Amber Ruffin
The Emmy and Tony Award-nominee, New York Times Best-Selling Author, and Late Night icon will join "RuPaul's Drag Race" season 16 star PLASMA to host the benefit cabaret, Instead of Eurovision, at The Green Room 42 on Saturday, May 16 at 3 PM ET. The one-time-only event will also be livestreamed. Produced by Benson Drive Productions (GEORGE STRUS, CEO), all net proceeds will be donated to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Occurring at the same time as the live finals of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, the event parodies the Eurovision format by showcasing new, original songs 'from' fictional countries written by theatre composers like JOE ICONIS, and others, and performed by Broadway stars TBA.
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David Shire
Songwriting partners RICHARD MALTBY JR. and DAVID SHIRE, collaborators since college and the writers behind Starting Here, Starting Now, Closer Than Ever, and this season's About Time, will receive the William Wolf Award honoring individuals who've made valuable contributions to the New York theater and entertainment community, at The 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, May 17, 7:30 PM at The Town Hall.
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Tommy Richman
Media coverage is encouraged as the rapper-singer returns with his first single of the year, "Changes," alongside an accompanying visualizer, out now via I SO Supremacy / PULSE Records — LISTEN / WATCH HERE. "Changes" marks a new chapter in RICHMAN's career, inspired by his mother's experience undergoing a life-changing surgery to regain her hearing. The new release arrives in the midst of his stadium run as direct support for The Kid LAROI on the North American leg of the A PERFECT WORLD Tour which includes two shows at Brooklyn's Brooklyn Paramount on May 18 & 19.
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Kirstin Maldonado
The three-time Grammy® Award-winning singer-songwriter, a member of the Grammy® Award-winning vocal sensation PENTATONIX, will join the Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning hit musical, SIX beginning June 1 at the Lena Horne Theatre (256 W. 47th St.) where the show is currently playing an open-ended run. MALDONADO will play ANNE BOLEYN. DYLAN MULVANEY will play her final performance as ANNE BOLEYN on May 31.
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