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Monday, May 25, 2015

"Live in Living Color": Catch Me If You Can Lands on Broadway March 11 by Adam Hetrick

A con man's life story is given the 1960's television variety treatment in Catch Me If You Can, the new musical from Tony Award-winning Hairspray songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, …

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NY Pops Commemorate Judy Garland's Carnegie Concert With Lorna Luft, Karen Olivo and More by Adam Hetrick

Lorna Luft retraces her mother's footsteps in the New York Pops 50th anniversary celebration of Judy Garland's legendary Carnegie Hall concert March 11 at the famed venue. Tony Award winners…

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World Premiere of Hatcher's Sherlock Holmes "Suicide" Play Punctuates Arizona Theatre Company's New Season by Adam Hetrick

The world premiere of playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, as well as the Tony Award-winning plays God of Carnage and Red, will fill the Arizon…

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VIDEO FEATURE: Karen Olivo, Ashley Brown Discuss Judy Garland Carnegie Hall Tribute Concert by Adam Hetrick

On March 11 the New York Pops will commemorate the 50th anniversary of late entertainer Judy Garland's triumphant Carnegie Hall Concert, with a one-night-only re-creation of the April 23, 19…

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Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Dance With Me Announces Second Las Vegas Extension by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Twyla Tharp's Las Vegas dance musical Sinatra Dance With Me has extended for a second time through April 30 at the Wynn Hotel.

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John Kander, Adam Guettel, Stephen Schwartz to Discuss Opera or Musical Theater April 10 in NYC by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-winning composers John Kander, Adam Guettel and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz will gather to discuss Opera or Musical Theater? April 10 at the Gershwin Theatre.

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SITI Company Will Explore Charles Mee's Under Construction in NYC by Adam Hetrick

Anne Bogart and SITI Company will stage the New York premiere of Charles Mee's Under Construction, which takes a look at America through kaleidoscopic pairing of the work of Norman Rockwell …

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Village Voice Pokes Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark in Comic Strip by Adam Hetrick

Illustrator Ward Sutton has lent his signature wit to a new comic strip in the Village Voice that mocks the Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. Fans of the Marvel comic will thril…

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SITI Company Revives Virginia Woolf's Room, Starting Off-Broadway March 12 by Adam Hetrick

Anne Bogart and SITI Company revive Room, the 2002 solo play based on Virginia Woolf's writings, which begins a limited engagement March 12 at the Women's Project Off-Broadway.

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Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool Opens March 12 at TheatreWorks by Adam Hetrick

The world premiere of The North Pool, Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Rajiv Joseph's two-actor psychological drama about a Middle Eastern student and his high school principal, officiall…

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Tony Award Winner Levi Kreis Exits Million Dollar Quartet Early Due to Injury by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Levi Kreis has departed the Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet ahead of schedule, due to an injury that the actor-musician sustained March 3.

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Fremantle Nabs International TV Distribution Rights for Memphis by Adam Hetrick

The high-def film of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis, captured live at the Shubert Theatre, has been picked up for international television distribution by Fremantle Media.

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Blythe Danner, Ted Danson, Parker Posey to Honor Marian Seldes at Soho Rep Gala by Adam Hetrick

Blythe Danner, Ted Danson, Parker Posey, Peter Dinklage, Lili Taylor and Michael Stuhlbarg will perform at Soho Rep's 2011 spring gala honoring Tony Award-winning stage veteran Marian Seldes.

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EXCLUSIVE: Disney Eyes Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" for Stage Musical by Adam Hetrick

Broadway may go through the lookingglass. Playbill.com has learned that Disney Theatrical Productions is creating a new stage musical based on the hit 2010 Tim Burton film adaptation of Lewi…

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Kelsey Kurz and Dan McCabe Will Join Joanna Gleason in Huntington's Sons of the Prophet by Adam Hetrick

Actor Kelsey Kurz has replaced the previously announced Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana in the Huntington Theatre Company world premiere of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet.

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Carly Simon, Kelli O'Hara, Michael Cerveris and American Idiot Cast Set for Our Time Gala by Adam Hetrick

Carly Simon, Amy Ryan, Kelli O'Hara, Jason Patric and Michael Cerveris will appear during Our Time's April 11th gala honoring Academy Award-winning writer David Seidler.

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Daniel Radcliffe Set for "CBS Sunday Morning," "The Today Show" and "Regis & Kelly" Appearances by Adam Hetrick

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Daniel Radcliffe will make the rounds on the television circuit next week to speak about the 50th anniversary Broadway revival of the To…

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Laurie Metcalf Journeys to The Other Place Off-Broadway Beginning March 11 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf stars in the MCC Theater world premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place, which begins previews Off-Broadway March 11 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

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Six-Actor Spoof Spidermann Weaves Web at NYC's The Tank March 13-14 by Adam Hetrick

The new scrappy theatre piece Spidermann, described by its creators as "a hastily-constructed abstract musical," premieres in New York March 13 at the Tank.

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Lorna! Heather! Ashley! Karen! Sing Judy Garland! by Adam Hetrick

o borrow and bend a phrase from the New York Herald’s original review, “There was an extra bonus at Carnegie Hall last night”: Judy Garland’s daughter, Lorna Luft, sa…

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Rare Look at Liza Minnelli’s 19th Birthday and Flora Rehearsals by Adam Hetrick

On March 12 Tony and Academy Award-winning entertainer Liza Minnelli celebrates her 65th birthday and Life Magazine is releasing never-before-seen photographs taken in 1965 when the then 19-…

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Brian Murray, Mia Dillon, Jen Waldman Read Angel Street at Westport March 14 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Brian Murray leads the Westport Country Playhouse reading of the 1941 Broadway thriller Angel Street March 14.

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Elevator Repair Service's The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Dawns in Boston March 15 by Adam Hetrick

Elevator Repair Service, which dazzled New York audiences with Gatz, its treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," is giving Ernest Hemingway a shot with The Select (The Sun Als…

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Hey Mama! Tony Nominee Nancy Opel Joins Memphis On Broadway March 15 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Nancy Opel is the new tough-skinned Mama of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis, beginning March 15 at the Shubert Theatre.

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War Horse, the London Hit About Man and Beast, Storms Broadway March 15 by Adam Hetrick

The National Theatre production of War Horse, a blend of naturalistic storytelling and breathtaking puppetry set during Britain's entry into the first World War, gallops onto the stage of Li…

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Creative Team and Opening Night Set for Suzanne Vega's Carson McCullers Talks About Love Off-Broadway by Adam Hetrick

The complete creative team has been announced for of Suzanne Vega's solo show Carson McCullers Talks About Love, which is set to debut April 20 Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Th…

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Bartlett Sher to Direct Blood and Gifts for Lincoln Center Theater Off-Broadway by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-winning South Pacific director Bartlett Sher will stage the American premiere of J.T. Rogers' Afghanistan-set political drama Blood and Gifts this fall for Lincoln Center Theater.

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Ghostlight Records Nabs Catch Me If You Can Cast Album by Adam Hetrick

The cast of the new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can will head to a recording studio April 18 to record the original cast album of the new Marc Shaiman-Scott Wittman-Terrence McNally sho…

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Will Rock of Ages Film Happen Without Constantine Maroulis? by Adam Hetrick

Could the film version of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages happen without its Tony Award-nominated star? The creative forces behind the film have announced a nationwide casting search for t…

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Guthrie's Arsenic and Old Lace Pairs Sally Wingert and Kristine Nielsen by Adam Hetrick

Sally Wingert and Kristine Nielsen will star as the doting-but-deadly Brewster sisters in the Joseph Kesselring comedy Arsenic and Old Lace at the Guthrie Theatre in April.

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Craig Lucas Directs Maria Dizzia in Leap and the Net Will Appear Reading March 14 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-nominated actress Maria Dizzia leads a reading of Besharet playwright Chana Porter's Leap and the Net Will Appear March 14 at the 9th Space Theater in Manhattan.

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