Gower Champion News

Transport Group Artistic Director Jack Cummings III has announced that the company's fourth annual 'Evening With' series will feature a conversation between Mr. Cummings and Broadway legend Tommy Tune on Sunday, June 3, at 7pm at Soho Playhouse,

The two time Tony Award winner makes her return to the cabaret stage with warmth and panache

George S. Irving is featured in Musicals Tonight!'s reading of Kander and Ebb's 1968 musical

A revival of the Jule Styne/Bob Merrill musical 'Some Like It Hot' is confirmed to hit the West End in autumn 2007. The show will be produced by Paul Coxwell and directed by Jerry Zaks, whose impressive Broadway track record includes productions as diverse as 'La Cage Aux Folles', 'Little Shop of Horrors', 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum', 'Smokey Joe's Café', 'Guys and Dolls' and 'The Front Page'.

Full casting has been announced for the national tour of A Dancer's Life, starring Broadway legend and two-time Tony Award-winner Chita Rivera

Broadway legend and two-time Tony Award-winner Chita Rivera will kick off the national tour of her autobiographical Broadway musical Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life at the Aronoff Theater in Cincinnati December 19 - 31, 2006

Come and meet those dancing feet! Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theater is becoming predictably successful at mounting winning productions just in time for the holidays.

Perhaps the next time A Chorus Line is produced on Broadway, a new director will have a wonderful new vision for the material. But since we lost Michael Bennett 19 years ago at the age of 44, why not re-mount a replica his greatest theatrical achievement while we still have his colleagues around to reproduce his original work?

In this first of two parts, The Times They Are A-Changin's musical supervisor talks about collaborating with legends and bringing this challenging show to Broadway.

Ten years after serenading Carol Channing on Broadway and tour, Roger is now waiting on Tovah Feldshuh in 'Dolly!' at N.J.'s Paper Mill Playhouse.

On Sunday night, June 11th, Broadway puts on its biggest show of the year...and theatre lovers on the West Coast will be flocking to the Skirball Center in L.A. for the Actors' Fund Tony Awards Party. The evening will be hosted by Sam Harris and will honor his longtime pal, Liza Minnelli, who will receive the Julie Harris Lifetime Achievement Award. I was lucky enough to catch Liza and Sam together in NY to talk about what is sure to be a great night, their history together and lots more...

star performance needs strong support. Even the greatest of leading ladies can't save a production boggled by misguided choices. It is too bad that Village Theatre's wonky new production of Hello, Dolly! is never able to live up to its delightful star (in her return to Seattle) Peggy O'Connell. With a solidly tuneful Jerry Herman score, a tight book by Michael Stewart, and opportunities for multiple star turns, you would expect this local revival to be a triumph. Sadly, director Steve Tomkins' tendency to gravitate towards the superficial requires O'Connell to make a difficult uphill climb. Stars of her caliber should never be subjected to this chore.

Kate Baldwin, Walter Charles and Jessica Snow-Wilson are among the performers who will join the previously-announced Tovah Feldshuh in the Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of the classic Jerry Herman-Michael Stewart musical Hello, Dolly!, which will run from June 7th through July 23rd, with an opening night set for June 10th

Tony-nominee Tovah Feldshuh will descend the staircase of the Harmonia Gardends in the title role of Hello, Dolly! at Paper Mill Playhouse this summer

Paper Mill's Carnival is given a dark and interesting interpretation by Erica Schmidt

Broadway: The Golden Age Week starts officially on Monday featuring daily, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN footage from Rick McKay's Broadway: The Golden Age Vaults. To kick things off, we checked in with the filmmaker about the success of the film, its upcoming airing on PBS, the sequels and lots more...

Café Carlyle (located in The Carlyle Hotel, Madison Avenue at 76th Street), will present legendary concert artist Barbara Cook in a five-week engagement beginning March 1.

yIn light of the recent closing notice, the dancers of CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER'S LIFE have announced 'THE BROADWAY GIVES-BACK FUND,' whereby they will subsidize the purchase of tickets to the final performances of CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER'S LIFE for students and up-and-coming performers. The show play's its last performance this Sunday (2/19).