Richard Maltby, Jr. News

Ring of Fire is a musical show based on the music of Johnny Cash, and it is currently playing to sold out houses at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York. This production, directed by Maltby, is the sole tryout prior to a spring opening at the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.

Author/composer/lyricist and BMI Workshop teacher David Spencer visits with host 'Broadway Baby'Jason Drew Wednesday, October 5 at 1:00 p.m. (EST) on Sirius Satellite Radio's 'Broadway's Best.'

Tony Award-winner Jarrod Emick and Cass Morgan have been cast in Ring of Fire, the Johnny Cash musical that will begin a test run in Buffalo on September 2nd before moving to San Francisco and to Broadway in early 2006

Todd Buonopane, who is making his Broadway debut in Spelling Bee, recently visited Stagedoor Manor as a guest speaker.

A new off-Broadway production of the Maltby and Shire revue Closer Than Ever will run from August 5th to August 22nd at Dillon's Theatre

Co-created and staged by Richard Maltby Jr., Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical Show will open in Buffalo, NY on September 2nd before moving to engagements in San Francisco and on Broadway

On July 25th, All Shook Up understudies were put under the Broadway Spotlight at Ars Nova as part of the Monday Nights, New Voices series

Complete photo coverage of the 2005 Tony Awards ball, held at the Marriot Marquis Ballroom after the awards!

Contemporary Masterpiece Is a Tragic Clash of Hope and Despair

David Spencer's The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide, a comprehensive reference book like none ever published before, about creating musical theatre, will be released by Heinemann Publishing on July 25, 2005.

Photos from the March 21 benefit which celebrated Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday.

Stars turned out for a big public birthday party.

Report and photos from the 12-hour celebration of everything Sondheim, which was held at Symphony Space three days before his 75th birthday.

'CHILDREN AND ART,' takes place on Monday, March 21 in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre.

Bucchino, Buntrock, Esparza, Farrow, Gemignani, Golden, Hammond, Harris, Hathaway, d'Arcy James, Mitchell, Morrison, Nixon, Panaro and more...

The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton and Barbra Streisand (Honorary Chairs), with Young Playwrights Inc. and producers Richard Maltby, Jr., Kevin Stites and Sheri M. Goldhirsch are proud to present 'CHILDREN AND ART,' a spectacular musical gala evening in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday, for one performance only at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, March 21, 2005 (7:30 p.m. curtain), the eve of Sondheim's birthday.

Winners of the 2005 Richard Rodgers Awards competition for musical theatre were announced by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A fine mounting of Maltby & Shire's 1989 hit review...

Carolee Carmello, Chad Kimball, LaChanze, Norm Lewis, Moeisha McGill and Michael Rupert star in a well-revised version of the 1983-84 parenthood musical