George Gershwin News

Harold Prince's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide will make its return to City Opera Tuesday, April 8, 2008 replacing the previously announced Ragtime.

Mask, a new musical drama based on the 1985 Peter Bogdanovich film about a facially deformed boy and his tough biker mother, will have its premiere at the Arizona Theatre Company as part of the theatre's 2007-2008 season.

The winners are currently being announced for the 2007 Laurance Olivier Awards, the UK's most prestigious theatrical awards.

Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's restaurant in Studio City celebrated their 8th anniversary with a cool sense of chic cabaret as Maura M. Knowles (Bare) flew through stage classics to a crowded house...

The nominations have been announced for the 2007 Laurance Olivier Awards, the UK's most prestigious theatrical awards. The awards will be presented on February 18, 2007 at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

The American Musicals Project has announced its AMP Concert Series 2007, 'The Art of the Musical,' which will include a performance by Isabella Rossellini as legendary German actress and singer Lotte Lenya

Award-winning Lois Walden, Barry Kleinbort and Paul Greenwood will capture the life and legacy of an elusive songbird with 'Why Lee? A Musical Scrapbook About Lee Wiley' on Tuesdays, February 6th and 13th at the Metropolitan Room

Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Barbara Cook will perform the songs of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin as part of January 23rd master class performance at Carnegie Hall

A Broadway run has been confirmed for Gershwin's Porgy & Bess

The high-profile London revivals of Porgy and Bess and Cabaret are extending into fall of 2007

The Ravinia Festival's 2007 summer season will include performances by such Broadway stars as Tony-winners Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lillias White and Heather Headley, as well as a staged concert production of The Most Happy Fella

Angela Lansbury, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kitty Carlisle Hart and more will celebrate the music of George Gershwin at Lincoln Center on November 13th

Beethoven, a new play by Hershey Felder, will have its world premiere at Chicago's Royal George Theatre

Complete casting has been announced for Trevor Nunn's abridged London staging of the Gershwin classic Porgy and Bess, which begins performances in October

The Geffen Playhouse will stage the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (starring Amy Ryan, Joyce Van Patten and Tate Donovan), the world premiere of Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, and the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, which will be directed by the playwright

Clarke Peters and Nicola Hughes will take on two of musical theatre's most famous roles with Trevor Nunn's abridged London staging of the Gershwin classic Porgy and Bess

Opera Pacific will present a full concert version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (October 4-5, 2006) during the opening celebration for the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, which is part of the Orange County Performing Arts Center's expansion

Trevor Nunn's new production of the Gershwins' groundbreaking folk opera Porgy and Bess will receive a Broadway transfer after its London run

Jamie Bernstein, Judy Kaye, the St. Luke's Orchestra and other talents celebrate Leonard Bernstein at Caramoor's International Music Festival

A new production of the Gershwin's groundbreaking folk opera Porgy and Bess--trimmed down from 'a four hour opera to a two-and-a-half-hour musical' will begin performances at the Savoy Theatre in London on October 25th and open on November 9th