This month's column looks at Moss Hart's classic "Act One" and Dorothy Gallagher's examination of one of Broadway's most noted playwrights of the mid-20th century, "Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life."

This month's column looks at Moss Hart's classic "Act One" and Dorothy Gallagher's examination of one of Broadway's most noted playwrights of the mid-20th century, "Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life."

Audra McDonald's highly anticipated third recording, "Happy Songs," will be released in stores on Sept. 17.

Looking back at the theatre-related people who died in 1998, Jerome Robbins immediately springs to mind because his work touched not only ballet dancers and dance audiences, but generations of musical theatregoers an practitioners. The director-choreographer of West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof and Gypsy had impact.

BETTY BUCKLEY
It looks like it will be a busy fall for the one-and-only Betty Buckley whose new CD and DVD/video (“Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar”) will be released on Sept. 11, the CD from Concord Records and the DVD/video from Image Entertainment. The track listing for each follows:
the CD:
“Not a Day Goes By” (Sondheim)
“Just the Way You Look Tonight (Kern/Fields)
“Stars and the Moon (Brown)
“Finding Home (Gordon/Landau)
“Answer Me (Winkler/Rauch/Sigman)
“Migratory V (Guettel) /Horse with Wings (Gordon)
“Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
Medley: “The Red Dress” (Gordon/Parker); “Souvenir” (Gordon/St. Vincent Millay); “Will There Really Be a Morning?” (Gordon/Dickinson)
“Old Friend” (Ford and Cryer)
“Send in the Clowns” (Sondheim)
“Close to Home” (Mayes)
“Amazing Grace” (John Newton -attrib.)

BETTY BUCKLEY
It looks like it will be a busy fall for the one-and-only Betty Buckley whose new CD and DVD/video (“Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar”) will be released on Sept. 11, the CD from Concord Records and the DVD/video from Image Entertainment. The track listing for each follows:
the CD:
“Not a Day Goes By” (Sondheim)
“Just the Way You Look Tonight (Kern/Fields)
“Stars and the Moon (Brown)
“Finding Home (Gordon/Landau)
“Answer Me (Winkler/Rauch/Sigman)
“Migratory V (Guettel) /Horse with Wings (Gordon)
“Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
Medley: “The Red Dress” (Gordon/Parker); “Souvenir” (Gordon/St. Vincent Millay); “Will There Really Be a Morning?” (Gordon/Dickinson)
“Old Friend” (Ford and Cryer)
“Send in the Clowns” (Sondheim)
“Close to Home” (Mayes)
“Amazing Grace” (John Newton -attrib.)