Playbill News

Hollywood and Broadway legends Kaye Ballard, Donna McKechnie and Liliane Montevecchi will star in a one-night-only gala performance 'From Broadway with Love' at the historic Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Broadway performance will benefit Animal Protection of New Mexico, a non-profit organization that has been challenging historic and widespread animal cruelty in New Mexico for more than 30 years. Hilary Knight, internationally renowned illustrator, will design the art for the event.

Alec Baldwin will be featured as Claudius in the upcoming staged reading of Hamlet to help raise funds for the newly minted Fundamental Theater Project, a new theater company founded by actors Sam Underwood, Artistic Director, and Nicola Murphy, Producing Director.

Broadway Across America is thrilled to announce the 10/11 Cincinnati season sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. Season tickets will go on sale Monday, March 29th. Select seats in person at the Broadway Across America Cincinnati Box Office in the Mercantile Center downtown at 120 East Fourth Street, Monday - Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm. Season tickets can be purchased online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com or by calling the Broadway Across America toll-free Cincinnati Season Ticket Hotline at 800-294-1816.

Chris Isaacson in association with UPRIGHT CABARET announced the world premiere of Jennifer Leigh Warren starring in 'LITTLE WOMAN/BIG VOICE: The Songs of Dame Shirley Bassey,' which will make its Los Angeles debut in Spring 2011. Acclaimed Director Richard Jay-Alexander (Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler 'Kiss My Brass' Tour, Bernadette Peters) is at the helm.

Tickets for individual performances of the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines' inaugural season of The Dance Series will go on sale to the public at 9 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 at the Civic Center Ticket Office, all Ticketmaster locations, charge-by-phone at (800) 745-8000 and online at CivicCenter.org.

Participating shows for The Broadway League's 15th annual KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY are on sale today, Tuesday, November 2, 2010.

After two successful runs earlier this year at Joe's Pub and a feature in May's issue of Playbill Magazine, "Little Edie" Beale returns to New York City, this time to the Laurie Beechman Theatre, for a very special Halloween treat!

Westport Country Playhouse will stage the newly revised adaptation of the timeless classic, 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' helmed by award-winning director Gerald Freedman, September 28 through October 30, as part of its 80th Anniversary Season.

Ghostlight Records celebrated the release of its Original Cast Recording of The Public Theater's Production of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON with a Barnes & Noble In-Store performance and CD signing by the cast members yesterday, October 26.

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.

Ghostlight Records celebrates the release of its Original Cast Recording of The Public Theater's Production of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON with a 10/26 Barnes & Noble In-Store performance and CD signing by cast members of the acclaimed Broadway show.

The treats are multiplying for theatre-loving kids! KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY's special Halloween edition is gearing up with extra spooky tricks and treats!

Ever since Carly discovered the voice of Freddie Mercury, she has been in love with his theatrical, rocker glam persona. Freddie Mercury could sing anything...in any style, and that alone is an art to celebrate. After covering and loving his music for years, Ms. Ozard and musical director Joe Wicht are creating 'Somebody To Love: My Musical Tribute to Freddie Mercury.' Carly will be Queen for a day, paying homage to her idol, and sharing historic and interesting facts about Mercury's public and intimate lifestyle. Carly relates to Mercury's flair for theatrical and dramatic performing, incorporating his work into a night of fabulous cabaret.

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.

Alec Baldwin will be featured as Claudius in the upcoming staged reading of Hamlet to help raise funds for the newly minted Fundamental Theater Project, a new theater company founded by actors Sam Underwood, Artistic Director, and Nicola Murphy, Producing Director.

Sh-K-Boom Records is set to release composer and lyricist Will Van Dyke's debut album, 'Chasing The Day,' on October 19, featuring tracks performed by Stephanie J. Block, Matt Doyle, Katie Rose Clarke, and several other Broadway performers.

Few stars - or even legends, like this one - boast a resume that includes a Tony Award, the leading role on one of the most cherished sitcoms of the early eighties, a star-making film debut in one of the greatest horror films ever made (with one of the most exciting casts ever assembled), as well as an unparalleled career on the concert and cabaret stages around the world - in addition to a dozen or so leading roles in musicals on Broadway and in the West End, and just as many notable film roles, ranging from intimate indies to big-budget behemoths. Yes, Betty Buckley has conquered every arena of entertainment and it is a rare thrill to reveal such exciting news as Ms. Buckley revealed to me in our comprehensive conversation last week. In this BroadwayWorld Exclusive InDepth InterView we discuss her upcoming albums, BOOTLEG: BOARD MIXES FROM THE ROAD and GHOSTLIGHT - the latter produced by Oscar and Grammy-winning producer extraordinaire T Bone Burnett - both in connection to her Town Hall concert on October 16th. Here you will also find the first news of working with Jason Moore, Jake Shears and the rest of the cast and crew of the hotly anticipated new musical based on Armistead Maupin's TALES OF THE CITY premiering next Spring in San Francisco where Ms. Buckley is creating the lead role of Anna Madrigal. We also talk the recent big Emmy-winner out of all of TV this year, HBO's miniseries THE PACIFIC. In this illuminating conversation, Ms. Buckley bares all and reveals that it is the supreme dedication to excellence and unwavering commitment to craft that has helped her to become one of the biggest Broadway names of our age with an astoundingly accomplished career almost beyond any comparison. And if all of this breaking news weren't enough, this is the complete unedited conversation where we also look back and talk about everything from CARRIE to TENDER MERCIES, CATS to SUNSET BLVD, William Finn to WYATT EARP, Roman Polanski to Robert Duvall, cabaret to country concert stage and much, much more. Now is the very best time of all to let the memory live again, so it's all eyes (feline and otherwise) on the extraordinary future in the life and career of the legendary Betty Buckley!

Peter Filichia the author of the new informative and entertaining book: Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season - 1959 to 2009 will be the guest of Michael Bourne on the WBGO Journal, 7:30 PM this Friday, October 15th, 88.3FM or streaming on wbgo.org. The entire interview will be available after 8:00 pm at wbgo.org/news/journal. Michael Bourne has been a New York theatre critic going on 30 years,. He is a member of the Outer Critics Circle. Mr. Bourne is the arts critic-at-large for the WBGO Journal, as well as the everyday afternoon 'drive jock' (2:00 -6:30 PM) on WBGO (the jazz station) and also the Sunday (10:00 AM - 2:00 PM) host of 'Singers Unlimited' for 25 years.

Peter Filichia the author of the new informative and entertaining book: Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season - 1959 to 2009 will be the guest of Michael Bourne on the WBGO Journal, 7:30 PM this Friday, October 15th, 88.3FM or streaming on wbgo.org.

Sh-K-Boom Records is set to release composer and lyricist Will Van Dyke's debut album, 'Chasing The Day,' on October 19, featuring tracks performed by Stephanie J. Block, Matt Doyle, Katie Rose Clarke, and several other Broadway performers.