Dorothy Loudon News

TV stars Sally Struthers and Eddie Mekka appear in Ogunquit Playhouse's Production of Fiddler On The Rood.

On June 7, 2008, Charles Strouse, the award winning composer of Annie, Bye Bye Birdie and some of the most popular music from the last 50 years of Broadway, film and television, turns 80. To mark the occasion, a year-long celebration of events including concerts, international tributes, revivals of popular favorites and premieres of new works will take place across the United States and around the world.

REVIEW: This classic farce is given the A+ treatment but the faculty and students of Towson University.

Broadway legend Chita Rivera will perform from February 8 - 10, 2008 at the Shaw Theatre in Euston Road as part of a new West End concert series season 'Feinstein's at the Shaw Theatre,' according to WhatsOnStage.com

Eric Schaeffer, artistic director of Signature Theatre, announced today that two-time Tony® winner George Hearn will join another two-time Tony® winner Chita Rivera for Kander & Ebb's musical The Visit - a highlight of Signature Theatre's national Kander & Ebb Celebration in the spring of 2008.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com are especially proud to announce 'Chita Loves Broadway Cares,' a benefit concert starring the renowned and hugely-celebrated performer Chita Rivera, to support BC/EFA. This one-night-only, can't miss show happens on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 7PM, as a very special part of the long-running, critically-heralded concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Feinstein's at Loews Regency will continue their Fall 2007 season with the return engagement of two time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera from November 6 - 24.

Ever-humorous and award-winning performer, Jason Graae returns to the legendary Birdland October 21 and 22 with his acclaimed solo-act 'Graae's Anatomy.' Graae boasts an incredible list of creative arts experience, including turns on Broadway, Off-Broadway and even voiced breakfast-cereal icon Lucky, the Leprechaun! Not to mention his slew of opera credits among most prestigious companies. Join BroadwayWorld.com's own News Desk Editor, Eugene Lovendusky, in a morning phone chat with Jason dialing in from California…

Two new CDs from Masterworks Broadway and PLAYBILL Editors' Choice feature two dozen star turns from performers who were little known on opening night... Click in for the review and for never-before-seen photographs of some of the stars exclusively on BroadwayWorld.com.

WHO: The National Touring Company WHAT: Annie WHEN: Through March 25; Weds - Sat at 8PM, Sat at 2PM, Sun at 1PM and 6:30PM WHERE: Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore HOW MUCH: $25.00 - $65.00 + fees

Win one of five pairs of tickets to Annie's opening night at the Hippodrome, Tuesday, March 20th!

Masterworks Broadway, a label born out of the SONY/BMG merger, has gathered together collection of these 'sleeper' hits sung by some of the theater's most talented performers in its new release, 'Broadway Scene Stealers,' featuring songs sung by supporting characters in musicals.

Andrea McArdle, Bill Berloni, and Shelley Bruce - who were among the original cast members of Annie - are hoping to contact alumni from the original Broadway run of the classic 1977 musical to stage an Annie reunion.

Complete scheduling information has been announced for the New York Musical Theatre Festival

Some of the most acclaimed talents in the cabaret and musical theatre worlds--including Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Mason, Ann Hampton Callaway and Julie Wilson--will gather for 17th Annual New York Cabaret Convention, which will take place at the Frederick P. Rose Hall's Rose Theater of Lincoln Center from October 16th through 20th

Chita Rivera, Zoe Caldwell and Susan Stroman will be among the presenters of the Theater Hall of Fame induction ceremony on January 30th

John Lithgow, Sir Peter Hall, Sada Thompson, William Ivey Long, Graciela Daniele, William Gibson and the late Dorothy Loudon and Ben Edwards are the 2005 inductees of the Theater Hall of Fame

Alene Robertson, Mackenzie Phillips and erstwhile Daddy Warbucks Conrad John Schuck have been cast in the new tour of Annie, which will kick off in Seattle on August 21st

I recently had the chance to sit down with Bruce Kimmel and ask him a plethora of questions. Bruce is used to putting others in the proverbial hot seat on his website - but as they say...turnabout is fair play!