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Friday, March 22, 2013

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…

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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 …

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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…

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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 …

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Once Gets New Man and Muse on Broadway; Ben Hope and Laura Dreyfuss Take Leads March 26 by Kenneth Jones

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

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"Hands On a Hardbody" Documentary Gets DVD, On-Demand and Theatrical Re-Release by Kenneth Jones

Just in time for the new Broadway musical Hands On a Hardbody, which opens March 21 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, comes the home-video release of the source film documentary of the same na…

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Mound Builders, By Signature Alumni Playwright Lanford Wilson, Opens March 17 by Kenneth Jones

Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, a tale of archaeologists exploring the remains of an ancient culture, is being unearthed by Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company, opening Mar…

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Friday, March 15, 2013

Somewhere Fun's Premiere Will Star Kathleen Chalfant, Kate Mulgrew, Greg Keller, Brooke Bloom at Off-Broadway's Vineyard by Kenneth Jones

The Vineyard Theatre's world-premiere production of Jenny Schwartz's Somewhere Fun, to begin Off-Broadway May 15, will star Kathleen Chalfant, Kate Mulgrew, Greg Keller and more. Ope…

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Rebecca Producers Bang Drum About Enemies, But Are Confident in New Angels for Broadway by Kenneth Jones

The producers of Rebecca are continuing to push their case that the show's former press rep scuttled the Broadway production last fall by scaring off an "angel investor." In a …

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Murder Ballad Musical Likely to Rock On in Downtown Remount by Kenneth Jones

Murder Ballad, the new rock musical about a New Yorker pulled between her uptown present and her downtown past, is expected to have a commercial life this summer.

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Philly Premiere of Seminar, Directed by Scott Schwartz, Begins March 15 by Kenneth Jones

Director Scott Schwartz's Philadelphia resident premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar, featuring Rufus Collins as salty editor and literary lion Leonard, with Matt Harrington, Te…

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So Much Happiness! Off-Broadway Passion Will Get Two-Disc Recording From PS Classics by Kenneth Jones

Stephen Sondheim's score to Passion will gets its second American cast recording when PS Classics preserves the work of the current Off-Broadway Classic Stage Company production starring…

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DC Hello, Dolly!, With Broadway's Nancy Opel as the Matchmaker, Begins March 15 by Kenneth Jones

Ford's Theatre's revival of Hello, Dolly! — featuring Washington, DC actor Edward Gero as cantankerous Horace Vandergelder and Nancy Opel as Dolly — begins March 15,…

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Annie Baker's The Flick, a Tale of Movie-House Workers, Gets Extra Week Off-Broadway by Kenneth Jones

A week has been added to the run The Flick, Annie Baker's study of boredom, yearning and dysfunction in a crew of New England movie-house workers, now playing to April 7 at Off-Broadway&…

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Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
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Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
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