THE HARTMAN GROUP is a media relations firm which, for the past three consecutive seasons, has represented the winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical: In the Heights (2008), Billy Elliot (2009) and Memphis (2010). Current projects include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette), Sister Act, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (starring Harry Connick, Jr.), Lysistrata Jones, Traces, Rock of Ages, the tour of Bring It On, and Wicked. Upcoming productions include Evita (starring Ricky Martin and Elena Roger), Ghost The Musical, Once, Diner, and Big Fish. Recent special theatrical projects include The Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, The New York Botanical Garden's 2011 Orchid Show: On Broadway, Jason Robert Brown with Anika Noni Rose and the Caucasian Rhythm Kings in Concert, Larry King: Standing Up, and the High School Musical Theater Awards.
The firm also represents Key Brand Entertainment, Broadway Across America and Second Stage Theatre and serves as the national press representative for the tours of American Idiot, Billy Elliot, Rock of Ages, and Wicked. Recent productions include American Idiot, Next to Normal (2010 Pulitzer Prize), La Bête (starring Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley), Catch Me If You Can, Donny & Marie – A Broadway Christmas, Elf, The Pee-Wee Herman Show Live On Stage, Promises Promises (starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth), West Side Story, Baby It's You, Harry Connick, Jr. In Concert on Broadway, Come Fly Away, A Steady Rain, the national tour of Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays and Cirque du Soleil's Wintuk (Winter, 2010 and 2009). The Hartman Group is headed by Michael Hartman, formerly a partner of Barlow Hartman Public Relations, which operated from 1999 to 2009 and represented over one hundred Broadway productions including Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, Grease, Young Frankenstein, 9 To 5: The Musical, Legally Blonde, 13, A Chorus Line, Boeing Boeing (2008 Tony Award - Best Play Revival), Macbeth (Patrick Stewart), The Color Purple, Cyrano de Bergerac, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Company, Radio Golf, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Producers (twelve 2001 Tony Awards, including Best Musical), The Vertical Hour, Sweeney Todd, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Faith Healer, Lestat, The Woman in White, 700 Sundays (2005 Tony Award – Best Special Theatrical Event), Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Sweet Charity, Gem of The Ocean, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Movin' Out, Fiddler on the Roof, All Shook Up, The Pillowman, La Cage aux Folles (2005 Tony Award – Best Musical Revival), Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony Award – Best Musical), Little Shop of Horrors, Bombay Dreams, Sixteen Wounded, The Retreat from Moscow, Taboo, Anna in the Tropics (2003 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama), Salome, The Full Monty, Medea, A Year with Frog and Toad, Bea Arthur on Broadway, Noises Off, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, Sweet Smell of Success, Dance of the Vampires, The Graduate, Dance of Death, By Jeeves, Fosse (1999 Tony Award – Best Musical), King Hedley II, Seussical, Bells Are Ringing, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Wild Party, Macbeth (Kelsey Grammer), Waiting in the Wings, Liza Minnelli's comeback engagement at the Palace, Minnelli on Minnelli, Ragtime and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Previous Off-Broadway productions include In The Heights, Cookin', My Name is Rachel Corrie, Secrets of a Soccer Mom, Family Secrets, Woman Before a Glass, Here Lies Jenny, Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends, Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady, Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery, Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, Andre Gregory's production of Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, Thunder Knocking on the Door, Cobb, The Last 5 Years, The Water Coolers, Stars in Your Eyes, Surviving Grace and Berkshire Village Idiot as well as City Center's Encores! Series.