Cole Porter News

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 1-3 at the Orchestra's summer home in the Berkshire Mountains in Lenox, Massachusetts.

The Shakespeare Society (Michael Sexton, Artistic Director) will present SHAKESPEARE ON BROADWAY, a 90-minute musical celebration of the American Musical Theater's adaptation of Shakespeare.

A listing of shows currently running or scheduled to open in the next week.

Following last year's presentation of Silk Stockings, Lost Musicals will again dip into the Cole Porter repertoire for its next show, Fifty Million Frenchmen

Pizzarelli and his Big Band came out swingin' in their salute to Sinatra and the 1956 movie, 'High Society'.

In her first outing at the JVC Jazz Festival - Newport, Jane Monheit created her own Newport moment

A.R. Gurney's new play, based on his own 1940's Buffalo youth, is both a charming piece of nostalgia and a sharp commentary on the shrinking significance of the community that raised him

PS Classics, the label dedicated to celebrating the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, has announced plans to release Charlotte Rae's much-loved 1955 solo album, 'Songs I Taught My Mother,' for the first time on CD

A memorial service in celebration of the life of Cy Feuer - legendary Broadway producer, director, composer, musician, and immediate past chairman and long-time president of The League of American Theatres and Producers - has been set for Thursday, September 21st at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre

The Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia has announced its 2006-2007 season, which will feature two classic musicals and a number of world premiere

New York cabaret star Mary Cleere Haran, whose vocal stylings have been compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Doris Day and Rosemary Clooney, will bring her new show 'I Love Lyrics' to Caramoor in Katonah, NY for two performances, Wednesday, August 2 and Thursday, August 3 in the Donors' Dining Pavilio

Arlene Shuler, President and CEO of New York City Center, announced today that the 14th season of its acclaimed ENCORES! series will celebrate the great Broadway revue, a form that flourished from just before 1900 until the early '50s.

The Williamstown Theatre Festival is about to launch Anything Goes, its first Main Stage production of the season; erformances are Wednesday, July 5 through Sunday, July 16

On Sunday 16th July, the King?s Head Theatre Islington will present a very special musical tribute Gala to the theatre?s founder, entrepreneur and producer, Dan Crawford who died last July at the age of 62.

It is with great pleasure and pride that The West Bank Café announces the July, 2006 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre. The West Bank Café is located at 407 West 42nd. St., at Ninth Avenue. For reservations, please call 212.695.6909, between the hours of 12pm and 8pm.

Light Opera Works opened its 2006 season with the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic South Pacific. Winner of 9 Tony awards in 1950 including Best Musical, Book and Score, the story is adapted from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning, 'Tales of the South Pacific.'