Michael Abbott, a long-time television, film, and theatre producer who produced the first New York production of Stalag 17 in 1951, died of cancer on Thursday January 24, 2008 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 81.
Kathryn Crosby film, television and stage star brings her one-woman show to the El Portal Theatre for a limited holiday engagement. Bing Crosby is remembered by Kathryn Crosby in 'Holidays with Bing & Kathryn,' with Musical Director Edward Sayegh at the piano. Produced by dear friend Dolores Hope, the show will be performed in preview November 21 and continuing Friday, November 23, Saturday, November 24 at 8PM and Sunday, November 25 at 3PM. at the El Portal Theatre located at 5269 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood.
San Francisco's KQED has several great Broadway and theatre related broadcasts for the month of November including 'Singin' In The Rain' and two Great Performances!
San Francisco's KQED has several great Broadway and theatre related broadcasts for the month of September including a two-part series on Barbra Streisand and a special on Leonard Bernstein!
A reading of The Puma, a new play by Julie Gilbert and Frank Evans, will star two Tony-nominees as two legends; Daphne Rubin-Vega will play Marlene Dietrich and Marc Kudisch will be seen as Erich Maria Remarque in the private reading, which will be presented on March 23rd
Karen Ziemba, Phylicia Rashad, Chuck Cooper and Nancy Anderson will appear in the Actors' Fund benefit reading of the musical version of It's a Wonderful Life on December 12th
On December 12th, Brian Stokes Mitchell, David Hyde Pierce, Lauren Ambrose and Dominic Chianese will star in the Actors' Fund benefit reading of a musical version of It's a Wonderful Life