Kurt Peterson News

Thursday night was a veritable WHO's WHO of theatre history as Donna McKechnie and her publishers hosted a book party at the National Arts Club, celebrating the release of TIME STEPS - My Musical Comedy Life.

Over a dozen of Broadway's brightest took part in the gender-blind concert Broadway Backwards: Songs of Love and Survival on June 5th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The star-studded benefit concert Broadway Backwards is now fully cast, with Alice Playten, Pam Myers and more having signed on

The Stephen Schwartz children's musical Captain Louie, in which the young boy of the title finds Halloween adventures, will set sail on a national tour in 2006-2007

John Lloyd Young, John Tartaglia and Harvey Evans were among those who turned out for the starry reception of Broadway Bears IX, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Priscilla Lopez, Andrea McArdle and more have joined the starry cast of Broadway Backwards: Songs of Survival and Love, a benefit that will take place on June 5th

Matthew Morrison, Susan Egan and Stephanie J. Block, among others, will be heard on a new holiday CD called Grateful, which will benefit the Joyful Child Foundation

Stephen Schwartz' family musical Captain Louie will open off-Broadway at the Little Shubert Theatre on October 31st

After Tony in West Side Story, Dear World, and Follies, Kurt Peterson left the world of performing. Now he's back producing Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie....

Thirty years after failing to make it to Broadway, The Baker's Wife has been revised into a delectable treat

Captain Louie, a new family musical with music and lyrics by Academy and Grammy-Award winner Stephen Schwartz, will have its world premiere at The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), May 4 - June 12, produced by The York in association with Meridee Stein, Pam Koslow and Kurt Peterson.

Photos from the March 21 benefit which celebrated Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday.

Report and photos from the 12-hour celebration of everything Sondheim, which was held at Symphony Space three days before his 75th birthday.

Bucchino, Buntrock, Esparza, Farrow, Gemignani, Golden, Hammond, Harris, Hathaway, d'Arcy James, Mitchell, Morrison, Nixon, Panaro and more...

The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton and Barbra Streisand (Honorary Chairs), with Young Playwrights Inc. and producers Richard Maltby, Jr., Kevin Stites and Sheri M. Goldhirsch are proud to present 'CHILDREN AND ART,' a spectacular musical gala evening in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday, for one performance only at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, March 21, 2005 (7:30 p.m. curtain), the eve of Sondheim's birthday.