Encores! Off-Center Series Will Launch With Sutton Foster in Violet; Jeanine Tesori Named Artistic Director
New York City Center has announced that Tony Award-nominated composer Jeanine Tesori will serve as artistic director for Encores! Off-Center, a new production series celebrating Off-Broadway musicals, which will launch this summer with Tesori's 1997 musical Violet, the Depression-era Marc Blitztein political musical The Cradle Will Rock and the 1970's folk-rock musical I'm Getting My Act Together and Taki…