John Doyle News

The cover artwork has been release for Patti LuPone: A Memoir. Now listed on Amazon.com are the hardcover and audiobook CD versions of Patti LuPone: A Memoir, by Harmony Books.

The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced today that the 55th Annual OBIE Awards will take place on Monday, May 17, 2010 at Webster Hall in the East Village.

ROCK OF AGES star Lauren Molina will go (mostly) solo at The Duplex on Wednesday night, April 14, 2010 from 9:30 - 10:45 PM. The show promises as 'an evening of ukulele driven originals, and playful covers, layered with cello, guitar, banjo, and melodica.'

The Tony-nominated actor talks about Sondheim, Encores!, Anyone Can Whistle, creating a character and making a career in New York.

Center Theatre Group will end its run of Dreamgirls, Music by Henry Krieger, Lyrics and Book by Tom Eyen, Directed and Choreographed by Robert Longbottom, and Co-Choreography by Shane Sparks on April 4, 2010.

Patti LuPone who gave fans the chance to name her upcoming book has chosen the winning title, 'Patti LuPone: A Memoir'. The title was submitted by Precilla Ng of Toronto, Ontario.

Patti LuPone, the winner of three Drama Desk Awards as Outstanding Actress in A Musical for her performances in Evita (1980), Anything Goes 1988) and Gypsy (2008), will host this year's 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony on Sunday, May 23, 2010, at 9 PM, it was announced today by Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer of the annual awards show, and William Wolf, President of the Drama Desk.

Matt Doyle, of Broadway's SPRING AWAKENING and BYE BYE BIRDIE, as well as TV hit 'Gossip Girl,' returns this April to Joe's Pub with a unique follow-up to his two sold-out engagements last summer. The concert will take place on Wednesday, April 21 at 7 PM.

Patti LuPone, the winner of three Drama Desk Awards as Outstanding Actress in A Musical for her performances in Evita (1980), Anything Goes 1988) and Gypsy (2008), will host this year's 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony on Sunday, May 23, 2010, at 9 PM, it was announced today by Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer of the annual awards show, and William Wolf, President of the Drama Desk.

Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones, currently starring in the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music, have joined the all-star cast performing in Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday celebration April 26 at New York City Center. Like Lansbury and Zeta-Jones, all of the performers have either originated Sondheim characters or performed them in notable revivals.

Peter Huntley looks back at Sondheim's life - and a life to a soundtrack of Sondheim

The New York Philharmonic will present SONDHEIM: The Birthday Concert on March 15 and Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. This celebration of the 80th birthday of the great Broadway and film composer/lyricist will include his most enduring orchestral music and songs - performed, in some cases, by the stars of the original Broadway cast productions - in addition to rarely-heard material. Joining the celebration will be (in alphabetical order) Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Jason Danieley, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, and others to be announced, including surprise guests. Paul Gemignani, Mr. Sondheim's longtime collaborator, will conduct the New York Philharmonic; Lonny Price is the director; and Mr. Price and Matt Cowart are the producers.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, which recently opened DIAL 'M' FOR MURDER on March 11, has just released the latest production photos. The production runs through April 11, 2010.

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, directed by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle, will play its final show on March 14 at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

Donna Lynne Champlin is set to appear for a CD signing/concert at the Lincoln Center BARNES AND NOBLE on Wednesday April 28th, at 6pm, rescheduled from a previous engagement that was cancelled due to inclimate weather. Champlin will promote her upcoming CD entitled 'Old Friends.'

According to The Hollywood Reporter, former stage mother-daughter duo, Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti, may get a round two. Like thier Gypsy counterparts, LuPone has reportedly signed on to star as Benanti's tough-loving mother in the new CBS pilot, Open Books, to which Benanti has been long attached.

Center Theatre Group will present Dreamgirls, Music by Henry Krieger, Lyrics and Book by Tom Eyen, Directed and Choreographed by Robert Longbottom, and Co-Choreography by Shane Sparks. Dreamgirls will preview at the Ahmanson Theatre on February 25th, and opens on February 26th through April 4, 2010.

Patti LuPone is giving fans the chance to name her new book. This statement has been posted on her website.

Center Theatre Group will present Dreamgirls, Music by Henry Krieger, Lyrics and Book by Tom Eyen, Directed and Choreographed by Robert Longbottom, and Co-Choreography by Shane Sparks. Dreamgirls will preview at the Ahmanson Theatre on February 25th, and opens on February 26th through April 4, 2010.

Tom Aldredge, Len Cariou, Nathan Lane, Alexander Hanson and Michele Pawk have joined other stars who have shone in Stephen Sondheim musicals, including Michael Cerveris, Barbara Cook, Raúl Esparza, Sutton Foster, Victor Garber, Joanna Gleason, Patti LuPone, Donna Murphy and Bernadette Peters in a gala celebration of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim on the occasion of his 80th birthday on Monday, April 26. The gala, directed by Tony Award winner John Doyle, will highlight numbers from shows for which Mr. Sondheim has written both music and lyrics, and will feature a full orchestra conducted by Encores! Music Director Rob Berman. The benefit will help fund New York City Center's artistic and education programs. In addition, a portion of the evening's proceeds will go to Young Playwrights Inc, a charity of great importance to Mr. Sondheim.