Brent Barrett News

Town Hall Presents the Third Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival.

Director Billy Porter and Grammy nominee Ledisi mark their debuts with Reprise Theatre Company in the 1990 musical 'Once on This Island,' opening the 2008-2009 season, September 2 to 14 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. The press opening is September 3.

Broadway by the Bay, the largest theatre organization on the Peninsula, has announced the appointment of Jim Gardia as its new Executive Director, effective July 1, 2008, bringing the company's national search to an end.

Broadway fans got an extra-special treat at Birdland last night.

On the stage and on the radio, Crivello is living the life he wants.

America's longest running professional summer theatre, The Cape Playhouse will proudly present the regional debut of Broadway's recent hit musical 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' as their third summer offering with a stable of Broadway talent including Brent Barrett, Dee Hoty ,Perry Ojeda, Stephanie Youell, Heather Parcels and John Scherer.

Broadway's most celebrated showman debuts his new act 'Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance' April 19-20 at the Reagle Players in Waltham, Mass.

On Monday, February 25, the Broadway at Birdland series welcomed composer/performer Victoria Shaw and her celebrated showcase 'Under The Covers With Victoria Shaw.' Following the concert was Jim Caruso's Cast Party.

The 92nd Street Y has named Deborah Grace Winer, journalist, playwright and author of several books on the topic of American song, Series Artistic Director of the Y's long-running American Songbook series Lyrics & Lyricists.

The 92nd Street Y continues the 2008 season of its legendary American Songbook series, 'Lyrics & Lyricists, with Life is a Cabaret: A Tribute to Fred Ebb.' In over 700 songs written in the course of a 50-year career, Fred Ebb's lyrics epitomize the wit and sophistication of Broadway. From 1964 when they met, until his death in 2004, Ebb collaborated with composer John Kander to create the scores for Cabaret, Happy Time, Zorba, Chicago, Woman of the Year, The Rink, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, among others. They also collaborated on Curtains, which was produced in 2007, after Ebb's death.

Brent Barrett, Diana Canova, Tyne Daly, and David Garrison are all set as guest artists for 'Life Is a Cabaret: A Tribute to Fred Ebb,' to be presented as part of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics and Lyricists series running February 23-25. Rob Fisher will be the guest artistic and musical director for the evening, which will salute Ebb, the lyricist of such shows as Cabaret, Chicago, Zorba!, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Anthony Crivello likes Las Vegas. The Tony Award-winner, who alternates the title role in Phantom: The Las Vegas Experience with Brent Barrett, will be in Las Vegas for at least the next six months, when the show celebrates its second anniversary.

The Emelin Theatre, a non-profit performing arts center in Mamaroneck, NY, today announced that Broadway star Karen Mason, who originated the role of Tanya in Broadway's Mamma Mia! - a role for which she received a 2002 Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress - will join the cast of the Emelin's Kleinbort Collection.

Haunting the Cadillac Palace Theatre for the holidays, John Caudia and Sara Jean Ford head up a stellar cast in the National Tour of The Phantom Of The Opera.

Jazz Legend Passes Away. Toby Orenstein Named Marylander of Distinction! Local Actor Cast in Off-Broadway's Crossing Brooklyn! Free Readings!

Trailer Park comes to Baltimore! A new company joins the BWW Baltimore family! Discounts! Audition notices! Much more!

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