Deborah Jean Templin News

The nominations are out for the 11th Annual New Hampshire Theatre Awards. Like Broadway has the Tony Awards, NH has the NHTA's. Those awards will be handed out on Saturday January 26th at the Stockbridge Theatre on the campus of Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire. The award ceremony begins at 7pm.

When Jerry Herman was pegged by producer Gerard Oestreicher to write the score for a Broadway musical set in the fledgling State of Israel, he was a 28-year-old composer/lyricist mostly known for writing clever lyrics and snazzy tunes for Greenwich Village topical reviews like Nightcap and Parade.  But now, instead of writing for hip, downtown performers like Charles Nelson Reilly and Dody Goodman, he'd be penning a romantic score for opera stars Mimi Benzell and Robert Weede, with special comic relief material for Yiddish Theatre legend Molly Picon.

When we first meet Rita Lyons, she's sitting in a hospital room casually thumbing through a furniture catalogue, asking her husband, Ben, who lies in bed, dying of cancer, to help her come up with ideas for redecorating the living room after he's gone.

To celebrate the start of its 14th season and its first on Theatre Row, Musicals Tonight has chosen to revive Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey.

To celebrate the start of its 14th season and its first on Theatre Row, Musicals Tonight has chosen to revive Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey.

Cape May Stage, Cape May's Premier professional Equity theatre, opens its 21st season with the fun and endearing regional premiere of Stephen Temperley's Drama Desk award winning play, Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins.

BroadwayWorld.com was there as always to capture the opening night festivities! Performances continue through through March 22, 2009 at the White Plains Performing Arts Center (11 City Place, White Plains), Westchester's professional regional theatre, as part of the theatre's Bank of America Broadway Classics series.

Musicals Tonight Casts Half a Sixpence

The White Plains Performing Arts Center production of Man of La Mancha officially opened Thursday, November 29. This new production of the Tony Award-winning musical based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic tale, 'Don Quixote' is the inaugural production of the Broadway Classics series at the theatre to play through December 16.

Casting has been completed for the forthcoming production of Man of La Mancha at White Plains Performing Arts Center. This is a brand new production of the remarkable, Tony Award-winning musical based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic tale, 'Don Quixote' and will be the inaugural production of the Broadway Classics series at the theatre. It will play November 29-December 16.

Musicals Tonight!'s reading of Lee Pockriss and Anne Croswell's musical version of Oscar Wilde's classic is fun and entertaining.

Casting has been determined for Ernest in Love, which will run March 20th--April 1st at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.

This season's 'Musicals in Mufti' series will begin with Take Me Along, which begins tonight, Friday, October 13th and plays for just five performances this weekend through October 15th

David Schramm, Nick Wyman and more will star in the York Theatre Company's 'Musicals in Mufti' presentation of Take Me Along from October 13th through 15th

Casting has been announced for the Musicals Tonight! concert production of Schwartz and Dietz' The High Life, which will run from October 18th through October 30th