Lou Rawls News

The Friend Center at the The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) today announced details of its comprehensive Performing Arts programming for 2008/09. The eclectic array of performances in intimate Kanbar Hall will include solo performances by luminaries such as Bebe Neuwirth, Phoebe Snow and Arlo Guthrie, and five fascinating thematic series: Abracadabra: an exploration of the conjuring arts and Jewish tradition; a salute to American icon Leonard Bernstein; an Italian Jewish film series; Let the Games Begin, a series of sports related programming; and Evolve, part of a city-wide celebration of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday

Disco diva and Grammy Award winner, Thelma Houston, will once again grace the Teatro ZinZanni fabled spiegeltent as the legendary hostess from September 25 through January 11, 2009.

Broadway Actress and Producer Paige Price has been named Artistic Director for Theatre Aspen where she will launch her inaugural season in June with Little Shop of Horrors. The rest of the summer season will include Rounding Third, and Crimes of the Heart. Price, who starred on Broadway in Saturday Night Fever, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Smokey Joe's Café, first discovered Theatre Aspen when she appeared in their 2007 production of The Last Five Years.

Due to popular demand, Chicago's Entertainer Ron Hawking will once again extend his new show The Men and Their Music at Chicago's Mercury Theatre. Tickets for a new block of performances from September 14 through October 28, 2007 are currently on sale. Tickets for performances through December 31 go on-sale Friday, October 5

Ron Hawking again extends his new show 'The Men and Their Music' at Chicago's Mercury Theatre through October 28.

110 In the Shade cast member and Gypsy of the Year Robe-winner Devin Richards made his nightclub debut at the Metropolitan Room, June 4th, 2007, in 'My Own Voice - An Evening with Devin Richards.'

110 In the Shade Cast Member and Gypsy of the Year Robe-winner Devin Richards will make his nightclub debut at the Metropolitan Room, June 4th, 2007, in My Own Voice - An Evening with Devin Richards.

Sterling's Upstairs, located at Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City, CA., will celebrate its one year anniversary in June, 2007

Paige Price will star in her show 'The eX-Files' on Friday, February 16th at 8 p.m. at the Fairfield Theatre Company in Fairfield, CT.

Priscilla Lopez, Mandy Gonzalez and Karen Olivo will star in In the Heights, which is now set to open Off-Broadway on February 8th

The Council of Actors Equity Association announced the election of Paige Price to the position of First Vice President

Sterling's Upstairs, the all-new supper club at Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City, CA. has announced a September roster of performers that includes Toni Morrell, Renee Laramore, Demars and Reins, Nelson Kole and Nita Whitaker

Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, are psyched to announce LEGALLY BLONDE, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Previews begin on March 30, 2007 and opening night is set for April 26, 2007 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. LEGALLY BLONDE will play a world premiere, pre-Broadway engagement in San Francisco at The Orpheum Theatre January 2007.