Ira Gershwin News

- MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) has announced the lineup for the 35th anniversary season of its famed 'WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE' (WIP) literary series. Under the direction of Steve Lawson, WIP's eclectic five-event program will celebrate the best in drama, literature and song with tributes to Tennessee Williams, Kurt Weill, Cervantes' Don Quixote, George S. Kaufman and an appearance by opera great (and first-time author) Renee Fleming.

Mark N. Grant's new book explores the fall of a once-vital art form.

Rita McKenzie stars in her Acclaimed Award-Winning Off-Broadway Musical 'Ethel Merman's Broadway' Saluting the Queen of Broadway's Golden Age

Review of the all-star concert...

The most interesting suggestion of a show they can secure rights to perform will receive 2 free tickets to any performance on their 2005 schedule.

Co-hosts for the evening will be Julie Andrews and Beverly Sills. Appearances and performances will be by Jane Alexander, Orson Bean, Polly Bergen, Steven Blier, Mario Cuomo, Michael Feinstein, Robert Goulet ,Denyce Graves, Rosemary Harris, Celeste Holm, Audra McDonald, Sylvia McNair, Anna Moffo, Rise Stevens and Kitty Carlisle Hart, plus many more surprise guests.

The classic musical political satire gets a fast and funny re-mounting

Town Hall turns off the mikes for a special concert Sept. 27.

He's gone from being the Phantom and the Scarlet Pimpernel to president of the U.S.

Piano man extraordinaire Mark Nadler, now appearing at Opia, chats with BWW about living and dead composers, Botoxed audiences, his buck-toothed inspiration and the future of cabaret.

Scott Siegel presented an evening of songs written about Brooklyn, by Brooklyn-born composers, or identified with Brooklyn-born singers.

After two years of research and restoration, Musicals Tonight! presents the New York premiere of a lost Gershwin musical.