Nearly 35 years after their first performance, the touring cast of CATS (National 3) has reunited for a very special virtual theatrical event, WITH LOVE, NOW AND FOREVER! CATS4COVIDRELIEF, a fundraiser for the Broadway Cares Covid-19 Emergency Assistance Fund, which supports The Actors Fund. This special event premiered Friday, October 23 at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PST at broadwaycares.org/cats2020

Circus Now and Big Apple CircusIn Association WithJonathan S. Cerullo | JSCTheatricalspresentThe 2nd Annual Celebration of American CircusEvolving Circus Honoree: Bill Irwinwith David Shiner presenting the awardfeaturing Emcee Thom WallJanuary 5, 2016, at 8 pm at Lincoln CenterNew York, NY – To honor and spotlight the distinguished achievements in the American circus arts, Circus Now together with the Big Apple Circus, in association with Executive Producer and Director Jonathan S. Cerullo, JSC Theatricals, is proud to present the 2nd Annual Celebration of American Circus at the Big Top at Lincoln Center on January 5, 2016 at 8 pm. Part ceremony, part performance, and the Celebration of American Circus will honor four artists and organizations that have been prominent in the circus arts landscape in America while spotlighting the thriving state of the circus arts across the nation. It will feature Emcee Thom Wall, with performances from a variety of breath-taking acts. Tickets start at $25 and are available online at www.circusnow.org/CELEBRATE2016/. For the second year, the Celebration of American Circus presents a distinguished and impressive roster of honorees, all of whom have spent decades furthering the appreciation of circus arts in America. Sabrina Motley, director of the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival, will present the Community Impact Award toCircus Smirkus Founder Rob Mermin and Ed LeClair, Smirkus’s Executive Director. Duncan Wall of Circus Now will present the Elevating Circus Award to Dominque Jando, renowned circus historian and author. David Shiner will roast and toast and present the Evolving Circus Award to his fellow clownical artist Bill Irwin. This year we introduce a new award, the Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented by the legendary Dolly Jacobs (Circus Sarasota) to the legendary Hovey Burgess!We are looking forward to seeing you under the Big top!

Award-winning director and choreographer Jonathan Cerullo (The Boys from Syracuse, Big Apple Circus), has been named an Artistic Associate at Amas Musical Theatre. Donna Trinkoff announced Cerullo will be joining SDC director and choreographer Christopher Scott and Lynne Taylor-Corbett.

Conceived, directed, wrote, and staged A Lotta Night Music Benefit Concert 2024

Amas, You Love! A Heart to Heart Virtual Celebration Amas Musical Theatre has announced the full cast for Amas - You Love!: A Heart to Heart Virtual Celebration, its upcoming virtual benefit gala commemorating the company's 52nd Anniversary, on Monday, May 10, 2021, at 7 pm with Honorary Chair, Grammy Award-winning Latin recording artist and activist Rubén Blades. "One Day at a Time" (Netflix) actress Justina Machado will be the Mistress of Ceremonies. Tony Award winner, Lillias White, will receive the 2021 "Rosie" Award. The evening will be streamed online at www.amasmusical.org.Conceived and directed by Maria Torres with a script by Jonathan Cerullo.

Windywoo and her Naughty Naughty Pets are devastated to learn that the building, where they reside, is being sold to a New York real estate developer. Their beloved neighborhood is changing, and Hector, the building owner, wants them out! Will the power of pets move the human heart and save the day? Against all odds, Windywoo keeps her family of pets together and learns that a home isn't as important as having someone to come home to.Windywoo and Her Naughty Naughty Pets delivers a message of human kindness, love of pets, and the importance of families of all kinds. This delightful story will appeal to audiences of all ages, with real-world situations, infectious songs, and charming humor.

So proud to be directing and writingAmas@50 Aniversary Golden Jubilee Concert!April 1, 2019https://www.amasmusical.org/Honoring HARRY BELAFONTE, SHARLEEN COOPER COHEN, DONNA TRINKOFF, AND FAMED MANAGER OF THE TEMPTATIONS, SHELLY BERGER.Music Directed by Henry AronsonHonorary Chair ~ Whoopi GoldbergHosted by Lillias White and featuringLeslie Uggams, Vivian Reed, Chris Jackson, Lance Roberts, Len Cariou, N'Kenge, Soara-Joye Ross, Elijah Ahmad Lewis, Anthony Simoneand a special video appearance by Petula Clarkwith a terrific ensemble of Giovanni Da Silva, Joanna Carpenter, Alyssa Sarnoff, Daren Liff, Lauren Hooper, and Viet Vo and a performance by Amas Teen Academy directed by Christopher Scottand my Assistant Andrew Winans, Stage Manager Christine Viega, and Production Assistant Wendy Gardner!

No Foolin ~ A Musical ConfectionAmas Musical Theatre Benefit GalaMonday April 2 - 6pm - 9:30BARUCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTEREast 25th Street (betw. Lex & Third Aves)Musical Direction John McMahonCo-directed by Stuart Ross & Jonathan CerulloHosted by Two Time Tony nominee Brad OscarFeaturing: Brenda Braxton, Tina Fabrique, Brian Sears, N’Kenge, Josh Walden, Jonathan Hoover, Lauren Hooper, Sumi Yu, Sam Given, Remy Zanken, A.J. Shively, Curtis Wiley, Donnie Cianciotto

Original Cast of Peter Allen's Legs Diamond to Reunite at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

NEW YORK, NY; August 18, 2021: Mike Abrams from The Wrong Cat Died, in association with the Broadway Podcast Network, and award-winning director and CATS National 3 original Skimbleshanks, Jonathan S. Cerullo/JSCTheatricals (Legs Diamond, Sweet Charity), are pleased to announce a live event, BROADWAY REBORN, WITH LOVE, NOW AND FOREVER, A CELEBRATORY WELCOME BACK! On Saturday, August 21st at 7 PM ET / 4PM PST, Abrams will host an event replaying portions of the virtual theatrical benefit, WITH LOVE, NOW AND FOREVER! while inviting CATS cast members throughout the years Deborah Geneviere Athens (A Chorus Line, Shogun), Joanna Beck (Showboat), Leslie Ellis (La Cage Aux Folles & Grammy Award Winner), Adrea Gibbs (Starlight Express), Austin Jetton (Showboat), Kari Nicolaisen ( A Chorus Line), Heidi Stallings (Zorba, Evita), Amiee Turner (The Will Rogers Follies, Forum, My Favorite Year), Anthony Vincent Bova, Lyn Macdonald-Sigman (Dreamgirls) Christine Toy Johnson (The Music Man, Come From Away) and James Walski (On Your Toes, Saturday Night Fever) reunite to discuss the groundbreaking musical and celebrate Broadway being Reborn

"Jonathan Cerullo and Scott Barry have given us an innovative, professional, and all aroundwonderful virtual presentation of HARD ON LOVE!""This digital production kept me engaged the whole way through with actors whonever missed a beat and editing that served the transitions of the script very well.""Your direction drives for clarity and fantastic visual framing. You took an enormouslyintriguing writing structure and brought it front and center. You added strategic visuals in amanner which gave it the depth of metaphorical meaning and delivered performances!"

Willie and Me is a new play, for a new generation, and those who remember... the circus, Emmett Kelly Sr., & those who want to be a kid again!From humble farm boy beginnings to international fame, his genius and ingenuity came in the simplicity of his comedy. The honest, heartfelt sentiments he conveyed in the character he created, known as Weary Willie, were expressed without ever uttering a single word. It was the character’s silence that spoke to a generation of Americans and the story of “Willie and Me, In The Spotlight Again” gives new voice to a humble and common man, a father, husband, and the most famous circus artist ever to grace an arena. He changed people’s lives through the honesty of his character and the affirmation of the human spirit and his name was Emmett Kelly, Sr. “Willie and Me, In The Spotlight Again” is the loving portrait of the man behind the makeup and how his life experiences were the genesis of his character, Weary Willie, told in this 90-minute bio-drama.

Nominating Committee for Outstanding Achievement in Off-Broadway Theatre

PIE LESSONS is a private view into how powerful a grip an immigrant's background has on a man, and how it shapes his behavior, perhaps even years after he crossed the ocean. It is served with traditional klezmer music, fresh pie at every performance, and a generous dollop of unabashed patriotism that perhaps only a foreigner could muster.

A group New Yorkers are brought together, then torn apart by current events. Set a few years before the 2016 elections and a few years after, and against the backdrop of Black Lives Matter, Stop & Frisk, and mass surveillance, the characters’ stories are set to a pulsing, percussive score by playwright and composer Dave Hall.

Joe A. CallawayJoe A Callaway dedicated more than 50 years to the theatre as an actor, director, lecturer and critic. He was a founding member and director of San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, the first recipient of a Master’s degree from the Goodman School of Theatre, an associate professor at Michigan State University, a noted radio and television reviewer, and an actor off-Broadway and in regional theatre. Since his death in 1991, his legacy lives on in awards he endowed for direction and choreography (through SDCF), for acting (through Actors’ Equity Association), for playwriting (through Young Playwrights Inc.) and for theatre scholarships (through NYU).SDCF’s Joe A. Callaway Award was first presented in 1989. Previous winners include Gabriel Barre, Andy Blankenbuehler, Carolyn Cantor, Martha Clarke, Graciela Daniele, Frank Galati, Christopher Gattelli, Gerald Gutierrez, Doug Hughes, Garry Hynes, Bill T. Jones, Thomas Kail, Moises Kaufman, Larry Keigwin, Joe Mantello, Trevor Nunn, Jack O’Brien, Ciarán O’Reilly, Harold Prince, Bartlett Sher, Susan Stroman, Daniel Sullivan and George C. Wolfe.Recipients and finalists are chosen by the Callaway Award Selection Committee, comprised of current longstanding SDC Members, from more than 200 productions considered each season.

CAROL OF CARROLL GARDENS is a comedy about a life-long, pessimistic, Baby Boomer named CAROL, who's managing her Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia. Narrated by her 3 cats, her journey's supported by her lonely friend, (SCOTTY). She's also helped along by mystical cat visions, a buzzed Doctor, an ever-changing medical staff, and a wise oracle. All help to lead her back to a place of possible optimism and love.Industry reading starring Tony Award-winner Karen Ziemba Produced by Trilliant Entertainment Group, The Empress Productions, LLC

Theater for the New City and Executive Artistic Director Crystal Field will present a reading of Pie Lessons by Carrie Robbins, on Monday, March 11, 2019, 7:00 PM in the Community Space Theater at Theater for the New City. Pie Lessons will be presented as part of TNC's Scratch Night performance program, which offers the opportunity for artists to present work in progress to an audience for one night. HOMEMADE PIE WILL BE SERVED TO ALL COMERS!Pie-deprived Gloria Levski is played by Remy Zaken*; Kyle Minshew* takes the role of pie task-master Mr. Levski; the perpetually pie-baking Mrs. Levski is played by Jenne Vath*, and Pie Lessons is narrated by Robert Meksin*.Pie Lessons is written by Carrie Robbins who has spent most of her work life designing costumes on Broadway and Off-, both in the US and abroad. In 2012 she received the TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Awards include two Tony nominations; four Drama Desk Awards and two nominations. Other notable honors include Maharam and Henry Hewes Design Awards and nominations, Backstage West/Drama-Logue Award, Audelco and three Prague Quadrennial awards. Her costumes for Irving Berlin's White Christmas and the Cincinnati Ballet's New Nutcracker can be seen every holiday season. In 2011 she became the second costume designer only to be honored with a monograph on her designs (Amazon and Drama Bookshop/NYC). Ms. Robbins' sketches are particularly sought by collectors, and her work can be seen in Time Life's The Encyclopedia of Collectibles (she's proud to have one of her sketches between "Telephones" and "Trivets').

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 2018 TRU Love Benefit, "The Power of Community: Bringing People Together Through the Arts." The event will honor legendary A Chorus Line co-star and co-founder of the National Asian Artists Project Baayork Lee, who will receive the TRU Spirit of Theater Award for a lifetime of creating opportunities for Asian artists; and off-off-Broadway maverick, creator of the former OOBR Awards and the Midtown International Theatre Festival, John Chatterton who will receive the TRU Entrepreneur Award for providing 17 years of developmental opportunities for a range of independent theater artists.

Musicals Tonight!’s 20th spring season opener, Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys From Syracuse, will play February 13–25 at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd St.Jonathan Cerullo, who will direct and choreograph the farce about mistaken identity, has cast men in almost all of the female roles.The cast will include Shavey Brown, Jody Cook, Matt Dengler, Ian Fairlee, Matthew Fairlee, Sam Given, Madeline Hamlet, Joseph Scott Holt, Jonathan Hoover,Jose Luaces, Elliott Mattox, Darrell Morris Jr., Adam Shapiro, and Josh Walden.LOOKING TO CAST OR BE CAST IN A SHOW YOURSELF? TRY PLAYBILL JOBS NOWBased on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, The Boys From Syracuse has music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, with a book by George Abbott.The limited run will have sets by Joshua Warner, lighting design by Ethan Steimel, and costume design by Hope Salvan. Evan Rees is the musical director, and Sue Delano is the assistant choreographer.For more information, visit MusicalsTonight.org

Critics called it “a diamond in the rough” – well, this diamond has been polished and is ready to sparkle… again! For the first time in NYC since its opening in 1989, come experience one of Broadway’s biggest and brightest flops, Legs Diamond! With original cast members and their stories, special guests, and the beautiful score conceived and written by Grammy and Academy Award winner Peter Allen, the evening is sure to delight.

York Theatre Company, 619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street) February 27 @ 7 pm & February 28 @ 3 pm Reservations: www.yorktheatre.org

Thrilled to be working with these ridiculously talented artists

A New BurlesqueWritten and Starring Mike King

The 30th annual Easter Bonnet Competition, celebrating six weeks of fundraising by 58 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies, raised a record-shattering $5,528,568, the largest grand total from either an Easter Bonnet Competition or Gypsy of the Year fundraising campaign in Broadway Cares history. The staggering grand total was announced April 26, 2016, by Christian Borle, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jennifer Hudson following two afternoons of inspiring and creative performances at the Minskoff Theatre, home to Disney's at the Minskoff Theatre, home to Disney's The Lion King. The production featured 17 extravagant, handmade bonnets presented by some of Broadway’s most popular shows.This year’s Easter Bonnet Competition also featured special numbers honoring the tireless volunteers of Broadway Cares’ Bucket Brigade, conceived and directed by Jonathan Cerullo,

BEHIND THE ELEVATOR PRODUCTIONS LYNN APPELLE PRESENTSFICTITIOUS Book, Music & Lyrics byTom Hyndman & Paul Cozby Directed & Choreographed byJonathan S. Cerullo + Music DirectorLulu Picart +The Director/Choreographer is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society Fictitious is a musical parody inspired by the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger. This 10-minute, 3-song excerpt is from the full musical that traces the rise, fall and rise again of immigrant body builder Hugh Diffendoffer, who meets, offends and ultimately wins over the beautiful-philanthropist-broadcast news reporter Humilia Tennedy Largent Thriver. SettingWashington, D.C. and Hollywood / 1980’s to Present Day Cast Hugh Diffendoffer ………………………………………….…………Scott Ahearn*Humilia Tennedy Largent Thriver ……………………….………….Erin Evers*Ted Tennedy/Man 1…………..……………………………….……..Jef Canter*Man 2/James Camera-On ……………..………………………......Justin McEllroy*Woman 1…………………………..……………………………........Molly Rose CorcoranWoman 2……………………………………………………….……..Kristen Tripolitis*Indicates member of Actors’ Equity Assn.

Set to the hottest music of the DISCO ERA era, Anna looks for refuge from her broken marriage in the intoxicating world of HUSTLE DANCING she gets more than she bargained for when she falls hopelessly in love with Donnie a seductive, fast talking predator who convinces her he's the man of her dreams

Windywoo and Her Naughty Naughty Pets, a new musical, based on the hit animated series, will delight audiences of all agesI In this jazz-infused show, Windywoo is devastated to learn that her beloved apartment building is being sold to a huge real-estate developer. Their neighborhood is changing fast, and the building owner wants them out! But where will they go? With The Big Apple as their background, Windywoo and her Pets learn that change is inevitable, but against all odds they band together to stand up for themselves, their neighborhood, and what’s really important.

An original musical based on the Orpheus myth set in the French Quarter of New Orleans and tells the story of the jazz composer Justin and the mysterious women who inspires him to create his masterpiece.

Music By Leo HurleyBook and Lyrics Charles OsbornParis Through the Window is a new musical about Paris on the brink of World War I, and the power of art to heal us in our darkest hours. A historical fantasy that weaves fact with fiction, Paris Through the Window tells the story behind the eponymous Chagall painting, Paris Through the Window, and how the World War I poet Alan Seeger met his "rendezvous with death." It is a story about hope, about the healing power of art, and above all, a story about Paris.http://www.paristhroughthewindow.com

Dramatic Excerpts Adapted from the Memoir of James Parks MortonJames Parks Morton Interfaith Award Honoring The Honrable Al Gore & Peter L. Zimroth Esq.

THIS JUST IN:Very excited to announce that I will be part of the team bringing you as Producing Consultant in the Backers Audition ofTONY HONOREE, GERARD ALESSANDRINI, of Forbidden Broadway AndEMMY AWARD winning, PETER BRASHOn their New Holiday Musical Comedy, THE NUTCRACKER AND IBeing presented by, JAMES MORGAN, Producing Artistic Director of The York Theatre Company On MONDAY, DECEMBER 16 3:00 and 6:00YORK THEATRE619 LEXINGTON AVENUEfor tickets please visit: www.yorktheatre.org

Book by L. E. McCullough | Lyrics by Michael Barry Greer | Music by Doug KatsarosDirected by Patricia Birch

Sustainability as an Artist-Dance Intensive is for artists seeking a unique opportunity to focus on the professional and business side of their creative practice, while fostering a network within the dance community.

STAGEDOOR MANOR, THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, DON B. WILMETH, PHD AND THEATRE INDUSTRY LEGEND FREDERICK O. OLSSON ARE THE DISTINGUISHED HONOREES AT THE 2012 THEATRE MUSEUM AWARDS

Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will be a special guest performer at DO40 Cares: It's Not Where You Start, a song-and-dance performance benefit presented by Dancers Over 40. Carol Lawrence will host the event, to be held at The Ailey Citigroup Theater/The Joan Weill Center for Dance on Monday, March 12, at 8 pm. Proceeds will go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Project Achieve/Columbia University & the NYC HIV Vaccine Trials Unit.PERFORMER

I shared a panel discussion with Karen Azenberg, President of SDC, Patti Wilcox, Choreographer and Liza Gennaro, Choreographer and Professor regarding the Stage Directors and Choreographers Union.

Inaugural Seminar for theater department, shared the stage with Thomas Kail, Director, Angelina Avallone Broadway Makeup Designer, and Hugh Panaro, Phantom of the Opera.