Mr. Patterson News

Entertainment Central, the Montreal-based talent agency, has announced that Grammy Award-winning songwriter-producers Autumn Rowe and Kizzo have signed on to compose songs for the agency’s new production, Latin n' Soul Take Manhattan: The Musical, currently in development.

The Plano Symphony Orchestra has announced that Gregory Patterson has been named Executive Director. Patterson, who is no stranger to the PSO having served as Director of Development from 2018 until now, steps into the role following Robert A. Reed's resignation to accept a position with the Madison Symphony Orchestra.

She's back! That ultimate spinster and notorious terrorizer of neighborhood children and their pets gets a post 'Wizard of Oz' lease on life with her own autobiographical lounge act! “Miss Gulch Returns!”, in all the glory Hollywood denied her, to tell her side of the story in this hilarious and unexpectedly touching one-man musical revue by Fred Barton.

Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, based in Ocean Grove, New Jersey proudly presents a series of FREE ORGAN RECITALS on the historic Great Auditorium Pipe Organ as part of its summer-long program of family entertainment. These recitals will be performed in Ocean Grove's historic Great Auditorium.

These recitals will be performed in Ocean Grove's historic Great Auditorium. This season's series will bring 'young rising star' organists to the stage - a new generation of organists who have never appeared in the historic auditorium before.

For Stephen Sondheim's 90th Birthday Stephen Mosher makes a list of 90 cabaret-themed videos of his songs. It's Epic and it will be a great way to distract yourself during your time at home.

America's longest running summer chamber music festival, Music Mountain, continues its exceptional 89th season! The impressive Amernet String Quartet performs Schubert, Richard Strauss, and Tchaikovsky on Sunday, August 12 (3pm). The weekend gets off to a dancing start on Saturday, August 11 (6:30pm) with The Galvanized Jazz Band playing the best of Dixieland, New Orleans jazz, and swing! Concerts are scheduled through September 23.

The 2017-2018 Hoff-Barthelson Music School Master Class Series continues with Viola Day! on Sunday, March 4, 2018, from 1:00 - 5:00 pm, at Hoff-Barthelson Music School, 25 School Lane, Scarsdale. The public is invited to attend and participate free of charge.

Upstate audiences are in for a rare treat as Michelle Carter's award-winning comedy "How to Pray" receives its second production ever September 14-24 at Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre.

When a young married couple find themselves unable to conceive a child, the husband's sister reluctantly agrees to act as a surrogate. Complications ensue in Michelle Carter's quirky comedy "How to Pray", coming to Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre for eight performances only September 14 - 24. Winner of the Susan Glaspell Contest for "Best New Play" and a PEN USA Award for Drama, this hilarious and wildly theatrical play received its world premiere at the Centenary Stage Company in Hackettstown, NJ in a production which featured actor Steven Patterson as a cat, a dog, a ninety-year-old cancer patient, and a Karaoke-singing pre-op transsexual soup kitchen worker. Mr. Patterson will be re-creating these roles in this new production, only the second the play has ever received.

James Patterson has written at least 114 New York Times Bestselling books, making him the world's truest bestselling author.  Even by combining the book sales of JK Rowling, Dan Brown and John Grisham, you still wouldn't reach the total sales of Patterson.

At the Annual General Meeting earlier today, Andrew M. Pringle fulfilled his duties as the Shaw Festival's Chair of the Board of Governors. During his remarks, Mr. Pringle passed the torch to Chair Designate Peter Jewett and announced new Board members Ian Joseph, Kevin Patterson and Julian Rance.

Connie Griffin, Bookworks' longtime bookseller, Children's Specialist, and host of its award-winning weekly story time, is a recipient of a James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus.

 The York Theatre Company and its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series will present four new works during the month of June:  Orville and Wilbur Did It! a play byDavid Zellnik with songs by Mr. Zellnik and Eric Svejcar; Juliet and Juliet, based on a concept by Natalie Tenenbaum and Sean Patterson, with book and lyrics by Mr. Patterson, and music by Ms. Tenenbaum;  Elsie Janis and the Boys with book & lyrics by Carol Crittenden and music by John T. Prestianni; and Grounded for Life with book by Pat Hazell and Bill Habeeb, lyrics by Lawrence Goldberg and Mr. Hazell, and music by Mr. Goldberg at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (619 Lexington Avenue, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).  The readings are open to the public with a suggested donation of $5.00. 

Sleeping Beauty, with its prologue and three acts, has a relatively short running time, even with two intermissions included, making it a fun choice for the little dancer in your life. This Mother's Day weekend, audiences will flock to see this ballet, not only to hear Tchaikovsky's brilliant music that we all know so well, but also to see their favorite local dancers.

Best-selling author and alumnus James Patterson '69 will award $100,000 in academic scholarships to Manhattan College. This is the second year in a row for the James Patterson Scholarships, and 8 juniors and 10 seniors from the Schools of Arts, Business, Education and Health, Engineering, and Science are recipients of the 2013-2014 scholarships.

Producers Aaron Grant, Jana Robbins & Jeremy Handelman have announced that SCOTT PATTERSON has been cast in the lead role of Joe White in WHITE'S LIES, a new comedy by Ben Andron & directed by Bob Cline, which is scheduled to open on April 12, 2010, at New World Stages. Grant, who produced the staged reading in September, 2009, is thrilled to have the former star of "Gilmore Girls" on board as Joe White. Mr. Patterson joins a cast that already includes Peter Scolari, Christy Carlson Romano & Jimmy Ray Bennett.

Scott Siegel kicked off the eighth season of Broadway by the Year with a fantastic evening of song and dance.

Kitchen Sink Volume 3, produced by Geoffrey Soffer, took place at the Makor on Monday, September 12th and featured the talents of Celia Keenan-Bolger, Shoshana Bean, Manley Pope, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more!