Emmy Award winner, Tony nominee and 2024 Grammy nominee Liz Callaway returns to the Orinda Theatre for An Evening With Liz Callaway - celebrating music from her Grammy nominated album, "To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim", as well as music from her 40 year career on Broadway, film and the concert stage. Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. She went on to star in Baby (receiving a Tony nomination), Miss Saigon, The Look of Love, The Three Musketeers, and for 5 years appeared as Grizabella in Cats. Off-Broadway appearances include The Spitfire Grill (Drama Desk nomination), Marry Me a Little and Brownstone. Liz sang the Academy Award-nominated song “Journey to the Past” in the animated feature Anastasia. Other film work includes Jasmine in the two Aladdin sequels, The Swan Princess, and The Rewrite with Hugh Grant.
Her extensive concert and symphony career has included appearances in London, Paris, Vietnam, Australia, China, and nearly every major city in the U.S. She performs regularly with her sister Ann Hampton Callaway, as well as composer Stephen Schwartz, and has had the pleasure of singing with Jimmy Webb, Paul Williams, and the legendary Johnny Mathis.
The Grammy-nominated "To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates
Sondheim" marks Liz Callaway's eighth solo recording.
“Liz Callaway is an amazing singer. She makes each song sound as if it has been written for her.” - Stereophile Magazine
"A Broadway belter who is blessed with one of the purest, most radiant voices in the theatrical firmament." - The Stage UK
"In number after mesmerizing number...this Tony nominee would transform herself as she dove into the heart of the song." - Austin Chronicle