Lottery Announced For THE MERRILY CHAPTERS NYC Presentation
The Stage Door Foundation and Pam Pariseau have announced a special lottery for live studio audience tickets to a special industry presentation showing how Stephen Sondheim created MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG through the eyes of original Broadway cast member, David Loud.
Interview: Tony Yazbeck Brings His Tapping Feet & Warm Vocals to ALL GERSHWIN at The Hollywood Bowl
The first all-Gershwin concert in history Cuban Overture will be re-created July 11, 2024 at the Hollywood Bowl as All-Gershwin. Former LA Phil Associate Conductor Lionel Bringuier reprises the night with Gershwin’s iconic classical, jazz, and Caribbean rhythms, while celebrating Rhapsody in Blue’s 100th anniversary, The evening will feature the Los Angeles Philharmonic, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and vocalists Isabel Leonard and Tony Yazbeck. Tony graciously took time to answer a few of my queries.
TREASURE ISLAND Comes to OpenStage Theatre & Company
Hoist your sails, and prepare for the journey of a lifetime!—OpenStage Theatre & Company will present the final show in its 50th Essential Season, Treasure Island, Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, Adapted by Bryony Lavery, and Directed by Kate Austin-Gröen.
OpenStage Theatre's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Brings Jane Austen's Classic to Life
When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart? OpenStage Theatre & Company presents Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill, based on the classic novel by Jane Austen. This production is directed by Noah Racey with an original score by Aaron Gandy, and will be the second show of OpenStage's 49th Essential Season performed at the Lincoln Center Magnolia Theater.
OpenStage Theatre Returns to The Spotlight For Its 49th Season
When the pandemic hit in early 2020, OpenStage Theatre & Company began its Fight for Art, Culture and Community and to stay alive and thrive. Now OpenStage will once again bring up the curtain for its 49th Season with four Essential and two etcetera productions.
Hunter Foster, Taylor Trensch, Sarah Stiles, Fred Grandy & More Announced for Theatre Aspen's SOLO FLIGHTS FESTIVAL
Ahead of the start of the 38th Season, Theatre Aspen announced today that after a successful first flight, the organization will present its second annual one-person show festival, Solo Flights, as the third act of this year’s summer season, August 25 – 31, 2021 at the Hurst Theatre in Aspen, Colorado.
92Y Will Celebrate Jerry Herman at LYRICS & LYRICISTS
From Hello, Dolly! and Mame to La Cage aux Folles, no one has written 'showtunes' with as much exuberance as Jerry Herman whose musicals offer an optimistic approach to the human condition, finding common ground with his audience by showing us that the differences between us are, in fact, what unite us. Lyrics & Lyricists 2020 season continues with a celebration of the composer, lyricist and songwriter whose joyful scores have sent us from the theater humming for more than 50 years. Singing them at L&L are Quentin Earl Darrington (Once on This Island), Cady Huffman (The Will Rogers Follies, Chicago, The Producers), Bryonha Marie Parham (The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Prince of Broadway), and Ryan Vona (Once, Beautiful).
LYRICS & LYRICISTS at 92Y Opens Season Celebrating Yip Harburg
Lyrics & Lyricists opens its new season with a salute to Yip Harburg, who appeared on the 92nd Street Y stage for L&L's first show in December 1970. Harburg was a master lyricist, poet, and book writer who worked with more than 40 composers in writing over 600 songs, including such classics as 'April in Paris,' 'Old Devil Moon,' 'Lydia, the Tattooed Lady,' 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,' 'Paper Moon,' and, of course, 'Over the Rainbow.' Mikaela Bennett, Clifton Duncan, Desi Oakley, Megan Sikora and Nick Spangler bring Harburg's story to life-from his Lower East Side childhood to being blacklisted by HUAC. Matt Kunkel's direction, with musical direction by Paul Masse and a script by Jon Marans, weaves together Harburg's comedic and political sides.