Ezra Jack Keats News

Stageworks presents the adventurous tale of a young man and his imagination, Captain Louie by Anthony Stein based on the beloved children's book The Trip by Ezra Jack Keats at Mesa Arts Center January 29 through February 7, 2010.

Mesa Arts Center announces its Spring 2010 Performing Live Season with diverse acts that will excite patrons of all ages. For country fans, music legend Merle Haggard will perform his #1 chart topping songs. For classical music lovers, reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman is returning for an unforgettable performance.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) announces an exciting lineup of plays for children and young adults for the 2009-10 season where the page comes to the stage. The season begins Sept. 25, 2009 with Nancy Carlson's 'I Like Me' and concludes Aug. 1, 2010 with 'Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka.'

TADA! Youth Theater, one of the City's best known children's musical theaters, will celebrate their 23rd season with a family musical and theater/dance piece. The theater will perform Adventures From Ezra Keats: Maggie and the Pirate & Apt 3.

The Stephen Schwartz children's musical Captain Louie, in which the young boy of the title finds Halloween adventures, will set sail on a national tour in 2006-2007

Stephen Schwartz' family musical Captain Louie will open off-Broadway at the Little Shubert Theatre on October 31st

After Tony in West Side Story, Dear World, and Follies, Kurt Peterson left the world of performing. Now he's back producing Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie....

Captain Louie, a new family musical with music and lyrics by Academy and Grammy-Award winner Stephen Schwartz, will have its world premiere at The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), May 4 - June 12, produced by The York in association with Meridee Stein, Pam Koslow and Kurt Peterson.

Oscar-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz talks about children, the arts, and the New York Musical Theatre Festival.