Maury Yeston News

After a successful Joe's Pub gig earlier this month, Mamma Mia's Sara Kramer heads to The Cutting Room on September 26th

Songwriters who honed their craft at the famed BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop joined together in song for a one-night-only concert on September 14 at 59E59 Theaters.

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.

A young Broadway performer brings Yeston's classical work to the cabaret stage

Brooklyn: The Musical's Eden Espinosa will make her Town Hall concert debut on October 22nd when she performs with Euan Morton as part of the 1st annual Broadway/Cabaret Festival

Robert Wright, whose musicals with George Forrest gave a Broadway voice to classical composers, passed away on July 27th at the age of 90

Eden Espinosa will temporarily take over for Stephanie J. Block for the San Francisco portion (August 5th-September 11th) of Wicked's national tour

The August 18th opening of the new musical The Mambo Kings has been called off by producers Daryl and Jordan Roth after a rocky out-of-town period

Eden Espinosa, Alice Ripley, Cary Shields and Bruce Vilanch will star in a concert presentation of the new musical Helen of Troy on June 13th

Students in the BMI Workshop will have their work performed in the Art and Artists Stars of Tomorrow concert on May 24th

Brooklyn Star Eden Espinosa will be featured on On the Rise on NewsNight with Aaron Brown on May 25th

PS CLASSICS has announced plans to record JASON DANIELEY and MARIN MAZZIE, 'Broadway's golden couple' (The San Francisco Chronicle), in a studio recording drawn from their acclaimed evening of duets, 'Opposite You.'

Drury Lane Productions and veteran theatre owner Anthony DeSantis will introduce their new state-of-the-art theatre, Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place in May, 2005.

Tickets to the Ceremony Available to the General Public For the First Time. Awards to be Presented at The Marriott Marquis on Friday, May 13 at Noon

Musicals Tonight's Arts Hour @ 6 has a new line-up for Spring 2005

A prequel to Urinetown, part of an announced trilogy, is likely to see summer workshop

The Landless Theatre Company brings Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit’s award winning musical Nine to Washington, DC in the first local production since the Tony Award winning Broadway revival in 2003. The production will be presented on the stage of the beautiful, newly renovated GALA Hispanic Theatre at Tivoli in Washington’s Columbia Heights, which opened its’ doors in January. The musical, based on Fellini’s film, 8 ½, features an almost all-female cast and a brilliant score including “Unusual Way,” “My Husband Makes Movies,” and “Simple.” Landless’ unique production will combine music, theatre, and film in tribute to Fellini’s influence.

PS Classics will record the cast album of the recent much-acclaimed production of Lone Star Love on March 2nd. Directed by Michael Bogdanov (Olivier Award-winner for The War of the Roses), LONE STAR LOVE is inspired by the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, conceived and adapted by John L. Haber, with music and lyrics by Jack Herrick, and contributions from Michael Bogdanov, Bland Simpson and Tommy Thompson. Randy Skinner (2001 Tony® nominee, 42nd Street) is choreographer. Discussions are underway for a commercial transfer.

The winners of this year's Laurence Olivier Awards were announced in London on Sunday, February 20th.

The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton and Barbra Streisand (Honorary Chairs), with Young Playwrights Inc. and producers Richard Maltby, Jr., Kevin Stites and Sheri M. Goldhirsch are proud to present 'CHILDREN AND ART,' a spectacular musical gala evening in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday, for one performance only at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, March 21, 2005 (7:30 p.m. curtain), the eve of Sondheim's birthday.