Edward Kleban News

Los Angeles' Reprise Theatre Company today announced it's 2010-2011 season, which features three classic American musicals at UCLA's Freud Playhouse: 'They're Playing Our Song' (September 28 to October 10, 2010), with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and book by Neil Simon, and starring Jason Alexander, the company's Artistic Director; Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 'Gigi' (February 15 to 27, 2011); and Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me, Kate' (May 10 to 22, 2011), with book by Samuel and Bella Spewack.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Bass Concert Hall in Austin for a limited one-week engagement May 11-16, 2010. Tickets are on sale now.

A Chorus Line - Presented by the Napa Valley Opera House, featuring an all-student cast from Napa Valley and beyond.

A Chorus Line - Presented by the Napa Valley Opera House, featuring an all-student cast from Napa Valley and beyond.

Today, May 4, BMI has announced that the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop is now accepting applications for membership. This unique writing program is dedicated to the development and discovery of bookwriters for the musical theatre. The deadline for applicants is May 15. The application can be downloaded here.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center for eight performances, May 4-9, 2010.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE will end its run Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center in Dayton May 2, 2010.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Bass Concert Hall in Austin for a limited one-week engagement May 11-16, 2010. Tickets are on sale now.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center in Dayton for a limited one-week engagement April 27 through May 2, 2010.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to Clowes Memorial Hall, April 20-25, 2010 as a Broadway Across America 09/10 Season presentation. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased from an authorized ticket agent online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com, by phone at 1-800-982-2787, or in person at Clowes Memorial Hall, The Murat Theatre and the Broadway Across America Box Office downtown at 342 Massachusetts Avenue.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE will return to Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre for a strictly-limited two week engagement, June 1-13, 2010.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to Clowes Memorial Hall, April 20-25, 2010 as a Broadway Across America 09/10 Season presentation. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased from an authorized ticket agent online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com, by phone at 1-800-982-2787, or in person at Clowes Memorial Hall, The Murat Theatre and the Broadway Across America Box Office downtown at 342 Massachusetts Avenue.

According to Variety, Peter Mills and Barry Wyner will be awarded the 2010 Kleban Prize in Musical Theater on June 21. Each will receive a prize of $100,000 at the ceremny which will be held at ASCAP.

Just in - NEXT TO NORMAL has one the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! As per the official Pulitzer's web site: For a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center for eight performances, May 4-9, 2010.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly announces the premiere of ROCK ODYSSEY, a spectacular theatrical production that will be seen by every fifth-grader in the Miami-Dade County Public School System. In total, more than 26,000 fifth graders will participate in the pilot program, which was created by the Adrienne Arsht Center in conjunction with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The show will afford young people the opportunity to experience live theater in Miami's premier performing arts center, at no cost to them or their schools. ROCK ODYSSEY will run from April 27 - May 8, 2010 in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall. This arts education program is made possible with the generous support of Miami-Dade County and additional funding from Funding Arts Network.

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists in all categories will be announced on April 12, 2010 at 3 p.m. Eastern daylight time. Finalists are not announced in advance. The 2010 Prizes are awarded for work published, produced or premiered in 2009.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center in Dayton for a limited one-week engagement April 27 through May 2, 2010.

Village Players Theater will be finishing this year's New American Classics season on its Mainstage with Christopher Durang's 'The Marriage of Bette and Boo'. Directed by Artistic Director Dan Taube, the show opens May 15, 2010.

A Chorus Line, running through March 28, is Michael Bennett's brilliantly complex fusion of dance, song and compelling drama and is a celebration of the American Musical itself. It features the achingly poignant ambitions of professional Broadway Chorus performers-the over-dedicated, underpaid, highly trained, unsung heroes who back up the stars-and is a powerful metaphor for all human aspiration.