George Gershwin News

Award-winning Lois Walden, Barry Kleinbort and Paul Greenwood will capture the life and legacy of an elusive songbird with 'Why Lee? A Musical Scrapbook About Lee Wiley' on Tuesdays, February 6th and 13th at the Metropolitan Room

Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Barbara Cook will perform the songs of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin as part of January 23rd master class performance at Carnegie Hall

A Broadway run has been confirmed for Gershwin's Porgy & Bess

The high-profile London revivals of Porgy and Bess and Cabaret are extending into fall of 2007

The Ravinia Festival's 2007 summer season will include performances by such Broadway stars as Tony-winners Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lillias White and Heather Headley, as well as a staged concert production of The Most Happy Fella

Angela Lansbury, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kitty Carlisle Hart and more will celebrate the music of George Gershwin at Lincoln Center on November 13th

Beethoven, a new play by Hershey Felder, will have its world premiere at Chicago's Royal George Theatre

Complete casting has been announced for Trevor Nunn's abridged London staging of the Gershwin classic Porgy and Bess, which begins performances in October

The Geffen Playhouse will stage the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (starring Amy Ryan, Joyce Van Patten and Tate Donovan), the world premiere of Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, and the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, which will be directed by the playwright

Clarke Peters and Nicola Hughes will take on two of musical theatre's most famous roles with Trevor Nunn's abridged London staging of the Gershwin classic Porgy and Bess

Opera Pacific will present a full concert version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (October 4-5, 2006) during the opening celebration for the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, which is part of the Orange County Performing Arts Center's expansion

Trevor Nunn's new production of the Gershwins' groundbreaking folk opera Porgy and Bess will receive a Broadway transfer after its London run

Jamie Bernstein, Judy Kaye, the St. Luke's Orchestra and other talents celebrate Leonard Bernstein at Caramoor's International Music Festival

A new production of the Gershwin's groundbreaking folk opera Porgy and Bess--trimmed down from 'a four hour opera to a two-and-a-half-hour musical' will begin performances at the Savoy Theatre in London on October 25th and open on November 9th

The legendary Kitty Carlisle Hart will perform at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre on August 4th and 5th at 8 PM, and August 6th at 3 PM

BroadwayWorld.com and DRG Records are giving away 5 copies of Barbara Cook's latest cd, 'Barbara Cook At The Met'

San Francisco's PBS affiliate, KQED TV9 DT9, has several great up-coming Broadway and theatre-related broadcasts planned for the month of June.

The New York Festival of Song celebrates showtunes by American composers from musicals that premiered in London

Grey Gardens, which recently concluded its sold out World Premiere production at Playwrights Horizons, will open on Broadway this Fall with performances beginning in October at The Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

Matthew Broderick, who was previously announced to star in the Broadway-bound Kenneth Lonergan play The Starry Messenger, will first take the play to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in January of 2007