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Shakespeare & Co. Turns Into Broadway & Co. for Evening Benefit

(LENOX, Mass.) – For one night only, Shakespeare & Company will throw away the Bard’s texts in favor of show tunes, when the theater company’s ensemble is joined by a host of talent from Broadway and opera stages for Broadway in the Berkshires, the annual benefit dinner and performance for the company’s internationally-acclaimed education and…

Cabaret Star Ann Hampton Callaway Brings ‘Standards’ to Club Helsinki Hudson

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Jazz-pop vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway brings her cabaret show, “Celebrating The Great American Songbook,” to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, July 7, at 7pm, as part of the Helsinki on Broadway series presented in association with Showstoppers. Returning to Club Helsinki by popular demand, Callaway presents the best of Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers,…

Broadway Musical Star Betty Buckley to Perform at Mahaiwe

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Tony Award-winning singer and actress Betty Buckley performs at the Mahaiwe in Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway on Sunday, August 19, 2012, at 7pm. The concert features Buckley performing men’s songs from Broadway shows that she has always wanted to sing, including numbers from Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Guys…

Barbara Cook and John Pizzarelli Team Up for Duo Show at Mahaiwe

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The so-called Great American Songbook will be the script from which Broadway musical star Barbara Cook and jazz singer-guitarist John Pizzarelli will read when they join forces for an exclusive duet concert at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, August 4, 2012, at 8 p.m. Cook’s silvery soprano, purity of…

Leslie Kritzer Sings Jule Styne at Barrington Stage

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Broadway musical theater star Leslie Kritzer performs an evening of songs by Jule Styne in Hello, Gorgeous! Leslie Kritzer Sings Jule Styne at Barrington Stage Company on Monday, July 30, 2012, at 7pm on the mainstage. Kritzer, a two-time Drama Desk Award nominee who won everyone’s hearts with her portrayal of ‘Adelaide’…

Broadway Stars Join Jacob’s Pillow School Benefit Performance

Program Director Chet Walker and Broadway veteran Dana Moore in A Jazz Happening (2010), a Benefit Event for The School at Jacob’s Pillow (photo Christopher Duggan/courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow)

(BECKET, Mass.) – Broadway stars including Trent Kowalik (Billy Elliot), Dana Moore (Fosse), and Andy Gale (Les Miserables) will lend their voices and dance moves to the fifth annual A Jazz Happening in the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on Sunday, August 21 at 8pm. This one-night-only benefit event, which celebrates the…

Musical Revue to Benefit Shakespeare & Co’s Education and Training Programs

Shakespeare & Company member Deborah Grausman produces and performs in 'Broadway in the Berkshires'

(LENOX, Mass.) — Broadway in the Berkshires, a musical revue featuring an array of Broadway’s greatest hits performed by an all-star cast of Broadway talent, takes place at Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre on Monday, August 15 at 6. Proceeds will go to Shakespeare & Company’s internationally acclaimed Education and Training Programs. Producer and company…

Donna McKechnie Performs Musical Cabaret at Mahaiwe

Donna McKechnie

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Tony Award-winning star of the original cast of A Chorus Line, Donna McKechnie, will perform My Musical Comedy Life on Sunday, July 10, 2011, at 7 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The one-woman show garnered McKechnie a Mac Award Nomination for Best Female Singer and the Backstage Bistro Award…