Joe Calarco News

The Helen Hayes Awards honor achievement, celebrate, and promote the Washington D.C. professional theatre.

Becca Ayers is featured as plain(?) Sarah in a revival of the touching and funny family musical based on Patricia MacLachlan's book

THEATREWORKS/NYC is concluding its 2005-06 season with the revival of its hit musical SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL running March 19 - April 30, 2006 at its home at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) presented a one-night-only benefit concert, The Best of Fest Bash, on Monday, February 27 at Dodger Stages and BroadwayWorld was there!

The New York Musical Theatre Festival's starry Best of Fest Bash will be presented tonight, February 27th

John Lloyd Young, currently starring as Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys, had his caricature unveiled at Sardi's Restaurant on Thursday, February 23th.

BroadwayWorld was there at the most romantic concert of the year--the Drama League's star-studded So In Love benefit on February 13th

So In Love: A Night of Romance at the Rainbow Room will be held tonight on February 13th

THEATREWORKS/NYC (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Director; Ken Arthur, Managing Director), the Manhattan-based arm of THEATREWORKS/USA, concludes the 2005-06 season with the revival of its hit musical SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL running March 19 - April 30, 2006 at its home at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street.

Michael Cerveris, Kelli O'Hara, Aaron Lazar, Rachel York and the cast of Jersey Boys will join the stellar cast of So In Love: A Night of Romance at the Rainbow Room, which will be performed on February 13th

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), whose annual three-week celebration has premiered more than 70 new musicals in the past two years, will present a one-night-only benefit concert, 'The Best of Fest Bash,' on Monday, February 27 at Dodger Stages (340 W. 50th St.). Showtime is 7 p.m.

Broadway luminaries Harry Connick Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julia Murney, Mary Testa, Marian Seldes, Richard Easton and Katie Clarke have just been added to the roster of stars appearing in 'SO IN LOVE: A NIGHT OF ROMANCE AT THE RAINBOW ROOM,' the 21st annual spring gala benefit concert for The Drama League on Monday, February 13, 2006 at The Rainbow Room in New York City (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor).

The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President) announces its 21st annual spring gala benefit concert, SO IN LOVE: A NIGHT OF ROMANCE AT THE RAINBOW ROOM, which will take place on Monday, February 13, 2006 at The Rainbow Room (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th FL, NYC). The concert, directed by Joe Calarco (Shakespeare's R&J) and choreographed by Karma Camp (artistic associate at The Signature Theatre in D.C.), will feature performances by some of Broadway's best and brightest, including: Tony Award winners Joanna Gleason (currently in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and Scott Wise (Fosse), Tony nominees Liz Callaway (Baby), Ann Hampton Callaway (Swing!), Euan Morton (Taboo) and Elizabeth Parkinson (Movin' Out), as well as Tina Fabrique (Ragtime), Liz McCartney (Bingo) and Roz Ryan (The Pajama Game). Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman (The Boy From Oz) serves as honorary chairman.

The Arden Theatre Company's production of Sweeney Todd received the most Barrymore Awards, with Elegies: A Song Cycle, Take Me Out, Chasing Nicolette, The Lives of Bosie and more as other winners of the Philadelphia-area awards

Once in a while you have the good fortune of catching a musical in the works that reminds you how wonderful this art form can truly be. Such is the case with the abbreviated concert version of 'Liberty Smith' which had two performances at the Beckett Theatre as part of NYMF.

LIBERTY SMITH, a musical comedy about the American Revolution, will be presented in two readings during the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

LIBERTY SMITH, a musical comedy about the American Revolution, starring Kevin Earley (Thoroughly Modern Millie) in the title role and directed by Joe Calarco, will receive two readings during the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Celia Keenan-Bolger, Hunter Foster, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and other stars have been cast in the eight National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, which will be held on September 25th and 26th

David Southerland (Exec. Dir. of AWOL Theatre Project) gives us the scoop on The Mistress Cycle at NYMF!

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and Executive Director Kathy Evans announced the Directors Slate for its 17th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS, to be held at Dodger Stages.