Joshua Salzman News

I Love You Because makes its Indiana Premiere music by JOSHUA SALZMAN. Book & Lyrics by RYAN CUNNINGHAM, Based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Buck Creek Players (BCP), the award-winning all-volunteer community theater on the southeast side of Indianapolis, is proud to announce their 37th season of quality theater, From Page to Stage. Linked to a literary work, each production in the season will bring the characters to life from the written page to the playhouse stage as BCP presents six entertaining productions for the coming year!

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs has announced the nominees for the 2010 24th Annual MAC Awards. The ceremony honoring the nominees, will take place on May 4, 2010 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, and will be hosted by Sharon McNight. Leslie Uggams will be honored for Lifetime Achievement, with Board of Directors Awards being presented to Peter Leavy and playbill.com. The event will begin at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm. Lennie Watts will direct the evening, with Tracy Stark musical directing.

With the first London Fringe Festival taking place this year, national fringe producing theatre company Sell a Door Theatre Company were faced with a dilema. The dates of the London Fringe clash with the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the biggest festival in the world.

The National Alliance for Musical Theater has announced eight projects that will receive funding from the organization's National Fund for New Musicals, according to Variety.

CAP21 will present 'Songs on Six' benefit on Monday, April 5 at 7:30 PM at The Shop@Cap 21, featuring the talent of Claybourne Elder, Carly Jibson, and Wesley Taylor.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs has announced the nominees for the 2010 24th Annual MAC Awards. The ceremony honoring the nominees, will take place on May 4, 2010 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, and will be hosted by Sharon McNight. Leslie Uggams will be honored for Lifetime Achievement, with Board of Directors Awards being presented to Peter Leavy and playbill.com. The event will begin at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm. Lennie Watts will direct the evening, with Tracy Stark musical directing.

CAP21 has announced the performers for its upcoming 'Songs on Six' benefit which will be on Monday, April 5 at 7:30 PM at The Shop@Cap 21.

NewMusicalTheatre.com, the first website ever exclusively devoted to selling sheet music by musical theater writers, launches Ryan Cunningham and Josh Salzman's sheet music catalogue today. Over the course of the next several weeks and leading up to an April launch concert, NewMusicalTheatre.com will be adding a new writer to the site every Friday.

Broadway vet Colin Hanlon and ROCK OF AGES star Jeremy Jordan have joined the cast for the upcoming reading of the new musical, NEXT THING YOU KNOW. The reading will be presented by CAP21's Theatre Company. NEXT THING YOU KNOW is by the Drama-Desk nominated creators of I LOVE YOU BECAUSE, featuring book and lyrics by Ryan Cunningham and music by Joshua Salzman. The reading is directed by John Simpkins.

ETC Litehouse New Musical Reading Series presents 'Next Thing You Know' on February 9, 2010.

Broadway vet Colin Hanlon and ROCK OF AGES star Jeremy Jordan have joined the cast for the upcoming reading of the new musical, NEXT THING YOU KNOW. The reading will be presented by CAP21's Theatre Company. NEXT THING YOU KNOW is by the Drama-Desk nominated creators of I LOVE YOU BECAUSE, featuring book and lyrics by Ryan Cunningham and music by Joshua Salzman. The reading is directed by John Simpkins.

The F.U.D.G.E. (FRIENDS UNITED DEVELOPING GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT) Theatre Company's World Premiere of 'HALF-MARRIED' will close on Saturday, February 6th at the Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre.

ETC Litehouse New Musical Reading Series presents 'Next Thing You Know' on February 9, 2010.

The F.U.D.G.E. (FRIENDS UNITED DEVELOPING GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT) Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of 'HALF-MARRIED', award-winning author CHARLES ANTIN and Drama Desk nominated RYAN CUNNINGHAM'S seductively hilarious new comedy about the impossibly complicated choreography of commitment on FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th at The Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre (321 Arsenal Street) where it will play a limited engagement through Saturday, February 6th.

The F.U.D.G.E. (FRIENDS UNITED DEVELOPING GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT) Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of 'HALF-MARRIED', award-winning author CHARLES ANTIN and Drama Desk nominated RYAN CUNNINGHAM'S seductively hilarious new comedy about the impossibly complicated choreography of commitment on FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th at The Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre (321 Arsenal Street) where it will play a limited engagement through Saturday, February 6th.

ncore Theater Company has announced it's upcoming New Musicals Summer Season, including the launch of it's New Musicals-In-Development initiative. Utilizing all three arms of the organization, ETC will assist a creative team in the development of a new musical over the course of one theatrical year. Next Thing You Know, by Drama Desk Nominees Joshua Salzman & Ryan Cunningham, will kick off this new developmental program. ETC will be helping the team develop their new show in association with 321 Management, Inc. and original director John Simpkins, both based out of New York City. A cold reading will take place in February as a part of ETC's Litehouse Series. Some time this spring there will be a MusicalWorld interview/feature on the show and it's creators, and the show will be fully developed in August.

The F.U.D.G.E. (FRIENDS UNITED DEVELOPING GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT) Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of 'HALF-MARRIED', award-winning author CHARLES ANTIN and Drama Desk nominated RYAN CUNNINGHAM'S seductively hilarious new comedy about the impossibly complicated choreography of commitment on FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th at The Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre (321 Arsenal Street) where it will play a limited engagement through Saturday, February 6th.

The F.U.D.G.E. (FRIENDS UNITED DEVELOPING GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT) Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of 'HALF-MARRIED', award-winning author CHARLES ANTIN and Drama Desk nominated RYAN CUNNINGHAM'S seductively hilarious new comedy about the impossibly complicated choreography of commitment on FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th at The Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre (321 Arsenal Street) where it will play a limited engagement through Saturday, February 6th.

The second installment of Cutting Edge Composers: A New Generation of Musical Theater Songwriters took place on November 9th at the Canal Room. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture the exciting night of song!