Incomparable and unique in their ability to write both libretti and lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein and Alan Jay Lerner brought the musical theater to an artistic peak that remains unsurpassed.

(Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Eighty years ago, “Carousel,” Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s second and perhaps most endearing collaboration, played its final pre-Broadway tryouts ...

“Preserving Highland Farm, the homestead and creative epicenter where Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyrics to some of the world’s most noted and performed songs, is essential for Bucks ...

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers won. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Oscar Hammerstein II won. 1950 Tony Awards Best Direction: Joshua Logan won. Best Musical: Richard Rodgers won.

DOYLESTOWN, PA — The nonprofit Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center has been awarded a second $500,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP).

Composer Richard Rodgers had wanted to adapt a rural folk drama of the 1930s — “Green Grow the Lilacs” — to the musical stage and felicitously, lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, who also ...