Kate Baldwin News

The 92nd Street Y continues the 2009 season of Lyrics & Lyricists with DAVID ZIPPEL as host and artistic director of It Started with a Dream, February 21-23. Subtitled David Zippel - Lyrics He Wrote, Lyrics He Wishes He Wrote, the Tony award-winning, Oscar-nominated lyricist of City of Angels and Disney's animated Hercules and Mulan, presents highlights from his own scores and shares his inspirations and personal favorites from the American Songbook. The show features an all-Broadway cast, including vocalists KATE BALDWIN (Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Full Monty), KEVIN EARLEY (A Tale of Two Cities, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Les Mis?rables), Tony Award-winner DEBBIE GRAVITTE (Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Chicago, Les Mis?rables), DANNY GURWIN (Little Women, Urinetown, The Full Monty), and Tony Award-winner LILLIAS WHITE (The Life, Dreamgirls, and. the voice of 'Calliope' in Hercules). One of the most acclaimed and sought-after lyricists working today, David Zippel's other credits include the Broadway musical The Goodbye Girl (written with Marvin Hamlisch and Neil Simon), The Woman in White (with Andrew Lloyd Webber, for which Zippel won another Tony nomination) and the musical stage version of Wendy Wasserstein's bestselling children's book, Pamela's First Musical, written with Wasserstein and City of Angels collaborator Cy Coleman. Series artistic director Deborah Grace Winer, in her first season at the helm, notes that this is the first time in over 25 years that L&L will devote an entire show to a contemporary Broadway songwriter at the height of his career--a return to the spirit in which L&L was founded, with the living lyricist as an active participant.

Kate Baldwin has replaced Christine Ebersole as the musical illustrator for A Conversation with STEPHEN SONDHEIM. This event is Moderated by Sean Flahaven, With Musical and Accompanied by SCOTT CADY. The event will take place on February 4, 2009. Stephen Sondheim, musical theatre icon, discusses his 50-year career as a composer and lyricist for stage and screen. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award and multiple Tony, Drama Desk and Grammy Awards, he wrote the music and/or lyrics for such hits as Assassins, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and West Side Sondheim will be joined vocalist Kate Baldwin, Sean Patrick Flahaven, Associate Editor of The Sondheim Review, who will moderate this very special evening.

IMDB.com is reporting that Katie Holmes, who plays her final performance today in All My Sons is already making plans to return to the Great White Way. The film site reports that she's 'bagged the lead' in a musical version of the film Finding Neverland.

Producer Howard Panter for Ambassador Theatre Group and co-producers Tulchin/Bartner/Jenkins, Bill Kenwright, Northwater Entertainment, Darren Bagert, and Tom Gregory announced the complete cast and design team for the new Broadway production of the greatest musical comedy GUYS AND DOLLS. The first joint Broadway project by two-time Tony Award winning director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo since their collaboration on the Tony Award winning musical Jersey Boys, GUYS AND DOLLS will begin previews on February 3, 2009 at Broadway's newly refurbished Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). Opening Night is March 1, 2009.

Nicholas Martin brings his new revival of the Joe Masteroff/Sheldon Harnick/Jerry Bock musical She Loves Me to the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Presented in association with Boston's Huntington Theatre Company, She Loves Me will play the Main Stage from June 27 - July 12, 2008.

Final show in Artistic Director Nicholas Martin's eight-year reign at The Huntington plays up the jaunty style but sacrifices the sentimental substance of Bock and Harnick's musical gem

Nicholas Martin brings his new revival of the Joe Masteroff/Sheldon Harnick/Jerry Bock musical She Loves Me to the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party announces 'Georgia Stitt and Friends' Monday, May 26, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

On Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7.30 PM an all-star cast will take to the stage for a one-night-only benefit gala performance of 'Comden and Green's New York'. All proceeds from the event will benefit Greenwich House Music School.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com, the leading source for exclusive theater information and live-events tickets nationwide, are proud to announce GEORGIA STITT & FRIENDS Monday, May 26, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

The cast of 'A Little Night Night Music' at Center Stage performs at a student matinee.

Seventeen different stage productions were honored at the third annual Kevin Kline Awards ceremony. Ten St. Louis area theater companies - double the number of last year's recipients - were recognized with awards. Four of those ten theaters were multiple award winners.

Actors in the Baltimore production at Center Stage discuss their work.

REVIEW: CENTERSTAGE's starry revival of A Little Night Music opens triumphantly in Baltimore.

Centerstage has announced the casting for its upcoming production of A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's bittersweet masterpiece of musical romance. Directed by Mark Lamos, whose revival of Shakespeare's Cymbeline recently completed a limited Broadway run, A Little Night Music features an award-winning cast led by stage and screen veterans Polly Bergen, Stephen Bogardus, Barbara Walsh, and Maxwell Caulfield.

The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE), a panel of critics from media outlets around the state of Massachusetts, have announced the nominees for the IRNE Awards honoring the best of the 2007 Theatre Season. North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) received 17 award nominations honoring performances and creative teams who worked on NSMT's critically acclaimed 2007 Musical Series.

Twenty-four theater companies in the St. Louis area received 118 nominations in 22 different categories. Forty-five different productions received nominations; twenty-five productions receive multiple nominations the Awards Ceremony will be held on March 31 at the Loretto-Hilton Center

Ending it's run on January 5th, here are some photos from the Toronto production of White Christmas!

Toronto loves its theater and always has a diverse selection available throughout the year. This winter theatergoers to Broadway's north is no exception with such musicals as 'Sweeney Todd' (an international Tour featuring Judy Kaye alongside revival cast member's Lauren Molina and Benjamin Magnuson), Queen's jukebox spectacle 'We Will Rock You', Dirty Dancing' and the holiday appropriate, 'White Christmas' which features several well-known New York based performers such as (married in real life) leads Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the holiday musical featuring the classic songs of Irving Berlin, is playing the Sony Centre in Toronto through January 5, 2008. It opened on November 30.