Sunset Boulevard Tour 1998 - Articles Page 18

The 2009 season at the Almeida Theatre will include five premieres, two major revivals and a Shakespeare.

On September 23rd, 2008 Elaine Paige, the iconic star of Evita, Cats and Sunset Boulevard celebrates 40 years on the stage in Memories, a revealing insight into a dazzling life. The platform will be followed by a book signing.

The complete company of the Royal Court Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL, in a new version by Christopher Hampton, will begin rehearsals on Monday, August 25 in London, under the direction of Ian Rickson.

The year was 1980, and Patti LuPone was starring as 'Evita' on Broadway. She was en route to winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and cementing her status as a Broadway star. But there was another Patti LuPone performance taking place -- one that only a comparative handful of people were aware of: Every Saturday night at midnight, for 27 weeks, after performing one of the most demanding roles ever, she made her way to Les Mouches - a legendary nightclub in New York City, to perform a solo concert...This was a one-woman tour de force that -- until now -- only the lucky few who were on hand knew about.

Kristin Scott Thomas will star on Broadway in her Olivier Award-winning role of Arkadina in the critically acclaimed Royal Court Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL.

According to the Times Online Sir Cameron Mackintosh wants to revive BARNUM on the West End, and his choice for the part originated by Michael Crawford? Hugh Jackman.

The Signature Theatre has announced the complete cast for 'The Visit' the Kander and Ebb musical starring Chita Rivera and George Hearn.

Due to popular demand, a second concert performance of The Last Five Years, featuring composer and performer Jason Robert Brown and the incomparable talent of Lauren Kennedy, has been added to the Birdland Broadway series on Tuesday, March 18 at 7PM. The performance on Monday, March 17 at 7PM is quickly selling-out.

Composer and performer Jason Robert Brown and Lauren Kennedy will present a special one-night-only concert version of The Last Five Years, Brown's 2002 musical that won the Drama Desk Award for Best Music and Best Lyrics, with the original Off-Broadway orchestra, Monday, March 17, 2008 at 7PM.

Eric Schaeffer, artistic director of Signature Theatre, announced today that two-time Tony® winner George Hearn will join another two-time Tony® winner Chita Rivera for Kander & Ebb's musical The Visit - a highlight of Signature Theatre's national Kander & Ebb Celebration in the spring of 2008.

After the success of their 2006 series, The Actors' Fund returns with their 2007 sequence of exclusive and intimate Musical Mondays in the foyer of the Hollywood landmark...

LONE STAR LOVE, a new musical comedy starring Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid in his Broadway debut as Colonel John Falstaff, has announced full casting as it begins rehearsals this week for its Seattle engagement at The 5th Avenue Theatre, September 8 - 30. LONE STAR LOVE will open on Broadway on Monday, December 3 at New York's Belasco Theatre; previews will begin Thursday, November 1.

Laura Benanti, Alice Ripley and Tituss Burgess will join the previously announced Jason Robert Brown for the upcoming Strathmore Center production of Brown's acclaimed song cycle Songs for a New World

Emily Skinner, Christiane Noll and Jacquelyn Piro-Donovan will join the previously announced Marc Kudisch in Signature Theatre's American Premiere production of the musical The Witches of Eastwick

A musical drama executive produced by Tony Award-winning stage and screen star Hugh Jackman will receive a CBS pilot.

The producers of the new hit Broadway musical Grey Gardens- East of Doheny, Staunch Entertainment, Randall L. Wreghitt/Mort Swinsky, Michael Alden and Edwin M. Schloss, in association with Playwrights Horizons - have announced that the musical's acclaimed leading lady, Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole, has been invited to make a special appearance at The Kennedy Center Honors Gala in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, December 3

Don't Quit Your Night Job 5 took place at Joe's Pub on October 26th and BroadwayWorld.com has the exlusive photos from the event!

Marc Kudisch, Stephen Lynch, Hunter Bell and more wil star in Don't Quit Your Night Job V on October 16

Maureen Moore, the respected performer who has previously gone on for such stars as Bernadette Peters, will serve as the standby for Christine Ebersole in the upcoming Broadway musical Grey Gardens; Dale Soules and Megan Lewis are among the other standbys, as well

The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel may soon be receiving a movie musical remake--as a vehicle for Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman

International superstar Hugh Jackman--currently touring his native Australia in The Boy from Oz--may soon be performing with the famed Sydney Theatre Company--in a straight play

Hugh Jackman is considering three vehicles for his Broadway return--Pal Joey, a play that he did not name, and a musical based on the film Leap of Faith, with music by Alan Menken

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

On March 30th, Spamalot star Lauren Kennedy will appear at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox for a chat with host Seth Rudetsky

According to The New York Post's Michael Riedel, both the Shubert Organization and producer Marc Platt are trying to lure Hugh Jackman to upcoming revivals of Stop the World, I Want to Get Off and Pal Joey, respectively