Michael John LaChiusa News

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has released the new single – a special remix track of the song “Let Them” by Wax Ecstatic – from FANGIRLS: World Premiere Cast Recording. Listen to the single here!

The New York premiere production of Los Otros, a musical in one act with book & lyrics by Tony Award nominee Ellen Fitzhugh (Grind, Paradise Found) and music by five-time Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Giant), will star Luba Mason and Caesar Samayoa.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has announced that “No One Is Alone” – the new single from Eleri Ward’s upcoming album – is available on streaming and digital formats. Listen here!

The Sarah Siddons Society is celebrating its seventieth anniversary with the Siddons at Seventy Soirée, featuring special performances by past award honorees Kate Baldwin and Heidi Kettenring on Monday, July 25, 2022 at Davenport’s.

The Latiné Musical Theatre Lab, an organization that develops and advocates for new Latiné-written works of musical theatre in order to radically change who gets to tell musical stories on stages across the country, is presenting its inaugural Julia de Burgos Cohort.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has announced the release of Trevor (Original Cast Recording) in digital and streaming formats. This coincides with the filmed version of the Off-Broadway production on Disney+. Listen to the album here!

The Mrs. Doubtfire Original Broadway Cast Recording is now available in digital and streaming formats. Mrs. Doubtfire has music and lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick and a book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, the team behind Something Rotten! 

Hosted by Tony Award-winning performer, actress, singer-songwriter, and philanthropist Idina Menzel (“Frozen,” “Frozen 2”) with special guest Auli‘i Cravalho (“Moana”), the live event will feature visuals from “Moana,” “Aladdin,” “Coco,” “The Lion King,” “Mulan,” and other classic stories. Watch a teaser for the new event now!

Jesse Tyler Ferguson has won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for TAKE ME OUT.

Ghostlight Records has announced the release of Mrs. Doubtfire (Original Broadway Cast Recording) in digital and streaming formats on June 22 and is available to pre-save now.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has announced that “Another Hundred People” – the debut single from Eleri Ward’s upcoming album – will be released on streaming and digital formats on Friday, June 17.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS announced that composer, songwriter, and playwright Joe Iconis will welcome a star-studded list of guest performers for his Wednesday, June 22 show at The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles to celebrate the release of Album.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson has won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for TAKE ME OUT. 

Leading the cast will be Katy Williams as Queenie, Christopher Fahmie as Burrs, Keenan J. Harris as Black, and Kristina Jimenez as Kate.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has announced the release of Trevor (Original Cast Recording) in digital and streaming formats on Friday, June 24. A deeply moving and funny story of self-discovery and the power of acceptance, Trevor is about living your best life with a ton of passion… and a touch of pizzazz.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will celebrate the vinyl edition of the Eleri Ward album A Perfect Little Death with a special concert at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) on Thursday, June 9 at 9:30 PM. This encore performance was just added after her June 7 show sold out immediately.

Today’s subject Andrew Lippa is an award-winning composer/lyricist whose work spans all forms of music. On June fourth the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington will present Lippa’s Unbreakable for two performances only at 3:00 and 8:00pm. The event will be performed at The Lincoln Theatre.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Our Town is a triumphant production of vitality, and consequence. Thornton Wilder’s classic—a work that captures the universal experience of being alive—takes on new resonance and depth in the capable hands of an extraordinary ensemble. This play is immediate—one to see and share and talk about.

Broadway's Tony Award-winning original Elphaba, Idina Menzel, stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show for a surprise visit with the Broadway production's current green girl, Talia Suskauer.

Idina Menzel has launched a new clothing line called Encore! Learn more about where you can buy it and to see the latest designs.