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Monday, June 29, 2015

Chekhov, College Colleagues and Millennials Sit “At the Table” of Writer-Director Michael Perlman’s New Play by Kenneth Jones

Fault Line Theatre's Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael Perlman's "At the Table" at HERE Arts Center conjures culturally eclectic conversation among a group of characters in their thirti…

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Monday, June 22, 2015

POWs Are On Parade in Vincent Delaney’s “The Art of Bad Men” in NYC NewTACTics Reading by Kenneth Jones

An interview with Seattle playwright Vincent Delaney, whose new history-inspired play is getting a reading in Manhattan June 24-25.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:21AM
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Playwright Liz Thaler Gets Her Kink On With “Happy,” a New Play in F*ckFest at The Brick by Kenneth Jones

Liz Thaler talks about working out the kinks of creating her new play "Happy," about a professional dominant who falls for a feminist gender studies professor, now at The Brick Theater in Br…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:24AM
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Playwright Joe Tracz Takes on High School in New Musical “Be More Chill” at NJ’s Two River Theater by Kenneth Jones

Playwright Joe Tracz talks about collaborating with composer Joe Iconis to bring the late Ned Vizzini's YA novel, "Be More Chill," to life as a musical.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:16AM
Friday, June 5, 2015

Cass Morgan Gets Her Irish Up in Private NYC Reading of Musical Memoir “The Road to Where” June 8 by Kenneth Jones

Fresh from its Geva Theatre Center premiere, "The Road to Where," the folk-tinged musical memoir by actress-writer Cass Morgan, gets a "listen" in Manhattan prior to a run Weston Playhouse i…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:46AM
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Jeff Talbott’s “The Gravedigger’s Lullaby” Gets NYC Reading June 3-4; Jenn Thompson Directs by Kenneth Jones

Playwright Jeff Talbott talks about his new play, getting a reading in the 2015 NewTACTics Festival of New Plays by Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actors Company Theatre.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:36AM
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

agney Sings! Actor-Songwriter Robert Creighton Talks About Playing Movie Icon in Musical by Kenneth Jones

Broadway's Robert Creighton talks about his passion for James Cagney and how it led him to co-write (and star in) a musical about the Hollywood icon.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:55PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Ian Kelly: Teaching the Pitmen People to Paint the Town Red by Kenneth Jones

The complete cast of eight in The Pitmen Painters ring up their collective Broadway debuts Sept. 30 when Lee Hall’s biographical drama bows at the Samuel J. Friedman, but one of their …

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Christine Ebersole Has a Date With "Wicked" Creator by Kenneth Jones

Grey Gardens and 42nd Street Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will appear in the 7 PM Oct. 27 "Selected Shorts" evening called Fairy Tales: Classic and Reimagined hosted by Grego…

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Fred Ebb's Candor From the Great Beyond by Kenneth Jones

Composer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…

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Fred Ebb's Candor From the Great Beyond by Kenneth Jones

Composer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…

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Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis Celebrate 100 Performances in NYC Oct. 19 by Kenneth Jones

There is no evidence that Dr. Sigmund Freud ever said that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” a quote that is attributed to the psychoanalyst. And there is no word about the sh…

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For Fans of Jerome Kern, a Religious Experience by Kenneth Jones

The sold-out Nov. 15 Merkin Hall presentation of the conceptual concert All the Things You Are: Jerome Kern, part of the Broadway Close Up series there, proved that any New York City theatre…

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Sondheim at Carnegie Hall by Kenneth Jones

Stephen Sondheim took a surprise bow at the Nov. 19 New York Pops concert at Carnegie Hall. The evening's encore, "Old Friends," was completed with the introduction of Sondheim, who …

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Marilyn Maye Says It With Broadway Music, and How by Kenneth Jones

Marilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…

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Marilyn Maye Says It With Broadway Music, and How by Kenneth Jones

Marilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…

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"Bob the Musical," a Movie With Songs by Marc Shaiman, Still in Development by Kenneth Jones

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the director-writers of the 3-D animated film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," are in talks to direct the movie musical “Bob the Musical,”…

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New York City Christmas, With Esparza and More, Will Have Fresh Tunes Among Evergreens Dec. 20 by Kenneth Jones

The third annual New York City Christmas, a benefit concert at Joe’s Pub at 7 PM Dec. 20, will not be a mere repeat of previous years, or just a rehash of the lively album of the same …

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Chicagoland Gets New Equity Musical Series at Paramount Theatre; Jim Corti Is Artistic Director by Kenneth Jones

The Paramount Theatre, an 1,800-seat touring house in suburban Chicago, will expand its mission in 2011 to become a producing theatre, offering a four-show subscription series of Broadway mu…

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Whoopi Goldberg Among Producers of Provocative Musical White Noise, Sounding Off in Chicago by Kenneth Jones

An eight-week Chicago run of White Noise, the new rock musical about a pop sister act that performs White Supremacy-laced songs, will be co-produced by Whoopi Goldberg and directed and chore…

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Soulpepper, Necessary Theatre and International Artists Will Be Part of 2011 Luminato Fest in Toronto by Kenneth Jones

Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, will offer an eclectic array of theatre and dance this June. The 2011 festival's theatre and dance program was announced on Jan. 17.

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Cheyenne Jackson, Pizzarelli & Molaskey Will Play Carnegie Hall in NY Pops Season by Kenneth Jones

The 29th season of the New York Pops will welcome a handful of theatre artists, including Hugh Panaro, Cheyenne Jackson and Ashley Brown, and will celebrate the work of Irving Berlin and Geo…

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Hayden Tee and Kimberly Burns Are King and Queen of Camelot, Starting Jan. 20 in Pittsburgh by Kenneth Jones

New Zealand native Hayden Tee, a star in Australia, ascends the throne as King Arthur in the new Pittsburgh Public Theater production of Camelot, directed by producing artistic director Ted …

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Manoel Felciano, René Augesen Move Into Clybourne Park at A.C.T. Jan. 20-Feb. 13 by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award nominee Manoel Felciano is among residents of the West Coast premiere of Clybourne Park, the acclaimed Bruce Norris play inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, about a white neighborhoo…

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Funk It Up About Nothin', a Rapping Much Ado, Plays Chicago Jan. 21-Feb. 12 by Kenneth Jones

Chicago Shakespeare Theater welcomes back Funk It Up About Nothin', the hip-hop adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, on Jan. 21. An engagement in Australia follows.

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Mary Ann Thebus Is Mom in The Boys Room, Premiering at Victory Gardens Jan. 21-Feb. 20 by Kenneth Jones

Adult brothers retreat to their childhood bedroom in the Victory Gardens Theater world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's The Boys Room, starting Jan. 21 in Chicago.

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Trio of DC Divas Star in Ford's Theatre's Carpetbagger's Children, Starting Jan. 21 by Kenneth Jones

Ford's Theatre's new production of Horton Foote's The Carpetbagger's Children, his play about three daughters of a Union soldier who settled in Texas following the Civil War, begins Jan. 21 …

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Bruce Hornsby's SCKBSTD Musical Opens in Virginia; Robert Cuccioli Stars by Kenneth Jones

SCKBSTD, a new musical about a stranger who upsets lives in a Virginia town, opens Jan. 21 in its world premiere production, directed by Tony Award winner John Rando at Virginia Stage Compan…

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Triangle Factory Fire Gets February Benefit Performance in Centennial Year of NYC Tragedy by Kenneth Jones

The Triangle Factory Fire Project, the 2004 Off-Broadway theatrical event that used public documents to tell the true story of an American workplace tragedy, will get a benefit concert readi…

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Jazz Hands: Bob Fosse Is Subject of New Biopic; Bryan Singer Will Direct by Kenneth Jones

A new feature-length film about the life and work of late Tony Award-winning dancer-director-choreographer Bob Fosse is in the works from producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, whose new "Foo…

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Oscar Winner Chris Cooper Will Star in Free Reading of Buried Child in Boston by Kenneth Jones

Jim True-Frost will direct Academy Award winner Chris Cooper in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's one-night-only presentation of Sam Shepard's Buried Child.

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