Theatre Memphis presents Bye Bye Birdie, a family musical. For more information, visit their website.
The Actors Fund, the national human services organization for everyone in performing arts and entertainment, will hold its Annual Gala on Monday, May 14, 2018. The evening will celebrate Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker Warren Beatty, Tony Award-winning Broadway and film director Kenny Leon, currently director of Children of a Lesser God on Broadway, two-time Tony Award-winning actress, singer and dancer Chita Rivera, and Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award and Emmy-nominated actress Uma Thurman. Mr. Beatty, Mr. Leon, Ms. Rivera and Ms. Thurman will be awarded The Actors Fund's Medal of Honor. The event begins with 6 pm cocktails followed by a 7 pm dinner and tribute at the New York Marriott Marquis. The evening will include special tribute performances by guests to be announced.
The Geffen Playhouse will honor legendary stage and screen performer Dick Van Dyke and award-winning composer, lyricist and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda at its 16th annual Backstage at the Geffen fundraiser. The event recognizes the accomplishments of leaders in the artistic community, supports the theater's mission to produce original, quality work and raises funds for its award-winning education and community engagement programs, which bring live theater to more than 15,000 disadvantaged youth, seniors and veterans annually.
Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey.
In an unparalleled career that has spanned more than 7 decades and earned him 5 Emmys, a Tony, a Grammy, the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award, induction into in Television Hall of Fame and the adoration of generations of fans, Dick Van Dyke remains one of the most popular and beloved performers in show business history.
Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical in Concert on January 1st, 2018.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA Los Angeles) is pleased to announce that beloved actor Dick Van Dyke will receive the Britannia Award for Excellence in Television at the 2017 AMD British Academy Britannia Awards Presented by American Airlines. This year's event will take place on Friday, October 27, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
San Francisco Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) complete their fourteenth season of transformation with the rollicking musical La Cage aux Folles, featuring the bawdy humor of Harvey Fierstein and the melodic genius of Jerry Herman.
The Hollywood Bowl has announced the cast and creative team for a benefit performance of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, conceived and directed on Broadway by James Lapine.
Dating is hard enough on its own, much less when you have to screen your father's options, too. Bob Morris' hilarious, poignant new play Assisted Loving: Dating with My Dad posits a brave new world that tangles filial piety, romance and the internet in bright, unexpected ways.
Emily Keeler, San Francisco Arts Education's Artistic Director, announced today that the San Francisco Arts Education Project's 2017 production is the classic Broadway musical Carnival, which introduced the song "Love Makes the World Go 'Round." A troupe of 43 young people, ages 9 to 14, revive this Broadway musical gem from 1961 with a book by Michael Stewart (Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street) and a score by Bob Merrill (Funny Girl, Sugar) and based on the 1953 film Lili starring Leslie Caron.
According to Deadline, Dick Gautier, star of BYE BYE BIRDIE and television's GET SMART, passed away on January 13. He was 85. Gautier's wife, Tess Thompson, reportedly announced the actor's passing with a brief Facebook post.
Dating is hard enough on its own, much less when you have to screen your father's options, too. Bob Morris' hilarious, poignant new play Assisted Loving: Dating with My Dad posits a brave new world that tangles filial piety, romance and the internet in bright, unexpected ways.
Cory Lingner, of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and ON THE TOWN, has created a birthday video for Dick van Dyke, who is celebrating his 91st birthday today. Scroll down to watch the fun tribute, featuring original choreography set to the classic 'Put On A Happy Face' from BYE BYE BIRDIE - in which van Dyke starred on Broadway and won a Tony Award in 1961 - filmed at the Canal Walk in Indianapolis!
La MaMa presents Clover, a new experimental theater drama about America's history of violence by Erik Ehn, directed by Glory Kadigan with original music by Maya Solovey and original puppet design & puppetry direction by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew. Performances will be staged at the First Floor Theatre at La MaMa, 74a East 4th Street,New York, NY 10003 from December 1-16, 2016.
La MaMa presents Clover, a new experimental theater drama about America's history of violence by Erik Ehn, directed by Glory Kadigan with original music by Maya Solovey and original puppet design & puppetry direction by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew. Performances will be staged at the First Floor Theatre at La MaMa, 74a East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 from tonight, December 1, through December 16, 2016.
La MaMa presents Clover, a new experimental theater drama about America's history of violence by Erik Ehn, directed by Glory Kadigan with original music by Maya Solovey and original puppet design & puppetry direction by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew. Performances will be staged at the First Floor Theatre at La MaMa, 74a East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 from December 1-16, 2016.
Actors Eddie Olmo II (Freddie) and Logan Scott Mitchell (Karl) take you backstage at The Goodspeed's fresh new production of Bye Bye Birdie. In this limited 4 week installment, find out what the cast does before, during, and after the show to stay warm, active, and entertained! Take a journey through Sweet Apple, Ohio 1961 and discover the backstage rituals and shenanigans that happen in a not-so-typical 8 show week.
Actors Eddie Olmo II (Freddie) and Logan Scott Mitchell (Karl) take you backstage at The Goodspeed's fresh new production of Bye Bye Birdie. In this limited 4 week installment, find out what the cast does before, during, and after the show to stay warm, active, and entertained! Take a journey through Sweet Apple, Ohio 1961 and discover the backstage rituals and shenanigans that happen in a not-so-typical 8 show week.
Actors Eddie Olmo II (Freddie) and Logan Scott Mitchell (Karl) take you backstage at The Goodspeed's fresh new production of Bye Bye Birdie. In this limited 4 week installment, find out what the cast does before, during, and after the show to stay warm, active, and entertained! Take a journey through Sweet Apple, Ohio 1961 and discover the backstage rituals and shenanigans that happen in a not-so-typical 8 show week.
A large part of The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's goal has been to bring entertainment for all ages to the Frederick stage. The area's only year-round producing theatre has done just that with its popular Children's Theatre. Opened in 1996, Way Off Broadway's Children's Theatre produces shows the entire family can enjoy. In the beginning, it produced original musical stage adaptations of classic fairytales.
Actors Eddie Olmo II (Freddie) and Logan Scott Mitchell (Karl) take you backstage at The Goodspeed Opera House's Revival of Bye Bye Birdie. In this limited 4 week installment, find out what the cast does before, during, and after the show to stay warm, active, and entertained! Take a journey through Sweet Apple, Ohio 1961 and discover the backstage rituals and shenanigans that happen in a not-so-typical 8 show week. Check it out!
Before playing the ultimate nervous bride in COMPANY, Howland was an ensemble member of several Broadway musicals.
As BroadwayWorld reported this morning, Bette Midler will indeed return to Broadway in one of the most cherished shows in musical theater history when she takes on the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi in Michael Stewart's (book) and Jerry Herman's (music and lyrics) masterpiece, Hello, Dolly!. Directed by four-time Tony Award® winner Jerry Zaks, Hello, Dolly! will begin performances on Broadway on March 13, 2017, with an official opening night of April 20, 2017. Rehearsals begin one year from today.
This new production of Hello, Dolly!, the first new production of this classic musical to appear on Broadway since it opened more than fifty years ago, will have at its helm Jerry Zaks as its director, and will feature choreography by Tony Award-winner Warren Carlyle. The new Dolly! will pay tribute to the original work of legendary director/choreographer Gower Champion, which has been hailed both then and now as one of the greatest stagings in musical theater history.
Below, reacquaint yourself with the creative team, old and new!
FUNNY OR DIE just posted a hilarious BYE BYE BIRDIE parody send-off for departing Speaker of the House John Boehner, wishing him 'nothing but the best.'
The complete cast and creative team have been announced for The Old Globe production of William Shakespeare's delightful and romantic Twelfth Night. Rebecca Taichman, whose production of the time-traveling Time and the Conways fascinated audiences last April, is back to direct the first show of the 2015 Summer Shakespeare Festival. The Old Globe engagement will begin performances on June 21 and run through July 26, 2015, with opening night on Saturday, June 27 at 8:00 p.m., in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.
1960 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
1961 | West End |
London Production West End |
2004 | Off-Broadway |
Encores! Concert Off-Broadway |
2004 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival [Cancelled] Broadway |
2009 | Broadway |
Roundabout Revival Broadway |
2020 | Washington, DC (Regional) |
Kennedy Center Production Washington, DC (Regional) |
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