Ted Koehler News

Following the Brighton Beach and Downtown Brooklyn series, the Brooklyn Phil concludes its 2011-12 relaunch season with three free concerts in the heart of BED-STUY, in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and Brooklyn Public Library. (more...)

Supported by a superb 10-piece orchestra (including six horn players), Catherine RussellÂ’s set at the Allen Room for Jazz at Lincoln Center was a tribute to songs her dad Luis recorded or performed with the great Louis Armstrong from the late 1920s through the 1930s. By the end of her show, Russell had clearly proven that she has become one of the finest interpreters of jazz and blues on the contemporary music scene. (more...)

LML Music is announcing the February 14, 2012 release of “Ain’t We Got Fun!”, the debut CD of actor/singer/dancer/writer/composer, Robert Creighton. (more...)

LML Music is announcing the February 14, 2012 release of “Ain’t We Got Fun!”, the debut CD of actor/singer/dancer/writer/composer, Robert Creighton. (more...)

Brooklyn philharmonic has just announced their 2011-12 season: (more...)

DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA is an early piece by playwright John Patrick Shanley, but you wouldn't know it, since it's filled with the same kind of crackling dialogue and troubled characters that populate most of his work. I was reminded more than once of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's classic composition "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", not just because of the obvious similarities between the titles, but due to Koehler's lyrics like: "I don't want you/but I hate to lose you" and "I want to cross you off my list/but when you come knocking at my door/fate seems to give my heart a twist/and I come running back for more". Those words really seem to fit this pair of damaged individuals who are searching for something positive in their lives, despite their inability to connect with anyone, at least until they meet up with one another. The NonProphet Theatre Company's presentation is a real stunner, powered by two great performances that make it must-see viewing. (more...)

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Fifty years after her legendary Carnegie Hall debut, The New York Pops remembers Hollywood icon Judy Garland with a song-for-song re-creation of the 1961 performance that is referred to by so many as “the greatest night in show business history”. (more...)

Fifty years after her legendary Carnegie Hall debut, The New York Pops remembers Hollywood icon Judy Garland with a song-for-song re-creation of the 1961 performance that is referred to by so many as “the greatest night in show business history”. (more...)

On August 24, Sony Masterworks releases The Essential Lena Horne, which spans thirty years of the legendary artist's career, from her first recordings in 1941 to her live recordings of the 1950s and '60s. This 39-song, 2-CD collection of golden standards includes six tracks previously unavailable on CD and begins and ends with irreplaceable versions of her signature song, "Stormy Weather." (more...)

Five additional performances are added to the performance schedule of "Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen," produced by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in association with Michael James. Originally scheduled to close August 8, the show will now close August 15. (more...)

Five additional performances are added to the performance schedule of "Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen," produced by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in association with Michael James. Originally scheduled to close August 8, the show will now close August 15. (more...)

No Exit Café is being reconfigured to resemble a late 1940s/early 1950s neighborhood cabaret by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre for its next show, “Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen,” performed in association with Michael James, opening Sunday, June 20. (more...)

No Exit Café is being reconfigured to resemble a late 1940s/early 1950s neighborhood cabaret by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre for its next show, “Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen,” performed in association with Michael James, opening Sunday, June 20. (more...)

World Village/harmonia mundi proudly announces the release of vocalist Catherine Russell's Inside This Heart Of Mine on April 13, 2010. Her third album for the label, Inside This Heart Of Mine is a collection of 13 songs -- tied together by the special place these songs hold inside the heart of Catherine Russell. (more...)

World Village/harmonia mundi proudly announces the release of vocalist Catherine Russell's Inside This Heart Of Mine on April 13, 2010. Her third album for the label, Inside This Heart Of Mine is a collection of 13 songs -- tied together by the special place these songs hold inside the heart of Catherine Russell. (more...)

World Village/harmonia mundi proudly announces the release of vocalist Catherine Russell's Inside This Heart Of Mine on April 13, 2010. Her third album for the label, Inside This Heart Of Mine is a collection of 13 songs -- tied together by the special place these songs hold inside the heart of Catherine Russell. (more...)

Writers’ Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce Writers’ Cabaret—Four Evenings of Song, a series of Monday night performances on the set of Oh Coward!, 664 Vernon Ave. in Glencoe, and the CD release of Bright Young People—The Songs of Noël Coward, featuring Kate Fry, Rob Lindley and John Sanders with Doug Peck (piano). (more...)

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, the five-time Grammy Award nominated, plantinum-selling singer and pianist, and CHEYENNE JACKSON - the Broadway star of Xanadu, All Shook Up and the current revival of Finian's Rainbow - have announced the release of their first CD together, The Power of Two. Based on the sold-out engagement at Michael's New York nightclub, Feinstein's at Loews Regency the disc features pop songs, classic standards and numbers from Broadway shows like Kiss Me Kate, City Of Angels and The King and I. (more...)