'Fences' Has a Broadway Target of Spring 2009 (Playbill)

Playbill - The new Suzan-Lori Parks-directed Broadway production of August Wilson's Fences, previously mentioned as a fall 2008 candidate, is aiming for a spring 2009 bow, representatives for the production confirmed.

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William Petersen to Star in Steppenwolf's 'Dublin Carol,' Directed by Amy Morton (Playbill)

Playbill - Casting is complete for director Amy Morton's upcoming Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson. Joining "CSI" star and Chicago veteran William Petersen will be Stephen Louis Grush and Nicole Wiesner.

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Robins, Clohessy, Derelian, Sturgis Will Board NJ 'Streetcar Named Desire' (Playbill)

Playbill - Broadway, film, television and Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey veteran Laila Robins, who'll slip into the skin of faded belle Blanche du Bois in the troupe's A Streetcar Named Desire, will be joined by a fellow veteran of the company, Gregory Derelian, as brutish Stanley Kowalski.

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Dvorsky, Gamble, Parker-Namdar, Sherback to Sing Broadway's 'Lost Songs' in VA (Playbill)

Playbill - Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, kicks off its cabaret season Sept. 3-6 with The Lost Songs of Broadway 1940s-1950s, "a collection of terrific tunes from some of history's forgotten mid-century musicals."

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From Fantastick to Amazing: Actor Nick Spangler to Compete on TV's "Amazing Race" (Playbill)

Playbill - Nick Spangler, who goes on a journey into the wide, cruel world nightly as Matt in Off-Broadway's The Fantasticks, will circle the globe this fall as a competitor on the CBS reality series "The Amazing Race."

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Barbour, Lazar, Burkhardt Sing of Best and Worst of Times in 'Tale of Two Cities', Starting Aug. 19 (Playbill)

Playbill - A Tale of Two Cities, a new musical to quicken the hearts of fans of sprawling romantic historical epics - the kind of show where characters in the shadows sing about the light of tomorrow - begins its Broadway life Aug. 19 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

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'Maria/Stuart', Grote's Supernatural Schiller-Inspired Tale, Begins World Premiere in DC (Playbill)

Playbill - Naomi Jacobson, Sarah Marshall, Meghan Grady, Eli James, Amy McWilliams and Emily Townley are featured in the world premiere of Jason Grote's Maria/Stuart, an eccentric tale of strong women, opening the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's new season Aug. 18.

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Hare's 'Gethsemane' Will Bloom at National; Stoppard, Previn, Adamson and Ibsen Announced (Playbill)

Playbill - The National Theatre has announced a slate of new productions for performances between November and February, including the world premiere of David Hare's latest play Gethsemane, a revival of Tom Stoppard and André Previn's 1977 play for actors and orchestra, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, and Mrs. Affleck, a new play by Samuel Adamson from Ibsen's Little Eyolf.

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Panych's 'Moby Dick' Surfaces at Ontario's Stratford Festival (Playbill)

Playbill - Morris Panych's new stage production of Moby Dick, adapted from the novel by Herman Melville, opens Aug. 17 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's intimate Studio Theatre following previews from July 22.

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Bartlett Will Join Pittu in 'What's That Smell,' Spoofing Musical Theatre Types (Playbill)

Playbill - Peter Bartlett, the effete and dryly comic actor of Off-Broadway's The New Century and Broadway's The Drowsy Chaperone, will star opposite David Pittu in Pittu's comedy with music, What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, a portrait of a musical theatre artist you've never heard of, for Atlantic Theater Company.

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Eleanore Reznikoff, Theatre Producer, Dies at 57 (Playbill)

Playbill - Eleanore Reznikoff, a theatre producer who later became a film marketing and advertising executive, died Aug. 9 in Los Angeles, Variety reported. She was 57.

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'White Christmas' Sets Opening on Broadway; Pre-Sale Begins (Playbill)

Playbill - Irving Berlin's White Christmas will open at Broadway's Marquis Theatre Nov. 23, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, the producers announced on Aug. 19.

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Shakespeare, Chekhov, Wilde, Sondheim Will Commingle With Canadian Writers at Stratford in 2009 (Playbill)

Playbill - The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario announced its 2009 season on Aug. 18, revealing a playbill reflecting the festival's passion for the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, plus classical and contemporary repertoire, and works by living Canadian writers.

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All Hail: Plummer Is 'Caesar', Opening at Ontario's Stratford Festival (Playbill)

Playbill - Tony Award winner and Stratford Festival veteran Christopher Plummer has returned to his old Ontario stomping ground to play Julius Caesar - Shaw's Caesar, not Shakespeare's.

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DiPietro & Bryan's Musical 'Memphis', With Kimball, Morgan and Glover, Begins in CA (Playbill)

Playbill - A white deejay playing "black music" in the early-1950s South causes a personal, professional and social earthquake in the new musical, Memphis, starting Aug. 19 at the La Jolla Playhouse in California.

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Victory Gardens' McVay Will Leave Managing Director Job in Fall (Playbill)

Playbill - Marcelle McVay, longtime managing director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, will leave the Tony Award-honored troupe in the fall.

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Joanna Glass''Palmer Park' Makes World Premiere in Ontario (Playbill)

Playbill - Joanna McClelland Glass'Palmer Park, a look at post-riots Detroit, when "white flight" was rampant, opens Aug. 16 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.

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Jack Zink, South Florida Entertainment Critic and Columnist, Dies at 61 (Playbill)

Playbill - Jack Zink, a major voice in South Florida entertainment coverage for more than three decades, died Aug. 18 from cancer. He was 61, and most recently served as the theatre and classical music critic and cultural affairs writer for The South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.

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NYC's Transport Group Will Stage 'Bury the Dead' and New Musical 'Being Audrey' (Playbill)

Playbill - Off-Broadway's Transport Group, winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award, has Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead and a world premiere musical about a woman who is inspired by Audrey Hepburn for its 2008-09 season.

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Samuel Hepler Will Be Lincolnesque for Premiere of 'Abe' Musical in 2009 (Playbill)

Playbill - Muddy River Opera Company, the jewelbox troupe that performs operas and musicals in Quincy, IL, has found a Mr. Lincoln for its 2009 world premiere production of Abe, a musical celebrating the early life of Abraham Lincoln.

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All Hail: Plummer Is 'Caesar', Opening at Ontario's Stratford Festival (Playbill)

Playbill - Tony Award winner and Stratford Festival veteran Christopher Plummer has returned to his old Ontario stomping ground to play Julius Caesar - Shaw's Caesar, not Shakespeare's.

news.yahoo.com

Samuel Hepler Will Be Lincolnesque for Premiere of 'Abe' Musical in 2009 (Playbill)

Playbill - Muddy River Opera Company, the jewelbox troupe that performs operas and musicals in Quincy, IL, has found a Mr. Lincoln for its 2009 world premiere production of Abe, a musical celebrating the early life of Abraham Lincoln.

news.yahoo.com

William Petersen to Star in Steppenwolf's 'Dublin Carol,' Directed by Amy Morton (Playbill)

Playbill - Casting is complete for director Amy Morton's upcoming Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson. Joining "CSI" star and Chicago veteran William Petersen will be Stephen Louis Grush and Nicole Wiesner.

news.yahoo.com

'Maria/Stuart', Grote's Supernatural Schiller-Inspired Tale, Begins World Premiere in DC (Playbill)

Playbill - Naomi Jacobson, Sarah Marshall, Meghan Grady, Eli James, Amy McWilliams and Emily Townley are featured in the world premiere of Jason Grote's Maria/Stuart, an eccentric tale of strong women, opening the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's new season Aug. 18.

news.yahoo.com

From Fantastick to Amazing: Actor Nick Spangler to Compete on TV's "Amazing Race" (Playbill)

Playbill - Nick Spangler, who goes on a journey into the wide, cruel world nightly as Matt in Off-Broadway's The Fantasticks, will circle the globe this fall as a competitor on the CBS reality series "The Amazing Race."

news.yahoo.com

'White Christmas' Sets Opening on Broadway; Pre-Sale Begins (Playbill)

Playbill - Irving Berlin's White Christmas will open at Broadway's Marquis Theatre Nov. 23, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, the producers announced on Aug. 19.

news.yahoo.com

Jack Zink, South Florida Entertainment Critic and Columnist, Dies at 61 (Playbill)

Playbill - Jack Zink, a major voice in South Florida entertainment coverage for more than three decades, died Aug. 18 from cancer. He was 61, and most recently served as the theatre and classical music critic and cultural affairs writer for The South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.

news.yahoo.com

Hare's 'Gethsemane' Will Bloom at National; Stoppard, Previn, Adamson and Ibsen Announced (Playbill)

Playbill - The National Theatre has announced a slate of new productions for performances between November and February, including the world premiere of David Hare's latest play Gethsemane, a revival of Tom Stoppard and André Previn's 1977 play for actors and orchestra, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, and Mrs. Affleck, a new play by Samuel Adamson from Ibsen's Little Eyolf.

news.yahoo.com

Eleanore Reznikoff, Theatre Producer, Dies at 57 (Playbill)

Playbill - Eleanore Reznikoff, a theatre producer who later became a film marketing and advertising executive, died Aug. 9 in Los Angeles, Variety reported. She was 57.

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'Fences' Has a Broadway Target of Spring 2009 (Playbill)

Playbill - The new Suzan-Lori Parks-directed Broadway production of August Wilson's Fences, previously mentioned as a fall 2008 candidate, is aiming for a spring 2009 bow, representatives for the production confirmed.

news.yahoo.com

Dvorsky, Gamble, Parker-Namdar, Sherback to Sing Broadway's 'Lost Songs' in VA (Playbill)

Playbill - Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, kicks off its cabaret season Sept. 3-6 with The Lost Songs of Broadway 1940s-1950s, "a collection of terrific tunes from some of history's forgotten mid-century musicals."

news.yahoo.com

NYC's Transport Group Will Stage 'Bury the Dead' and New Musical 'Being Audrey' (Playbill)

Playbill - Off-Broadway's Transport Group, winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award, has Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead and a world premiere musical about a woman who is inspired by Audrey Hepburn for its 2008-09 season.

news.yahoo.com

Shakespeare, Chekhov, Wilde, Sondheim Will Commingle With Canadian Writers at Stratford in 2009 (Playbill)

Playbill - The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario announced its 2009 season on Aug. 18, revealing a playbill reflecting the festival's passion for the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, plus classical and contemporary repertoire, and works by living Canadian writers.

news.yahoo.com

Victory Gardens' McVay Will Leave Managing Director Job in Fall (Playbill)

Playbill - Marcelle McVay, longtime managing director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, will leave the Tony Award-honored troupe in the fall.

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Joanna Glass''Palmer Park' Makes World Premiere in Ontario (Playbill)

Playbill - Joanna McClelland Glass'Palmer Park, a look at post-riots Detroit, when "white flight" was rampant, opens Aug. 16 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.

news.yahoo.com

DiPietro & Bryan's Musical 'Memphis', With Kimball, Morgan and Glover, Begins in CA (Playbill)

Playbill - A white deejay playing "black music" in the early-1950s South causes a personal, professional and social earthquake in the new musical, Memphis, starting Aug. 19 at the La Jolla Playhouse in California.

news.yahoo.com

Robins, Clohessy, Derelian, Sturgis Will Board NJ 'Streetcar Named Desire' (Playbill)

Playbill - Broadway, film, television and Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey veteran Laila Robins, who'll slip into the skin of faded belle Blanche du Bois in the troupe's A Streetcar Named Desire, will be joined by a fellow veteran of the company, Gregory Derelian, as brutish Stanley Kowalski.

news.yahoo.com

Bartlett Will Join Pittu in 'What's That Smell,' Spoofing Musical Theatre Types (Playbill)

Playbill - Peter Bartlett, the effete and dryly comic actor of Off-Broadway's The New Century and Broadway's The Drowsy Chaperone, will star opposite David Pittu in Pittu's comedy with music, What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, a portrait of a musical theatre artist you've never heard of, for Atlantic Theater Company.

news.yahoo.com

Panych's 'Moby Dick' Surfaces at Ontario's Stratford Festival (Playbill)

Playbill - Morris Panych's new stage production of Moby Dick, adapted from the novel by Herman Melville, opens Aug. 17 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's intimate Studio Theatre following previews from July 22.

news.yahoo.com

Barbour, Lazar, Burkhardt Sing of Best and Worst of Times in 'Tale of Two Cities', Starting Aug. 19 (Playbill)

Playbill - A Tale of Two Cities, a new musical to quicken the hearts of fans of sprawling romantic historical epics - the kind of show where characters in the shadows sing about the light of tomorrow - begins its Broadway life Aug. 19 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

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