Oscar Hammerstein II News

The winners are currently being announced for the 2007 Laurance Olivier Awards, the UK's most prestigious theatrical awards.

According to the Really Useful Group's website, Connie Fisher is out of the London revival of The Sound of Music this week and producers are offering to exchange tickets.

Tony Award-winning sopranos Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald will sing with the New York Philharmonic during its its 2007-2008 season.

The nominations have been announced for the 2007 Laurance Olivier Awards, the UK's most prestigious theatrical awards. The awards will be presented on February 18, 2007 at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

Connie Fisher has extended her run as plucky governess Maria in the hit London revival of The Sound of Music through February of 2008

Legendary Broadway soprano Barbara Cook was presented by the National Arts Club with this year's Medal of Honor

Legendary Broadway soprano Barbara Cook has been selected by the National Arts Club as this year's recipient of their Medal of Honor

Columbia Stages will present 'As You Like It,' at the Theater at Riverside Church January 24th-27th. Casting has just been announced.

Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Barbara Cook will perform the songs of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin as part of January 23rd master class performance at Carnegie Hall

Soprano Barbara Cook, who began 2006 by being the first female pop singer to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera when she made her solo concert debut at the MET in January, will end the year by being the first pop performer to be named Vocalist of the Year when Musical America, the international directory of the performing arts, presents its annual awards at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse on Wednesday, December 20

The Really Useful Group's website reports that the new London cast recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music will be released in UK stores on December 11th

Dallas Entertainer Michael Gott discusses his music, career and life.

The highly anticipated West End revival of The Sound of Music, after two preview performances, has lost its leading man

On Sunday, October 29th at 7:30 PM at the 92nd Street Y, some of the theatre's brightest luminaries gathered to read from and discuss Robert Viagas' new book The Alchemy of Theatre: Essays on Collaboration

The first night of the Second Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival was full of the sophistication and taste that we've come to expect from Scott Siegel and Town Hall

Paula West's yearly visit to the Oak Room mixes the expected and the surprising

Tony Award-winning Broadway sopranos Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald will appear together onstage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on March 17th, 2007

On Sunday, October 29th at 7:30 PM at the 92nd Street Y, some of the theatre's brightest luminaries will gather to read from and discuss Robert Viagas' new book The Alchemy of Theatre: Essays on Collaboration

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice--who last collaborated on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat--have teamed up once again to pen a song for Connie Fisher's upcoming album

The upcoming London revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music has changed its opening date to November 15th