Monica Simoes News

Broadway Sessions is thrilled to welcome cast members from Promises, Promises and Next to Normal's Louis Hobson on Tuesday, November 2nd.

Gavin Creel, William Swenson, Phillip Chaffin and Aaron Lazar will lend their voices to the new Sam Davis CD, 'Love on a Summer Afternoon.' The album is due to be released on November 2.

Broadway Sessions is thrilled to welcome cast members from Promises, Promises and Next to Normal's Louis Hobson on Tuesday, November 2nd.

Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde), John Arthur Greene (West Side Story), and Matt Doyle (Bye Bye Birdie) will join host Marti Gould Cummings for this year?s 2nd Annual Very MARY Holiday bene?t on Monday, November 29th at Dixon Place in New York City.

Hundreds of kids participating in Kids' Night on Broadway's Halloween event will come dressed as their favorite Broadway characters to a pre-theatre costume party at Madame Tussauds New York.

Tony Award® winner Idina Menzel will open the National Symphony Orchestra's 2010-11 Pops season on October 28-30, 2010.

The Time Out New York Lounge at New World Stages will present TITUSS AND THE TIGHTASS BAND, a special concert to benefit The Trevor Project, the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.

Hundreds of kids participating in Kids' Night on Broadway's Halloween event will come dressed as their favorite Broadway characters to a pre-theatre costume party at Madame Tussauds New York.

A lineup of top theatrical talent will pay tribute to playwright Lynn Nottage, recipient of the 2010 'Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award', presented by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

After a sold-out debut performance last year, Ann Harada will once again resurrect her character "Christmas Eve" from the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q for a one-night-only holiday cabaret entitled CHRISTMAS EVE WITH CHRISTMAS EVE.

PBS has announced that Broadway vets Harry Connick Jr., Julie Andrews and Audra McDonald will be among the performers who will be featured in the 2011 Great Performances Series. As a series centerpiece, the network will air Connick Jr.'s Live on Broadway Concert that ran and the Neil Simon Theatre this summer. The broadcast will run in the late winter/early spring of 2011. On New Year's Day, PBS will broadcast 'From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration' with Julie Andrews. Also in the winter, the series will feature Audra McDonald in concert at Carnegie Hall alongside Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham and Emmanuel Ax.

The legendary Broadway star, actress/singer Betty Buckley continues her successful Song Interpretation Workshop with a new round of six classes open to new participants in late October 2010.

Tony Award-winning vocalist Idina Menzel, praised for her performances in Rent, Wicked, and Glee, will sing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on Friday, November 12, 2010, at 8:00 p.m., in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center.

On Monday, October 25, an array of actors will take part in the second edition of Songs You've Never Heard and Shows You've Never Heard Of at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Show time is at 9:30 PM.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company is currently casting for the first play of the 2010 - 2011 Season: All's Well That Ends Well. Most roles have been filled and an Academy Award Nominee joins the ranks. Marsha Mason makes her STC debut to star as the Countess of Rosillion.

On October 13, Broadway and GLEE star Idina Menzel, hosted a 'Twitter meeting' to promote her concert tour at Joe's Pub. During the meeting, she revealed that she heads into the studio next week to begin work on a new album that will feature mostly original music, but also some standards to be recorded with a full orchestra. No specific song titles or release plans were revealed. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the conversation and brings you footage below.

Broadway's smash musical MAMMA MIA!, based on the pop hits of 70's super group ABBA, officially kicked of its 10th Anniversary Year by lighting two brand new glittery disco balls that have been newly installed on the iconic Winter Garden Theatre marquee. The new principal stars of MAMMA MIA!, who begin performances that very evening, activated the switch to illuminate the disco balls for the very first time. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below.

Tony Award® winner Idina Menzel will open the National Symphony Orchestra's 2010-11 Pops season on October 28-30, 2010.

Don't miss "An Evening with JOAN RIVERS" as the irreverent, outspoken force of nature takes over the Balboa Theatre on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 8PM. Joan Rivers is one of the hardest-working celebrities in the world.

Tony & Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch, currently starring opposite Bernadette Peters in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, directed by Trevor Nunn, will be interviewed by Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins on "Theater Talk" this Friday, October 22 at 1:00 AM EST on WNET-TV (Channel 13).