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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Requiem! Broadway's Evita Will Close Jan. 26; Tour Will Launch in RI by Kenneth Jones

Producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders announced on Dec. 11 that the 2012 Tony Award-nominated production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita would close Jan. 26, 2013, after 26 …

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Broadway's Evita Will Close Jan. 26 by Kenneth Jones

Producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders announced on Dec. 12 that the 2012 Tony Award-nominated production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita would close Jan. 26, 2013, after 26 …

SOURCE: Playbill at 07:28PM

Cast Recording of Off-Broadway's Now. Here. This. Sets Release Date (Plus Video) by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Ghostlight Records will release the Original Cast Recording of the Vineyard Theatre’s production of Now. Here. This Dec. 18 in both digital and physical CD formats; funding for the CD …

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM

Owing to Crowded Lines, TKTS Adjusts Simultaneous Availability of Matinee and Eve Tix; New Hours Set by Kenneth Jones

Theatre Development Fund's new program of selling matinee and evening tickets simultaneously at the main TKTS Discount Booth in Times Square is being suspended during the holidays, but w…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PM

Myra Lucretia Taylor, Ken Marks, Kristin Griffith Join America Ferrera in NYC's Bethany; Full Cast Announced by Kenneth Jones

Women's Project Theater's world-premiere of Laura Marks' dark comedy Bethany, starring the previously announced America Ferrera (Emmy Award winner of TV's "Ugly Betty&qu…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM

"Idol" Favorite Bo Bice Headlines Broadway's Pump Boys and Dinettes, With Alex Gemignani, Jane Pfitsch and More by Kenneth Jones

"American Idol" country boy Bo Bice will star with Alexander Gemignani, Erik Hayden, Justin Hosek, Jane Pfitsch and Leenya Rideout in director John Doyle's new Broadway product…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM

"Idol" Favorite Bo Bice Headlines Broadway's Pump Boys and Dinettes, With Alex Gemignani, Jane Pfitsch by Kenneth Jones

"American Idol" country boy Bo Bice will star with Alexander Gemignani, Erik Hayden, Justin Hosek, Jane Pfitsch and Leenya Rideout in director John Doyle's new Broadway product…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM

Artistic Director Martin Platt Parts Ways With Olney Theatre Center; Search for Successor Begins by Kenneth Jones

Just six months after announcing programming for his first season as the new artistic director of Olney Theatre Center in Olney, MD, Martin Platt has parted ways with the suburban Equity com…

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AM

EXCLUSIVE LISTEN: The Land Where the Good Songs Go, Jerome Kern Revue, Released; Rebecca Luker, Kate Baldwin Among Cast by Kenneth Jones

A sold-out 2010 Manhattan concert of Jerome Kern songs crafted by arranger, orchestrator and music director David Loud — and featuring Broadway stars — lives beyond the memories …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM

Amazing Grace Gets NYC Industry Reading, Featuring Robert Petkoff, Robby Benson, Josh Young, Whitney Bashor by Kenneth Jones

Robert Petkoff, of Broadway's most recent Ragtime and Fiddler on the Roof, plays the narrator in a Dec. 11-12 reading presentation of the new musical Amazing Grace, the backstory of…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Laurie Metcalf, Daniel Stern, Zoe Perry, John Schiappa Inhabit The Other Place on Broadway Starting Dec. 11 by Kenneth Jones

The Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a doctor whose life is shaken, featuring Laurie Metcalf, reprising her earlier Off-Broadway performance, plu…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Quiara Alegría Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-Winning Water by the Spoonful Makes NYC Premiere Dec. 11 by Kenneth Jones and Adam Hetrick

Armando Riesco, Liza Colon-Zayas and Zabryna Guevara, who appeared in the 2011 Hartford Stage world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water by the Spo…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Monday, December 10, 2012

Chaplin's Rob McClure and Dancer Lauren Lovette Win 2012 Clive Barnes Awards by Kenneth Jones

The Clive Barnes Foundation's nominated actors and dancers for its Third Annual Clive Barnes Awards gathered at a reception 2:30 PM Dec. 10 at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center,…

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM

Barrington's 2013 Season to Feature Annette O'Toole, Joshua Bergasse, John Rando, a Mark St. Germain Premiere and More by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner John Rando will direct the dance-heavy musical comedy On the Town, with choreography by Emmy Award-winning "Smash" choreographer Joshua Bergasse, in summer 2013, …

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM

Patrick Wilson, David Hyde Pierce, Julia Murney Among Stars Helping Hurricane Victims in Dec. 10 Concert by Kenneth Jones

City of Hope: Broadway Blows Back, a starry benefit concert to raise funds for New York and New Jersey communities affected by Hurricane Sandy, plays 7:30 PM Dec. 10 at the Gershwin Theatre.

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Brian Kerwin, Bobby Steggert, Penny Fuller, Virginia Kull, Claybourne Elder Star in Dec. 10 Pterodactyls Reading by Kenneth Jones

Vineyard Theatre's Dec. 10 benefit reading of Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, a standout title from the not-for-profit's 30 years of producing, stars Emmy Award winner Penny Fuller,…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM

Chaplin's Rob McClure Among Nominees for 2012 Clive Barnes Awards for Dancers and Actors; Reception Is Dec. 10 by Kenneth Jones

The Clive Barnes Foundation's nominated actors and dancers for its Third Annual Clive Barnes Awards will be in attendance at a reception 2:30 PM Dec. 10 at the Walter Reade Theatre at Li…

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Irish Rep's Wonderful Life "Radio Play" Opens Dec. 10, With Peter Maloney, Katie Fabel and Max Gordon Moore by Kenneth Jones

Irish Repertory Theatre's It's a Wonderful Life, The 1946 Live Radio Play opens Off-Broadway Dec. 10 following previews from Dec. 5 on Irish Rep's intimate second stage, the…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, December 9, 2012

Scandalous, the Pop Musical About a Religious Superstar, Closes Dec. 9 by Kenneth Jones

Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, a musical passion project by writer Kathie Lee Gifford, closes on Broadway Dec. 9, following the matinee performance. The biographi…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Saturday, December 8, 2012

After Hiatus, If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, With Jake Gyllenhaal, Resumes NYC Run Dec. 8 by Kenneth Jones

The U.S. premiere of Nick Payne's humor-kissed dysfunctional-family drama If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, at Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway home at the Laura Pels …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Starring Al Pacino, Opens on Broadway by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

The Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, officially opens Dec. 8 at 8 PM at the Gerald Schoenfeld …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, December 7, 2012

La Cage Orchestrator Jason Carr Will Sweeten "Noël and Cole" Disc; Track Listing Announced by Kenneth Jones

Orchestrator Jason Carr, Tony Award nominee for the Broadway revivals of Sunday in the Park With George and La Cage aux Folles (2010), has joined the creative team for PS Classics' upcom…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PM

Brad Oscar, Maulik Pancholy, AJ Heekin, Polly Lee Conjure A Real Boy in NYC Reading Dec. 7 by Kenneth Jones

Stephen Kaplan's new play, A Real Boy, about an unusual teacher-student relationship, gets a private reading in New York City at 6:30 PM on Dec. 7. Brad Oscar (The Addams Family, The Pro…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Emmy-Winning "Smash" Will Finally Arrive on DVD, With Bonus Features, Jan. 8, 2013 by Kenneth Jones

The first season of the Emmy Award-winning musical drama series "Smash" — created by Broadway's Theresa Rebeck, with songs by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wi…

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PM

Patch Darragh, Keira Naughton, Todd Weeks, Christopher Jackson To Star in Rolin Jones' The Jammer Off-Broadway by Kenneth Jones

The New York City premiere of Rolin Jones' The Jammer — his 1950s-set play about roller derby — will feature Patch Darragh, Dan Domingues, Christopher Jackson, Billy Eugene J…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PM

Bill Irwin and David Shiner Collaborate With Tina Landau and Nellie McKay for Old Hats World Premiere at Signature by Kenneth Jones

Old Hats is the name of the new work by clowning Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and David Shiner, who will appear in the show's world premiere by Signature Theatre Company starting in Feb…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM

Amazing Grace Musical's NYC Reading Welcomes Robert Petkoff; Robby Benson and Josh Young Also Star by Kenneth Jones

Robert Petkoff, of Broadway's most recent Ragtime and Fiddler on the Roof, has joined the special reading presentation of the new musical Amazing Grace, the backstory of the famous spiri…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM

To the Moon, Alice! Honeymooners Musical Will Star Michael McGrath in 2013; Jerry Mitchell Helms by Kenneth Jones

Michael McGrath, the Broadway clown who won a Tony Award for playing a Noo Yawk bootlegger in Nice Work If You Can Get It, will bring his populist touch to the iconic role of bus driver Ralp…

SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59AM

Grammy Nominees for Musical Album Include Nice Work, Once, Follies, Newsies and Porgy and Bess; Shaiman & Wittman, Too by Kenneth Jones

Cast recordings of the Broadway musicals Newsies, Once, Follies, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and Nice Work If You Can Get It are among nominees of 55th Annual Grammy Awards, announced …

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41AM

John Malkovich's French-Language Staging of Les Liaisons Dangereuses Makes DC Premiere Dec. 6 by Kenneth Jones

The Shakespeare Theatre Company's presentation of Théâtre de l'Atelier's production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by stage and screen star John Malkovich and…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Will Spider-Man Have a New Landlord? Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre Is For Sale by Kenneth Jones

Live Nation Entertainment is seeking to sell Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre, currently home to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, according to an offering announcement by commercial real estate…

SOURCE: Playbill at 07:03PM

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