Cole Porter News

Pictured above are four ladies who helped entertain a full house at the Black River Academy Museum this past Saturday as they, along with other members of the cast, supplied appropriate musical numbers to salute Valentine's Day.

Adam Garcia has confirmed he will be playing Bill Calhoun in Sir Trevor Nunn 's forthcoming production of Kiss Me Kate at Chichester.

Cole Porter 's "Anything Goes" is near the top of any short list of great Broadway musicals, and fans have a choice of four performances this weekend in Annapolis or Brooklyn Park .

A good Cole Porter song - is there another kind? - is like a fine wine. Just when you think it can't get better, it reveals new complexities.

The stars from past Fairfield Follies shows will visit Bridgeport's Downtown Cabaret Theatre to dazzle audiences with their professional talents in a review of Cole Porter 's musical gems.

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a Valentine's Day concert of classic love songs side by side with soundtrack clips of love scenes from the films that made them popular hits.

Park residents can expect to be bowled over this weekend as Live Arts presents Cole Porter's zany classic musical "Anything Goes" Feb.

Kisses on the Bottom , Paul McCartney 's cheekily titled new set of standards , isn't the first such set from a Beatle.

It was only a matter of time before Paul McCartney would release an album of standards. After all, this is the man who wrote such throwback tunes as "Your Mother Should Know," "When I'm Sixty-Four," "Honey Pie," "You Gave Me the Answer," and the lesser-known "A Room with a View." In various interviews, McCartney has also cited his love of Tin Pan Alley, Cole Porter, and Fred Astaire, who performed so many classic and iconic tracks.

The upcoming season of the Chichester Festival Theatre will feature Kim Cattrall leading Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , a Trevor Nunn-directed revival of Kiss Me Kate and more.

Welcome to BWW's New Daily ON THIS DAY Series celebrating theatrical birthdays, openings and special events that took place on this day in theatre history! Happy Birthday, John Guare ! He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body.

Resting horizontally atop a row of tomes about Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Bing Crosby and other figures associated with the so-called Great American Songbook on a tightly packed bookshelf in Paula West's Nob Hill apartment is a short stack about Bob Dylan.

Cole Porter's playful and romantic pop songs from the mid-20th century come to life in Oregon Cabaret Theatre's new dramatic revue.

If the weird, dreary weather is getting you down in Nashville this week, take heart and stand fast.

There is a wide range of activities and events available to you and yours this weekend, and as is Get Out's mission, they are recounted for you below.

In 1932, "Mad About The Boy," a tender ballad about unrequited love written by Noel Coward, was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre in London, UK.

Terra Community College's Jazz and American Music Studies presents, "The Michael Shirtz Quartet Plays the Music of Cole Porter and More" at 7:30 p.m. Feb.

When a musical voice is discovered so young, it always captures the listener with amazement that so much can emanate from something so early in their talent.

There are a handful of clubs whose names immediately elicit memories of historic concerts and amazing performances.

The foundation's premier concert event "Play It Forward!," a benefit concert for the students of the Walnut Creek School District and Las Lomas High School, will take place 7:30 p.m. May 3 at the Lesher Center for the Arts.