Louis Armstrong News

Arena Stage presents Arena Restaged - a massive multi-venue, two year festival of American voices leading up to the opening of the Mead Center for American Theater. At your fingertips will be a remarkable exploration of American work featuring American giants (Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams), exciting contemporary voices (Daniel Beaty and Karen Zacarías) and the quintessential American art form-the musical (Next to Normal and Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano).

On June 7, 2008, Charles Strouse, the award winning composer of Annie, Bye Bye Birdie and some of the most popular music from the last 50 years of Broadway, film and television, turns 80. To mark the occasion, a year-long celebration of events including concerts, international tributes, revivals of popular favorites and premieres of new works will take place across the United States and around the world.

'Sentimental Streak' is Russell's sophomore solo release. She will debut selections from the album at Scullers Jazz Club on March 11th

Feinstein's at Loews Regency will continue their Fall 2007 season with the return engagement of Mary Cleere Haran from October 16 - 27. The world premiere of her new show 'Mary Cleere Haran Sings Doris Day' will celebrate the movies and music of the biggest female box office attraction in Hollywood history.

Tony Award-winner Ben Vereen will guest star on 'Grey's Anatomy' this fall.

Frank Wildhorn, Brandi Burkhardt and Ben Vereen are set to teach at Broadway Theatre Project in Tampa, Week Two.

Currently appearing in rep in As You Like It and Henry V, these three newcomers to the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company talk about the Bard, the community and that thing we all love - theatre.

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, one of the premiere interpreters of American popular song, will perform a new program of classic standards 'My Romance: The Great American Songbook' at Carnegie Hall on Friday, March 9

The Metropolitan Room has announced its March schedule of cabaret performers.

Broadway song and dance man Jeffry Denman will debut his cabaret act 'Jazz Turns' on Birdland (315 West 44th Street) on Monday, February 19th at 7 PM.

Columbia Records will release 'Oh, My NOLA,' the new album of New Orleans-inspired music from Harry Connick, Jr., on Tuesday, January 30. On the same day, Marsalis Music/Rounder Records will release a companion album of instrumentals by Connick's big band, 'Chanson du Vieux Carre.'

Broadway song and dance man Jeffrey Denman will debut his cabaret act 'Jazz Turns' on Birdland on Monday, February 19th at 7 PM

Feinstein's at the Regency has announced its line-up for winter and spring of 2007

Broadway and cabaret star Yvonne Constant will return to Danny's Skylight Room on November 8th at 7 PM with her show La Chanson Realiste: Paris in the Twenties with Musical Director Russ Kassoff.

A more complete headline would be: 'Wynton Marsalis and his Quartet played an incredible set. After intermission, the musical ambassador of New Orleans, Dr. John and The Lower 9-11 Band, were joined on stage by Ann Hampton Callaway, Catherine Russell, John Pizzarelli and the Queen of New Orleans Soul, Irma Thomas', but that wouldn't fit.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 1-3 at the Orchestra's summer home in the Berkshire Mountains in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Transatlantic Talent: Best of Both Worlds will showcase established and emerging British and American artists, with performances taking place cabaret-style in the Theatre Museum's Paintings Gallery

Andre De Shields opened in the title role of Satch: The Life and Music of Louis Armstrong on June 20th at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA; the show will run through July 2nd

The soundtrack of Bewitched, on which Kristin Chenoweth sings 'Witchy Woman,' will be released 3 days before the movie on June 21st