James Lapine, Marc Bruni, John Rando to Direct Encores! at City Center
by Gabrielle Sierra - September 16, 2011 Jack Viertel, Artistic Director of New York City Center's Encores! series, today announced the final two directors for the 2012 Encores! season....
Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker to star in Encores! Lost in the Stars 2/3-6
by BWW News Desk - February 03, 2011 Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker, Patina Miller, Sharon Washington, Daniel Gerroll, John Douglas Thompson and Sherry Boone have been cast in Lost in the Stars, the second Encores! production of the New York City Center season, running February 3 - 6 at City Center....
Reprise Theatre Co Presents An Evening With Liz Callaway 9/19
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2011 Reprise Theatre Company presents An Evening With Liz Callaway. It will have one performance only on Monday, September 19 at 8:00 pm, at UCLA's Freud Playhouse....
Indianapolis Symphony Performs Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg Music
by Gabrielle Sierra - September 27, 2011 The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly will open the 2011-2012 Printing Partners Pops Series season with the world premiere of a new symphonic concert stage production titled Do You Hear The People Sing - The Dream Concert! featuring music from renowned Broadway...
Block, Olivo et al. Lead BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK at 2nd Stage This Season
by Jessica Lewis - January 18, 2011 Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has announced that STEPHANIE J. BLOCK, DANIEL BREAKER, KIMBERLY HÉBERT GREGORY, KEVIN ISOLA and KAREN OLIVO will star in the world premiere comedy, BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK, the new play by Lynn Nottage, directed by Jo Bonney. BY THE WAY, M...
CCM Continues Mainstage Season with Oklahoma!
by Gabrielle Sierra - November 09, 2011 The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) presents an All-American classic as it continues its Mainstage Series with the production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!. ...
Audra McDonald to Tour Beginning October 1
by Kelsey Denette - August 17, 2011 With four Tony Awards and two Grammy Awards, the Juilliard-trained Audra McDonald returns to performing live full-time this month following four seasons playing Dr. Naomi Bennett on ABC's hit television series Private Practice....
NJ Symphony Presents An Evening with Michael Feinstein
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 12, 2011 Michael Feinstein, the five-time Grammy-nominated interpreter of the Great American Songbook, joins the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for a program celebrating the music of "Ol' Blue Eyes," Frank Sinatra. ...
Bay Area Caberet Hosts Lillas White's Tribute to Cy Coleman, 5/14
by Kelsey Denette - March 28, 2011 Bay Area Cabaret's season finale will star one of Broadway's greatest vocal talents, Lillias White. Returning this spring from Nigeria, where she will reprise her Tony-nominated role in FELA!, White is the winner of Broadway's 'Triple Crown' (a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circ...
Idina Menzel to Perform with Nashville Symphony Tonight
by BWW News Desk - June 07, 2011 Tony Award-winning vocalist Idina Menzel will perform one night only with the Nashville Symphony on Tuesday, June 7, at 8 p.m...
Shields, Lansbury, Jackson et al. Celebrate 28th Birthday of NY Pops at Carnegie Hall, 5/2
by Jessica Lewis - March 16, 2011 On Monday, May 2, 2011 The New York Pops' marks its 28th birthday with Celebrate Hope, a grand gala evening celebrating the legacy of late actor and comedian Bob Hope and honoring decades of support by Interpublic Group. The event begins at 7:00 PM with a concert at Carnegie Hall featuring a special...
Josh Grisetti, Judy Blazer Lead NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY At Cape Playhouse
by Gabrielle Sierra - June 16, 2011 No Way To Treat a Lady, the award-winning musical comedy thriller by Douglas J. Cohen, returns to the stage this summer for a two week run at Cape Cod's legendary summer theatre, The Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA....
James Lapine, Marc Bruni, John Rando to Direct Encores! at City Center
by Robert Diamond - September 16, 2011 Jack Viertel, Artistic Director of New York City Center's Encores! series, today announced the final two directors for the 2012 Encores! season. As previously announced, James Lapine will direct the first Encores! show of the season, Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, opening on February 8, 2...
Full Cast Announced for Encores' MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG!
by Nicole Rosky - January 18, 2012 Casting has been completed for New York City Center's upcoming Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, the first New York City Center Encores! production of the season. Merrily We Roll Along, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, will be directe...
Liz Callaway Leads SUNSET BOULEVARD at Pittsburgh CLO Next Summer
by Jessica Lewis - November 28, 2011 Pittsburgh CLO will welcome Liz Callaway back to Pittsburgh in 2012 to star as Norma Desmond in Pittsburgh CLO's inaugural production of Sunset Boulevard. Ms. Callaway charmed audiences and critics alike last summer in Pittsburgh CLO's premiere of Love Changes Everything: The Music of Andrew Lloyd W...
Idina Menzel to Perform with Nashville Symphony Tonight
by BWW News Desk - June 07, 2011 Tony Award-winning vocalist Idina Menzel will perform one night only with the Nashville Symphony on Tuesday, June 7, at 8 p.m...
Nnenna Freelon Celebrates Lena Horne At Feinstein's 5/10-14
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 18, 2011 FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its Spring 2011 season with the debut of six time Grammy Award nominee NNENNA FREELON from May 10 through 14....
Mick Jagger, B.B. King and More to Salute Blues at the White House, 2/27
by Kelsey Denette - February 13, 2012 As part of their "In Performance at the White House" series, the President and First Lady will invite music legends and contemporary major artists to the White House for a celebration of Blues music and in recognition of Black History Month. The program will include performances by Troy "Trombone Sh...
KT Sullivan Returns to Perform at Bob Egan's New Hope 4/2
by BWW News Desk - April 02, 2011 Acclaimed singer, Broadway star and cabaret favorite KT Sullivan returns to perform at Bob Egan's New Hope on Saturday, April 2, with her new show, 'Colored Lights.' Sullivan will present one show at 8:30 pm....
Indianapolis Symph Orch Performs Concert Stage Production of Hello, Dolly!
by BWW News Desk - January 13, 2012 The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly will perform the world premiere of a new symphonic concert stage production of Jerry Herman's famous Broadway musical Hello, Dolly! starring versatile singer Sandi Patty as Dolly Levi and renowned Tony Award-winning actor G...
Lavin, Keenan-Bolger et al. Honor Paul Libin, 3/28
by BWW News Desk - March 28, 2011 Broadway's elite will gather to honor a most-deserving philanthropist, Paul Libin, executive vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters, at UJA-Federation of New York's Entertainment, Media, and Communications Division's 2011 Excellence in Theater Award Dinner on Monday, March 28, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. at The...
STAGE TUBE: Jack Black Tributes Will Ferrell at Kennedy Center
by Nicole Rosky - October 25, 2011 This October, the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize salutes Will Ferrell. The program airs Monday, October 31 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide. Taped at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on October 23, the 90-minute special features a star-studded cast of Ferrell's friends and ...
Audra McDonald to Bring Concert Tour to Carnegie Hall,10/22
by Nicole Rosky - September 14, 2011 With four Tony Awards and two Grammy Awards, the Juilliard-trained Audra McDonald returns to performing live full-time this month following four seasons playing Dr. Naomi Bennett on ABC's hit television series Private Practice. Currently starring alongside Norm Lewis in A.R.T.'s PORGY AND BESS, the ...
Liz Callaway and the CSO Celebrate Milestones of Sondheim and Loesser
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 26, 2011 Broadway sensation and celebrated vocalist Liz Callaway joins the Columbus Symphony for an evening of music by two true legends of the Great White Way, Stephen Sondheim and Frank Loesser....
Judy Kuhn to Bring Solo Show to Feinstein's in March
by Caryn Robbins - February 09, 2012 FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue its Winter/Spring 2012 season with the debut of three time Tony Award-nominated singer and actress Judy Kuhn from March 6 to March 10. Her new show, exploring themes of love and happiness, will present an eclectic mix of theater and pop music by Joni Mitche... |