Idina Menzel, who will appear as Maureen in the upcoming film version of Rent, will be one of the Rent cast members to appear at Bryant Park on August 4th; she will sing 'Take Me or Leave Me' with Tracie Thoms
The 10th anniversary of the epochal rock musical Rent will be celebrated in a benefit performance for the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts, Foundation, Friends in Deed and the New York Theatre Workshop
Sh-K-Boom Records will release the studio recording of Paul Scott Goodman's Bright Lights, Big City on June 21st; Patrick Wilson, Sherie Rene Scott and Jesse L. Martin star
Aretha Franklin, Jesse L. Martin and Bernadette Peters will perform on the 2005 Tony Awards, while numbers from Sweeet Charity, Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and other nominated shows will also be presented
Following a national tour, during which kids and adults alike proclaimed, 'Shakespeare Rocks!,' Love, Shakespeare will be presented by The Acting Company on Saturday, May 14 at 2pm at The Acorn on Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street.
Noted British actress/director/writer Maria Aitkin directs Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) in Terence Rattigan's Man & Boy, which takes place on the eve of a giant merger. Gregor Antonesco, the world's greatest financier, manipulates his estranged son, an obscure jazz composer, into unwittingly playing a part in the old man's latest ethically-questionable business venture.
January 13, 2005…On the 20th Anniversary year of Jay McInerney's novel 'Bright Lights, Big City,' Sh-K-Boom Records has announced that they will release on CD Paul Scott Goodman's rock-and-roll opera 'Bright Lights, Big City' starring Patrick Wilson, Jesse L. Martin, Sherie Rene Scott and other stars of stage and screen in April 2005.
Since I live in New York City, I usually don't take a 'theater vacation'-you know, the eight-shows-a-week type of trip to New York or London. Even when I go to London, theater is just one of the activities on my itinerary. But the last three summers, I have found myself in a summer theater destination and have been appreciating more and more the joy of taking my No. 1 pastime on the road.
