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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Sondheim on Sondheim to Bow in Cleveland Alongside Memphis and Addams Family by Adam Hetrick

A new production of Sondheim on Sondheim, as well as the national tours of Memphis and Million Dollar Quartet will play stops at Cleveland, OH's PlayhouseSquare during the 2011-2012 seas…

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Radar L.A., Taking a Cue from Public's Under the Radar Festival, to Debut in June by Adam Hetrick

The Los Angeles-based contemporary art center REDCAT has announced plans to create a West Coast component of the Public Theater's popular Under the Radar Festival, which is presented in …

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Charles Keating, Ellen Adair and More Set for Mint's Light Falling Benefit Reading by Adam Hetrick

The Mint Theater Company will stage a benefit reading of Teresa Deevy's one-act play Light Falling April 11 at the Players Club.

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NYPL for the Performing Arts Readies Exhibit of Broadway Graphic Designer James McMullan by Adam Hetrick

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will open a new exhibit March 30 dedicated to graphic artist James McMullan, who has designed the iconic posters for such Lincoln Center T…

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Douglas Maxwell's The Promise, with Joanna Tope, Makes U.S. Debut Off-Broadway March 29 by Adam Hetrick

The U.S. premiere of Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell’s The Promise, about a troubled retired teacher who finds a connection with an unlikely pupil, begins performances March 29 at …

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Kander and Ebb's Curtains, Starring Robert Newman, Bows in Houston March 29 by Adam Hetrick

Emmy Award nominee Robert Newman is a Boston detective who hums a Broadway melody in the Theatre Under the Stars production of the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains, which begins performances …

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Monday, March 28, 2011

Universal Pictures Will Not Produce In the Heights Film by Adam Hetrick

Universal Pictures is no longer attached to produce a film based on the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, according to Deadline.com.

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Mary Zimmerman's Candide, God of Carnage and Two World Premieres on Huntington's 2011-2012 Plate by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman will bring her staging of the Leonard Bernstein musical Candide to Boston as part of the Huntington Theatre Company's 2011-2012 season.

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Quiara Alegría Hudes and Bill Sherman's Barrio Grrrl! to Play Skirball Center by Adam Hetrick

The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences touring production of Barrio Grrrl!, penned by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes and Tony Award winner…

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Chita Rivera Cast in Like Water for Chocolate at Sundance; Nicholas Rodriguez Part of Acting Company by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, Robert Petkoff, Nicholas Rodriguez, Sharon Washington and Dan Butler are among the actors participating in the Sundance Institute's 2011 Theatre Lab in Al…

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John Cullum, Tonya Pinkins, Michael Hayden, Reg Rogers Set for 2011 Shakespeare in the Park by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winners John Cullum and Tonya Pinkins will lead the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park repertory productions of Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well thi…

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Tony Nominee Will Swenson to Direct Film of Gay Mormon Play, Facing East by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee and Priscilla Queen of the Desert star Will Swenson will direct the upcoming film adaptation of the Carol Lynn Pearson play Facing East, which centers on a young Mormon ma…

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Mead's Additional "How to Succeed" Titles in Film Development by Adam Hetrick

The works of late writer Shepherd Mead, whose book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" was turned into a Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical, are being …

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Casa Mañana to Stage Ring of Fire and Rent in 2012 by Adam Hetrick

The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Rent and the short-lived Broadway revue based on the music of Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire, will be part of the 2011-2012 season at Casa Ma&ntil…

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War Horse Puppet Creators to Talk at New School April 15 by Adam Hetrick

Handspring Puppet Company founders Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, who brought the animals of War Horse to life in London and now on Broadway, will speak at the New School April 15 in Manhatt…

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The Other Place, Starring Laurie Metcalf, Opens Off-Broadway March 28 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf stars in the MCC Theater world premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place, the new thriller that officially opens March 28 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre …

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High, Stephanie J. Block and Kathleen Turner Compete for Kevin Kline Awards March 28 by Adam Hetrick

Stephanie J. Block, Ashley Brown and Kathleen Turner are among the nominees for the 2011 Kevin Kline Awards, recognizing professional theatre in the greater St. Louis area, which are present…

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Estelle Parsons and Daphne Rubin-Vega Are Troy Women for Red Bull Theater March 28 by Adam Hetrick

Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony Award nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega lead a staged concert reading of Troy Women March 28 at the Theatre at St. Clement's.

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Original Secret Garden Star Is Still Daisy After All These Years at the Beechman March 28 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-winning Secret Garden actress Daisy Eagan offers her solo concert, Still Daisy After All These Years, at New York's Laurie Beechman Theatre March 28.

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

"That Grin of Impetuous Youth": How to Succeed Revival, With Daniel Radcliffe, Opens on Broadway by Adam Hetrick

Daniel Radcliffe climbs the ladder from window washer to corporate wunderkind in the 50th anniversary revival of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Withou…

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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Neil Patrick Harris, Kate Burton, Stacy Keach, Ron Rifkin Celebrate Jon Robin Baitz March 26 by Adam Hetrick

Neil Patrick Harris, Kate Burton, Stacy Keach and Ron Rifkin honor playwright Jon Robin Baitz at the Ojai Playwrights Conference's Substance and Desire benefit March 26 in Californi…

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Friday, March 25, 2011

Kiss, Me Kate, With Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison, Available on DVD by Adam Hetrick

The 1958 television adaptation of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, featuring its original Broadway stars Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison, has been released on DVD for the first time from V…

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Public Theater's Oskar Eustis to Helm Elmina's Kitchen Reading at Soho Rep by Adam Hetrick

Soho Rep will present four free readings of new plays by Black British playwrights — including Kwame Kwei-Armah's Elmina's Kitchen, directed by Public Theater artistic director…

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Cabaret, With Claybourne Elder and Kara Lindsay, Opens at KC Rep March 25 by Adam Hetrick

John Kander and Fred Ebb's darkly entertaining look at pre-WWII Berlin, Cabaret, starring Claybourne Elder, Kara Lindsay and Brian Sills, officially opens March 25 at the Kansas City Rep…

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Dick and Jerry Van Dyke Will Be The Sunshine Boys in CA by Adam Hetrick

Brothers Dick and Jerry Van Dyke will team up for a special benefit engagement of Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys, which will play Malibu Stage in April.

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Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles to Give Actors Fund Performance March 27 by Adam Hetrick

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles will offer its March 27 performance at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre as a benefit for the Actors Fund.

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James Earl Jones to Receive O'Neill Center's Monte Cristo Award by Adam Hetrick

Two-time Tony Award-winning actor James Earl Jones, who currently stars in the Broadway revival of Driving Miss Daisy, will be honored with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center's 2011…

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A Steady Rain, With Kyle Fabel and Aaron Roman, Begins in Hartford March 25 by Adam Hetrick

Keith Huff's 2009 Broadway cop drama A Steady Rain debuts at Hartford TheatreWorks March 25. Kyle Fabel and Aaron Roman Weiner co-star in the 90-minute production.

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Mona Mansour's Urge for Going Begins Public LAB Run March 25 by Adam Hetrick

The Public LAB world premiere of Mona Mansour's Urge for Going, about life within a Lebanese refugee camp, begins performances March 25.

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All My Sons, With Chuck Cooper and Margo Moorer, Opens at the Intiman March 25 by Adam Hetrick

Arthur Miller's American classic All My Sons is refocused to explore the lives of an African-American family in 1940's Seattle in a new production opening March 25 at the Intiman The…

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Broadway Will Dim Its Lights for Elizabeth Taylor March 25 by Adam Hetrick

Broadway will dim its lights at 8 PM on March 25 in honor of late stage and screen icon Elizabeth Taylor, who died at the age of 79 in Los Angeles on March 23.

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