Allison Blackwell News

North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has announced that one of the most critically acclaimed musicals of all time, SHOW BOAT, will perform from September 23 to October 12, 2008. Press Night is scheduled for September 25th at 7:30 pm. This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has announced that one of the most critically acclaimed musicals of all time, SHOW BOAT, will perform from September 23 to October 12, 2008. Press Night is scheduled for September 25th at 7:30 pm. This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, closes its 38th season with the daring, joyous, Tony nominated musical Caroline, or Change; plays April 2 through 27 (press opening: April 5) at TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

Ragtime, a brand new concert staging of the epic Tony Award-winning musical and the inaugural production of the Broadway in Concert series at the White Plains Performing Arts Center, performs February 1-3, 2008.

Casting has been completed for the forthcoming production of Ragtime at White Plains Performing Arts Center, to play February 1-3, 2008.

Actors in North Shore Music Theatre's recent production of Les Miserables raised $65,400 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) during the show's 4 week run.

California Musical Theatre has announced its 2007 Music Circus season with seven large-scale musical productions and seasoned Broadway veterans helming casts! Nancy Opel, Laura Griffith, Adinah Alexander, James Barbour, Walter Charles, Michael Gruber and others star!

Isabella Rossellini starred as legendary German singer and actress Lotte Lenya in the American Musical Project's 'Kurt and Lenya in Their Own Words' on February 5, 2007, 7 p.m. at the New-York Historical Society

Strong cast makes Biblical figures both human and divine in director Robert Johanson's inspired restaging of this Rice-Webber classic at the North Shore Music Theatre

Full casting has been announced for the North Shore Music Theatre's production of Hairspray

Casting has been announced for North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice rock opera classic Jesus Christ Superstar.

Studio Theatre in Washington, DC has extended its hit production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's Caroline, or Change through July 23

Studio Theatre's production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's Caroline, or Change is uneven with its staging, but its performances accent the power and compassion of an almost-great musical

Michael Cerveris, Laura Griffith and Janelle Anne Robinson will be among the performers taking part in TACT Lounge: Swingin' with the Stars at Birdland on April 24th

Danny Gurwin and Sally Wilfert will be among the performers celebrating the songs of the musically versatile Arthur Schwartz in the New-York Historical Society's March 6th benefit concert

Rachel York will replace Jayne Patterson as Mother in the Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Ragtime from June 8th to July 17th

Paper Mill Playhouse (Michael Gennaro, President and CEO) is pleased to announce the final production of the 2004-2005 season, the Tony Award-winning musical, Ragtime with Book by Terrence McNally (Master Class, The Full Monty, Love! Valour! Compassion!), Music by Stephen Flaherty and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (Dessa Rose, Seussical, Once On This Island, My Favorite Year) based on the E.L. Doctorow novel 'Ragtime.'