Proscenium Productions News

The Broadway community honors the memory of Elizabeth Ireland McCann, better known as Liz, the Tony Award-winning producer and general manager who was among the first successful female leaders in Broadway.

ELIZABETH IRELAND McCANN, the iconoclastic Broadway producer who won nine Tony Awards during a 60-year career in theater, died after a bout with cancer on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, according to her longtime associate and friend, Kristen Luciani.  She was 90 years old. 

CASH ON DELIVERY! at Hale Centre Theatre's Jewel Box Theatre in Sandy delivers hilarity that builds until it reaches dizzying heights.

The Boston Conservatory presents a new production of Spring Awakening, the landmark Tony Award-winning musical that fuses alternative rock and folk music with teenage sexual angst in the repressive German countryside of the late-19th century. The performance runs March 3-6 at The Boston Conservatory Theater.

This summer, BroadwayWorld reported on KENNEDY, based on the life of the 35th president, which was preparing for workshops in anticipation of a Broadway opening. The musical, a heavily reworked version of ONE SHINING MOMENT, is still aiming for Broadway, perhaps as early as next fall.

Proscenium Productions today announced it started pre-production of "Kennedy." It is a remake of the 1983 musical "One Shining Moment," to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Presidency of John F Kennedy.

Veteran theater designer Anne Militello, who designed her first Broadway show at the age of 26 (Cuba and His Teddy Bear with Robert DeNiro), has been named Head of Lighting Design for California Institute of the Arts' (CalArts) School of Theater, announces School of Theater Dean Travis Preston.