Scott Miller News

New Line Theatre, 'The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' announces the recipient of their first musical theatre scholarship, Jake Fruend, a senior at Webster Groves High School. The $1,500 scholarship is funded by proceeds from New Line's January concert at the Sheldon Concert Hall, 'Night of the Living Show Tunes.' Judith Newmark, senior theatre critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, selected the winner from ten applications

New Line Theatre, 'The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' closes its eighteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the hilariously quirky and big-hearted Broadway musical, THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, running July 16-August 8, 2009, at the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend. This is not on the Wash.U. main campus.

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' continues its eighteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the St. Louis premiere of the outrageous sci-fi, rock and roll musical, Bob Carlton's RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, running April 30-May 23, 2009, at New Line's new home, the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly the old CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend.

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' continues its eighteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the St. Louis premiere of the outrageous sci-fi, rock and roll musical, Bob Carlton's RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, running April 30-May 23, 2009, at New Line's new home, the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly the old CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend. Like a crazy cocktail of Rocky Horror and Star Trek, this smart, subversive piece of rock theatre taps into Americans' perpetual fear of technology (and sex!), and it reminds us of that famous quote by Lord Acton: 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' continues its eighteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the St. Louis premiere of the outrageous sci-fi, rock and roll musical, Bob Carlton's RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, running April 30-May 23, 2009, at New Line's new home, the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly the old CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend.

Auditions for New Line Theatre's production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will be held on two successive Monday nights, May 11 and 18, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. at the Washington University South Campus, 6501 Clayton Road (formerly CBC High School), just east of Big Bend, in the second floor theatre.

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' announces another new project, this time a collaborative musical theatre piece about American politics and culture at this amazing, transformational moment in our history. 'Rush Limbaugh Saves the World' will open New Line's 20th season in the fall of 2010, as part of the 2010 St. Louis Political Theatre Festival. Full details are at www.newlinetheatre.com/rushpage.html

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' now in its eighteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre, has created a new $1,500 musical theatre scholarship to be given to one St. Louis metro area high school senior who plans to study musical theatre in college. The scholarship has been funded by proceeds from New Line's January concert at the Sheldon Concert Hall, 'Night of the Living Show Tunes.'

The Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown, NJ, is proud to present the World Premiere of a new musical comedy cabaret, Three Joisey Tenors, on Thursday, January 29, at 2 p.m. Performances continue Thursdays at 2 p.m. on February 12, March 12, March 19 and March 26. Moving from the waiting room at the NJ Dept. of Motor Vehicles to the grand concert stage of the Suds & Studs Launderama & Chop Suey Parlor, these Garden State guys prove they're willing to 'let it all hang out' as they hilariously entertain with the best of Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Engelbert Humperdinck, and showstoppers from Les Miserables, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Anything Goes, Pippin, Man of La Mancha, and much more. Three Joisey Tenors opens the Bickford Theatre's 2009 A La Carte Series and stars Christopher Budinich, David Scott Miller, and Michael St. John. All performers are NJ residents with major National Tour and Regional Theatre credits.

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' continues its eighteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the St. Louis premiere of the outrageous sci-fi, rock and roll musical, Bob Carlton's RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, running April 30-May 23, 2009, at New Line's new home, the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly the old CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend. Like a crazy cocktail of Rocky Horror and Star Trek, this smart, subversive piece of rock theatre taps into Americans' perpetual fear of technology (and sex!), and it reminds us of that famous quote by Lord Acton: 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'

New Line Theatre, 'The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' closes its seventeenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the regional premiere of the new rock musical HIGH FIDELITY, based on the world-famous novel by Nick Hornby and the film starring John Cusack and Jack Black, running June 12-July 5, 2008, at the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre, in the Mallinckrodt Building at Washington University, 6445 Forsyth Blvd., between Skinker and Big Bend.

New Line Theatre closes its seventeenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the regional premiere of the new rock musical 'High Fidelity.'

On April 14, 2008 GAYFEST NYC hosted a major fundraising event as a kick-off for this year's Festival and a benefit for the Harvey Milk High School scholarship fund. The evening included a performance by Emmy Award-winning actor Leslie Jordan and was be held at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10036, with a reception following.

New Line Theatre has produced many musicals by composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim over its 17 years (Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion, and two revues of his songs), but they've never been performing one of his shows on his birthday -- till now! On Saturday, March 22, during the current run of Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins, New Line will throw Sondheim a 78th birthday party, complete with birthday cake for the audience.

New Line Theatre continues its seventeenth season of provocative, alternative musical theatre, with the return of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's political masterwork Assassins, running March 6-29, 2008, at the brand new Ivory Theatre, 7622 Michigan at Ivory, in South St. Louis City.

BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 1/1/2008. Updates include: Jonathan Castillo, Joseph Connor, Douglas Denoff, Kurt Domoney, Halley Wegryn Gross, Benjamin Howes, Harold Lewter, Scott Miller, Michael Rupert, ROZ RYAN, Geraint Wyn Davies.

The American Century Theater begins its 14th season with Ah, Wilderness!, the Eugene O'Neill comedy, opening September 7 with performances through October 6 at TACT's Theatre II.

The winners of the Kevin Kline Awards have been announced