Susan Egan News

The Coterie will present popular composer Georgia Stitt live in concert May 25th. Celebrating the release of her newest album, My Lifelong Love, Stitt is bringing her music back to Los Angeles. (more...)

The Broadway at Birdland series was proud to present both Susan Egan, Tony-nominated for her performance as Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and Georgia Stitt, the award-winning theatrical composer, in concert together. The duo sang about and discussed their shared passions in an evening of new music and re-conceived classics that touched upon every aspect of their modern, multi-tasking lives! Susan was even subjected to an impromptu voice lesson from renowned and reviled vocal coach/YouTube superstar, Miranda Sings. (more...)

The original Belle of Broadway performed for the first time in Argentina, where she gave a four-hour masterclass on May 1st. That same night, she astonished the audience with the amazing concert she gave at the Teatro Astral, accompanied by pianist Christopher McGovern. Check out this video with the best moments of Susan Egan's performance in Buenos Aires. (more...)

In a correlative column to this weekend’s extensive and exclusive InDepth InterView, tonight we are shining a special solo spotlight on the vast multitude of talents possessed by one of Broadway’s brightest stars - known best to theatre fans for his tremendous turns in Maury Yeston’s TITANIC, Andrew Lippa’s THE WILD PARTY, the original musicals SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, SHREK and NEXT TO NORMAL as well as original dramas such as TIME STANDS STILL - who now can now regularly be seen on NBC’s hit music drama series SMASH, and, starting this Sunday in a three-episode arc on Showtime‘s THE BIG C with fellow Broadway notable Tammy Blanchard - the one and only Brian D’arcy James. While you will have to wait until tomorrow for the career-spanning conversation that covers his experiences working on those thrilling original musicals as well as reflections on collaborating with the starry array of cast members and creatives on the Steven Spielberg-produced SMASH and what lays ahead for Season Two, now is an absolutely ideal opportunuity to reacclimatize ourselves. Just what can’t Brian d’Arcy James do? As this spell-binding collection of clips prove - everything; and then some. (more...)

The Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA), a nationally recognized arts school that provides bright and talented students with a creative and challenging educational environment, has announced that Music and Theatre Conservatory senior, Adam Levy, of Cypress has been named Actor of the Year in the 2012 John Raitt Awards for Youth (JRAY) presented by Fullerton Civic Light Opera. (more...)

The annual Festival of New American Musicals (FNAM) kicks off its 5th season on May 1, 2012 with two MAJOR NEW INITIATIVES FEATURED...2012 SHOW SEARCH and FIRST LOOK as part of the 28 exciting musicals and events lined up. (more...)

Broadway star Susan Egan and celebrated composer/lyricist/music director Georgia Stitt will present Glamour and Goop at Birdland on Monday, May 21st at 7 pm. This event is part of Jim CarusoÂ’s Broadway at Birdland concert series, which showcases performers and composers from the Great White Way and environs. (more...)

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 2011-2012 Season of “Magic, Mystery and Music” with the World Premiere of Hello! My Baby, a new tuner from the pen of Cheri Steinkellner, the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning writer of "Cheers" and a Tony nominee for Sister Act: The Musical. (more...)

La cantante y actriz estadounidense nominada a un premio Tony por su trabajo en "La Bella y la Bestia" habló con BroadwayWorld Argentina y nos adelantó detalles del concierto y la masterclass que dará el 1° de mayo en el Teatro Astral. (more...)

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 2011-2012 Season of “Magic, Mystery and Music” with the World Premiere of HELLO! MY BABY, a Tin-Pantastic new tuner from the pen of CHERI STEINKELLNER, the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning writer of "Cheers" and a Tony nominee for Sister Act: The Musical. (more...)

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 2011-2012 Season of “Magic, Mystery and Music” with the World Premiere of Hello! My Baby, a new tuner from the pen of Cheri Steinkellner, the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning writer of "Cheers" and a Tony nominee for Sister Act: The Musical. (more...)

Executive Producer Lou Spisto has just announced that the World Premiere of the musical A Room with a View, with a book by Marc Acito, music by Jeffrey Stock (Triumph of Love) and lyrics by Acito and Stock, will complete the Globe's 2011-12 Winter Season. Scott Schwartz will direct the new work based on the classic novel by E.M. Forster. A Room with a View will run in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, March 2 - April 8, 2012. Opening night is Saturday, March 10. (more...)

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that the World Premiere of the musical A Room with a View, with a book by Marc Acito, music by Jeffrey Stock (Triumph of Love) and lyrics by Acito and Stock, will complete the Globe's 2011-12 Winter Season. Scott Schwartz will direct the new work based on the classic novel by E.M. Forster. (more...)

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Palladium Theater announced March/April shows. (more...)

From Nick Jonas and Michael Urie to the Ladies of THE VIEW to Adam Pascal, Raul Esparza, Barbra Streisand to Alan Menken, Bernadette Peters to Susan Boyle, Colin Quinn to GLEE and Everything in Between - It's the BroadwayWorld.com 2012 Valentine's Day Special - It's the Biggest Ever! (more...)

Check out singer and songwriter Matt Von Roderick's music video for his new single "Let the Trumpet Talk." The video is directed by the Tony nominated director of ROCK OF AGES, Kristin Hanggi. Also featured in the video are Autumn Reeser (Entourage, The OC) and Jerry Zucker (Airplane, Naked Gun). The single is produced by Swiss American Federation (Far East Movement, Nelly Furtado, Madonna). (more...)

The Sundance Institute Theatre Program has begun the 2012 Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation. The 13th annual writing colony at the 20,000-acre working cattle ranch outside of Sheridan, Wyo. takes place through February 24 and provides a supportive environment for artists to create new work and receive guidance and reactions to it at an early stage. (more...)

The Sundance Institute Theatre Program today announced the seven artists selected for its 2012 Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation which takes place from February 6 through 24, 2012. (more...)

Today we are talking to the titular leading lady of the Oscar-winning Disney classic BEAUTY & THE BEAST, Paige OÂ’Hara, all about her experience acting as the voice of Belle and what it was like to be an essential element of the enormous success that the lauded family favorite has enjoyed for more than twenty years, as well as her impressions of the new 3D film experience currently in movie theaters nationwide in honor of its 20th anniversary (also available on Blu-ray in standard definition and 3D). In addition to all about her role as a Disney Legend-indoctrinated princess, OÂ’Hara also sheds some light on her Broadway and theatre career, having starred in LES MISERABLES, OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD and the onstage revival and subsequent complete John McGlinn symphonic recording of SHOW BOAT. Additionally, OÂ’Hara details her many collaborations on BEAUTY & THE BEAST, such as composers Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, in addition to previous InDepth InterView participant Angela Lansbury and this weekÂ’s upcoming InDepth InterView subject - the Beast himself - Robby Benson. Plus, news on OÂ’HaraÂ’s Judy Garland bio-musical - FROM GUMM TO GARLAND: JUDY, THE MUSICAL - and her new role as a Disney Fine Arts artist, as well as much, much more! (more...)