Maurice Hines News

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder), will celebrate its 39th year with a Gala evening on Monday, March 31st featuring a special 'Blast from the Past' concert performance of Mama, I Want to Sing, a star-studded concert of the gospel, pop, and rhythm and blues hit musical that began at Amas in the early nineteen eighties.

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder), will celebrate its 39th year with a Gala evening on Monday, March 31st featuring a special 'Blast from the Past' concert performance of Mama, I Want to Sing, a star-studded concert of the gospel, pop, and rhythm and blues hit musical that began at Amas in the early nineteen eighties.

Representing the print and electronic media, 21 members of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle announced the winners of 36 drama awards and 31 musical awards from 243 nominated actors, designers, productions, and more reviewed in 2007. Over 400 productions were seen in 2007 by Circle critics reviewing theatre from San Jose to Santa Rosa, San Francisco to Concord.

The all African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by multiple Emmy winner and two-time Tony nominee Debbie Allen officially opened on Thursday March 6, 2008 at the Broadhurst Theatre

Feinstein's at Loews Regency continues its Spring 2008 season with the return engagement of the chart-topping R&B and jazz singer Freda Payne. 'Celebrating Ella Fitzgerald,' which runs from February 26 - March 1, is a tribute to the late, great 'First Lady of Song.'

West Side Story celebrates its 50th anniversary at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. Opening on November 20, the production of the celebrated 1957 show revives Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's score and Jerome Robbins' conception and choreography, with a book by Arthur Laurents-who will attend the full dress rehearsal on November 18.

The San Francisco production of the critically acclaimed Blues in the Night will play its final performance on Sunday, October 14 at 7PM having played 71 performances and 7 previews.

Blues in the Night, the jazz-painted, blues-drenched musical now playing at San Francisco's Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street), has been extended through Sunday, October 28 due to popular demand.

'Blues in the Night,' now playing 8-weeks at San Francisco's Post Street Theatre, offers an evening from the loneliest pages of the American song-book performed by three stunning ladies in a dimly-lit hotel.

Sheldon Epps' Blues in the Night began its exclusive San Francisco engagement at Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street) on August 7; ready for its Opening Night on August 15.

Sheldon Epps' Blues in the Night will return for an all-star San Francisco production.

Tony Award winning choreographer Dr. Henry LeTang, who choreographed the movies Tap, Bojangles, and The Cotton Club, died last week in a Las Vegas hospital.

Maurice Hines, Andrew Lippa, Jason Danieley, Euan Morton, Tammy Grimes and Linda Lavin are among the performers who will play the Metropolitan Room (34 W. 22nd St.) in upcoming months.

John Meyer and Judy Blazer, Ken Page and Baby Jane Dexter are among the performers who will appear at the Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street) in January and February.

The Opening Doors Theatre Company's premiere production of their Closing Notice series is the infamous sequel to Bye, Bye, Birdie

Amas Musical Theatre 'As the World Turns' star Elizabeth Hubbard and international dancer and choreographer Sarita Allen will present awards at Amas Musical Theatre's November 13th Gala benefit evening featuring 'Broadway Soul,' a star-studded tribute to America's great jazz composers

Amas Musical Theatre will celebrate its 38th year with a Gala evening on November 13th featuring a special 'Blast from the Past' performance of 'Broadway Soul,' a star-studded concert of song and dance in tribute to America's great jazz composers; Maurice Hines will also be honored

Sunday, July 23rd will be the final performance for the dance musical Hot Feet, which features the music of Earth, Wind & Fire

Catch scenes from Hot Feet now on BroadwayWorld.com and buy tickets during its last week!

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of The Light in the Piazza, which will circle the country for 50 weeks beginning in August