Moss Hart News

Award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) is holding auditions for its production of 42nd STREET which will be presented at the theater October 28 through November 23, 2008.

Artistic Director David Esbjornson announces today the finalized list of titles for Seattle Repertory Theatre's upcoming 2008-09 season - a mix of classics and new works delving into subjects as diverse as war, immigration, apocalypse, Craigslist and body image. According to Esbjornson, 'Our goal is to provide the most eclectic, imaginative and provocative programming for this community - plays that reflect the entire spectrum of what defines our amazing city'

Return to a simpler time with BYE BYE BIRDIE, the ultimate feel good musical, when it lands on the North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) main stage. Winner of four 1961 Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, BYE BYE BIRDIE runs July 15 to August 3, 2008 and Press Night is scheduled for July 17 at 7:30 pm.

In the entire world, few names can conjure up powerful images of beauty and sensuality as 'Cleopatra.' Now, her timeless story is brought musically to life in Cheryl E. Kemeny's CLEOPATRA - A LIFE UNPARALLELED, as part of the Ninth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival.

North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) will be sizzling as the hottest acts in pop, jazz and comedy take the stage this July.

By George Productions presents the Los Angeles Premiere of the 1937 Broadway musical comedy hit, 'I'd Rather Be Right', opening at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre

The hit of the 2000 Broadway season and winner of 4 Tony® Awards dances across the stage in North Shore Music Theatre's New England Regional Premiere of 'Contact.'

In a ceremony held at Harvard's Sanders Theatre on May 12th, Patti Colombo received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Choreography for North Shore Music Theatre's (NSMT) acclaimed 2007 production of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS.

During an exclusive live online chat with legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Roundabout's Artistic Director Todd Haimes announced plans to bring 'Merrily We Roll Along' to Broadway sometime in 2009/2010.

'I wanna be a Producer…' That's what everyone will be singing after experiencing North Shore Music Theatre's New England Regional Premiere of Mel Brooks' 12-time Tony Award winning hit THE PRODUCERS. Kicking off NSMT's 2008 season, THE PRODUCERS runs May 13 - June 1, 2008 and Press Night is scheduled for May 15 at 7:30pm.

In a ceremony on April 14, The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE), a panel of critics from community papers and media outlets around the state of Massachusetts, announced the winners of the IRNE Awards honoring the best of the 2007 theater season. North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) received 4 awards, including Best Production of a Musical.

Leave your winter coats and hats at home and get ready to jump in the pool this December when North Shore Music Theatre's (NSMT) production of DISNEY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 makes its New England premiere on the NSMT mainstage. DISNEY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 will have a limited run at NSMT from December 18, 2008 through January 11, 2009.

The award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has announced that single tickets for the 2008 musical season will go on sale to the general public on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 9:00 am. Individual tickets will be available for the eight shows included in the 2008 musical season. Tickets can be purchased in person at the NSMT box office at 62 Dunham Road in Beverly, MA, as well as online (www.nsmt.org) and by phone (978-232-7200).

Courtney Adler has recently been named Associate Producer at North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT). With extensive national experience in theater management, Adler brings a wealth of talent to the region's second largest non-profit performing arts organization.

Center Stage Theatre Company is pleased to announce it had been awarded the Community Theatre Division of the Moss Hart Award from the New England Theatre Conference for is production of Intervention - A Teen Musical Comedy, which is being presented as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival on September 23 at 4:30PM & 8PM at The Acorn Theater.

Toronto's Civic Light opera Company offers Canadian premiere of Irving Berlin & Moss Hart's depression era revue. * * * * (OUT OF 5) (Reviewed September 7, 2007)

In tribute to the late Kitty Carlisle Hart, 'Theater Talk' is repeating its 2002 interview with her and Anne Kaufman Schneider, this Friday, August 24, at 12:30 AM on Thirteen.

American Century Theatre presents a fascinating staged reading of Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's claws-out 1936 comedy Stage Door

The new play The Second Tosca opened on June 13th, and an opening night party was held at Zanzibar in celebration.

Psychoanalysis sings again in Albert Tapper's therapy musical