More than 73 years after he built the Music Box Theater with producer Sam H. Harris, Irving Berlin's role in theatre's history has been commemorated there with the installation of a plaque a…
By now most of our R&H Theatre Library customers will have received our new catalogue of musicals available for production.
Back on Broadway for the third time since its 1927 premiere, SHOW BOAT (see cover story) began making history all over again as soon as good word on its return built long lines at the box of…
In October, as SHOW BOAT sailed majestically onto Broadway, New York played host to concert versions of two other Kern & Hammerstein musicals...
Irving Berlin said it best: "Tuneful, tasteful/Soulful, smart/Music - Rodgers/Lyrics - Hart."
Casting is complete for The Theatre Guild's new stage production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's only musical written originally for the big screen: STATE FAIR...
Though the Oscar Hammerstein II centennial culminates on his birthday, July 12, commemorations began earlier this year, with a PBS concert special in March and a tribute at the Players Club …
"After only two seasons," cheered Clive Barnes in the New York Post, "[New York] City Center's series Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert has become a Broadway fixture, both loved an…
Mary Cleere Haran swept out onto the floor at Rainbow & Stars before a glittery audience of Lorenz Hart friends and family to open her new show, THIS FUNNY WORLD: MARY CLEERE HARAN SINGS LYR…
Tuesday May 2 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lorenz Hart, one of this country's greatest and most cherished lyricists...
His many "standards" confirm Irving Berlin's status as this century's premiere American songwriter.
During SOMETHING WONDERFUL, host Ted Chapin informed the audience that on Hammerstein's 100th birthday, a Hammerstein song would receive its premiere.
Tony winner Donna Murphy will be Anna Leonowens in the new Broadway production of THE KING AND I...
The R&H Theatre Library is home to the major works of co-founder Oscar Hammerstein II, and his musicals continue to thrive with a record number of productions scheduled throughout the centen…
In the summer, pops orchestras flourish with the sound of our music...
On July 12, 1895, Oscar Greely Clendenning Hammerstein was born in New York City. On July 12, 1995, his centennial was celebrated on the stage of the highest grossing show on Broadway - his …
Oscar Hammerstein II was the consummate theatre man: a playwright, a librettist, a lyricist, a producer...
The book for the stage version of STATE FAIR was written by Louis Mattioli and our own Tom Briggs, Director of the R&H Theatre Library, who also had the idea to adapt STATE FAIR to the stage…
This spring THE KING AND I will return to Broadway, beginning performances at the Neil Simon Theatre on March 20...
For Richard Rodgers' two most famous partners, Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1995 was a banner year marking the 100th birthdays of both men...
Fifty years after it was introduced, STATE FAIR, Rodgers & Hammerstein's only musical written for the screen, has finally made it to the stage...
Fifty years ago this winter, a show business "dream team" was hard at work on what was to become one of the greatest musicals in Broadway's post-World War II golden era. ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, …
It took fifty years, an eight-month, 22-city tour, and last-minute heroics by the theatre's most legendary producer, but Rodgers & Hammerstein's newest musical finally made it to Broadway th…
In reviewing the season just past, Variety reported: "The comeback of the year award- both on Broadway and the road- has to go to Oscar Hammerstein II who, like Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, curr…
Since its premiere 45 years ago, a decade has not gone by without a royal visit to New York by THE KING AND I...