Lisa Howard News

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is pleased to announce their first ever Masquerade Ball, a special Halloween edition of The After Party, on Wednesday October 31.

In honor of its upcoming 4th Anniversary on Broadway, the hit musical Wicked will host special 'Wicked Day' celebrations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Boston, where the national tour will be playing at the end of October. Bette Middler hosts special event Sunday October 28, opening 'Friendship Garden'

Jane Olivor, Karen Akers, Marc Kudisch, Liz Callaway, Lari White, Scott Coulter, Jason Graae, Lisa Howard, Steven Lutvak, Chris DiCristo, Julie Garnye, and Carole Schwartz are among today's most talented stars from the Broadway and cabaret scene to honor famed composer Stephen Schwartz in 'A Tribute to Stephen Schwartz' on Friday, October 19 at 8PM at The Town Hall as part of the Third Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival October 19-21, 2007. The evening is directed by Scott Coulter with musical direction by Alex Rybeck.

Naughty! The Musical World of Emmet Taylor Farkas, a new musical comedy by Leo Schwartz, will have its world premiere reading Thursday, September 27 at the Sage Theatre (711 7th Avenue) at 4:30PM & 8PM as part of this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival. Naughty! has been awarded the 2007 NYMF Director's Choice Award.

More stars have signed on to the '4th Meal Productions Benefit Concert,' which will take place Monday, July 2 at 11:30 PM at Joe's Pub

Producer David Stone sought to capture magic in a bottle twice with his Tony Award winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, reuniting the entire original cast for the show's Los Angeles premiere, and judging Sunday's opening performance, his plan was a S-U-C-C-E-S-S...

Producer David Stone has announced that the acclaimed Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, will come to Los Angeles starring its complete original Broadway cast, reunited for the first and only time since the production began two years ago in New York.

On April 23rd, at the Knitting Factory, an exciting mix of young writers, top Broadway talent and world musicians are uniting for a night of song, rhythm and rhyme to raise awareness and funds for Darfur

On April 23rd, at the Knitting Factory, an exciting mix of young writers, top Broadway talent and world musicians are uniting for a night of song, rhythm and rhyme to raise awareness and funds for Darfur.

Celia Keenan-Bolger and Ryan Driscoll discuss the making of the soundtrack for 'Summer of '42' and the original run. The also discuss education, Spelling Bee, getting started with careers and more.

Los Angeles is about to get a taste of Broadway as the original cast of 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' reunites for the upcoming month-long production at the Wadsworth Theatre...

Presented by the New York Musical Theatre Festival as part of its first ever Spring Concert series, 'More Unauthorized Musicology of Ben Folds' took place on Monday, March 26 at 7pm at the Zipper Theatre

BroadwayWorld is offering a $20 discount to the upcoming NYMF concert 'More Unauthorized Musicology of Ben Folds.'

Ashley Parker Angel (Hairspray, ABC's 'Making the Band'), Alan Campbell (Contact, Sunset Boulevard), Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q), Annie Golden (The Full Monty, Assassins), and Lisa Howard ( The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) have joined the stellar line-up of Broadway talent to perform when The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) kicks off its first-ever Spring Concert series with 'More Unauthorized Musicology of Ben Folds' on Monday, March 26 at 7pm at the Zipper Theatre

Tony Award-winners Lea Salonga and Brian Stokes Mitchell, as well as Tony Award-nominee Raul Esparza, joined the cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for one night only as guest spellers at the Bee's first ever 'Broadway Night at the Bee' on Sunday, March 18!

'Silence! The Musical,' winner of the 2005 Fringe Festival award for Outstanding Musical, will hold a staged reading February 5th at the McGinn/Cazalle Theatre.

Broadway legend Julie Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton - both National Ambassadors for Kid's Night on Broadway - joined the gang at The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on stage as guest spellers on Tuesday, January 30th

JARED GERTNER will assume the role of William Barfee (pronounced Bar-Fay) in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE beginning Tuesday, January 30, 2007.

Broadway's top performers will tell the stories and sing the songs that made them famous in 'Gimme a Break,' A Benefit Evening for The Transport Group (The Audience, First Lady Suite) honoring Gilbert Parker

This year's Broadway Unplugged concert may well have been the best of the three: every song and singer were perfectly matched and beautifully performed, and almost no singers were able to leave the stage without being called back for an extra bow