Leonard Bernstein News

A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green starring Mallory Portnoy and Nick Blaemire will play its first exclusive New York engagement at the Café Carlyle. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Soundbox Ventures continues its “Listen Hear” Salon Concerts at St. Boniface Episcopal Church with “Celebrating Ned Rorem” on March 8 at 7 p.m.

Composer Jake Landau has gathered friends from Broadway and the West End to present a showcase of his work in musical theater. February 23, he is coming home to roost at Crazy Coqs.

On Friday, March 8, 2024, New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) will release an album drawn from its archives, NYFOS Records: The Singles, Vol. 1 featuring guest artists performing together with pianist and NYFOS Artistic Director Steven Blier on NYFOS Records. Learn more here!

Chicago Cabaret Professionals has announced their 2024 schedule for “Musical Mondays”— with three unique Monday evening cabaret concerts showcasing the talents of more than 40 cabaret artists. Learn more about the series here!

What did our critic think of CANDIDE at Palais Theatre?

Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony, along with violinist Lisa Batiashvili, embark on a three-concert Southern California tour March 20–22.

Chatham Baroque welcomes Grammy-award winning Baroque group, Apollo's Fire, for their 'Violin Fantasy' performance.

On March 9 and 10, 2024, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (MCP) will present Coming Home, a musical journey exploring the yearning inside all humans to find a place we can call home.

Complete casting has been announced for the newly reimagined Broadway production of The Who’s TOMMY.  Find out who is starring in the show here!

Keen Company announces new block of tickets for GLORY DAYS benefit concert featuring Jordan Dobson, Derek Klena, Colton Ryan, and George Salazar. One-night-only event at Symphony Space.

Satellite Collective presents Satellite Tribeca, at Satellite Gallery, 101 Reade Street, Tribeca, NYC from May 9 - 21, 2024 with two weekends of premieres and events from artists across all disciplines, as well as new prints, projections, film and photography from featured artists Kevin Draper and Lora Robertson. For more information, as well as ticketing and registration.

BroadwayWorld chats with virtuoso actor/pianist/filmmaker Hershey Felder about his return to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in his popular 'George Gershwin Alone' & 'Great American Songbook Sing-Along' shows February 7th thru 12th.

Tanglewood has revealed details of its 2024 season, opening in late June through August 31.

Audra McDonald has (at least) four voices--Broadway, jazz, opera, blues--not to mention six Tonys. She brought them all (the voices, not the awards) to her two hour concert with the National Symphony Pops which repeats Wednesday evening, January 31.

What did our critic think of WEST SIDE STORY at Volksoper?

Palm Beach Symphony continues its 50th Anniversary Season on Monday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts with Music Director Gerard Schwarz at the podium and a program featuring guest artist Santiago Rodriguez, a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Rimsky-Korsakov's masterwork Scheherazade.

Netflix and the New York Philharmonic will present selections of the soundtrack from Bradley Cooper's Maestro performed by Members of the New York Philharmonic, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Following the performance Cooper and Nézet-Séguin will have a side-by-side conversation about Leonard Bernstein's life and legacy.

State Theatre New Jersey presents the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra performing an all-Beethoven program on February 17, 2024. The program includes Coriolanus Overture, Piano Concerto No. 5, and Beethoven Symphony No. 7. Joining the orchestra is pianist Ivaylo Vassilev. Don't miss this incredible performance!

Alysha Umphress and Jeff Blumenkrantz have collaborated over the years, chums whose voices complement each other (“It’s ‘Friendship,’ just a perfect blendship” to quote a Cole Porter number.) The room was quite full on a very cold night and the show was full of talent and splendid material, presented with polish and panache.