Stephen Schwartz News

Connor Lewis in center at a rehearsal for Louis St. Laurent's student production of Pippin.

T he Towle Community Theatre in Hammond has a cure for kids with cabin fever during winter break.

Here's an opportunity for some talented musical-theater writers out there - a workshop in Los Angeles, sponsored by the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop and headed up by hit Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz - yes, he of Wicked fame.

Even when it comes with lines, cues and a manipulative onstage director to step in and steer the players, you can't count on life to follow the script.

A Mute Point: Nate Dendy is the high point of this gaudy Fantasticks. The Fantasticks Book and lyrics by Tom Jones; Music by Harvey Schmidt; Directed by Amanda Dehnert; Produced by Arena Stage Simpler times, simpler musicals.

One of Cleveland's most popular musicals, WICKED, will return to PlayhouseSquare November 18 - December 13, 2009 as part of the U.S. Bank Star Performance Series at PlayhouseSquare.

Tony-nominated and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz aligned with Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik to pen new songs for the album "Slice," which is now available in stores and online.

The plot is familiar: the creation of Adam and Eve, temptation of the fruit of knowledge and expulsion from Paradise - yielding generations of woe, right down to Noah and the flood.

Northwestern University stages Leonard Bernstein's Mass , featuring new lyrics by Tony-nominated composer Stephen Schwartz, beginning Nov.

If Adam and Eve had the musical prowess and dancing capabilities of the actors who portray them in "Children of Eden" - Ithaca College's second main stage show this season - then maybe God would have been more lenient with his judgment.

Albion High School will perform its take on the new musical, "Captain Louie," over the weekend.

Credit: Courtesy photo John McCool Bowers, center, cuts a commanding figure as Father in "Children of Eden." William James Jr.

Ithaca College Theatre will present 'Children of Eden,' a secular retelling of the Bible's Book of Genesis with a musical score, through Nov.

Carrollwood Player's production of Working closes next Saturday, November 7th, so, if you still want to see it, time is running out.

David Faria, Lisa Tavares, and David Jones rehearse a scene from the Little Theatre of Fall River production of "Children of Eden," which opens this evening at BCC.

Most recently known for music and lyrics for Wicked, Stephen Schwartz's work has won Tony, Grammy and Oscar awards, and he's a 2009 Theater Hall of Fame inductee.

Success: Each character rises to the occasion in this rarely staged show. Details: Ragtime Through November 1 at Washington University's Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Boulevard , University City.

One of Broadway's best loved songwriters makes a stop in Derry for a performance at Pinkerton Academy's Stockbridge Theatre.

Event: World Premiere of "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" When: September 26 at 7:30 p.m., October 2 at 7:30 p.m. and October 4 at 2:30 p.m. Cost: $20-$185 Description: Opera Santa Barbara's 2009/10 Season leads off with the WORLD PREMIERE of a new American opera, "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" by the renowned musical theatre composer, STEPHEN SCHWARTZ .

CityListen Audio Tours announces the release of Walkin' Broadway, hosted by Elliott Forrest .