Jeff Kready News

Voting is now underway for the Connecticut Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January.

Voting is now underway for the Connecticut Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.

Kready, dressed in full elf garb that incudes candy-cane tights (Margaret Charbonneau, costume design), often reclining in an ornate Santa throne decorated with a background of Christmas trees (Michael Lenaghan, set design), brings personalities to life with recreations of SantaLand moments under the direction of Rob Ruggiero, TheaterWorks' newly appointed producing artistic director.

Voting is now underway for the Connecticut Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.

The SantaLand Diaries is a merrily subversive holiday comedy about an out of work writer who takes a job as an elf at Macy's Department Store writen by David Sedaris and adapted by Joe Mantello. Last seen on Hartford's TheaterWorks stage in 2005, this hysterically funny holiday classic will be directed by Rob Ruggiero. Jeff Kready (Broadway's Billy Elliot and Goodspeed's Carousel) stars as Crumpet, the sardonic Yuletide elf.

Voting is now underway for the Connecticut Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the latest standings below.

Voting is now underway for the Connecticut Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below!

Voting is now underway for the Connecticut Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below!

The SantaLand Diaries is a merrily subversive holiday comedy about an out of work writer who takes a job as an elf at Macy's Department Store writen by David Sedaris and adapted by Joe Mantello. Last seen on Hartford's TheaterWorks stage in 2005, this hysterically funny holiday classic will be directed by Rob Ruggiero. Jeff Kready (Broadway's Billy Elliot and Goodspeed's Carousel) stars as Crumpet, the sardonic Yuletide elf.

It's Saturday, and that means its time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' round-up! Today's photos feature an impressive black-and-white picture of the NEWSIES' 'Oldsies,' WEST SIDE STORY from Japan, EVITA, Goodspeed's CAROUSEL, GHOST's Stephen Carrasco, a BRING IT ON birthday spank, JERSEY BOYS, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE BOOK OF MORMON, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR at TPAC, Zakiya Young in KC Starlight's AIDA, PETER PAN, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES and much more!

Director Rob Ruggierio's production of the classic, like the ups and downs experienced while riding a carousel horse (the carousel is wonderfully recreated for the prologue on the restrictive Goodspeed stage), has moments of delight and some disappointments.

Goodspeed Musicals presents Carousel to the main stage, now playing through September 23 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. Check out the pictures from the opening night cast party below!

Goodspeed Musicals presents Carousel to the main stage, now playing through September 23 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

Goodspeed Musicals presents Carousel to the main stage, now playing through September 23 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. Carousel and will celebrate an official opening night on August 1, 2012. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights from the show below!

Goodspeed Musicals presents Carousel to the main stage, now playing through September 23 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. Carousel and will celebrate an official opening night on August 1, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the dress and dance rehearsals below.

Goodspeed Musicals presents Carousel to the main stage, now playing through September 23 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. Carousel and will celebrate an official opening night on August 1, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production photos below.

Welcome to THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As With Your Favorite Broadway Stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater? Their dream roles? Their Broadway crushes? Read on! In this next edition, we caught up with Nikki Renee Daniels, who is starring as 'Clara' in THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS- currently playing at the Richard Rodgers Theatre!

Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present the Berkshire Playwrights Lab 5th Season Gala Celebration on June 9 at 7:30pm and staged readings of new plays on July 11, July 23, August 8, and August 22 at 7:30pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, Mass.).

Goodspeed Musicals will welcome Carousel to the main stage this summer. The classic Golden Age musical will run from July 13 - September 23 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. Carousel and will celebrate an official opening night on August 1, 2012.

Red Bank Flavour, a culinary campaign driven by the borough's top chefs, restaurateurs and proprietors, presents, in partnership with Two River Theater, Broadway in Red Bank tonight, Monday, April 16. The event will take place at the Two River Theater and include a palatable selection of cuisine from Red Bank's hottest restaurants and a must-see cabaret performance featuring Broadway's rising stars.