Lilli Cooper News

NJ PAC will present Story Pirates SLEEP SQUAD, a family-friendly, interactive, virtual theater experience. Featuring brand new, unique, kid-driven comedy and music, this world premiere on-demand production creates a new kind of post-dinner, pre-bedtime ritual for kids ages 4 to 12.

Far from being musical heresy, R&H Goes Pop! instead serves as a reminder of how Rodgers and Hammerstein were at the forefront of musical theatre during their time, and how their music is truly timeless.

R&H Goes Pop! features the brightest Broadway stars performing and honoring the Rodgers & Hammerstein catalog with unique and inventive takes, ranging from pop and rock to R&B and country. The 15-track album features reinterpreted takes on iconic songs from Rodgers & Hammerstein's hit Broadway musicals.

Marc Tumminelli, Founder and Director of Broadway Workshop and Artistic Director of Project Broadway, has earned himself a new title as the creator and host of “LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway.'

Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals have announce the digital release of the R&H Goes Pop! album. To celebrate, a new music video featuring Andy Mientus (CW’s “The Flash,” NBC’s “Smash”) performing a new take on “Some Enchanted Evening” was released today.

In celebration of the R&H Goes Pop! album drop this coming Friday, March 26, the video of Ariana DeBose’s pop-fueled reimagination of “Shall We Dance?” has been released.

Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases, including Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero, Once On This Island on orange vinyl, R&H Goes Pop!, and more!

Keen Co Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced new guests for upcoming evenings of the FREE event, Keen After Hours: Heidi Armbruster & Paul Niebanck, who share the distinction of working on the most Keen productions, on April 5th, joining the previously announced Nick Blaemire tonight, March 22nd followed by Dan Domingues on March 29th.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization announced today that their popular R&H Goes Pop series will be released as an album from Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals on Friday, March 26

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces SLEEP SQUAD, a family-friendly, interactive, virtual theater experience from The Story Pirates and Tony Award-winning producer Eva Price (Jagged Little Pill, Peter and the Starcatcher), available for purchase over a two-week period beginning March 29 through April 11, 2021.

Ann Harada (Avenue Q, “Smash”), Jennifer Ashley Tepper (The Untold Stories of Broadway, Feinstein’s/54 Below), and more are the latest guests to appear on theatre and entertainment podcast DRAMA. with Connor & Dylan MacDowell.

Broadway composer Drew Gasparini, in association with the Broadway Podcast Network, has welcomed Rachel Zegler on this week’s episode of NOW WE'RE TALKING with DREW GASPARINI. 

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Presents SLEEP SQUAD, a family-friendly, interactive, virtual theater experience that turns your home into a rocket ship to launch kids into their dreams. 

Telly Leung (Allegiance, Rent), Constantine Rousouli (Cruel Intentions, “Charmed”), and Anthony Lee Medina (Hamilton, Spring Awakening) are the latest stars to appear on theatre and entertainment podcast DRAMA. with Connor & Dylan MacDowell.

Within the first few lines of the opening song of Salad Days, the mini-musical already tells you exactly what it’s going to be: a delightful, deliberately modern comedy that lightly pokes fun at the markers of urban millennial life.

Broadway composer Drew Gasparini, in association with the Broadway Podcast Network, welcomes Brittany Holljes of the band Delta Rae on this week’s episode of NOW WE'RE TALKING with DREW GASPARINI. The podcast is available today.

The Story Pirates will release their fourth family music album, The Strawberry Band, on April 2nd. Every song on the adventurous mock concept album was inspired by a kid’s idea, including today’s first single, “Fun Crazy Weird Hair Store,” by a 9 year old named Sylvia from New Jersey. 

Broadway composer Drew Gasparini, in association with the Broadway Podcast Network, is welcoming Bonnie Milligan on this week’s episode of NOW WE'RE TALKING with DREW GASPARINI. 'Bonnie Milligan and I simply don’t trust the Disney character Aladdin.  And BOY do we make sure to talk about it,'

In honor of Black History Month, Britt Mack (Six the Musical) and Kyle Taylor Parker (Kinky Boots, Smokey Joe’s Cafe) are the latest stars to appear on theatre and entertainment podcast DRAMA. with Connor & Dylan MacDowell. The podcast has recently released a series of episodes with 2020 Tony nominees.

RED BULL THEATER today announced that its 2020-21 offerings will continue later this month with a FREE benefit reading of Hannah Cowley’s The Belle’s Stratagem, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. The event will star Tony Award nominee Lilli Cooper and Tony Award winner Santino Fontana.