Chuck Cooper News

On Sunday, September 9 at 7PM, some of Broadway and cabaret's best presented a spirited original concert, 'I Feel Good: Broadway Celebrates The Music of James Brown' at Birdland.

Tony Award Winner Chuck Cooper and Broadway veteran Adinah Alexander have joined the cast of The Last Starfighter, presented as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Westport Country Playhouse brings the legendary talents of Stephen Sondheim to its stage with Being Alive, a world premiere musical revue, August 24 through September 9

Birdland has announced its September line-up

Westport Country Playhouse will bring the legendary talents of Stephen Sondheim to its stage with Being Alive, a world premiere musical revue, August 24 through September 9. Sondheim served as an apprentice at the Playhouse in 1950.

Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT will present Being a Live, a world premiere musical revue with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, conceived and directed by Billy Porter

Iridium Jazz Club will present 'Broadway Swings' every Sunday evening at 7:00 PM.

Andreasong and the 92nd Street Y, home of the long-running 'Lyrics & Lyricists' series, have announced the release of Kurt Weill In America, the new CD of the original concert conceived, written and directed by Andrea Marcovicci

Casting has been announced for the Old Globe Theatre's upcoming production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, which will be presented at the San Diego theatre from April 21st through May 27th.

There are 5 pairs of tickets for the opening night performance of Chicago at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre on January 2nd!

After Spring Awakening opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on December 10th, a star-studded after-party was held at Tavern on the Green

Michael Cerveris, Marin Ireland, Mike Myers and Peter Dinklage are among the performers set to play 'The Father' in the hit Off-Broadway play an oak tree.

The first annual Howard L. Blau Award for a promising new work of musical theater was presented to Friends Like These, with music by John McMahon, lyrics by Jay Jeffries, and with book by Jeffries and McMahon.

This year's Broadway Unplugged concert may well have been the best of the three: every song and singer were perfectly matched and beautifully performed, and almost no singers were able to leave the stage without being called back for an extra bow

Today's big-voiced Broadway stars strutted their stuff on the acoustically-perfect Town Hall stage on Monday, November 13 at 8 PM in 'Broadway Unplugged,' a concert of all-Broadway music performed as it was in the days before microphones

Today's big-voiced Broadway stars will strut their stuff on the acoustically perfect Town Hall stage on Monday, November 13 at 8 PM in 'Broadway Unplugged,' a concert of all Broadway music performed as it was in the days before microphones

Josh Lucas (Poseidon, The Glass Menagerie), Jake Robards (You and I, V.O, Our Town), Dorian Missick (Six Degrees), and Alice Playten (Caroline, or Change, Seussical) have joined the cast of The Fire Dept Theater Company's Speakeasy.

New Theatre Company Opening in NYC In October

Kevin Richardson has been added to the all-star star alumni cast of the gala 10th anniversary performance of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre on November 14th

Sutton Foster, John Lloyd Young, Marc Kudisch, Beth Leavel, Chuck Cooper, Cheyenne Jackson, Norm Lewis, Euan Morton among the many stars slated to perform in the 3rd annual 'Broadway Unplugged' concert, which will be presented at Town Hall on Monday, November 13th at 8 PM