Broadway Actress and Producer Paige Price has been named Artistic Director for Theatre Aspen where she will launch her inaugural season in June with Little Shop of Horrors. The rest of the summer season will include Rounding Third, and Crimes of the Heart. Price, who starred on Broadway in Saturday Night Fever, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Smokey Joe's Café, first discovered Theatre Aspen when she appeared in their 2007 production of The Last Five Years.
Pittsburgh CLO, in conjunction with the families of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, will present the 10th Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theater to siblings Kathleen Marshall and Rob Marshall. The ceremony will be held in conjunction with the 2008 Pink Frolic Ball on May 10, 2008, at the Omni William Penn Hotel. This awards ceremony will mark the first time that the Richard Rodgers Award will be presented to two Broadway professionals.
Kleynkunst! is a fascinating and entertaining look at Warsaw's Yiddish cabaret between the world wars while the very funny Chuckleball is Forbidden Broadway for the sports nut.
The Paper Mill's joyous mounting of Meet Me In St. Louis and the 75th Anniversay production of The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular are both classic entertainment done right
Coyote REP celebrates its second season with the Rising Moon Gala and Fundraiser on November 3 at 8PM, with cocktails, reception and auction at The Players' Club. Entertainment will be provided by award-winning actor John Epperson (aka Lypsinka) and Broadway stars of In the Heights, Mandy Gonzalez and Chris Jackson, followed by a presentation of the 'Moon' Awards.
Dozens of theatre stars are among the nominees of the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be broacast live from L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, September 16th at 8 PM on FOX.
Continuing its long standing partnership with ASCAP, MAC has announced the next MAC/ASCAP Songwriter's Showcase, Wednesday, June 6th at 6pm at the Laurie Beechman Theater, hosted by Jamie deRoy and featuring special guest, composer and lyricist Carol Hall with singer Laurel Masse and musical director Tex Arnold
Fans of singer/composer Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) will have a unique opportunity to meet him when he joins LIFEbeat: The Music Industry Fights AIDS supporters following his Tuesday, May 15 Society for Ethical Culture concert.
Rob Marshall, director of the critically acclaimed NBC television special TARGET PRESENTS: TONY BENNETT/AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety for 2006 at the 59th Annual DGA Awards ceremony held Saturday, February 3 in Los Angeles.
The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has begun planning its line-up for the 2007/2008 season, which will include the West Coast premiere of Wendy Wasserstein's final play, Third, and a world premiere musical co-conceived by Larry Gelbart and David Zippel entitled The Best is Yet to Come, featuring songs by the legendary Cy Coleman.
