Brian Crawley News

The Songbook Project, Inc. is pleased to announce plans for a late summer benefit, TRUNK SONGS, featuring two treasures of the American Musical Theatre: Craig Carnelia (Sweet Smell of Success, Three Postcards) and Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, john & jen).

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and Executive Director Kathy Evans announced the Directors Slate for its 17th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS, to be held at Dodger Stages.

Casting is now complete for Sarah Schulman's play Manic Flight Reaction, which will open on October 23rd at Playwrights Horizon and play a limited run through November 6th

Casting has been announced for the McCarter Theatre and Playwrights Horizons production of Christopher Durang's new play Miss Witherspoon

Musicals by Andrew Lippa and Brian Crawley and by Marsha Norman, Beth Blatt and Jenny Giering are two of the eight selections of this year's NAMT Festival of New Musicals

The Playright Horizons show begins previews on August 30 and opens on September 25.

Two new plays and a musical will be part of Playwrights Horizons' exciting 2005-2006 season, of which 3 other plays have already been announced

Students in the BMI Workshop will have their work performed in the Art and Artists Stars of Tomorrow concert on May 24th

The Playwright's Horizon production of Julia Cho's BFE will begin previews on May 19th before opening at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre on May 19th

Previews for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) production of MEMORY HOUSE, a new play by Kathleen Tolan (The Wax and Kate's Diary at Playwrights Horizons) are set to begin Friday, April 22 at 8 PM.

Sh-k-boom Records announced today the release of Billy Porter's CD entitled 'At The Corner of Broadway and Soul -- Live at Joe's Pub' to coincide with the opening of his new one-man show, GHETTO SUPERSTAR at The Public Theater in New York in February 2005.

Winners of the 2005 Richard Rodgers Awards competition for musical theatre were announced by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Michael McElroy sits down and talks about his career and the upcoming Broadway Inspirational Voices concert.