Ron Raines News

Soap star Robert Newman joins cast of Off-Broadway musical Sessions and talks about the end of an era with Guiding Light leaving the air after 72 years.

Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning waltz musical A Little Night Music returns to Michigan Opera Theatre for the first time in over 25 years, and the fall 2009 production will represent the first time since 1992 that Michigan Opera Theatre has presented a musical as part of the main stage opera season. Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams and Broadway and television star Ron Raines have been announced to star as Desiree Armfeldt and Frederik Egerman in the production, set to run November 14-21. No other casting has been announced at this time.

Theater News from Broadway and the Baltimore/Washington Area

Theater News from Broadway and the Baltimore/Washington Area

Exciting multi-media tribute combining photos, interviews, concert footage and the Boston Pops brings Judy Garland back to life, divinely singing her greatest songs

Christine Ebersole leads an exquisite cast, backed by the Boston Pops Orchestra, in bringing a stellar concert version of Stephen Sondheim's most romantic musical to Symphony Hall

Encompass New Opera Theatre, celebrated the 80th birthday of legendary Broadway composer Jerry Bock with a Gala Musical Salute on Sunday, May 18th

Encompass New Opera Theatre, which celebrates the 80th birthday of legendary Broadway composer Jerry Bock with a Gala Musical Salute on Sunday, May 18th, has announced some of the performances expected at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South.

Encompass New Opera Theatre celebrates the 80th birthday of legendary composer JERRY BOCK with a Gala Musical Salute on Sunday, May 18th at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South.

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) presented one-night-only concert staging of The People vs. Mona, a new 'Musical Mystery Screwball Comedy' by Patricia Miller and Jim Wann on March 31st, 2008

Broadway, Bernstein, Education and Night Music with the Boston Pops.

For New Englanders, one of the best ways to ring in the New Year is to spend it at Symphony Hall with the world renowned Boston Pops. This year's program, which has been warming up for the big night in four sold-out weekend performances, will usher in 2008 with a swinging program called 'Gershwin and Friends.'

On Sunday, February 10 2008 at 12:30 pm Musical Mondays honors songwriter Ervin Drake and his wife Edith ( the 'Love Couple' ) at a Luncheon and Silent Auction at Sardi's.

David Steiner's mammoth Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yards, the largest film studio on the East Coast was the setting for a salute to stage and screen legend Patricia Neal, Wall Street whiz Shirl Penney and The Count and Countess Alexandre de Lesseps. The 'Hooray For Hollywood' gala evening benefited The Auditory Oral School of New York, a non profit organization which specializes in teaching deaf and hard of hearing children to listen, talk, think and socialize.

Scores of the brightest lights on stage and screen will turn out in red carpet finery for a celebration of classic Hollywood, Hooray for Hollywood honoring the legendary Oscar winner Patricia Neal, Smith Barney's Shirl Penney and The Count and Countess de Lesseps, Stage 6 at Steiner Film Studios, 15 Washington Avenue at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. The gala evening is slated for November 1, with all proceeds going to The Auditory Oral School of New York, a non profit organization which specializes in teaching deaf and hard of hearing children to listen, talk, think and socialize.

Martin Vidnovic (The Fantasticks) completed his exclusive cabaret series 'What Matters To Me' at the Metropolitan Room on August 6.

The Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of John van Druten's comedy Old Acquaintance, starring Margaret Colin as 'Katharine Markham' and Tony Award-winner Harriet Harris as 'Mildred Watson Drake,' opened on Thursday, June 28th

A caricature of legendary choreographer Donald Saddler was recently unveiled at Sardi's.

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

Karen Ziemba, Ellen Dolan, Ron Raines and more will take part in The WorkShop Theater Company's 2006 benefit 'Daytime at Nighttime' on October 23rd at 8 p.m