Ravinia Festival News

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-winning leading ladies Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald will once again share a stage for an August 26th concert at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago.

The 36th Annual Theater Hall of Fame ceremony will be hosted by Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad, with Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes - the stars of the upcoming Terrence McNally play Deuce - among the presenters

The Ravinia Festival's 2007 summer season will include performances by such Broadway stars as Tony-winners Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lillias White and Heather Headley, as well as a staged concert production of The Most Happy Fella

Jewish Community Centers of Chicago will hold its annual benefit concert on Tuesday, November 14th at 7:30 PM at Chicago's Symphony Center.

Actors Patti LuPone, George Hearn and Elizabeth Wilson, playwright Brian Friel, costume designer Willa Kim and scenic designer Eugene Lee, as well as late playwrights August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein, will be inducted into the 2006 Theater Hall of Fame

Gypsy, starring Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone in the towering role of Rose, played from August 11th through August 13th at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago

Legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim will no longer appear before the Ravinia Festival in Chicago's August 11th performance of Gypsy, starring Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone as Rose.

Full casting has been announced for Ravinia's Gypsy, running August 11th through 13th; in addition, Sondheim will appear for a pre-show discussion on August 11th

Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, currently on Broadway as Sweeney Todd's Mrs. Lovett, will headline Jake Heggie's To Hell and Back at a number of California venues from November 2nd through November 5th

Leo Ash Evens is making his Ravinia Festival debut this August as Tulsa in Gypsy, alongside Patti LuPone. He has performed the role of Tulsa twice before, most recently in Houston, TX opposite Andrea McArdle. Evens made his international debut in Moscow, as Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street.

Two-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, currently on Broadway as Sweeney Todd's Mrs. Lovett, will headline Jake Heggie's To Hell and Back at the First United Methodist Church in California (both in San Francisco and Berkeley) from November 2nd through November 5th

Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, currently starring on Broadway as a tuba-playing Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, will join SIRIUS' Seth Rudetsky for this week's edition of 'Studio A Cabaret'

The National Dance Institute will honor Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris--both currently Tony-nominated for their work as Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett, respectively, in the Sweeney Todd revival--on July 19th at 6:30 PM at at the LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts Concert Hall (65th St. between Amsterdam and West End Avenues)

According to The New York Post's Liz Smith, the Weinsteins do not hold the rights to Gypsy for a planned film version

Is a second film version of Gypsy on the way...with Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta Jones as ultimate stage mother Rose?

On July 19th, the National Dance Institute will honor Sweeney Todd stars Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris at their Event of the Year gala

On May 22nd, Patti LuPone performed songs from her new 'Lady with the Torch' CD in a concert at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Sweeney Todd star Patti LuPone will return to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on May 22nd for a benefit concert of 'The Lady with the Torch'