Songs for a New World

MOLLY POPE, OKAY? Plays the Duplex, 5/22

"MOLLY POPE, OKAY?" presents the critically-acclaimed neo-retro cabarettist in an intimate evening with you and the music. She plays it fast and loose with a new set list of eclectic songs and madcap antics. Juxtaposing the heyday of mid-century New York City nightlife with a downtown modern sensibility, she tackles material spanning the 20th century with her signature old-school style. She is joined on piano by the brilliant Brian J. Nash. Okay? (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Cleveland - Week of 5/05/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 5/05/2013 for Cleveland (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in South Carolina - Week of 5/05/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 5/05/2013 for South Carolina (more...)

Katie Zaffrann and Chris Crawford Star in freeFall Theatre's JOHN & JEN, Opening Tonight

Opening tonight, May 3 at freeFall Theatre, the Bay area premiere of Andrew Lippa's john & jen will include a cast of Katie Zaffrann and Chris Crawford, Chris Brent Davis providing musical direction and Eric Davis directing. (more...)

Matt Shingledecker, Jenna Leigh Green and More Set for STANDBY at NYMF

Dwelvan David (Caroline, or Change, The Wiz, Songs for a New World), Jenna Leigh Green (Wicked, Bare, "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"), Alex Goley (Big River, The Berenstain Bears Live!), Eryn Murman (Spring Awakening), Darren Ritchie (Wonderland, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Dracula The Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, Nerds) and Matt Shingledecker (West Side Story, Rent, Spring Awakening) will lead the cast of STANDBY, an Official Selection of the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival Next Link Project. (more...)

Brown & Morsley Lead Cast in London Premiere of Yeston & Kopit's PHANTOM

Robert Gould reports for BWW on the upcoming UK professional premiere of Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's musical Phantom at Ye Olde Rose And Crown Theatre. (more...)

RLT Opens THE BREMENTOWN MUSICIANS This Friday

A musical based on The Grimm Brothers' tale, The Brementown Musicians opens May 3 for a three-week run in the Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre at Raleigh Little Theatre. Donny the donkey and his fellow animals, including a cat, a dog and a rooster, are discarded by their owners. They follow their dreams of becoming famous musicians and in the process, save Brementown. (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Dallas - Week of 4/28/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 4/28/2013 for Dallas (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Cleveland - Week of 4/28/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 4/28/2013 for Cleveland (more...)

Photo Flash: First Look at Circle Theatre's DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY

Circle Theatre presents its first musical of the 28th season, the Chicago Premiere of Maury Yeston's DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, running now through May 26th at Stage 773 at 1225 W. Belmont Ave. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below! (more...)

JOHN & JEN Opens 5/3 in St. Petersburg

Opening May 3 at freeFall Theatre, the Bay area premiere of Andrew Lippa's John & Jen will include a cast of Katie Zaffrann and Chris Crawford, Chris Brent Davis providing musical direction and Eric Davis directing. (more...)

Photo Flash: First Look at Jennifer Leigh Warren, Anthony Manough and More in Rubicon Theatre's LONESOME TRAVELER

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 15th Anniversary Season with the return of Lonesome Traveler, a musical event that takes audiences on a journey down the rivers and streams of American Folk Music -- from the hills of Appalachia to the nightclubs of San Francisco and New York; from the 1920s to the 1960s. Written and directed by Rubicon's Artistic Director James O'Neil, with Musical Direction by Trevor Wheetman, Lonesome Traveler begins April 24 and continues through May 19 at Rubicon Theatre in Ventura's Downtown Cultural District. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show below! (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Los Angeles - Week of 4/21/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 4/21/2013 for Los Angeles (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in New Jersey - Week of 4/21/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 4/21/2013 for New Jersey (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Cleveland - Week of 4/21/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 4/21/2013 for Cleveland (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Phoenix - Week of 4/21/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 4/21/2013 for Phoenix (more...)

ULYSSES DREAMS to Premiere at Touchstone Theatre, 4/13

This April, Touchstone Theatre premiers an original work entitled Ulysses Dreams: an exploration of origin and destiny on the South Bethlehem Greenway. Based on the classical text of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the play runs April 13-21 and features original music and poetic text by Jp Jordan and Christopher Shorr, as well as choreography created by Bill George, Gus Ripa, and the Touchstone creative family. (more...)

Circle Theatre Stages Midwest Premiere of DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, Now thru 5/26

Circle Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, directed by Elizabeth Margolius. A romantic love story, written by a trio of musical theatre greats, Death Takes a Holiday will transport audiences to the post-war Italian countryside. The show feaures music & lyrics by Maury Yeston and book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan. (more...)

NAMT Awards $10,000 to Support Barrington Stage's SOUTHERN COMFORT World Premiere, 7/19-8/10

Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, has announced it has received a $10,000 National Fund grant from the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), for its Musical Theatre Lab world premiere production of the musical, Southern Comfort, July 19 - August 10. (more...)

Jason Robert Brown to Write New Piece Based on HAMLET for Guthrie Theatre

The Guthrie today announced that it has commissioned Tony Award and Drama Desk Award-winning Broadway songwriter and composer Jason Robert Brown to create an original music piece for its 50th-anniversary gala performance BEHOLD. Brown's composition will be based on text excerpts from Shakespeare's Hamlet. (more...)

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