Arthur Laurents News

According to a report by Lemonwade, Broadway legends Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin might bring their concert show, which toured the country in 2010-11, to the Great White Way this fall. The show is aiming to open in mid-October and run through the holiday season. Additional details have not yet been released.

Petterino's (150 N. Dearborn St.), the downtown theater district go-to restaurant, presents 'Monday Night Live,' beginning at 7:30 p.m., Monday, July 25, with guest performances by select cast members of WEST SIDE STORY.

Petterino's (150 N. Dearborn St.) presents 'Monday Night Live,' beginning at 7:30 p.m., Monday, July 25, with guest performances by select cast members of WEST SIDE STORY.

The Summer Musicale series concludes on a high note with Lights Up On Broadway on August 11-21. Keith Baker and the BRT Band are joined by BRT veterans Kim Carson, Niffer Clarke, David Edwards, John Smitherman, Keith Spencer, and Lindsay Roberts performing hits from such favorite musicals as The Producers, The Music Man, Showboat and more.

George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint announced the slate of productions for the fall and winter of the New Brunswick theatre's 2011-2012 season - its 38th. Keeping true to its mission of producing new work, the season will begin with two world premieres - both musicals -followed by a New Jersey premiere of a recent Tony Award-winning play and a recent Broadway comedy in the spring of 2012.

Petterino's (150 N. Dearborn St.), the downtown theater district go-to restaurant, presents 'Monday Night Live,' beginning at 7:30 p.m., Monday, July 25, with guest performances by select cast members of WEST SIDE STORY.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. Kristin Chenoweth at Sidetrack, Jennifer Hudson at Ravinia, 'Carousel,' 'West Side Story,' 'Jim Caruso's Cast Party,' 'For The Boys,' more....

If I were delusional enough to think my scribblings could turn an unknown into a star overnight, then I'd be writing these words fully confident that by tomorrow morning every Broadway producer in town would want to sign a young musical comedy actress named Oakley Boycott.  Yes, Oakley Boycott is her actual name and as a performer she's as unique as her moniker.  I first saw her two years ago at one of Town Hall's Broadway's Rising Stars concerts, where she floored the place as a rhythmically-challenged singer awkwardly pounding her way through John Kroner's 'Where's The Beat.'  Since then it seems her New York appearances have been limited to Scott Siegel's Town Hall concerts and doing concert musicals for Mel Miller's Musicals Tonight!

The tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY is coming to Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) July 19 - August 14, 2011.

Petterino's (150 N. Dearborn St.) presents 'Monday Night Live,' beginning at 7:30 p.m., Monday, July 25, with guest performances by select cast members of WEST SIDE STORY.

West Side Story, the new hit Broadway revival of the groundbreaking Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical, will close at Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre on July 17, 2011.

The tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY is coming to Tempe. WEST SIDE STORY will open at ASU Gammage on September 27 and runs through October 2, 2011. Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents' Broadway direction will be recreated for the tour by David Saint, the Associate Director on Broadway. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).

West Side Story, the new hit Broadway revival of the groundbreaking Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical, will play Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre, July 12-17, 2011. This 2009 Tony-nominated and 2010 Grammy Award-winning production features a score considered to be one of Broadway's finest, with such classics of American musical theatre as 'Something's Coming,' 'Tonight,' 'I Feel Pretty' and 'Somewhere.'

West Side Story producer Walter Mirisch, along with original cast members George Chakiris ('Bernardo') and Russ Tamblyn ('Riff'), as well as more than a dozen performers who played the 'Jets' and 'Sharks,' will attend Friday evening presentation of the iconic film with live orchestra, at the Hollywood Bowl, Friday, July 8, at 8 p.m. The film will also be shown Saturday, July 9, at 8 p.m.