Lynn Ahrens News

Composer Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, My Favorite Year) attended the opening night performance of A Man Of No Importance at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre in Chicago last night.

Mitchell Marcus and his Acting up Stage troupe have another winner with their breathtakingly simple staging of A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstaurs until March 22. Do not miss this one! * * * * * (OUT OF 5)

The ASCAP Foundation is pleased to announce that six new musical works have been selected for presentation at the annual ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in New York.

Celebrate the genius of Oscar Wilde, the boisterous streets of Dublin and the joys of creating live theatre through this heartfelt story…

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts delves into its renowned collections for Writing to Character: Songwriters & the Tony Awards, the first exhibition to explore the over 70 Broadway shows that have won Tonys for either Best Musical or Best Score.

Based on the exuberant Broadway musical, Seussical will open March 6 and run through May 10 at The Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences

The deadline for submitting scripts and materials for consideration for the New York Musical Theatre Festival's 2008 Next Link Project - the open-submission program that will select more than half of the three dozen new musicals at the 5th annual NYMF in the fall - has been extended one week to March 7. The 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival is scheduled to run from September 15 through October 5 at various venues throughout New York City

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts delves into its renowned collections for Writing to Character: Songwriters & the Tony Awards, the first exhibition to explore the over 70 Broadway shows that have won Tonys for either Best Musical or Best Score.

Ragtime, a brand new concert staging of the epic Tony Award-winning musical and the inaugural production of the Broadway in Concert series at the White Plains Performing Arts Center, performs February 1-3, 2008.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is pleased to announce the Grand Jury for this year's Next Link Project, the writer-service program whose 18 selections will comprise more than half of the musicals at the fifth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 15 through October 5

The BMI Musical Theatre Workshop is a one-of-a-kind program with the soul purpose of fostering creativity in the art of musical theatre, and to provide the footing for tomorrow's composers and lyricists whose music may one day leap from the page and onto the stage. Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist, Maury Yeston, teaches the Advanced Workshop class and shares some of the remarkable history and opportunities BMI offers.

'Homecoming' is the theme of Barrington Stage Company's 14th Season. The theatre that developed and premiered William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on its Stage II in 2004 welcomes home the award-winning Broadway hit to its Mainstage from June 11 through July 12. Long-time BSC director Rob Ruggiero returns to direct Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour, which will play July 17 through August 2. Julianne Boyd will direct Noel Coward's delicious battle-of-the-sexes comedy Private Lives starring Christopher Innvar from August 7 through 24. Private Lives marks the fifth stage collaboration between Boyd and Innvar.

From January 1 through March 1, NYMF will be accepting open submissions for The Next Link Project, through which 18 subsidized production slots in our 2008 Festival are awarded.

The Lincoln Center Theater production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by Mark Lamos and featuring Jonathan Cake, Michael Cerveris, John Cullum, John Pankow, Martha Plimpton and Phylicia Rashad, opened on Sunday, December 2 at 6:30PM at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Busker Alley, the Broadway bound musical starring Tony winner, Jim Dale, will be celebrated at a glorious luncheon and theatrical presentation aboard the Cunard Liner Queen Mary 2, on Friday, November 30

Marc Kudisch soars in The Glorious Ones, as does Liz Callaway at The Metropolitian Room. Also, an update on The Iron Maiden of Broadway.

The hit 1976 film Rocky - the tale of the prize boxer epitomized by Sylvester Stallone - is in development to be adapted as a stage musical. Rocky the musical will feature the skills Tony Award-winning book-writer, Thomas Meehan with songs by Tony Award-winning team Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (composer).

The Lincoln Center Theater production of The Glorious Ones, a new musical with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty and choreography and direction by Graciela Daniele opened Monday, November 5 at 6:45 PM at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The Opening Night Party was held at O'Neals.