Leo Ash Evens News

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) proudly announces the winners of its NYMF Awards for Excellence, selected by an independent jury from the 34 new musicals presented at the 2007 Festival.

Atlanta's Theater of the Stars will present a special 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story at the Fox Theatre from August 21-26, 2007.

Oscar-winner Shirley Jones will be featured in the Pittsburgh CLO's upcoming staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma!,

Max von Essen, Vivian Nixon and more will star in West Side Story for Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, TX

Gypsy, starring Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone in the towering role of Rose, played from August 11th through August 13th at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago

For many years the theater community wondered why Tony Award wining actress Patti LuPone had never been cast as Mama Rose in the various revivals of the legendary musical GYPSY...Finally, the part and the actress were brought together at Ravinia's Music Festival and the results surpassed expectations

Legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim will no longer appear before the Ravinia Festival in Chicago's August 11th performance of Gypsy, starring Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone as Rose.

Full casting has been announced for Ravinia's Gypsy, running August 11th through 13th; in addition, Sondheim will appear for a pre-show discussion on August 11th

Leo Ash Evens is making his Ravinia Festival debut this August as Tulsa in Gypsy, alongside Patti LuPone. He has performed the role of Tulsa twice before, most recently in Houston, TX opposite Andrea McArdle. Evens made his international debut in Moscow, as Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street.

James Donegan, Leo Ash Evens, Kelli Maguire and Julie Reyburn will perform the songs of Charles Bloom in the revue 'I Prefer to Dream' on May 15th

Full casting has been announced for the starry Flopz 2 and Cutz concerts on February 26th, with Laura Benanti, Max Von Essen, Natascia Diaz and Lisa Howard among those set to perform

The Musicals Tonight! concert presentation of Good News will run from November 1st through 12th

But I'm a Cheerleader: The Musical with book and lyrics by Bill August in and music by Andrew Abrams, based on Lions Gate's 1998 cult film by Jamie Babbit and Brian Wayne Peterson, will have its world premiere as part of the second annual NY Musical Theatre Festival.

The first in a series of parties celebrating BC/EFA and the theatre community.

The cast of Broadway's Hairspray performs!

Read about the Artists Showcase series, created in December 2003 to present readings of new musicals, plays and concerts featuring some of the best performers from Broadway, Television and Film.