Claire Moore News

Ruthless! The Musical runs October 8 - 18, 2009 at Flower Mound Performing Arts Theater Book and Lyrics by Joel Paley, Music by Marvin Laird

Rover Dramawerks opens the musical My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson on Thursday, September 10. Performances will be at the Cox Building Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue in Plano (next to the Courtyard Theater), continuing through October 3, 2009, with shows on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and an additional matinee performance on Saturday, September 19 at 2:00 p.m.

Ruthless! The Musical runs October 8 - 18, 2009 at Flower Mound Performing Arts Theater Book and Lyrics by Joel Paley, Music by Marvin Laird

Rover Dramawerks opens the musical My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson on Thursday, September 10. Performances will be at the Cox Building Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue in Plano (next to the Courtyard Theater), continuing through October 3, 2009, with shows on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and an additional matinee performance on Saturday, September 19 at 2:00 p.m.

A Dax Foundation Presentation of A Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble Production Pericles Redux A Los Angeles Premiere, based on a play by William Shakespeare and conceived and Directed by John Farmanesh-Bocca

London's alternate Christine talks to Carrie Dunn about playing an iconic role, Phantom 2, and her new album...

Following its sell-out success as a gala West End concert in July, A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe will live on in the form of a live highlights recording, released on CD today, Monday 8 December 2008.

'What happens when several composers each try their hand at the same song? What do you get when you combine an amazing theatre composer with a great twentieth-century poet? What happens if you ask a pop composer to write for a string quartet?' Find out the answers on Sunday, 12 October, 2008 at 7:30 p.m., when Artistic Director Joel Fram brings his acclaimed New York New Voices series to London's Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre. An astonishing line-up of cutting-edge musical theatre composers include Jason Robert Brown, Sam Davis, Joel Fram, Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Andrew Lippa, Paul Loesel, Steve Marzullo, Marc Smollin, Georgia Stitt, and Joseph Thalken.

Celebrating 25 years of songwriting by the Olivier Award winning duo of musical theatre composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe, A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe is a one night only charity gala performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on Sunday 6 July 2008, in support of Mercury Musical Developments, a unique organisation working to nurture new British musical theatre writing.

Making their US performing debuts at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on Thursday, October 25 at 8PM are the acclaimed English soprano singer/actress (London's original Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, and Les Miserables) Claire Moore and Spring Awakening's Simon Hale (Strings and Additional Orchestrations) in 'Claire Moore and Simon Hale: Back 2 Back in Concert,' presented by Josephine Buchan.

Another year draws to a close and a new year beckons. Almost as the clock turns between the years we say adieu to Idina and say hello to Kerry, wave a fond goodbye to Caroline or Change and The Producers and welcome the brief return of The Rocky Horror Show and The History Boys. As we sing Auld Lang's Syne, it gives cause to look back on and look forward to the respective years in London theatre.