Howard Ashman News

Birmingham Hippodrome has announced a new season of shows for 2024. Learn more about the full lineup, including Disney's Aladdin, and more! Plus find out how to get tickets here!

JACK Quartet with Tyshawn Sorey, percussion at 92NY on December 16, 2023. Experience a US premiere performance blending composition and improvisation. Tickets starting at $25.

See first look photos of Main Street Theater’s current production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

Join Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and acclaimed clarinetist Anthony McGill for an unforgettable evening of American music, featuring Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. Tickets starting at $35.

Main Street Theater presents Disney's Beauty and the Beast, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. This is the original Disney tale you've come to know and love. You've seen the movie (the classic from 1991) - now see it live on stage in the version that played on Broadway!

Discover a Whole New World at Disney’s ALADDIN Premiering at the Washington Pavilion. Experience a captivating, exotic world full of daring adventures, timeless romance, and classic comedy in this iconic Broadway production. Don't miss out on this unforgettable journey!

Join Osmo Vänskä, Erin Keefe, and Musicians from the Curtis Institute of Music as they perform a captivating chamber music program featuring works by Mozart, Sibelius, and more. Online streaming available.

Tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney's Aladdin will go on sale to the public on Tuesday, November 14 at 10 am.  The hit Broadway musical comedy will begin performances in Seattle at The Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, April 24 for a limited engagement of through Sunday, April 28, 2024.

This holiday season, Centenary Stage Company will present Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Performances will run November 24 – December 10 in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center of the Centenary University campus.

Disney's Aladdin tickets are now on sale for DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids. Don't miss this hit Broadway musical comedy from January 16-21, 2024.

Conrad Tao presents Rachmaninoff Songbook with special guest Oliver Herbert, cello at 92nd Street Y. Explore the influence of Rachmaninoff on popular music and film, featuring works by Strayhorn, Sondheim, and more. Don't miss this unique perspective on the composer's legacy.

All new photos have been released from the first UK and Ireland tour of Disney’s Aladdin. Check out the photos here!

Tickets for Disney’s Aladdin are now on sale. Contact Jennifer Pascua, Marketing Director at Broadway Grand Rapids for more information.

Cortland Repertory Theatre is announcing their 52nd annual summer season to be held at the Little York Pavilion in Preble, NY in 2024. Learn more about the full lineup here!

The Muny has revealed the seven show lineup for its 106th Season. The season, bursting with premieres, comedies, romance and magic, opens June 17, 2024 and runs through August 25, 2024.

The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich has revealed its Spring season. It is delivering five produced shows working in partnership with some of the most prestigious mid-scale theatres across the UK. Learn more about the lineup here!

Casting has been announced for the St. Louis engagement of Disney’s Aladdin. The hit Broadway musical comedy will begin performances in St. Louis at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Tuesday, December 12 for a limited engagement through Sunday, December 17. 

The Lyrics & Lyricists program embraces the words that Howard Ashman put in the mouths of a mermaid, cutler, a beat, a plant, etc.

Get ready for a magical holiday production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast at Walnut Street Theatre. Previews start on November 21st, with the show running through December 31st, 2023.

This time, the reader question was: After seeing Here We Are, I’m wondering: have other shows premiered soon after one of the writers has passed away?