Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 11pm (Broadway Time)
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PHOTO CALL: Bobby Steggert and Paul Anthony Stewart Star in Chad Beguelin's Harbor by Krissie Fullerton

Tony Award nominee Bobby Steggert and Emmy Award nominee Paul Anthony Stewart co-star in the world premiere of Tony nominee Chad Beguelin's Harbor, beginning Aug. 28 at the Westport Coun…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35PM

On the Wheels of a Dream South Florida Theater: What It Is And What It Can Be by Bill Hirschman

Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to inves…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PM

Currently Operating Theaters and Producers – Fall 2012 by Bill Hirschman

These lists are almost certainly incomplete. Please email us information at [email protected] and we’ll update it. Professional Producing Companies includes Monroe County Acto…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:29PM

Box Score: Folded Companies Since 1975, Recent Start Ups by Bill Hirschman

The ever-morphing statuses and a lack of historical records guarantee that the following lists will be incomplete or even inaccurate. If you have additional or more accurate information, ple…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:28PM

PHOTO CALL: Clybourne Park Bids Broadway Farewell; Curtain Call and Party by Joseph Marzullo

Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play, ended its limited Broadway run (already extended) on Sept. 2 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. By close, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-dr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 10pm (Broadway Time)
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‘The Temperamentals’ at Rep Stage by David Friscic by David Friscic

In Rep Stage’s production of The Temperamentals the ensemble of fine actors plunge into Jon Marans’ very observant play with intensity and verve. Playing with brisk efficienc…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:29PM

Review: Methtacular! by Chris Kompanek

Steven Strafford's solo show about his battles with sex addiction and crystal meth is moderately compelling.

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 8pm (Broadway Time)
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Mary Testa, Ed Asner and Austin Pendleton Set for The Lynne Show, Sept-Oct 2012 by BroadwayWorld

The Lynne Show's next three interviewees have all won awards for their work in theater, film and TVMary Testa, Ed Asner and Austin Pendleton.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:11PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 6pm (Broadway Time)
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CLYBOURNE PARK Leaves the Broadway Neighborhood Today, September 2 by BroadwayWorld

Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play, ends its Broadway runextended twice alreadytoday, September 2nd, at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Also the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:53PM

Jerry All Day Tomorrow by Trav S.D.

Well, the bad, bad men took away Jerry’s annual telethon, but the good nice people of Antenna TV have made things right by promising an all day  ”Jerry Lewis Labor Day Marathon&…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:52PM

Back stories mask what Suilebhan’s superhero story ‘Reals’ is really about by Peter Marks

Look! Up on the stage! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s just a guy in a leather cape with adequacy issues. In “Reals,” playwright Gwydion Suilebhan takes a classic comic-book th…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:49PM

Photo Flash: New Film Still of Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway in LES MISERABLES! by BroadwayWorld

For Fall Movie Preview week, MTV News interviewed Les Miserables film director Tom Hooper about his upcoming big-screen adaptation of the musical, starring Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Anne…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PM

Last Night’s Gotham Burlesque by Trav S.D.

“Don’t take any pictures of the burlesque dancers,” the Countess admonished last night as we settled in at our cafe table at the Triad last night to check out Gotham Burles…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:21PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 5pm (Broadway Time)
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The Means of Production: Snapshots from the Field by Charlotte Meehan by HowlRound

The American theater landscape now, whether seen from an aerial view or at street level, reveals a rapid process of shifting and re-imagining—in seismic proportions, it seems, of late. Tha…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 4pm (Broadway Time)
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Following Broadway's Upcoming Shows? Twitter Feed Mega-List! by BroadwayWorld

There are a ton of new shows on their way to the Great White Way in the upcoming Fall 2012 season and beyond If you want to stay on top of all the latest news from all of the Broadway-Bound …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PM

The best theatre for autumn 2012 by Michael Billington, Lyn Gardner

The River, Jez Butterworth's follow-up to Jerusalem, is one of the highlights of a season that also features Rachael Stirling in Medea and Lucy Prebble's new collaboration with Rupert GooldT…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 2pm (Broadway Time)
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"Forbidden Broadway" Roasts The Great White Way Once More

After bidding farewell to the theater scene for three years, the award-winning "Forbidden Broadway" is back again shining its satirical light on the Great White Way.

SOURCE: NY1 at 02:41PM

Kathryn Bostic at Vitello’s – Thurs Sept 6th by Pauline Adamek

Singer, songwriter and composer Kathryn Bostic is performing at Vitello’s upstairs jazz club THIS Thursday September 6, 2012. Show starts at 8pm – $20.00 cover charge. Accompanying t…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:16PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 1pm (Broadway Time)
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Photo Flash: Marty Thomas and Aubrey Mae Davis' GLITTER BALL Birthday Bash by BroadwayWorld

Marty Thomas Xanadu, Wicked, The Secret Garden and Aubrey Mae Davis Catch Me If You Can National Tour celebrated their birthday togetherand a genuine love of glitterin style on August 24th a…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PM

BWW Blog: Touring MARY POPPINS' Nicolas Dromard - Day #6 by Guest Blogger: Nicolas Dromard

Funny thing about LA celebrities live here and we are surrounded by them. They are just like you and me, normal people doing what they love to do, but they are thrusted into the public eye a…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PM

Cinderella, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Ratmansky’s choreography is not his finest, Gerald Dowler writes, but Vishneva’s dancing and Gergiev’s conducting are a treat

SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:34PM

Review: Tender Napalm at curtainup.com by William Coyle

Anyone who has children, or knows children, has heard something like the exchange above. It’s kind of cute, sometimes precious. When grown adults do it. . .not so much, especially when the…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:31PM

Have More Fun with Blondes by Peter Filichia

By Peter Filichia -- So Ivy Lynn didn’t take those pills and got to play Marilyn Monroe after all. Well, in a manner of speaking. In one of the smartest casting decisions in recent yea…

SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:13PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at noon (Broadway Time)
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Winner of the Reverie Productions 2012 Next Generation Playwriting Contest: BUZZ by Susan Ferrara! by Zack Calhoon

Winner of the Reverie Productions 2012 Next Generation Playwriting Contest: BUZZ by Susan Ferrara!

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:45PM

Haymarket Opera’s ‘Clori, Tirsi e Fileno’ a pure delight

Haymarket Opera makes some beautiful noise with their third production, a lavish staging for the Chicago theatrical premiere of Handel’s 1707 pastoral cantata “Clori, Tirsi e Fileno.”

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:34PM

Broadway Book Club: Book 5, Week 2 by BroadwaySpotted

Wow. That’s all I can say…WOW. Last week’s discussion (week 1 of Felicia’s memoir Unnaturally Green) was amazing! That’s the biggest discussion that we’v…

SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 12:05PM

FACE OF THE FUTURE: The Lion King's Andile Gumbi by JK

Even though he made his Broadway debut less than a week ago, you've probably seen Broadway's newest Adult Simba, Andile Gumbi. This South African actor is the "official" advertising Simba im…

SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PM

The NET Detroit Microfest: Asking Questions of Artists, Place, and Community by Sherrine Azab and Jake Hooker by HowlRound

“So, you’re having a pretty intense weekend.” We received some version of that comment—separately and together—several times during the course of the Network of Ensemble Th…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 9/2- Chad Kimball by Stage Tube

Happy Birthday, Chad Kimball After moving to New York, he was hired for the Broadway musical, The Civil War, joining the show 3 weeks before it closed. He was in the Off-Broadway revival of …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM

Upcoming Broadway DVD Releases for September 2012

Check out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related DVDs for September 2012.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 11am (Broadway Time)
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Hal David dies of stroke at 91

Hal David, master lyricist behind such hits as Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, has died in LA at 91 after strokeHal David, the lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach on dozens of timeles…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:59AM

"The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" by Richard Connema

Aurora Theatre opens its 2012-2013 season with The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Kristoffer Diaz's vibrant play about the wacky world of professional wrestling.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:58AM

"Chinglish" West Coast Premiere by Richard Connema

Berkeley Repertory Theatre opens its 2012-2013 season with the clever comedy Chinglish by David Henry Hwang in a co-production with the South Coast Repertory Company.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:57AM

Recording Academy's Neil Portnow Remembers Hal David by BroadwayWorld

The Recording Academy released a statement on the passing of Hal David yesterday, September 1st, at the age of 91. Grammy winner Hal David was an exquisite lyricist who penned timeless songs…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AM

Edinburgh International Festival 2012 Comes to a Close Tonight, Sept 2 by BroadwayWorld

Edinburgh International Festival 2012 closes with a bang tonight as Virgin Money Fireworks Concert brings the city together in celebration.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38AM

Photo Coverage: William Finn and More in 'Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers...' at Barrington Stage Co. by Stephen Sorokoff

A Labor Day weekend celebration of extraordinary new songs, Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist William Finn Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee narrated this fresh, f…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AM

Marilyn Maye Hooks Up With Michael Feinstein by Michael Portantiere

One might say that Marilyn Maye is having a glorious renaissance, except that there really haven't been any dark ages in this lady's career. Famous as one of Johnny Carson's all-time favorit…

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:29AM

New Theatre’s Collection Keeping A-Breast Is Intriguing, Heartfelt But Badly Uneven by Bill Hirschman

The success of theater often depends on the audience plugging in their own experiences to enhance what’s happening on stage. So perhaps part of this reviewer’s hot-and-cold reception of…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:27AM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 10am (Broadway Time)
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Hal David obituary by Richard Williams

Lyricist behind some of the greatest pop hits of the 20th centuryBy contrast with his songwriter partner Burt Bacharach, whose suavely youthful looks belonged in a 1960s Martini ad, the lyri…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AM

Richard Mullings obituary by Nicholas Fogg

My friend Richard Mullings, who has died aged 81, had a hugely varied career, including many years as the stage-doorkeeper at the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.Richard was…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AM

Big-name actors, writers take the stage for new Broadway season

Al Pacino, Jake Gyllenhaal, Edie Falco, David Mamet, Jonathan Franzen are just a few of the stars lining up for the 2012-2013 Broadway season.

SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 10:31AM

Critics Picks: 'Footnote,' 'Paul McCartney's Live Kisses,' dogshaming.com

Three things Seattle Times writers love this week: the droll yet trenchant "Footnote," a 2012 Oscar finalist for best foreign-language film, now on DVD; the Great Performances documentary 'P…

SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 10:31AM

In Which Fish Like Pickles! by Trav S.D.

One of my best buddies in high school Matt Cohen was the camera op for (and played the mayor in) in Assisted Fishing, a comedy that features banjo music, bird shit,  babes in bikinis, ani…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:15AM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 9am (Broadway Time)
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'Chaplin the Musical': Silent no more by Ronni Reich

Broadway show explores the life and work of Charlie Chaplin

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:55AM

Guy Plays Two Trumpets at the Same Time by Trav S.D.

A slice of New York busking magic. I caught this gentleman showboating with two trumpets in Washington Square Park last Friday: To find out more about the variety arts past and present, cons…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AM

‘Time Stands Still’ at Everyman Theatre by Amanda Gunther by Amanda Gunther

The most culturally relevant modern dramatic play takes to the stage at Everyman Theatre as they launch their 2012-2013 season with Time Stands Still. Written by Pulitzer Prize winning play…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46AM

Classical Music Sampler: September 2012 by Jonathan Blumhofer

The classical music season promises to start out strong, with performances from A Far Cry, Itzhak Perlman, and the Claremont Trio.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AM

Edith Wilson & the Rules and Regulations of Razor Jim by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of blues singer Edith Wilson (for more on her and her background in the black vaudeville circuits go here). Here she is laying down the “Rules and Regulations of …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:05AM

John Moltress on force/collision’s ‘Shape’ by Guest Author

It was in January of this year when I was directing Craig Wright’s Mistakes Were Made in Houston that Erik Ehn contacted me through email and asked me to read his play Shape. I was lo…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 8am (Broadway Time)
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Jack Norton by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of Hollywood character actor Jack Norton (for more on him and his background in vaudeville go here). One of his most beloved turns is as the drunken film director in W.…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:53AM

‘The Producers’ at Zemfira Stage by Kim Moeller by Kim Moeller

“It was crass and crude and I enjoyed every minute of it!” That’s a line from the Mel Brooks musical comedy, The Producers. It’s also my summary of Zemfira Stage’s producti…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AM

SPECIAL REPORT: David Parsons Previews Wolf Trap's Face of America: Spirit of South Florida by Brian Scott Lipton

Life in the United States' national parks might not seem the first subject that comes to mind when creating dance-theater, but since 2000, the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Ar…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 7am (Broadway Time)
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Diamond on Diamond in Vegas

'Good times never seemed so good' on Saturday night as Neil Diamond performed to a sold out crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. I've long maintained that Diamond's (sadly no re…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:05AM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 6am (Broadway Time)
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Review: Jigsy by Edward Franklin

Offended that the director would think her such a natural fit for the role of a faded movie star, the faded movie star Mae West famously turned down the role of Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:17AM

Broadway fast track: Cott delivers in ‘Newsies’  by Joe Dziemianowicz

There’s no waiting on tables or taking a break for Corey Cott. The 22-year-old actor from Ohio, who graduated from college in May, is already starring on Broadway in the hit Disney musical…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM

'Jane Eyre' gets a whole new spin

Charlotte Brontë's classic novel is reimagined as a dance-theater piece.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:00AM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 1am (Broadway Time)
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Goodspeed Musicals' THE BIKINIS Ends Run Today, Sept 2 by BroadwayWorld

Goodspeed Musicals celebrates summer fun in the groovy production The Bikinis a new musical beach party. This hip musical will end its run today, September 2 at The Norma Terris Theatre in C…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM

PHANTOM Ends Run in Las Vegas September 2, 2012 by BroadwayWorld

After more than six years and nearly 2,700 performances, PhantomThe Las Vegas Spectacular ends its historic run at The Venetian today, September 2, 2012. This stunning theatrical spectacle w…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM

TRACES Concludes New York Run Today, September 2 by BroadwayWorld

TRACES concludes its New York engagement today, September 2, 2012, to embark on a European tour this fall.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM

Fall's A Must-See Theater Season In Connecticut by Frank Rizzo

  Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageHow does the fall theater scene shape up? Let me put it this way. Don’t make any plans for Octo…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Songwriter Hal David Has Died by Brian Scott Lipton

Hal David, who wrote numerous pop songs with Burt Bacharach, as well as the musical Promises, Promises, for which they received a Tony Award nomination for Best Score, has died in Los Angele…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27AM

Lots of stage Perez-ence by Reed Tucker

‘Ihave a lot of things to prove. One, that I don’t suck.” Perez Hilton is making his New York musical stage debut with low expectations. The West Coast blogger, whose popular Web site …

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AM

The Sunday Read: First-Person - Paul Van Dyck on The Harvester (Atlantic Fringe) by The Charlebois Post

(photo credit: Camille McOuat)The Growth of The HarvesterI feel that when you write, directed, and produce a play, you are showing your community a piece of your self, your soul, and yo…

SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AM

After Six Years, Phantom's Las Vegas Lair Shuts Down to Make Way for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill by Kenneth Jones

Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular, director Harold Prince's revised staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's internationally popular musical — putting the audience in an immers…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM

Tour Whore, September 2, 2012 by The Charlebois Post

On a Starless Nightby Cameryn MooreA few weeks ago I titled my blog post “What would you do if there were no stars”, wherein I talked about the star system  and its potential proble…

SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM

Broadway's One Man, Two Guvnors Slams the Door on Broadway Sept. 2 by Kenneth Jones

The acclaimed Broadway production of the British farce One Man, Two Guvnors, which won star James Corden the 2012 Best Actor Tony Award, end its limited engagement at the Music Box Sept…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Off-Broadway's High-Flying Spectacle Traces Closes Sept. 2 by Adam Hetrick and Kenneth Jones

The muscular Off-Broadway spectacle Traces, a collision of acrobatic feats and circus-inspired elements, concludes its Off-Broadway run Sept. 2 at the Union Square Theatre, prior to the laun…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Olivier-Nominated Potted Potter Ends Extended Off-Broadway Run Sept. 2 by Andrew Gans

Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by Dan and Jeff, the Olivier-nominated production that presents all seven "Harry Potter" books in 70 minutes, ends…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Off-Broadway's Voca People Sing Final Song Sept. 2; National Tour Will Launch in February 2013 by Michael Gioia

Voca People, Off-Broadway's intergalactic musical, plays its final performance Sept. 2 at New World Stages. A national tour is planned to launch in February 2013.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Valerie Fagan, Hollis Scarborough, Nikki MacCallum Featured in Madam Fury's Traveling Show, Sept. 2-8 by Andrew Gans

SaltSpeck Productions presents a showcase production of Christy Hall, Jeff Thomson and Jordan Mann's Madam Fury's Traveling Show Sept. 2-8 at the 45th Street Theatre (354 W. 45th Str…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Little By Little Staged Reading, With Alessa Neeck, Ian Lowe and Lani Corson, Offered Sept. 2 in NYC by Michael Gioia

The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective kicks off its 2012-13 season with a staged reading of Little By Little, the "three-hander musical" about friendship, hormones and popcorn, Sep…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

There Goes the Neighborhood: Broadway's Clybourne Park Closes Sept. 2 by Kenneth Jones

Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play, ends its limited Broadway run (already extended) on Sept. 2 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. By close, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-dra…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

THE DVD SHELF: "The Royal Tenenbaums," "Metropolitan" and the Absurdist Comedy "Million Dollar Legs" by Steven Suskin

This month we watch three unconventional and unlikely movies, each of which creates a world of its own: Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums," Whit Stillman's "Metropo…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

OFF-BROADWAY FALL PREVIEW: Stephen Sondheim, Michael John LaChiusa, Terrence McNally, Daisy Foote Get Spotlight by Robert Simonson

Variety is center-stage in the fall 2012 Off-Broadway season. David Schwimmer, Bill Irwin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Bebe Neuwirth are among the stars. Terrenc…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: SEPTEMBER 2 by Ernio Hernandez and Robert Viagas

1918 A stage adaptation of Booth Tarkington's popular Penrod stories proves a bust. It opens today and runs just 48 performances.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM