Bill T. Jones News

As part of the citywide first annual World Science Festival ( www.worldsciencefestival.com ), a four-day celebration of science with more than 40 unique events showcasing an extraordinary array of films, lectures, family events and performances, artistic directors, authors and performers will come together with scientists at two high profile events.

Angel Desai, Stephen Bogardus, Patricia Birch and others salute NYC and 'West Side Story' in a concert at a Manhattan museum.

The Music Center of Los Angeles County announces the sixth season of the Dance at the Music Center series. The season opens with the return of Miami City Ballet led by Artistic Director Edward Villella, performing the much anticipated, West Coast premiere of NIGHTSPOT a Twyla Tharp and Elvis Costello collaboration, October 24-26. Known for her innovation and creativity, Twyla Tharp has created some of the most memorable dances in modern repertory.

Casting announced for workshop of Broadway bound musical 'Pure Country.'

Producers Randall L. Wreghitt, Chris Presley and Ellen Rusconi announced today that PURE COUNTRY, a brand-new original musical, will have its World Premiere as part of the 2008-2009 Broadway Season.

Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group has announced that two world premiere musicals, 9 to 5: The Musical and Minky's will be part of the 2008-2009 Ahmanson season, along with Spring Awakening and Frost/Nixon...

Producers Ira Pittelman, Tom Hulce, Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel are proud to announce that Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning and Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical will launch a multi-city national tour beginning in the Curran Theatre in San Francisco on September 4th as part of the SHN Best of Broadway Series.

On the first day of Spring - tomorrow, March 20 - the entire cast of SPRING AWAKENING will perform live on ABC's Good Morning America, sometime between 8am - 9am

The Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission announced that Ravinia Festival has been awarded a $50,000 grant in support of the festival's newly commissioned work A Good Man, by dancer, choreographer and Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones.

Emma Hunton will be making her Broadway debut on Tuesday, February 19 as the free-spirited bohemian 'Ilse' in the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical, Spring Awakening.

David Mirvish is delighted to present a total of eight shows in the new 2008/2009 Mirvish Theatre Season. Six of the shows - five acclaimed musicals and one classic drama - will be available in a subscripton package. Two bonus shows, both musicals, round out the season.

The cast of Broadway's 'Spring Awakening' visited the 25th Anniversary production of Forbidden Broadway, 'Rude Awakening' on Monday, January 28. Both casts had a laugh meeting their spoofed and real-life counter-parts.

La Jolla Playhouse is bringing urban rhythm from the streets to the stage this February when hip-hop pioneer and theatrical visionary Will Power fuses lyrical verse and hip-hop breaks into a fresh, vibrant take on the classic Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes.

Center Theatre Group's latest musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, has a central message, and it is rather simple, f@$k theatrical conventions. Thanks to the progressive nature of recent offerings including Spring Awakening and the soon to open Passing Strange, Broadway has been breaking away from tradition with rock music infiltrating the stage and concert style staging springing up...

Dancers Responding with Action (DRA) presented a special sold-out event 'Dance from the Heart,' on Monday December 10 to benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Figths AIDS.

Tony-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actress Kate Burton and TV-actor Blake Bashoff, currently featured in the ABC-TV's hit series, 'Lost,' will join the cast of the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening.

Catch this exclusive backstage special feature as BroadwayWorld spends time with Eryn Murman and Blake Daniel. These two talented performers members talk candidly about their auditions, the Spring Awakening fans, on-stage antics and more! Click below to watch now...

Catch this exclusive backstage special feature as BroadwayWorld spends time with Alexandra Socha and Matt Doyle. These two talented ensemble members talk candidly about their auditions, singing amongst the onstage audience, performing as Wendla and Melchior and of course, the Spring Awakening fans!

Ravinia Festival has commissioned award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones, who most recently won a Tony for his choreography for Spring Awakening, to create a new full-evening work, tentatively titled A Good Man, inspired by Abraham Lincoln and celebrating the slain president's 2009 bicentennial.

The eight-time Tony Award-winning original musical, Spring Awakening, has recouped its $6-million capitalization. Variety reports that strong summer sales helped the show's return-rate.