Jonathan Larson News

Next month, Broadway Speaks OUT! Will be kicking off their new educational outreach program featuring a bevy of industry leaders.

In conjunction with the New York premiere production of The Hidden Sky, Prospect Theater Company will host an afternoon symposium featuring scholars and artists, including the show's creators. The discussion will focus on the relationship between mathematics and music, the historical conflict between science and religion, and other ideas explored in this new musical.

Musical theater writers Joe Iconis and Michael R. Jackson present a stripped down night of their incendiary tunes. No rock band, no cast of thousands- just the boys and a piano and their music.

Theatre Out, Orange County's gay and lesbian theatre, presents Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical TICK, TICK...BOOM!. Recalling the life of composer Jonathan Larson in the years leading up to the creation of RENT, TICK, TICK...BOOM! is a deeply personal look at the courage required to follow your dreams through life's most difficult challenges. The show will play its final performance on February 20.

Tonight at Joe's Pub, musical theater writers Joe Iconis and Michael R. Jackson will present a stripped down night of their incendiary tunes. No rock band, no cast of thousands- just the boys and a piano and their music. A couple of special guest stars (including the raw Molly Hager and the ragged Jason 'SweetTooth' Williams) will join the boys for a concert that is sure to shock, bother, offend, and titillate.

Newmusicaltheatre.com, the first website ever exclusively devouted to selling sheet music by musical theatre writer, adds Jeremy Schonfeld'd sheet music catologue today.

Jim Caruso will present Larson Award-winning songwriters Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk in concert at Birdland on Monday, March 1 at 7pm. The event is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series, which showcases performers and songwriters from the Great White Way.

Michigan's long-running Barn Theatre has been forced to cancel the remaining productions in its 2009/2010 season due to budgetary constraints. The theatre, which has been a staple in Michigan, providing theatre for more than 60 years, has been home to some of Broadway's biggest names including Jonathan Larson, Marin Mazzie, and Tom Wopat.

The 6th Street Playhouse is holding auditions for its upcoming production of "RENT," co-directed by Elizabeth Craven and David Lear, with musical direction by Justin Pyne. 'RENT' will be presented in the GK Hardt Theatre from May 28 to June 27, 2010.

In conjunction with the New York premiere production of The Hidden Sky, Prospect Theater Company will host an afternoon symposium featuring scholars and artists, including the show's creators. The discussion will focus on the relationship between mathematics and music, the historical conflict between science and religion, and other ideas explored in this new musical.

Musical theater writers Joe Iconis and Michael R. Jackson present a stripped down night of their incendiary tunes. No rock band, no cast of thousands- just the boys and a piano and their music.

Jim Caruso is proud to present Larson Award-winning songwriters Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk in concert at Birdland on Monday, March 1 at 7pm. The event is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series, which showcases performers and songwriters from the Great White Way.

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director) and Snap-Two Productions' will begin performances of the new musical Signs of Life this Tuesday, February 16, 2010.

A STELLAR cast has been signed to present the Auckland season of RENT -- one of the world's most controversial and successful musicals - a scorchingly hot modern take on Puccini's La Boheme.

The Connecticut community theater premiere of the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical RENT has been extended for a fourth weekend! Originally running weekends until February 28, the Opera House Players have added performances on March 5, 6, 7 due to unprecedented advance ticket sales.

Jonathan Larson Award Winning composer Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews have been invited to workshop their new piece, WITNESS UGANDA, alongside Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Godspell) as part of the Disney/ASCAP Workshop. Schwartz has described Witness Uganda as 'a new form of musical theatre...breathtaking.'

The Broadway Boys, a collection of the hottest male voices currently working on the New York stage, will present a concert of Broadway favorites, on Sunday, February 14, 3 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.

Jim Caruso is proud to present Larson Award-winning songwriters Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk in concert at Birdland on Monday, March 1 at 7pm. The event is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series, which showcases performers and songwriters from the Great White Way.

The American Theatre Wing has announced new guidelines for its long-standing Theatre Company Grants Program.

The Opera House Players are proud to present the Pulitzer and Tony Award Winning Musical RENT by Jonathan Larson from February 12 - 28, at the Broad Brook Opera House, 107 Main Street, Broad Brook, CT. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm.