Kathy Sommer

Photos: Go Inside GERSHWIN: A CENTURY OF RHAPSODY IN BLUE with Montego Glover and The New York Pops
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Feb 10, 2024

Check out photos from The New York Pops's celebration of the centennial of Gershwin’s masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue here!

Listen: Beth Leavel Featured on New Single 'No I Don't' From REGRETTING ALMOST EVERYTHING
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 24, 2023

Listen to Beth Leavel on 'No I Don't,' the second single from the concept album Regretting Almost Everything.

Beth Leavel & Jeff Blumenkrantz To Be Featured On REGRETTING ALMOST EVERYTHING Concept Album
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 20, 2023

With the start of another new year, we all look for a fresh start. Regretting Almost Everything, featuring Tony Award winner Beth Leavel as Anne, and Tony Nominee Jeff Blumenkrantz as her husband Clay, is the story of a middle-aged woman in search of a new beginning.

BWW CD Review: Anthony Nunziata TOGETHER FOR CHRISTMAS Is The First Christmas Present To Give Or Get This Holiday Season
by Stephen Mosher - Nov 28, 2021

Singer-songwriter Anthony Nunziata has accomplished the impossible: a great Christmas album of all-new music.

Clayton Opera House Announces Summer 2021 Lineup
by Stephi Wild - May 28, 2021

Clayton Opera House is officially open for the summer! A lineup of upcoming musical performances, as well as speakers, has been announced, kicking off on June 4.

Virtual Theatre Today: Monday, May 3- with Lily Rabe, Charlayne Woodard, and More!
by Nicole Rosky - May 3, 2021

Today (May 3) in live streaming: Charlayne Woodard is Live at the Lortel, Lily Rabe is exploring Shakespeare, and more!

Taylor Iman Jones, Jeremy Kushnier and More Join SHE WILL ROCK YOU at Feinstein's/54 Below
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 3, 2020

Feinstein's/54 Below will shine bright this Wednesday, February 5th at 9:30pm, with a star-studded cast set to perform new works by female composers and lyricists in support of Maestra Music.

SHE WILL ROCK YOU: SONGS FROM THE COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS OF MAESTRA will Play at Feinstein's/54 Below
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 13, 2019

Bright stars of Broadway perform a rockin' evening of musical theater by the women who make the music in this industry. Maestra is an organization founded by Georgia Stitt that exists to give support, visibility, and community to female composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, music coordinators, and musicians who are an underrepresented minority in musical theater. It's time for them to be heard.

Photo Coverage: Inside The MAESTRA May Seminar, Featuring Bonnie Comley and More
by Walter McBride - May 9, 2019

Bonnie Comley, Founder of BroadwayHD, was the guest speaker at MAESTRA's May seminar at SongSpace. Composer/lyricist and music director Georgia Stitt founded the MAESTRA organization in 2017 to give support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater industry. The MAESTRA membership is made up of female-identifying, non-binary, and gender non-conforming composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, rehearsal pianists and other musicians who are underrepresented minorities in musical theater. Songwriter and composer, Kathy Sommer, moderated the seminar.