A weekly column on Baltimore/Washington Theater and Broadway.
Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy (LACCTA) will present the World Premiere of a new musical comedy, 'THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X,' with a book by award-winning writers, David Wechter and LACCTA alumna, Bruce Kimmel, who also wrote the Music and Lyrics for the show.
Curt Columbus is the new Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory Company. On September 20, 2006 he will have his first opening night of his first show at Trinity, He is directing Anton Chekhov's 'Cherry Orchard', which he also translated.
Mamma Mia Benefit! Spotlighters news and a discount for readers! News of Vags, FPCT, CenterStage, Everyman and BOTH Toby's Locations!
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Broadway's most raucous ensemble - the very talented cast of Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. The show's 'Comedy All Stars' features Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong, Capathia Jenkins and Nicole Parker all of whom sat with us to dish the dirt and give us the scoop on the hilarious show.
Complete scheduling information has been announced for the New York Musical Theatre Festival
With no less than 8 major musicals opening in Fall 2006 in London, which ones are steaming ahead and which ones lagging behind? Jake takes a look and finds out..
Musical director and producer Brian J. Nash shares the diary that he wrote aboard Rosie's Family Cruise, which featured performances by Audra McDonald, Cyndi Lauper and more!
A weekly column on Broadway, Baltimore, and Washington Theater
On Sunday night, June 11th, Broadway puts on its biggest show of the year...and theatre lovers on the West Coast will be flocking to the Skirball Center in L.A. for the Actors' Fund Tony Awards Party. The evening will be hosted by Sam Harris and will honor his longtime pal, Liza Minnelli, who will receive the Julie Harris Lifetime Achievement Award. I was lucky enough to catch Liza and Sam together in NY to talk about what is sure to be a great night, their history together and lots more...
The New York Musical Theatre Festival is pleased to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's Next Link Project, to be presented as part of the third-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 10 through October 1, 2006.
Playwright Marsha Norman is nominated for Best Book for The Color Purple, and tells us about the challenges of bringing that show to the stage and more...
Second Stage's 2006-2007 season will include plays by Eric Bogosian, Terrence McNally and Theresa Rebeck
An interview with 5 of San Francisco's 'Spelling Bee' cast members.
The Taking of Miss Janie garnered him an Obie
Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1975.
A visitor walking into the Avatar recording studio in New York City last May was greeted with the most stirring rendition of Stephen Sondheim's 'Too Many Mornings'. The voices of Marin Mazzie and her husband, Jason Danieley, were so exceptionally suited to the music that a new dimension was added to the material.
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
After 15 years away from the Broadway stage, and well-known as a romantic lead, British star Michael Ball is making his return to Broadway in the most anti-type of roles - Count Fosco in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White. Before being buried under latex, and a fat suit for an evening show, the star gave BroadwayWorld the scoop.
The National Theatre of Great Britain's production of Alan Bennett's THE HISTORY BOYS, will open on Sunday, April 23, 2006 on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) with the National's acting company for a 20-week limited engagement.
Broadway In Chicago announces today that Billy Crystal will bring 700 SUNDAYS, his 2005 Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster to Chicago for a limited engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) from November 8-20, 2005.
Greg Jbara is currently starring as Andre in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and we sat down recently in his dressing room to speak about the show, his career, his love of New York and lots more…
Billy Elliot cancels his first three previews, Jerry's Opera tour is postponed and Frodo goes to Canada!
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