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Thursday, April 18, 2013

PHOTO CALL: The Assembled Parties, Starring Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

The world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the Manhattan-set family drama starring Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, officially opened on Broadway April 17 in a …

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28AM

PHOTO CALL: The Assembled Parties, Starring Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals and Curtain Call by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

The world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the Manhattan-set family drama starring Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, officially opened on Broadway April 17 in a …

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28AM
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

PHOTO CALL: The Big Knife, Starring Bobby Cannavale, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

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, officially open…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM

PHOTO CALL: Clifford Odets' The Big Knife, Starring Bobby Cannavale, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals and Curtain Call by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

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, officially open…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM
Monday, April 15, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Motown: The Musical Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Music pioneer Berry Gordy brings his life story to the stage in Motown, the new jukebox musical that takes audiences through the highs and lows of life in the recording industry, which …

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM

PHOTO CALL: Motown: The Musical Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals and Curtain Call by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Music pioneer Berry Gordy brings his life story to the stage in Motown, the new jukebox musical that takes audiences through the highs and lows of life in the recording industry, which …

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM

PHOTO CALL: Motown: The Musical Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Music pioneer Berry Gordy brings his life story to the stage in Motown, the new jukebox musical that takes audiences through the highs and lows of life in the recording industry, which …

SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48AM
Friday, April 12, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Matilda The Musical Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call And Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Roald Dahl's beloved children's book about a precocious bookworm with magical powers comes to life in a new mischievous, visually-absorbing production Matilda The Musical, which open…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM

PHOTO CALL: Matilda The Musical Opens On Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Roald Dahl's beloved children's book about a precocious bookworm with magical powers comes to life in a new mischievous, visually-absorbing production Matilda The Musical, which open…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02AM
Friday, April 5, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Kinky Boots, Starring Billy Porter and Stark Sands, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Billy Porter stars as an indefatigable drag performer whose broken heel helps mend a broken wing for a foundering shoe-maker, played by Stark Sands, in the new Cyndi Lauper-scored Broadway m…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM

PHOTO CALL: Kinky Boots, Starring Billy Porter and Stark Sands, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals and Curtain Call by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Billy Porter stars as an indefatigable drag performer whose broken heel helps mend a broken wing for a foundering shoe-maker, played by Stark Sands, in the new Cyndi Lauper-scored Broadway m…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM

PHOTO CALL: Kinky Boots, Starring Billy Porter and Stark Sands,Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Billy Porter stars as an indefatigable drag performer whose broken heel helps mend a broken wing for a foundering shoe-maker, played by Stark Sands, in the new Cyndi Lauper-scored Broadway m…

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24AM
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, Starring Tom Hanks, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks portrays late Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike McAlary in the Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, a fast-paced drama that takes audiences int…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM

PHOTO CALL: Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, Starring Tom Hanks, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals and Curtain Call by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks portrays late Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike McAlary in the Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, a fast-paced drama that takes audiences int…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM

PHOTO CALL: Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, Starring Tom Hanks, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks portrays late Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike McAlary in the Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, a fast-paced drama that takes audiences int…

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41AM
Friday, March 22, 2013

PHOTO CALL: New Musical Hands on a Hardbody Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

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, opened on Broadway March 21. The musical'…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM

PHOTO CALL: New Musical Hands on a Hardbody Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

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, opened on Broadway March 21. The musical'…

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30AM
Thursday, March 21, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Starring Emilia Clarke, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

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

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Starring Emilia Clarke, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

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

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50PM
Friday, March 15, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Following a critically embraced Off-Broadway run, Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which whips Chekhov's dramatic themes into an evening of existential Ameri…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM

PHOTO CALL: Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Following a critically embraced Off-Broadway run, Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which whips Chekhov's dramatic themes into an evening of existential Ameri…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05AM
Monday, March 4, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Cinderella Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

A classic fairytale got a happy ending March 3, when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella opened at the Broadway Theatre more than 50 years after it premiered on black-and-…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM

PHOTO CALL: Cinderella Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

A classic fairytale got a happy ending March 3, when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella opened at the Broadway Theatre more than 50 years after it premiered on black-and-…

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51AM
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Cinderella Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

A classic fairytale got a happy ending March 3, when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella opened at the Broadway Theatre more than 50 years after it premiered on black-and-…

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00PM
Monday, January 14, 2013

PHOTO CALL: Picnic Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Picnic, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town women yearning for what's beyond, is back on Broadway, officially opening Jan. 13 in a Roundabout Theatre Company pr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM

PHOTO CALL: Picnic, With Maggie Grace and Sebastian Stan, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Picnic, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town women yearning for what's beyond, is back on Broadway, officially opening Jan. 13 in a Roundabout Theatre Company pr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22AM
Friday, January 11, 2013

PHOTO CALL: The Other Place, With Laurie Metcalf, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

The Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a medical researcher whose health, homelife and workplace are shaken, featuring Laurie Metcalf, reprising he…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM
Monday, December 3, 2012

PHOTO CALL: The Anarchist Opens On Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone and three-time Academy Award nominee Debra Winger debate faith, politics, persecution and redemption in the world premiere of David Mamet's new tw…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AM

PHOTO CALL: The Anarchist, With Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, Opens On Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone and three-time Academy Award nominee Debra Winger debate faith, politics, persecution and redemption in the world premiere of David Mamet's new tw…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18AM
Friday, November 30, 2012

PHOTO CALL: Dead Accounts Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and Katie Holmes co-star in the Broadway premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new black comedy Dead Accounts – about an Ohio family whose prodigal s…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM
Friday, November 16, 2012

PHOTO CALL: Scandalous, Starring Carolee Carmello, Opens on Broadway; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast Party by Matthew Blank and Joseph Marzullo

Sex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, written by Kathie Lee Gifford, Davi…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM

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