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Monday, May 25, 2015

Gavin Lee, Arena's Oklahoma!, Signature's Sycamore Trees, Phylicia Rashad Are Helen Hayes Nominees in DC by Kenneth Jones

Nominations for the 2011 Helen Hayes Awards, representing excellence in the Washington, DC-area theatre community, were announced Feb. 28.

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CSC's Sold-Out Three Sisters, Starring Gyllenhaal, Hecht, Rylance and Sarsgaard, Will Not Extend by Kenneth Jones

After exploring the idea of extending its sold-out and acclaimed production of Three Sisters, the leaders of Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company will rest on their success. The run will end…

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Spider-Man Stars Are Early Birds on CBS March 1 by Kenneth Jones

The stars of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark will appear on CBS's "The Early Show" the morning of March 1 in anticipation of their appearance that night on "The Late Show."

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David Garrison Joins World Premiere of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Kenneth Jones

David Garrison, a Tony Award nominee for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, completes the cast of Lynn Nottage's new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, which gets its world premiere …

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Rob McClure, Lauren Worsham, Sebastian Arcelus, Jill Paice Will Star in Encores! Concert Where's Charley? by Kenneth Jones

Rob McClure, late of Avenue Q, will sing the Frank Loesser classic "Once in Love With Amy" as romantic lead Charley in the March 17-20 City Center Encores! concert of Where's Charley?

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PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With David Lindsay-Abaire by Kenneth Jones

The playwright of Shrek the Musical, Fuddy Meers and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole drew on his old neighborhood to write Broadway's Good People.

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Small-Cast Working, Singing of American Workers, Opens in Chicago; Is NYC Next? by Kenneth Jones

The new adaptation of the 1978 Broadway musical Working, inspired by Studs Terkel's best-selling collection of oral histories about vocations, opens in Chicago March 2 following previews fro…

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Kwame Kwei-Armah Will Be Artistic Director of Centerstage in Baltimore by Kenneth Jones

Leaders of Centerstage, Baltimore's resident Equity theatre company, announced that they will welcome British playwright, director, actor, singer and broadcaster Kwame Kwei-Armah as the thea…

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Dreamgirls, Shrek, Mandy Patinkin, Tarell Alvin McCarney Among Nominees for SF Bay Area Critics Awards by Kenneth Jones

Nominees for the 35th annual San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
Awards, representing local theatrical excellence in 2010, were announced Feb. 28. The ceremony will be held 7…

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Zooming-In On a Handbag: Broadway's Importance of Being Earnest Will Be Filmed for Cinema by Kenneth Jones

Lady Bracknell is ready for her close-up. Roundabout Theatre Company's extended Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest will be filmed in high-definition for future screenings…

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Ten Chimneys, Black Pearl Sings, Stephen Schwartz's Snapshots Confirmed for IL's Northlight by Kenneth Jones

The leaders of Northlight Theatre in Skokie, IL, announced their 2011-12 season, which will feature the previously announced Stephen Schwartz musical Snapshots.

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A New Life! Harry Connick, Jr. Will Star in Broadway's On a Clear Day, as Reconceived by Michael Mayer by Kenneth Jones

The revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, once aimed for Off-Broadway, has been bumped to Broadway and will star Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr.

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La Cage, Addams Family, Memphis Among Shows Coming to L.A.'s Pantages Theatre in 2011-12 by Kenneth Jones

The 2011-12 subscription season at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles will include the national tours of Come Fly Away, Wicked, La Cage aux Folles, Memphis and more.

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View From the Bridge, With Larry Bull, Joseph R. Sicari, Gayton Scott, Kira McCarthy, Begins FL Run by Kenneth Jones

Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, FL, is reviving Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, the tragedy about an Italian-American longshoreman's passion for his niece, March 3-20.

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Heidi Blickenstaff, Christopher Sieber, Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana To Sing Songs of Sam Davis at Birdland by Kenneth Jones

The PS Classics CD "Love on a Summer Afternoon: Songs of Sam Davis" will come to life in an all-star performance at New York City's Birdland on March 21 at 7 PM.

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The Homecoming, With Kenneth Welsh and René Augesen, Begins at A.C.T. by Kenneth Jones

American Conservatory Theater's new production of late Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, directed by A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff, plays March 3-27, featuring A.C.T. c…

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David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People Opens on Broadway; Frances McDormand, Tate Donovan Star by Kenneth Jones

Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire's humor-laced drama about a paycheck-to-paycheck single mom reaching out to an old flame, who is now a success, opens on Broadway March 3. Frances McDormand…

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American Idiot Has a Date With L.A. in Spring 2012 by Kenneth Jones

The national tour of American Idiot will play the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles March 14-April 22, 2012, Center Theatre Group announced on March 2.

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Broadway Box Office for High, Drama Starring Kathleen Turner, Opens March 4 by Kenneth Jones

The box office at Broadway's Booth Theatre opens 10 AM March 4 for tickets to High, the new Matthew Lombardo drama starring Kathleen Turner as a nun reaching out to a kid at risk.

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Alan Ayckbourn Will Direct World Premieres of Dear Uncle and Neighbourhood Watch This Summer by Kenneth Jones

The Stephen Joseph Theatre, playwright Alan Ayckbourn's longtime artistic home in Scarborough, England, will produce the world-premiere productions of his plays Dear Uncle and Neighbourhood …

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NJ's Surflight Books Rent, Grease, Art; Judd Hirsch, Cindy Williams, JoAnne Worley Among Stars by Kenneth Jones

Surflight Theatre producer Roy Miller announced that the Beach Haven, NJ, company's summer 2011 season will include stars from film, television and Broadway performing in titles ranging from…

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He Loves and She Loves: Tony Yazbeck and Gabrielle Ruiz Are My One and Only Stars for Goodspeed by Kenneth Jones

Tony Yazbeck, of Broadway's recent White Christmas, A Chorus Line and Gypsy, will play love-struck aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of My One and Onl…

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Steppenwolf Season to Feature John Mahoney, William Petersen, Tracy Letts, Premiere of The March by Kenneth Jones

Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 2011-12 season in Chicago will include plays by Bruce Norris, Enda Walsh and Donald Margulies, plus adaptations of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and E.L. Doctor…

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God of Carnage Gets Chicago Premiere, With Mary Beth Fisher as Steely Hostess, March 5-April 10 by Kenneth Jones

Mary Beth Fisher, Keith Kupferer, Beth Lacke and David Pasquesi begin their bickering in Chicago on March 5 as the badly behaved parents of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, at the Goodman Thea…

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From the Page to the Stage: Laura Eason's Ethan Frome Opens in Chicago World Premiere by Kenneth Jones

The world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the New England-set Edith Wharton novel, opens March 5 following previews from Feb. 23 in Chicago.

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Forgiving John Lennon, a Look at Tolerance and Muslim Identity, Will Get World Premiere in MI by Kenneth Jones

Detroit Repertory Theatre will give William Missouri Downs' Forgiving John Lennon, the story of a Somali Muslim woman clashing with two American professors, its world premiere March 31-May 2…

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Alexis Rogers, Todd M. Kryger, Sean Blake Will Bring Porgy and Bess to Life at Chicago's Court by Kenneth Jones

The new Court Theatre production of George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward's folk music Porgy and Bess has its title lovers. The all-Chicago cast will be headed by Alexis Rogers (The Piano Lesso…

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Wonderland Troupe Will Record Cast Album Prior to Broadway Launch by Kenneth Jones

Wonderland, the new Broadway musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, will get a cast album from Masterworks Broadway. The score by composer Frank Wildhorn and lyri…

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Goodbye, Gomez: Nathan Lane Among Addams Family Actors Exiting Broadway Musical March 6 by Kenneth Jones

The mansion of Broadway's The Addams Family gets de-populated, but not for long, after the March 6 matinee at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Nathan Lane, Kevin Chamberlin, Carolee Carmell…

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God of Carnage Gets Chicago Premiere, With Mary Beth Fisher as Steely Hostess, March 5-April 10 by Kenneth Jones

Mary Beth Fisher, Keith Kupferer, Beth Lacke and David Pasquesi begin their bickering in Chicago on March 5 as the badly behaved parents of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, at the Goodman Thea…

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From the Page to the Stage: Laura Eason's Ethan Frome Opens in Chicago World Premiere by Kenneth Jones

The world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the New England-set Edith Wharton novel, opens March 5 following previews from Feb. 23 in Chicago.

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