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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sweet Smell of Success Will Return to New York Via NYU by Adam Hetrick

Sweet Smell of Success, the Tony Award-nominated musical by John Guare, Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia, based on the 1957 film noir about the underbelly of New York City's gossip col…

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Karen Black and David Proval Will Have a Houseful of Surprises in Moses Supposes at the Zephyr by Adam Hetrick

Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Karen Black will star in the world premiere of Ellen Melaver's Moses Supposes, which will debut Oct. 8 at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Sleep No More Announces Halloween Week Masquerade Events by Adam Hetrick

Off-Broadway's haunting, interactive work Sleep No More will host a series of masquerade events as part of a week-long Halloween celebration at the McKittrick Hotel.

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Lemon Andersen Receives Sundance Commission for ToasT by Adam Hetrick

Actor-playwright Lemon Andersen has been awarded a commission by the Sundance Institute Theatre Program to complete work on his new play ToasT, about the Black folklore hero Dolomite.

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Cape Cod Theatre Project Appoints Hal Brooks as Artistic Director by Adam Hetrick

Director Hal Brooks, who staged Nilaja Sun's Obie-winning work No Child… Off-Broadway, has been named the new artistic director of the Cape Cod Theatre Project in Falmouth, MA.

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Jennifer Babiak Spreads Her Wings in Westchester's My Fair Lady Beginning Sept. 22 by Adam Hetrick

The Westchester Broadway Theatre production of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, starring Jennifer Babiak as a flower peddler in need of some polishing, begins performances Sept. 22.

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A Doll House, With Calista Flockhart and Tim DeKay, Begins LATW Run Sept. 22 by Adam Hetrick

Calista Flockhart and Tim DeKay enter Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House, as translated by Rolf Fjelde, beginning Sept. 22 for L.A. Theatre Works.

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A Dream of Moscow: Sarah Ruhl's Three Sisters Adaptation Opens at Yale Rep Sept. 22 by Adam Hetrick

Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as adapted by Tony Award-nominated In the Next Room playwright Sarah Ruhl, officially opens Sept. 22 at the Yale Repertory Theatre after previews that bega…

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

David Ira Wood III Will Star in Dallas Theater Center-Casa Mañana Staging of To Kill a Mockingbird by Adam Hetrick

The Dallas Theater Center and Casa Mañana Theatre will align to stage Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, starring David Ira Wood III as Atticus Finch, this fall for Dalla…

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Madonna Will Be the Subject of The Meeting With Natalie Joy Johnson and Molly Pope by Adam Hetrick

Natalie Joy Johnson and Molly Pope will fuel their blonde ambition in the Sept. 22 installment of The Meeting*, hosted by Justin Sayre at the Duplex.

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Hunter Foster and Stephen Tyrone Williams to Lead Burning for New Group This Fall by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Stephen Tyrone Williams, Andrew Garman, Danny Mastrogiorgio and Evan Johnson will star in the New Group production of Thomas Bradshaw's Burning, which w…

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Anne Scurria, Timothy Crowe, Tommy Dickie and Mia Ellis Will Move Into Clybourne Park at Trinity Rep by Adam Hetrick

Trinity Repertory Company has announced casting for Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, which takes a page from Lorraine Hansberry's Tony and Pulitzer-winning c…

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Anne Scurria, Timothy Crowe, Tommy Dickie, Mia Ellis to Move Into Clybourne Park at Trinity Rep by Adam Hetrick

Trinity Repertory Company has announced casting for Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, which takes a page from Lorraine Hansberry's Tony and Pulitzer-winning c…

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David Edgar's Look at Brecht's The Life of Galileo Opens in Cleveland by Adam Hetrick

Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright David Edgar has adapted Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo, which opens its world-premiere engagement Sept. 21 at the Cleveland Play House.

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Irish Rep's Molly Sweeney Opens Long Wharf Season Sept. 21 by Adam Hetrick

The Irish Repertory Theatre production of Tony Award-winning playwright Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney, starring Jonathan Hogan, Simone Kirby and Ciaran O’Reilly, officially opens Sep…

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Sprawling Candide, With Geoff Packard and Lauren Molina, Opens at the Huntington Sept. 21 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein operetta Candide, starring Geoff Packard and Lauren Molina, officially opens Sept. 21 at the Huntington Theatre Com…

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Los Angeles' Matrix Theatre Plans Multi-Racial All My Sons by Adam Hetrick

Arthur Miller's Keller family and their neighbors take on a whole new dynamic in the Matrix Theatre's multi-racial production of All My Sons, which will debut Oct. 13 in Los Angeles.

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Elevator Repair Service's The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Extends at NYTW by Adam Hetrick

The New York Theatre Workshop has extended Elevator Repair Service's The Select (The Sun Also Rises), a dramatic take on Ernest Hemingway, for an additional two weeks of performances thr…

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New York Premiere of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's Lidless Begins Sept. 20 by Adam Hetrick

Lidless, the Yale Drama Series Award-winning drama by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig about a Guantanamo Bay interrogator attempting to live a new life, begins previews Off-Broadway Sept. 20 at Walker…

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Western Pennsylvania School Cancels Kismet in Wake of 9/11 Anniversary by Adam Hetrick

Musicals like Rent and Godspell have encountered resistance on the school and community levels after their acclaimed Broadway runs, and now the 1953 Tony Award-winning musical Kismet faces a…

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Julia Brownell's All-American to Star Rebecca Creskoff and C.J. Wilson by Adam Hetrick

Actress Rebecca Creskoff will reunite with "Hung" series writer Julia Brownell in the world premiere of her play All-American, which will debut Off-Broadway under the wings of LCT3…

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Long Wharf's Ain't Misbehavin' to Feature Doug Eskew, Kecia Lewis-Evans and Eugene Barry-Hill by Adam Hetrick

Doug Eskew, Kecia Lewis-Evans and Eugene Barry-Hill will be part of the Long Wharf Theatre production of Ain't Misbehavin', staged by original creator and director Richard Maltby, Jr…

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Sarah Rice and Marni Nixon to Sing Sondheim Unplugged Sept. 27 by Adam Hetrick

Sweeney Todd's original Johanna, Sarah Rice, will join Marni Nixon, of the 2001 revival of Follies, for the Sept. 27 installment of Sondheim Unplugged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

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Tom Stoppard's "Parade's End" Adaptation to Star Rupert Everett, Miranda Richardson, Adelaide Clemens by Adam Hetrick

Rupert Everett, who was seen by New York audiences in the 2009 Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit, has joined the cast of "Parade's End," Tom Stoppard's television adaptatio…

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All-African-American Oklahoma! Debuts at Portland Center Stage Sept. 20 by Adam Hetrick

A new beautiful morning dawns in Portland Stage's all-African-American production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, starring Rodney Hicks and Brianna Horne, which begins previe…

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Motherhood Out Loud, With Randy Graff, Mary Bacon, Begins Off-Broadway Sept. 20 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Randy Graff, Mary Bacon, James Lecesne and Saidah Arrika Ekulona share stories of mothers and children in Motherhood Out Loud, a new dramatic anthology that begins Off-Broa…

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Monday, September 19, 2011

Venice, They're Playing Our Song, Superior Donuts and Neighbors Earn L.A. Ovation Nominations by Adam Hetrick

Raul Esparza, Tom Hewitt, Stephanie Block and Laurie Metcalf are among the 2010-2011 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award nominees, which were announced Sept. 19 at the Falcon Theatre in Burban…

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IT Award Winners Announced; Gallery Players' Drowsy Chaperone Takes Four Honors by Adam Hetrick

The New York Neo-Futurists' Locker #4173b, the Gallery Players production of The Drowsy Chaperone and the T. Schreiber Studio staging of late playwright Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gile…

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Amoralists' Hotel/Motel Gets Second and Final Extension by Adam Hetrick and Andrew Gans

Hotel/Motel, the Amoralists' double bill of Adam Rapp's Animals and Plants and Derek Ahonen's Pink Knees on Pale Skin, has announced a second and final three-week extension throu…

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Oscar Nominee José Rivera Named Lark's 2011-2012 Writer-In-Residence by Adam Hetrick

Academy Award-nominated "Motorcycle Diaries" screenwriter José Rivera has been named the 2011-2012 writer-in-residence at the Lark Play Development Center.

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Broadway Rocks for Kids, With Alysha Umphress and Kacie Sheik, Held Sept. 19 by Adam Hetrick

Kacie Sheik, Alysha Umphress and the songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul headline Broadway Rocks for Kids, a benefit for the Northeast Children's Theatre Company, Sept. 19 in …

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