Nathan Johnson News

Grammy and Tony Award Winner Heather Headley will perform with The New York Pops, in an all-new program on Friday, February 10, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. at Carnegie Hall as part of The New York Pops’ 40th anniversary season.

Barry Kleinbort, multi-award director, composer, lyricist, and librettist joins “Jamie deRoy & friends” as co-host.  He will team with Jamie deRoy, the legendary 10-time Tony Award Broadway Producer and founder of her popular long-running talk show.

Thirty years after cousins Rian and Nathan Johnson began shooting films together as kids growing up in Denver, Colorado, the two have amassed quite the filmography. Their latest in a string of acclaimed movies is GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, which Rian wrote and directed and Nathan scored.

After thirty days, we conclude the Broadway World Cabaret look at artists for whom our team feels thanks. Here they all are, together, with some thanks of our own.

Broadway World Cabaret is looking at the work of a woman we call THE QUEEN OF COMEDY.

Multi-Award Winning Director/Choreographer Chet Walker passed away peacefully on  ​​​​​​​Friday, October 21, 2022, at his home in Cornelius, North Carolina, from a glioblastoma tumor.  His devoted husband Jack, their beloved daughter Charlie, and close family were at his side.

On Monday, October 17, Julie Halston returned to the Birdland stage after two-and-a-half years of global pandemic Zoom Meetings and Green Screens. The Tony-winning actress/comedienne brought her new show “De-Classified,” in which she assesses the state of the world, the state of her life and the state of her hair.

Nominations have been announced for the eighth annual Bobby G Awards by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA). Find out who's on the list!

The National Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Steven Reineke, will perform lush orchestrations of classic Disney songs featuring celebrated Broadway stars in a weekend of performances on Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. 

Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story,” “Snow White”) will provide the voice of “Princess Ellian,” the lead role in Apple's new animated musical feature, “Spellbound.” The film will feature an original score from Academy Award-winner Alan Menken, with lyrics by Glenn Slater.

I was so fortunate to see Disney Princess - The Concert in Minneapolis at the State Theatre last night. It was such a fun magical Broadway Disney evening! Check out my review here! The cast was so talented and the production was just everything a diehard Disney fan could ever want!

Ariana DeBose took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the recent film adaptation of West Side Story. The film also won in the Best Film Editing category.

Disney princesses are heading into the unknown... or rather, all over the country this winter as Disney Princess- The Concert launches its 83-city US tour.

In his never-ending quest to spotlight great talent across the country, host Jim Caruso took his Cast Party to the Franklin Theatre just outside of Nashville for a rip-roarin’ celebration.  Nashville is nicknamed “Music City” for good reason.  The city’s passionate obsession with the history and creation of music is palpable.  Almost everyone has a demo, a lead sheet, a song in their hearts, or on their hard drives! 

School of Drama Junior Music Theater Ensemble Presents Annual Cabaret SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, featuring the Stephen Flaherty songbook. 

Irreverent is a fish out of water drama that follows criminal mediator Paulo Keegan (Donnell) as he flees the United States after a mediation gone wrong and assumes the identity of Reverend Mackenzie “Mack” Boyd.

Produced for Apple TV+ by A24, “Mr. Corman” is created by, directed by and executive produced by Gordon-Levitt along with Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ravi Nandan and Inman Young. Pamela Harvey-White serves as producer.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced that Tony Award nominee Daniel J. Watts will join playwright Ngozi Anyanwu in the cast of the world premiere production of The Last of the Love Letters, directed by Patricia McGregor. Casting for an additional role will be announced at a later date.

The Sauk, Hillsdale County's community theatre, will reopen at full capacity with 'Peter and the Starcatcher' in August. The cast has been announced and rehearsals are underway. In 'Peter and the Starcatcher,' a young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff.

Maggie Bera, founder of Actor Aesthetic and creator of the viral Tik Tok sensation “Broadway Stars in Shows They Were Definitely Not In”, is no stranger to performing.