Brian Stokes Mitchell News

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

On December 12th, Brian Stokes Mitchell, David Hyde Pierce, Lauren Ambrose and Dominic Chianese will star in the Actors' Fund benefit reading of a musical version of It's a Wonderful Life

Victor Garber will play John P. Wintergreen in the Encores! production of the Gershwins' Of Thee I Sing, which will run from May 11th through 14th, 2006

New York City Center will present the 13th season of New York City Center Encores! Great American Musicals In Concert®, opening February 9 with Kismet starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, followed by the Kander and Ebb musical 70, Girls, 70. George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing will end the season, playing May 11 - 14.

Country Music superstar and top CMA Awards nominee Lee Ann Womack and Broadway leading man, Tony Award Winner, Brian Stokes Mitchell, will co-host the Nov. 12 'Broadway Meets Country' concert, a benefit performance celebrating the universality and crossover appeal of these two popular genres and their performers.

Bernadette Peters, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lillias White and Victoria Clark will be some of the Broadway talents featured in the 8th season of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series

Let Us Entertain You: The Jule Styne Centennial Celebration has been cancelled

Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform his acclaimed solo show Love/Life at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. from November 1st through 6th

The Gershwins' satiric musical Of Thee I Sing will be the third entry in City Center's Encores!' 2006 season

Frequent co-stars Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell will once again team up for the Encores! production of Kismet, which will open in February of 2006

Brian Stokes Mitchell will sing with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on September 15th, 16th and 17th

Star-Studded Charity Performance, Featuring Idina Menzel, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bernadette Peters, Patrick Wilson, Trace Adkins, Raul Malo, Lee Ann Womack and Trisha Yearwood, Is A Fundraiser For The Actors' Fund of America and the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund