George S. Kaufman News

New York City Center will present the 13th season of New York City Center Encores! Great American Musicals In Concert®, opening February 9 with Kismet starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, followed by the Kander and Ebb musical 70, Girls, 70. George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing will end the season, playing May 11 - 14.

The Gershwins' satiric musical Of Thee I Sing will be the third entry in City Center's Encores!' 2006 season

Lost Musicals presents a staged reading of Cole Porter's 1955 musical political satire

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Frances Conroy and others will headline a staged reading of This is Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker in LA on October 10th; the reading will benefit The Acting Company

Songs from Cole Porter's Silk Stockings will be heard on XM 28 On Broadway Radio on August 28th a few weeks before a concert production is presented

Valerie Cutko, Liz Larsen, Daniel Gerroll and Wally Dunn will headline the cast of the semi-staged Lost Musicals presentation of Cole Porter's Silk Stockings, which will run from September 11th through October 3rd

The Lost Musicals series will present Cole Porter's Silk Stockings in four semi-staged performances from September 11th to October 3rd

- MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) has announced the lineup for the 35th anniversary season of its famed 'WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE' (WIP) literary series. Under the direction of Steve Lawson, WIP's eclectic five-event program will celebrate the best in drama, literature and song with tributes to Tennessee Williams, Kurt Weill, Cervantes' Don Quixote, George S. Kaufman and an appearance by opera great (and first-time author) Renee Fleming.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT, the lunch-time play reading series, under the Artistic Direction of its founder, Susan Charlotte, will celebrate its Fifth Anniversary when it opens its Spring 2005 season on Wednesday, February 23 with the New York premiere of a new Tennessee Williams' work Me, Vashya.

Yes, you too can enjoy the hit drama of German politics. Even if you can't even understand the reviews!

The rise and fall of the Algonquin Round Table is cleverly and charmingly musicalized in an outstanding and hilarious new musical

Actress, operatic diva, and philanthropist Kitty Carlisle Hart talks about her husband Moss, the Marx Brothers, and raising funds for the Arts.

Laurence Maslon authored the companion coffee table book to the recent hit PBS series, BROADWAY: The American Musical. For that special, he also wrote two of the episodes, and the accompanying booklet for the CD set. It seemed a perfect time to check in with this theater historian on the book, the TV special, and of course - about Broadway.

Co-hosts for the evening will be Julie Andrews and Beverly Sills. Appearances and performances will be by Jane Alexander, Orson Bean, Polly Bergen, Steven Blier, Mario Cuomo, Michael Feinstein, Robert Goulet ,Denyce Graves, Rosemary Harris, Celeste Holm, Audra McDonald, Sylvia McNair, Anna Moffo, Rise Stevens and Kitty Carlisle Hart, plus many more surprise guests.

Rick Crom's latest topical revue features hilarious songs and a sterling cast

Lynn Redgrave will star in the October 7 reading of her new one-woman play, Nightingale, based on the life of her maternal grandmother, as part of the FOOD FOR THOUGHT season at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South at 20th Street).

The classic musical political satire gets a fast and funny re-mounting

He's gone from being the Phantom and the Scarlet Pimpernel to president of the U.S.

See what you can expect to see on-stage in the coming year in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California!