Jeff Kready News

Beth Craig Hall, Founder and Director of ACT Louisville Productions (ALP), announced today that she, in collaboration with ALP Instructor Sara Gettelfinger, has assembled a panel of Broadway professionals to evaluate and give feedback to the young performers who will be working on their singing, acting, and dancing skills during three week-long camps.

Ten award-winning and nominated Broadway and television stars will be joining New York City theatre students for a free livestream musical performance with arranged music by Dan Pardo (Company at Barrington Stage, Netflix’s John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch) who is providing instrumental accompaniment throughout the production.

Symphony Space has announced its 2021 Gala, the organization’s first event featuring live performance in its Peter Jay Sharp Theater since March 2020. Artists who have made Symphony Space their home will celebrate their return to the Sharp Theater stage with a concert of soaring songs and captivating dance.

Kaufman Music Center's education/enrichment programs are taking center stage in April's world premiere online streams. Conrad Tao's ongoing Performance as Process series reveals the composer/pianist's creative process as he prepares for his Ecstatic Music concert in May (April 28).

Fellowship for Performing Arts will present Easter Passion, an online experience of Jesus' last days through Scripture and song, premiering Palm Sunday, March 28. Joining award-winning actor Max McLean are Broadway artists Nikki Renée Daniels, Alan H. Green, Jeff Kready, Telly Leung, Diane Phelan, Marty Thomas, and Kay Trinidad.

Kaufman Music Center’s virtual Broadway Close Up performances will continue this spring with two intimate lecture-concerts exploring the lives, careers and music of Kay Swift and one of the longest-running collaborations in show business history, Fred Ebb and John Kander.

92Y has announced Lyrics & Lyricists Preludes: THE THEME FROM…: SONGS WRITTEN FOR FILM, hosted by Tony- nominated actor Beth Malone, and featuring appearances from Nikki Renée Daniels, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kara Lindsay, Julia Murney, and more!

There's no doubt Nikki Renee Daniels can put on an excellent performance! Check out some of her past gigs before this week's Birdland concert on Thursday, November 19 at 7pm ET!

The Broadway Podcast Network will present an all-star Halloween party to benefit the Broadway Cares Covid-19 Emergency Assistance Fund on October 28th at 9p.m. EST. Tune into the Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors Broadway Halloween Party.

92Y has announced Nikki Renée Daniels and Jeff Kready have joined the ensemble for Lyrics & Lyricistsa?? Preludes and Beth Malone narrates the new online autumn season for the American Songbook series, with five concerts filmed on the stage of 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall.

Rather than gathering in person for an event this year, the non-profit organization's leadership and staff have been hard at work creating a virtual fundraising event, An Evening With Starlight - The Sky's the Limit, to premiere on Starlight's Facebook and YouTube pages @kcstarlight on Saturday, October 10 at 7 p.m.

More than a dozen Broadway performers, and special guest Voices of Service, are participating in a virtual concert to honor the Town of Garner during Independence Day celebrations.

The Broadway Podcast Network is presenting the finale of the all-star comedy podcast, Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors, written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen and directed by Greenberg.

On Monday, June 1 (4 - 8 pm EDT), the entire Kaufman Music Center community will come together for a Day of Musical Action, a special online event featuring performances by students and faculty from all of the Center's programs, including Special Music School, Lucy Moses School, Face the Music and Luna Composition Lab.

Goodspeed has shared footage from its 2012 production of Carousel, featuring the song 'When The Children Are Asleep'!

Broadway Podcast Network will present a new radio play, Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors.

The York Theatre Company as part of its 50th Anniversary season celebration, will present a special benefit New York premiere concert performance of the new musical Blue Roses with book adaptation and lyrics by Mimi Turque and music by Nancy Ford, based on The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, for ONE NIGHT ONLY, Monday evening, April 6, 2020 at 7:00 p. m. at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).

It was announced today that the Tony-nominated musical TOOTSIE will play its final performance at at the Marquis Theatre on Sunday, January 5, 2020.

In honor of National Author's Day today, November 1, TOOTSIE has partnered with The New School's College of Performing Arts to launch a playwriting contest for its students. Participants must submit a new, original 5-minute comedic play with the title a?oeWho Are You?a?? based off a TOOTSIE song of the same title. The winner of the contest will receive a private writing consultation with Tony Award-winning book writer Robert Horn.

Tootsie cast members celebrated the release of their cast recording with a live performance and a CD signing at Barnes and Noble on September 10.