Jacques Brel News

For the first time in the company's history, Ventura's RUBICON THEATRE is transferring a production to the legendary LOBERO THEATRE in Santa Barbara. On the heels of a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at Rubicon's home in Ventura's Downtown Cultural District, the world premiere musical HELLO! MY BABY will play at the Lobero Theatre for three performances only next weekend - May 5 and 6. Described as a 'Tin-Pantastic New Tuner for all ages,' the show is conceived and written by Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner and Tony Nominee Cheri Steinkellner, who is also a longtime Santa Barbara resident. See photos from the production below!

Broadway-bound Constantine Marloulis recently chatted with Fuse about this season's 'American Idol' contestants. Check out what he had to say below!

The Old Globe's 2012-13 Season will feature the World Premieres of two new musicals: Allegiance - A New American Musical by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak. The season also includes George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in celebration of the classic play's 100th anniversary and the World Premiere of a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey and Kirsten Brandt. Two recent Broadway hits will make their San Diego debuts at the Globe: David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People and Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities. Rounding out the season are the West Coast Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's Be a Good Little Widow and the Southern California Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue its Spring 2012 season with the return engagement of award winning vocalist, SHEERA BEN-DAVID.

Something wicked this way comes to the Bickford Theatre as Tony Award-nominee and American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages) joins nearly a dozen Broadway favorites to salute the sinister side of Broadway in the benefit evening Life Upon the Wicked Stage: Broadway's Greatest Villains, Thieves and Ladies of the Evening on Saturday, June 9, 2012, 8 pm, at the Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road, in Morristown, NJ.

Goodspeed Musicals has announced that Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre, known as Canada's "first lady of musical theatre," will take on the coveted role of Mame Dennis in Mame at the Goodspeed Opera House beginning April 20th.

Goodspeed Musicals previously announced that Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre, known as Canada's "first lady of musical theatre," will take on the coveted role of Mame Dennis in Mame at the Goodspeed Opera House beginning April 20th.

New Repertory Theatre announces the encore staging of THREE VIEWINGS by Jeffrey Hatcher at Lane-Comley Studio 210, Boston University Theatre Complex, May 18 through June 3, 2012.

'Dominique Horwitz ist ein Schelm' schrieb ein Besucher in das ausliegende Gastebuch des Tipi am Kanzleramt und recht hat er. Horwitz beweist wieder einmal was fur ein hervorragender Schauspieler, Chansonnier und Entertainer er ist. Mit sehr viel verschmitzten Humor fallt seine Wahl auf die etwas unbekannteren Stucke des großen, franzosichen Sangers Jaques Brel. Nein, Moment: Brel ergeht es ahnlich wie Agatha Christies beruhmten Detektiv Hercule Poirot. Jeder halt ihn fur einen Franzosen, dabei kommen sowohl Poirot und Brel aus Belgien. Ähnlich bedingungslos wie Brel es schaffte in einem Chanson eine ganze Welt zu erschaffen und den Inhalt bedingungslos, ohne Rucksicht aiuf Verluste zu verinnerlichen gelingt es auch dem glanzend aufgelegten Horwitz Brels Stucken Seele, Witz und Tiefgang zu verleihen. Horwitz hat schon einige Erfahrung mit Brel. Dominique Horwitz' intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Jaques Brel beginnt 1984 im Munchner Residenztheater mit seiner ersten Brel-Produktion. 1997 hat dann „Dominique Horwitz singt Jacques Brel" in Hamburg Premiere. 1998 feiert er mit dieser Produktion einen fulminanten Erfolg in der Bar jeder Vernunft.

Alex and Nilusha, Stephen House, Angela Lumicisi, and Rebecca Morton headline cabaret performances during the month of May at the Butterfly Club. The Butterfly Club is located in an oversized dollhouse at 204 Bank Street, South Melbourne, Vic 3205 - Open Tuesday to Sunday, 5pm till late. For more information, visit: www.thebutterflyclub.com.

CBS Radio's popular weekly entertainment segment "A Closer Look at Broadway," hosted by Jim Taylor, currently features George Morfogen and Jim Stanek, who recently joined FREUD'S LAST SESSION at New World Stages as Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis respectively. FREUD'S LAST SESSION is the winner of the 2011 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play and additional productions are already set to open into 2013 in major markets across the nation and around the world. The CBS Radio interview can be heard at http://newyork.cbslocal.com/audio-on-demand/a-closer-look-at-broadway/.

Rubicon Theatre Company Producing Artistic Director today announced the company's new partnership with Crystal Cruises, and the organization's first cruise event, an autumnal adventure aboard the Six-Star Crystal Symphony from the picturesque port of Montreal to the neon lights of Broadway, slated for October 21 to October 31, 2012.

The Cabaret Soirée season is back DownStairs at the Maj every Wednesday to Saturday from 20 June to 21 July 2012 with a line up of national and local cabaret artists headlining five fresh and original shows.

As it continues to explore Yiddish culture in bold, new ways, the Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene brings the internationally acclaimed Israeli theatre artist Mendy Cahan to New York for an exclusive three-show engagement May 19 and 20. The North American premiere of his "A Yiddish Bouquet" performs at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, on Saturday May 19 at 9pm, and Sunday May 20 at 2pm & 6pm. For tickets, which are $35, call the Baruch Performing Arts Center box office at 646/312-5073, or visit www.nationalyiddishtheatre.org.

Playwrights' Arena, described as 'the only theater dedicated to discovering, nurturing and producing original works written exclusively by Los Angeles playwrights,' and the Latino Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) in association with PAE Live! is presenting the World Premiere of MICHAEL PREMSRIRAT'S The Girl Most Likely To, opening Friday, April 20 through Sunday, May 13, 2012.

German cabaret vocalist Ute Lemper and Berlin's Vogler Quartet are joined by pianist and clarinetist Stefan Malzew, as they perform music from the Weimar-era on Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall.

'Peter and the Starcatcher', a new play by Tony® Award-nominee Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), directed by Tony® Award-winner Roger Rees (Nicholas Nickleby) and Tony® Award-nominee Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Pee-Wee Herman Show), began previews on March 28 with an official opening night set for Sunday, April 15, 2012 at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre. As we count down to the opening, BWW invites you to join Peter's online scavenger adventure for the chance to WIN TICKETS to the show! But hurry, you have until Wednesday, April 4 to enter!

Avila Productions, LLC, by special arrangement with Cherry Lane Theatre in association with Jack Sharkey, presents the world premiere of TERESA'S ECSTASY, written by Begonya Plaza and directed by Will Pomerantz.

Paris Days, Berlin Nights es el sugestivo título con el que Ute Lemper ha bautizado su último trabajo. El número 23 si no tenemos en cuenta las bandas sonoras de películas o musicales en los que ha participado. El lanzamiento, el pasado 20 de marzo, coincide con el inicio de una gira norteamericana que empezó hace unos días en el Kennedy Center de Whasington y terminará el 6 de abril en Quebec, deleitando también a los asiduos que la cantante tiene en ciudades como Vancouver, Los Angeles, Toronto y, por supuesto, Nueva York.