Edie Brickell News

On April 9 (7pm), join Tony Award Nominee Josh Young and his wife, Broadway Star Emily Padgett at the Green Room 42, as they celebrate the decade that gave us Les Miserables, Phantom of The Opera and Cats - the decade where Stephen Sondheim and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber reached the pinnacle of their creative mastery: the 1980’s.

San Diego Opera's 2021 2022 will close with the West Coast Premiere of Aging Magician a hybrid opera/theatre piece that combines singing, choral work, puppetry, and performance art to create an incredibly unique theatrical experience.

BRIGHT STAR at Hale Center Theater Orem summons a spark of light, joy, and hope in devastating darkness. The entire production is like a warm hug both for those for whom “Bright Star” is a sentimental favorite and the many who are experiencing its delights and heartbreaks for the first time.

Grammy-award winner Edie Brickell's new musical 38 MINUTES has announced the cast of their upcoming industry workshop, taking place on March 5, 2022, in Los Angeles following their successful 2019 reading.

Asolo Repertory Theatre has announced full casting for the world premiere of the new musical KNOXVILLE. KNOXVILLE begins previews on April 15, opens on April 23, and runs through May 11, in the Mertz Theatre, located in the FSU Center for the Performing Arts. 

This might be the first time this show has been done locally, but it's definitely the first time I have seen it. This beautiful show was created by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell. The story is based on a true event, not a true story.

Hale Center Theater Orem is set to produce 'BRIGHT STAR.' The show will play at the theatre from February 25th to April 9th, 2022. Written and composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Bright Star tells the story of Alice Murphy, whose life is forever altered by the small town mentalities of Zebulon, North Carolina, and whose triumphant story of love and forgiveness has become a new musical theater favorite. Bright Star will leave you humming the soaring score for weeks to come!

Hale Center Theater Orem is set to produce 'BRIGHT STAR.' The show will play at the theatre from February 25th to April 9th, 2022. Written and composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Bright Star tells the story of Alice Murphy, whose life is forever altered by the small town mentalities of Zebulon, North Carolina, and whose triumphant story of love and forgiveness has become a new musical theater favorite. Bright Star will leave you humming the soaring score for weeks to come!

After two long years in the making, BRIGHT STAR has finally come to life at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

'Inspired by a true story and featuring the Tony-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway's BRIGHT STAR tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and '40s. An uplifting theatrical journey that holds you tightly in its grasp, BRIGHT STAR is as refreshingly genuine as it is daringly hopeful.'

The Omaha Community Playhouse production of Steve Martin's and Edie Brickell's Bright Star will open Friday, February 4, 2022. The show will run in the Hawks Mainstage Theatre through February 13 with performances Wednesdays through Sundays.

Edie Brickell has penned a new musical called '38 Minutes', which tells the story of her personal experience living through the 2018 false alarm nuclear missile alert in Hawaii.

The Omaha Community Playhouse production of Steve Martin’s and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star will open Friday, February 4, 2022. The show will run in the Hawks Mainstage Theatre through February 13 with performances Wednesdays through Sundays.

TheatreZone, Naples’ professional Equity theatre, is in full swing in February with three engaging productions that each have deep roots in musical history and the powerful talents of renowned musicians.

Nominated for five Tony Awards®, written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell and inspired by real events, Bright Star is a story of enduring hope woven through time and set against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

With two blockbuster musicals, two familiar-and-favorite plays, one world-premier reading of a new musical, and three game-changing contemporary musicals, Fort Salem Theater has something for everyone in their 50th Anniversary Season, just announced for March-November 2022.

Emily Padgett-Young, a veteran of six Broadway shows, recently joined the faculty in the Department of Dance and Department of Theatre in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.

Find out what the most popular plays and musicals were in high school according to Educational Theatre Association’s annual high school play survey.

FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present Carmen Cusack: Baring All on October 22 at 9:45p, October 24 at 7p and October 25 at 9:45p.

Broadway United Church of Christ on Manhattan's Upper West Side will offer the New York debut of 'The Beatitudes of Broadway,' a thought-provoking and entertaining sermon series from Rev. Dr. Michael Piazza, on Sunday, October 3, at 5 p.m.