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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Godspell Box Office Opens for Business Sept. 15 With Special Tour by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

The box office at Circle in the Square Theatre, home to the upcoming revival of Godspell, opens for business Sept. 15 at 10 AM ET.  

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Friends Will Remember Producer Randall L. Wreghitt at Sept. 15 Memorial on Broadway by Kenneth Jones and Robert Simonson

Friends, colleagues and family will gather to celebrate the life and work of Broadway producer Randall L. Wreghitt at 1 PM Sept. 15 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. Wreghitt died May 18 fo…

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Paul Kandel, Max Casella, John Glover Join Premiere of Labyrinth's Memory Play Starring Ellen Burstyn by Kenneth Jones

Labyrinth Theater Company announced complete casting for its world-premiere staging of David Bar Katz's The Atmosphere of Memory, about a playwright crafting a memory play, starring the …

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Liz McCann May Introduce Vera Stark — and Lynn Nottage — to Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Will Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage make her Broadway debut with By the Way, Meet Vera Stark? Nothing is sure in show business, but commercial producer Elizabeth Ireland McCa…

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Kristin Chenoweth Says She's Broadway-Bound With On the Twentieth Century by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth said that her next Broadway project will be a revival of the On the Twentieth Century, the stylish 1978 musical comedy set on the 20th Century Ltd., the l…

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Aspects of Love, Intertwining Paul Schoeffler, Jennifer Hope Wills and Charles Hagerty, Opens at Walnut Street by Kenneth Jones

Walnut Street Theatre opens Aspects of Love, a cult-favorite show among fans of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sept. 14 following previews from Sept. 6. The Philadelphia revival of the r…

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Once, the Musical Based on the Hit Irish Film, Will Star Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in NYC by Kenneth Jones

Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti will play the Guy and the Girl, respectively, when Once, the new stage musical based on the hit indie film of the same name, gets its world premiere at New Yo…

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AmEx Presale for Broadway's Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin Begins Sept. 14 by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Tickets for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin go on sale exclusively to American Express Cardmembers Sept. 14 at 10 AM ET (through Sept. 30 at 11:59 PM) via Telecharge.com.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Ontario Court Denies Appeals of Convicted Producers Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb by Kenneth Jones

The fraud and forgery convictions against Broadway and Canadian theatrical producers Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal, according to published rep…

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Adam Driver, Matthew Rhys Cast in Roundabout's Look Back in Anger by Kenneth Jones

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2012 Off-Broadway production of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, directed by Roundabout associate artist Sam Gold, will feature Adam Driver as Cli…

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Sweet Tea, Solo Show About Black Gay Men of the South, Gets DC Premiere Sept. 13-Oct. 9 by Kenneth Jones

The pulse of Southern black gay men is taken by writer-actor E. Patrick Johnson starting Sept. 13 with the first performance of the solo show Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, at Signat…

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Freud's Last Session Will Move to New World Stages; Original Cast to Continue Shrink Rap by Kenneth Jones

Call the moving men. The couch of Off-Broadway's long-running Freud's Last Session will be relocated to New World Stages starting Oct. 7.

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Chicago's ATC to Stage Premiere of Muslim-American Drama Disgraced; David Cromer May Direct Rent by Kenneth Jones

American Theater Company (ATC) in Chicago will replace its coming revival of K2 with the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, featuring ATC ensemble member Usman Ally. Additionally…

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Chicago's ATC to Stage Premiere of Muslim-American Drama Disgrace; David Cromer May Direct Rent by Kenneth Jones

American Theater Company (ATC) in Chicago will replace its coming revival of K2 with the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, featuring ATC ensemble member Usman Ally. Additionally…

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Jessica Jenen Exits Classic Stage to Move to Commercial Producing by Kenneth Jones

Classic Stage Company's executive director Jessica R. Jenen will leave the Off-Broadway company to move to the commercial theatre world, CSC leaders announced on Sept. 13. A search for h…

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Cast Announced for NYC Return of A.R. Gurney's Children, Absent 37 Years by Kenneth Jones

The TACT/The Actors Company Theatre revival of A.R. Gurney's Children, an early work from the author of Love Letters and The Dining Room, will feature TACT members Darrie Lawrence, Marga…

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Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking" Gets DVD Release, With Added Material, Sept. 13 by Kenneth Jones

The HBO version of Carrie Fisher's solo stage show, Wishful Drinking, seen in regional theatres and on Broadway — and also known in a best-selling book version — gets release…

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Prior to NYC, Alan Ayckbourn's Neighbourhood Watch Opens in English World Premiere by Kenneth Jones

The world-premiere run of Alan Ayckbourn's 75th play, Neighbourhood Watch, opens Sept. 13 following previews from Sept. 8 at his longtime artistic home, The Stephen Joseph Theatre C…

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NYC Premiere of Completeness, About Lovesick Science Nerds, Opens Sept. 13 by Kenneth Jones

Karl Miller and Aubrey Dollar are the lovers at the center of Itamar Moses' Completeness, the story of a computer scientist and a molecular biologist drawn to each other over mutual inte…

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Cotter Smith, Reed Birney, Christine Lahti Begin Dreams of Flying, the Latest From Adam Rapp, Sept. 13 by Kenneth Jones

Atlantic Theater Company's unveils previews of the world premiere of Adam Rapp's surreal play Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling on Sept. 13. The work features Christine Lahti and Re…

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Cast Announced for Arena's Revised Version of The Book Club Play by Kenneth Jones

The ensemble cast of Arena Stage's production of Karen Zacarías' comedy The Book Club Play, about the personalities and tensions of bibliophiles who gather to discuss their pa…

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Friends Will Remember Producer Randall L. Wreghitt at Sept. 15 Memorial by Kenneth Jones and Robert Simonson

A celebration of the life and work of Broadway producer Randall L. Wreghitt will be held 1 PM Sept. 15 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. Friends, colleagues and family will gather to rememb…

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Kate Baldwin Will Sing Sheldon Harnick Songs at Barnes & Noble Sept. 15 by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and Tony winner Sheldon Harnick will reunite in Manhattan Sept. 15 to perform a handful of Harnick songs, and to sign copies of "She Loves Him: Live at F…

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Noctú, Exposing Flesh and Heart of Irish Dancers, Opens at Irish Rep Sept. 12 by Kenneth Jones

The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan dances to a new tune — literally — for its 2011-12 season-opener. Ériu Dance Company's Noctú, "a new Irish dance/p…

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Musicals The Hollow and Boy Detective Get World-Premiere Openings in VA Sept. 11 by Kenneth Jones

Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, will do something unprecedented in American regional theatre, as far as any research can tell: On Sept. 11, the Tony Award-honored company will open two w…

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Sam Buntrock's Much Ado, With Michael Cumpsty, Kathryn Meisle, Sean Dugan, Begins NJ Run by Kenneth Jones

Two River Theater Company in Red Bank, NJ, revives Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing starting Sept. 10, under the direction of Tony Award nominee Sam Buntrock, who staged the Broadway…

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Hugh Jackman Is Russell Crowe's Quarry in Les Miserables Film by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman and Academy Award winner Russell Crowe are to be moral Jean Valjean and his twisted pursuer Inspector Javert, respectively, in the film adaptation of the inter…

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Hero, a New Musical Influenced by Comic Books, Will Fly at Marriott in IL; Season Announced by Kenneth Jones

The Marriott Theatre, the suburban Chicago musical theatre company devoted to revivals and new works, will present the world premiere of the homegrown musical Hero in 2012. The new season wa…

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Trouble in Mind, a Race Play About a Race Play, Begins Sept. 9 in DC by Kenneth Jones

Trouble in Mind, Alice Childress' 1956 play about a racially integrated theatre company presenting race play, gets a Sept. 9-Oct. 23 revival by Arena Stage, the resident Washington, DC, …

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Frank Langella and Adam Driver Are Man and Boy on Broadway; Maria Aitken Directs by Kenneth Jones and Andrew Gans

Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella returns to Broadway Sept. 9 to play a ruthless businessman whose estranged grown son may hold the key to success, in Terence Rattigan's Man an…

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Sebastian Arcelus, Marc Kudisch, Graham Rowat, Teal Wicks Will Help Blue Flower Grow at Second Stage by Kenneth Jones

The cast bringing light to Second Stage's The Blue Flower — a musical tale of artists and thinkers in the early 20th century —will include Sebastian Arcelus, Marc Kudisch, G…

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