Robert Lopez News

Coronado Playhouse presents the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Avenue Q from tonight, January 23-February 28, 2015, benefitting San Diego Humane Society and PAWS of Coronado.

Particularly over the past several years, the Tony winning musical Avenue Q has become a favorite show of mine. It's hilarious, relatable, and an original American production particularly with the use of puppetry which is a fascinating skill to watch. So, as you can imagine, Hauppauge's SoLuna Studio had a lot of work to do and a lengthy rehearsal process to prepare to put this show on.

Back by popular demand, the National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record-breaking three-week run in 2013, returns to Cleveland for a strictly limited, one-week run August 25-30, 2015, as part of the KeyBank Broadway Series at Playhouse Square. Tickets for all performances will go on sale to the general public Friday, February 27 at 9:00AM. Tickets will be available for purchase in person at the Playhouse Square Ticket Office (1519 Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland), online at www.playhousesquare.org, or by phone at 216.241.6000.

Coronado Playhouse presents the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Avenue Q from January 23-February 28, 2015, benefitting San Diego Humane Society and PAWS of Coronado.

Covedale Center 'Marquee Series' and Warsaw Federal Incline Theater 'District Series' present varied and exciting shows for spring 2015.

SoLuna Studio will produce the musical AVENUE Q as a part their professional mainstage season, with performances running tonight, January 16th-February 2nd.

THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour, which begins Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at Jacksonville's Times-Union Center and plays a limited one-week engagement through Sunday, February 8, 2015. In Jacksonville, the production will conduct a pre-show lottery in the Times-Union Center's lobby, making a limited number of tickets available at $25 apiece.

The missionaries of The Book of Mormon have been to Des Moines before and with the reception they received during their return engagement this past week, it seems that they can drop by and say "Hello!" anytime they want.

The Dramatists Guild of America has announced the recipients of their annual awards, which will be presented at an awards ceremony hosted by David Henry Hwang on Monday, February 23, 2015, at The Harvard Club in New York.

SoLuna Studio will produce the musical AVENUE Q as a part their professional mainstage season, with performances running January 16th-February 2nd. Performances will be held on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets purchased in advance are $15 for students and seniors and $20 for adults. Group rates are also available. For more information about the show and tickets, please visit SoLuna Studio's website at www.solunastudiony.com. Pictures and other promotional material from the show can be found on Instagram @SoLunaStudio and on Twitter @SoLunaStudioNY

The Tony-winning musical BOOK OF MORMON said farewell to its most recent Elder Price and Elder Cuningham, Ben Platt and Nic Rouleau respectively, on January 4. Broadway favorite Gavin Creel, who has portrayed the role of Kevin Price on both the BOM national tour and in the London production, steps in as the egocentric missionary, beginning tonight, January 6th. Joining him as everyone's favorite sidekick will be Christopher John O'Neill.

BOOK OF MORMON's Ben Platt turned to Twitter on Saturday, January 3rd to share a photo of the foursome just before the big transition.

Billboard has named their Top 5 Broadway Cast Albums of 2014.

Actress and Songwriter Alicia Witt recently visited the long-running Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.). Check out photos of Witt with the cast below!

Young Actors' Theatre Camp Program Directors Shawn Ryan and John Ainsworth announced today that several stars of stage and screen will lead master classes this summer at the Young Actors' Theatre Camp taking place June 24 - August 11, 2014 at Camp Sempervirens (20161 Big Basin Highway in Boulder Creek) in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Two-time Tony nominee and Broadway sweetheart, Laura Osnes is charming patrons of 54 BELOW with her new cabaret show The Paths Not Taken. As she has done in the past at venues like Cafe Carlyle and even with pervious appearances at 54 BELOW, Osnes captivates audiences with her deft talent, bubbly charisma, and incandescent spirit as she takes us on a journey through the roles she didn't get or left behind.

Christopher John O'Neill has just announced via Twitter that he will soon join the Broadway company of The Book of Mormon. O'Neill, who previously played role in the national tour, will join the cast on January 6- the same night as Gavin Creel, who will play Elder Price.

THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has announced a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour, which begins December 16 at the Raymond F. Kravis Center in West Palm Beach and plays a limited engagement through December 21. The show is sold out; however, in West Palm Beach the production will conduct a pre-show lottery at the box office, making a limited number of tickets available at $25 apiece.

Today, the Frozen soundtrack from Walt Disney Records was ranked the No. 1 best-selling album on the 2014 year-end Billboard 200 chart, for the period November 24, 2013 to November 16, 2014. It is the first soundtrack to reach No. 1 on the year-end chart since Titanic in 1998 and is the first Disney soundtrack to top the chart since Mary Poppins in 1965.

BOOK OF MORMON, the smash hit, 2011 Tony Award winning musical by SOUTH PARK creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with Robert Lopez (AVENUE Q, FROZEN) says 'Hello' to Montreal in a short 8 performance run.