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| Broadway veteran Shoshana Bean will offer two performances of Shoshana Bean - Live in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre on August 17 at 8pm and 11pm, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. She will be joined by special guest stars, to be announced at a later date.
Bean has been seen on... |
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| John Judd will play Scrooge in Tom Creamer's adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to run November 19 - December 31 at the Goodman Theatre. William Brown will direct the production.
Judd has appeared at the Goodman in such productions Shining City, and Magnolia. Among his... |
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| Comedy Talks, a series of panel discussions hosted by Robert Strong, will take place at 4pm on August 1, August 8, and August 15 at the University of San Francisco's Presentation Theater.
Guests on August 1 will be George Segal, Paul Mazursky, and Ronnie Schell; on August 8, the guests will be... |
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| Partial Comfort Productions has announced preliminary casting for Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise, to run September 8 - October 2 at The Wild Project. David McCullum will direct the production.
The play focuses on a disgraced evangelical from rural Idaho who is forced to take a... |
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| Guest speakers have been announced for the talkbacks that will follow four-time Emmy Award winner Randy Cohen's The Punishing Blow: An Illustrated Lecture Delivered by Order of the Orange County Criminal Court, to be presented by the York Shakespeare Company at the Kirk Theatre, August 13-28. ... |
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| The Ruckus Theater has announced the four plays that will comprise its 2010-2011 season, which will be offered at The Side Project.
Ron Riekki's All Saints' Day.will run September 2-26. It will be foloowed by Aaron Dean and Jason Rico's new musical Escape From the Haltsburg Boys... |
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| Actors Co-op in Los Angeles has announced its schedule of plays for the 2010-2011 season.
The season will open with a revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Merrily We Roll Along, to be directed by Richard Israel, which will run September 17-October 24.
The theater's... |
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| The lineup for the Venice Film Festival, to run September 1-11, has been announced.
As previously reported, the thriller Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman as a troubled ballerina and directed by Darren Aronofsky, will open the Festival. The cast will also include Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder,... |
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| Stephen Frears' film adaptation of Posy Simmonds' acclaimed graphic novel Tamara Drewe, about a woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals, will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on October 8.
The film, written by playwright Moira... |
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| Shakespeares's Globe has announced complete casting for Nell Leyshon's Bedlam, to run September 5 -October 1. Jessica Swale will direct the production, which will be designed by Soutra Gilmour and have original music by Olly Fox.
The play, set in the 18th Century, presents a fictional... |
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| Michael Gambon will star in a revival of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, to play a limited engagement September 15-November 20 at the West End's Duchess Theatre, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Michael Colgan will direct the production, which was first seen at... |
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| Debbie Reynolds will perform her one-woman show, Debbie Reynolds: Alive & Fabulous for nine performances only at the El Portal Theatre, September 23-October 3.
In the show, Reynolds reminisces about her career with the aid of movie clips, as well as her three marriages and her more recent... |
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| Casting has been announced for Corrie!, the stage show version of the U.K. soap opera Coronation Street, which will run August 12-August 25 at The Lowry, Salford, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.
As previously reported, Jonathan Harvey, who currently writes for the television show, has... |
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| Oscar winner Meryl Streep and Emmy Award winner Tina Fey will co-star in the new film Mommy & Me, directed by Stanley Tucci, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Streep's stage credits include Trelawny of the Wells, Secret Service, The Cherry Orchard, Happy End, The Seagull, and Mother... |
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| Emmy Award winner and stage veteran Paul Giamatti is set to portray Nikita Khrushchev in a new HBO telefilm, according to Variety.
The script by Paul Bernbaum will be based on Peter Carlson's book, K Blows Top, which recounts Khrushchev's 13-day American sojourn in September 1959, a time... |
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| The multi-faceted star plays a military wife dealing with the return of her husband in the new film, The Dry Land. |
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| Tony Award nominee Xanthe Elbrick will star in the Active Theatre's world premiere production of Anthony Dodge's new play Venus Flytrap, to begin performances on November 4 at the Workshop Theater.
The production will be directed by Dodge's wife, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, who received a... |
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| The Cherry Lane Theatre has announced that it will undergo a period of restructuring in the 2010-2011 season. During the coming, the theater will not offer any homegrown productions on its mainstage, but will continue to offer its annual Mentor Project, which pairs noted playwrights with emerging... |
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| The Tony Award-winning creator of In the Heights discusses returning to New York in Freestyle Love Supreme, working on House, and his new musical Bring It On! |
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| This well-acted new adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel will prove great fun for both kids and adults. |
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| All My Children star and Broadway veteran Susan Lucci will write a memoir, to be released next year by Harper Collins It Books, according to The Associated Press.
Lucci played Annie Oakley in the most recent Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun, has performed in nightclubs including... |
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| Come Fly Away will play its final performance at the Marquis Theatre on September 5. Conceived, directed and choreographed by Twyla Tharp, the piece, which features vocals by Frank Sinatra, will have played 26 previews and 187 regular performances.
A national tour is scheduled to launch from... |
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| Colin Quinn will now perform his new one-man show Long Story Short at Bleecker Street Theatre through September 4.
Famed comedian Jerry Seinfeld has directed the work, in which Quinn comically examines over 2000 years of history, offering satirical takes on the attitudes, appetites and habits that... |
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| The Builders Association's production of the Obie Award-winning Jet Lag will run September 23-October 3 at the Alexander Kasser Theater as part of the Peak Performances@Montclair Series. Marianne Weems will direct the production, which following its New Jersey engagement will embark on an... |
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| Two-time Tony Award-winner John Cullum will reprise his performance as The Interlocutor in The Scottsboro Boys, when it begins performances on October 7 at the Lyceum Theatre. Susan Stroman will direct and choreograph the production, which will officially open on October 31.
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| Maurice Hines will pay tribute to the late singer Nat King Cole in a one-night-only benefit concert, to be offered at 6pm on August 23 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
Hines will be joined by special guest star Lillias White for the concert, which will.raise funds for Ronald McDonald House... |
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| York Theatre Company has announced the four shows that will be presented as part of its upcoming Musicals in Mufti Concert Series. The performances in the series are script-in-hand concerts with minimal staging.
Alan Jay Lerner and Andre Previn's Coco, a musical biography of Coco Chanel,... |
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| Emmy Award winner Kathy Griffin will appear at Borders Columbus Circle in the Time Warner Center; on Monday, August 2 at 7pm, to sign copies of her memoir Official Book Club Selection.
Griffin is best known for her Bravo series My Life on the D-List and her many comedy specials, including Balls of... |
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| London's PizzaExpress Jazz Club has announced its September schedule.
A highlight of the month is Lea DeLaria performing Wall2Wall: The Jerome Kern Songbook on Tuesday, September 21. She will be joined by special guest vocalist Anita Wardell, pianist Janette Mason, bassist Simon Little, and... |
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| International City Theatre has announced casting for its production of Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House, to run August 24-September 19. caryn desai will direct the production.
The company will feature Rob Roy Cesar, Kathy Bell Denton, Eileen Galindo, Nadia Nardini, and Caryn West.
The creative... |
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| Actor French Stewart will guest star on the season premiere of ABC's medical drama Private Practice on September 23, according to TVGuide.com
He will play a man named Kevin, who is willing to give a kidney.to his estranged brother, but may not be fit to be a donor because of his mental... |
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| London's Landor Theatre has announced casting for the Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire's Closer Than Ever to run September 14 - October 9, according to a report on Whatsontage.com. Robert McWhir will direct the production, which will feature choreography by Matthew Gould.
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| Actor Dominic Chianese, who starred in HBO's The Sopranos, will offer a one-night-only performance of his solo show Italian Songs of My Childhood on Monday, August 9 the Robert Shackleton Playhouse. The event is being offered as part of at Cape May Stage's inaugural Second Stage Broadway... |
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| Linda Kash will join the previously announced Lauren Collins, Wendy Crewson, Cynthia Dale, and Margot Kidder in the Canadian production of Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss and What I Wore, at Toronto's Panasonic Theatre, August 10-September 4.
Based on Ilene Beckerman's 1995 book... |
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| To celebrate the 2010 Radio City Christmas Spectacular, the Radio City Rockettes will perform Kick Across America on August 12.
In addition to the traditional event in front of Radio City, in which patrons in New York are encouraged to kick up their heels with the dancers, similar events will be... |
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| Award-winning actor Maury Chaykin has died at age 61, according to published reports.
Chaykin was born in Brooklyn and later studied theater arts at the State University of New York in Buffalo and trained with Buffalo's American Contemporary Theatre. In the 1970s, he appeared in some... |
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| NAACP Theatre Award winner Cedric Sanders and Oscar winner and Broadway veteran Louis Gossett, Jr. will star in writer-director Mark Young's film The Least Among You, which debuts on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand from Lionsgate on Tuesday, August 24. The film also stars Lauren Holly and... |
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| Casting has been announced for the Huntington Theatre Company and the Codman Academy Public Charter School's Huntington-Codman Summer Theatre Institute's production of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, to be offered August 4-5 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Lynne... |
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| Harris Yulin gives a strong performance as Willy Loman in Dublin's Gate Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's landmark drama. |
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| Jim Caruso and Billy Stritch brought their popular Cast Party to The Magic Castle in Hollywood for two performances on July 21 and 22.
Among the talents who performed were John Lloyd Young, Daisy Eagan, The Tonics, Chad Doreck, Sally Kellerman, Cybill Shepherd, Tiffany, Michael Orland, Erich... |
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