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Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Latinx Playwrights Circle, and Fault Line Theatre are proud to present the World Premiere of the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo), written by Matthew Barbot and directed by José Zayas. Performances for a strictly limited run through December 29, 2024, at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (304 W 47th St. New York, NY 10036).

Well writer Matthew Barbot & Director Josè are here to tell us all about it!

Set in 1950, the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) follows two determined Puerto Rican revolutionaries on a train from New York to Washington,D.C. as they discuss their plan to strike in the name of Puerto Rican independence.However, the lock to their compartment is broken, and each time the door swings open, they are interrupted by figures from art and history—visions that reflect what their homeland means to them and its complex relationship with the United States.As the borders of their reality blur and the train continues its journey, the two must finalize their course of action and decide how they want their sacrifice to be remembered.

The performance schedule for the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) is as follows: Wednesday—Saturday at 8pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3pm.

Tickets for the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) begin at $25 and are available at pregonesprtt.org.

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The US premiere of 300 Paintings, created and performed by Sydney-based comedian and visual artist Sam Kissajukian was an EPIC Success for Sam and the Vineyard!. This captivating production is a deeply personal and wildly creative exploration of Sam’s five-month-long manic bipolar episode, during which he created 300 large-scale paintings, unknowingly documenting his mental state. 300 Paintings is a hilarious, heart-wrenching, and visually stunning retelling of the intersection between mental health and art, exploring how one can sometimes save the other.

Fresh off a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won the prestigious Lustrum Award for Outstanding Show, this highly anticipated production played a limited engagement at Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15th Street) from November 12 through December 15, 2024.

How did it go? What was it? What is next for this show? We find out here on the Roundtable! Shoutout to the Vineyard for another amazing year of programming and fun!

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Author Ron Fassler has done it all. He is an actor. He is an artist. He is a writer! His new book is a fascinating read for all Broadway Fans!

Conducting more than a hundred interviews, Ron Fassler (Up in the Cheap Seats) has drawn from a wide range of the New York theatre community with dozens of stories that border on the heroic among Broadway replacements. What goes into an actor making a role their own in the shadow of another’s highly lauded performance? What happens when someone hops on the moving train that is a multi-million dollar production and replaces a flailing actor during an out of town tryout? How do understudies and swings miraculously go on sometimes without a single rehearsal? Answers to these and other questions are provided by way of touching and humorous anecdotes gathered together for the first time in one book.

Hear how this came to be and how you can get your own special copy!

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Viral sensation T.3 – the dazzling vocal trio featuring Liam Fennecken, Jim Hogan and Brendan Jacob Smith – has released their new holiday EP FaLaLaLonely in streaming and digital formats. A CD edition will be released on Friday, December 13. T.3 made their major label debut last fall with the EP Option Up, which followed several successful independent releases. With over 459k followers and 7.1 million likes on TikTok, 140k Instagram followers, and 41.9k YouTube subscribers, the group’s soaring harmonies and creative vocal arrangements have made them wildly popular online. Following up and expanding last season’s smash tour, T.3 will once again venture to the road through eleven major markets such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia and more in December 2024. FaLaLaLonely is produced by Brett Castro and Joshua Lee Turner. Click HERE to stream or download the new EP.

 FaLaLaLonely features creative originals (the title song), Disney favorites (“Let it Go”), and seasonal standards (“O Holy Night”), in addition to a vocal collaboration with special guest Joshua Lee Turner (“Little Saint Nick”).

The T.3 holiday tour will feature performances in Portsmouth, NH (The Music Hall Lounge, 12/14), New York, NY (City Winery, 12/15), Boston, MA (City Winery, 12/16), Cincinnati, OH (Taft Theatre, 12/18 – with Straight No Chaser), Pittsburgh, PA (City Winery, 12/19), Philadelphia, PA (City Winery, 12/20), Baltimore, MD (Creative Alliance, 12/21), Winchester, VA (Bright Box Theatre, 12/22), Nashville, TN (City Winery, 12/27), Charlotte, NC (Neighborhood Theatre, 12/29), and Atlanta, GA (City Winery, 12/30). Full details are at www.T3official.com.

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Liam Fennecken is a proud graduate of the Penn State BA Theatre program who recently starred in Broadway’s Chicago as Amos Hart. He is an actor, musician, and songwriter living in New York City. He recently toured the US and South Korea in School of Rock, and has toured North America with Once, American Idiot, and Peter Pan 360. @liamfennecken

Jim Hogan is a New York City-based actor, singer, and musician who was recently the standby for Buddy in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo. His Broadway national touring credits include Waitress, The Phantom of the Opera, and Spring Awakening. Jim has also performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras across the US and Canada. He was training at Penn State University. @jimhogan220

 Brendan Jacob Smith is an actor, singer and songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Brendan currently plays Art Garfunkel in the US/Canada company of The Simon and Garfunkel Story. Other credits include Parade (Frankie Epps) at the REV theatre Co., Considering Matthew Shepard (Logan Shepard) with Grammy Award-winning ensemble Conspirare, and The Full Monty (Malcolm McGregor) at North Shore Music Theatre. He is also a member of The Brightmares, a band he started with his pianist brother Damon Smith. Their debut album, When the World Gets Fixed, is out now. @Brendanjacobsmith

 They are here on this Special Holiday Edition of The Roundtable!

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This chat was so much FUN! DazMann Still is here! You may have seen him as Jimi Hendrix in Bill & Ted Face The Music, or you have heard his voice on tons of commercials, well he is here in NY with a brand new show with our friends at Frog & Peach Theatre Company!

College Fun, a new comedy by Ted Zurkowski, directed by Lynnea Benson. The play follows the charming but hapless Professor Jones (DazMann Still) in the slightly mad Office of Diversity & Inclusion at an elite university in Southern California. His Inquisitors include the seductive & deranged Dr. Ram (Amy Frances Quint), the flamboyantly vigilant Dr. Queeg (Jonathan Reed Wexler), and the widely feared Dr. Pane (Anuj Parikh). The Production Stage Manager is Matthew Seepersad. 

The show is presented by The Frog & Peach Theatre Company, at the Theatre for The New City’s Cabaret space, located at 155 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003. The show started on Friday, November 29 at 8:00 PM and will run until December 15th.

(https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/college-fun/)

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We love a holiday album moment! All month long, we have been talking to our favorite new Christmas Music releases! Well we fell in love with the Tower of Power New Holiday Album! We are honored to b joined by founder of the group Emilio Castillo! 

Emilo talked to us about life on the road, how the band started, and what their holiday tour is all about! Make sure to stream the album and see them on their holiday tour! 

All that and so much more only on The Roundtable with Robert Bannon!

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Today Lea Salonga. We love Lea! We love Christmas! Is there a Broadway fan out there who did not grow up with Lea Salonga’s voice? As she says, she makes us cry for a living! I do not think words have been more correct. She has a gorgeous new Christmas album out that is sure to be a Holiday classic!

The album entitled “Sounding Joy” is out. This will be Salonga’s 14th album, and her first holiday record in two decades. The much anticipated studio release includes classic Christmas songs that Lea reimagined in her own voice, and introduces new original songs. The festive album promises to wrap listeners into the holiday spirit.

Sounding Joy features 12 beautifully crafted tracks that blend beloved holiday classics with new, original songs, all while showcasing Salonga’s perfect pitch and heartfelt vocals. This album promises to capture the magic and spirit of the holiday season, reimagining timeless favorites while introducing listeners to new seasonal hits. The album also features a duet with American Idol star Clay Aiken. In support of the album, Salonga will be making stops in San Francisco, San Diego, Northridge, Scottsdale, and New York, giving fans the opportunity to experience Sounding Joy and her iconic voice live.

Stream the album wherever music is heard! It is gorgeous! A legend is here!

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MUSCAT written and directed by Philippe Grenier is a film about incommunicability, resilience, taboos and sexual awakening. The meeting between Samir and Louis is decisive: like a storm in his heart and body, he experiences strong feelings that are impossible to ignore. His attraction to Louis will push Samir to reveal a truth that has been deeply repressed until now. This deeply touching short film has qualified to be considered for the 97th Academy® Awards.

Samir, a 16-year-old fisherman, discovers his attraction towards men when he meets Louis, a tourist traveling Morocco with his wife. When Louis faces the worst, Samir is the only one who can help him.

Philippe Grenier is a multidisciplinary creator, director of Premier Trio’s tv series broadcasted on Radio-Canada - for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Directing and Best Youth Program in 2024. He directed his first short film in 2013 THE ENDLESS DAYS. 

MUSCAT was inspired by a story told to Grenier by his grandmother, with the ending of the film mirroring the heartbreaking travel experience of her distant cousin. The director found it necessary to tell the story through the fictional character of Samir, a young homosexual boy coming to terms with his sexuality in a country where gay individuals are still harshly persecuted. Grenier recognises his privilege, living in a country where he is free to love whoever he wants and feels it is his goal to bring more divisive stories to the screen and to defend the rights of the LGTBQIA+ community.

MUSCAT recently won First Prize for the Breaking Boundaries Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, for films that celebrate the endurance of the human spirit and resilience in the face of injustice, whilst also taking home the award for Best Narrative Short at Provincetown International Film Festival.

This incredible film features phenomenally authentic performances by Ilyes Tarmasti, Mahmoud Zabennej and Alexandre Bergeron.

The immersive cinematography was carefully captured by Derek Branscombe.This incredibly emotional and poignant film has qualified to be considered for the 2025 Oscars®. 

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Chaysen Beacham is an award-winning American producer, director, and screenwriter. Chaysen was born in Wilmington, NC, in June of 1984. Home to EUE Screen Gems studios, Wilmington allowed Chaysen an introduction to film and television at a young age.

From extra work to featured roles in daytime television shows such as "One Tree Hill," Chaysen developed a loved for cinema. After graduating with degrees in film production and marketing strategies, Chaysen pursued his passion for film. Since graduating, Chaysen has worked on television projects for the BBC, ITV, Discovery Channel, and History Channel.

Since 2017 Chaysen has solely focused on narrative features. Finding success in the theater and significant streaming platforms with titles like (The Outsider, The Call, and Murder, Anyone?). In the middle of 2022, Chaysen embarked on his directorial debut with a coming-of-age film titled "What We Find on the Road," which follows an 18-year-old boy on a cross-country journey to get answers from an estranged father. This powerful film is a must see. How did it come to be? We find out!

 "What We Find On The Road" Is Now Streaming!

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Janine Harouni who is a standup from New York who lives in London (and is a sold out comic around the world) bringing her sold out, critically acclaimed show to the New York stage for the first time, at Soho Playhouse in December for 3 weeks ONLY!

She has a crazy interesting story as well. From Staten Island, was a dancer and got into a major car accident and was told she might not be able to walk again. Had to relearn everything and live ant home with her conservative, Republican family and eventually she was back on her feet both literally and figuratively and ended up moving to london and becoming a stand up. Bringing her real life stories into her comedy about her middle eastern family in Staten Island, her British boyfriends and now husband and baby, life… the show is sweet, timely and hilarious. 

We had a great chat about pregnancy, comedy, and so much more! Take a listen!

For Tickets: www.janineoffbroadway.com

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