Jean Claude News

Dick Scanlan, Tony-nominated lyricist and librettist of 2002's Thoroughly Modern Millie, hosted the VIP preview of StageStruck: The Magic of Theatre Design at the Leslie/Lohman Gallery on Tuesday, November 13.

Three Mo' Tenors, currently playing off-Broadway at The Little Shubert Theater, recently celebrated Jessye Norman's 62nd Birthday by singing to the opera diva at Chez Josephine restaurant in Hells Kitchen on September 15.

The acclaimed performance troupe Mayumana will play the final performance of its newest stage spectacle Be at Off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre on Sunday, July 1, 2007, prior to re-embarking on an international tour.

Mayumana welcomed legendary stage and screen star Ben Vereen, who attended a recent performance of the acclaimed rhythm-dance-performance art company's Be.

The internationally acclaimed performance troupe Mayumana is holding open call auditions on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at Off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre

A new block of tickets for Off-Broadway hit Mayumana are now available for performances through Sunday, September 2, 2007.

Peculiar Works Project, the 2007 Village Voice OBIE Award-winning company for its production 'Off Stage: the West Village Fragments' will present the site-specific multi-venue companion piece to the West Village performance - 'OFF Stage: the East Village Fragments.'

This weekend, the Off-Broadway hit Mayumana hits the town, with two free public performances in Manhattan.

Mayumana's Be will begin previews on February 23rd and open on March 13th

Mayumana, the internationally acclaimed rhythm-dance-performance art company from Israel, makes its American premiere with its newest high-energy stage spectacle, Be.

The American Premiere of Maumana's 'Be' will be presented at Union Square Theater this March.

Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. and more attended Americans for the Arts' National Arts Gala on October 16th

The IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, has announced its the 2006 Honorary Award Recipients

On Thursday June 1st, Josephine Baker's adopted son Jean-Claude Baker held a celebratory birthday luncheon in the late chanteuse's honor, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the festivities!

PS Classics, the nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of American musical theatre, will release the world premiere recording of Ricky Ian Gordon and Tina Landau's Dream True on May 23

Dr. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, will lead a talkback on Friday, January 6th following the 8pm performance of the play Fear Itself, Secrets of the White House

Jean-Claude van Itallie's Fear Itself, Secrets of the White House will open on December 11th

The Public Theater, George C. Wolfe, producer; Mara Manus, executive director, announces the New York premiere of THE CONTROVERSY OF VALLADOLID, an exciting new masterwork by French playwright and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière that brings to life the stunning real-life debates of the Catholic Church in the 16th century, as it tried to determine whether or not natives an ocean away were indeed human.

The stately Samuel Tilden Mansion on Gramercy Park, home to The National Arts Club (NAC) was the setting for an elegant soiree for the committee, sponsors and friends of the upcoming Stella by Starlight Gala to benefit the scholarship and outreach programs of The Stella Adler Studio of Acting. The Gala will be held at The Pierre Hotel, November 8.