Harvey News

Daytime Emmy Award winner Joseph C. Terry has been named director of the upcoming nationally syndicated program “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” it was announced today by Tracie Wilson, Executive Vice President, Creative Affairs, NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution.  

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has announced the creative team that will shape its epic production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Parts One and Two, running September 4 a?" October 6.

Molly Lynch is currently in rehearsals for “Rodgers and Hammerstein (& Me Too)” which she brings to The Bread and Roses Theatre from July 30th - August 3rd fresh from a run of The Light in the Piazza” where she understudied the role of Clara and went on to great acclaim.

Then you want Newsies - refreshing, inspirational, a huge feel-good show for the whole family, and the perfect opener for the ninth Broadway Series at Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora.

Actress/playwright/stand-up comedian Nancy Redman returns to the United Solo Theatre Festival with her new one-woman show At Wit's End: A Home for Retired Comics, directed by Bill Cosgriff, Saturday October 19 at 2 PM at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street.

She's practically perfect and she's flying onto the stage at Columbia Children's Theatre (CCT).

The Melbourne season cast for the epic, award-winning immersive theatre show A Midnight Visit has been announced, starring eleven multidisciplinary performers of scintillating local and national talent. With the show being praised for its dauntless innovation and visionary disruption of traditional theatre, the cast will be pushing at the frontiers of contemporary performance in Australia.

Today, The 24 Hour Plays, in partnership with The New School for Drama, announced the company for The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. 

Theresa Caputo, from TLC's hit show Long Island Medium, will be appearing live at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30 p.m. Theresa will share personal stories about her life and explain how her gift works. She will deliver healing messages to audience members and give people comfort knowing that their loved ones who passed are still with them, just in a different way.

WGN America announced today that 'Dog's Most Wanted' will kick-off THE HUNT when the unscripted series premieres Wednesday, September 4 at 9/8c. In this new series, Duane 'Dog' Chapman and the late Beth Chapman will be supported by a ferocious team of hunters Dog calls 'The Dirty Dozen.' Together they will go on a cross-country manhunt to track down a carefully curated list of Dog's Most Wanted fugitives. In their personal lives, the series tackles the family's most difficult fight as their beloved matriarch Beth Chapman bravely fights - and tragically loses - her battle with cancer.

Theresa Caputo, from TLC's hit show, Long Island Medium, will be appearing live at Shea's Buffalo Theatre on Saturday, November 30 at 7:30pm.

Final casting has been announced for the Turbine Theatre's inaugural production, Torch Song. Alongside the previously announced Matthew Needham (Arnold), Daisy Boulton (Laurel), Dino Fetscher (Ed) and Rish Shah (Alan), are Jay Lycurgo (David) and Bernice Stegers (Ma).

Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019 today unveils its line-up for Chingfest, a free celebration of music held at Ridgeway Park, Chingford on Saturday 31 August. Chingfest's diverse and contemporary programme supports Waltham Forest's year-long ambition of encouraging young people to engage with culture in the borough.

After a sell-out, world premiere performance at the 2019 Midsumma Festival, cabaret icons Mama Alto and Maude Davey return to the stage with the next iteration of Gender Euphoria as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival from 15 - 20 October in The Famous Spiegeltent on Arts Centre Melbourne's Forecourt.

For me, it's always the same: I'm asked to adapt a novel, I get all excited, have all these ideas… Then I read the source material and think, "Wow. Follow that." So it was here. Jane Eyre was the first time I'd been asked to adapt a novel by a female writer. I was honoured… and nervous. I knew the book; I'd read it when I was younger, purely for pleasure. Coming to it as a playwright was entirely different, I'd say - you're looking for ways to weave a satisfying theatrical structure as seamlessly as possible into a beautiful, revered text without losing the quality of the character work or the richness of the world created within its pages.

Michael Sterling, BroadwayWorld's LA On Air Host and Co-Producer for BWW TV and Jerry Evans of JLE Media in Los Angeles spent the day at rehearsal for Hollywood Bowl's upcoming, new production of Into the Woods.

Singer-songwriter Mandy Harvey, who stole America's heart on America's Got Talent in 2017, will release her much-anticipated major label debut album, Nice To Meet You (SRG/Universal) this Fall. She released her first single from the CD, “Release Me”, in June and is touring on the west coast of the US until the end of July of 2019, returning to the road in October.

PBS today unveiled its fall slate including new performance specials from Great Performances.

When it comes to Tony Award snubbing, there are several artistic high crimes and misdemeanors. For instance, Fiorello! winning Best Musical over Gypsy, or the good Music Man besting the better West Side Story. Or how about this awful upset: Two Gentlemen of Verona (the since-forgotten musical) beating both Grease and Follies for the top honor. Perhaps worst of all is this: Even though A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM was Stephen Sondheim's first and most successful Broadway show as a composer and lyricist, and even though it would win six of its eight nominated Tony Awards in 1962-1963 (including Best Musical), Mr. Sondheim himself was not even nominated for his lyrics and score. A show that features some of the most beloved comic songs from the early 1960's--'Comedy Tonight,' 'Lovely,' and 'Everybody Ought to Have a Maid'--wasn't even nominated for these iconic numbers. (For the record, Oliver! won that year for Best Score.) Broadway's greatest composer would have to wait almost a decade to receive his first Tony Award.

A new production of the 1966 Tony Award-Winning musical I Do! I Do! is to run at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in London this Autumn.