Cole Porter News

2. Today in Public Meetings: According to the town website, the only public meeting posted for today is a School Committee executive session, at 4:45 p.m. at the Central Administration Building, to discuss collective bargaining.

Cazz Blase listens to Laura Mvula's debut album, Sing to the Moon, and finds there is much more to her wider output than the upbeat single 'Green Garden' would suggest Birmingham singer/songwriter Laura Mvula has a degree in composition from the Birmingham Conservatoire, learned the music composition app GarageBand while working as a supply teacher ... (more)

Tony-Award winning singer/actress Christine Ebersole performs Strings Attached with jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein and his trio for the annual Kathryn W. Stein Memorial Concert May 16 at 4 PM at the 92nd Street Y. Ebersole and the trio perform classic standards from the 20s and 30s including "Jitterbug Waltz" by Fats Waller , "Ev'ry Time We Say ... (more)

Nemasket River Productions presents its 11th annual fundraiser, "Delightful, Delicious, De-Lovely," a musical cabaret of Cole Porter songs, at the new Boston Tavern restaurant , on Saturday, June 1 at 7 p.m. "Night and Day," "I Get A Kick Out of You," "You're the Top," "Begin the Beguine," "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" - some of the cleverest, ... (more)

It's just one of those things for Ross Alzina and Cindy Brillhart-True in "Let's Misbehave," an original comedy centered on the songs of composer Cole Porter opening Thursday, May 16.

The Park City Singers, conducted by Debra Cook, will perform the works of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter at St.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald sat down to write The Great Gatsby in the summer of 1924 he was one of the US's hottest young writers, enjoying the expat's high life on the French Riviera and mixing with luminaries such as John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Cole Porter.

"Lady Mountbatten sues over claims of an affair with black singer" ran British newspaper headlines in July 1932.

Thanks to the tenacity of a director and a talented cast, fans of Cole Porter can get to know the composer's 1937 musical, "You Never Know," currently getting first-rate treatment at Prince George's Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse.

The Warner Stage Company will present Cole Porter 's six time Tony Award-Winning Musical Anything Goes this weekend at the Warner.

During March's Behind The Curtain Festival, as I watched semi-staged readings of Meghan O'Connor's In The Wings and Stuart Bousel's Pastorella , my mind wandered to the topic of musicals that deal with backstage life.

It is probably human nature to want to wrap things up in neat little packages, to summarize and categorize, to get a definite handle on a particular subject, to grasp central themes and premises -- in other words, to put complicated subject matter in simpler terms.

American songbook fans will get a kick out of the New Vic Theatre show where anything goes, featuring songs that will get under your skin.

Today, May 4 through May 12, the Warner Stage Company will present Cole Porter 's six time Tony Award-Winning Musical Anything Goes.

Marcia Ragonetti and Steven Taylor star in ?A De-Lovely Evening with Cole Porter," a benefit for the Pikes Peak Opera League.

Raphael Talisman/For The Gazette From left, Ken Kemp as Baron Romer, Michael Iacone as Gaston, Nora Biddle as Madam Baltin and Christa Kronser as Maria in the Prince George's Little Theatre production of Cole Porter's "You Never Know." Raphael Talisman/For The Gazette Ken Kemp, of Gaithersburg, as Baron de Romer and Nora Biddle, of Edgewater, as ... (more)

There will be nearly 100 voices on stage at the Tempus Choral Society's spring concert on Saturday .

Lena Horne was a movie star, one of the most glamorous women in the world and a stylish singer.

Diana Krall has built a memorable career as an interpreter of the music of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and their contemporaries, their heyday lasting roughly from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Forestall your doom and gloom -- the future is in good hands. Why? My husband and I recently attended a dynamic performance of the Teen Jazz Project at the Firehouse Stage.