Cast albums, theatre books, videos and upcoming releases from the world of Broadway.
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Lea Michele's new album is on its way. She told Billboard, 'I sat back and listened to all of the songs that I grew up listening to, and most of them were Celine Dion, four-minute-long vocal Olympics. This is a vocal album, and there are definitely love songs…
Dramatic Publishing Company today announced its exclusive representation of the worldwide professional and amateur stage performance rights to QUALITIES OF STARLIGHT by exciting young American playwright Gabriel Jason Dean.
The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Most have announced details of their latest DVD recording project: the Johannes Brahms Cycle DVD set, featuring the four Symphonies, both Piano Concertos, the Violin Concerto, and three other orchestral works. Beginning on December 1, 2015, the DVD set is…
Broadway star Lauren Elder's debut-album release concert will be held at the Slipper Room tonight, January 25 at 8pm.
Gabrielle Stravelli - the celebrated pop/jazz vocalist and songwriter - will release Dream Ago, her first major recording in a quickly rising career. The album, which will be available this week on January 27, 2017 from the Big Modern Music label, presents a joyous new voice of flexibility and…
Sony Classical will celebrate the New York Philharmonic's 175th anniversary season with New York Philharmonic - 175th Anniversary Edition, a 65-CD compilation of the Orchestra's recordings from 1917 to 1995, to be released on April 7, 2017.
Sony Classical will release acclaimed pianist Simone Dinnerstein's new album, Mozart in Havana, on April 21. The new album, recorded in Cuba, may be her most ambitious to date and is a testament to music's ability to cross all cultural and language barriers. For it, Dinnerstein has collaborated…
Broadway Records has announced that A Dog Story (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) will be released digitally and in stores today, January 20, 2017.
The Swedish label BIS Records is releasing the latest offering from Music Director Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra: a live-in-concert recording featuring Sibelius' five-part symphonic poem Kullervo, his beloved Finlandia, and Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas' Migrations, a new work…
Both a poignant coming of age memoir and a compulsively readable story of Broadway itself, the new book UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS by actor/writer/director Ron Fassler is his valentine to Broadway, where he pays homage to the men and women who devote their lives to making great theatre.
Stage Door Records are pleased to announce the debut CD release of Meredith and Rini Willson's 1959 studio album ...AND THEN I WROTE THE MUSIC MAN on February 24th, 2017.
With more than seventy thousand actors currently employed, there's more competition than ever. This is how an aspiring artist can get ahead! The book Movement for Actors, edited by Nicole Potter, Second Edition edited by Mary Fleischer and BarbAra Adrian, is now available.
Broadway star Lauren Elder's debut-album release concert will be held at the Slipper Room on Wednesday, January 25 at 8pm.
Votes are cast; polls are closed; and results have been tabulated! This was our biggest year yet! BroadwayWorld is very excited to announce the 2016 BWW Albums/CDs/DVDs Awards winners! Thanks to all who voted, and huge congratulations to all the winners!
The Drama Book Shop will welcome acclaimed playwright Greg Pierce (Slowgirl, Her Requiem) and three-time Tony Award-winning composer John Kander (Chicago, Cabaret, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, The Visit) for a discussion with playwright and Drama Book Shop Events Manager Steven Carl McCasland (Little…
Tommy Mottola, the Dodgers, Tribeca Productions, and Evamere Entertainment just announced that the Original Broadway Cast Album of A Bronx Tale was recorded in New York City today, January 9. Release dates and additional information will be announced shortly.
Sony Classical is delighted to announce a key new recording event: a brand-new album performed by stellar musicians of the day that showcases some of Hollywood's greatest ever movie themes, written by one of the world's most innovative musical talents and leading film composer of our time - Hans…
One part roots pop band and one part theater company, The Lobbyists kick off 2017 with the release of their first full length album, SeaWife. The album takes its name from the hugely successful original stage production produced by Naked Angels featuring The Lobbyists, who were nominated for a 2016…
With over 13,000 votes cast, the winners have today been for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2016 in association with TodayTix.
Broadway Records has announced that A Dog Story (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) will be released digitally and in stores on Friday, January 20, 2017.
The Drama Book Shop welcomes playwright Samuel D. Hunter for a discussion about his recently published play collection.
Skeptics of musical theater like to ask, 'But how do they know the song?' when characters join in during a musical number. One of the virtues of HAIRSPRAY is that the audience itself actually does this: the songs are so catchy that we start singing along. This is appropriate, given the show's…
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications has announced that 'Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Volume 29, Issue 1' is now online for free.
The Applause Libretto Library Applause Books has selected, and continues to select, the most important and the most popular musicals, including The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Cinderella, Avenue Q, The Last Five Years, Memphis, and more. Visit applausebooks.com for the complete list. Perfect for…
Universal Stage Productions, the live theatre division of the world famous movie studio, has announced that Ghostlight Records will record the cast album of the critically acclaimed Roundabout Theatre Company production of HOLIDAY INN, THE NEW IRVING BERLIN MUSICAL on January 8 & 9, 2017.
