Michael Portantiere News

Roust Theater Company offers $10 Holiday Ticket Special for Thanksgiving Weekend on MACBETH- Directed by James Phillip Gates.

CASTRONAUTS, or How I Killed Fidel, a revolutionary new musical by Bobby Houston, Patricio Bisso and Randy Courts, will receive its world premiere as part of this year's 5th annual New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Directed and choreographed by Will Pomerantz, Castronauts runs September 16 through 28 at the Zipper Factory.

Accomplished Dancer from TV show You Think You Can Dance Joins Cast of Altar Boyz

The Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre celebrated the opening of its newest musical, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (Or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower), featuring libretto and drawings by acclaimed cartoonist Ben Katchor and music composed by musician Mark Mulcahy, on Tuesday, February 12 at Osso Bucco on Unversity Place.

Theater for the New City held its fifth annual 'Love 'n' Courage' gala - hosted by Elaine Stritch, with guest including Edward Albee, Bill Irwin, Marian Seldes, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and singer/songwriter Amanda Green - on Sunday February 10 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South) in New York City.

The Town Hall's first-ever Summer Broadway Festival presented 'A Night at the Operetta,' on Monday, July 16, at 8pm

Camera and laptop in hand, BroadwayWorld Artistic Director Jamie McGonnigal gives an inside look on the entertainment, the fun and the surprises on r family vacations' second cruise.

Ars Nova presents an intimate discussion with the creators and crew of the hit rock-opera Bare. Guests include composer/co-librettist Damon Intrabartolo, director Kristin Hanggi, and cast members Michael Arden, Jenna Leigh Green, and Natalie Joy Johnson.

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