Howard Ashman News

Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story for the ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner, Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater and a compelling book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs, including 'Under the Sea,' 'Kiss the Girl' and 'Part of Your World.'

Just in time for Valentine's Day, The Players Club of Swarthmore presents the botanical, sci-fi, musical comedy love story Little Shop of Horrors, Feb. 9-24, for 10 performances on the PCS Main Stage at 614 Fairview Ave., Swarthmore. Eddie Donlevie directs along with musical director Pat D'Amato and choreographer Emily Aaron Fishman.

Today, the East Jefferson General Hospital Broadway in New Orleans at the Saenger Theatre announced its line-up of shows for its 2018 - 2019 season, presented by the New Orleans Theatre Association. HAMILTON will play its New Orleans engagement March 12 - 31, 2019, and anchor the Broadway in New Orleans season with six other shows. Along with one special option, the new season represents a wide range of Tony Award® winners and song-and-dance favorites for New Orleans audiences to enjoy.

Serenbe Playhouse is excited to announce TRASH TO TREASURE: Building the World of Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID. Green theatre will take on a whole new meaning as Serenbe Playhouse builds an entire underwater world made completely from recycled materials. Bottles, cans, caps will come to life to create a magical world for Ariel and her friends to tell their tale!

Mena Massoud, who will star as the title role in Disney's live-action Aladdin film, has posted on Twitter that filming has wrapped. The movie is set to release in summer 2019. Check out the tweet below!

Disney's Beauty and The Beast, The Broadway Musical has been extended at CASA 0101 Theater, 2012 E. First Street (at St. Louis Street), Boyle Heights, CA 90033 through Sunday, January 28, 2018. Conrado Terrazas, Executive Producer of TNH Productions and Emmanuel Deleage, Producer and Executive Director of CASA 0101 Theater announced today: Due to critical acclaim and popular demand, we are very happy to announce that we are extending our production of Disney's Beauty and The Beast, The Broadway Musical for one additional week, until Sunday, January 28, 2018. The production is being presented by CASA 0101 Theater, TNH Productions and El Centro Del Pueblo, in association with Councilmember Gil Cedillo.

It's time to bring art to life with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's 2018/19 season!

The Hendersonville Performing Arts Company proudly presents Disney's Beauty and the Beast, opening February 15th and running through March 4th. Shows will be held on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and on Saturday's and Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

In partnership with Disney Theatrical Productions, Music Theatre International is now licensing an updated version of Aladdin JR.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) has spent the past 50 years serving the Houston community from our first performance at Miller Outdoor Theatre to the more than 300 productions TUTS has staged at Miller, The Music Hall, and now at the Hobby Center. With our 50th Season, we will build upon the legacy, of our founder, Frank M. Young, and confidently step forward into the next 50 years!

Sierra Repertory Theatre audiences have been waiting on pins and needles to learn the title of the company's 2018 opening musical ! Sierra Rep , now in its 39 th year , opens their 2018 Season w ith Mamma Mia ! the smash - hit musical based on the songs of ABBA .

Sierra Repertory Theatre is proud to continue bringing professional arts education to Tuolumne County in its 2018 Season. This year SRT Jr. will present three youth workshop productions, including Disney's Beauty a nd the Beast jr. All SRT Jr. Workshops are lead by qualified professional actors and educators. This year, SRT Jr. Workshops will be directed by local favorite Randi Linee, wh o will also be playing the role of Mrs. Potts in SRT's Mainstage production of Di sney's Beauty and the Beast ! Every SRT Jr.

If Aladdin is not really a Prince, how can he capture the Princess's heart? Well, he can suspend and float a magic carpet in mid-air and take her for a ride on it twice each evening - and that's a pretty tall order for a commoner - through March 31 at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Based on the 1992 Disney animated film, Aladdin the Musical features a street urchin Aladdin (Adam Jacobs) in the fabricated Mideastern city of Agrabah, who hangs out with his buddies Babkak, Omar and Kassim (Zach Bencal, Philippe Arroyo, Mike Longo, respectively) and wastes his time in a life of crime by robbing from the rich in the marketplace, but ... ultima

The Little Mermaid, based on the Disney film and the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson, opened on this day in 2008 at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

Aladdin the 1992 Disney animated feature about a protagonist who strives to overcome great obstacles and fulfill a dream is the magic formula that drives most Hollywood blockbusters. For over 20 years this action-packed love story has delighted audiences with colorful fantasy and lofty fun, earning two Oscars, four Grammys including Alan Menken and Tim Rice's Song Of The Year A Whole New World, and iconic melodies and vocal performances, most notably by the late, great Robin Williams who voiced the Genie.

Faust Theatre is wrapping up the 2016 -17 season that began with The Drowsy Chaperone by Bob Martin and Lisa Lambert, directed by Lily Nicholas, followed by a one-night only performance of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin and Willian Finn, and finished the year with the summer smash-hit of Heathers the Musical by Laurence O'Keefe, both directed by Zach Faust, the latter joined by Frederick Rivera.

Anyone who has driven down Illinois Street lately couldn't have missed the beautiful new future home of Phoenix Theatre! The Phoenix is RISING on the Indianapolis skyline, and all is on schedule to open on time in early May with the 400th Phoenix production, a musical, God Bless, You, Mr. Rosewater with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, and additional lyrics by Dennis Green, based on the Kurt Vonnegut book of the same name.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) presents the beloved classic Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Jr. Join us for a 'tale as old as time!' The fantastical story of transformation and true inner beauty enchants our main stage this December with some of the most popular songs ever written. Based on the original Tony Award nominated Broadway production and the Academy Award-winning motion picture, this classic story of Belle and the Beast who must learn to love and be loved will fill your heart and stir your imagination throughout the holidays. We invite your whole family to 'be our guest' to share in celebrating the love and joy of this timeless tale. Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice. Book by Linda Woolverton. Originally Directed by Robert Jess Roth. Originally Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions.

BroadHollow Theatre's upcoming season includes The Wedding Singer, Cabaret, Singin' In the Rain, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Little Shop of Horrors. Check out more information here!

The show at Media is directed and choreographed by Dann Dunn, with music direction by Ben Kapilow (Delaware County's only professional music theatre features a live orchestra). Check out photos from the production here!