Triangle Factory Fire Gets February Benefit Performance in Centennial Year of NYC Tragedy by Kenneth Jones

The Triangle Factory Fire Project, the 2004 Off-Broadway theatrical event that used public documents to tell the true story of an American workplace tragedy, will get a benefit concert readi…

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A Name Change and Wider Life Expected for SCKBSTD, Bruce Hornsby's Hit VA Musical by Kenneth Jones

The commercial producers of SCKBSTD are prepping the next steps for the musical by Bruce Hornsby following a popular world-premiere run by Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk, VA.

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She Loves Him, Kate Baldwin's Sheldon Harnick Celebration, Plays Feinstein's March 8-12 by Kenneth Jones

Kate Baldwin, the 2010 Tony Award nominee for Finian's Rainbow, returns to Feinstein's at Loews Regency March 8-12 for a tribute show called She Loves Him, celebrating the work of lyricist (…

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Neil Pepe Will Direct Workshop of Hands on a Hardbody Musical for La Jolla Playhouse by Kenneth Jones

Hands on a Hardbody, a new musical commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, will get a three-week Manhattan workshop by the California company.

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Brad Oscar Is Uncle Fester, One of Several Newcomers to The Addams Family, Starting March 8 by Kenneth Jones

The mansion of Broadway's The Addams Family gets fresh blood March 8 in the form of new cast members, including Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar, Franz of The Producers, as Uncle Fester.

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Brad Oscar Will Play Uncle Fester in Addams Family; Blickenstaff, Grupper, Potter Join Cast by Kenneth Jones

New family will pour through the door of Broadway's The Addams Family on March 8. The producers announced that Heidi Blickenstaff, Adam Grupper, Brad Oscar, Rachel Potter and Jesse Swenson w…

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Jazz Hands: Bob Fosse Is Subject of New Biopic; Bryan Singer Will Direct by Kenneth Jones

A new feature-length film about the life and work of late Tony Award-winning dancer-director-choreographer Bob Fosse is in the works from producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, whose new "Foo…

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Tony Nominee David Grindley Will Direct Stratford's Misanthrope Starring Brian Bedford by Kenneth Jones

David Grindley will take over directorial duties for Stratford Shakespeare Festival's summer production of The Misanthrope, which was to be directed by Brian Bedford, who also stars.

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Oscar Winner Chris Cooper Will Star in Free Reading of Buried Child in Boston by Kenneth Jones

Jim True-Frost will direct Academy Award winner Chris Cooper in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's one-night-only presentation of Sam Shepard's Buried Child.

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Jane Fonda Probes the Past in L.A. Run of Broadway's 33 Variations, Opening Feb. 9 by Kenneth Jones

The Los Angeles run of Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations, directed by the author and featuring the 2009 Broadway engagement's Jane Fonda and Zach Grenier, opens Feb. 9 following previews…

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Arena's Albee Festival Launches With At Home at the Zoo and Steppenwolf Virginia Woolf by Kenneth Jones

The critically embraced Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has moved from the frigid Windy City to the more moderate Mid-Atlantic. It be…

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Kin, Featuring Patch Darragh, Kristen Bush and Bill Buell, Begins at Playwrights Horizons by Kenneth Jones

Bathsheba Doran's Kin, about the connection between a scholar and a personal trainer, begins a world-premiere engagement at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Feb. 25.

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Goodbye, Gomez: Nathan Lane Among Addams Family Actors Exiting Broadway Musical March 6 by Kenneth Jones

The mansion of Broadway's The Addams Family gets de-populated, but not for long, after the March 6 matinee at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Nathan Lane, Kevin Chamberlin, Carolee Carmell…

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Wonderland's Broadway Box Office Opens Feb. 14 With Special Offer by Kenneth Jones

The Marquis Theatre box office for Broadway's Wonderland - A New Alice. A New Musical will open Feb. 14 in anticipation of a March 21 first preview. The first 100 people in line get a discou…

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The Dream of the Burning Boy, About Survivors of a High School Tragedy, Begins NYC Run by Kenneth Jones

Roundabout Underground launches David West Read's new play, The Dream of the Burning Boy, about a high school tragedy, on Feb. 25. The Off-Broadway staging features Reed Birney, Josh Caras, …

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All Aboard for Discounts and Swag, When Anything Goes Box Office Opens Feb. 14 by Kenneth Jones

There will be an anything-goes quality to the Feb. 14 box-office opening for tickets to Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Expect $10 tickets, free stuff and a chance to win an o…

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Rock On: Davey Havok Is St. Jimmy in American Idiot; Justin Guarini Is Jesus of Suburbia by Kenneth Jones

Davey Havok, the lead singer of the rock band AFI, steps into the role of St. Jimmy in Broadway's American Idiot starting March 1. He's one of several new leads at the St. James Theatre.

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Max Wilk, Playwright, Showbiz Journalist and O'Neill Center Dramaturg, Dead at 90 by Kenneth Jones

Max Wilk, a novelist, a nonfiction chronicler of show business subjects, playwright, screenwriter -- and a dramaturg for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Cen…

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Gavin Lee, Arena's Oklahoma!, Signature's Sycamore Trees, Phylicia Rashad Are Helen Hayes Nominees in DC by Kenneth Jones

Nominations for the 2011 Helen Hayes Awards, representing excellence in the Washington, DC-area theatre community, were announced Feb. 28.

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CSC's Sold-Out Three Sisters, Starring Gyllenhaal, Hecht, Rylance and Sarsgaard, Will Not Extend by Kenneth Jones

After exploring the idea of extending its sold-out and acclaimed production of Three Sisters, the leaders of Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company will rest on their success. The run will end…

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Broadway's Time Stands Still, Acclaimed Drama About War Scars, Closes Jan. 30 by Kenneth Jones

Time Stands Still, Donald Margulies' Tony Award-nominated play about war correspondents returning home, ends its run at Broadway's Cort Theatre Jan. 30, when the contracts of its four princi…

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Spider-Man Stars Are Early Birds on CBS March 1 by Kenneth Jones

The stars of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark will appear on CBS's "The Early Show" the morning of March 1 in anticipation of their appearance that night on "The Late Show."

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Irish Rep's Molly Sweeney, With Geraldine Hughes, Jonathan Hogan, Ciarán O'Reilly, Opens Jan. 30 by Kenneth Jones

Irish Repertory Theatre stages the first major New York City revival of Tony Award-winning playwright Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney, the story of a blind woman who undergoes an operation to re…

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God of Carnage Gets Chicago Premiere, With Mary Beth Fisher as Steely Hostess, March 5-April 10 by Kenneth Jones

Mary Beth Fisher, Keith Kupferer, Beth Lacke and David Pasquesi begin their bickering in Chicago on March 5 as the badly behaved parents of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, at the Goodman Thea…

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Kim Cattrall Will Play Private Lives in Toronto Before Broadway; Chess, Poppins, War Horse Also Booked by Kenneth Jones

"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall will repeat her London role of Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives in Toronto in a September-October engagement billed as "prior to Broadway."

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