Westport Country Playhouse presents Judy Kaye re-creating her Tony Award-nominated Broadway role as the tone-deaf diva Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir, at Westport Country Playhouse, May 31 through June 16.
The new NJN documentary to air on PBS next season, 'Words and Music by Jerry Herman,' by award-winning filmmaker Amber Edwards, has been selected to screen at the 9th Annual Sarasota Film Festival on Saturday, April 14 at 2:45pm and Sunday, April 15 at 1pm
Ravinia Festival Chairman Michael E. Lavin and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2007 season of music theater and dance events.
Carol Channing, Jerry Herman, Amber Edwards and the Actors' Fund's Joe Benincasa recently attended a screening of Amber Edwards' film Words and Music at the Camelot Theatre in Palm Springs.
The Lambs Club hosted a private preview screening last night of the new NJN/PBS documentary - Words and Music by Jerry Herman, a film by Amber Edwards.
The New York Philharmonic presents Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady in four semi-staged performances, March 7-10, 2007. The musical - a New York Philharmonic premiere - will star Kelli O'Hara, Kelsey Grammer, Charles Kimbrough, Brian Dennehy, Marni Nixon and Tim Jerome.
The 36th Annual Theater Hall of Fame ceremony will be hosted by Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad, with Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes - the stars of the upcoming Terrence McNally play Deuce - among the presenters
David Gurland, the multi award winning and out gay vocalist, will present his most ambitious performance series to date, 'The DGUR Concerts,' on the third Sunday of each month, starting January 21st.
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
Lisa Jolley, who is currently on Broadway as Hairspray's Prudy Pingleton, has brought her successful one-woman improvised musical comedy 'Jolley On The Spot' to Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction for four Mondays in October
Actors Patti LuPone, George Hearn and Elizabeth Wilson, playwright Brian Friel, costume designer Willa Kim and scenic designer Eugene Lee, as well as late playwrights August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein, will be inducted into the 2006 Theater Hall of Fame
Angela Lansbury and George Hearn, both of whom were seen on Broadway during the original run of Sweeney Todd, will reunite for a performance of 'A Little Priest' as part of the Kennedy Center's 35th Anniversary Celebration on May 7; three Les Miserables stars and others will also take part
Ms. Cohenour is currently doing double duty on Broadway as Signora Naccarelli and Margaret Johnson (on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings) in the smash musical The Light in the Piazza.