Beth Frank News

The Broadway Rose will present the Tony-Award winning musical, 'A Chorus Line,' at the Deb Fennell Auditorium in Tigard featuring Lea Kohl as Val. The show runs August 4 through 22.

Lakewood ends its 2009-10 season with the hit musical that closed on Broadway in 2008... Curtains. This hilarious show-within-a-show, murder mystery musical is a real knock-out tribute to show business, with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb - the composer/lyricist team from Cabaret and Chicago.

Lakewood ends its 2009-10 season with the hit musical that closed on Broadway in 2008... Curtains. This hilarious show-within-a-show, murder mystery musical is a real knock-out tribute to show business, with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb - the composer/lyricist team from Cabaret and Chicago.

Lakewood ends its 2009-10 season with the hit musical that closed on Broadway in 2008... Curtains. This hilarious show-within-a-show, murder mystery musical is a real knock-out tribute to show business, with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb - the composer/lyricist team from Cabaret and Chicago.

The Blank Theatre Company's 17th Annual Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival has chosen 12 winning plays by teenaged playwrights, aged 15 -19 from 7 different states. The winning plays will be presented by professional actors and directors in the month-long Festival at The Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood beginning June 4, 2009.

Awards were handed out for 14 categories and 2 special awards are announced by the Off-Broadway League for the Lucille Lortel Awards recognizing Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. This year?s ceremony benefits The Actors Fund. A list of nominees follows below.

Kristen Johnston will co-host the 2009 Lucille Lortel Awards, trade paper Variety reports. Presenters at the ceremony will include Jeremy Irons, Parker Posey, Kerry Butler, John Glover, Marsha Mason and Phyllis Newman, amongst others.

Nominations in 14 categories and 2 special awards are nnounced by the Off-Broadway League for the Lucille Lortel Awards recognizing Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. This year's ceremony will benefit The Actors Fund.

'I Got Love' starring Anastacia McCleskey played the Laurie Beechman Theater on October 22 & 23. In the new cabaret/musical revue, McCleskey sang her way through a variety of genres: Broadway, jazz, rhythm and blues and gospel.