Symphony Space News

Jerry Zaks, Jonathan Hadary and more can be heard reading stories and poems about baseball on the new 3-CD set 'Selected Shorts: Baseball,' released by Symphony Space

The Upper West Fest, at which stars such as Joan Allen and Alec Baldwin will appear, will run from April 28th through May 14th

The New Voices Collective presents The Cello Project II, an ambitious cycle of eleven world-premiere chamber pieces featuring cellist Peter Sachon. The concert, a sequel to last year's sold-out inaugural Cello Project, will be performed on Monday, April 24, 2006, at 7:00pm, as part of NVC's Rush Hour Chamber Music series.

Joan Allen, Alec Baldwin, Lois Smith and Harris Yulin will be among the celebrities taking part in the opening day ceremonies of Symphony Space's Upper West Fest on Friday, April 28th; the festival will run through Sunday, May 14th

Janet Dickinson will join the company of BUSH IS BAD: The Musical Cure for the Blue-State Blues, starting Thursday, April 13th, Off-Broadway at The Triad Theatre, 158 West 72nd Street (between Broadway & Columbus).

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Sean Leonard have been added to the star-filled cast of Symphony Space's Shakespeare birthday celebration marathon on April 23rd

On March 16th, actors Richard Thomas and Leonard Nimoy rehearsed for Story of a Soldier, a music theater piece, at Symphony Space, where the show will be presented as part of Wall to Wall Stravinsky on March 18th

Liev Schreiber, Marcia Gay Harden, Denis O'Hare and many more will take part in Symphony Space's free Shakespeare marathon on April 23rd

Marian Seldes will be honored at Symphony Space's annual gala on May 1st, while Alec Baldwin will be one of the co-chairs of the event

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he Public Theater and Stew are currently in residence at Stanford University through March 11th workshopping Stew's new musical, Passing Strange

The March 13th concert Alternative Torch will feature Broadway stars such as Karmine Alers and Robb Sapp performing torch songs by singer/songwriters of alternative rock

A Highlights CD of 17 tracks from last year's popular Wall to Wall Sondheim concert can now be pre-ordered online

The music of Stephen Schwartz, Jason Robert Brown, Vernon Duke and George Gershwin will be featured in Symphony Space's Broadway and Beyond concert, starring Rebecca Luker, Liz Callaway and others, on February 2nd

The Orphan Singer, a new musical by Barbara Zinn Krieger based on the award-winning book, will feature music by Vivaldi and play performances throughout The Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan

Frances Sternhagen, Richard Thomas and Marian Seldes are among the theatre veterans who will appear in Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story at Symphony Space in February

Jason Robert Brown will be busy with a slew of events in 2006, including concerts, a workshop of his musical 13, and playing Jamie in Reprise!'s one-night-only concert of The Last 5 Years

The music of Vernon Duke, George Gershwin, Stephen Schwartz and Jason Robert Brown will be featured in Symphony Space's Broadway and Beyond concert on February 2nd

A special sneak-peek screening of the film version of Rent followed by a Q&A session with cast members Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Jermaine Heredia and Tracie Thoms was held at Symphony Space on Tuesday, November 22, 2005.

Bea Arthur brought back her one-woman show, now titled Bea Arthur on Broadway & 95th St., to New York on November 21st