Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live. The New York Times writing about the group's current show said "Well-Strung, a talented quartet of men who sing and play string instruments - got its start in Provincetown and brilliantly fuses pop and classical music from Madonna to Beethoven."

The group also had their first major magazine cover spread in Metrosource. They have been referred to as "absolutely amazing" by BBC Radio host Jo Good during their London debut, and as "the hottest thing with a bow since Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games" by the New York Daily News. The new show POPssical, written by the group and directed by Broadway veteran Donna Drake, features new arrangements of songs by Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, U2, Miley Cyrus, One Direction, Madonna and more. The four group members are Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Christopher Marchant (second violin), Daniel Shevlin (cello) and Trevor Wadleigh (viola). Arrangements are by David Levinson with additional arrangements by Bruce Carter and Well-Strung. The group was conceived by Mark Cortale and Christopher Marchant.

Their new national tour includes upcoming dates with shows at the, The Nourse Theater in San Francisco with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (Dec. 12 & 13), The Coral Springs (FL) Museum of Art (Jan. 14, 2015), Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, FL (Jan. 15), South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay, FL (Jan. 17), The Palm in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Jan. 18 - Feb. 6), Riberas Auditorio in Ajijic, Mexico (Feb. 7th), Corning Opera House in Corning, Iowa (Feb. 20), the NIACC Performing Arts Center in Mason City, IA (Feb. 21), Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles (Feb. 28), the Frauenthal Center in Muskegon, MI (March 3) The Dorothy Menker Theatre in Palo HIlls, IL (Mar. 7), Lancaster Performing Arts Center in Lancaster, CA (April 24) and South Orange Performing Arts Center in NJ (June 12). For tickets please visit www.well-strung.com.

Well-Strung first began performing together in a workshop production of the show directed by Ms. Drake at Ars Nova in NYC on February of 2012. That same show sold out at Joe's Pub in May of 2012 before having an extended debut run that summer at The Art House in Provincetown, MA and playing Off-Broadway at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater the following fall. Recent highlights include making their debut on London's West End at the Leicester Square Theatre, performing at Vienna's LifeBall on the same bill as Kesha, and returning to P-Town's Art House theatre in 2014 for a their third consecutive summer-long premiere of a new show. The foursome's debut album was released on Twist Records and was produced by Matt Farber (Founder of LOGO Network) and Mark Cortale. The music video for their "mash-up" of Mozart meets Kelly Clarkson debuted in the summer of 2013 and has been featured in the Huffington Post, ABC Television, and many other media outlets.

About Mark Cortale Productions:
Mark Cortale (Artist Manager & Producer) is the Producing Artistic Director at The Art House in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In his inaugural season in 2011, he founded the Broadway @ The Art House series featuring Seth Rudetsky as host and pianist. The artists he has presented on the series to-date have included Broadway superstars Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Megan Mullally, Megan Hilty, Jane Krakowski, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Ebersole, among others. He also co-founded Well-Strung, The Singing String Quartet and has produced their hit shows, each directed by Donna Drake, throughout the US, and in the U.K. and Australia. In 2012 Mark produced the feature film Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads and launched Seth Rudetsky's new Broadway-themed web network at www.SethTV.com. Over the past three seasons he has produced the Broadway @ series in Provincetown, New Orleans, Australia (with Megan Mullally), London's West End (with Patti LuPone), Los Angeles, the Poconos, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Hartford, Detroit and just announced in San Francisco.

For tour dates, tickets, additional information please visit www.well-strung.com

Listing Info:
WELL-STRUNG
The Singing String Quartet in POPssical

Written and performed by Well-Strung
Starring Edmund Bagnell, Christopher Marchant, Daniel Shevlin & Trevor Wadleigh
Conceived by Mark Cortale & Christopher Marchant
Musical arrangements by David Levinson
Additional arrangements by Well-Strung and Bruce Carter
Videos by Randy Rainbow
Production tour & stage management by Timothy Babcock
Produced by Mark Cortale
Directed by Donna Drake

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Megan Hilty of NBC’s Smash and Broadway’s Wicked and Cheyenne Jackson of TV’s 30 Rock, Glee and Broadway’s Xanadu kick-off Broadway @ The Nourse series

New York,, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/28/2014 -- Hosted by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky whom the New York Times dubbed "The Mayor of Broadway," this unique series arrives this winter at The Nourse Theater with two concerts scheduled for Megan Hilty on February 7th and Cheyenne Jackson on March 14th. What differentiates this concert series from any other 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 musical theatre repertoire. Producer Mark Cortale and his creative partner Rudetsky have quickly made their Broadway @ series the single most sought-after ticket to see Broadway's musical mega-stars like Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald and Megan Mullally in concert. Since launching the series in 2011 at Provincetown's Art House, its success has most recently led to runs in London, Sydney, Melbourne, New Orleans, Santa Monica, Fort Lauderdale, Detroit, San Antonio, and now San Francisco. The Broadway @ The Nourse concert series will benefit The San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Project Open Hand, and the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Drag superstar Varla Jean Merman will be a special guest on the Cheyenne Jackson concert on March 14th. Tickets are now on-sale - further information can be found at www.cityboxoffice.com/broadway or by calling (415) 392-4400.

Megan Hilty, was a 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. A native of Seattle, Megan made her Broadway debut as Glinda in "Wicked" shortly after graduating from prestigious Carnegie Mellon University, and went on to perform the role in both the national tour and in Los Angeles. She has also appeared on New York stages as Lorelei Lee in the Encores! production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," for which she earned rave reviews. For her critically acclaimed portrayal of Doralee Rhodes in Broadway's "9 to 5: The Musical" she received nominations for the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League Awards, as well as the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award. She has previously performed with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and with the Cincinnati Symphony. Megan's voice was featured as Rosetta in Disney's "Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings" and also in Disney's "The Secret Life of Magic Gourd," "Phineas & Ferb," "Glenn Martin DDS," "American Dad," "Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games," "Robot & Monster" as well as singing as Snow White in the film "Shrek the Third." Megan is featured in Summertime Entertainment's animated film "Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return" with Kelsey Grammer, Hugh Dancy and Lea Michele. She can also be heard alongside Placido Domingo on the opera star's duet album. Megan was recently signed to Sony Music in a partnership between Sony Masterworks and Columbia Records. Her most recent album, "It Happens All The Time," includes fresh interpretations of compositions by contemporary songwriters and producers.

Cheyenne Jackson has starred on both "30 Rock" opposite Tina Fey and "Glee" where he played the voice coach for the group Vocal Adrenaline, and can currently be seen in the Ira Sachs film "Love is Strange" opposite Marissa Tomei, John Lithgow and Alfred Molina. On Broadway, Cheyenne most recently starred in Encore's production of "The Most Happy Fella" at City Center, "Finian's Rainbow," "Damn Yankees," "Xanadu," "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and," "All Shook Up." Off-Broadway he was seen in the original cast of "Altar Boyz". He also recently appeared in "Behind the Candelabra," directed by Steven Soderberg and starring Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. Cheyenne has appeared in a number of films, including his portrayal of Mark Bingham in the 2006 Academy Award nominated "United 93?, "The Green" opposite Julia Ormond and Ileana Douglas, "Price Check" with Parker Posey, and "Lola Versus". Upcoming films include; "Mutual Friends," and "Lucky Stiff." Other television credits include; "Family Practice," "Life on Mars," "Ugly Betty," "It Takes a Village," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Local Talent," "Mockingbird Lane," and "The Onion News Empire." In concert, he has sold-out Carnegie Hall twice. "The Power of Two" in 2010 with Michael Feinstein followed by his solo debut concert with the NY Pops "Music of the Mad Men Era" in 2011. "The Power of Two" was hailed by the New York Times as "passionate," "impeccably harmonized," and "groundbreaking." "Music of the Mad Men Era" was lauded by the NY Daily News which said "Cheyenne Jackson has got it all and he showed it all: the voice, the moves, the quirky self-effacing humor. He gleamed like Don Draper's Brylcreemed hair." This past year also saw the release of his new album "I'm Blue Skies".

Jeffery Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman starred 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 won Boston's Elliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance in "The Phantom of the OPRAH." He starred as Mother Superior in SpeakEasy Stage's "The Divine Sister" by Charles Busch in Boston. 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, Plush Room and most recently Feinstein's. Jeffery recently completed shooting the feature films "Hush Up Sweet Charlotte" directed by Billy Clift and the sequel to "Girls Will Be Girls" directed by Richard Day. His last film "Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads" played the 2012 festival circuit and is currently available exclusively via SethTV.com. 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.

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: www.SethTV.com.

About Mark Cortale Productions:
Mark Cortale (Artist Manager & Producer) is the Producing Artistic Director at The Art House in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In his inaugural season in 2011, he founded the Broadway @ The Art House series featuring Seth Rudetsky as host and pianist. The artists he has presented on the series to-date have included Broadway superstars Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Megan Mullally, Megan Hilty, Jane Krakowski, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Ebersole, among others. He also co-founded Well-Strung, The Singing String Quartet and has produced their hit shows, each directed by Donna Drake, throughout the US, and in the U.K. and Australia. In 2012 Mark produced the feature film Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads and launched Seth Rudetsky's new Broadway-themed web network at www.SethTV.com. Over the past three seasons he has produced the Broadway @ series in Provincetown, New Orleans, Australia (with Megan Mullally), London's West End (with Patti LuPone), Los Angeles, the Poconos, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Hartford, Detroit and just announced in San Francisco.

Listing Information:
Mark Cortale Presents:
Broadway @ The Nourse
A Concert Series Benefiting San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Project Open Hand &
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus

Megan Hilty featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
February 7th 2015 at 8:00 PM

Cheyenne Jackson with special guest Varla Jean Merman featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host
March 14th 2015 at 8:00 PM

For tickets and info, please visit www.cityboxoffice.com/broadway or call (415) 392-4400.

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Emmy and Tony Award winning actress and singer to perform two concerts only, at 6:30 and 9:00 PM, on Sunday, August 10

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/06/2014 -- Kristin Chenoweth, star of Broadway's original "Wicked" and Tony-Winner for "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown," will make her anticipated Provincetown debut in Broadway @ Town Hall (a part of the acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series) on August 10 for two shows only at 6:30pm and 9:00pm. Chenoweth will be appearing in Provincetown after two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall this past May and the Royal Albert Hall in London two weeks ago. She will be directed by Richard Jay-Alexander,and will be joined by Kevin Stites at the piano. For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 508-487-9222.

Emmy and Tony Award winning actress and singer, Kristin Chenoweth's career spans film, television, voice over, and stage, effortlessly. She received an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the ABC series Pushing Daisies. More recently, Chenoweth lit up the stage of McKinley High as a former student who returned to town on Fox's hit comedy, Glee. In her role as Glee's quirky ex-songstress, April Rhodes, she was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a People's Choice Award in the category of "Favorite TV Guest Star." Though Kristin has often come into our living rooms on hit shows such as The West Wing (where she starred as Annabeth Schott) and as a guest judge on both American Idol and Project Runway, she may be most remembered by Broadway lovers everywhere for her origination of the role of Glinda the Good Witch in "Wicked," which earned her a Tony Award Nomination. In addition, her Tony-winning performance in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, stole the show, and many hearts, in the process.

Chenoweth recently wrapped production on the upcoming Universal film, The Boy Next Door, with Jennifer Lopez, and is currently in production on several other film projects, including: A Bet's A Bet with Mena Suvari and Eric Roberts, and the indie teen drama, Hard Sell. This spring, Kristin once again reinvents herself, this time as a poisonous frog named Gaby, in Blue Sky Studio's, Rio 2. She will also be featured in a guest arc on the TV Land series, "Kirstie,"? and recently returned for the 100th episode of "Glee."

In addition to her much-anticipated appearances on both the small and big screens, Kristin sold out Carnegie Hall for the third time on May 3rd in her show The Evolution of a Soprano; musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, directed by Richard Jay-Alexander. She performed songs from her latest album, Some Lessons Learned, as well as some of her most memorable songs from Broadway's Wicked, Promises Promises, and her performances on Glee. Also this July, Kristin traveled across the pond for her much-anticipated solo performance at the celebrated Royal Albert Hall in London.

A veteran of the concert stage, Kristin has performed to sold-out crowds in concert halls across the country. In 2013, she made her Australian national touring debut, headlining the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and performing at the famed Sydney Opera House. She made national headlines with her stunning renditions of Hollywood's most beloved songs from classic films, when she performed to a sold-out crowd at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2013, Kristin also performed to a sold-out audience at The Allen Room in New York's acclaimed Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, with her show – Kristin Chenoweth: The Dames of Broadway… All of 'Em!!!, directed by Richard Jay Alexander, which also aired on PBS.

In addition to her starring roles on stage and screen, in 2009, Kristin also wrote an upliftingly candid, comedic chronicle of her life so far, in, A Little Bit Wicked, which was released by Simon & Schuster, and debuted at # 12 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller List.

Kristin is also a passionate supporter of charities which dedicate their time and efforts to helping those in need, such as: The Red Cross, Broadway Cares EFA, The Point Foundation, ASTEP, breast cancer awareness, adoption advocacy and organizations supporting animal welfare.

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 began in Los Angeles @ The Broad Stage, Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, The Poconos @ The Stroudsmoor, Woodstock, NY @ The Woodstock Playhouse, Hartford @ The Bushnell, Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts… and next at a city near you soon!

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

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

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Listing Information:
Broadway @ The Art House & Mark Cortale present
KRISTIN CHENOWETH (Tony & Emmy Award winning star of Broadway's Wicked and TV's Glee & Pushing Daisies)
August 10th 6:30PM & 9:00PM
at TOWN HALL in Provincetown, MA
with Kevin Stites at the piano
Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com, or call 508-487-9222.

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Rising music stars to play summer-long run on Cape Cod, on heels of first international tour and NBC Today Show debut.

Provincetown, MA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/08/2014 -- Having just completed their first international concert tour to promote their debut CD, and following their recent debut appearance on The Today Show, Well-Strung, The Singing String Quartet, have returned to Provincetown to debut their brand new production, "Popssical" at The Art House for a summer-long run from June 30th through September 20.

This past September Well-Strung performed in London for their first West End run at the Leicester Square Theatre and last month they performed at Vienna's LifeBall on the same bill as Kesha. Well-Strung's CD and tour information is available at www.Well-Strung.com.

Well-Strung have quickly gained national and international attention for their unique mash-up of string quartet and boy band. The foursome features classical musicians who sing, and in their all new show "Popssical" they put their own spin on the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, U2, Miley Cyrus, One Direction, Madonna and more. They are Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Christopher Marchant (second violin), Daniel Shevlin (cello) and Trevor Wadleigh (viola). The group was conceived by Christopher Marchant and Provincetown Art House producing artistic director Mark Cortale, after Cortale discovered Marchant playing violin on Commercial Street three summers ago. The new show "Popssical," directed by Donna Drake, is written by the quartet and includes musical arrangements by David Levinson and videos by Randy Rainbow.

After Provincetown, Well-Strung will begin their second national tour that includes dates at The Rehoboth Beach Convention Center (Sept. 26), White Plains Performing Arts Center (Sept. 27), Le Petite Theatre in New Orleans (Oct. 11), The Neptune in Seattle (Nov. 8), Springfield Arts Council in Ohio (Nov. 22), The Nourse Theatre in San Francisco (Dec. 12 & 13), The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (Jan. 15, 2015), and the South Miami Dade Cultural Center (Jan. 17, 2015), The Palm in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Jan. 18 - Feb. 7, 2015), the Dorothy Menker Theatre in Palo Hills, IL (March 7, 2015), with more dates to be announced soon.

The group made their debut with their show directed by Ms. Drake for a sold-out crowd at Joe's Pub in May of 2012 before having an extended debut run that summer at The Art House in Provincetown. In the 2012-13 season they had two Off-Broadway runs at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater. The foursome's debut album was released on Twist Records and was produced by Matt Farber (Founder of LOGO Network) and Mark Cortale. The music video for their "mash-up" of Mozart meets Kelly Clarkson debuted this past summer and has been featured in the Huffington Post, ABC Television, and many other media outlets. For additional info please visit www.well-strung.com

About Mark Cortale Productions
Mark Cortale (Artist Manager & Producer) is the Producing Artistic Director at The Art House in Provincetown, Massachusetts.In his inaugural season in 2011, he founded the Broadway @ The Art House series featuring Seth Rudetsky as host and pianist. Last summer the artists he presented on the series included Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Megan Mullally, Megan Hilty and Christine Ebersole. Last season he produced the Broadway @ series in New Orleans, in Australia (with Megan Mullally) and in London's West End (with Patti LuPone) at the Leicester Square Theatre. The series recently launched in Santa Monica this October @ The Broad Stage and in January in Fort Lauderdale @ the Broward Center's Parker Playhouse among a growing list of cities across the U.S. For this summer, the Broadway series in Provincetown currently includes concerts with Kristin Chenoweth @ Town Hall on Aug. 10th as well as upcoming dates @ The Art House with Andrea Martin (June 28 & 29), Cheyenne Jackson (July 4, 5 & 6), Ana Gasteyer (July 12 & 13), Adam Pascal (July 26 & 27), Alice Ripley (Aug. 2 & 3), Marilyn Maye (Aug 5 - 9) and Megan Hilty (Aug 13 - 18).

Listing Information
Well-Strung's All New Show POPSSICAL; written and performed by Well-Strung; starring Edmund Bagnell, Christopher Marchant, Daniel Shevlin and Trevor Wadleigh; conceived by Christopher Marchant and Mark Cortale; music arrangements by David Levinson; additional arrangements by Well-Strung and Bruce Carter; video by Randy Rainbow; produced by Mark Cortale; directed by Donna Drake.

June 30 through September 20

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657

For Tickets visit The Art House website or call 508-487-9222

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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) -- 07/07/2014 -- Jinkx Monsoon, the alter ego of Jerick Hoffer and season five winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, is starring in Off-Broadway's hit production "The Vaudevillians" at one of New England's most prestigious music and comedy venues 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 five times in New York, the show has now leapt to this popular Cape Cod summer destination for a summer-long run from June 27 through September 20, 2014. For tickets and information, please visit The Art House website, 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 Producing 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, Hartford, Woodstock (NY), Detroit - even overseas venues in Sydney, Melbourne, and London.

The Art House is wheelchair accessible.

Listing Information:

Jinkx Monsoon in "The Vaudevillians," starring Jerick Hoffer & Richard Andriesson:
June 27, 28, and 29, 2014 at 9:00 p.m.
July 1 - 3, 9 p.m.
July 4, 10:15 p.m.
July 5 - August 30, 2014 (Tuesday through Saturday) at 9:00 p.m.
Sept 4 - 20, 2014 (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: visit The Art House website 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 hosted by Seth Rudetsky, which in 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. For this summer of 2014, the original Broadway @ The Art House series hosted by Seth Rudetsky includes concerts with Kristin Chenoweth @ Town Hall on Aug. 10th as well as Andrea Martin (June 28 & 29), Cheyenne Jackson (July 4, 5 & 6), Ana Gasteyer (July 12 & 13), Adam Pascal (July 26 & 27), Alice Ripley (Aug. 2 & 3), Marilyn Maye (Aug 5 - 9), Megan Hilty (Aug. 13 - 18), and Bryan Batt (Aug. 24 & 25), as well as summer-long runs by Varla Jean Merman (June 30 - Aug. 30), Jinkx Monsoon (June 27 - Sept. 20), The Golden Gals (June 6 - Aug. 30), and the singing string quartet Well-Strung (June 30 - Sept. 20).

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A star on Broadway also in the original production of “Aida,” and as the Emcee in the acclaimed revival of “Cabaret” directed by Sam Mendes - and most recently in the Broadway productions of “Memphis” and “Chicago.”

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/19/2014 -- Tony-nominee and Obie and Theatre World Award winner Adam Pascal, has created some of the most memorable roles in recent Broadway history. He shot to stardom for originating the role of Roger in the Broadway blockbuster "Rent," as well as the London production, and starred in the film version. On March 29 he debuts in the acclaimed Broadway @ The Broad Stage series, where he joins pianist and host Seth Rudetsky for an unforgettable evening of conversation and song. He also originated the role of Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's "Aida," and was featured as the Emcee in the critically acclaimed revival of "Cabaret" directed by Sam Mendes. Most recently he's starred on Broadway in "Memphis" and in "Chicago." For tickets please visit http://thebroadstage.com/pascal or call 310.434.3200 for information.

Other of Pascal's recent performances include the role of Freddie in "Chess" at the Royal Albert Hall in London, alongside both Idina Menzel and Josh Groban. This performance was recorded for PBS' Great Performances series and has been released on DVD. He also reprised his starring role in the 2009 Broadway Tour of "Rent." His film work, in addition to the screen version of "Rent," includes "SLC Punk!," "School of Rock" and the movie musical "Temptation." He has also released two solo rock albums, "Model Prisoner" and "Civilian" for Sh-K-Boom Records.

For the Broadway at The Broad Stage series, Adam will perform classic Broadway songs old and new, including those by Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, and Jonathan Larson, and also classic rock songs that have influenced him including hits by The Beatles, Billy Joel, Elton John and Pink Floyd. His upcoming Broad Stage debut will be a rare opportunity for Los Angeles audiences to enjoy one of Broadway's brightest rising stars!

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," "Bunheads," and as himself on NBC TV's "Smash." 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. Most recently year he added "television mogul" to that long when he launched Seth TV, his new, web-based entertainment network. This past summer he co-produced the critically acclaimed play "Unbroken Circle" by James Wesley, and is co-playwright, co-producer and star of the hit new Off-Broadway 'disaster movie musical' "Disaster!" running now at St. Luke's Theatre in New York.

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.

For additional photos and interview requests contact: tomfervoy@gmail.com

LISTING INFO:
The Broad Stage & Mark Cortale present
Broadway @ The Broad
AN EVENING WITH ADAM PASCAL
Featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Saturday March 29 at 8:00 PM
The Broad Stage
Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center
1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
For tickets please call 310 434 3200 or visit http://thebroadstage.com/pascal

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Star of Broadway's “Wicked” and “9 to 5: The Musical” makes South Florida debut at Parker Playhouse with SiriusXM star Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host.

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/14/2014 -- Megan Hilty, was a breakout star of NBC's "Smash" and starred on Broadway in "Wicked" and "9 to 5: The Musical." She currently stars as Liz on NBC's "Sean Saves The World" with Sean Hayes of "Will & Grace" fame. She makes her South Florida concert debut when she joins the WinterStage Concert Series at the Broward Center's Parker Playhouse on February 20 at 8:00 PM for one show only - following on the heels of January's sold-out launch of the series with "Will & Grace" star Megan Mullally. Series host and Sirius/Radio star Seth Rudetsky will join Ms. Hilty at the piano. For tickets please visit the Parker Playhouse ticketing page or call 954-462-0222.

Prior to joining the original cast of NBC's hit new comedy "Sean Saves the World," Megan Hilty starred for the past two seasons as the triple-threat Ivy Lynn in NBC's musical drama "Smash." A native of Seattle, Megan made her Broadway debut as Glinda in "Wicked" shortly after graduating from prestigious Carnegie Mellon University, and went on to perform the role in both the national tour and in Los Angeles. She has also appeared on New York stages as Lorelei Lee in the Encores! production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," for which she earned rave reviews. For her critically acclaimed portrayal of Doralee Rhodes in Broadway's "9 to 5: The Musical" she received nominations for the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League Awards, as well as the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award. She has previously performed with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and with the Cincinnati Symphony.

Her voice was featured as Rosetta in Disney's "Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings" and also in Disney's "The Secret Life of Magic Gourd," "Phineas & Ferb," "Glenn Martin DDS," "American Dad," "Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games," "Robot & Monster" as well as singing as Snow White in the film "Shrek the Third." Megan recently wrapped production on Summertime Entertainment's animated film "Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return" with Kelsey Grammer, Hugh Dancy and Lea Michele, slated for release in 2013. She can also be heard alongside Placido Domingo on the opera star's duet album. Megan was recently signed to Sony Music in a partnership between Sony Masterworks and Columbia Records. Her new album, "It Happens All The Time," was released last spring, including fresh interpretations of compositions by contemporary songwriters and producers.

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!" running now at St. Luke's Theatre in New York.

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 begins in Los Angeles @ The Broad Stage, Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, The Poconos @ The Stroudsmoor, Woodstock, NY @ The Woodstock Playhouse, Hartford @ The Bushnell, Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts… and at a city near you soon! More info at markcortalepresents.com.

Listing Information
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts and Matthew Lombardo present:
The Winterstage Concert Series
AN EVENING WITH MEGAN HILTY
Featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
Thursday, February 20, 8:00 PM
Parker Playhouse, 707 NE Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale 33304-2749
Contact: 954-462-0222 or ParkerPlayhouse.com.

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Two-time Emmy Winner debuts Broadway@ music & comedy special at Broad Stage

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/03/2014 -- Megan Mullally is a two-time Emmy-winning star of TV's Will & Grace, and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein. On Saturday, February 22 she debuts Broadway@ The Broad: Megan Mullally, her live music and comedy concert special, in Santa Monica, CA's - for two shows only. She follows hot on the heels of Patti LuPone's acclaimed debut of this series at the venue. SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky will join Mullally as host and pianist, and special guests will include Nick Offerman (star of Parks & Recreation) and Stephanie Hunt. For tickets please visit The Broad Stage's ticketing page or call 310 434-3470 or 310 434-3200.

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. This spring she will appear off-Broadway with her husband Nick Offerman in Sharr White's play "Annapurna."

In addition to her breakout role on "Will & Grace," Megan Mullally has starred as Lydia on the Starz series "Party Down" and as Chief on all five seasons of two-time Emmy-winning comedy series "Children's Hospital." She also currently appears frequently on "Parks and Recreation," "Bob's Burgers" and "Web Therapy." Megan 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." Other recent TV appearances include "30 Rock," "Kathy Griffin: My Life on The D-List," "Campus Ladies," ABC's "Happy Endings," and Fox TV's "Breaking In." Her recent film work includes "Smashed," "Kings of Summer," "GBF," "Trouble Dolls," "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 his web network SethTV!

Nick Offerman currently stars as Ron Swanson on NBC's "Parks and Recreation." He began his career in Chicago as a founding member of the Defiant Theatre, as well as extensive work with the Steppenwolf, Goodman, Wisdom Bridge and Pegasus Players theater companies among others. Off Broadway he has been seen in "Adding Machine" at The Minetta Lane Theater. His other TV credits include "Axe Cop," "Childrens Hospital," "Will & Grace," "Deadwood," "George Lopez," "ER," "American Body Shop," and "24." Film work includes "Casa De Mi Padre," "21 Jump Street," "All Good Things," "Men Who Stare At Goats," "Somebody Up There Likes Me," "Harmony and Me," "The Kings of Summer," "We're The Millers," "LEGO," and "22 Jump Street." His first book, "Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living," was released in October 2013 by E.P. Dutton Books and reached #8 on the New York Times Bestseller list. He is also a professional wood craftsman, with work on view at www.offermanwoodshop.com.

Stephanie Hunt is Megan Mullally's partner in crime in the band Nancy & Beth. She has starred on TV's "Friday Night Lights," "Californication," and "How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life)." She and Mullally met on the film "Somebody Up There Likes Me." She has performed as a musician at The Austin City Limits and SXSW (South by Southwest) music festivals, and recently appeared with Mullally and Seth Rudetsky on their sold-out Australian tour last February for Mardi Gras in Sydney and Melbourne.

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!" running now at St. Luke's Theatre in New York.

About the Broadway@ series
The Broadway @ 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 begins in Los Angeles @ The Broad Stage, Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, The Poconos @ The Stroudsmoor, Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts… and at a city near you soon!

About The Broad Stage
Founded in 2008 by Director Dale Franzen and Artistic Chair Dustin Hoffman, the Broad Stage at Santa Monica College's Performing Arts Center is one of Southern California's premiere stages. Its horseshoe layout makes it the only venue in the country by which the performer can view the entire audience – forging a unique participatory experience.

Listing Information

The Broad Stage & Mark Cortale present
Broadway @ The Broad
AN EVENING WITH MEGAN MULLALLY
Featuring Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host
With Special Guests Nick Offerman and Stephanie Hunt
5pm & 8pm Saturday February 22
The Broad Stage
Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center
1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
For tickets please call 310 434 3200 or visit www.thebroadstage.com

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