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Monday, May 25, 2015

Charming Billy, Inspired by Award-Winning Novel, Is Now a World-Premiere Play in MD by Kenneth Jones

Charming Billy, Blake Robison's adaptation of Alice McDermott's novel about a community's memory of a dead man, gets its world premiere by Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD, Feb. 2-20.

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Alan Cumming to Riffle Through Notebook of Trigorin, by Tennessee Williams, for Classic Stage by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will appear in a one-night-only staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Feb. 13 at Cla…

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Furious Theatre Company Loses Home at Pasadena Playhouse by Kenneth Jones

Furious Theatre Company and The Pasadena Playhouse have mutually agreed to the end of Furious troupe's residency in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre in Pasadena, CA.

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People in the Picture Come Into Focus With Christopher Innvar, Alexander Gemignani, Chip Zien, Nicole Parker by Kenneth Jones

Alexander Gemignani, Nicole Parker, Christopher Innvar, Lewis J. Stadlen, Chip Zien and more will join two-time Tony Award winner Donna Murphy in the new Broadway musical The People in the P…

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Buy Broadway's Bengal Tiger in Person; Rodgers Box Office Opens Feb. 4 by Kenneth Jones

The box office of Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre opens 10 AM Feb. 4 for the spring launch of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, starring Robin Williams as the title feline n…

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NYC Whipping Man, Acclaimed Civil War Drama, Gets Third Extension, Now to April 10 by Kenneth Jones

The Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's historical drama about a Confederate Jewish solider returning home to his former slaves, who are also Jewish, earned encouraging reviews following its Feb. …

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PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Jeffrey Tambor by Kenneth Jones

Jeffrey Tambor, of "Arrested Development" and "The Larry Sanders Show," has a song in his heart as the next Georges in Broadway's La Cage aux Folles.

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Baby It's You! Box Office Will Open Feb. 5 by Kenneth Jones

The box office at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre opens Feb. 5 for ticket sales to the new musical Baby It's You! starring Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, Elf, Mamma Mia!) as record produce…

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Brad Oscar Will Play Uncle Fester in Addams Family; Blickenstaff, Grupper, Potter Join Cast by Kenneth Jones

New family will pour through the door of Broadway's The Addams Family on March 8. The producers announced that Heidi Blickenstaff, Adam Grupper, Brad Oscar, Rachel Potter and Jesse Swenson w…

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Triangle Factory Fire Project Gets Feb. 7 Benefit Concert Reading 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, gets a benefit concert reading o…

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Charming Billy, Inspired by Award-Winning Novel, Opens in MD World Premiere Feb. 7 by Kenneth Jones

Charming Billy, Blake Robison's adaptation of Alice McDermott's novel about a community's memory of a dead man, gets its world premiere by Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD, Feb. 7-20. Pre…

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Finding Neverland, Directed and Choreographed by Rob Ashford, Will Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse by Kenneth Jones

Finding Neverland, the musical about the children who inspired J.M. Barrie to create Peter Pan, will get its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in the 2011-12 season. Scott Frankel (music)…

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Good People, Play of Aspiration and Escape, With Frances McDormand and Tate Donovan, Begins on Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire's play about characters from his old neighborhood -- the working-class "Southie" section of Boston -- begins performances on Broadway Feb. 8 in a production…

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Three Sisters, With Gyllenhaal, Rylance, Hecht and More, Is Sold Out Off-Broadway; Extension Mulled by Kenneth Jones

Classic Stage Company's acclaimed new production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Jessica Hecht, Marin Ireland, Juliet Rylance and Peter Sarsgaard,…

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Jane Fonda Probes the Past in L.A. Run of Broadway's 33 Variations, Opening Feb. 9 by Kenneth Jones

The Los Angeles run of Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations, directed by the author and featuring the 2009 Broadway engagement's Jane Fonda and Zach Grenier, opens Feb. 9 following previews…

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Wonderland's Broadway Box Office Opens Feb. 14 With Special Offer by Kenneth Jones

The Marquis Theatre box office for Broadway's Wonderland - A New Alice. A New Musical will open Feb. 14 in anticipation of a March 21 first preview. The first 100 people in line get a discou…

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All Aboard for Discounts and Swag, When Anything Goes Box Office Opens Feb. 14 by Kenneth Jones

There will be an anything-goes quality to the Feb. 14 box-office opening for tickets to Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Expect $10 tickets, free stuff and a chance to win an o…

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Kim Cattrall Will Play Private Lives in Toronto Before Broadway; Chess, Poppins, War Horse Also Booked by Kenneth Jones

"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall will repeat her London role of Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives in Toronto in a September-October engagement billed as "prior to Broadway."

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Two Weeks Added to San Francisco Premiere Run of Tales of the City Musical by Kenneth Jones

American Conservatory Theater's world-premiere run of the musical Tales of the City, inspired by the novels of Armistead Maupin, will get two extra weeks in San Francisco this summer.

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Camino Real, Red, Race and World Premiere of The Convert Will Play Goodman Theatre in 2011-12 by Kenneth Jones

Goodman Theatre in Chicago announced part of its 2011-12 season, to include the Chicago premieres of John Logan's Red and David Mamet's Race, plus the world-premiere co-production of Danai G…

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Robert Sean Leonard Will Inspire a New Dawn in Born Yesterday on Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard (The Invention of Love, TV's "House") will play the reporter Paul Verrall in the new Broadway production of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, the producers…

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You Are the Star of Interviewing the Audience, Opening Feb. 10 at NYC's Vineyard by Kenneth Jones

Interviewing the Audience, Zach Helm's new interactive piece inspired by the work of monologist Spalding Gray, opens Feb. 10 at the Vineyard Theatre in Manhattan. Previews began Feb. 3.

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Hollywood's Dietrich and Literature's Remarque Are Focus of Puma, a World Premiere at NJ Rep by Kenneth Jones

Puma, the new play about the love affair between actress Marlene Dietrich and writer Erich Maria Remarque, with Hollywood's Golden Age as the backdrop, gets its world premiere by New Jersey …

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Michael Cerveris Shepherding Nine Lives, Musical About New Orleanians; NYC Sneak Peek Is Feb. 27 by Kenneth Jones

The nonfiction book "Nine Lives," a biography of nine New Orleans residents and their relationship with the fabled city, has inspired a song cycle and forthcoming album. Broadway actor and f…

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Original Version of Grease, Grittier and Raunchier Than You Know, Will Get Production Where It All Began by Kenneth Jones

Before it was a Broadway hit and film sensation, Grease was a gritty 1971 play with music performed in Chicago that reflected the lives of Chicago teens in the 1950s.

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Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Rebecca Luker to Celebrate Susan Stroman for Vineyard; Tix On Sale by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Susan Stroman will be honored and entertained at a gala fundraiser for Vineyard Theatre Feb. 28 in Manhattan. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, her…

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Harry Groener and Ora Jones Are King and Queen in Madness of George III in Chicago by Kenneth Jones

Harry Groener, the three-time Tony nominee of Cats, Crazy for You and 1980's Oklahoma!, as well as many non-musical works, will play the title role in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater product…

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"Mr. Schue" in a New Light, Performing at the Goodman by Kenneth Jones

Broadway and stage star Matthew Morrison — teacher Will Schuester of TV’s "Glee" — will headline Goodman Theatre's May 21 Gala that celebrates One Enchanted Decade …

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Jamey Hood Spreads Her Wings as Lucky Duck, Starting Feb. 11 at South Coast Rep by Kenneth Jones

Art Manke, a five-time Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) Award-winning director, directs and choreographs Lucky Duck, Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's pop musical version of "The Ugly…

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With a Change of Gardener, Tulipomania: The Musical Will Blossom in Philadelphia by Kenneth Jones

Tulipomania, the musical about the real-life Netherlands tulip craze of the 1600s, developed in a 2009 workshop by Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company, is sprouting anew with a shift in per…

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MTC's "7@7" Play Reading Series Will Feature Tony Winners Boyd Gaines and Julie White by Kenneth Jones

Dramatists Matthew Lopez, Alfred Uhry, Jonathan Caren, Kelly Younger, D.C. Jackson, Michael Elyanow, Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman will hear their new works read in Manhattan Theatre Clu…

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