The Stronger Revival

With frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in the news due to actor Bruce Willis fighting the disease for several years, I decided to speak with playwright Jake Broder, an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, about his motivation to create Unravelled and his research on the disease.

'The Giggling Granny,' a solo play written for Marilyn Chris by Marsha Lee Sheiness, will be presented by Theater for the New City, in January. Learn more here!

What MasterVoices does is very special. The lush one-night-only production of STRIKE UP THE BAND on 10/28 revived and revised a Gershwin/Kaufman show with a full orchestra, 145-person chorus, dancers and a star-studded, superb principal cast. MasterVoices’ 2024-25 season continues next year on February 3 and 4 with Blind Injustice.

MasterVoices opens its 2024-25 season on 10/29 with Strike Up the Band, a rarely revived Gershwin work. With its soaring melodies, infectious syncopation, and lyrics that both provoke and delight, this lavish production will feature dancers and the 120-person MasterVoices chorus. Read a conversation with Ted Sperling about the new revision.

The new Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman musical Harmony opens on Broadway tonight. Read the reviews!

The Ancram Opera House (AOH) will start the new year with the announcement of a grant award totaling $40,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.

Opera San José has announced it will cancel all performances of Mozart's The Magic Flute, its 2019-20 season finale at the California Theatre, due to rising concerns about limiting the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and in accordance with Santa Clara County's ban effective midnight tonight on all events with more than 1,000 attendees.

The Playhouse San Antonio has rebranded and officially becomes The Public Theater of San Antonio. The new name takes effect immediately.

For 15 years, LUCHA VaVOOM has been delivering arguably the most electrifying shows on earth with a mind-blowing mix of Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque and comedy. On August 3 at the Mayan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles

Five moments when Broadway songwriters risked shocking and angering patrons with discomforting truths.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. The BWW Chicago Awards are taking submissions! Plus there's a CST cast album, a new 'Gypsy,' 'Show Boat' on TV, and the 'My Fair Lady' film in theaters. Davenport's has interesting shows, a new project gives us an unknown musical, CCT premieres one, Cult Camp stages an obscure one, and Broadway In Chicago announces its 2016 subscription series!

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) presents 'LACO @ The Movies Celebrates Walt Disney Animation Studios,' an extraordinary evening of musical world premieres and eye-popping animation spanning more than 80 years with orchestral scores performed live by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by six-time Emmy Award-winning composer Mark Watters, on Saturday, June 13, 2015, 7 pm, at The Theatre at Ace Hotel, an historic movie palace in Downtown LA.

Haydn's oratorio The Creation (Die Schopfung) depicts nothing less than the creation of the world, based on the Bible's Book of Genesis and Book of Psalms, and Milton's Paradise Lost. It is the work with which the Oratorio Society of New York (OSNY), New York's standard for grand choral performance, will open its 2014-15 season at Carnegie Hall on Monday, November 3, 2014, at 8:00 PM. OSNY Music Director Kent Tritle will conduct The Creation in its German language version, and the three soloists - representing the archangels Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael - are Susanna Phillips, soprano; Aaron Blake, tenor; and Sidney Outlaw, baritone.

Producer of the Cape Playhouse, and Chief Executive of the Cape Cod Center for the Arts, Mark Cuddy, today announced that Joseph Guglielmo has been appointed to the newly created position of General Manager of the Playhouse and Center for the Arts campus. He begins full-time on January 20th, and will report directly to Cuddy.

Hippos George and Martha may seem like opposites, but they can't help making each other howl with laughter in George & Martha: Tons of Fun, today, March 1-17 at The Rose. Even the best of partnerships have their rough spots, and when George gets caught trying to read Martha's diary, and then refuses to let Martha in his secret club, the two stop talking. Can they find a way to save their friendship? Find out in this hilarious musical about the ups and downs of friendship, told with the help of a Crocodile, Pig and Dog.

Hippos George and Martha may seem like opposites, but they can't help making each other howl with laughter in George & Martha: Tons of Fun, March 1-17 at The Rose. Even the best of partnerships have their rough spots, and when George gets caught trying to read Martha's diary, and then refuses to let Martha in his secret club, the two stop talking. Can they find a way to save their friendship? Find out in this hilarious musical about the ups and downs of friendship, told with the help of a Crocodile, Pig and Dog.

Kathleen Spehar Hansen, Managing Director of the History Theatre, has accepted a position as Director of the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium on the campus of St. Catherine University in St. Paul.

Kathleen Spehar Hansen, Managing Director of the History Theatre, has accepted a position as Director of the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium on the campus of St. Catherine University in St. Paul.

The Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winning Mint Theater Company will present Rachel Crothers's comedy, A Little Journey, opening Monday June 6th at the Mint's home in the heart of the theater district, 311 West 43rd Street.

The Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winning Mint Theater Company today announced the cast for Rachel Crothers's comedy, A Little Journey, beginning May 12th and continuing through July 10th at the Mint's home in the heart of the theater district, 311 West 43rd Street

The Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winning Mint Theater Company today announced the cast for Rachel Crothers's comedy, A Little Journey, beginning May 12th and continuing through July 10th at the Mint's home in the heart of the theater district, 311 West 43rd Street

The Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winning Mint Theater Company today announced the cast for Rachel Crothers's comedy, A Little Journey, beginning May 12th and continuing through July 10th at the Mint's home in the heart of the theater district, 311 West 43rd Street