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  • THE DRAMA DESK ORCHESTRATION CONTROVERSY

    I’ve always sort of liked the Drama Desk Awards. Over the years, I’ve appreciated that they really did try to be inclusive of a wide swath of New York theater, not just big-money Broadway shows, and they made interesting choices that no one predicted but that I generally agreed with. (I have won several Drama…

  • CULTURE ALERT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!

    On March 31, the amazing Anika Noni Rose will join me and a blazing eight-piece band for a one-night-only blowout at the gorgeous BROAD STAGE in Santa Monica! Anika and I did this concert for two sold-out nights in London’s West End, then for three incredible evenings at the Abrons Arts Center in New York…

  • SO I HAD THIS FRIEND.

    So I had this friend. An old girlfriend, actually, who is now (I swear this is true) a Christian missionary who serves mostly in Thailand. And last night she posted, as her Facebook status, a statement supporting Kirk Cameron and his ignorant, hateful anti-gay, anti-gay-marriage rhetoric. It’s not all that surprising, I guess – she’s…

  • HONEYMOON IN VEGAS Equity Chorus Call 3/13 in NY

    Honeymoon In Vegas – Equity Chorus Call / Dancers Toronto / Production Contract Category: Performer Description: Toronto / Production Contract $1,703/week minimum. Producers: Dena Hammerstein, Roy Gabay, Dan Farah, Katie Face Productions Score: Jason Robert Brown Book: Andrew Bergman Dir: Gary Griffin Choreo: Denis Jones Mus Dir: Thomas Murray Casting: Jim Carnahan & Stephen Kopel…

  • “BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY” Workshop News

    Kelli O’Hara to Star in ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Musical Workshop By PATRICK HEALY The director Bartlett Sher and the actress Kelli O’Hara, who collaborated previously on the Tony Award-winning revival of “South Pacific” and the musical “Light in the Piazza,” will reunite for a developmental workshop in New York this month of their latest…