Raise The Roof News

Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, writers of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, are the librettists for THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Drama Desk Award-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is writing the score, and Improbable Theater founders Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) will direct and design. EET plans to premiere THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the 2009-2010 Broadway season, preceded by an out-of-town tryout.

Lippa's 'The Wild Party' raises the roof at New Rep while North Shore Music Theatre embraces Gershwin with 'Crazy for You'

Work by Anne Nelson, Heather Raffo, Israel Horowitz and more will be featured in a reading of The Middle East, In Pieces on August 17th

On Sunday 16th July, the King?s Head Theatre Islington will present a very special musical tribute Gala to the theatre?s founder, entrepreneur and producer, Dan Crawford who died last July at the age of 62.

Reviews of 'Harry On Broadway, Act I', Murney's 'I'm Not Waiting' & Friedman's 'Now and Then'

Wendell Pierce and J. Kyle Manzay will headline the Classical Theatre of Harlem's Waiting for Godot, running from May 18th through June 25th

Grammy-nominated recording label Sh-K-Boom Records proudly announces the release of Julia Murney's debut solo album, I'm Not Waiting, on Tuesday, May 9, 2006.

The Future of Broadway: A Generation of Genius will showcase songs by some of the leading composers and lyricists of musical theatre in the New-York Historical Society's March 20th benefit concert

BJ Crosby and Danny Zolli will perform at the Eastern PAC in New Jersey on February 11th in An Evening of Jazz, Blues and Ballads

Raise the Roof, a benefit concert held on October 30th at St. Clement's Theatre (423 W. 46th St. between 9th & 10th), featured performances by Frenchie Davis (Rent), Jessica Boevers (In My Life), Justin Patterson (All Shook Up), Susan Derry (Wonderful Town), Jayne Paterson (Les Miserables, Jane Eyre), Josh Walden (La Cage Aux Folles, 42nd Street) and many more.

Raise the Roof, a benefit concert on October 30th, will feature performances by Frenchie Davis, Jessica Boevers, Justin Patterson and more

Geva Theatre Center (Mark Cuddy, Artistic Director) and Five Course Love Company LLC will present the lip-smacking new musical comedy Five Course Love with Book, Music & Lyrics by Gregg Coffin at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane (between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street).

The full cast of A Solider's Play has now been set, with a number of actor joining previously-announced stars Taye Diggs and Steven Pasquale

JOY, John Fisher's gay/lesbian romantic comedy, will open at the Actors' Playhouse on August 14th

Previews begin on Sunday, July 31 for JOY, a new romantic comedy that follows a group of college friends as they fall in and out of love in San Francisco over the course of a year.

Andre De Shields opened in the title role of Satch: The Life and Music of Louis Armstrong on June 20th at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA; the show will run through July 2nd

Harriet Harris has signed on to perform in the Cape Playhouse's July production of A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room

The cast of 'JOY' features Becca Ayers (Sarah, Plan and Tall) as Elsa, Ben Curtis (of 'Dude, you're gettin' a Dell' fame) as Christian, Harris Doran (Actors' Fund Hair) as Paul, Gavin Esham (Naked Boys Singing) as Corey, Natalie Joy Johnson (Bare: a pop opera) as Kegan, Brian Patacca (The Donkey Show) as Matt/Adam, Christopher Sloan (Insomnia) as Gabriel and Sheridan Wright (The Producers) as Darryl. Gregory Marcel (Funeral Games) serves as the male swing.

The Tony winner talks about creating the greatest role of his distinguished career, Judge Francis Biddle in 'Trying,' now at the Promenade Theatre.

BroadwayWorld.com's Sold Out 'Standing Ovations' benefit concert was a huge success on May 23rd at Joe's Pub, presenting tunes new and old to a packed audience from an incredible line-up of Broadway stars. Join us now as we take a complete look at the fun-filled day, starting from the sound check, to the fantastic performance, and finally to the after-party which lasted to the wee hours of the morning at Fez.