Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, Vanessa Williams & More to Perform in Martha's Vineyard This Summer

Producer Mark Cortale is bringing his acclaimed Broadway concert series to Martha's Vineyard this summer. Since launching the fledgling Broadway @ The Art House concert series with Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky in Provincetown in 2011, the Broadway @ series has become a veritable star-magnet and has exploded beyond picturesque P-Town to launch outposts everywhere from Los Angeles to London.

This summer the Broadway series expands both further - and closer to home - as it debuts its inaugural summer season at Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center with a megawatt lineup that includes Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Vanessa Williams, and Megan Hilty. Broadway @ The Performing Arts Center is sponsored by Cape Air, Harbor View Hotel and Hy-Line Cruises. The Broadway @ the Performing Arts Center concert series will benefit the Tyler Clementi Foundation. For tickets to all performances please visit www.vineyardbroadway.com.

Leading off the star-studded series will be Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominated superstar Vanessa Williams on Saturday, July 9 for one show only. She is followed by Megan Hilty, the breakout star of NBC's "Smash" and on Broadway in "Wicked" and "9 to 5: The Musical" on Saturday, July 16. Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky (currently appearing on Broadway in the musical "Disaster!") will serve as host/pianist for these first two concerts. Next up is none other than Kristin Chenoweth - the Tony winning star who originated the role of Glinda in Broadway's "Wicked" and also starred on TV's "Glee". Chenoweth, an Emmy-winner for "Pushing Daisies" will appear with Mary-Mitchell Campbell at the piano, on Sunday, August 14 for two shows only. Megan Mullally, a two-time Emmy-winning star of TV's "Will & Grace," and star of Broadway's "Young Frankenstein" and Nick Offerman, star of NBC's "Parks and Recreation" follow with their show "Summer of 69: No Apostrophe" on August 29. Last but certainly not least, Patti LuPone two-time Tony Award winner for Gypsy, and as the original Evita, rings in Labor Day weekend on Friday, September 2 with her show "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" with music director Joseph Thalken at the piano.

Vanessa Williams has sold over 25 million records worldwide, including her platinum single "Colors of the Wind" from Disney's animated hit film "Pocahontas" which won the Oscar for Best Original Song. On Television, among many other roles, she is best known as Wilhelmina Slater on "Ugly Betty," a role that brought her three Emmy nominations, and on film, she has starred in "Soul Food," "Dance with Me," "Light It Up," "Shaft," "And Then Came Love," and many others. Her Broadway performances include her Tony-nominated role in the revival of "Into the Woods," as well as "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Sondheim on Sondheim," "The Trip to Bountiful," "After Midnight," and Encores' "St. Louis Woman."

Megan Hilty recently enjoyed breakout roles on TV's "Smash" and "Sean Saves The World" (opposite Sean Hayes). She made her Broadway debut as Glinda in "Wicked" and performed the role in both the national tour and in Los Angeles. Megan has also appeared on New York stages as Lorelei Lee in the Encores! production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," for which she earned rave reviews, and as Doralee Rhodes in Broadway's "9 to 5: The Musical" for which she received Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards nominations. Megan was recently signed to Sony Music in a partnership between Sony Masterworks and Columbia Records, which released her new album, "It Happens All The Time."

Kristin Chenoweth received an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the ABC series "Pushing Daisies." More recently, she's become known as April Rhodes on "Glee", for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a People's Choice Award, as Annabeth Schott on "The West Wing," and as a guest judge on both American Idol and Project Runway. On Broadway she originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in "Wicked," which earned her a Tony Award Nomination, and won a Tony Award as Sally in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown." Her films include "The Boy Next Door" with Jennifer Lopez, "A Bet's A Bet", "Hard Sell" and as a poisonous frog named Gaby in Blue Sky Studio's, "Rio 2."

Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are yanking the britches right off of their marriage, exposing the salacious details of their fiery union for all the world to enjoy, featuring songs, funny talking, heavy ribaldry, light petting and an astonishing final act of completion. Megan Mullally is best known for playing the iconic role of Karen Walker on the groundbreaking hit TV series "Will & Grace" for which she won two Emmy Awards. She made her Broadway debut as Marty in the 1994 revival of "Grease" with Rosie O'Donnell and appeared as Rosemary in the hit 1995 revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opposite Matthew Broderick. In 2007, Mullally starred as Elizabeth in Mel Brooks' original Broadway musical, "Young Frankenstein." She has also been seen on TV this season in the critically acclaimed NBC series "You, Me and the Apocalypse" as Chief on two-time Emmy-winning comedy series "Children's Hospital" and as Lydia on "Party Down". She has appeared frequently on "Parks and Recreation," "Bob's Burgers" and "Web Therapy" among others.

Nick Offerman most recently starred as Ron Swanson on NBC's "Parks and Recreation" and is the winner of a Television Critics Association Award for Achievement in Comedy and two Critics Choice Television Awards. Off Broadway he has been seen in "Adding Machine" at The Minetta Lane Theater. His other TV credits include "Axe Cop," "Children's Hospital," "Will & Grace," "Deadwood," "George Lopez," "ER," "American Body Shop," and "24." Film work includes "Casa De Mi Padre," "21 Jump Street," "All Good Things," "Men Who Stare At Goats," "Somebody Up There Likes Me," "Harmony and Me," "The Kings of Summer," "We're The Millers," "LEGO," and "22 Jump Street." His book, "Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living," reached #8 on New York Times' Best Seller list.

Patti LuPone won her second Tony Award for her performance as Rose in the most recent Broadway production of "Gypsy," and won her first Tony for creating the title role in "Evita" on Broadway, with her now legendary performance. She created the role of Lucia in "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," and has starred in "Sweeney Todd," "Noises Off," David Mamet's "The Old Neighborhood," "Master Class," and her concert "Patti LuPone on Broadway." On London's West End, she won Olivier Awards as Fantine in the original production of "Les Miserables" and for "The Cradle Will Rock." Her film work includes "Union Square," "Parker," "City By The Sea," "Heist," "State and Main," "Summer of Sam," "Driving Miss Daisy," and "Witness." On TV she's appeared on "Glee," "30 Rock," "Ugly Betty," "Will & Grace," "OZ," "Frasier," "Law & Order," "American Horror Story" and the Emmy winning PBS broadcasts of "Passion" and "Sweeney Todd," "Candide" and "An Evening with Patti LuPone."

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