WestBeth Entertainment Information

WestBeth Entertainment, founded by Arnold Engelman, began in 1977 as WestBeth Theatre Center. Home to three performance spaces, it made it’s mark as the home for experimental, innovative, and daring new works including the original production of Hedwig, and performers like Stephen Colbert, Patti LuPone, Sandra Bernhardt, Margaret Cho, and John Turturro. Now, for over 30 years, Arnold has evolved WBE into a truly unique company that’s consistently delivered critically acclaimed, financially successful, and groundbreaking productions that make the artist's and audience’s dreams come true. WestBeth has produced and managed some of the most unique shows across North America in venues including Madison Square Garden, Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Toronto’s Massey Hall, The Chicago Theatre, and Lincoln Center. Recent productions include: Billy Connolly's The Man Live, Eddie Izzard’s Force Majeure in Canada, Dylan Moran’s Yeah, Yeah in cities across the US and Canada, the 6 week off-Broadway run of South African comedian Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime; Eric Idle’s What About Dick at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles; and the national tour, Off-Broadway, Australia tour and 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival runs of Puppet Up! – Uncensored (aka Stuffed & Unstrung) with The Jim Henson Company. Past productions include: John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown on Broadway, the West End, and Colombia, South America; British comedian Simon Amstell’s one man show NUMB in New York and other cities around the US; Billy Connolly’s tour The Man Live in New York and San Francisco; Eddie Izzard’s Dress To Kill, Circle, Sexie, Stripped—a 35 city US tour and tour of Canada, Stripped Too: US Arena tour, Stripped to the Bowl, Stripped to the Shore; Billy Connolly’s Too Old To Die Young tour in America and Canada; Lewis Black’s Nothing Sacred show at New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as Lewis’ Dual Citizenship Tour in Canada and ‘In God We Rust’ at City Center in New York.