Duncan Sheik News

Sydney Theatre Company and Medina Apartment Hotels in association with PowerArts present Spring Awakening a new musical. Book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Music by Duncan Sheik Based on the original play by Frank Wedekind

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to Atlanta. Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will play at The Fabulous Fox Theatre from March 9-14, 2010, and is presented by Broadway Across America - Atlanta as part of the 2009-2010 season.

According to Variety, Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa are set to write a musical adaptation of American Psycho based on the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel. Sheik is set to write the music and lyrics and Aguirre-Sacasa will pen the book.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years opens Tuesday at the Belk Theater in Charlotte, NC.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years opens Tuesday at the Belk Theater in Charlotte, NC.

Celeste Ciulla will replace Mare Winningham in the role of 'Aunt Lily' at the Old Globe's world premiere production of 'Whisper House' beginning February 8 citing 'scheduling reasons' for the replacement. Ciulla last appeared on the Old Globe stage during its 2009 Shakespeare Festival in 2009, playing Volumnia in Coriolanus.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that 'Whisper House' creators Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow have been met with a legal challenge involving New York-based director Keith Powell who claims he was slated to direct the new musical.

Grammy and Tony award-winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik returns with his new album WHISPER HOUSE, from Sony Music. WHISPER HOUSE marks Sheik's first solo album since 2006's critically-acclaimed White Limousine and comes on the heels of the success of Spring Awakening. WHISPER HOUSE, which will have its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in January 2010, is a collaboration with up-and-coming young playwright Kyle Jarrow, already an Obie winner for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook enters Week Two of its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song.

Sydney Theatre Company and Medina Apartment Hotels in association with PowerArts present Spring Awakening A New Musical

Producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman announced the complete Broadway cast of AMERICAN IDIOT today. The production will begin previews on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 and open on Broadway Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at the St. James Theatre (246 West 44 Street).

Grammy and Tony award-winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik returns with his new album WHISPER HOUSE, from Sony Music. WHISPER HOUSE marks Sheik's first solo album since 2006's critically-acclaimed White Limousine and comes on the heels of the success of Spring Awakening. WHISPER HOUSE, which will have its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in January 2010, is a collaboration with up-and-coming young playwright Kyle Jarrow, already an Obie winner for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant.

We've got the first video footage from the World Premiere of Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow's Whisper House. Emmy Award winner Mare Winningham headlines the new musical, Sheik's follow-up to his Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway sensation, Spring Awakening.

The Globe's 4 Month Calendar of events (February - May) is now available.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook enters Week Two of its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song.

Grammy and Tony award-winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik returns with his new album WHISPER HOUSE, from Sony Music. WHISPER HOUSE marks Sheik's first solo album since 2006's critically-acclaimed White Limousine and comes on the heels of the success of Spring Awakening. WHISPER HOUSE, which will have its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in January 2010, is a collaboration with up-and-coming young playwright Kyle Jarrow, already an Obie winner for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant.

Morgan Taylor - illustrator, songwriter, and creator of the Gustafer Yellowgold multimedia "musical moving storybook" concert experience - is hailed as one of today's most original performers on the family music scene. GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD'S SHOW comes home to Brooklyn for a show sponsored by Park Slope Parents at 2:00 p.m on Sunday, February 28 at The Bell House.

Old Globe Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, the inaugural production of the Globe's Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre.

Duncan Sheik is once again set to take the theatre world by storm with the upcoming musical 'Whisper House'; but he's not letting past successes weigh too heavily on his mind. 'Whisper House' marks Sheik's first stage production since his critically acclaimed coming-of-age sensation, 'Spring Awakening'. And while some may feel inclined to surpass the already-high expectations, the clout of Spring Awakening does not add added pressure, '"I don't feel it personally at all," Sheik says in an interview with the San Diego Union Tribune, "Because the intentions of the two things are so different. With 'Whisper House,' frankly, the goals were more modest. Especially initially, it was this slightly small, tight little thing we were doing - hopefully this thing of beauty.

Hit musical Spring Awakening is making its Australian premiere as part of the Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 Main Stage season. The director, Geordie Brookman, was kind enough to sit down and answer a few questions for BroadwayWorld just weeks out from the show's Sydney opening.