Benjamin News

Disney Princess – The Concert, presented by Disney Concerts, an 83-city U.S. tour, kicked off its spring leg yesterday.

Deon’te Goodman (Hamilton) and Katherine Thomas (Ragtime) star in “A Shadow of the Real Thing,' a new music video from the musical Heartbreakers in Hell with book and lyrics by Benjamin Halstead (Nikola Tesla Drops The Beat) and music by Joey Contreras (In Pieces, Forget Me Not).

Joe’s Pub announces the updated performances for their winter programming that starts today, January 31 through July 16, including rescheduled dates.

The Broadway Podcast Network (Dori Berinstein, Co-Founder & CEO; Alan Seales, Co-Founder & CTO) is pleased to announce that Radio Play Revival, a new podcast celebrating the golden age of radio plays in this now-second golden age of audio featuring great American actors performing works by a wide range of American authors, has joined the Broadway Podcast Network family.

In 2021, Atlanta Chamber Players (Atlanta), Decoda (New York), Fifth House Ensemble (Chicago), Musiqa (Houston) and SOLI Chamber Ensemble (San Antonio) announced the creation of a new consortium aimed at increasing diversity in modern chamber music repertoire. Now we are proud to announce that Benjamin Horne has been awarded its first ever Black, Latinx and Indigenous Emerging Composer Commission.

One of opera’s most popular and unforgettable stories, Puccini’s La bohème is an exceptional musical and theatrical treat. When Mimì knocks at the door of four impoverished friends, Rodolfo answers and it’s love at first sight.

The Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) with support from the New York Community Trust, announces two new fellowship opportunities for emerging Asian American artists: the 2022 Jadin Wong Fellowship in Dance/Choreography and the 2022 Van Lier Fellowship in Visual Arts Practice.

The Broadway production of The Music Man has opted not to invite critics to preview performances ahead of its opening night. Breaking from the long-held Broadway tradition, the musical, led by Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, has instead invited critics to its opening night performance on February 10.

The winners of the 2021 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced tonight at a star-studded ceremony, with 29 Awards presented, shared between 18 productions which played on Sydney stages during 2020 and 2021. Check out the full list!

Lowell House Opera, the professional opera company in residence at Harvard University, presents the world premiere of NIGHTTOWN: an operatic reimagining of James Joyce's Ulysses, by composer and librettist Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg, based on the 15th and 18th chapters of Ulysses and the novel's roots in Homer's Odyssey. Performances will take place at Sanders Theater at Harvard University and will be livestreamed from March 10-12, 2022 at 7:30 and 3pm.

Stewart Goodyear was scintillating in his Charlotte Symphony debut, but the Stravinsky-Weill lineup that followed wasn't an anticlimax.

Like Sweeney Todd's right arm, I haven't thought of the Theatre District as being complete again until the reopening of that historic watering hole and bistro on 44th Street, Sardi's.

Loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera, La bohème, Rent follows a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

Stars of The Music Man on Broadway, Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster have given a shout-out to the staff at the Winter Garden Theatre!

Writers from Australia and around the world will come together live and virtually to explore the theme A Better Picture at the 37th Adelaide Writers' Week which launches its full program today. Jo Dyer will present her fourth and final Adelaide Writers' Week across 6 days, featuring 165 of the world's best literary minds who will inspire, challenge and delight audiences from Saturday 5 to Thursday 10 March.

Boise Contemporary Theater has been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Disney Princess - The Concert, presented by Disney Concerts, an 83-city U.S. tour, kicks off its spring leg this Sunday, January 30th at Wichita, Kansas's Orpheum Theatre. View the full tour schedule and how to get tickets!

THE DJANGO, downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, is commemorating Women’s History Month by hosting more than 20 leading female jazz artists on its stage during March.

Tony Award nominee Robyn Hurder will play her final performance as Nini in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Sunday, February 20, 2022, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Jessica Lee Goldyn begins performances in the role starting Tuesday, February 22, 2022.

Performers scheduled for Luke Williams & Company: Speak Up include Ryan Andrews (Why Are You Like This?), Kristy Cates (Wicked), Jennifer Diamond (Ruthless), Sean Doherty (The Lightning Thief), Troy Iwata (Netflix’s “Dash & Lily), Ashley LaLonde (Punk Rock Girl) and more to be announced at a later date.