George Gershwin News

Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell has announced several upcoming concert dates.

KT Sullivan and City Hall Restaurant are set to launch an exciting new 'old time' cabaret venue, Kathleen Downey's Granite Room-'Neath the Sidewalks of New York. Events will be held four successive Thursdays, August 20 and 27, and September 3 and 10.

After sold-out performances of George Gershwin Alone and Monsieur Chopin, award-winning performer Hershey Felder returns to The Cleveland Play House with the culmination of his Composer Sonata trilogy Beethoven, As I Knew Him.

Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and several noted performers will duet with Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell on his new CD, 'At Home with Friends.'

On Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 3:00 p.m., Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra (CJO) begins its 12th Annual Subscription Series with CJO/Gospel Choir Meets Big Band & Selections from the Duke Ellington Concert of Sacred Music, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago.

The Metropolitan Room recently announced its September events.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport is pleased to announce BROADWAY DIVAFEST on Friday August 21, 2009 at 8PM AND BROADWAY SHOW STOPPERS on Saturday August 22, 2009 at 8PM. Both shows will feature Big Broadway talent in the intimate 400 seat setting of the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport. Tickets are ON SALE NOW and are $50. Tickets can be purchased by calling 631-261-2900 or by visiting the Box Office at 250 Main Street, Northport, NY.

The 92nd Street Y announces the 2010 line-up for Lyrics & Lyricists, the 40th anniversary season of 92Y's legendary American Songbook series. DEBORAH GRACE WINER returns for her second season as artistic director of the series, as well as one of the shows. Guest artistic directors are LUCIE ARNAZ, DARYL SHERMAN, ROB FISHER, TED SPERLING and ROBERT KIMBALL.

TheatreWorks' 8th Annual New Works Festival presents the incomparable Broadway and pop star Maureen McGovern in A Long and Winding Road: The Concert. This stunning performance is a tribute to 'the second half of the Great American Songbook,' the music that inspired McGovern before her smash hit, the Academy Award-winning Gold Record, 'The Morning After.'

Mark Nadler, prominent singer/pianist, cabaret performer, and actor brings a new show to The Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, SF July 30-August 2. All shows are at 7 PM. Tickets are $35- $40 and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through www.ticketweb.com or 866 468 3399.

KT Sullivan and City Hall Restaurant are set to launch an exciting new 'old time' cabaret venue, Kathleen Downey's Granite Room-'Neath the Sidewalks of New York. Events will be held four successive Thursdays, August 20 and 27, and September 3 and 10.

American Stage looking for musical directors and accompanists who can lead cabaret events in the new Susan R. Hough Cabaret at the Raymond James Theatre throughout the 2009-2010 season. Upcoming projects include cabarets featuring the music of Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mercer, George Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim and others.

Eighty-Eight Entertainment, Samantha F. Voxakis and Lee Kaufman present Hershey Felder's COMPOSER SONATA at Drury Lane Water Tower Place from November 13th through December 31st in a strictly limited engagement culminating in a special New Year's Eve Presentation of Hershey Felder's The Great American Song Book Sing-A-Long. These tour-de-force presentations, Beethoven, As I Knew Him; Monsieur Chopin and George Gershwin Alone; as well as The Great American Song Book Sing-A-Long, are written and performed by Hershey Felder and directed by Joel Zwick.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport is pleased to announce BROADWAY DIVAFEST on Friday August 21, 2009 at 8PM AND BROADWAY SHOW STOPPERS on Saturday August 22, 2009 at 8PM. Both shows will feature Big Broadway talent in the intimate 400 seat setting of the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport. Tickets are ON SALE NOW and are $50. Tickets can be purchased by calling 631-261-2900 or by visiting the Box Office at 250 Main Street, Northport, NY.

The live orchestra, stunning showgirls and five concert grand pianos that make up Lionardo Piano Follies will thrill audiences of all musical tastes when the act performs at the Suncoast Showroom, July 24, 25 and 26.

Giselle, one of the world's most beloved ballets for the past 150 years, will open the 2009-2010 season for the critically acclaimed Nashville Ballet, October 23-25, at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's James K. Polk Theatre.

Following the run of Beethoven, As I Knew Him, which kicks off the 2009-10 Season at The Cleveland Play House, Hershey Felder will throw a dazzling party for Cleveland audiences with Hershey Felder in Concert: The American Songbook Sing-Along.

Albert Schultz, General Director of the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, today announced the line-up for the second Sunday in Sundays at the Young, a series of day-long festivals that enlivens the Young Centre throughout July and August.

KLEA BLACKHURST - hailed as 'an improbably terrific young performer' by the New York Times - will return to New York with her critically-acclaimed concert, Everything the Traffic Will Allow: The Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman for seven performances at the Snapple Theater Center (210 West 50th Street).

Albert Schultz, General Director of the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, today announced the line-up for the second Sunday in Sundays at the Young, a series of day-long festivals that enlivens the Young Centre throughout July and August.