Jonathan Larson News

Normal, a new dramatic musical featuring Barbara Walsh, will be presented by The Transport Group from October 20th through November 12th

Country Music superstar and top CMA Awards nominee Lee Ann Womack and Broadway leading man, Tony Award Winner, Brian Stokes Mitchell, will co-host the Nov. 12 'Broadway Meets Country' concert, a benefit performance celebrating the universality and crossover appeal of these two popular genres and their performers.

On October 17th, Amanda Green and Tom Kitt, of the upcoming musical High Fidelity, will 'Play with Themselves' at Birdland

Transport Group artistic directors Robyn Hussa and Jack Cummings III have announced that the world premiere of a new American musical, Normal, with book by Yvonne Adrian, lyrics by Cheryl Stern, and music by Tom Kochan, will begin performances on Thursday, October 20 at 8pm at the Connelly Theatre, 220 East 4 Street.

Michael Arden, Kate Baldwin, Will Chase, Amanda Watkins and Rebecca Luker will perform at Joe's Pub in Songs by Sam: The Music of Sam Davis on October 23rd

Sony Pictures Digital has created the first ever mobile charity donation program based on the upcoming release of Revolution Studios film RENT!

The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook, Vol. 1, the first printed collection of music written by Tony-nominated composer Jeff Blumenkrantz, is now available

PARTY COME HERE, a new musical by Daniel Goldfarb and David Kirshenbaum, will be part of the the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's 17th Annual Festival of New Musicals, on September 25th-26th.

David Southerland (Exec. Dir. of AWOL Theatre Project) gives us the scoop on The Mistress Cycle at NYMF!

Songwriters who honed their craft at the famed BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop will join together in song for a one-night-only concert on September 14 at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street) at 8pm.

Josh Young's self-titled debut solo album will feature him singing Broadway and contemporary pop songs, and is now available for purchase

The surreal rock musical piece Dagmar's Door No. 1 will be performed as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival on September 15th

The star of HBO's 'Six Feet Under' will perform with the Roundabout Theatre Company in November.

A press conference for the 2005 NYMF took place on August 30th with a special preview of The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, The Big Time, The Mistress Cycle, Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, No Boundaries, Plane Crazy, and Project Footlight.

'Love Heals,' a rarely-heard Jonathan Larson song, will be featured on the soundtrack of Rent, which will be released in stores on Sept. 27

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Reno Productions proudly present FEELING ELECTRIC as one of the featured productions of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Directed by Peter Askin (The Good Body, Trumbo), performances begin on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at Off-Broadway's Barrow Group Theatre (312 West 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

Mary Bond Davis, Lynne Wintersteller, Sally Wilfert, Lisa Brescia and Stephanie Bast will comprise the cast of the new musical The Mistress Cycle, which will run from September 15th through 24th as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival

How fitting to see three wonderful performers giving such polished faultless performances bring resonance to this wonderful work.

Barbara Walsh will star in the new off-Broadway musical Normal from October 20th through November 12th

Stars from the upcoming film of Rent, and from some of Broadway's hottest shows performed in Bryant Park to support Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, and Dancers Responding to AIDS and we were there!