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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Zayd Dohrn's Outside People Will Be Co-Produced by Vineyard and Naked Angels in 2011-12 by Kenneth Jones

The leaders of Vineyard Theatre and Naked Angels announced that they will co-produce the world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's Beijing-set comedy Outside People, directed by Evan Cabnet, at The…

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Ma-Yi Theater Season Has World Premiere of Sugar House, a Spin on "Hansel and Gretel" by Kenneth Jones

The cast of the fall world premiere of The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, a fractured adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," was announced by Off-Broad…

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Is New Musical Lysistrata Jones Headed to Broadway? by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

With "money" reviews from the New York Times and other publications in its gym bag, Off-Broadway's Lysistrata Jones — the pop-comic musical rewrite of Aristophanes' a…

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Miche Braden Is Bessie Smith in The Devil's Music, Opening Off-Broadway June 22 by Kenneth Jones

The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, the life-story musical about the jazz and blues singer from the 1920s and 1930s, finds a New York City home (again) in a production…

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Gretchen Egolf and Myra Lucretia Taylor Star in Barrington's Going to St. Ives June 22-July 9 by Kenneth Jones

Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives, in which "questions of life and death are settled over pots of tea," begins June 22 at BSC Stage 2, Barrington Stage Company's intimate se…

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Sex Lives of Our Parents, With Ben Rappaport, Opens in NYC World Premiere by Kenneth Jones

The world premiere of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents, a play about the gap between parents and children, opens June 22 following previews from June 7 in Second Stage Theatre&…

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Adirondack Festival's 2011 Season Dawns June 22 With K of D, in Upstate New York by Kenneth Jones

Adirondack Theatre Festival's 17th summer of professional theatre in Glens Falls, NY, begins June 22 with Laura Schellhardt's The K of D, an urban legend, directed by Matthew Earnest.

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Shells, a One-Woman Comic Musical Show, Plays L.A. June 22 by Kenneth Jones

Shells, the one-woman show about a financial analyst by day who blossoms as a cabaret artist by night, appears June 22 in Los Angeles, following dates in New York City.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Kristoffer Diaz Wins NY Times Outstanding Playwright Award for Chad Deity by Kenneth Jones

The New York Times announced June 20 that the winner of the 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award is Kristoffer Diaz for his play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, produced in…

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Strike Up the Band and Jason Robert Brown's Trumpet of the Swan CDs Released June 21 by Kenneth Jones

PS Classics puts two discs in stores on June 21: a studio recording of George and Ira Gershwin's 1930 Broadway musical Strike Up the Band and the playwright Marsha Norman and composer Ja…

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Tour of Marital Institution, the First Legit Show From Meredith Vieira Productions, Opens July 5 in Philly by Kenneth Jones

Life in a Marital Institution (20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour), monologist James Braly's show about "sex, love, family, betrayal, death…and dinner parties,"…

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O'Neill Music Theater Conference Snags Kate Wetherhead, Lindsay Mendez, Jarrod Emick, Barbara Walsh to Test New Shows by Kenneth Jones

Casting for The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's summer 2011 National Music Theater Conference, which will develop four new musicals in rehearsed public readings, has been announced.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Rebecca Habel Returns to NYC's Vineyard as Managing Director; Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell Has New Title by Kenneth Jones

Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre announced the appointment of Rebecca Habel as managing director of the Tony Award-winning non-profit theatre company. Also announced on June 20 was news t…

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At a Loss, a Comedy About Family, Travel and Love, Will Premiere at Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre by Kenneth Jones

The Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY, concludes its 20th season in July with the world premiere of a romantic comedy, At a Loss, by Jason Odell Williams. Casting was announced June 20.

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Making God Laugh Will Get Chicago-Area Premiere by First Folio; Season Announced by Kenneth Jones

First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook, IL, announced a 2011-12 season to include The Merchant of Venice, Jeffrey Hatcher's The Turn of the Screw, the Katharine Hepburn bio Tea at Five by Matt…

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Prince of Broadway Musical Will Celebrate Hit Shows and Songs in Harold Prince's Career by Kenneth Jones

Songs from Broadway musicals directed and/or produced by Harold Prince, the man of the theatre who often finds the word "legendary" attached to his name, will be conjured in a new …

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Theatre Concession Stands Among NYC Establishments Inspected for Sanitary Conditions by Kenneth Jones

The restaurant letter grades you see posted in windows and doors of New York City eateries will soon appear in Broadway theatres to tell you what the New York City Department of Health and M…

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Greg Jackson Is Timon of Athens in Unique Adaptation for Shakespeare Theatre of NJ by Kenneth Jones

Timon of Athens, Shakespeare's rarely produced play on the topics of greed and betrayal, will be revived by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in a 90-minute adaptation by Brian B. Crowe.…

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Desperate Writers Will End NYC Run June 25 by Kenneth Jones

Desperate Writers, the comedy about a couple seeking Hollywood success, will play its final performance at Off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre 8 PM June 25.

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Broadway's Born Yesterday Will Close June 26 by Kenneth Jones

The new Broadway production of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, which earned Nina Arianda a Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of dumb-blonde Billie Dawn, will close a mo…

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

The People in the Picture, a Musical Snapshot of Family Secrets, Ends Broadway Run June 19 by Kenneth Jones

The People in the Picture, the new original musical starring Tony Award winner Donna Murphy as an American grandmother remembering her days as a star in European Yiddish theatre and film, en…

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Laurence Luckinbill Reads Clarence Darrow Tonight! June 19 to Benefit NYC's Abingdon by Kenneth Jones

Actor-writer Laurence Luckinbill, who has crafted solo plays about Lyndon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway, performs his one-man show Clarence Darrow Tonight! June 19 to benefit…

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Matthew Risch, Morgan James, Michael Thomas Holmes, Leslie Kritzer Are Guys and Dolls, Opening June 19 by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Director John Rando's Guys and Dolls for Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, officially opens June 19 at 5 PM following previews that began June 15. The company is led by Michael…

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Jenn Colella and Gretchen Cryer Play "Heathers" in Getting My Act Together and Its Sequel, Beginning June 19 by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Jenn Colella plays Heather, known for doing her "strong woman" numbers, in the York Theatre Company revival of Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer's rueful pop musical I'm Gettin…

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Saturday, June 18, 2011

David Henry Hwang's Chinglish Begins Premiere Run in Chicago June 18 by Kenneth Jones

The Goodman Theatre's world premiere of Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about "the challenges of doing business in…

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Friday, June 17, 2011

Barbara Cook's June 17 Feinstein's Performances Recorded for CD by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Barbara Cook's latest cabaret show, You Make Me Feel So Young, now through June 18 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, will be preserved on a CD. The two evening shows…

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

John Turturro, Bebe Neuwirth, F. Murray Abraham and Dianne Wiest Will Appear in Classic Stage Season by Kenneth Jones

Classic Stage Company's passion for Russian master Anton Chekhov will continue into the 2011-12 season when The Cherry Orchard starring John Turturro and Dianne Wiest is presented under …

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Kathleen Marshall To Make Matthew Broderick Tap-Happy in Broadway's Nice Work Musical in 2012 by Kenneth Jones

The producers of the new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, boasting a score by George and Ira Gershwin, book by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro and direction and choreography by Ton…

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World Premieres by Kenneth Lin and Bruce Graham Punctuate People's Light Season in PA by Kenneth Jones

People's Light & Theatre in Malvern, PA, will present the world premiere of Philadelphia playwright Bruce Graham's Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown, a tale of freedom of the press and the …

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Freestyle Love Supreme, With Lin-Manuel Miranda, Plays NYC June 16 by Kenneth Jones

Freestyle Love Supreme, the improv musical comedy experience featuring In the Heights stars Christopher Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda, play June 16 in Manhattan and June 17 in Philadelphia.

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Martin Sheen, Stephanie Zimbalist, JoBeth Williams, Ed Begley, Jr. Will Read Bill W. and Dr. Bob at Geffen by Kenneth Jones

Martin Sheen will be joined by JoBeth Williams, Ed Begley, Jr. and Stephanie Zimbalist for the one-night benefit reading of Samuel Shem & Janet Surrey's play Bill W. and Dr. Bob at G…

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