Kristen Beth Williams News

New York City Center Encores! begins its 2008 season with the 1970 Tony Award-winning hit, Applause, starring Christine Ebersole, Kate Burton, Mario Cantone, Tom Hewitt, Michael Park, Megan Sikora, Chip Zien and Erin Davie. Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall with Music Direction by Rob Berman, Applause will play five performances, from February 7-10 at New York City Center

White Christmas features music and lyrics by Irving Berlin with book by David Ives and Paul Blake begins a new holiday touring production, produced by Atlanta's Theater of the Stars.

Go for the costumes, go for the music, and go for the amazing Zaza (aka James Beaman) - you'll have a ball without the beach

Lippa's 'The Wild Party' raises the roof at New Rep while North Shore Music Theatre embraces Gershwin with 'Crazy for You'

New York City Center Encores! will continue its 2007 season with the first full-scale restoration of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's 1932 musical, Face the Music, starring Judy Kaye, Walter Bobbie and Lee Wilkof

With all due respect to William Shakespeare and Noel Coward, Broadway's never had a ghost story that mixes terror, wit and theatrical thrills quite like Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, now receiving an Encores! concert staging so loaded with achingly good moments they could loan a few of them out to some of Broadway's current tenants without losing a bit of its sheen.

New York City Center's Encores! 2007 Season pays tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the first Ziegfeld Follies, kicking off the celebration with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's legendary 1971 multiple Tony Award-winner, Follies, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with music direction by Eric Stern. Follies will play for six performances, from February 8 - 12 at New York City Center, 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.

With the casting of Colin Donnell as Young Ben and Natalie King Smith as Young Dee Dee, casting for the eagerly anticipated Encores! production of Follies is now complete.

White Christmas, the holiday musical featuring the classic songs of Irving Berlin, is playing the Ordway Center in St. Paul from November 28th through January 7th, 2007

Casting has been announced for the casts of the two upcoming Midwestern stage productions of Irving Berlin's White Christmas

Harriet Harris, Kate Levering and David Elder have been cast in the Reprise! concert production of On the Town, which will run from September 20th through October 1st