Jonathan Freeman News

'That's So Raven' star Anneliese van der Pol will be Broadway's final Belle in Beauty and the Beast, which is set to close at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on July 29th.

After enchanting audiences for more than 13 years, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the inaugural Broadway musical from Disney Theatrical Productions, will take its final bow at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) on Sunday, July 29th. The Broadway production will have played 46 previews and 5,464 regular performances.

Donny Osmond, who plays Gaston in the show, celebrated his birthday on stage at Beauty in the Beast on Saturday, December 9th.

On Monday, December 18th, at 8pm, the historic Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (the Center) will ring in the season with a one-night-only concert of holiday songs benefiting the Center and Huntington's Disease Society of America

John Tartaglia will be starring as Lumiere in Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, beginning performances on Tuesday, November 21st at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street). Tartaglia is best known for originating the roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q in Las Vegas and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award® nomination in 2004.

A starry cast has been assembled for the Project Shaw reading of Captain Brassbound's Conversion, which will take place at the Players Club on November 20th

The latest star-studded Shaw Project staged reading will feature Sally Ann Howe, Andrea Marcovicci, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Brian Murray and Paxton Whitehead, among others

Tony Award-nominee Mary Testa, last seen Off-Broadway in See What I Wanna See, will take the Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St.) stage for her one-woman show 'A Work in Progress' on October 29th and 30th at 9:30 PM

Tony Award-nominee Mary Testa, last seen Off-Broadway in See What I Wanna See, will take the Joe's Pub stage for her one-woman show 'A Work in Progress' on October 29th and 30th at 9:30 PM

Marian Seldes, Brian Murray, George S. Irving, Barrett Foa, Charlotte Rae and more will headline The Apple Cart, the latest starry staged reading to be presented as part of Project Shaw

A starry cast--including Marc Kudisch, Barrett Foa, Brian Murray and Kate Baldwin--will star in Project Shaw's John Bull's Other Island on July 17th

Encores!'s latest production helps prove this classic and wholly original musical deserves a higher place in the standard American theatre repertory

The Gershwin's 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing opens May 11th at Encores!

The Encores! production of the Gershwins' Of Thee I Sing, starring Victor Garber, Jefferson Mays and Jennifer Laura Thompson, plays May 11th through 15th

Jenny Powers has been cast as Diana Devereaux in the Encores! production of Of Thee I Sing, running from May 11th through 15th

A performance of Encores!' Of Thee I Sing will follow City Center's benefit gala on May 15th

Marc Kudisch, Doug Sills, Rebecca Luker, George S. Irving and Max Von Essen will be among the stars taking part in the Shaw Project's Fanny's First Play on February 27th

Brad Oscar will mark his one thousandth performance as Max Bialystock in The Producers on September 1st

Brad Oscar and Hunter Foster will once again charm audiences as Bialystock and Bloom in The Producers, beginning on July 5th