Betty Ford News

The 32nd Annual Colleagues Spring Luncheon and Oscar de la Renta will present award-winning actress Catherine Oxenberg and her daughter India with The Colleagues Champion of Children Award, which honors those who have made a lasting impact on the lives of children.

The First Lady Suites will evoke the FDR era at The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park; the Ford era at The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles; the Obama era at The Ritz-Carlton, Chicago, and the eras of all three at The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. Each suite will include actual set pieces and props from the production set of THE FIRST LADY.

The new anthology drama stars Oscar®, Emmy® and Tony winner Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), as former first lady Michelle Obama, Oscar and Emmy nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) as Betty Ford and Emmy and Screen Actors Guild® winner Gillian Anderson (The Crown) as Eleanor Roosevelt.

Ahead of their upcoming musical episode, take a look back at the Simpsons' musical endeavors of the past. From The Music Man to the Lion King, check out a roundup of previous musical tributes on the show!

The Granite Theatre continues with its soft-opening and return to live stage performances and in-theatre audiences presenting TEA FOR THREE. Performances begin tomorrow night, August 20 and run through September 12.

THE FIRST LADY is a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House. 

Palo Alto Players, currently in its 90th season, returns to in-person theater for the first time since being shuttered in March 2020 with an outdoor staged production of TEA FOR THREE: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty.

In the series, Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy businessman to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom's acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit.

Also joining the cast is Aya Cash, Jake Picking, Cayden Boyd, Marc Hills, Thomas E. Sullivan) and Patrice Johnson Chevannes.

In the East Wing of the White House, many of history's most impactful and world-changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America's charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies.

McCallum Theatre has officially launched its Ghostlight Virtual Performance Series. The series will showcase some of the Theatre's most popular performers in material curated especially for McCallum friends.

Lambert Jackson Productions today announces its online lockdown production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World which will stream on stream.theatre for one week from 21  February. 

SHOWTIME has announced that Oscar and Emmy® nominee and Golden Globe® winner Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) will star as Betty Ford and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce the anthology series.

The Martha's Vineyard Ferries, featuring Bob Weston (Shellac), Chris Brokaw (Codeine, Come), and Elisha Wiesner (Kahoots), are excited to announce their new album Suns Out Guns Out, due February 26, 2021 via Ernest Jenning Record Co

Lambert Jackson Productions today announces live performances of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World at The London Palladium on 11 October. Séimí Campbell directs David Hunter (Waitress), Rachel John (Hamilton), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away) for two performances only in a return for musical theatre to West End.

Beginning in September, through the remainder of the year, CW Seed will be adding more than 300 hours of programming to its growing roster of beloved series.

A virtual production will be streamed of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World, filmed entirely in isolation, beginning tonight, July 23!

A virtual production will be streamed of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World, filmed entirely in isolation. Séimí Campbell directs Rachel John (Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of The Opera), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away).

The Associates of the Boston Public Library announces the world premiere of ONWARD a?" VOTES FOR WOMEN, a documentary play honoring the fight for women's suffrage, created by Lisa Rafferty, with music arranged and composed by Adam R. McDonald. The second annual event in the Pierce Performance Series,

The popular underwear band THE SKIVVIES brought their antics and artistry to The Green Room 42 in honor of President's Day, and the crowd ate it up like a Fourth of July Picnic