This month Brooke Shields steps into the starring role of Broadway's Tony-Award winning Wonderful Town revival; 25 of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic are ...
George Hanson pretty much pegged it last year when he announced plans to celebrated famed conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein during the 2018 Tucson Desert Song Festival. The world would be watching, ...
The 2023 film “Maestro,” directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, will chronicle the life of Leonard Bernstein. The movie focuses the composer's 27-year romance with his wife; less well-known is his ...
In 1950, a production of Peter Pan — using the J.M. Barrie text, but tricked out with eight Leonard Bernstein songs and a buzzy, jazzy score — sprinkled its fairy dust on Broadway. It had its ups ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. To treat the Santa Barbara Theatre revival of J.M. Barrie’s beloved 1904 ...
In 1959, Leonard Bernstein took part in a televised celebration of Harry Truman’s 75th birthday. That same year, at the behest of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he helped thaw the Cold War by ...
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Audiences viewing Steven Spielberg’s new “West Side Story” will see many differences from the 1961 version, including a younger cast, revised screenplay and new choreography. What hasn’t changed is ...
The son of a Broadway composer, Bill Charlap seems to have the standard jazz repertoire in his blood. His is a resolutely mainstream approach, in the vein if not always the style of Oscar Peterson, ...