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Friday, September 28, 2012

Allegiance Musical, With George Takei and Lea Salonga, Extends Run in CA by Kenneth Jones

The Old Globe production of Allegiance – A New American Musical, telling the story of Japanese Americans forced into concentration camps on U.S. soil during World War II, will get an a…

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Brothers Return to Their Roots in Broken and Entered, a Milwaukee World Premiere Opening Sept. 28 by Kenneth Jones

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) opens the world-premiere production of Broken and Entered by Madison, Wisconsin-based playwright Kurt McGinnis Brown on Sept. 28. The play, which examines cha…

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Vince Pesce Assumes Directorial Duties of Something's Afoot at Goodspeed by Kenneth Jones

Vince Pesce, choreographer of Goodspeed Musicals' in-rehearsal production of the mystery musical Something's Afoot, has taken over the direction of the show. Due to a critical illnes…

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Judd Hirsch and Tom Cavanagh Will Star in Freud's Last Session in California by Kenneth Jones

Mark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session will star two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh (of TV's "Ed") as C. S. Le…

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Playwright Judith Thompson Wins Whitaker Award From Canadian Critics by Kenneth Jones

The Canadian Theatre Critics Association have named Judith Thompson, "one of Canada's darkest and most daring playwrights," as recipient of the 2012 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Awar…

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Golden Age Will Star Lee Pace, Bebe Neuwirth, Lorenzo Pisoni, Richard Easton, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Will Rogers and More by Kenneth Jones

The New York City premiere of Terrence McNally's Golden Age, the backstage story of the Bellini opera I Puritani, will feature "Pushing Daisies" star Lee Pace as the 19th-centu…

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Broadway Design Team Attached to Sense & Sensibility Musical for 2013 Denver Premiere by Kenneth Jones

Director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge's creative team for the world premiere of Sense & Sensibility The Musical will include Tony Award-nominated set designer Allen Moyer, Tony…

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Golden Child Gets Added Week at NYC's Signature by Kenneth Jones

The new Off-Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, part of Signature Theatre Company's 2012-13 Hwang residency, will get an added week, now to Dec. 9. There is &quo…

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Off-Broadway's Ivanov Gets Extended; Ethan Hawke, Joely Richardson Star by Kenneth Jones

Classic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov will get two additional weeks, to Dec. 9, at CSC's home on East 13th Street. Ethan Hawke plays the title role, so…

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Fifty Happy Years! Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Returns to Broadway by Kenneth Jones

George and Martha, the English-speaking theatre's most contentious married couple since Katharina and Petruchio, are back on Broadway Sept. 27 for the first preview of the 50th-anniversa…

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Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, Starring Boyd Gaines at Center of Community Controversy, Opens on Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, adapted by British dramatist Rebecca Lenkiewicz and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, opens Sept. 27 …

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Brian Friel's Lovers, a Pairing of Irish One-Acts, Opens Sept. 27 in NYC by Kenneth Jones

Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre officially opens its 2012-13 season on Sept. 27 with Brian Friel's Lovers, made up of two related one-acts. Previews began Sept. 18 at …

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Rebecca Troupers Told First Rehearsal Is Oct. 1 by Kenneth Jones and Michael Gioia

The cast of the rehearsal-delayed new Broadway musical Rebecca was informed by producers in a Sept. 26 email that rehearsals would commence on Oct. 1, indicating that the show's previous…

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Andy Williams, Crooner Who Made "Moon River" a Hit, Dies at 84 by Kenneth Jones

Andy Williams, the smooth vocalist who was the epitome of the "easy listening sound" of the 1960s and '70s, singing songs by Henry Mancini and others, died Sept. 25 of complica…

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For Colony Music Store in NYC, the Song Has Ended; Memories Linger On by Kenneth Jones

Colony, the Times Square-area music store variously referred to as Colony Records, Colony Music or just The Colony since 1948, is now a memory. Owner Richard Turk confirmed that the last day…

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Alan Thicke Stars in Test of New Musical Queen for a Day, Inspired by Vintage TV Show, Sept. 26-Oct. 7 by Kenneth Jones

Queen for a Day: The Musical, inspired by the radio and TV reality show of yesteryear, gets its world premiere in a 12-performance run in Toronto starting Sept. 26. TV's Alan Thicke (&qu…

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Vera Stark, Ready for Her L.A. Close-Up, Opens Sept. 26; Sanaa Lathan Stars by Kenneth Jones

Sanaa Lathan reprises her New York City role of a maid-turned-movie star in Lynn Nottage's satiric comedy By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, opening Sept. 26 following previews from …

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Jason Danieley, Carmen Cusack, Linda Stephens Paint Chicago's Sunday in the Park With George, Starting Sept. 26 by Kenneth Jones

Jason Danieley, of Broadway's Candide, Curtains, The Full Monty and Next to Normal, plays George in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Sunday in the Park With Georg…

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Vanessa Williams, Dawnn Lewis, David St. Louis To Slip Into Intimate Apparel in Pasadena by Kenneth Jones

The new Pasadena Playhouse production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, directed by artistic director Sheldon Epps, will star Kristy Johnson, Dawnn Lewis, Angel Reda, Adam J. Smith, Da…

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Pablo Schreiber, Stephen Kunken, Maria Dizzia, Reed Birney and More Conjure Waiting for Lefty in NYC Reading by Kenneth Jones

Clifford Odets' groundbreaking 1935 agitprop play, Waiting for Lefty, about union members on the brink of a strike during hard times, received a private reading presentation Sept. 24 as …

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New England Production of Satchmo at the Waldorf Books a Gig in Philly; John Douglas Thompson Again Stars by Kenneth Jones

Satchmo at the Waldorf, Terry Teachout's new play about musician Louis Armstrong, will make its Philadelphia debut Nov. 16-Dec. 2 in an engagement at The Wilma Theater. The Philly stagin…

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Winners of Final Barrymore Awards Under Philly Alliance Announced; Scottsboro Boys, Body Awareness Embraced by Kenneth Jones

Winners of the 2012 Barrymore Awards, celebrating excellence in Philadelphia-area theatre, were announced Sept. 25. Productions of The Scottsboro Boys, Twelfth Night and Body Awareness are a…

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Chuck Cooper, Brandon J. Dirden, Roslyn Ruff Among Those Taking The Piano Lesson Off-Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Casting has been announced for director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about …

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It's Got To Be Love! Christine Andreas' Album "The Carlyle Set" Is Re-Released by Kenneth Jones

"The Carlyle Set," the 2003 solo album by two-time Tony Award winner Christine Andreas, which has gone out of print, is being re-released by PS Classics, the label devoted to the h…

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Dorothy Carter, Actress Who Appeared in Broadway's Strange Fruit, Dead at 94 by Kenneth Jones

Dorothy Ateca Carter, an African-American stage actress who starred in three pre-Civil Rights-era plays, including a Broadway adaptation of the novel "Strange Fruit," about an inte…

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Toronto Will See Clybourne Park, Anthony Rapp, Mary Walsh and Terminus in "Off-Mirvish" Lineup by Kenneth Jones

Toronto's Mirvish Productions — known for big musicals in the Ontario metropolis — is packaging a collection of smaller, riskier productions produced by local and internation…

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Holland Taylor's Ann, a Real-Life Tall Tale of Texas Politics, Will Play Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Ann, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, will get a Broadway stage — and a big one — on March 7, 2013, when it opens at …

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Canada's Shaw Festival Has Major Barbara, Guys and Dolls, Light in the Piazza, Oscar Wilde and More in 2013 by Kenneth Jones

The Shaw Festival on Ontario announced Sept. 24 that its 2013 season will include 10 productions, including George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, the musicals Guys and Dolls and The Light…

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Emily Skinner Will Star in Premiere of Great American Mousical, Directed by Julie Andrews by Kenneth Jones

The Great American Mousical, the new musical to be directed by Julie Andrews, on whose children's book the show is based, will star Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner as a diva mouse named…

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La Jolla Playhouse Stages Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir in Lounge Sept. 24-Oct. 10; Luke Macfarlane Stars by Kenneth Jones

Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir, Keith Bunin's nightclub-set play with music about a gay singer in the decade before gay rights and identity began to blossom, get its West Coast premiere sta…

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Red Dog Howls, With Kathleen Chalfant, Alfredo Narciso and Florencia Lozano, Opens Sept. 24 by Kenneth Jones

New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secrets shaken loose, opens Sept. 24 following previews from…

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