Howard Ashman News

Ita??s finally spooky season and ita??s time to get out your best costume to get ready for Halloween!

Playhouse Live has released Page to Stage: Little Shop of Horrors, taking fans behind the scenes of the production that ran at Pasadena Playhouse last year.

Celebrated Performing Artist, Shelly Goldstein, Releases a?oeYou'll Be Gone,a?? a rewrite of Lin-Manuel Miranda's a?oeYou'll Be Backa?? from HAMILTON.

Today's Theater Stories features The New Amsterdam Theatre! Learn about the history of The Ziegfeld Follies, the ghost of a showgirl that haunts the theater, the impact of The Lion King, and more!

Seth Sikes has just released the latest in his series of viral hit videos from Fire Island. Sikes, a critically-acclaimed singer who has performed on stages around the world, stars in 'Belle,' a take-off of the Disney classic film 'Beauty and the Beast.'

Everyone's favorite tale as old as time will be hitting the road in Europe in 2021! 

Weathervane Theatre's inaugural alternating repertory fall season starts this week with a??Little Shop of Horrors a??on Wednesday, September 9 at 7PM and a??Miracle on South Division Streeta?? on Friday, September 11 at 7PM. These productions will run in alternating repertory through October 11th.

Today we rewind to 2014, when Aladdin was getting ready for Broadway. Aladdin opened on March 20 at the New Amsterdam Theatre, where it has played 2506 performances (as of March 15).

 Skylight Music Theatre today unveiled their revised 2020-21 season, with a new line-up of outstanding music theatre addressing the realities of presenting live performances in the time of Covid-19. Skylight is Milwaukeea??s professional music theatre company and located at 158 N. Broadway in Milwaukeea??s Historic Third Ward.

Opera Colorado will present a series of digital performances by its 2019-20 Artists in Residence, An Afternoon of American Song. Now in its fifth year, this program was originally slated for a live performance in March, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

92Y will be presenting free panel discussions with Alan Menken, Jodi Benson, Paige O'hara and more in August.

Little Shop of Horrors has released a snippet on Twitter of Jonathan Groff singing Grow for Me! 

Today's top stories: Madonna is working on a screenplay with Diablo Cody, and more!

If youa??ve never heard of Howard Ashman, youa??re definitely be familiar with his work. A supremely talented lyricist, he worked on Disney classics including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty And The Beast. Howard is a new documentary on Disney+ which tells his (until now) remarkable untold story.

On August 8th, 2020, The Walt Disney Family Museum hosted their first virtual fundraiser - An Evening with Alan Menken.

The original documentary film 'Howard' premieres exclusively on Disney+ today, August 7, 2020. The film, which first premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, follows the captivating LIFE STORY of Disney Legend and Academy Award-winning Lyricist Howard Ashman.

Today's top stories: Oakland Theater Project will present The Waste Land, the first live professional in-person theater production on the West Coast since COVID!

Disney+ is set to release the documentary Howard, the story of lyricist Howard Ashman, on August 7.

On Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26, CVLT will be streaming the archival video of Visiting Mr. Green for a pay-as-you-can admission. For details and advance reservation, visit https://cvlt.org/events/visiting-mr-green

To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Thomas the Tank Engine's first feature film, Rainbow Sun Productions has gathered over 40 talented performers from stage and screen to create an exclusive unique digital event, all benefiting The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a nonprofit organization run by and for autistic people.