Sheldon Harnick News

PS Classics, the label dedicated to celebrating the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, has announced plans to release Charlotte Rae's much-loved 1955 solo album, 'Songs I Taught My Mother,' for the first time on CD

'Fiddler on the Roof,' presented by the 41st season of Broadway by the Bay, opened July 14 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center.

Bruce F. Winston remembers his 'musical theatre mentor' Harold Rome, the composer/lyricist of Call Me Mister, Fanny, I Can Get It for You Wholesale and more

Patti LuPone, John Kander, Donna Murphy and many more stars watched Chita Rivera receive New Dramatists' 2006 Career Achievement Award at their spring luncheon on May 18th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

On May 18th, Chita Rivera will be presented with the New Dramatists' 2006 Career Achievement Award at a luncheon featuring dozens of stars

Carol Burnett has signed on to the Encompass New Opera Theatre's starry May 7th tribute to legendary composer Charles Strouse

Broadway Salutes Yiddish: A Benefit for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre will feature theatre luminaries such as Judy Kaye, Tovah Feldshuh and Theodore Bikel paying tribute to America's only Yiddish theatre on June 12th

Joanna Gleason, Judy Kaye, Marc Kudisch and more will perform at a May 7th gala, hosted by Marian Seldes, honoring legendary composer Charles Strouse

Godspell, the musical A Wonderful Life, Summer and Smoke, Romance/Romance, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Pirates! will comprise the Paper Mill Playhouse's 2006-2007 season

A new book--The Performing Set--will pay tribute to the theatrical world of William and Jean Eckart, an overlooked husband and wife team of stage designers and producers who worked on Broadway during the golden age of the musical

James Royce Edwards (www.jamesroyceedwards.com) , who recently starred as Matthew in the Off-Broadway show Altar Boyz, will take over the role of Sketch in the Broadway hit - Hairspray - from April 18 - 30 at the Neil Simon Theatre.

On March 17th, Altar Boyz star James Royce Edwards will be featured on WABC News

On March 20th, stars such as Denis O'Hare, Penny Fuller and Gregg Edelman will toast their alma mater in A Night with Northwestern in New York City

Some of Broadway's brightest turned out for An Evening with Penny Fuller on March 6th at Birdland

Grey Gardens is one of three new musicals produced by nonprofit theatres to receive a 2006 Richard Rodgers Award

A Highlights CD of 17 tracks from last year's popular Wall to Wall Sondheim concert can now be pre-ordered online

The show, will begin previews on April 3, 2006 and will open on May 1, 2006.

James Royce Edwards, who previously played the role of Luke in Altar Boyz, will take over for Scott Porter as Matthew on February 9th; Andrew Call will take over as Luke

James Royce Edwards, who plays the tough-talking but warm-hearted Luke in Altar Boyz, is a talented and down-to-earth performer who knows his priorities...

The Actors' Fund's benefit reading of the musical version of Wonderful Life was presented at the Shubert Theatre on December 12th