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Sunday, June 12, 2011

John Larroquette Is Best Featured Actor in a Musical; Book of Mormon Has Best Book and Score by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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John Larroquette Is Best Featured Actor in a Musical; Book of Mormon Wins Five Tonys for Score, Direction, Featured Actress by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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Book of Mormon Wins Tonys for Score, Direction, Featured Actress, Orchestrations by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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John Benjamin Hickey & Ellen Barkin Win Tonys for Normal Heart; Mormon, War Horse Have Best Direction by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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John Benjamin Hickey & Ellen Barkin Win Tonys for Normal Heart; Mormon Has Best Direction by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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John Benjamin Hickey & Ellen Barkin Win Tonys for Normal Heart; Mormon Is Best Score by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34PM[SHARE]

Hickey & Barkin Are Tony Winners as Featured Performers; Mormon Wins for Score and More by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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Ellen Barkin Is Tony Winner as Best Featured Actress in a Play; Mormon Wins for Score and More by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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Ellen Barkin Is Tony Winner as Best Featured Actress in a Play; Marshall Is Best Choreographer by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:07PM[SHARE]

Book of Mormon Wins 2011 Tonys for Best Score, Orchestrations; Marshall Is Best Choreographer by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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Broadway Royalty Gathers for 2011 Tony Awards June 12; Playbill Has It Covered by Kenneth Jones

It's Broadway's biggest night of the year! The 65th Annual Tony Awards are being presented 7-11 PM at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winner…

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Lyricist-Director David Zippel by Kenneth Jones

David Zippel, the lyricist who shared a Best Score Tony Award with composer Cy Coleman, talks about his creation of the revue The Best Is Yet to Come.

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The Homosexuals, a Play About Community, Friendship and Love, Premieres in Chicago June 11 by Kenneth Jones

About Face Theatre, the Chicago company interested in new works about gender and sexual identity, launches the world premiere of Philip Dawkins' play, The Homosexuals, inspired by the gr…

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Friday, June 10, 2011

Martial Arts Comedy, Jump, Falls Flat in NYC; Final Show Is June 12 by Kenneth Jones

Jump, the internationally renowned live-action martial-arts comedy created by Yegam, Inc. Productions, will end its Off-Broadway run prematurely June 12 at New World Stages. Following the ev…

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Kate Baldwin's "She Loves Him" CD Gets Concert Event July 14; Track Listing Announced by Kenneth Jones

Kate Baldwin's new recording, "She Loves Him: Live at Feinstein's," her tribute to Fiddler on the Roof lyricist Sheldon Harnick, will be celebrated at a release event July …

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Julian Ovenden's Reaper Has a Song in His Heart in Death Takes a Holiday, Premiering in NYC by Kenneth Jones

The question of why mortals cling so passionately to life hangs in the air of the new musical Death Takes a Holiday, starting a world-premiere Off-Broadway engagemet June 10. The songs of To…

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Rent, With Andy Mientus, Fabio Monteiro, Halle Morse, Begins at Pioneer Theatre June 10 by Kenneth Jones

Pioneer Theatre Company presents its own Salt Lake City production of Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent, directed and choreographed by Karen Azenberg, June 10-25.

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Full Court Press: NYC's Lysistrata Jones Musical Extended by One Week by 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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Master Harold Playwright Athol Fugard Is NYC Signature's Resident Playwright for 2012 by Kenneth Jones

Signature Theatre Company's inaugural season at its massive new Manhattan home, Signature Center, will focus on the work of South African playwright Athol Fugard, billing the writer as i…

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Calling All Moppets! Open Audition for Broadway Annie Orphans Is June 12 by Kenneth Jones

The sound of optimism will be deafening on Manhattan's Upper East Side on June 12 when an open audition for the coming Broadway production of Annie, the musical, takes place.

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WI World Premiere of Making God Laugh to Feature Chicago's Peggy Roeder, Sean Fortunato, Joe Foust by Kenneth Jones

Joe Foust, Neil Friedman, Sean Fortunato, Erin Noel Grennan and Peggy Roeder will play members of a dysfunctional family in the world-premiere production of Making God Laugh, starting June 1…

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Lincoln Assassination Play, One Destiny, Begins Evening Shows June 14 at Ford's Theatre by Kenneth Jones

Richard Hellesen's One Destiny, the 35-minute play commissioned by the Ford's Theatre Society "to bring the drama and emotion of the American Civil War to life through theatre,&…

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Subbing for Sally Mayes, Natascia Diaz Will Step Into Off-Broadway's Best Is Yet to Come by Kenneth Jones

Actress Natascia Diaz — of Off-Broadway's Jacques Brel and Bright Lights, Big City and the recent Public Theater concert production of The Capeman — will step in for Sal…

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Cirque du Soleil Unveils Zarkana at Radio City Music Hall June 9 by Kenneth Jones

Cirque du Soleil's new acrobatic spectacle Zarkana, with music by Elton John protégé Nick Littlemore, begins a world-premiere engagement June 9 at Radio City Music Hall. Pe…

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Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan Are Bonnie and Clyde in June 9-10 Reading of Wildhorn Musical by Kenneth Jones

The new musical Bonnie and Clyde, a blues-and-rockabilly-flavored show by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black and Ivan Menchell, gets an industry presentation June 9-10 in Manhattan in anticipation of…

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Producers Reel in a Whopper for Broadway's Big Fish Musical — Susan Stroman by Kenneth Jones

Susan Stroman, a 2011 Tony Award nominee for her direction and choreography of The Scottsboro Boys, has signed to stage the new Broadway-bound musical Big Fish, producers Dan Jinks and Bruce…

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NYC Return of Rent Will Star Annaleigh Ashford, Adam Chanler-Berat, Arianda Fernandez by Kenneth Jones

Adam Chanler-Berat, late of Next to Normal and Peter and the Starcatcher, will play documentary filmmaker Mark Cohen in the Off-Broadway relaunch of the rock musical Rent, producers announce…

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Tony-Nominated Importance of Being Earnest Will End a Week Early by Kenneth Jones

The acclaimed Broadway revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, starring and directed by Brian Bedford, will end its run a week earlier than announced, on June 26, the R…

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Kate Baldwin Will Play Marian in Arena Stage's The Music Man in 2012 by Kenneth Jones

A decade after she was Nellie Forbush in director Molly Smith's South Pacific at Arena Stage, Kate Baldwin — a Best Actress Tony Award nominee for Finian's Rainbow in 2010 &mda…

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Edward Gero and Patrick Andrews Will Paint Chicago Red at Goodman; Robert Falls Directs by Kenneth Jones

The Goodman Theatre's Chicago premiere of the Tony Award-winning play Red, about painter Mark Rothko, will feature Washington, DC, actor Edward Gero as the abstract expressionist artist,…

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Gary Cole, Kathryn Joosten, "Twilight" Vampire Edi Gathegi Bite Into Superior Donuts June 8 by Kenneth Jones

Gary Cole, Edi Gathegi, Mary Beth Fisher and Kathryn Joosten are among cast members in the Geffen Playhouse production of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, opening June…

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