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Legit News: Chicago stage performer was in 'Prison Break' -- Thesp Tab Baker, who was a major legit performer on the Chi stage, died Aug. 10 in Chicago of a heart attack. He was 47.
Legit News: Feiffer also to appear in Roundabout Underground play -- Natasha Lyonne and Reed Birney are among the thesps lined up to appear in the Roundabout Underground production "Tigers B…
Legit News: Jeremy Blocker will oversee non-profit's finances -- Off Broadway nonprofit theater Ars Nova has tapped former Manhattan Theater Club exec Jeremy Blocker as its first managing di…
Legit News: Tony win, Obamas spike musical's appeal -- During the first week of August, box office for 'Memphis' jumped $26,723 for a $923,397 gross.
For all its promising elements, Trust falls flat, its bright ideas wasted on cartoon characters in contrived situations.
The boulevard comedy gets a shot in the arm with Joe DiPietro's "The Last Romance."
There is a touch of "Waiting for Godot" in the time-filling meanderings of the four men we find cooking sausages in an empty swimming pool in Enda Walsh's sideways take on Homer's "The Odyss…
There is a poetic quality in Bryony Lavery's writing as she tells the story of four rookie fighters...
When you read the words "Abe Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party," what phrases immediately come to mind?
Legit News: Good re-reviews for new cast goose ticket sales -- Looks like "A Little Night Music" is benefiting from its latest batch of reviews: The tuner revival saw weekly sales jump a who…
Legit News: Fest fave gets rebirth 14 years later -- After 14 years in the can, fest circuit hit "Colin Fitz Lives!" held its L.A. preem Thursday night at the Aero in Santa Monica. Helmer Ro…
Legit News: Show will open by the end of 2010 -- Much-delayed, megabudget Broadway tuner "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" has at last confirmed its performance sked.
Legit News: Roundabout production opens in October -- Jayne Houdyshell ("Well") and Heidi Schreck ("Circle Mirror Transformation") are among the thesps who will appear in the Roundabout Thea…
Legit News: Multiracial 'Oklahoma!' set for fall -- Phylicia Rashad and Anna Deavere Smith are among the thesps lined up to appear as part of the inaugural season at newly renovated D.C. reg…
Legit News: Musical to open in November -- George Wendt, Beth Leavel ("The Drowsy Chaperone") and Mark Jacoby ("Showboat") are among the thesps signed on to appear in the holiday run of "Elf…
Legit News: Kopit play opens Off Broadway in November -- Jan Maxwell will topline Second Stage Theater's Off Broadway production of "Wings."
It's hard to understand how this production survives its extraordinarily low stakes and thematic shallowness, but survive it does.
Legit News: Kaufman wrote script, directs Center Theater prod'n -- Jane Fonda will reprise her role in "33 Variations" for Los Angeles' Center Theater Group/Ahmanson Theater's 2011 opening s…
Legit News: Hilton Theater renamed for casino-resort -- Foxwoods Resort Casino and Live Nation have sealed a deal granting Foxwoods the naming rights to the Broadway theater formerly called …
Neither as funny nor as unsettling as it promises to be.
Enduring features of Jonathan Larson's "Rent" are honored in the Hollywood Bowl's recreation.
Despite the often astonishing verve of Rupert Goold's production, the play itself promises more than it delivers.
Legit News: Production, choreography get high marks -- Producers of "Robin and the 7 Hoods," the new tuner incorporating familiar tunes by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, have made no secre…
Legit News: Lincoln Center Theater board elects Hill -- Blackstone Group vice chairman J. Tomlinson Hill has been elected chairman of Lincoln Center Theater by its board of directors. Hill s…
