On January 20th at 10 AM, Tony Award-winning The Drowsy Chaperone star Sutton Foster will guest star on John Tartaglia's Disney Channel show 'Johnny and the Sprites.'
On an upcoming episode of SCRUBS, D'Abruzzo plays a medical patient who checks in to the hospital complaining of hearing incessant music. The hospital is very quickly turned into a stage. I checked in with D'Abruzzo to get the full scoop!
On Monday, February 26, producers Derek Collard and Gary Maffei are pleased to present 'MY FIRST TIME,' an all-star Broadway concert to benefit Quality Services for the Autistic Community (QSAC). Directed by Igor Goldin ('A Ritual of Faith') with musical direction by David Andrews Rogers, 'MY FIRST TIME' will take place at New World Stages (340 West 50th St.) at 7 p.m.
The Board of Directors and the Executive Director/ Producer of The ColumnTheatre Awards have announced that film and stage star Christian Campbell, Tony Award-nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo, and theatre veteran and 'Ugly Betty' star Michael Urie will appear at the 2007 Column Awards Gala on Monday February 26th, 2007
For the third year running, the Greenwich Theatre presents the groundbreaking 'The Ten Minute Musical Challenge'. Originally devised by Ellie Jones in 2005, this year's challenge will be directed by Fiona Laird. The challenge is designed to bring together composers, bookwriters and lyricists who have not worked together before, to forge new collaborations and encourage these creative teams to work fast enough to produce a ten minute musical in just one day, from the stimulus of stories in that day's newspaper.
For the fourth consecutive year, AVENUE Q has set a box office record at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th St.) on Broadway. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical broke its own box office record -- yet again -- with an all-time high of $665,181 for the week ending December 31, 2006.
Ann Harada, Klea Blackhurst, Heidi Blickenstaff and more will perform in a reading of the new musical Gay Grimms on Thursday, January 11th at 7:30 PM at the York Theatre Company
The York Theatre Company, James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, and Jeff Landsman, Series Coordinator, will present as part of its Developmental Reading Series the first reading of Gay Grimms on Thursday, January 11th at 7:30. The York Theatre Company is located in The Theatre at Saint Peter's Church, 54th Street just east of Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Admission is free. For reservations, call: 212-935-5824, ext. 24.
Another year draws to a close and a new year beckons. Almost as the clock turns between the years we say adieu to Idina and say hello to Kerry, wave a fond goodbye to Caroline or Change and The Producers and welcome the brief return of The Rocky Horror Show and The History Boys. As we sing Auld Lang's Syne, it gives cause to look back on and look forward to the respective years in London theatre.
The London production of Avenue Q at the Noël Coward Theatre (formely the Albery Theatre) has scheduled a 'Midnight Matinee' for Monday 22nd January 2007. The performance will be a special event to raise funds for TheatreCares, the proceeds of which will be invaluable to people affected by HIV and AIDS. Beginning at 11:30pm, long after all of the other West End theatres have locked up for the night, the performance will run through midnight into the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Broadway at Birdland, a series of Monday night concerts featuring top theater and nightclub stars and songwriters, has announced the January/February schedule
Avenue Q's Jordan Gelber will star in the Katharsis Theater Company's World Premiere production of The Polish Play: A Conflation of Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, devised and directed by 2004 Drama Desk-nominee Henry Wishcamper
Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman, the producers of the new
musical IN THE HEIGHTS, are pleased to announce specially priced preview
tickets during its four-week preview period.
The producers of the new Broadway musical High Fidelity have announced they will have 13 $26.25 rush tickets available for the opening night of High Fidelity on Thursday, December 7th
The creators of Avenue Q will be joined by Kate Monster and other cast members from the Tony-winning musical at this Live at Lincoln event featuring a special musical performance to celebrate Avenue Q: The Book-the complete guide to the quirky, fantastically funny Broadway show.
The Menier's revival offers a refreshing break from the barrage of blockbuster musicals currently playing in the West End, and even manages to surpass them for entertainment value.