Ravinia Festival News

Broadway legend Barbara Cook performs two shows in the Martin Theatre as part of Ravinia Festival's Martinis at the Martin series celebrating the Great American Songbook at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, and at 8 p.m. on Monday, July 7.

Ravinia Festival's 2008 season opens with an exciting line-up of Latin jazz, dance, pop and cabaret.

Ravinia Festival's Box Office officially opens for walk-up sales on Saturday, May 17 during a day filled with discounts, the chance to purchase pavilion seating to some sold-out concerts and promotions and samples from some of Ravinia's sponsors.

Producers Roger Berlind, The Routh Frankel Baruch Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin and Jack Viertel present a new Broadway production of the great American musical Gypsy, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. Gypsy will reunite LuPone with co-stars Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti. Directed by multiple Tony Award winner and author of the musical Arthur Laurents, GYPSY began preview performances on Monday, March 3, 2008 and will open on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at Broadway's St. James Theatre (246 West 44 Street).

The Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission announced that Ravinia Festival has been awarded a $50,000 grant in support of the festival's newly commissioned work A Good Man, by dancer, choreographer and Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones.

Bradley A. Stephens, Mayor of the Village of Rosemont and son of the founder of the Chicagoland Pops, the late Donald E. Stephens, along with Brenda Edgar, Chairman of the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra Commission, announced that Broadway legend Linda Eder will perform with the acclaimed Chicagoland Pops Orchestra, conducted by Grammy winning artist and Chicago resident Arnie Roth, at The Rosemont Theatre, 5400 N. River Road, on Saturday, February 23 at 8 pm.

Ravinia Festival has commissioned award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones, who most recently won a Tony for his choreography for Spring Awakening, to create a new full-evening work, tentatively titled A Good Man, inspired by Abraham Lincoln and celebrating the slain president's 2009 bicentennial.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Patti LuPone may be returning to the boards in a new musical.

The York Theatre Company's I and Albert, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Jay Presson Allen, plays June 29, 39 and July 1 at the Theatre at Saint Peters

The York Theatre Company's I and Albert, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Jay Presson Allen, will play June 29, 39 and July 1 at the Theatre at Saint Peters

The York Theatre Company has announced full casting for I and Albert, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Jay Presson Allen.

The iconic theater diva and star of 24 - count 'em, 24 - Broadway shows including 'Evita,' 'Master Class,' 'Noises Off,' 'Anything Goes' and 'Sweeney Todd' brought all the songs she 'Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda' sung, plus a few more, to The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH this past weekend

The North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA), one of the premier arts conservatories in the United States, will present a new production of West Side Story to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the work

Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone will guest star on ABC's 'Ugly Betty' this week.

A new production of the Bernstein classic will open in May

Ravinia Festival Chairman Michael E. Lavin and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2007 season of music theater and dance events.