Imagining Madoff Will Finally Arrive in DC, With Rick Foucheux, Mike Nussbaum, Jennifer Mendenhall by Kenneth Jones

Rick Foucheux, a Helen Hayes Award-winning star in the DC theatre community, will play disgraced investment schemer Bernard Madoff in the delayed Washington, DC, premiere of Deb Margolin'…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32am on July 21, 2011☆⚑

Anika Larsen, Sam Ludwig, Stephen Gregory Smith Tapped for Signature's Hollow and Boy Detective Musicals in Rep by Kenneth Jones

Stephen Gregory Smith, Anika Larsen, Sherri L. Edelen, Harry A. Winter, James Gardiner, Sam Ludwig and more have been announced as players in Signature Theatre's rotating repertory of tw…

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:59am on July 21, 2011☆⚑

"Faust"-Inspired Musical Academy Gets NYC Reading July 21 by Kenneth Jones

Academy, the prep school-set musical, gets a Mahattan reading in York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series, 3 PM July 21. There is currently a waiting list for reservations.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 21, 2011☆⚑

Death Takes a Holiday, in Which the Grim Reaper Is a Handsome Tenor, Opens Off-Broadway by Kenneth Jones

The question of why mortals cling so passionately to life hangs in the air of the new Maury Yeston-Thomas Meehan musical, Death Takes a Holiday, opening July 21 in a world-premiere Off-Broad…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 21, 2011☆⚑

Neil Bartram & Brian Hill Carve a Musical Pinocchio, Opening July 21 in Chicago World Premiere by Kenneth Jones

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier has been transformed into a European-style marionette theatre for its world-premiere summer musical The Adventures of Pinocch…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 21, 2011☆⚑

Hello Out There, Musical About Teen Securities Crooks, Premieres Upstate with Liz Larsen by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award nominee Liz Larsen plays a government investigator in the world premiere of Hello Out There, the musical about three teens who commit securities crimes, at Adirondack Theatre Fest…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 21, 2011☆⚑

Last Day, Richard Vetere's Cemetery-Set Play, Begins World-Premiere Run in MA by Kenneth Jones

Last Day, Richard Vetere's new play set in a Long Island cemetery, gets its world premiere by Gloucester Stage Company July 21-Aug. 7 in Massachusetts.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 21, 2011☆⚑

Unnatural Acts Gets Final Extension at Off-Broadway's Classic Stage by Kenneth Jones

Classic Stage Company was able to slightly alter the schedule for an upcoming summer rental to allow for the one additional week of the popular, highly theatrical docudrama Unnatural Acts, a…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45pm on July 20, 2011☆⚑

Chicago Stars Mary Ernster, John Reeger, Andrea Prestinario Will Populate IL My Fair Lady by Kenneth Jones

Jeff Award winner Andrea Prestinario will be Eliza Doolittle to Chicago Shakespeare Theater veteran Nathan M. Hosner as Henry Higgins in the new Chicago-area production of My Fair Lady this …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09pm on July 20, 2011☆⚑

Cynthia Nixon Will Star in Wit on Broadway; Lynne Meadow to Direct by Kenneth Jones

Manhattan Theatre Club will give Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit its Broadway premiere in January 2012, starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon as a poetry pro…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55am on July 20, 2011☆⚑

Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway Sing Highlights of Boom! CD July 20 in NYC by Kenneth Jones

The Callaway sisters — Liz and Ann Hampton — will perform songs from and sign their new PS Classics live recording of Boom!, documenting their Birdland concert of baby-boom gener…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 20, 2011☆⚑

Jay Sullivan Replaces John Gallagher, Jr., in Broadway's Jerusalem, Starting July 19 by Kenneth Jones

Jay Sullivan steps into the role of Lee, the Australia-bound slacker, in the Broadway's Jerusalem on July 19, succeeding John Gallagher, Jr., who has a contractual engagement that confli…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:09pm on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Atlantic Will Stage John Patrick Shanley's Sleeping Demon, a Companion Play to Doubt; Season Revealed by Kenneth Jones

World-premiere plays from Ethan Coen, Fernanda Coppel, Gabe McKinley, Adam Rapp and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley have been added to the 2011-12 season of Off-Broadway's Atl…

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:09pm on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Freud's Last Session, Entering Second Year in NYC, Will Be Seen Internationally by Kenneth Jones

Freud's Last Session, the Mark St. Germain play about the fictional meeting between atheist Dr. Sigmund Freud and Christian writer C.S. Lewis, celebrates its first anniversary in New Yor…

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:56pm on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Lily Rabe Will Play Characters by David Rabe in World Premiere of An Early History of Fire by Kenneth Jones

Lily Rabe, a 2011 Best Actress Tony Award nominee for The Merchant of Venice, told the Boston Globe that she will appear in the world premiere of her father David Rabe's play An Early Hi…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17pm on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Fiasco's Acclaimed Small-Cast Cymbeline Gets New Life in Greenwich Village; Opening Is Sept. 8 by Kenneth Jones

Fiasco Theater's small-cast production of Shakespeare's late-career fairy-tale play, Cymbeline, acclaimed for its run at midtown's New Victory Theatre earlier this year, will ret…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45am on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Fiasco's Small-Cast Cymbeline Gets New Life in Greenwich Village; Opening Is Sept. 8 by Kenneth Jones

Fiasco Theater's small-cast production of Shakespeare's late-career fairy-tale play, Cymbeline, acclaimed for its run at midtown's New Victory Theatre earlier this year, will ret…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45am on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Saint of Bleecker Street Recording Kicks Off Masterworks Broadway Summer Release Schedule July 19 by Kenneth Jones

Masterworks Broadway continues its campaign to reissue theatre recordings from its deep vault with summer releases of The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955 Broadway cast), Half-Past Wednesday (…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 19, 2011☆⚑

"If Love Were All": Seldom Seen Noël Coward Musical Bitter Sweet Will Star Siân Phillips at Bard by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award nominee Siân Phillips, the Welsh actress known for playing strong and stylish women of a certain age in Broadway's Marlene and TV's "I, Claudius," will pla…

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:56pm on July 18, 2011☆⚑

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Follies Will Star Brent Barrett, Caroline O'Connor, Susan Moniz, Hollis Resnick by Kenneth Jones

International star Caroline O'Connor and Broadway's Brent Barrett and Robert Petkoff will be joined by resident actress Susan Moniz and a wide slice of the Chicago diva community for…

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:20pm on July 18, 2011☆⚑

Stratford Festival's Jesus Christ Superstar Will Replace Finding Neverland in La Jolla Season by Kenneth Jones

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's popular Des McAnuff-directed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will move to La Jolla Playhouse in southern California, starting in November. It repla…

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:22pm on July 18, 2011☆⚑

Stratford Festival's Hit Jesus Christ Superstar Will Cross Border to Rise Anew at La Jolla Playhouse by Kenneth Jones

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's popular Des McAnuff-directed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will move to La Jolla Playhouse in southern California, starting in November.

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:21pm on July 18, 2011☆⚑

Broadway's 86-Year-Old The Patsy Gets New Adaptation by David Greenspan Off-Broadway by Kenneth Jones

David Greenspan's fresh adaptation of Barry Conners' 1925 Broadway comedy The Patsy, with the Obie Award-winning actor-writer appearing in the work, gets an Off-Broadway staging by T…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 15, 2011☆⚑

Brian Dennehy Bites Into Twelfth Night, Opening at Stratford Festival July 15 by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy is Sir Toby Belch, Stephen Ouimette is Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Sara Topham is Olivia in Des McAnuff's new production of Twelfth Night, opening July 15 a…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 15, 2011☆⚑

John Vickery Is Stratford's Titus Andronicus, Opening July 14 by Kenneth Jones

John Vickery, the villainous original Scar of Broadway's The Lion King, stars as the title Roman general in Darko Tresnjak's new staging of Shakespeare's bloody drama Titus Andro…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 14, 2011☆⚑