La Cage, Addams Family, Memphis Among Shows Coming to L.A.'s Pantages Theatre in 2011-12 by Kenneth Jones

The 2011-12 subscription season at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles will include the national tours of Come Fly Away, Wicked, La Cage aux Folles, Memphis and more.

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Hollywood's Dietrich and Literature's Remarque Are Focus of Puma, a World Premiere at NJ Rep by Kenneth Jones

Puma, the new play about the love affair between actress Marlene Dietrich and writer Erich Maria Remarque, with Hollywood's Golden Age as the backdrop, gets its world premiere by New Jersey …

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Staff and Editorial Board Changes Announced for "Best Plays" Chronicle by Kenneth Jones

Best Plays Theater Yearbook editor Jeffrey Eric Jenkins has accepted the position of director of theatre studies in the department of drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts,…

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Michael Cerveris Shepherding Nine Lives, Musical About New Orleanians; NYC Sneak Peek Is Feb. 27 by Kenneth Jones

The nonfiction book "Nine Lives," a biography of nine New Orleans residents and their relationship with the fabled city, has inspired a song cycle and forthcoming album. Broadway actor and f…

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Alex Timbers, Roger Rees, Rick Elice Give Peter Pan an Origin in Starcatcher, Opening March 9 by Kenneth Jones

The New York Theatre Workshop production of Peter and the Starcatcher, telling the origin of kid-lit hero Peter Pan in a bare-bones staging that encourages the audience to use its imaginatio…

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PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Jeffrey Tambor by Kenneth Jones

Jeffrey Tambor, of "Arrested Development" and "The Larry Sanders Show," has a song in his heart as the next Georges in Broadway's La Cage aux Folles.

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Christian Borle Will Make Music in "Smash," the TV Pilot About a New Musical by Kenneth Jones

Christian Borle, a Tony Award nominee for Legally Blonde, has snagged the central role of a composer in the NBC pilot for "Smash," a proposed series about the making of a Broadway musical.

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DC's Arena Confirms Casting for Virginia Woolf and At Home at the Zoo; Albee Festival Reading Titles Unveiled by Kenneth Jones

Full productions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and At Home at the Zoo are the centerpieces in a buffet of Edward Albee plays being laid out by Arena Stage in Washington, DC, this late w…

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EXCLUSIVE: Playbill.com Gets First Look at Linda Eder Singing "What's Never Been Done Before" From New Album by Kenneth Jones

In anticipation of the March 1 release of "Now," the new album that reunites singer-actress Linda Eder with Broadway and pop songwriter Frank Wildhorn, Sony Masterworks offered Playbill Vide…

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Sondheim at Carnegie Hall by Kenneth Jones

Stephen Sondheim took a surprise bow at the Nov. 19 New York Pops concert at Carnegie Hall. The evening's encore, "Old Friends," was completed with the introduction of Sondheim, who …

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Double Falsehood, Rewrite of Shakespeare & Fletcher's Cardenio, to Play NYC; Cast Announced by Kenneth Jones

Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald's 18th-century adaptation of a play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, will get its first professional staging in 250 years at Classic Stage Company's…

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Original Version of Grease, Grittier and Raunchier Than You Know, Will Get Production Where It All Began by Kenneth Jones

Before it was a Broadway hit and film sensation, Grease was a gritty 1971 play with music performed in Chicago that reflected the lives of Chicago teens in the 1950s.

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Ian Kelly: Teaching the Pitmen People to Paint the Town Red by Kenneth Jones

The complete cast of eight in The Pitmen Painters ring up their collective Broadway debuts Sept. 30 when Lee Hall’s biographical drama bows at the Samuel J. Friedman, but one of their …

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Musical Dangerous Beauty, With Jenny Powers, James Snyder, Michael Rupert, Premieres in CA by Kenneth Jones

Renaissance Italy was not an easy place for a girl in love. Ask Shakespeare's Juliet. Better yet, ask Veronica Franco, the poet-lover of the new musical Dangerous Beauty, beginning a world-p…

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Whipping Man, Civil War Drama With a Twist, Opens Off-Broadway Feb. 1; Andre Braugher Stars by Kenneth Jones

The Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's historical drama about a Confederate Jewish solider returning home to his former slaves, who are also Jewish, opens Feb. 1 in its New York City premiere by …

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"Bob the Musical," a Movie With Songs by Marc Shaiman, Still in Development by Kenneth Jones

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the director-writers of the 3-D animated film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," are in talks to direct the movie musical “Bob the Musical,”…

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Alan Cumming Riffles Through Notebook of Trigorin, by Tennessee Williams, Feb. 13 at Classic Stage by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming appears in a one-night-only staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Feb. 13 at Classic…

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Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Rebecca Luker to Celebrate Susan Stroman for Vineyard; Tix On Sale by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Susan Stroman will be honored and entertained at a gala fundraiser for Vineyard Theatre Feb. 28 in Manhattan. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, her…

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Musical Dangerous Beauty, With Jenny Powers, James Snyder, Michael Rupert, Opens in CA by Kenneth Jones

Renaissance Italy was not an easy place for a girl in love. Ask Shakespeare's Juliet. Better yet, ask Veronica Franco, the poet-lover of the new musical Dangerous Beauty, opening Feb. 13 in …

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Funk It Up About Nothin', a Rapping Much Ado, Plays Chicago Jan. 21-Feb. 12 by Kenneth Jones

Chicago Shakespeare Theater welcomes back Funk It Up About Nothin', the hip-hop adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, on Jan. 21. An engagement in Australia follows.

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Harry Groener and Ora Jones Are King and Queen in Madness of George III in Chicago by Kenneth Jones

Harry Groener, the three-time Tony nominee of Cats, Crazy for You and 1980's Oklahoma!, as well as many non-musical works, will play the title role in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater product…

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Mary Ann Thebus Is Mom in The Boys Room, Premiering at Victory Gardens Jan. 21-Feb. 20 by Kenneth Jones

Adult brothers retreat to their childhood bedroom in the Victory Gardens Theater world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's The Boys Room, starting Jan. 21 in Chicago.

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Baby It's You! Box Office Will Open Feb. 5 by Kenneth Jones

The box office at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre opens Feb. 5 for ticket sales to the new musical Baby It's You! starring Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, Elf, Mamma Mia!) as record produce…

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Trio of DC Divas Star in Ford's Theatre's Carpetbagger's Children, Starting Jan. 21 by Kenneth Jones

Ford's Theatre's new production of Horton Foote's The Carpetbagger's Children, his play about three daughters of a Union soldier who settled in Texas following the Civil War, begins Jan. 21 …

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Bruce Hornsby's SCKBSTD Musical Opens in Virginia; Robert Cuccioli Stars by Kenneth Jones

SCKBSTD, a new musical about a stranger who upsets lives in a Virginia town, opens Jan. 21 in its world premiere production, directed by Tony Award winner John Rando at Virginia Stage Compan…

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