Musical Theater News

Minneapolis Musical Theatre's "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" is a twangy tuner set in Armadillo Acres, Florida's most exclusive mobile-home court.

Angela Lansbury, the legendary actress, will receive the first Stephen Sondheim Award from Signature Theatre, the company will announce Thursday.

The honor reunites two old friends, as well as artistic talents who are acknowledged innovators in their disciplines and have each forged careers that cover 50 years of theater and music history.

'Angela Lansbury's first appearance on the musical stage was in a show called 'Anyone Can Whistle,' for which I wrote the score. That appearance was a gift to the musical theater, although perhaps not such a gift to her, since the show only ran for nine performances,' Sondheim said in a statement, referring to his 1964 musical. 'I am thrilled that Signature Theatre is helping me make it up to her by giving her the first Stephen Sondheim Award.'

Mixing the seriousness of the founding of our country with the lightheartedness of musical theater does not seem like a winning formula for a play.

Nov 3 - Angela Lansbury returns to musical theater and Catherine Zeta Jones makes her Broadway debut with A Little Night Music, a Stephen Sondheim revival.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:45 p.m. Is "operetta" a fancy synonym for "musical"? THEATER PREVIEW 'Red Hot Operetta' is Oct.

That delectable bit of musical-theater blarney called 'Finian's Rainbow' has found its way back to Broadway for the first time in nearly half a century, its charms undiminished, particularly its buoyant score.

Gesturing to his wife and singing partner Shirley to join in, Joe Romagnoli entertains at the piano in their Fox Chase home.

Kellie B. Gormly can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7824. People attending the all-student version of the classic musical "Les Miserables" at the Byham Theater this week will be amazed by the professional quality of the voices they hear, the director says.

Welcome back to my ongoing series on the history of the Broadway musical and this weekend's installment which concerns the dates of October 24th and 25th.

Single folks in New York are often the stuff of American musical theater. In this theater publicity image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Kate Wetherhead, left, and Jared... In this theater publicity image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Kate Wetherhead, left, and Jared Gertner are shown in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company's production ...

For a woman who co-founded Tulsa's most prolific musical theater company, Kitty Roberts operates under a simple yet reliable gauge when it comes to running American Theatre Company.

Self-mutilation and decapitation and murderous demons are not typically the stuff of musical theater, even at its edgiest or campiest best.

Muhlenberg College theater director Beth Schachter likes quirky dramas. So ''Bat Boy: The Musical,'' the supernatural fable about a half bat/half boy is the perfect choice.

Musical theater students at River Ridge High School rehearse a scene from Bye Bye Birdie, which goes back to the early days of rock 'n' roll.

Welcome to the next installment of my ongoing series of articles about the Broadway Musical.

Kennedy Center Receives $5 Million for Musical Theater Posted by: philcrosby on Thursday, October 22, 2009 The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has received a ten-year, $5 million gift from the Adrienne Arsht Musical Theater Fund to support musical theater performances at the center, the Washington Post reports.

Adam Lambert During season 8 of "American Idol," Adam Lambert became known for blurring boundaries, mixing elements of pop, '70s glam rock, metal, musical theater and more into his live performances.

Those crazy kids at Improv Everywhere are back again, and this time they stepped it up a notch.

Welcome to this weekend's installment of my ongoing series of articles about the Broadway Musical.

Actor Randall Franks, left, and director Robert Townsend pause on the set of Robert Townsend's Music Theater of Hope in August in Newnan, Ga.