Date of Birth: February 07, 1883
Date of Death: February 12, 1983 (100)
Birth Place: Baltimore, MD, USA
Herbie Hancock calls her 'a wonderful song stylist,' Melba Moore says that 'She's a reincarnation of Ella Fitzgerald,' and Aretha Franklin proclaims 'If you're looking for good entertainment and very hip music, be sure to check out Nnenna Freelon.
Multi-Tony Award winning theater and Academy Award nominated film producers John N.
Amas Musical Theatre's Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder) will present the Tony Award-Winning musical Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical, by Eve Merriam, with a score by Helen Miller.
NEW THIS WEEK! Best Bet at BSF! New discounts and workshops! Plus news of BPF, Baltimore Black Arts, and a new production of Little Shop of Horrors!
The Marx Brothers, Mae West, Sophie Tucker, Bert Williams, Florence Mills, Eva Tanguay and more are headed your way when Voices of the Town - A Vaudeville Salute! invades the South Street Seaport.
'Voices of the Town -- A Vaudeville Salute!' will invade the South Street Seaport.
For two and a half glorious hours your only care in the world should be deciding which of the magnificent songs you'll be humming on your way out of the theatre.
'Newport '57 Revisited: The Legacy of Ella, Billie & Basie' is the theme of the 2007 Jazz Festival Newport
Rosie Leaves 'The View' and Broadway Musicals Will Suffer
Ringwald Reigns in Baltimore in 'Sweet Charity'
The Marx Brothers, Mae West, Sophie Tucker, Bert Williams, Florence Mills, and Eva Tanguay are among the legends featured as part of 'Voices of the Town -- A Vaudeville Salute!,' which will soon invade the South Street Seaport.
Family fun for all invades the South Street Seaport on Sunday, March 18 and Saturday, March 24 in 'Voices of the Town-A Vaudeville Salute!'.
After a woefully long hiatus, Broadway by the Year has finally returned, and if The Broadway Musicals of 1928 was any indication, its seventh season should be its luckiest yet
Scott Siegel wrapped up the fifth season of the popular season with a trip back to the year of Working, On the Twentieth Century, and Ballroom.
Playgoers looking for a perfect nightcap to an evening on Broadway and late-nighters wanting to start their fun with a blast of energy are well-advised to head for Danny's Skylight Room the next two Saturday nights, where Mary Bond Davis delivers the kind of big, beautiful performance that'll send y
The Autograph Suit, featuring the signatures of dozens of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judi Dench and Ethel Merman, will be auctioned off on eBay to fund a Broadway-bound musical premiering at a Pennsylvania high school
Broadway and Cabaret star Darius de Haas talks about jazz, Vaudeville, and how today's stars were influenced by yesterday's.
Tony award winners Karen Ziemba and Donna McKechnie, Urinetown's Jeff McCarthy, City of Angels's Leslie Denniston, and Tony-nominated Lara Teeter will star in Barrington Stage Company's production of James Goldman's and Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece Follies.
The New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) will continue its season with a program titled At Harlem's Height on Wednesday, February 23 at 8:00pm as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook in the Rose Theatre at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
When presented last year, Darius de Haas' 'Stevie Wonder Songbook' concert at Lincoln Center was a sold-out hit…so he's doing two more shows on February 4th.
