Boston Interviews - Page 3

Emmy Award-winner Vicki Lawrence of the renowned "Carol Burnett Show" and beloved "Mama's Family" brings VICKI LAWRENCE AND MAMA: A TWO-WOMAN SHOW to Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston on Sunday, February 17, for a one-show-only engagement. On January 30th, BroadwayWorld talked with one half of ...

Actors Terrence Mann and Charlotte d'Amboise break from PIPPIN to discuss their work in it, their characters, and the changes in theme from the original to Diane Paulus' circus-themed current production....

Director Diane Paulus' bold new staging of the beloved 1970s pop musical 'Pippin' incorporates daring circus acrobatics with the original Bob Fosse choreography in order to push the theatrical envelope when it comes to being 'extraordinary'...

Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops, discusses the orchestra's holiday season. He also talks about appearances that Megan Hilty and Matthew Morrison will be making with them....

Debra Jo Rupp is currently back at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield for a limited return engagement (through October 7) of Mark St. Germain's 'Dr. Ruth, All the Way' which enjoyed a sold-out 36-performance world premiere run this summer....

Originally written in 2003 and given a New York workshop reading in 2005, the Joe Iconis musical, The Black Suits, is concluding a mid-summer run at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA. Could the next stop for this energetic Rock and Roll musical about a Long Island garage band be Off-Bro...

Lynda Carter will be playing a free show at Mohegan Sun's Wolf Den on Saturday, December 10th....

Driving back to New York after enjoying Thanksgiving in Massachusetts found virtually every radio venue had switched to an All-Holiday format; a true indication that the Christmas season was upon us. It's a joyous time of the year, even if we have to cope with those perilous twelve pains of Christma...

Broadway veterans Rachel York and Graham Rowat star as the Marquise de Merteuil and her sparring partner Vicomte de Valmont in 'The Game,' a musical based on 'Les Liaisons Dangereuse,' on the Mainstage at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA...

Over Labor Day weekend, Blythe Danner will join Judy Carmichael at the 2011 Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lenox, MA to sing and talk about jazz. The program will be recorded for Carmichael's NPR show "Jazz Inspired" to be aired at a later date....

Barrington Stage Company's world premiere musical 'The Game,' a 'breathtakingly beautiful' adaptation of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' returns to the Berkshires for a second chance at a longer life...

Charles Shaughnessy of 'The Nanny' fame talks about his role as Henry Higgins in the North Shore Music Theatre production of 'My Fair Lady'...

The Boston Pops really know how to open a new season at Symphony Hall! There's a wonderful cocktail party before the concert with delicious hors d'oeuvre and drinks. Then the actual concert hall is awash with attractive pastel lighting and projections of butterflies all about the auditorium. It's...

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When one thinks of the Boston Pops, recollections of a grand orchestral sound come to mind, along with memories of brilliant conducting by Maestro Keith Lockhart, incredibly fine arrangements and a long list of Broadway guest stars. These have included Christine Ebersole, Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, ...

The dapper star of television's 'The Nanny,' 'Days of Our Lives' and 'Mad Men' finds his grail as King Arthur in Ogunquit Playhouse's sparkling production of 'Monty Python's Spamalot'...

Jane Monheit will wrap up her summer with a gig at the 2010 Tanglewood Jazz festival and the release of her new album 'Home' a classic standards collection from the Great American Songbook. ...

Tony Award-winning lyricist and librettist Lynn Ahrens talks about penning the narration for 'The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers' receiving its world premiere on Tuesday, May 18 with the Boston Pops...

In the past 125 years, plenty of things have come and gone in our society. Horse and buggy rides used to be a common mode of transportation but are now relegated to being novelties that tourists indulge in. Women no longer lace themselves into corsets, and men no longer Brilliantine their hair. Blac...

Arlington's Erin Maguire makes her Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre debut as the national tour of 'The 101 Dalmatians Musical' parks and barks in Boston during Christmas week...

Maureen McGovern in World Premiere of 'A Long and Winding Road' thru November 15, 2009 at Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, presented by the Huntington Theatre Company...

Northeastern University Center for the Arts presents forum with producer/director, featuring song selections by Judy Kaye and Tom Wopat ...

The original 'Red' in Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods' shares her wit and wisdom with 100-plus students of the Boston Children's Theatre Summer Studio Program held at The Governor's Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts...

Broadway veterans Richard Kind and Liz Larsen bring delightful off-stage sizzle to their roles as the lovable Nathan Detroit and the lovelorn Miss Adelaide in the sparkling production of 'Guys and Dolls' now in its final week at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine...

New York City is filled with lovely parks. There's a particularly charming one tucked into a triangle on 106th Street and Broadway. It's planted with daylilies, impatiens, lacecap hydrangeas and dogwoods. One end of this peaceful oasis is dominated by a recumbent bronze sculpture which sits atop a f...

Film and TV star Lorenzo Lamas, known for bad boy roles in the past, cuts a commanding figure as Zach in Ogunquit Playhouse's 77th season opener of 'A Chorus Line' through June 13...

The Providence Black Repertory Company's Artistic Director Donald King has suspended (hopefully, temporarily) the 2008-2009 Theater Season. In this interview, King talks about how the organization is trying to re-position itself in the current economic climate....

Tony Award Nominee Andrea McArdle talks about her role in Les Miz and sharing the stage with her daughter....

The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester launches its first full season on Saturday, September 20th, with a bona fide Broadway Baby, Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley in concert with her quartet. Headed by long-time collaborator, renowned jazz pianist Kenny Werner, they will be joined ...

Elise has followed her theater dreams all the way from Australia and is now appearing in her 2nd show at Goodspeed....

Respected NY actor Tim Jerome Reprises Role of Doolittle At Ogunquit Playhouse ...

A 'Forbidden Broadway' alum and Drama Desk nominee for 'Ruthless!', Donna is back at Goodspeed in 'Half a Sixpence'....

The Tony Award-winning actress who will forever be remembered for her breathtaking performance as the original Cassie in 'A Chorus Line' shares her views on her life, her continuing career, and her triumph over a debilitating illness that ironically gave her a second chance at happiness...

A talk with Max and Leon about their roles in Ogunquit Playhouse production of Mel Brooks' The Producers. ...

Linda Eder will be appearing with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Steve Tyrell for two shows this weekend at the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset and the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis. She will be performing standards, but her new CD 'The Other Side of Me' scheduled for release in September feat...

The New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, Mass., is staging the world premiere of 'According to Tip,' a one-man play featuring stage and screen star Ken Howard as the inimitable, sometimes irascible, but always indefatigable Speaker of the House of Representatives, Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill. Written by ...

Mother and son Shirley Jones and Patrick Cassidy reunite to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Meredith Willson's musical classic in a staged concert version of 'The Music Man' April 22-27 at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut...

Broadway's most celebrated showman debuts his new act 'Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance' April 19-20 at the Reagle Players in Waltham, Mass....

Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI will premiere the new musical, written by Columbus. 'Paris by Night' is a gay, interracial, love story set in Paris in the 1960's...

Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe return to the helm to put the 78-year-old Connecticut theatrical landmark back on course...