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Friday, November 2, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: The Heiress Does the Washington Square Dance by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the opening of Broadway's new production of The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PM
Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Musical Mystery of Edwin Drood Deepens in a New Broadway Staging by Harry Haun

Composer-lyricist-librettist Rupert Holmes loves a good musical mystery. A revival of his first, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaves a lot to the imagination — and the audience.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, October 26, 2012

Michael John LaChiusa Takes a Giant Step, Musicalizing an Iconic Tale by Harry Haun

The sprawl of Edna Ferber's "Giant" — the character-rich novel of cattle, oil and race, best known as a movie — gets a Texas-sized musical makeover by Michael John …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM
Sunday, October 14, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Offers a Saturday Night Furor by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the opening of the new Broadway production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM
Friday, October 5, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Grace Looks for God in a Mondo Condo by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the Oct. 4 Broadway opening of Craig Wright's play Grace.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM

Thirty-Five Years Young: Despite a Hard-Knock Life, Annie’s Hardly Showing Her Age | Observer by Harry Haun

THERE WAS AN Annie before the original 1977 Annie we all know and love—before its much-hyped 1990 sequel, Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge, crashed on takeoff and burned out of town at t…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:23PM
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Book 'Im! Thomas Meehan Is the Go-To Guy For a Musical in Need of Script by Harry Haun

Prolific Tony Award-winning librettist Thomas Meehan has three musicals on Broadway this season — Annie, Elf and Chaplin. And he's got three more in the works.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM
Monday, October 1, 2012

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Kathleen McNenny, the Good Wife of An Enemy of the People by Harry Haun

Meet Kathleen McNenny, the wife — on stage and off — of An Enemy of the People's Boyd Gaines.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Playwright Stephen Belber Encourages Shifting Sympathies in His Family Drama Don't Go Gentle by Harry Haun

Tape and Match playwright Stephen Belber plays both sides of the ethical fence in his new Off-Broadway play Don't Go Gentle, starring Michael Cristofer.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, September 28, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: An Enemy of the People; Boyd Gaines Against the World by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of An Enemy of the People.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PM
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Tracy Letts Is the Harried Married Man in Broadway's New Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Harry Haun

The American theatre's most booze-happy, vicious married couple, George and Martha, of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, are celebrating their 50th anniversary on Broadway. Actor Trac…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Chaplin Sings Songs From His Slapstick Tragedy by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Chaplin the Musical.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Christopher Durang, in a Russian Mood, Premieres a New Chekhov-Inspired Comedy by Harry Haun

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's new comedy, premieres at the McCarter Theatre Center in New Jersey prior to its Lincoln Center Theater life. Durang talks about …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, August 26, 2012

David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan Ponder the Importance of Friends in Lisa D'Amour's Detroit by Harry Haun

Former "Friends" star David Schwimmer teams up with Amy Ryan for Playwrights Horizons' production of Detroit, about neighbors in an age of isolation.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Director Pam MacKinnon Thrives Being at Play with the Pulitzer Set by Harry Haun

Tony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon talks about her brushes with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights of Clybourne Park, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Harrison, TX.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM
Friday, August 24, 2012

Jake Gyllenhaal Drifts Into U.S. Stage Debut as Lost-Soul Uncle in If There Is… by Harry Haun

Jake Gyllenhaal is the last to arrive among the dysfunctional family of four inhabiting If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, the prize-winning Nick Payne dramedy that has been imported fr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Marvin Hamlisch Hailed as a Singular Sensation at Music-Filled NYC Funeral Service by Harry Haun

What Marvin Hamlisch did for love was acknowledged and honored by family, friends, fans and presidents at his funeral Aug. 14 at Congregation Emanu-El, the Fifth Avenue synagogue where, it w…

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46PM
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Forbidden Broadway Paints the Great White Way With a Coat of Parody by Harry Haun

Forbidden Broadway, the satiric revue that pokes commercial theatre in the eyes, is back. And no one, not even Jesus, is spared.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, August 10, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Into the Woods Is a Mother-Goosed Musical by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the opening of The Public Theater's new Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods, in Central Park's Delacorte Theater.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PM
Friday, August 3, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: In Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, the Champ Vamps by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of the one-man show Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PM
Thursday, August 2, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Bring It On; Three Cheers for Pompon Power by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of the new musical Bring It On.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM
Friday, July 27, 2012

STAGE TO SCREENS: Sheldon Harnick's TV Musicals Flicker Anew in NYC Screenings July 28 by Harry Haun

For lovers of musical theatre, The Paley Center for Media unearthed two television musicals written by master songwriters Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. One show ("The Canterville Ghos…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

STAGE TO SCREENS: Tracy Letts and William Friedkin Bring "Killer Joe" to the Big Screen by Harry Haun

Tracy Letts, the Tony-winning, Pulitzer-honored playwright of August: Osage County, talks about adapting his plays Killer Joe and Bug for the movies, and his collaboration with famed directo…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Nice Work, and She's Got It! Judy Kaye and Her Passion for Chandeliers by Harry Haun

Nice Work If You Can Get It Tony winner Judy Kaye admits that she has the heart of a vaudevillian. How else to explain her willingness to swing from a chandelier?

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Plummer on Plummer: Christopher Plummer Recalls A Word or Two for New One-Man Play by Harry Haun

As he prepares a new solo show about his favorite writing, Tony and Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer reflects on the lives that late he led — on stage, screen and radio. Will th…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM
Sunday, July 15, 2012

From Hedda to Streetcar to Vanya: The Many Colors of Cate Blanchett by Harry Haun

Inching nearer to Broadway, Oscar winner Cate Blanchett plays Yelena in Sydney Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya for Lincoln Center Festival. She talks with Playbill about the tug-of-war bet…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Monday, July 2, 2012

Remembering "Mr. Broadway," Gerald Schoenfeld by Harry Haun

On the occasion of the posthumous publication of Shubert Organization chairman Gerald Schoenfeld's memoir, "Mr. Broadway," his widow Pat Schoenfeld reflects on a theatrical lif…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM
Saturday, June 30, 2012

For Veteran Actor Mark Blum, It's Broadway Déjà Vu in The Best Man by Harry Haun

After a car accident sidelined The Best Man actor Michael McKean, Mark Blum got the call to return to a role he played over a decade ago.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A Peek Behind Their "Doors": Closer Than Ever Songwriters Maltby & Shire Revisit Their Classic Musical Revue by Harry Haun

Lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. and composer David Shire discuss their process and the songs of their beloved 1989 revue Closer Than Ever, which has resurfaced in a revised New York City reviva…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PM
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Smiles of a Summer Night: The Public Theater's 50 Years of Free Drama at Central Park's Delacorte by Harry Haun

The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park celebrates its 50th anniversary at the al fresco Delacorte Theater in Central Park this month. More than five million people have enjoyed pro…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, June 15, 2012

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Harvey Leads a Mary Chase by Harry Haun

Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Harvey starring Jim Parsons.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM

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