Pat McRoberts News

This Thursday, April 2nd, Broadway Sessions offer an All Open Mic night complete with special guest performances.

The Broadway Artists Connection (BAC) has announced that it will dedicate its annual fundraising event to the Creative Arts Team (CAT) Youth Theatre. The song and dance filled evening featuring over a dozen Broadway artists will take place on Sunday, November 9, 2014 at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Lower East Side's cultural landmark for more than 35 years and will be hosted by Broadway Veteran Colin Cunliffe (Pippin, Addams Family, Cry-Baby).

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our June 21st SIP round-up. Yesterday's SIPs come from the casts of the Public Theater's HERE LIES LOVE, NEWSIES, the national tour of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MATILDA, KINKY BOOTS, GREASE at Paper Mill, and regional productions of LES MIS, THE WIZARD OF OZ, SPAMALOT, CAROLINE, OR CHANGE, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and more!

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup. Today's photos come from the casts of ROCKY, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, AVENUE Q, NEWSIES, WICKED, GHOST, SIDE SHOW in DC and more!

TUTS Underground's National Regional Premiere of MURDER BALLAD is kicking off its second and final week of performances in the Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. This rocking 80-minute one-act is leaving Houston audiences electrified and exhilarated. In celebration of the amazing performances given so far and the ones still yet to come, we sat down with MURDER BALLAD's sultry and sexy love triangle gone awry (Pat McRoberts, Lauren Molina, and Steel Burkhardt) to further discuss MURDER BALLAD.

The World Premiere production of MURDER BALLAD at MTC's The Studio at Stage II took New York by storm in 2012. In 2013 it transferred to the Union Square Theatre and played 17 previews and 70 regular performances before closing on July 21. Now, TUTS Underground is producing the National Regional Premiere of the exhilarating, crowd-pleasing musical, and this sultry tale of love, passion, and murder is simply too good to miss.

TUTS Underground is set to steam up Zilkha Hall with the sultry story of love's dark side in MURDER BALLAD, running tonight, April 17-27, 2014. Check out a first look below!

TUTS Underground will present the sizzling and explosive musical Murder Ballad. The steamy quartet of actors includes Steel Burkhardt, Pat McRoberts, Lauren Molina and Kristin Warren. Fresh off its New York City run, Murder Ballad makes its national regional premiere at Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall April 17 - 27. Go inside rehearsals with the cast in the video below!

This past Sunday, I got to crash a technical rehearsal of TUTS Underground's steamy production of MURDER BALLAD. In its Houston Premiere, the hit musical features Steel Burkhardt (as Tom), Pat McRoberts (as Michael), Lauren Molina (as Sara) and Kristin Warren (as the Narrator).

TUTS Underground will present the sizzling and explosive musical Murder Ballad. The steamy quartet of actors includes Steel Burkhardt, Pat McRoberts, Lauren Molina and Kristin Warren. Fresh off its New York City run, Murder Ballad makes its national regional premiere at Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall April 17 - 27. Go inside rehearsals with the cast in the video below!

TUTS Underground unveils the cast for the sizzling and explosive musical Murder Ballad. The steamy quartet of actors includes Steel Burkhardt, Patrick McRoberts, Lauren Molina and Kristin Warren. Fresh off its New York City run, Murder Ballad makes its national regional premiere at Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall April 17 - 27.

Earlier this season, I did something slightly unorthodox when I attended and reviewed Bonnie and Clyde at McCallum Fine Arts Academy. Over the past months, I've been asked about that review on more than one occasion, and the questions have typically been regarding why I'd review a High School production. The answer: McCallum Fine Arts Academy doesn't do High School theater. They do Theater. With a capital T. The quality of the work from these young performers and designers is just as strong as what you'd find from other Austin-based theater companies, and that tradition of quality continues with their current production of Les Miserables.

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our November 2nd SIP round-up. Yesterday's SIPs include shots from ANNIE, SPIDER-MAN, PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, EVITA, MAMMA MIA!, LES MISERABLES at Zach Theatre in Austin, and regional productions of HELLO, DOLLY!, FRANKENSTEIN, HAIRSPRAY, OKLAHOMA, EMMA, KISS ME, KATE, CABARET, ROCKY HORROR, CLUE and more!

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup. Today's photos come from the casts of THE LION KING, KINKY BOOTS, NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812, JERSEY BOYS, MAMMA MIA!, EVITA, HELLO, DOLLY!, WE WILL ROCK YOU, TOP HAT, which is closing in the West End, Goodspeed's THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, and more!

Yesterday's SIPs include shots from CINDERELLA's Laura Osnes settling into the fall season, PIPPIN's Patina Miller and company, plus photos from NEWSIES, KINKY BOOTS, the national tours of ONCE and EVITA, and more!

ZACH Theatre's recently opened its production of LES MISERABLES, it's opening production of the 2013-2014 season, and judging by this backstage video of the cast rocking out to Mika's 'Grace Kelly,' it appears things aren't that miserable backstage.

ZACH Theatre's recently opened it's production of LES MISERABLES, it's opening production of the 2013-2014 season, and BroadwayWorld-Austin shares the following video sneak peek of this stunning production!

ZACH Theatre's recently opened it's production of LES MISERABLES, its opening production of the 2013-2014 season, and BroadwayWorld-Austin shares the following photos from this stunning production!

Musicals rarely reach the phenomenal success of Les Miserables. It's played in London's West End for 28 years and counting. The Original Broadway production ran for over 6,500 performances and played for over 16 years, and the recent film adaptation won 3 Academy Awards and earned over $440 million worldwide. Whether you're a longtime fan of the musical or a newcomer to it, Zach Theatre's current production of it certainly does it justice and shows exactly why Les Miserables is an international hit that others are measured against. This is a solid, soaring production of one of the most beloved musicals of all time.

Yesterday's shots come from WICKED's resident Elphaba, Lindsay Mendez, and her 'green team,' plus Broadway's CINDERELLA, MATILDA, and The Old Globe's THE LAST GOODBYE; plus SIPs from TUTS Underground's LIZZIE, the national tours of EVITA and ONCE, and more!