Richard Allen News

Filmmaker Richard Linklater may be working on a new film called Blue Moon, about songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Edward Allen Baker's one-act play NORTH OF PROVIDENCE will be featured at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2024, showcasing a powerful domestic crisis narrative at The Stephanie Feury Theatre in Los Angeles. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Allen Center in Newton, MA, will celebrate Juneteenth with Forever Free, a  concert of music that honors freedom and equality on June 19th with performances at 2 pm and 6 pm.

Academy Award-winning composer Richard M. Sherman has passed away. Good Morning America paid tribute to Sherman on a recent segment on the morning show, featuring a clip from a 2023 interview with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Check out the video here.

The Green Room 42 will host a tribute to the legendary Little Richard with the concert reading of 'The Architect of Rock & Roll.' This vibrant celebration captures Little Richard's meteoric rise from the heart of Georgia to the pinnacle of rock & roll fame.

Composer Richard M. Sherman passed away at 95 due to age-related illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, on Saturday, May 25th.

In a new interview, director Richard Linklater has praised Paul Mescal, who is playing Franklin Shephard in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. The movie, based on the Sondheim musical that is currently on Broadway, is being shot every couple of years over the course of 20 years.

 The Black Feathers will play in concert on Thursday, June 20, at The Allen Center in West Newton (MA).

Terry’s Richard is a hyper masculine misogynist grunting, lumbering, and bruising his way to the throne.

Tony winner Richard Maltby Jr. will direct a new revue for Weathervane's 2024 season, featuring a mix of classic and contemporary musical numbers.

Richard and Donna Lynch have announced last week's debut of their brand-new radio show, 'Keepin' It Country with Richard and Donna Lynch.' The show premiered on May 11, 2024, on the Real Roots Radio network.

Monday, June 17, 2024 will be the American Popular Song Society 3rd Annual Gala Benefit. It will honor the award winning Richard Maltby, Jr.  and David Shire with a Lifetime Achievement Award at The Cutting Room.

Is a Richard Simmons musical coming to Broadway? Not quite yet, but beloved fitness personality recently took to X to share that something could be in the works. 

Rising country artist Jay Allen releases his highly anticipated new single, 'Better Now.” Following the success of his previous singles, “New Girl” and 'No Present Like The Time,' the release of “Better Now” drops just in time for Mental Health Awareness Month throughout May. Listen to the new song! 

Discover the 2024 award winner and grant recipients announced by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.

Opera UCLA, a collaboration between The Herb Alpert School of Music and the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, will present the world premiere of Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour’s new opera, The Grand Hotel Tartarus.

In the summer of 1962, Sir Laurence Olivier invited lighting designer Richard Pilbrow to 'sort out the bloody awful lighting' at Chichester Theatre two days before it opened. Pilbrow replied there was nothing he could do in so short a time. 'Well, you're no bloody use, are you?' Olivier quipped.

According to Deadline, Harry Lawtey, an actor who will next appear in Joker: Folie A Deux, has been cast as Tony-Award-winning actor Richard Burton in an upcoming film that will center on the actor as a young man. Lawtey will appear alongside Toby Jones and Lesley Manville in the film.

Lily Allen will star as Hedda Gabler, one of theatre’s most irresistible heroines, in a thrilling new version of Ibsen’s masterpiece which will open at Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio from Friday 25 July – Saturday 23 August 2025. 

Arena Stage will launch a new sponsorship with Crown Castle for the Allen Lee Hughes BIPOC Fellowship, furthering their commitment to diversity in the arts.