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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Philly Mountaintop Climbers Will Be Sekou Laidlow and Amirah Vann by Kenneth Jones

Sekou Laidlow will play Dr. King and Amirah Vann will play the mysterious Camae in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, her play that imagines …

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Brian Friel's Freedom of the City Returns to Irish Rep Jan. 2-20 by Kenneth Jones

Irish Repertory Theatre's fall 2012 production of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City  — the 1974 play about political unrest in Ireland — begins a three…

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Flashdance Tour Launches in Show's Steeltown Setting, Pittsburgh, Jan. 1-6 by Kenneth Jones

The national tour of Flashdance — The Musical, the fairy tale of a lady steelworker who dreams of legit dance while moonlighting as an exotic dancer, begins Jan. 1 in Pittsburgh, where…

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Cameron Mackintosh; The Impresario Brings Les Miz to the Movies by Kenneth Jones

British producer Cameron Mackintosh, who shepherded the musical Les Misérables from its French album/arena roots to the London, Broadway and international stage, talks about the new m…

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Golden Globe Nominee Jessica Chastain Will Not Be Broadway's Heiress for Three Performances in January by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, who is currently performing the role of Catherine Sloper in the Broadway revival of The Heiress, has been nominated for a Golden Globe, Critic's C…

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Cash-Strapped Triad Stage in NC Reaching to Make Year-End Fundraising Goal by Kenneth Jones

Triad Stage, the ambitious resident Equity theatre in downtown Greensboro, NC, is racing to meet a Dec. 31 fundraising goal that would complete a $250,000 campaign that began Dec. 6 and has …

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Presale for Broadway's Pump Boys and Dinettes, With Bo Bice, Alex Gemignani, Jane Pfitsch, Begins Dec. 26 by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Tickets for the Broadway revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes go on sale exclusively to MasterCard cardholders beginning Dec. 26 through Jan. 8, 2013. This presale will be followed by a Gilt Ci…

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Broadway's Breakfast at Tiffany's Goes on Sale to General Public Dec. 24 by Kenneth Jones

No more window shopping. Tickets for the new Broadway play Breakfast at Tiffany's — about the New York City dreamer Holly Golightly, who loiters outside of jeweler Tiffany & Co…

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Friday, December 21, 2012

Old Globe's Pygmalion Will Star Robert Sean Leonard, Paxton Whitehead, Charlotte Parry, Kandis Chappell and More by Kenneth Jones

Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion starring the previously announced Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins will also star Charlotte Parry …

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Ford's Theatre's 75th-Anniversary Staging of Our Town Will Star Portia as Stage Manager by Kenneth Jones

A multiracial, nontraditional cast will take on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitze…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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