Kathy Sommer News

Check out photos from The New York Pops's celebration of the centennial of Gershwin’s masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue here!

Listen to Beth Leavel on 'No I Don't,' the second single from the concept album Regretting Almost Everything.

With the start of another new year, we all look for a fresh start. Regretting Almost Everything, featuring Tony Award winner Beth Leavel as Anne, and Tony Nominee Jeff Blumenkrantz as her husband Clay, is the story of a middle-aged woman in search of a new beginning.

Singer-songwriter Anthony Nunziata has accomplished the impossible: a great Christmas album of all-new music.

Clayton Opera House is officially open for the summer! A lineup of upcoming musical performances, as well as speakers, has been announced, kicking off on June 4.

Today (May 3) in live streaming: Charlayne Woodard is Live at the Lortel, Lily Rabe is exploring Shakespeare, and more!

Feinstein's/54 Below will shine bright this Wednesday, February 5th at 9:30pm, with a star-studded cast set to perform new works by female composers and lyricists in support of Maestra Music.

Bright stars of Broadway perform a rockin' evening of musical theater by the women who make the music in this industry. Maestra is an organization founded by Georgia Stitt that exists to give support, visibility, and community to female composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, music coordinators, and musicians who are an underrepresented minority in musical theater. It's time for them to be heard.

Bonnie Comley, Founder of BroadwayHD, was the guest speaker at MAESTRA's May seminar at SongSpace. Composer/lyricist and music director Georgia Stitt founded the MAESTRA organization in 2017 to give support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater industry. The MAESTRA membership is made up of female-identifying, non-binary, and gender non-conforming composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, rehearsal pianists and other musicians who are underrepresented minorities in musical theater. Songwriter and composer, Kathy Sommer, moderated the seminar.