American Theatre Wing invests in brave work, supports creative growth, and celebrates excellence to bring inclusive stories to our national culture through theatre. Founded in 1917 on the eve of America’s entry into World War I by seven suffragists, American Theatre Wing has spent a century using theatre to advance human experience, empathy and cultural growth like never before.

American Theater Wing invests financial and educational support in creatives destined to make theatre. The Wing connects broad audiences to theatre by capturing insight into important work and honors theatre that impacts the American experience. The Wing provides grants and scholarships, connects talent at all stages with educational and professional opportunities, and creates content that illuminates and preserves theatre. The Wing awards excellence and foster artistry by providing a platform for strong and fearless voices in the American theatre.

Since its founding in 1949, Drama Desk’s mission has been to promote and support artistic excellence in the New York professional theater, in its multitude of forms and styles and on stages of various sizes and configurations. The organization accomplishes its goal by hosting an annual Drama Desk Awards celebration and presenting various educational forums and panel discussions to its members and the theatergoing public.

The Drama Desk Awards (began by New York Times theater reporter Sam Zolotow, The New Yorker’s Edith Oliver, and The New York Post’s Vernon Rice, among others) were established to fulfill the organization’s mission. Drama Desk has opened its nominations for its annual awards to include theater productions by Off- and Off-Off Broadway artists, as well as that of Broadway producers.

Drama Desk’s charge to highlight theater’s artistic excellence is also accomplished via an annual series of panels and forums. Created and moderated by Drama Desk members, theater editors and/or journalists chosen for their erudition and theatrical experience, these panels offer audiences a chance to listen to producers, directors, actors, and other artists discuss their work.

Mandy's newest concert Being Alive presents the acclaimed actor/singer/storyteller in his most electrifying role: concert performer. “Mandy Patinkin is in the business of showstopping,” raves The New Yorker, and that's exactly what he does in this powerful, passionate evening of song. Diaries is a marriage of many of Mandy's favorite Broadway and classic American tunes, along with selections from his newest recordings on Nonesuch Records. From Randy Newman to Stephen Sondheim, from Harry Chapin to Rufus Wainwright, Mandy Patinkin takes you on a dazzling musical journey you'll never forget. 

Mandy Patinkin's other solo concerts include Diaries, Dress Casual, Mamaloshen, and Celebrating Sondheim.

For booking, contact L. Glenn Poppleton, lgpoppleton@me.com

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DON'T MONKEY WITH BROADWAY: Patti LuPone indelibly interprets classic Broadway show tunes, featuring music by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Stephen Schwartz, Charles Strouse, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. Ms. LuPone also takes you behind the curtain on her life-long love affair with Broadway and her concern for what the Great White Way is becoming today.

FAR AWAY PLACES: Worlds, eras and musical styles collide in this powerful evening of Broadway classics, 30’s and 40’s cabaret, and contemporary pop songs by Kurt Weill, Edith Piaf, Willie Nelson, the Bee Gees, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and more.

For booking, contact Matthew Oberstein moberstein@opus3artists.com

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THE ORCHARD is a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht. It is conceived, adapted, and directed by director Igor Golyak of Arlekin Players Theatre, with a translation by Carol Rocamora.

The play takes place both on stage and virtually. Audiences in the theatre enter an immersive environment where perceptions, illusions, and reality collide as a family in crisis tries to process their future. The virtual experience invites audiences can explore magical rooms where they uncover echoes of a past life, including Chekhov’s letters, memories, and, ultimately, the play, live, in progress. The in-person and online versions run concurrently for each performance. Partway through the performances, the two versions intersect, and the worlds come together.

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He’s a star of TV, stage and film. She’s an award-winning actress and writer. Together on social media, MANDY PATINKIN & KATHRYN GRODY shared hilarious nuggets of their “uninterrupted togetherness,” thoughts on 40+ years of marriage, and 100s of other topics, entertaining millions during the COVID shut-down.

Now they are hitting the road with AN EVENING WITH MANDY PATINKIN &KATHRYN GRODY, a night of laughter and anecdotes from show biz legends who have been through it all — together.

Conceived and directed by Josh Johnston and produced by Staci Levine/Groundswell Theatricals, RADIO PLAY REVIVAL brings back the golden age of radio plays for 21st century audiences. Recorded and streamed for radio and online (and potentially live in the future, when we can all return to theaters), RADIO PLAY REVIVAL features great American actors performing great American works of literature: short stories, one-act plays, articles from periodicals, new works, etc. From the universally known, like Mark Twain, to those who never got recognition in their time, like Alice Moore-Dunbar Nelson, to modern talent, like John Patrick Shanley, RADIO PLAY REVIVAL pays homage to classic storytelling, via modern technology.

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LISA LAMPANELLI’s SIT DOWN & SHUT UP! is a hilarious evening of stories, insight, and questionable advice from the former Queen of Mean, LISA LAMPANELLI. A left-turn from the insult comedy she’d long been known for, LISA has created a revealing and revelatory evening by letting it all hang out. From her ups-and-down with dieting and body image, to her shocking very public retirement from insult comedy, in SIT DOWN & SHUT UP!, Lisa tells all!

Part sit-down interview, part storytelling show, and – yes, you knew it had to happen – a little bit of a roast, SIT DOWN & SHUT UP! is LISA’s chance to come clean. Sure, she’s not calling people names anymore or taking celebrities to task for just being eminently roast-able, but LISA has no problem being way too real. Her yoyo-ing weight, her bariatric surgery, her divorces – yep, there’s TWO of ‘em – and her stepping back from standing up are all dissected during this funny, fearless evening. Plus, LISA, ever the helpful hero that she is, will answer audience questions, coach willing participants, and hopefully help people at the same time. From the Queen of Mean to the Queen of Meaning, LISA will do it all in one rollicking performance.

Ventriloquism for a new generation… edgy, outrageous, and off the charts! NINA CONTI, Britain’s voice-throwing queen leaves the crowd speechless without even opening her mouth. Using face masks to turn her audience members into live puppets, Nina creates a hilarious new show nightly.

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The Gideon & Hubcap Show - Features music, comedy, what-the-huh??s, and death-defying acts of friendship. Touring with a menagerie of instruments, Gideon & Hubcap present a night of theatrical curiosities. Prepare to encounter New York’s own 21st century vaudevillian duo!

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Two worlds. One stage.

Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin and opera super-star Nathan Gunn combine their musical talents to create a unique and powerful evening.

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Two legendary Broadway stars. A once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event.

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It's the end of the world as we know it. A flood of biblical proportions leaves us with only two people on Earth, who discover their common language is song and dance. Together they chronicle the rise and fall, and hopeful rise again of humankind, through music that runs the gamut from Rodgers & Hammerstein and
Stephen Sondheim all the way to R.E.M. and Queen. For more information, contact staci@groundswelltheatricals.com

A touching and funny meditation on the art and essence of storytelling. Lithgow invokes memories of his grandfather and father before him, as he traces his own history as an actor and storyteller. The performance moves from the dazzling language of P.G. Wodehouse’s comic monologues to Ring Lardner’s dark and suspenseful story.

The 1950s: It’s the beginning of rock n’ roll, the racial barrier begins to crack, the Korean War is over, and husbands are returning home. Ronald Reagan is a model for Lifebuoy Soap and Rock Hudson is “The World’s Most Eligible Bachelor.” And women are getting antsy.

Meet Joan, Connie, Dottie, and Agnes. Four best friends living in Winnetka, IL. They meet every Wednesday for a Betty Crocker cooking contest, imagining how the prizes might change their lives. Their weekly gathering isn’t just about cooking, but a time to confide secrets and share frustrations.

A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME is a fabulously fun romp tracing the changing lives of these four Winnetka women from the 1950s to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. This homage to prior generations of women who blazed new trails features a rollicking original score of ‘50s and ‘60s music with great harmonies, and a rock n' roll band.

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I See You Made an Effort, by Annabelle Gurwitch, is a one-woman show based on her book of the same name. Effort is a hilarious one-act romp, set on the eve of a fiftieth birthday. Hounded by the AARP, Gurwitch is flummoxed by internet passwords, tempted by Hope in a Jar anti-aging face cream and wondering if her 401K balance will see her spending her Eileen Fisher years in an elder hostel in Uzbekistan.

Love, death, and the making of a monster.

With Kate Burton as Mary Shelly

A new play by Janice Kennedy

Direction by Susan Stroman

For more information, contact Staci Levine staci@groundswelltheatricals.com

ASHLEY BLAKER has performed around the world including Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Israel, and across the USA.

His Off-Broadway debut Strictly Unorthodox was called ‘a slickly funny stand-up show’ by The New York Times and in 2020 he returned to Off-Broadway with Goy-Friendly which ran at the prestigious SoHo Playhouse. He is the first Orthodox Jewish comedian to be given his own BBC TV show – “Ashley Blaker’s Goyish Guide To Judaism” – and his new 2021 BBC Radio 4 series, ‘Ashley Blaker: 6.5 Children,’ was a critically acclaimed hit and the number one stand-up show on BBC Sounds. The show will return in 2023 along with Ashley’s first book published by Harper Collins.

Ashley’s stand-up show is the perfect hire for your next function!

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LISA LAMPANELLI’S new show LOSIN’ IT is an intimate collection of stories, curated and performed by Lisa and a few of her friends. Lisa has created a heartfelt theatrical evening focusing on the problems of weight, body image, and “losin’ it.” Performed in the spirit of The Vagina Monologues, Lisa and friends not only enchant audiences, but offer entertaining anecdotes about their own weight struggles.

“I decided stand-up comedy really wasn't for me anymore. It wasn't making my heart happy. So, I created LOSIN IT!, a show using comedy to talk about weight and body issues, which are things I've struggled with for years. This is so much more fulfilling!" - Lisa Lampanelli. 

For more information contact Staci Levine, staci@groundswelltheatricals.com

For booking, contact L. Glenn Poppleton, lgpoppleton@me.com