Brian Stokes Mitchell News

New York City Center's 2006 Encores! Season will open on February 9 with the six-time Tony Award-winning Kismet, starring Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie.

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its annual Winter Benefit, 'An Intimate Night,' an evening of cocktails and dinner followed by a special one-night-only cabaret-style show featuring Tony Award winning Broadway stars, Donna McKechnie and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

The Actors' Fund's benefit reading of the musical version of Wonderful Life was presented at the Shubert Theatre on December 12th

BroadwayWorld was there for the after-party of The Actors' Fund of America's benefit reading of the musical version of Wonderful Life, which was presented at the Shubert Theatre on December 12th

Written by four-time Tony winner Terrence McNally and featuring a cast of 11, THE DANCER'S LIFE charts Chita Rivera's amazing journey from aspiring ballerina to Broadway legend. BroadwayWorld was there to cover the opening night party.

BroadwayWorld was there as Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life opened, celebrating the long career of the Broadway legend.

Dozens of stars turned out for the premiere of Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh on December 7th

The June Carnegie Hall concert production of South Pacific, with Reba McIntyre and Brian Stokes Mitchell, will air on PBS in April of 2006

American Songbook, the critically acclaimed Lincoln Center series devoted to the rich history and variety that is American popular song, returns for its eighth season.

Karen Ziemba, Phylicia Rashad, Chuck Cooper and Nancy Anderson will appear in the Actors' Fund benefit reading of the musical version of It's a Wonderful Life on December 12th

Brian Stokes Mitchell will serve as a narrator in Rip Van Winkle and Other Musical Tales on November 20th at the Kennedy Center

On Monday night, November 14th the William Morris Agency celebrated the start of the new theatre season, and the Actors' Fund with a star-studded party at nighttime hot spot PROVIDENCE.

The concert will air on Thursday, November 24 (Thanksgiving Day) - 12 Noon ET, Saturday, November 26 - 4:00 p.m. ET. and Sunday, November 27 - 9:00 p.m. ET

Broadway Meets Country, an exclusive benefit concert raising funds for both The Actors' Fund of America and the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund took palce on Saturday, November 12.

Two of Broadway's most illustrious stars, the legendary CHITA RIVERA (who begins previews at the Schoenfeld Theatre on November 23 in Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life) and the debonair DAVID HYDE PIERCE (currently starring in the smash musical, Monty Python's Spamalot, Broadway's Tony Award-winning 'Best Musical'), will be joined by cast and company members from virtually every Broadway and Off Broadway show to celebrate and share in the joy of the holiday season when they flip the switch to light the 2005 BROADWAY HOLIDAY TREE.

The First Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival concludes with an afternoon of great performers and the great songs they introduced

The Actors' Fund of America, a non-for-profit organization serving the entire entertainment community, is proud to announce the addition of Judy Kuhn, Philip Bosco, Marian Seldes, Michael Berresse, Marc Kudisch and Ronn Carroll to the cast of A Wonderful Life, a concert presentation of the musical inspired by the beloved 1946 film 'It's A Wonderful Life.'

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra McDonald will headline Gershwin at Ravinia: Who Could Ask for Anything More? on July 15th, 2006

A limited number of tickets for the November 12th Broadway Meets Country concert, with Donna Murphy, Idina Menzel, Ben Vereen and others, are onsale

Brian Stokes Mitchell will take his solo show Love/Life to the Kennedy Center from November 1st through 6th