Arthur Laurents News

"Gypsy," the classic Broadway musical fable by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, is about a famous stripper but it's also about family - specifically, domineering stage mother Rose and her two daughters, June and Louise. So it's fitting that Stowe Theatre Guild's upcoming production of "Gypsy" is also about family. Make that families - four of them.

"Gypsy," the classic Broadway musical fable by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, is about a famous stripper but it's also about family - specifically, domineering stage mother Rose and her two daughters, June and Louise. So it's fitting that Stowe Theatre Guild's upcoming production of "Gypsy" is also about family. Make that families - four of them.

Dueling street gangs, howling police sirens, and forbidden love prove to be as powerful and poignant as ever as one of the most iconic musicals of all time explodes onto the stage in Grand Bend with sensational dancing and soaring voices. Featuring an all-star cast, West Side Story will play a limited run at the Huron Country Playhouse from June 7 to June 23

Dueling street gangs, howling police sirens, and forbidden love prove to be as powerful and poignant as ever as one of the most iconic musicals of all time explodes onto the stage in Grand Bend with sensational dancing and soaring voices. Featuring an all-star cast, West Side Story will play a limited run at the Huron Country Playhouse from June 7 to June 23

The Acting Company announces the full cast of its one-night-only benefit reading of The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams' feverishly poetic 1961 drama,at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College (68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues), on Monday, June 11.

On June 7, 2018, Charles Strouse, the Tony Award-winning composer of Annie, Bye Bye and Applause, and some of the most popular music from the last 60 years of Broadway, film and television, turns 90. To mark the occasion, a year-long celebration of events, including tributes, concerts, revivals and international productions, will take place across the United States and around the world.

The Guthrie Theater (Joseph Haj, artistic director) announced it has partnered with the Medtronic Foundation to host a one-night-only fundraising event to support hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico.

The Encore Musical Theatre Company presents West Side Story, running June 21st through August 12th, 2018. West Side Story is directed by Daniel C. Cooney, music directed by Tyler Driskill, and choreographed by Matthew Brennan.

The Guthrie Theater (Joseph Haj, artistic director) proudly announced the cast and creative team for the theater's summer musical, West Side Story. Directed by Haj, this major revival of a timeless classic will play June 16 - August 26, 2018, on the Wurtele Thrust Stage. Single tickets for West Side Story start at $15 for preview performances (June 16-21) and are on sale now through the Box Office at 612.377.2224, 877.44.STAGE (toll-free), 612.225.6244 (group sales) and online at guthrietheater.org.

The York Theatre Company will honor Five-time Tony Award-winning musical theatre director/choreographer Susan Stroman (Crazy for You) with the 2018 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre at the 27th Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala to be held on Monday evening, November 12, 2018.

Stephen Sondheim (Lyrics), Jule Styne (Music) and Arthur Laurents (Book) famous musical GYPSY, based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, comes to the Hayes Theatre, 59 years after it made its Broadway debut in 1959. 

The Muny announced today its full cast, design and production teams for the theater's opening centennial season show, Jerome Robbin's Broadway. In its first production ever in the world since its original Broadway and national tour productions, Jerome Robbins' Broadway will run June 11 - 17.

Multiple award-winning producers Luckiest Productions and One Eyed Man Productions are thrilled to announce the cast for their highly anticipated production of Gypsy. With a toe-tapping, acclaimed score, Gypsy is heralded by many as the greatest musical ever created and will run from 18 May at the Hayes Theatre Co.

The Muny announced today its complete cast and design team for the theatre's centennial season production of Gypsy, July 27 - August 2. Gypsy is proudly sponsored by Missouri Lottery.

Dueling street gangs, howling police sirens, and forbidden love prove to be as powerful and poignant as ever as one of the most iconic musicals of all time explodes onto the stage in Grand Bend with sensational dancing and soaring voices. Featuring an all-star cast, West Side Story will play a limited run at the Huron Country Playhouse from June 7 to June 23

George Street Playhouse's Annual Gala Benefit, held Sunday, May 6, at the Heldrich in downton New Brunswick, saw GSP Board President Dr. Penelope Lattimer honored with the Thomas H. Kean Arts Advocacy Award. The black-tie event also celebrated the work of renowned playwright and friend of the Playhouse, the late Arthur Laurents, who would have turned 100 this year, with performances of songs from West Side Story, Gypsy, La Cage aux Folles, and his other Broadway hits.

As the capstone of its first-ever 'Year-Long Production,' The Highwood Theatre is honored to bring the landmark musical, WEST SIDE STORY, to the stage in downtown Silver Spring.  The production - the biggest in Highwood history - will feature a cast of 25 exceptionally talented students in grades 7 through 12, backed up by a full orchestra of 25 student musicians from local high schools and colleges.

Jump For Joy! The Off-Broadway cast recording of the New York premiere production of the new musical Unexpected Joy, with book and lyrics by Bill Russell (Side Show) and music by Janet Hood (Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens with Bill Russell), will be recorded and released by JAY Records. Produced by John Yap, the recording will feature the original cast of The York Theatre Company production who will gather at Sear Sound Studios (353 West 48th Street) on Monday, May 14, 2018 to lay down the tracks for the recording.

Every spring for the last 40 years, something very special has happened in Rockland County: the Penguin Rep, the not-for-profit professional Equity theatre started by artistic director Joe Brancato in 1977, begins its season. This year will be their 41st season! Brancato along with with executive director Andrew M. Horn -- has grown Penguin from a small summer theatre into what the New York Times calls: 'the gutsiest little theater!' - one of the Hudson Valley's most influential nonprofit cultural institutions, and nearly half a million theater-goers have passed through its doors during that time.

3000 Miles Off Broadway Productions in association with Actors' Repertory Theatre of Simi proudly present WEST SIDE STORY, written by Arthur Laurents, with music composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. This special 5 performance only engagement will be Today, May 11 through Sunday, May 13 (Mother's Day), on the Debbie Reynolds Mainstage at the historic El Portal Theatre in the NOHO Arts District, El Portal Theatre is located at 5269 Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood, California.