David Shenton

Matthew Schermerhorn and Andy Rice will return to The Triad Theater to debut their new show “I Want” Songs on May 10th  & 12th, 2023, at 7:00pm. 

Manhattan School of Music’s Musical Theatre Division will present the World Premiere of Paperboy, a new musical based on the award-winning novel by Vince Vawter.

Manhattan School of Music's Musical Theatre Division will present the World Premiere of Paperboy, a new musical based on the award-winning novel by Vince Vawter.

Matthew Schermerhorn, Andy Rice, and Kara Masciangelo will headline Here Comes the Sun: Singing the Shadows Away on October 1st  & 8th, 2022, at 7:00pm at The Triad Theater.  

Over the course of five years, 1300 young people were asked what matters to them, how they see themselves in the world and how to change it. Their texts and drawings became the basis for a new musical play premiering June 23-26 in Chicago.

In 2014, an opera singer, a poet, and a teacher are coming out of a Unity Temple (Oak Park, IL) coffeehouse when the singer says, 'Let's create an opera with underserved youth.' This is story of how singer Christine Steyer, Diane Piette, a Chicago teacher at Nicholas Senn High School, and myself, an author and poet, began the journey that results in a world premiere of Future Perfect almost eight years later.

In the World of Future Perfect, what is a Draglion?  If you said a cross between a Dragon and a Lion, you're more than ready to meet one, along with flutterbys and other creatures in the musical and magical world of Future Perfect. The characters and lyrics of this modern tale of curiosity by librettist Christine Steyer are based on writings and drawings from 1,300 Chicago area school children. 

In October 2014, Christine Steyer embarked on a partnership with Chicago Public Schools: performing opera excerpts for five different classes at Senn High School, and facilitating a space for the students to think and write through what it feels like to be labeled… what words like “Diversity” and “interconnectedness” and “transcendence” mean to them…  and what a future perfect world would look like.

The Magic Flute meets The Wizard of Oz in this fantastical world premiere perfect for all ages! From Bellissima Opera's award-winning Transcendence Series, Future Perfect tells the adventures of Miranette, a curious youth who leaves a forbidding society to go towards a future that she wants to see.

The Green Room 42 has announced their March line-up for in-person performances. Located inside YOTEL Times Square (570 Tenth Avenue, Fourth Floor), The Green Room 42 is Broadway's newest and most spacious cabaret club.

Award-winning female singers are centerstage for an International Women's Day (IWD) concert celebrating this year's IWD theme, 'Break the Bias.' Working In Concert and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church present Bellissima Opera's International Women's Day Concert at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Oak Park.

To show gratitude to health care workers and their families this Thanksgiving, Working In Concert will stream the Bellissima Cast production of On Call for free.

Working In Concert's Bellissima Opera presents in 2021-22: a virtual opera, a celebration of women artists, and a full-length live opera premiere.

Hennepin Theatre Trust announced that Minne-Musicals, a free, ticketed theatrical event, will be arriving at The Hennepin (900 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) and The Chambers Hotel (901 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) on Friday, Sep. 10 - Sunday, Sep. 12 at 6:30 p.m.

Chicago-based Working In Concert premieres the world’s first full-length virtual opera, On Call: COVID-19 on Saturday, April 17 at 7 PM (CDT) followed by 8 PM Artist Meet-and-Greet and Sunday, April 18 at 2:30 PM (CDT) followed by 3:30 PM Artist Meet-and-Greet.

Chicago-based Working In Concert premieres the world's first full-length virtual opera, On Call: COVID-19, streaming on April 17th & 18th.

Chicago-based Working In Concert premieres the world's first full-length virtual opera, On Call: COVID-19, streaming on April 17th & 18th.  Created by composer DAVID SHENTON of Queens NY, librettist CHRISTINE STEYER of Oak Park IL, and director CARL RATNER of Kalamazoo MI, On Call is drawn from 200 articles about global healthcare workers facing the COVID-19 pandemic.   

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, November 7-8, 2020.

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) announced an agreement with Theatre Now New York, an artist service organization dedicated to the development of new works, to represent and license 25 short musicals from its collection beginning in early 2021.