Stephen Schwartz News

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time when the show last played Boston, WICKED, the smash-hit musical, will return to the Boston Opera House for a limited engagement September 1 - October 17. Tickets for the return engagement go on sale this Sunday, April 11th.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre, located within The West Bank Café (407 West 42nd St.), is pleased to continue our Friday night soiree, THE AFTER PARTY. Now going strong it's third, THE AFTER PARTY is billed as 'a weekly schmoozefest for the theatrically inclined.'

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. 'Glee,' Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 'It's An Art,' Lakeshore Theater, 'Beauty and the Beast,' more.....

Astoria Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce their production of the Stephen Schwartz musical Children of Eden, choreography by Christine O'Grady, musical direction by Lilli Wosk, and directed by Tom Wojtunik.

The Colony Theatre Company presents the fifth and final production of its 35th anniversary season, the unforgettable JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS, production conception, English lyrics, & additional material by Eric Blau & Mort Shuman, based on Jacques Brel's lyrics & commentary with music by Jacques Brel, musical direction by Brent Crayon and directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.

The Colony Theatre Company presents the fifth and final production of its 35th anniversary season, the unforgettable JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS, production conception, English lyrics, & additional material by Eric Blau & Mort Shuman, based on Jacques Brel's lyrics & commentary with music by Jacques Brel, musical direction by Brent Crayon and directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.

Broadway In Chicago and Water Tower Place are proud to announce the addition of a new venue, the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut Street to its family of theatres.

Tony winner and Broadway legend Sutton Foster will come to Chicago for a weekend of performances this September, when 'An Evening With Sutton Foster' kicks off programming at the renovated and renamed Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, it was announced this morning. At a press conference at the theater, previously known as the Drury Lane Theatre, Water Tower Place, Lou Raizin, president of Broadway In Chicago, announced....

Who in their right mind would produce a brand-new musical in today's economy? In Los Angeles? In the summer...!? Only someone who made money doing it last summer. And that's the Academy for New Musical Theatre, who produced a musical at the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood under 'risk-free' conditions...and saw a 156% return on its dollar. Now it's trying to repeat its success.

The Colony Theatre Company presents the fifth and final production of its 35th anniversary season, the unforgettable JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS, production conception, English lyrics, & additional material by Eric Blau & Mort Shuman, based on Jacques Brel's lyrics & commentary with music by Jacques Brel, musical direction by Brent Crayon and directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.

Mandy Gonzalez, who originated the role of Nina in the Broadway musical, In the Heights, joined WICKED as Elphaba in late March and we've got her first official photos!

The Barn Players are proud to present Pippin with Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Pippin is the story of Prince Pippin (son of King Charlemagne) and his quest to find purpose and meaning in his life.

The Theater Company (TTC) and the Attic Ensemble Theater for a New Jersey City (Attic) are teaming up for a co-production of Stephen Schwartz's WORKING, April 23-May 9, 2010.

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time in 2005 & 2007, WICKED, the smash-hit musical, will return to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis, June 16-July 11. Tickets for the return engagement go on sale Sunday, April 18.

Discover the thrilling creative output from Stephen Schwartz, composer of Wicked, at the cabaret evening It's An Art, performed at Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret from May 2 - 16, 2010. Reservations can be placed at www.davenportspianobar.com.

The ghosts who have taken up residence with The Production Company are a restless lot, filled with a crackling, questing vitality rarely found even among the living. As embodied with disquieting fierceness by Sara Lilly, David Ross Paterson, and Skip Pipo in COPENHAGEN, this endlessly fascinating play by Michael Frayn is directed with surgical exactitude by August Viveirto to a fever pitch. These spectral presences just won't stop haunting one another with their questions and revisions and caveats. Give them the courtesy of your full attention, and you'll find them taking possession of your own imagination as well, probably raising your blood pressure in the process. They prove themselves electrifying companions.

Marking the conclusion of its 20th Anniversary Season, or 'The Year of Enchantment,' Hartford Children's Theatre (HCT) announces its production of Disney's GEPPETTO & SON. Under the direction of HCT Artistic Director Ryan Ratelle and Summar Elguindy, GEPPETTO & SON opens on Friday, April 30, 2010 at the Carol Autorino Center for Arts and Humanities on the campus of Saint Joseph College (1678 Asylum Avenue in West Hartford) where the show will run through Sunday, May 9, 2010. Tickets are now on sale. GEPPETTO & SON replaces the previously announced Prince and the Pauper.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) will present an evening of new music from two New York composers, Georgia Shreve and Alvin Singleton, including new works that explore the global and local ramifications of significant moments in history.

Having put female audiences in Denver, Des Moines and Winnipeg in stitches over the past two years, the irrepressible comedy GIRLS ONLY will next debut in Charlotte, NC, playing the Stage Door Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center May 7 through August 1, 2010. The Denver production of the show continues to play its regular schedule at Denver's Garner Galleria Theatre.

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time during its 2005 and 2006 engagements, WICKED, the smash-hit musical, will return to Toronto, to the Canon Theatre, October 20 through November 28. Group tickets for the return engagement are currently on sale. Single tickets go on sale Monday June 7.