Howard Lindsay News

Jeremy Sams will direct the upcoming London revival of The Sound of Music, opening at the London Palladium on December 5th

Laurence Holzman, Felicia Needleman, Alison Louise Hubbard, Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak have been selected as the winners of the 16th Annual Kleban Awards, which honor achievement in writing for musical theatre

According to a BBC News article, Graham Norton will lead 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?,' a reality show search to find a Maria for an upcoming West End revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music; Andrew Lloyd Webber will also be involved in the search

On May 18th, New Dramatists will present Chita Rivera with a Career Achievement Awrd

The UK press is reporting this morning that Andrew Lloyd Webber is partnering up with the BBC for a talent show to search for an unknown to star as Maria in The Sound of Music.

Stars such as Jennifer Cody, Nora Mae Lyng and Stanley Wayne Mathis will appear in the Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Cinderella, which will run from October 19th through December 4th

Angela Gaylor and Paolo Montalban will star as Cinderella and the Prince in the Paper Mill Playhouse's staging of Cinderella, which will run from October 19th to December 4th

Paige Price (Saturday Night Fever, Beauty and the Beast) stars as Reno Sweeney in the Westchester Broadway Theatre presentation of Cole Porter's 1930's classic Anything Goes from July 7th to September 3rd.

The Westchester Broadway Theatre's production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes will run from July 7th to September 3rd

A 40th anniversary 2-disc DVD of The Sound of Music will be released by Twentieth Century Fox in November

David Javerbaum of the Daily Show has won the 15th annual Kleban Award as the most promising lyricist in American musical theatre