Ira Gershwin News

Clarke Peters and Nicola Hughes will take on two of musical theatre's most famous roles with Trevor Nunn's abridged London staging of the Gershwin classic Porgy and Bess

Opera Pacific will present a full concert version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (October 4-5, 2006) during the opening celebration for the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, which is part of the Orange County Performing Arts Center's expansion

Tribute to Gershwins' impressive body of work

Trevor Nunn's new production of the Gershwins' groundbreaking folk opera Porgy and Bess will receive a Broadway transfer after its London run

On July 17th, Jekyll and Hyde's Christiane Noll will host the next 'Monday Nights, New Voices' at the Laurie Beechman Theatre

New York cabaret star Mary Cleere Haran, whose vocal stylings have been compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Doris Day and Rosemary Clooney, will bring her new show 'I Love Lyrics' to Caramoor in Katonah, NY for two performances, Wednesday, August 2 and Thursday, August 3 in the Donors' Dining Pavilio

A new production of the Gershwin's groundbreaking folk opera Porgy and Bess--trimmed down from 'a four hour opera to a two-and-a-half-hour musical' will begin performances at the Savoy Theatre in London on October 25th and open on November 9th

'Gershwin Sings Gershwin' with Alexis Gershwin, July 27-30 at the Stoneham Theatre

The New York Festival of Song celebrates showtunes by American composers from musicals that premiered in London

Sweeney Todd star Patti LuPone will return to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on May 22nd for a benefit concert of 'The Lady with the Torch'

On May 19th, Patti LuPone will perform songs from 'Lady with the Torch' at Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble as well as sign copies of the CD

Encores!'s latest production helps prove this classic and wholly original musical deserves a higher place in the standard American theatre repertory

The Gershwin's 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing opens May 11th at Encores!

Christiane Noll, currently starring in the York Theatre Company musical A Fine and Private Place, is a versatile performer who sees no reason to impose limits on herself--in theatre and in life

The Encores! production of the Gershwins' Of Thee I Sing, starring Victor Garber, Jefferson Mays and Jennifer Laura Thompson, plays May 11th through 15th

Win 2 Tickets to Patti LuPone's 'The Lady with the Torch' one-night-only benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Broadway stars Christine Ebersole and Lewis Cleale have joined the 'Lyrics and Lyricists' Johnny Mercer at the Movies concert, while Sylvia McNair has withdrawn due to illness; the concert runs May 6th through May 8th

BroadwayWorld.com was there as Patti LuPone celebrated the release of her newest recording The Lady With the Torch, released by Ghostlight Records, a division of Sh-K-Boom Records.