Irene Sharaff Awards to Honor Robin Wagner and Lewis Brown by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-winning scenic designer Robin Wagner and late costume designer Lewis Brown will be honored during the 2011 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards, which will be presented April 8 at the Hudson …

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"A Stranger Here Myself": One Touch of Venus Comes to Life at the Boston Conservatory March 3 by Adam Hetrick

The Boston Conservatory stages Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's rarely-seen 1943 musical One Touch of Venus, about a window dresser who brings the goddess of love to life with a kiss, beginning M…

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Tony Winner Judy Kaye Will Be Lost in Yonkers for Arizona Theatre Company by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Judy Kaye will repeat her work as Grandma Kurnitz in Neil Simon's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning family play Lost in Yonkers. Performances will begin Feb. 26 at the Arizon…

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Jared Mason Will Succeed Tony Winner Levi Kreis in Broadway's Million Dollar Quartet by Adam Hetrick

Jared Mason will succeed Tony Award winner Levi Kreis as rock pianist Jerry Lee Lewis in the Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet beginning March 15 at the Nederlander Theatre.

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"Smallville" Star Will Move Into Apple Cove for The Women's Project Off-Broadway by Adam Hetrick

Allison Mack and Kathy Searle will co-star in the world premiere of Lynn Rosen's comedy Apple Cove, which will arrive Off-Broadway at the Women's Project Jan. 29.

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Tony Nominee Nancy Opel to Join Broadway's Memphis by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Nancy Opel will join the cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis as Mama in March. Original cast members Cass Morgan and Michael McGrath will depart the production …

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Acclaimed Iraq War Drama Black Watch Will Return to St. Ann's Warehouse by Adam Hetrick

The National Theatre of Scotland's Iraq War ensemble drama Black Watch, which sold out both of its previous New York engagements, will return to St. Ann's Warehouse in April, the New York Ti…

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Soho Rep Announces Cast for U.S. Premiere of Olivier-Winning Play Born Bad by Adam Hetrick

Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Heather Alicia Simms and Crystal A. Dickinson will lead the cast of debbie tucker green's [sic] Olivier Award-winning play about young woman searching for the truth o…

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Janet Dacal and Hugh Panaro Sing With the Young People's Chorus of NYC March 7 by Adam Hetrick

Wonderland star Janet Dacal and Hugh Panaro join the Young People's Chorus of New York City for a special one-night-only concert March 7 at the Rose Theater within Frederick P. Rose Hall.

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Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool Will Get World Premiere at TheatreWorks in CA; Cast Announced by Adam Hetrick

TheatreWorks will stage the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool at its Palo Alto, CA, home in March.

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Compulsion, Detroit and History of Invulnerability Are Steinberg/ATCA Award Finalists by Adam Hetrick

Rinne Groff's Compulsion and the Broadway-aimed Lisa D'Amour play Detroit are among the finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.

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Hitchcock's The 39 Steps Officially Opens at TheatreWorks Jan. 22 by Adam Hetrick

The Tony Award-nominated four-person thriller The 39 Steps officially opens Jan. 22 at TheatreWorks Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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Karen Olivo, Karen Akers and Billy Stritch Added to Nightlife Awards Lineup by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Karen Olivo and Tony nominee Karen Akers have been announced to perform at the 2011 Nightlife Awards at Town Hall.

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L.A.'s Fountain Theatre to Stage Tennessee Williams' A House Not Meant to Stand by Adam Hetrick

Tennessee Williams' rarely produced final play, A House Not Meant to Stand, will open its doors beginning Feb. 19 at Los Angeles' Fountain Theatre.

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Ten Chimneys World Premiere Begins in Arizona Jan. 22 by Adam Hetrick

Theatrical icons Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are conjured in the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's Ten Chimneys, which begins previews Jan. 22 at the Arizona Theatre Company.

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John Kander, Adam Guettel, Stephen Schwartz to Discuss Opera or Musical Theater April 10 in NYC by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-winning composers John Kander, Adam Guettel and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz will gather to discuss Opera or Musical Theater? April 10 at the Gershwin Theatre.

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Pulitzer Nominee Rajiv Joseph's Monster at the Door Will Debut at the Alley Theatre by Adam Hetrick

The Monster at the Door, the new world-premiere play from Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo playwright Rajiv Joseph, will debut at the Alley Theatre in Houston this spring.

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SITI Company Will Explore Charles Mee's Under Construction in NYC by Adam Hetrick

Anne Bogart and SITI Company will stage the New York premiere of Charles Mee's Under Construction, which takes a look at America through kaleidoscopic pairing of the work of Norman Rockwell …

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LAST CHANCE: What's Closing This Week by Adam Hetrick

Here's Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway, Off-Broadway and world-premiere productions before they take a final bow.

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Village Theatre to Premiere Musicals Take Me America and It Shoulda Been You in 2011-2012 by Adam Hetrick

Washington State's Village Theatre, which aided in the development of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, will debut two new musicals as part of its 2011-2012 season.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock Composer to Release "Summer of the Soda Fountain Girls" Album by Adam Hetrick

"Summer of the Soda Fountain Girls," the new album from Picnic at Hanging Rock composer-lyricist Daniel Zaitchik and his band, the Blue Bottle Collection, will be released Feb. 18.

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Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy Will Air on "Great Performances" by Adam Hetrick

Anna Deavere Smith's solo play Let Me Down Easy, which navigates the troubling waters of the U.S. healthcare system and the resilience of the human body, will be captured for PBS "Great Perf…

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Being Harold Pinter Benefit Takes Place in Chicago Feb. 21 by Adam Hetrick

Members of the Chicago theatre community join cast members of the Belarus Free Theatre for the Feb. 21 benefit performance of Being Harold Pinter, the heralded political work that debuted Of…

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Bring It On and La Cage aux Folles to Play Theatre Under the Stars by Adam Hetrick

Houston's Theatre Under the Stars will host the national tours of Bring It On The Musical and the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles.

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Things to Ruin: The Songs of Joe Iconis to Rock Le Poisson Rouge by Adam Hetrick

The theatrical rock concert Things to Ruin: The Songs of Joe Iconis, featuring Nick Blaemire and Katrina Rose Dideriksen, will return to Le Poisson Rouge in February and March.

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