Ed Kleban News

On Friday February 1 at 10:30PM, 'The After Party' welcomed Katrina Rose Dideriksen and Luke Grooms, from the recent production of Jerry Springer: The Opera - In Concert, plus 2007 Ed Kleban Award Winner and 2006 Jonathan Larson Award winner Joe Iconis!

Tonight, Friday February 1 at 10:30PM, 'The After Party' is thrilled to welcome Katrina Rose Dideriksen and Luke Grooms, from the recent production of Jerry Springer: The Opera - In Concert, plus 2007 Ed Kleban Award Winner and 2006 Jonathan Larson Award winner Joe Iconis!

The BMI Musical Theatre Workshop is a one-of-a-kind program with the soul purpose of fostering creativity in the art of musical theatre, and to provide the footing for tomorrow's composers and lyricists whose music may one day leap from the page and onto the stage. Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist, Maury Yeston, teaches the Advanced Workshop class and shares some of the remarkable history and opportunities BMI offers.

The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is proud to announce the debut of The BMI Workshop Songbook Podcast, a podcast series of never-before-heard songs by members and alumni from the Tony honored workshop. The podcast can be accessed at www.bmi.com/fridayatfour

The West Bank Café announces our January 2008 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

'The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree,' an evening of tunes by musical theater writer Joe Iconis, will play The Laurie Beechman Theater on November 25 at 7PM.

And then there is Lisitza herself, who performs alternately with wide-eyed innocence and wide-eyed intensity as each song demands, unabashedly throwing herself into each number with gusto...

The York Theater Developmental Series will present a free reading of Plastic! The Musical.

Legally Blonde writers Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin chat with BroadwayWorld in our Tony Award nominee interview series!

Songwriter Steven Lutvak, joined by three guest stars, will return to The Duplex on Sunday, April 22nd at 8 PM for a special one-night-only concert.

The Actors' Fund has announced a number of upcoming Special Performances benefiting the organization.

The 2007-2008 season at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, which was announced today by CTG's Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, will be a yearlong celebration of the best in musical theatre.

The Broadway shows Company, The Little Dog Laughed and A Chorus Line will put on special benefit performances for The Actors' Fund, the national aid organization for everyone in entertainment

The ASCAP Foundation honored composer Marvin Hamlisch with the Richard Rodgers Award during its 11th Annual Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, December 6

The ASCAP Foundation will honor composer Marvin Hamlisch with the Richard Rodgers Award during its 11th Annual Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, December 6

Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, are psyched to announce LEGALLY BLONDE, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Previews begin on March 30, 2007 and opening night is set for April 26, 2007 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. LEGALLY BLONDE will play a world premiere, pre-Broadway engagement in San Francisco at The Orpheum Theatre January 2007.

Lonny Price will direct Mary Pat Gleason's one-woman show Stopping Traffic, which will open Off-Broadway on June 7th

We checked in with the star, who's currently in Los Angeles for her latest news, and the scoop on what it's like to make the transition from stage to the small screen.