Rent Is Due Off-Broadway July 14; Michael Greif Reconceives Modern Classic by Kenneth Jones

Rent, the 1996 rock musical about a group of friends, lovers and artists seeking to express themselves in the age of AIDS, returns to New York City July 14 for the first preview of a newly c…

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

Arena Stage Opens Encore Run of Hit 2010 Oklahoma! on July 14 by Kenneth Jones

Arena Stage's in-the-round production of Oklahoma!, the sold-out revival that inaugurated Arena's new multimillion dollar Mead Center for American Theater last fall, is back for seco…

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

Kate Baldwin & Sheldon Harnick Together Again for Feinstein's CD-Release Concert July 14 by Kenneth Jones

Kate Baldwin's new recording, "She Loves Him: Live at Feinstein's," her tribute to Fiddler on the Roof lyricist Sheldon Harnick, gets celebrated at a release event July 14 …

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

Lysistrata Jones Musical Dribbling Toward a Broadway Basket by Kenneth Jones

A casting notice indicates that Lysistrata Jones — the pop musical take on an ancient Greek classic, now reset in the world of college cheerleaders and basketball players — is in…

SOURCE: Playbill at 3:00pm on July 13, 2011☆⚑

Official Rodgers & Hammerstein Website Relaunches; "Sound of Music" Home Movies Posted by Kenneth Jones

What's the use of wond'rin' about the history of Broadway legends Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II? You can do your research on a new and improved website devoted to the …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31pm on July 13, 2011☆⚑

Off-Broadway's TACT Will Produce A.R. Gurney's Children and Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers by Kenneth Jones

The 2011-12 Off-Broadway season of TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will focus on the human comedies of two of America's most popular playwrights. A.R. Gurney's Children and Neil Simo…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 13, 2011☆⚑

Skyler Adams Is Pinocchio in World Premiere of Bartram & Hill Musical, July 13-Aug. 28 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 13, 2011☆⚑

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" Star Jeff Garlin Performs No Sugar Added at Steppenwolf, July 13-24 by Kenneth Jones

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Second City alumnus and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Jeff Garlin in No Sugar Added, an evening of stand-up comedy, July 13-24 in Steppenwolf'…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 13, 2011☆⚑

At a Loss, a Comedy About Family, Travel and Love, Premieres July 13 in Ithaca by Kenneth Jones

The Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY, concludes its 20th season with the world premiere of a romantic comedy, At a Loss, by Jason Odell Williams. Performances begin July 13.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 13, 2011☆⚑

Bubble Boy, The Giver and Aesop-Inspired Musical Get Readings in Penn State Musicals Festival by Kenneth Jones

Penn State NU Musical Theatre Festival, in collaboration with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, presents three shows in downtown State College, PA, July 13-16.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 13, 2011☆⚑

Born in Vienna, Musical Rebecca Will Open on Broadway in 2012; Sierra Boggess May Be Narrating Wife by Kenneth Jones

The romantic musical thriller Rebecca, inspired by the novel of the same name, will open on Broadway in spring 2012, producers announced on July 12. In an unusual scenario, Tony Award winner…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:06pm on July 12, 2011☆⚑

Romeo Seeks Nurse — Stat; Performance Injury Sidelines RSC's Romeo in NYC by Kenneth Jones

Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Seeking an apothecary — literally. Actor Sam Troughton suffered an injury when he was playing the fabled lover at the July 12 matinee performance of Royal Sh…

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:35pm on July 12, 2011☆⚑

Hunter Foster, Eddie Clendening, Robert Britton Lyons Will Appear at Open House for Virginia's Signature Theatre by Kenneth Jones

Broadway stars will appear July 23 at Signature Theatre's annual Target Open House, offering a sneak peek at the Tony Award-winning Virginia company's 2011-12 season.

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:29pm on July 12, 2011☆⚑

Marc Kudisch Will Help Test Broadway-Bound On a Clear Day Revision in NYC Lab by Kenneth Jones

Vineyard Theatre's developmental lab of the newly imagined, Broadway-bound musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever will be presented to an invited audience July 25-30 at Vineyard'…

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

Something to Dance About: NYC Dance Alliance Bestows $2.8 Million in Scholarships by Kenneth Jones

The future of dance got a leg up at the July 7 closing night of the annual convention of the NYC Dance Alliance Foundation in Manhattan. Scholarships totaling $2.8 million were awarded to pr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19am on July 12, 2011☆⚑

Tituss Burgess Takes His Own Songs to The Bitter End, One Night Only, July 12 by Kenneth Jones

Broadway's Tituss Burgess, of The Little Mermaid, Guys and Dolls and Jersey Boys, makes his debut at Greenwich Village's The Bitter End — the famed 50-year-old performance venu…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01am on July 12, 2011☆⚑

Albums of Sweet Bye and Bye, Callaway Sisters' Boom! and Kate Baldwin's She Loves Him Now in Stores by Kenneth Jones

PS Classics, the record label devoted to the heritage of Broadway music and the American popular song, releases three new discs on July 12, covering a major Broadway lyricist, a "lost&q…

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

Tom Wopat, Joan Osborne, Garrett Long, Kevin Mambo Sing SCKBSTD Musical July 12 in NYC by Kenneth Jones

Tom Wopat and Joan Osborne are joining a July 12 Manhattan presentation of songs from the new Bruce Hornsby musical SCKBSTD, with composer Hornsby performing.

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

Clybourne Park and Raisin in the Sun Meet in CTG Season; Kirk Douglas Theatre Has Premieres by Kenneth Jones

Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Bruce Norris, will be part of Center Theatre Group's 2011-12 season at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The announcement was made July …

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:16pm on July 11, 2011☆⚑

Full Cast Announced for American Premiere of Bluebird, With Simon Russell Beale as Cabbie by Kenneth Jones

Michael Countryman, Charlotte Parry and John Sharian will join the cast of the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' Bluebird for Atlantic Theater Company. They'll share the stage with pr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:18pm on July 11, 2011☆⚑

Unnatural Acts Gets Extension Off-Broadway to July 24 by Kenneth Jones

Classic Stage Company's production of Unnatural Acts, ripping a page out of Ivy League history to tell of a gay witch hunt at Harvard University, has been extended again, now through Jul…

SOURCE: Playbill at 3:05pm on July 11, 2011☆⚑

Shannon Esper, Gerard Canonico and Christa Scott-Reed Among The Talls Off-Broadway Aug. 1-27 by Kenneth Jones

Casting has been announced for the Second Stage Theatre's Uptown Series world premiere of the Catholic-girl coming-of-age comedy The Talls by Anna Kerrigan. Off-Broadway performances beg…

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

Broadway's Master Class Now Extended to Sept. 4 by Kenneth Jones

A raft of enthusiastic reviews for Tyne Daly's performance as Maria Callas in Master Class has prompted Manhattan Theatre Club to extend its Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's pl…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39am on July 11, 2011☆⚑

Playwright Caridad Svich Wins Primus Prize by Kenneth Jones

The American Theatre Critics Association named Caridad Svich winner of the $10,000 Francesca Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26am on July 11, 2011☆⚑

Andrew Durand, Meghann Fahy, Stephen Bogardus Populate Goodspeed's Samantha Brown Musical by Kenneth Jones

Meghann Fahy, of Broadway's Next to Normal, will play a young woman on the brink of her future, in the Goodspeed Musicals production of The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown. …

SOURCE: Playbill at 8:50am on July 11, 2011☆⚑