John Kander News

Today, October 21, the company of Broadway's Tony Award-winning, record-breaking smash hit musical Chicago celebrates yet another record-breaking milestone.

Aragon High School Performing Arts is proud to present their fall musical, Chicago, in their 2013 Gold Nugget Merit Award winning theater. This Kander and Ebb musical sensation is full of classic Bob Fosse style singing, dancing and acting.

The Young Vic and Catherine Schreiber welcome Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, stars of the original Broadway production, to the UK premiere of The Scottsboro Boys, directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman.

Multi-award-winning composer John Kander discusses his new musical THE LANDING as well as his young collaborator Gregory Pierce as part of a new interview in promotion of the innovative Off-Broadway piece currently in previews.

Artistic Director Paul Kerryson today announces the full cast for his new production of Chicago. Leading the company are Verity Rushworth (Velma Kelly), Gemma Sutton (Roxie Hart), David Leonard (Billy Flynn) and Sandra Marvin (Mama Morton) with Adam Bailey (Mary Sunshine) and Matthew Barrow (Amos)

Signature Theatre has announced the pairing of one of the theatre's most celebrated friends with the upcoming 2013/14 season's newest play. Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn returns to Signature this fall for the first time in nearly twenty years to direct the world premiere of Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill, the new play by Paul Downs Colaizzo.

As announced this morning on NBC 'Today,' on Monday, March 17, the company of Broadway's Tony Award-winning, record-breaking smash hit musical CHICAGO will welcome two-time Olympic silver medalist and three-time world champion figure skater Elvis Stojko in his Broadway stage debut.

PFLAG NYC (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of New York City) recently announced that Broadway producer, Daryl Roth, who has mounted a record seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and multiple Tony Award-winning shows, and Edie Windsor, the brave and outspoken plaintiff in United States v. Windsor, which brought federal recognition of same-sex marriage will be featured honorees at tonight's 40th Anniversary PFLAG NYC Awards Dinner.

The Vineyard Theatre has announced its world-premiere production of the musical THE LANDING -- with book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, music by John Kander and directed by Walter Bobbie -- will extend its previously-announced engagement by two weeks, now scheduled to play through November 24 at The Vineyard (108 E. 15 St.). THE LANDING began preview performances October 3 with opening night set for October 23.

On October 9, Nicolas King, dubbed 'the precociously polished crooner' by the New York Times, returned to Don't Tell Mama and you can check out photos from the performance below!

CHICAGO, winner of six 1997 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, is returning to Fort Lauderdale tonight, October 9th.

A sizzling evening of song and dance honoring and starring theatrical icon Chita Rivera raised a remarkable $413,660 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

PFLAG NYC (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of New York City) has announced that Broadway producer, Daryl Roth, who has mounted a record seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and multiple Tony Award-winning shows, and Edie Windsor, the brave and outspoken plaintiff in United States v. Windsor, which brought federal recognition of same-sex marriage will be featured honorees at the 40th Anniversary PFLAG NYC Awards Dinner on Monday, October 14.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) just announced that two time Tony nominee Linda Emond and four time Tony nominee Danny Burstein will return to Roundabout Theatre Company to join the cast of CABARET as Fraulein Schneider and Herr Schultz.

Despues de 'Records a Broadway' y 'Converses entre Sirenes', la compañia LA NOTA TEATRE, regresa a la escena musical para representar a partir del 11 de Octubre en el Teatre Cirvianum de Torello: 'Hora de Hits', un espectaculo dirigido a los amantes del genero.

Today we celebrate a master of the modern musical in honor of this week's start of previews for his newest theatrical venture, THE LANDING, as well as first news on a major NYC bow for his long-gestating project THE VISIT, to say nothing of the longest-running American musical in history going strong on Broadway (CHICAGO) and a hotly anticipated revival of CABARET on the way in 2014 - the one and only John Kander.

Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Mulgrew just hosted the Vineyard Theatre's annual Emerging Artists Luncheon on yesterday, Oct. 3 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan. The event featured the presentation of the 2013 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award to Christopher Chen, a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include THE HUNDRED FLOWERS PROJECT and other plays. Check out photos from the special event below!

An evocative first commercial for the new John Kander and Greg Pierce musical collaboration THE LANDING is now available to view, just in time for previews beginning tonight at the Vineyard Theatre.

On Monday, October 21, the company of Broadway's Tony Award-winning, record-breaking smash hit musical Chicago will celebrate yet another record-breaking milestone.