Debra Barsha News Today

Goodspeed Musicals has announced the cast for A Complicated Woman, a new musical about embracing your true identity that features a gender-diverse cast. A Complicated Woman will appear at Goodspeed's Terris Theatre from May 10 – June 2 in Chester, Conn.

The board of The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation will honor lyricist/composer Sheilah Rae at a private reception on April 20, 2023 at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South.

The Rainbow Lullaby, featuring performances from Jenn Collella, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Caitlin Kinnunen, and more, is out now from Broadway Records.

Eleri Ward: A Perfect Little Death - A Perfect Little Death called an incandescent new record that is something genuinely new from American Theater Magazine features 13 songs varying from The Ballad of Sweeney Todd to Loving You to Take Me to the World, leading you through an acoustical Sondheim journey the evokes golden hour. Blossoming from a spontaneous Instagram cover of Every Day a Little Death in 2019, Eleri has now crafted this project to be her own niche at the crossroads of musical thea...

Bernstein: Candide - Marin Alsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein's riotous satirical operetta, Candide. Made almost three decades after the composer's own iconic recording with the Orchestra, Alsop's new version was captured during celebratory concerts marking Bernstein's centenary year, and features an outstanding array of soloists, including Leonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cun gonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (The Old Lady)...