Prince Hal News

America's only honor recognizing excellence in dance on both stage and film, the Fred & Adele Astaire Awards honored some of the greatest talents in dance on Monday, June 2nd.

'Forbidden Broadway Dances With The Stars' to begin June 28th.

Harvey Returns! Welcome to The Return of special new series on BroadwayWorld.com - four time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein's personal MySpace blog of bringing his brand new musical, A Catered Affair to Broadway. We'll be exclusively picking up Harvey Fierstein's blog as he shares his first hand reports from rehearsals to Opening Night (and beyond). Check back for updates as rehearsals get underway!

The current national tour of the Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler musical 'Sweeney Todd' blew into the Windy City for a two-week engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre this week, revealing that the show is so strong as originally written that almost any style of storytelling will reveal its truths. If this fact doesn't mark the show as a true performing arts masterwork, then I don't know how anything else could. This show, and this metaphor-laden production of it, are miraculous in their revealing of the human condition.

The Signature Theatre has announced the complete cast for 'The Visit' the Kander and Ebb musical starring Chita Rivera and George Hearn.

Dancap Productions has finally sealed a deal to take over the mainstage space at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.

Goodspeed Musicals, the only two time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, presents Happy Days: A New Musical. This tuneful musical comedy comes to the Goodspeed after a sold out run last summer at the Goodspeed's smaller musical performance space. The full scale musical celebration of 50's nostalgia begins April 11th and runs through June 29, 2008

Teatro ZinZanni, now in its ninth successful season of performance in the elegant spiegeltent located at Pier 29 on the Embarcadero, welcomes the return of one of its most popular shows, Hail Caesar, which premiered in 2006. It opens on May 22 and runs through September 21.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine, and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, continues its Spring 2008 season with the return engagement of Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner RITA MORENO from April 1 - 5. Her show will include songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kander & Ebb, Harold Arlen and Charles Strouse. Also added to the Feinstein's season will be LINDA EDER, who will return to the club for five shows only from April 24 - 26. All performances will be at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

Now that the 50th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony is history, and before the Tony Awards season sneaks up on us, it might be a good time to do a little investigating into the relationship between the category that both award shows recognize-Best Musical, of course.

This season, Porchlight will take audiences around the world on a musical journey. Artistic Director L. Walter Stearns announces a season of musicals with exotic settings and diverse themes: Candide, Pacific Overtures, and Once on This Island.

Legendary Broadway director Hal Prince suffered a minor stroke 3 weeks ago. It was a complete shock to all who know the still active Tony-winning director/producer, but his recuperation has been swift and amazing. Only 3 weeks after the incident, he's already made a complete and total recovery!

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) will begin previews for Richard Nelson's new history play Conversations in Tusculum on Tuesday, February 19. Directed by Nelson, Conversations in Tusculum will run through Sunday, March 23 with an official press opening on Tuesday, March 11 at 7 PM.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com are proud to announce the Birdland debut of Beverly Ward and Kirby Ward, performing partners on-stage and happily married for over two decades off-, Monday, March 3, 2008 at 7PM, as part of the long-running, critically-heralded and popular concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Michael Riedel of the New York Post reports that acclaimed Broadway director and producer Hal Prince 'suffered what close friends are calling a 'minor stroke' Sunday afternoon. He was released from the hospital Wednesday - his 80th birthday - and is expected to be on the mend soon.'

Theater Hall of Fame 2008 inductees have been announced as follows: Harvey Fierstein, John Cullum, Jack O'Brien, Dana Ivey, Joseph Stein, Lois Smith, Peter Shaffer, and Mel Gussow

Anthony Crivello likes Las Vegas. The Tony Award-winner, who alternates the title role in Phantom: The Las Vegas Experience with Brent Barrett, will be in Las Vegas for at least the next six months, when the show celebrates its second anniversary.