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Audra McDonald & More to Launch PTown Memorial Day Weekend 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 3, 2022

Historic six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald, star of Broadway’s The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Carousel, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill and HBO’s The Gilded Age, opens the Town Hall series on May 29 with Seth Rudetsky as music director and host.

American Lyric Theater to Stage Three New One-Act Operas
by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 7, 2022

American Lyric Theater (ALT) announced today InsightALT: Opera in Eden, a performance featuring three new one-act operas on themes of temptation developed by Resident Artists in the company’s nationally acclaimed Composer Librettist Development Program. ALT’s current Resident Artists (Composers Jasmine Barnes, Johanny Navarro, and Alex Weiser; and Librettists Joshua Banbury, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, and Marcus Yi) were selected from over 200 applicants to join the CLDP this season. Opera in Eden, which is the culminating event of the first year of these artists’ residency, will take place at National Sawdust in Brooklyn on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 at 7:00pm.

American Lyric Theater Presents INSIGHTALT: OPERA IN EDEN
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 6, 2022

American Lyric Theater announced today InsightALT: Opera in Eden, a performance featuring three new one-act operas on themes of temptation developed by Resident Artists in the company's nationally acclaimed Composer Librettist Development Program.

Winners of 2022 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 28, 2022

The winners of the 2022 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Both musicals received Staged Reading Awards.

BWW Album Review: FLYING OVER SUNSET (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Shimmers Beautifully But Leaves Us Grounded
by David Clarke - Mar 4, 2022

FLYING OVER SUNSET had the kind of pedigree that made it a must-see show. Yet, many of us missed it. Masterworks Broadway offers theatre lovers a window into the production with FLYING OVER SUNSET (Original Broadway Cast Recording). Despite its beauty, the album exposes why the show shuttered so quickly.

Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, Stephanie J. Block & More Announced for P-Town Art House Summer 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 2, 2022

Mark Cortale, Producing Artistic Director of Provincetown’s Art House Theatre, has announced his largest and most ambitious lineup of music and comedy superstars for this summer’s 2022 season.

FLYING OVER SUNSET Original Broadway Cast Recording Out Today
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 18, 2022

Today, Sony Masterworks Broadway has released FLYING OVER SUNSET (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING), an album of music from the Lincoln Center Theater production. 

Bernadette Peters, Richard Maltby, Jr. & More to Appear at 32nd Annual Kleban Prize Ceremony
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 17, 2022

The Kleban Foundation will present the 32nd annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre in a virtual ceremony streaming online at Broadway On Demand starting Monday, February 21 at 7PM.

Broadway Streaming Guide: February 2022- Where to Watch THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL & More New Releases!
by Michael Major - Feb 6, 2022

Check out what's coming to streaming this month, including new additions to Seth Rudetsky's concert series, Flying Over Sunset, the SIX alternates' concert at 54 Below, Sweet Magnolias season two and the highly-anticipated fourth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel!

Ricky Ian Gordon's THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS Featured Virtually At The Calandra Institute At CUNY
by Stephi Wild - Feb 1, 2022

New York City Opera's world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's opera The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, will be represented by librettist Michael Korie on a virtual panel at the Calandra Institute at CUNY on February 1, 2022 at 5pm ET.

The Garden of The Finzi-Continis
by - Jan 31, 2022

Special Offer - The Garden of The Finzi-Continis

BWW Review: GARDEN OF FINZI-CONTINIS at City Opera-NYTF Is Too Much of a Good Thing
by Richard Sasanow - Jan 29, 2022

Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie, in their new opera for New York City Opera and National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene, weren’t the only ones to be inspired by the famed 1962 novel THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS (IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI CONTINI) by Italian Giorgio Bassani. The film version, by Vittorio De Sica, won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1970, running half the time of the opera. Still, it is the novel that excited them all.

New Release Date Announced for FLYING OVER SUNSET Cast Album
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 28, 2022

The original Broadway cast album of the Lincoln Center Theater production of Flying Over Sunset will now be released digitally February 18, 2022 and on CD April 1, 2022. 

Recipients of 2022 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 27, 2022

The Kleban Foundation is celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre with the announcement of the 2022 prizewinners. The Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to César Alvarez (they/them).

Chip Zien & Sierra Boggess Will Lead The Cast of Barry Manilow Musical HARMONY At Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 25, 2022

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene today announced that musical theatre icons Chip Zien and Sierra Boggess will lead the cast of the acclaimed musical Harmony by the legendary Barry Manilow and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman in March 2022. At the helm will be

BWW Opera Preview: If You're Dreaming of Live Opera, Here Are Some to Think About This Spring
by Richard Sasanow - Jan 18, 2022

Can we talk—about live opera in New York and elsewhere on the East Coast in the coming months?

New York City Opera Live-Streams Preview Of 'The Garden Of Finzi-Continis' at The Italian Cultural Institute Of New York
by Stephi Wild - Jan 14, 2022

New York City Opera (under the direction of Michael Capasso, General Director) will present a preview of its latest world premiere of a new American opera, Ricky Ian Gordon's THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director, Dominick Balletta, Executive Director) on Friday, January 14, 2022 at 6pm at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.

4 Broadway Shows Take Final Bow Today
by Team BWW - Jan 16, 2022

Today, January 16, Broadway says goodbye to four beloved productions. Flying Over Sunset will conclude its run at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre following 28 previews and 35 regular performances; Clyde's wraps up at the Hayes Theatre following 24 previews and 61 regular performances; Ain't Too Proud finishes it's almost three-year run at the Imperial Theatre after 21 previews and 488 regular performances; and To Kill A Mockingbird pauses performances at the Shubert Theatre following 45 previews and 626 regular performances.

New Dates Announced For World Premiere Of THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 10, 2022

Now opening January 27, New York City Opera will produce its latest world premiere of a new American opera, Ricky Ian Gordon's THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

Broadway Streaming Guide: January 2022 - Where to Watch THE GILDED AGE & More New Releases!
by Michael Major - Jan 8, 2022

Although it may be a new year, several classics are returning to streaming services, giving Broadway fans the perfect throwback binge list, along with HBO's star-studded The Gilded Age series and new additions to Seth Rudetsky's online concert series. Check out what you should stream this January!

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