Rob Marshall News

On March 13th, Manhattan Theatre Club will host a special edition of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's One-on-One Conversation series featuring directors Doug Huges and Daniel Sullivan

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd St.) will present GEORGE M. COHAN TONIGHT! a musical following the extraordinary life and career of the legendary showman on March 9th at 7 PM; previews begin March 3rd; the production closes on April 23rd.

Manhattan Theatre Club will host a special edition of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's 'One-on-One Conversation Series' with Tony Award winning directors Doug Hughes (Defiance, Doubt) and Daniel Sullivan (Rabbit Hole, Proof) with moderator Mandy Greenfield, MTC Director of Artistic Operations, on Monday, March 13 at 6 PM at New York City Center- Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

The Oscar-winning film versions of West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Chicago will be seen at the Ziegfeld Theatre from February 19th through 16th

Today (Monday, January 23), The National Tour of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2005, Monty Pythons SPAMALOT, begins rehearsals in New York, prior to a first performance in Boston on March 7 at the Colonial Theatre. Other cities confirmed for the tour include Chicago, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and Atlanta, with more dates to follow.

Rosario Dawson, Dame Judi Dench, Felicity Huffman and Kristen Bell were among the many stars with theatre experience to pick up Satellite Award nominations

Hal Prince was on hand to present the 6th Annual award to Stroman, which celebrates choreography.

Adam Shankman, best known for helming the hit Bringing Down the House, has been chosen as the director of the upcoming big screen version of Hairspray

Harold Prince will present five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman with an Elan Award at the gala awards ceremony on October 10th

Geoffrey Doig-Marx, Bruce Robert Harris and Dance Spirit Magazine will present the 6th Annual Elan Awards, honoring Susan Stroman, presented by Hal Prince. This amazing event will take place on Monday, October 10, 2005 at FIT's Haft Auditorium (227 West 27th Street), beginning 7PM.

This December, DISNEY LIVE! WINNIE THE POOH will play a special month-long holiday engagement at New York's legendary Beacon Theatre (2124 Broadway at West 74th Street), December 8-28, 2005.

Rumors are floating that Renee Zellwegger may put on the green nail polish as Sally Bowles in a film remake of Cabaret

Robin de Levita, Dragone and The Firm have announced the creative team for CARMEN: The Musical, based on the classic 1845 novel by Prosper Mérimée, directed by Franco Dragone. With music by John Ewbank, and a book by Sarah Miles, a developmental staging will be work-shopped later this year, with a Broadway production targeted for the 2006/07 season.

The movie musical version of Hairspray, which was first to have been directed by Jack O'Brien and then by Rob Marshall, is still without a director

Kristin Chenoweth, Vanessa Williams, Audra McDonald and Julie Andrews are just a few of the stars whose voices will be heard as part of the Evening at Pops series, airing on PBS throughout July and August

Variety reports that the production has been pushed, and that co-directors Jerry Mitchell and Jack O'Brien have left the production.

Bruce Kimmel has started a new label, Kritzerland, which he describes as 'a boutique label for recordings of theater music, as well as the odd jazz and film album.'

After Tony in West Side Story, Dear World, and Follies, Kurt Peterson left the world of performing. Now he's back producing Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie....

Some of Broadway's finest take over Sarofim Hall stage on Thursday, April 28 to salute one of Broadway's most prolific writing teams, John Kander and Fred Ebb, during Theatre Under The Stars' 2005 American Musical Theatre Awards. The longest-running music-and-lyrics partnership in Broadway musical history, Kander and Ebb have created such revered musicals as Chicago, Cabaret, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Steel Pier, among others.