The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Madison Square Garden Company announced today that Ali Wong, with an eight-show residency this spring at the Beacon Theatre, will become the third comedian to perform that many times on its stage, and first among women. Only Jerry Seinfeld (who has 81 shows and counting in his long-running monthly …
Are you in a New York state of mind yet? Billy Joel holds the record for sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden, thanks to a monthly residency he started there years ago, and now Jerry Seinfeld has become the all-time Beacon Theatre performer in a similar vein. Seinfeld will hit …
Jerry Seinfeld will continue to book regular neighborhood gigs in 2019, as the comedy star has announced an extension of his monthly residency at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Seinfeld’s arrangement with The Beacon first began in January 2016 and concluded in December 2017 with 36 sold-out …
For a time, Sebastian Maniscalco went by just his first name. Not his best look, really. Sebastian doesn’t make you think stand-up comedy. Magician, maybe. Hairstylist? Model? Despite your ability to compliment him on his looks or his stage presence, he’s a Maniscalco by name and by heritage, and in …
