David Engel News

On Sat & Sun, March 21 & 22 - The 25th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.) Honoring Michael Kearns will present two tribute concerts entitled 'The Brothers Gershwin: George & Ira' to benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles.

Musical Theatre West is honored to present a benefit 'First Look' screening of Forever Plaid, the Movie, starring original 'Plaids' Stan Chandler, David Engel and Larry Raben, as well as Daniel Reichard, best known as the star of the Broadway production of Jersey Boys. The event will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach and will feature a screening of the film proceeded by dinner onstage at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center with the cast, a question and answer session following the screening with cast members and production staff including Forever Plaid creator Stuart Ross, and a dessert reception to cap off the evening.

The 25th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event-S.T.A.G.E-will present THE BROTHERS GERSHWIN-GEORGE & IRA as its silver anniversary event on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22 at the Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills. S.T.A.G.E. is the world's longest continuously running AIDS benefit. Net proceeds from the annual event benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), an organization now in its 26th year of providing direct services and HIV/AIDS prevention education throughout Los Angeles County.

Each year, The Drama League's one-night-only gala concert at NYC's famed Rainbow Room boasts an incredible roster of Broadway's biggest and brightest stars, performing favorite songs from Broadway seasons past and present. The musical revue is the highlight of The Drama League's annual benefit gala at Rockefeller Center's breathtaking Rainbow Room.

THE PRODUCERS runs at Musical Theatre West through February 15th. Michael Kostroff, best known as Maurice Levy in the HBO series The Wire is playing conniving theatrical producer Max Bialystock.

Musical Theatre West is delighted to announce the principal cast for its upcoming Southern California regional premiere of The Producers. Michael Kostroff, best known as Maurice Levy in the HBO series The Wire will play conniving theatrical producer Max Bialystock. Michael traveled the U.S. in the first national tour of The Producers, playing twelve roles a night and understudying both Max Bialystock and Roger De Bris, and toured again in Les Mis?rables, as the comically evil innkeeper, Monsieur Th?nardier.

On September 22nd, the 2008 Ovation Award Nominees were announced. Now in its 19th year, the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards will celebrate the 168 theatre companies, 390 registered productions, and over 2,000 individual artists who participated in the September 1, 2007 to August 31, 2008 season

It was an an eclectic crowd that gathered on a sound stage of Sunset's CBS Studios to watch a live performance of FOREVER PLAID as it was being taped for pending movie release.

Audiences can be sure of one thing, they are certain to leave The Andrews Brothers uplifted and tapping their feet to plenty of rich nostalgia filling the theatre, as the show comes off as cheery as a MGM musical...

Ronn Goswick, Executive Producer of The Valley Musical Theatre (now in its second season of operation), announced today that original cast members of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Broadway production of A Chorus Line will co-star Monday, June 23, 2008 in The Line… A Salute to A Chorus Line. Such original Broadway cast members include Kay Cole, Patricia Garland, Sammy Williams (Tony Award), Ronnie Dennis and Nancy Lane who will be joined by join other Broadway A Chorus Line alumni Matt Zarley, Christina Saffran Ashford, Kathryn Wright, Kevin Spirtas and DeLee Lively, as well as cast members Alisan Porter and Brad Anderson from the 2006 Broadway revival, plus touring and regional cast members Theresa Hayes, Tara Radcliffe, Jill Townsend, Geoffrey Kidwell, Laura Nickerson, Russell Nickerson, Luis Avilla, Craig Donnelly, Ty West, Brittany Carson and many more. Los Angeles Ovation Award winner Gerald Sternbach serves as Musical Director.

Artistic New Directions presents Eight New Plays direction by Bob Berky

Award-winning Playwright/Composer CAROL HALL joins Kia Corthron, Jeffrey Sweet, Gary Garrison, Roland Tec, Hilary Chaplain & David Engel, Kristine Niven and Margo Hammond in Artistic New Directions' presentation of 'AN ECLECTIC EVENING OF SHORT WORKS.'

AIDS Project Los Angeles received nearly $350,000 from the 24th annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.), celebrating the music of composer Burt Bacharach, on March 8 and 9 at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills...

The 24th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event-S.T.A.G.E-will present 'Blame It On Bacharach!', a celebration of the magic that is composer Burt Bacharach, on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9 at the Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills.

Award-winning Broadway and cabaret star Jason Graae brought his acclaimed cabaret show 'Graae's Anatomy' back to 'Broadway at Birdland' on October 21 and 22 at 7 PM joined by musical director Alex Rybeck plus Surprise Guests.

White Christmas features music and lyrics by Irving Berlin with book by David Ives and Paul Blake begins a new holiday touring production, produced by Atlanta's Theater of the Stars.

'Fractured Broadway 2' produced by Ronn Goswick, Executive Producer and Director of the Valley Musical Theatre (which just completed its second year of operation), was a sold-out success on June 11, 2007 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA.

Although Graae's Anatomy is making its West Coast debut at the El Portal Theatre, Los Angeles is no stranger to the musical and often comedic styling of star Jason Graae. And that is Graae, like 'blah,' not like that hit ABC show about dysfunctional doctors in Seattle...

Ronn Goswick, Executive Producer of The Valley Musical Theatre (VMT), announced today that a second, all-new production of 'Fractured Broadway' will be presented June 11th at 8:00 pm at the historic El Portal Theatre as a Benefit for the Valley Musical Theatre's programming and educational programs.

Sally Struthers, Adrian Zmed and Vicki Lewis are among the stars set for the first season of California's new Valley Musical Theatre