Clybourne Park, Matilda and Suchet Honored in London's Critics' Circle Theatre Awards by Kenneth Jones

Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park was named Best New Play in the 2010 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, the ceremony of which was held Jan. 25 at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. The award fo…

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Mary Ann Thebus Is Mom in The Boys Room, a World Premiere Opening Jan. 31 at Victory Gardens by Kenneth Jones

Adult brothers retreat to their childhood bedroom in the Victory Gardens Theater world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's The Boys Room, opening Jan. 31 following previews from Jan. 21 in Chic…

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Gruesome Playground Injuries, Charting Lives (and Wounds) of Childhood Friends, Opens Jan. 31 by Kenneth Jones

The New York premiere of Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, featuring Jennifer Carpenter of TV's "Dexter" and Pablo Schreiber, a Tony Award nominee for Awake and Sing!, opens Jan. …

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Jamey Hood Spreads Her Wings as Lucky Duck, Starting Feb. 11 at South Coast Rep by Kenneth Jones

Art Manke, a five-time Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) Award-winning director, directs and choreographs Lucky Duck, Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's pop musical version of "The Ugly…

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Marilyn Maye Says It With Broadway Music, and How by Kenneth Jones

Marilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…

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Full Cast of Born Yesterday Will Feature Frank Wood, Michael McGrath, Terry Beaver and Patricia Hodges and More by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Frank Wood, Tony nominees Terry Beaver and Michael McGrath, plus Patricia Hodges, will join the previously announced Jim Belushi, Nina Arianda and Tony winner Robert Sean L…

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He Loves and She Loves: Tony Yazbeck and Gabrielle Ruiz Are My One and Only Stars for Goodspeed by Kenneth Jones

Tony Yazbeck, of Broadway's recent White Christmas, A Chorus Line and Gypsy, will play love-struck aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of My One and Onl…

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Manoel Felciano, René Augesen Move Into Clybourne Park at A.C.T. Jan. 20-Feb. 13 by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award nominee Manoel Felciano is among residents of the West Coast premiere of Clybourne Park, the acclaimed Bruce Norris play inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, about a white neighborhoo…

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Gale Harold, Kathy Najimy Among Players in L.A.'s Gay Ceremony Plays Jan. 24 by Kenneth Jones

The Jan. 24 performance of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, readings of one-act plays in Los Angeles, will feature Caroline Aaron, Julie Hagerty, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Gale Haro…

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MTC's "7@7" Play Reading Series Starts Feb. 28 With Matthew Lopez's Reverberation by Kenneth Jones

Manhattan Theatre Club's Ernst C. Stiefel "7@7" Reading Series, testing new works in front of the public, begins Feb. 28 with Reverberation, a new play by Matthew Lopez, who penned MTC's cur…

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Steppenwolf Season to Feature John Mahoney, William Petersen, Tracy Letts, Premiere of The March by Kenneth Jones

Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 2011-12 season in Chicago will include plays by Bruce Norris, Enda Walsh and Donald Margulies, plus adaptations of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and E.L. Doctor…

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Jamey Hood Will Be Lucky Duck for South Coast Rep by Kenneth Jones

Art Manke, a five-time Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) Award-winning director, will direct and choreograph Lucky Duck, Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's pop musical version of "The U…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

For the Love of Mike: Marc Kudisch, Montego Glover Appear at Feb. 28 Tribute to Late Critic Kuchwara by Kenneth Jones

Michael Kuchwara, the respected late theatre critic for the Associated Press, will be celebrated by the Broadway showfolk that he wrote about in a benefit on Feb. 28, which would have been h…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Laura Eason's Ethan Frome Adaptation to Premiere in Chicago; Cast Announced by Kenneth Jones

The world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, will feature Lookingglass company members Philip R Smith, Andrew White, Louise …

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Working, Revised by Stephen Schwartz, Sings a New Song in Chicago, Starting Feb. 15 by Kenneth Jones

A fresh adaptation of the 1978 Broadway musical Working, inspired by Studs Terkel's best-selling collection of oral histories about vocations, punches in at the Broadway Playhouse at Water T…

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A.C.T. Season Will Include Race, Humor Abuse and Multimedia Once in a Lifetime by Kenneth Jones

American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff revealed three titles of the company's 45th subscription season in San Francisco.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Tony Nominees De'Adre Aziza and Jon Michael Hill Among Residents of Hot L Baltimore at Steppenwolf by Kenneth Jones

Casting for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new production of Lanford Wilson's The Hot L Baltimore is complete with the announcement of Broadway's de'Adre Aziza (Women on the Verge of a Nervou…

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Plays By Jeff Talbott, Beth Henley, Vincent Delaney and York Walker To Be Read in NewTACTics Series in June by Kenneth Jones

NewTACTics, a program of Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, will present four staged readings of new works in June. The playwrights and titles have been announced.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 1:44pm on May 21, 2015☆⚑

"Darling Grenadine," Daniel Zaitchik's Whimsical New Musical, Gets L.A. Concert; Kristin Hanggi Directs by Kenneth Jones

Pop and theatre singer-songwriter Daniel Zaitchik is testing his new musical romantic comedy in a May 12 concert reading in Los Angeles. He talks about his latest project.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:54am on May 8, 2015☆⚑

#TBT: Nick Blaemire On His Short-Lived Glory, The Musical That Opened and Closed The Same Night by Kenneth Jones

Playbill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, it talks with then-Broadway newcomers Nick Blaemire and James Gardiner, the twenty-something cr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on May 7, 2015☆⚑

Alabama Shakespeare Festival's 2015 Southern Writers' Project Gives Wing to Four New Plays May 8-10 by Kenneth Jones

Playwrights Jeffrey Chastang, Nathaniel Lachenmeyer, Alex & Hana Mironoff and John Walch are in residence at Alabama Shakespeare Festival's home the week of May 4 to prep readings of their n…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 4:47pm on May 4, 2015☆⚑

"The White Road" Is Paved by Irish Theatre of Chicago; World Premiere Tracks Ernest Shackleton by Kenneth Jones

Playwright Karen Tarjan talks about her new play about the explorers who found themselves trapped in ice near Antarctica circa 1915.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:57am on May 4, 2015☆⚑

Patrick Riviere's "The House of Nunzio," Unlocking Secrets in an Italian-American Family, Gets NYC Reading by Kenneth Jones

Playwright Patrick Riviere talks about the inspiration behind his play about an aging grandfather's intolerance.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:05am on April 27, 2015☆⚑

Jeff Talbott, Enid Graham, David Cote, James Still Among 2015 National Playwrights Conference Finalists by Kenneth Jones

A look at some of the Finalists in the 2015 National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:20pm on April 21, 2015☆⚑

Playwright Bess Wohl Talks About the Gold of Silence in "Small Mouth Sounds" by Kenneth Jones

An interview with Bess Wohl on the creation of her Off-Broadway play "Small Mouth Sounds," set at a silent retreat.

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 2:42pm on April 16, 2015☆⚑