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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss Will Get NYC Premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2014 by Kenneth Jones

The New York City premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss is the sixth and final title in the coming 2013-14 season at Playwrights Horizons, the Off-Broadway company announced on March 26.

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Once Gets New Man and Muse on Broadway March 26; Ben Hope, Laura Dreyfuss, Carlos Valdes, Claire Wellin Join Cast by Kenneth Jones

Ben Hope and Laura Dreyfuss are the new "Guy" and "Girl," respectively, of Broadway's 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Once, beginning March 26. Also joining the …

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Filles de Joie Cabaret, With Lauren Molina, Edwin Cahill, Rona Figueroa, Plays Soho House NY March 25 by Kenneth Jones

Lauren Molina, Katrina Yaukey, Edwin Cahill, Rona Figueroa and Piaf interpreter Floane will be in a French mood in a new cabaret show, Filles de Joie, bowing 10:30 PM March 25 for members of…

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Jessie Mueller, John Treacy Egan and Conrad John Schuck Will Begin Nice Work March 29; Estelle Parsons to Return by Kenneth Jones

Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It will welcome three new principals on March 29 following the March 24 exit of 2012 Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara, Stanley Wayne Mathis and Ter…

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Desmond Heeley, David Toser, Lawrence Vrba Among TDF/Irene Sharaff Design Recipients by Kenneth Jones

Recipients of the 2013 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards include three-time Tony Award-winning costume and scenic designer Desmond Heeley and busy New York and regional costume designer David Toser.

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Janet Dacal to the Rescue! In the Heights Veteran Steps Into Miami-Area Run of Show by Kenneth Jones

A "whirlwind of a weekend" is how Broadway actress Janet Dacal describes it. On short notice, she flew from Los Angeles to Miami to step into the lead role of Nina Rosario in the A…

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Janet Dacal to the Rescue! In the Heights Veteran Steps Into Miami Run of Show by Kenneth Jones

A "whirlwind of a weekend" is how Broadway actress Janet Dacal describes it. On short notice, she flew from Los Angeles to Miami to step into the lead role of Nina Rosario in the A…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Choir Boy's NYC Premiere Will Star Chuck Cooper, Austin Pendleton, Jeremy Pope and More by Kenneth Jones

The American premiere Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, a play with gospel music, will feature Nicholas L. Ashe, Kyle Beltran, Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper, Grantham Coleman, Austin P…

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Blackburn-Winning Play The Nether Opens at L.A.'s Kirk Douglas by Kenneth Jones

Brighid Fleming, Adam Haas Hunter, Robert Joy, Dakin Matthews and Jeanne Syquia star in Jennifer Haley's Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning The Nether, about the addictive world of…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, March 22, 2013

Armando Riesco Returns to Pulitzer-Kissed "Elliot Trilogy" for Its Final Chapter, Happiest Song, at Goodman by Kenneth Jones

The Happiest Song Plays Last, the final play in Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes' "Elliot" Trilogy, has its cast, Goodman Theatre announced. Armando Riesco, wh…

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Pasadena Playhouse to Premiere Above the Fold in 2014; Season Includes Smokey Joe's Café, French Stewart and More by Kenneth Jones

Pasadena Playhouse's 2013-14 season, announced March 22, will include the world premiere of Bernard Weinraub's journalism drama Above the Fold, directed by Steve Robman. The season w…

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Terrence McNally and Tyne Daly Will Reunite for World Premiere Play at Bucks County Playhouse by Kenneth Jones

Bucks County Playhouse, the historic American summer theatre that has lured stars and been a launching pad for Broadway plays, will present the world premiere of a play by four-time Tony Awa…

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Hartford Stage's 50th Season Will Make a Star of Aesop in New Musical; Shakespeare, Coward and More Planned by Kenneth Jones

The 50th-anniversary season at Hartford Stage will offer classics and new works, including a world-premiere musical, the East Coast premiere of Matthew Lopez's new play and more, artisti…

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Clifford Odets' The Big Knife, With Bobby Cannavale, Begins on Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Bobby Cannavale, C.J. Wilson, Marin Ireland, Chip Zien, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, Reg Rogers and more star in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The Big Knife, beginning March…

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Kerry Butler, Kelly AuCoin, Eisa Davis Make The Call, About Adoption and Race, Starting March 22 by Kenneth Jones

Tanya Barfield's foreign-adoption drama The Call, a world-premiere co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages, featuring Kelly AuCoin, Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, Obie…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Mufti Silk Stockings, With Erin Davie, Ben Davis, Leah Hocking, David Garrison, Begins York Run March 22 by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

The York Theatre Company's new Musicals in Mufti presentation of the 1955 Cole Porter musical Silk Stockings, inspired by the film "Ninotchka," features Erin Davie as a Soviet …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Far From Heaven to Star Kelli O'Hara, Steven Pasquale, Korey Jackson, Nancy Anderson, Isaiah Johnson by Kenneth Jones

Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale will play the broken married couple at the center of the world premiere of the musical Far From Heaven, reuniting this spring at Playwrights Horizons fol…

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Playwrights Horizons Plans Musical Fly By Night and Plays by Anne Washburn, Kirk Lynn, Marlane Meyer and More by Kenneth Jones

Playwrights Horizons has announced the first five titles of its 2013-14 Off-Broadway season, to include three world premieres and two New York premieres. The dramatists are Anne Washburn, Mi…

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Alice Ripley To Move Into Clybourne Park, at Long Wharf by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Alice Ripley will appear in the dual role of Bev/Kathy in the ensemble cast of the Long Wharf Theatre's upcoming production of Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize-winnin…

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THE "SMASH" REPORT: Season Two, Episode 7, Or, Rewrite This Story by Kenneth Jones

Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…

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Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, With Jessica Hecht, Judith Light, Jeremy Shamos, Begins Broadway Run by Kenneth Jones

The Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the Manhattan-set family drama starring Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, begins previews March 21 in a Manhattan …

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Music for Hard Times: Hands on a Hardbody Opens on Broadway March 21 by Kenneth Jones

Hands on a Hardbody, the cultural pulse-taking about a cross-section of Texans hoping to win a pickup truck in a grueling endurance competition, opens on Broadway March 21. The musical's…

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Goodspeed's Hello, Dolly! Will Star Klea Blackhurst by Kenneth Jones

Klea Blackburst, the big-voiced character actress who recently appeared in York Theatre Company's Happy Hunting, will play Dolly Levi in director Daniel Goldstein's Goodspeed Musical…

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PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Doug Wright, Fleshing Out Real People in Hands On a Hardbody by Kenneth Jones

Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) talks about digging into his Texas roots to create the book of the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody, inspired by the film documen…

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Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's Opens on Broadway; Emilia Clarke Is Holly Golightly by Kenneth Jones

The world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, who drew from Truman Capote's novella, opens on Broadway March 20 in a produc…

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Allegiance, Hoping to Plant Its Flag on Broadway, Will Get NYC Developmental Lab This Spring by Kenneth Jones

Allegiance, the award-winning new American musical about family, freedom, love and loss in Japanese internment camps on U.S. soil during World War II, will get a developmental lab staging in…

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Florida's Asolo Plans Vanya and Sonia, Show Boat, 4000 Miles, Other Desert Cities and Hero for 2013-14 by Kenneth Jones

Asolo Repertory Theatre's 2013-14 season in Sarasota, FL, will open with a revival of Show Boat, the landmark Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern musical, directed by Rob Ruggiero.

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Folksbiene's Circusy Megile, in Yiddish and English, Will Star Tony Nominee Stephen Mo Hanan; Cast Announced by Kenneth Jones

Stephen Mo Hanan, a 1983 Tony Award nominee as Best Featured Actor in a Musical, will star in the circus-inspired reinvention of The Megile of Itzik Manger, produced by the Drama Desk Award-…

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The Nether Begins World-Premiere Run in L.A., With Dakin Matthews, Adam Haas Hunter, Jeanne Syquia by Kenneth Jones

Brighid Fleming, Adam Haas Hunter, Robert Joy, Dakin Matthews and Jeanne Syquia star in Jennifer Haley's Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning The Nether, about the addictive world of…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Sex and the Irish City: Dublin Ladies Are Looking For Love, Opening March 19 at NYC's Irish Rep by Kenneth Jones

Laoisa Sexton's For Love, about the sexual adventures of three women in modern-day central Dublin, opens March 19 following previews from March 13 as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre&…

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Monday, March 18, 2013

York's Adaptation of Silk Stockings To Star Erin Davie, Ben Davis, Leah Hocking, David Garrison, Stephen Wallem and More by Kenneth Jones

The York Theatre Company's new Musicals in Mufti concert presentation of the 1955 Cole Porter musical Silk Stockings, inspired by the film "Ninotchka," will feature Erin Davie …

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM