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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Neil Patrick Harris to host Tony Awards again by Mark Kennedy

Neil Patrick Harris will return as host for the upcoming Tony Awards. Producers of the show announced Tuesday that the star of the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and a stage veteran would ta…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:30PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

'The Book of Mormon' leads Tony Award nominations by Mark Kennedy

"The Book of Mormon" nabbed a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, earning the profane musical nods for best musical, best book of a musical, best original score, two leading a…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 09:53AM

'The Book of Mormon' leads Tony Award nominations by Mark Kennedy

"The Book of Mormon" nabbed a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, earning the profane musical nods for best musical, best book of a musical, best original score, two leading a…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:10AM

Broadway anticipates Tony Award nomination smiles by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the Broadway season began last year, a big brash musical about Spider-Man was supposed to muscle its way to multiple Tony Award nominations. Instead, a pair of goof…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:08AM
Monday, May 2, 2011

Donna Murphy Balances Stage and Motherhood by Mark Kennedy

"The People in the Picture" features Murphy as an actress in a spunky Yiddish theater troupe and her character decades later as an ailing 79-year-old grandmother in 1970s New York.

SOURCE: Backstage at 10:22AM
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Donna Murphy tries to balance stage and motherhood by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Donna Murphy remembers coming across a blog post this winter reporting that she was returning to Broadway in a Holocaust musical....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:47AM
Friday, April 29, 2011

'Book of Mormon' leads Drama Desk nominations by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The profane musical "The Book of Mormon" and the zany revival of "Anything Goes" received the most nominations Friday from the Drama Desk, which honors both Broadway and…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:25PM

'Book of Mormon' Leads Drama Desk Nominations by Mark Kennedy

The profane musical "The Book of Mormon" and the zany revival of "Anything Goes" received the most nominations Friday from the Drama Desk.

SOURCE: Backstage at 11:41AM
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Ben Stiller on Stage Returns to Familiar Play by Mark Kennedy

When most successful actors thank their moms for helping their careers, few are as literal as Ben Stiller.

SOURCE: Backstage at 10:36AM

Ben Stiller on stage returns to familiar play by Mark Kennedy

When most successful actors thank their moms for helping their careers, few are as literal as Ben Stiller.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:30AM
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Musicians Sue Broadway Musical 'Baby, It's You!' by Mark Kennedy

Producers of "Baby, It's You!" were slapped with a lawsuit Wednesday only hours before opening night by musicians claiming their names and likeness were used without permission.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AM
Monday, April 25, 2011

Injured Broadway 'Spider-Man' actor rejoins show by Mark Kennedy

An actor seriously injured at the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has returned to work only four months after he plummeted 35 feet from an onstage platform.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:40PM

Jim Belushi and Robert Sean Leonard Team Up by Mark Kennedy

Belushi and Leonard — two actors more famous these days for their roles on TV than stage — seem to have already gotten their chemistry down as they work on a revival of "Born Y…

SOURCE: Backstage at 10:21AM
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Producers of 'Spider-Man' musical open up by Mark Kennedy

The long-suffering lead producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" said they had no choice but to shake up the creative team after realizing sometime around Christmas that Broadway's most …

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:29PM

Injured 'Spider-Man' Actor to Rejoin Show by Mark Kennedy

Christopher Tierney, who fell 35 feet into the orchestra pit in front of a shocked preview audience on Dec. 20, got permission from his doctor to rejoin rehearsals beginning Monday.

SOURCE: Backstage at 10:26AM

Producers of 'Spider-Man' Musical Open Up by Mark Kennedy

The lead producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" said they had no choice but to shake up the creative team after realizing the musical simply wasn't working.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:15AM
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Injured Broadway 'Spider-Man' actor to rejoin show by Mark Kennedy

An actor whose back was badly hurt when he tumbled from the stage at the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has been cleared to return to the revamped show and hopes to be swin…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:01PM

Injured Broadway 'Spider-Man' actor to rejoin show by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- A lead producer of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" says an actor badly hurt when he tumbled from the stage in December is expected be back rehearsin…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:51PM

Patina Miller Thanks Heaven for 'Sister Act' by Mark Kennedy

Patina Miller has taken her role as a nun in "Sister Act" very seriously. How seriously? Her life these days is pretty cloistered.

SOURCE: Backstage at 10:13AM
Monday, April 18, 2011

Bruce Norris' 'Clybourne Park' Wins Drama Pulitzer by Mark Kennedy

The play "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' riff on "A Raisin in the Sun" that examined race relations and the effects of modern gentrification, won the Pulitzer for drama prize.

SOURCE: Backstage at 03:57AM
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Guirgis’ Broadway debut profane and profound | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri by Mark Kennedy

A fedora has never looked quite so menacing as it does resting on a side table when Stephen Adly Guirgis’ gritty new play, “The Motherf----- with the Hat,” opens.

SOURCE: The Columbia Daily Tribune at 11:18AM

Kathleen Turner Gets 'High' as a Nun on Broadway by Mark Kennedy

Kathleen Turner is as confused as anyone about this heavenly detour when she makes her first appearance as a Roman Catholic nun in the play "High," opening this month on Broadway.

SOURCE: Backstage at 03:30AM
Friday, April 15, 2011

Kathleen Turner Gets 'High' as a Nun on Broadway - ABC News by Mark Kennedy

Kathleen Turner is as confused as anyone about the heavenly detour her roles have taken lately.

SOURCE: ABC News at 09:19PM
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Sutton Foster, Joel Grey Team Up for Laughs by Mark Kennedy

It doesn't take long for an interview with Broadway veterans and Tony Awards winners Sutton Foster and Joel Grey to evolve into something more like a vaudeville routine.

SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM
Saturday, April 2, 2011

A Young Playwright in Demand: Rajiv Joseph by Mark Kennedy

"I like to come here and write sometimes," playwright Rajiv Joseph says, laughing. "I feel like one big cliche: The writer and the legion of moms and their kids colliding at a coffee shop."

SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PM
Thursday, March 31, 2011

A young playwright in demand: Rajiv Joseph by Mark Kennedy

At a cafe in Brooklyn near his home, playwright Rajiv Joseph locks eyes with an adorable toddler in a fuzzy one-piece jumpsuit.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:41PM
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Zany musical 'The Book of Mormon' will convert you by Mark Kennedy

Many big Broadway musicals like to roll out a lush dream sequence at some point. Few feature Adolf Hitler, lawyer Johnnie Cochran, Genghis Khan and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:52PM

Tony Award-Winning Playwright Lanford Wilson Dies by Mark Kennedy

Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright of such plays as "The Hot L Baltimore," "Burn This," "Fifth of July" and "Talley's Folly," has died. He was 73.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:46AM
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Tony-nominated actress Helen Stenborg dies at 86 by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Helen Stenborg, a Tony-nominated stage, film and TV actress who was the wife of the late Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes and mother of the Tony Award-winning dir…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:56AM
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

John Leguizamo has fun focusing on his career by Mark Kennedy

It's hard to determine who exactly comes out ahead when John Leguizamo hits the Lyceum Theatre stage in his new one-man show: the audience or him?

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:32PM

Another injury rocks 'Spider-Man' Broadway musical by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Is this the curse of the Spider-Woman?...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:37PM

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