Musical Theater News

The curtain fell Monday on one of the South Bay's longest-running cultural institutions, as American Musical Theatre of San Jose announced it was ceasing operations and filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

When he was a freshman at Regina High, Josh Ollendick had a small role in the school's production of "Up the Down Staircase." "That was my first role and I fell in love with theater after that," said Ollendick, ...

The musical theater students at MusicWorks! Studio of Performing Arts are ready to celebrate "Grinchmas". More than 80 young people are working together to create a musical version of the holiday classic, "How ...

Jonathan Groff insists that taking the role of Billy Noone in Craig Lucas' new play Prayer for My Enemy , now in previews at Playwrights Horizons, isn't part of some conscious game plan to make people think ...

Tigard's Broadway Rose Theatre Company will start its first year-round season in 2009.

Tonight-Sunday. $14-$43. Broadway Across America-Atlanta, Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St.

It was in 1992 that the American Broadway musical made a comeback with the premiere of "Crazy for You" - an adaptation of the George and Ira Gershwin 1930 hit "Girl Crazy." A song and dance musical gem, under ...

Those wacky nuns from Mount Saint Helen's School are returning to Southern Utah in St.

Growing up, Janelle Monae felt constrained by the limited resources offered to her in her greater Kansas City, KS, home.

Should a theater person's private political beliefs affect his employment? That's a major question being wrestled with nationally in the arts community, and I've seen it rear its ugly head in Vegas.

The year doesn't matter, only the time. It's early in the morning and everyone has to use the loo.

Consider the music Leonard Bernstein composed for "On the Town." It's among the musical theater's most youthful and exuberant.

High-intensity and outstanding vocal talent prevail in two musical theater productions now enjoying brief local engagements - "West Side Story" at UCI's Irvine Barclay Theater and "The Color Purple" at the ...

It may be cold outside but it will feel like summer inside North Shore Music Theatre as it is transformed into the Lava Springs Country Club for DISNEY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2. Following the first Disney High ...

The red carpet is rolling out in Los Angeles. No, ita s not the Emmys, the Grammys or the Academy Awards.

The Human Race Theatre Company is taking applications for the second annual Stephen Schwartz Musical Theatre Scholarships.

Andrea Horath and Joe Ford in a oeHeaven and Hell,a a series of scenes from major operas and Broadway musicals, to be presented Friday by the music department at the College of Charleston.

Here's what's happening on Theater Talk! This Week... Stephen Daldry Friday, November 14th on Thirteen 1:00 AM A conversation with Stephen Daldry , the director of the beloved film Billy Elliot , as well as the ...

Last Year, emerging Providence-based cabaret singer, John Abernathy catapulted himself to prominence with his show "Live Out Loud," an extremely well crafted and entertaining evening of songs written by out gay ...

Scott Eckern, artistic director of California Musical Theatre, has resigned over his $1,000 contribution to the Prop 8 campaign .