Stephanie Mills News

That roar you heard in Chicago's Loop Monday evening, June 30th, was the enthusiastic opening night audience at the Goodman Theatre, where the volcanic excitement generated by a summertime, homegrown production of the 'Fats' Waller musical 'Ain't Misbehavin' will very nearly blow the roof off the place for the next month or so.

April Nixon performs 'Breakthrough' featuring songs of Larry O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, and Kenny Kacmar and Joe Miloscia, and special guests Norm Lewis, Marcus Paul James, and Lisa Nicole Wilkerson on May 12th and 19th.

Winter doldrums and Valentine's Day have bestowed upon us two unique and original CDs by unique contemporary artists with major Broadway 'roots' and credentials. Those two stars are Betty Buckley, with her latest release, QUINTESSENCE (with Kenny Werner) and Ken Page, with his debut Double CD, called PAGE BY PAGE.

On June 2nd, the new 'The Spotlight: LA's Broadway Cabaret' will kick off with a concert by Luba Mason and Jennifer Leigh Warren

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Anika's currently playing one of Charity's colleagues, and you may see her on another Broadway stage later this year in 'The Color Purple.'

One performance only at The Zipper Theatre on Monday, April 11, 2005 at 8pm.

Joseph John Productions presents his sixth cabaret benefit show DIVA-PALOOZA on monday April 11 2005 at the Hideaway room At Helens’s in Chelsea. The show is a tribute to the great Divas of stage and screen.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to present Natasha Richardson (Blanche Du Bois) & John C. Reilly (Stanley Kowalski) in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' classic drama A Streetcar Named Desire, with Amy Ryan (Stella Kowalski) & Chris Bauer (Mitch), directed by Edward Hall at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street).

Join Hairspray's Chester Gregory for a birthday bash that will give you better than cake: a night of his original songs that fuse R&B and soul with lyrics CDBaby.com dubs 'poetically poignant and captivating.'