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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Embraced by Critics, The Great God Pan Gets Final Added Week in NYC by Kenneth Jones

The world-premiere run of Amy Herzog's critically acclaimed drama The Great God Pan, about a Brooklyn journalist recovering memories of possible past sexual abuse, will get a second exte…

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Track Listing Revealed for Rebecca Luker's Jerome Kern Album "I Got Love," Coming in January by Kenneth Jones

PS Classics, the two-time 2012 Grammy Award nominee for its cast albums of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and Follies, announced track listing for its Jan. 29, 2013, release of "I Go…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM

London Wizard of Oz Lands in Toronto With All-Canadian Cast Dec. 20; Songs by Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Augment Score by Kenneth Jones

The new Canadian production of London's popular The Wizard of Oz, featuring the classic movie score punctuated with new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and featuring Danielle …

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Christine Sherrill, Will Ray, Dara Cameron, Don Richard Are Denizens of Sunset Boulevard in Chicago by Kenneth Jones

Drury Lane Theatre's new Chicago-area production of Sunset Boulevard Jan. 24-March 24, 2013, will feature Christine Sherrill as Norma Desmond and Will Ray as Joe Gillis.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM

Now and Forever: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber Will Star Linda Balgord, Matt Raftery, Susan Moniz, Erin Stewart and More by Kenneth Jones

The world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, will feature Linda Balgord — a veteran of Cats…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM

David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Starring Al Pacino, Recoups Investment by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

The Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office that officially opened Dec. 8 at the Gerald Schoenfeld The…

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Big Fish Will Make a Musical Splash in Chicago; William Ivey Long Among Designers by Kenneth Jones

Big Fish, the new musical with songs by Andrew Lippa and starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, will play its world-premiere pre-Broadway tryout April 2-May 5, 2013, at the Or…

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Adam Bock, Samuel D. Hunter Among Five Dramatists of Inaugural Writer's Room, From MTC and Ars Nova by Kenneth Jones

The Writer's Room, a new collaboration between Manhattan Theatre Club and Ars Nova to "commission, develop and support playwrights in the process of creating new work for the stage,…

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Wrenn Schmidt Will Play Katie Roche in Rare NYC Production of Teresa Deevy Play by Kenneth Jones

Off-Broadway's Mint Theater Company, which discovers forgotten plays about the beginning of modern life and holds them up to the light, announced casting for the first-ever resident Amer…

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Austen Power! Single Girls Guide Musical Will Star Kate Loprest as "Emma," With Nick Wyman, Farah Alvin by Kenneth Jones

Kate Loprest, Nick Wyman, Farah Alvin, Robb Sapp and more will star in the world-premiere production of the musical The Single Girls Guide, a swinging '60s-set musical inspired by Jane A…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM

Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan, With Jeremy Strong Unlocking a Character's Past, Opens in NYC by Kenneth Jones

Playwrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan, with Jeremy Strong (Broadway's A Man for All Seasons) playing a young Brooklyn journalist shaken by a reve…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM

Blythe Danner Finds Nice Work on Broadway Starting Dec. 18 by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Blythe Danner joins the cast of Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It for 12 weeks starting Dec. 18 the Imperial Theatre. She takes the rich-matron role of Millicent W…

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Cast Recording of Off-Broadway's Now. Here. This., Featuring [title of show] Gang, Arrives Dec. 18 by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Ghostlight Records releases the Original Cast Recording of the Vineyard Theatre's production of Now. Here. This. Dec. 18 in both digital and physical CD formats; funding for the CD was r…

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Monday, December 17, 2012

NYC's The Last Five Years Will Wed Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe by Kenneth Jones

The happy-unhappy couple at the center of Second Stage Theatre's new production of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years will be Adam Kantor (Mark in the final Broadway ca…

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Neil LaBute's Revised Stage Version of In the Company of Men To Premiere in Chicago by Kenneth Jones

In the Company of Men, an early play by Neil LaBute better known for its controversial film version, has been revised and will get its professional debut by Profiles Theatre in Chicago in th…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM

Harold Arlen Revue, Wonderful Wizard of Song, Begins NYC Premiere Dec. 17 by Kenneth Jones

Some of the best-known songs from theatre, pop and movies will be heard Off-Broadway starting Dec. 17 with the first preview of the New York City premiere of The Wonderful Wizard of Song: Th…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Saturday, December 15, 2012

La Jolla Plans His Girl Friday and Wine-Drenched Sideways; Des McAnuff Will Guest-Direct by Kenneth Jones

Two titles have been added to the 2013-14 season at La Jolla Playhouse, and both have been seen in popular film versions.

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Lilla Crawford, Broadway's Annie, Recovering From Minor Injury by Kenneth Jones

Lilla Crawford, the young actress who stars as Annie on Broadway, is out of the show until the week of Dec. 17 due to a minor foot injury suffered onstage at the Dec. 12 matinee.

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Terrence McNally's Golden Age, Starring Lee Pace and Bebe Neuwirth, Extends Off-Broadway Run by Adam Hetrick and Kenneth Jones

Manhattan Theatre Club announced that Terrence McNally's backstage-set operatic play Golden Age, starring Emmy Award nominee Lee Pace as a late-in-life composer Vincenzo Bellini, ha…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM

Picnic Spreads Its Blanket on Broadway Starting Dec. 14 by Kenneth Jones

Picnic, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town folk yearning for what's beyond, returns to Broadway starting Dec. 14 in a Roundabout Theatre Company production sta…

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Carole King Is Winner of Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by Kenneth Jones

Pop singer-songwriter Carole King — known for the songs "You've Got a Friend," "I Feel the Earth Move," "Natural Woman" and more — is the 2013 r…

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PLAYBILL EXCLUSIVE: Goodspeed Musicals and Johnny Mercer Foundation Create Winter Colony for Writers of Musicals by Kenneth Jones

Writers of new musicals will find a place to sharpen their developing works on the Goodspeed Musicals campus in Connecticut in an ambitious new writers-colony program supported by The Johnny…

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George Wendt Joins Cory Michael Smith and Emilia Clarke For Broadway's Breakfast at Tiffany's by Kenneth Jones

George Wendt, the six-time Emmy Award nominee of TV's "Cheers," and a Broadway veteran from Elf, Hairspray and Art, will play Joe Bell in the new Broadway production of Breakfa…

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Christopher Lloyd Will Star in Classic Stage's Caucasian Chalk Circle With Music by Duncan Sheik by Kenneth Jones

Film and television actor Christopher Lloyd, of "Back to the Future" and "Taxi," will star as the writer-judge Azdak in Classic Stage Company's new production of Bert…

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Neil Patrick Harris-Directed Illusion Show Nothing to Hide Extended in L.A. by Kenneth Jones

Neil Patrick Harris, a fan of magic since his childhood, directs Nothing to Hide, a unique theatrical event featuring sleight-of-hand artists Derek DelGaudio (2011 Close-Up Magician of …

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Neil Patrick Harris, Curt Hansen, Charlene Tilton, Ariana Grande Give Snow White the Panto Treatment in CA Dec. 12-30 by Kenneth Jones

Curt Hansen, of Broadway's Hairspray and Next to Normal, plays Snow White's Prince in an English-flavored "panto" production of A Snow White Christmas at Pasadena Playhouse…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM

Neil Patrick Harris, Curt Hansen, Charlene Tilton, Ariana Grande Give Snow White the Panto Treatment in CA Dec. 12-23 by Kenneth Jones

Curt Hansen, of Broadway's Hairspray and Next to Normal, plays Snow White's Prince in an English-flavored "panto" production of A Snow White Christmas at Pasadena Playhouse…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM

Cory Michael Smith Will Join Emilia Clarke For Breakfast at Tiffany's at Broadway's Cort Theatre by Adam Hetrick and Kenneth Jones

Cory Michael Smith, who currently appears in the Playwrights Horizons staging of The Whale Off-Broadway, will co-star with Emilia Clarke in the world-premiere stage production of Truman Capo…

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STAGE TO SCREENS: Looking at Les Misérables Through a New Lens; Recapping the Movie by Kenneth Jones

A closer look at the new Tom Hooper-directed film version of the London, Broadway and international stage hit Les Misérables, with notes, comment and spoilers.

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Little Miss Scrooge, a Dickensian Musical Mashup, Dawns in CA Concert; Amanda McBroom, Jeff Edgerton, Sarah Litzsinger Star by Kenneth Jones

Librettist-director John Caird and composer-lyricist-librettist Paul Gordon, who created the musicals Daddy Long Legs and Jane Eyre, are together again for Little Miss Scrooge, a new yule-fl…

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Requiem! Broadway's Evita Will Close Jan. 26; Tour Will Launch in RI by Kenneth Jones

Producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders announced on Dec. 11 that the 2012 Tony Award-nominated production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita would close Jan. 26, 2013, after 26 …

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