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Today's top stories: BroadwayWorld teams up with Broadway Licensing, The Broadway League offers Biden help with vaccination efforts, and more!

Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley have announced a roster of upcoming guest hosts set for “Stars In The House” this week.  

Stars in the House continues tonight (8pm) with Guest Host Week! Watch a Broadway's BABY reunion hosted by Liz Callaway with special guests Richard Maltby, Jr., David Shire, Todd Graff, Beth Fowler, and Catherine Cox.

On this day in 1999, the acclaimed dance retrospective, Fosse, opened at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre. 

Theatre in the Time of COVID! MNM Theatre Company Proudly Extends Maltby & Shire’s Closer Than Ever The Critically Acclaimed Production Is Now Available for Streaming On Demand Through January 10th, 2021 Innovation is the key for MNM Theatre Company’s production of Closer Than Ever.

MNM Theatre Company has announced the extension of their hit virtual production of Closer Than Ever – David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr.’s fascinating song cycle that explores the everyday struggles of love in the modern world – which will now be available on-demand through January 10, 2021.

Following its premiere and due to popular demand, The York Theatre Company will present an encore performance of the special holiday benefit cabaret Broadway's Great American Songbook: The Holiday Gala, hosted by 5-time Grammy Award nominee Michael Feinstein with Master of Ceremonies Gerry McIntyre, York's Associate Artistic Director.

Tune in tonight, Monday, December 21, 2020 at 7:00PM, for The York Theatre Company's special holiday benefit cabaret Broadway's Great American Songbook: The Holiday Gala hosted by 5-time Grammy Award nominee Michael Feinstein with Master of Ceremonies Gerry McIntyre, York's Associate Artistic Director.

New York City’s Out of the Box Theatrics has announced its 2021 Season, including the previously announced virtual production of The Last Five Years and the long-awaited return of the company’s site-specific production of Baby, as well as a virtual benefit for Black History Month, a residency in partnership with New Hampshire’s Weathervane Theatre, and a new work festival. 

Haul out the holly! The York Theatre Company and Riki Kane Larimer will present the special holiday benefit cabaret Broadway’s Great American Songbook: The Holiday Gala hosted by 5-time Grammy Award nominee Michael Feinstein with Master of Ceremonies Gerry McIntyre, York’s Associate Artistic Director.

Two industry veterans have teamed up to honor the 25th Anniversary of Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD featuring one of musical theatre’s most inspiring finales, Hear My Song. Performer Jill Marie Burke and music director Brent Crayon enlisted the support of director Alan Bailey, and together they assembled Broadway performers, regional theatre standouts and high school musical students, to record a music video honoring the work of Jason Robert Brown and benefiting the Educational Theatre Foundation. 

Bobby Conte Thornton (A Bronx Tale, Company) will celebrate the release of his debut album “Along The Way”, available digitally on Broadway Records, with an in-person and streamed concert this Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 7pm at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Gateway, Montana, at an altitude of 7500 feet.

MNM Theatre Company has announced its upcoming production of Closer Than Ever, David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr.'s fascinating song cycle that explores the everyday struggles of love in the modern world.

The Idaho Shakespeare Festival has announced its tentative 2021 lineup, after cancelled its 2020 edition due to the health crisis.

Singular Sensation by Michael Riedel picks up where Razzle Dazzle, his bestselling account of the battle for Broadway, drops off: when audiences craved more than the British mega-productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the famed theater strip reached new heights with the productions of Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers.

Rehearsals and filming have been completed for MNM Theatre Company's upcoming production of Closer Than Ever, David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr.'s fascinating song cycle that explores the everyday struggles of love in the modern world.  The production will begin streaming on November 27th and be available through December 31st.

Closer Than Ever, the award winning show by lyricist Richard Malty, Jr. and composer David Shire, has been creatively filmed for streaming by a group of theatre professionals at the MNM Theatre Company.  

If you Google the name Matt Berman you’ll find many, but the only one you need to know about is the one who has been part of our theatre, club and concert community, since we were all baby dinosaurs roaming into New York City, hoping for careers.

MNM Theatre Company, like almost every theatre company around the world, has been drastically affected by COVID-19. All scheduled productions have either been cancelled or postponed indefinitely, with no re-start date in sight. 

BOCA RATON, FL: MNM Theatre Company, like almost every theatre company around the world, has been drastically affected by COVID-19. All scheduled productions have either been cancelled or postponed indefinitely, with no re-start date in sight. However, the company's Producing Artistic Director and CEO Marcie Gorman and Director Jonathan Van Dyke have come up with an innovative way to provide audiences with theatre, and the company's first production Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever will debut on November 27th and be available for On Demand streaming through December 31st.