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Gavin Creel Will Star in Broadway's 'Hair' Revival; Espinosa Bows Out (Playbill)
Playbill - Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will star as Claude in the upcoming Broadway revival of the tribal love rock musical Hair, which is scheduled to begin performances March 6 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
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Mary-Louise Parker Is a Hipper Hedda (Playbill)
Playbill - Actress Mary-Louise Parker puts a contemporary spin on Ibsen's tragic heroine, Hedda Gabler, in a new Broadway production.
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'In the Heights' Is in the "Hits" Category; Producers Recoup Investment (Playbill)
Playbill - Lights up - on a hit. Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman, the lead producers of the 2008 Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the Heights, announced on Jan. 8 that they recouped the show's $10 million investment after only 10 months and 337 performances.
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'Old Glory', Neveu's Play About Fallout of Iraq War, Premieres in IL; Cast Announced (Playbill …
Playbill - Brett Neveu's Old Glory, one of a series of plays about how the Iraq War affects six interconnected people, will gets its world premiere production Feb. 3-March 29 from Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, IL.
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Playwright Heidi Schreck Is 2009 Page 73 Fellow in NYC (Playbill)
Playbill - Heidi Schreck is the recipient of the 2009 P73 Playwriting Fellowship from Page 73, the New York City company devoted to developing new works and writers.
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Heather Woodbury's 'Stripper's History' to Play Steppenwolf (Playbill)
Playbill - Award-winning playwright and solo performer Heather Woodbury returns to the Steppenwolf stage for a one-night-only performance of The Last Days of Desmond "Nani" Reese: A Stripper's History of the World 7:30 PM March 3 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre in Chicago.
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Andrew Long Is 'Richard III' at Denver Center; Jesse Berger Directs (Playbill)
Playbill - Jesse Berger, artistic director of New York City's Red Bull Theater, a troupe not afraid of bloody tragedies, makes his Denver Center Theatre Company directing debut with a new production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
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Philly's Arden Premieres 'My Name Is Asher Lev' (Playbill)
Playbill - Arden Theatre Company's world premiere of My Name Is Asher Lev, directed and adapted by Aaron Posner, drawing on the novel by Chaim Potok, begins Jan. 8 at the Philadelphia theatre's Arcadia Stage.
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Mummy thought to be Queen Seshestet found in Egypt (Reuters)
Reuters - Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday.
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'Ragtime''s Sutcliffe Will Play Seurat in Shaw Festival's 'Sunday in the Park' (Playbill)
Playbill - Steven Sutcliffe, a 1998 Drama Desk Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner for Ragtime, will return to the Shaw Festival, where he acted in his formative years, to play George in Sunday in the Park With George.
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'Southern Gothic Novel' Begins NYC Run and Extends to March (Playbill)
Playbill - A month of Wednesdays has been added to the run of Southern Gothic Novel: The Aberdeen Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident, the Off-Broadway solo-actor comedy conceived and written by Frank Blocker.
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Fierstein's 'Torch Song Trilogy' Will Have Brief NYC Run (Playbill)
Playbill - A Manhattan production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, broken into separately-sold acts, will be presented at the American Theatre of Actors' Sargent Theatre Jan. 21-Feb. 1.
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Clunie's 'Living Green' to Make World Premiere in Chicago (Playbill)
Playbill - Playwright Gloria Bond Clunie explores the question of graduating from your roots and the obligation to give back in Living Green, getting its world premiere starting Jan. 23 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater in Chicago.
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"Madtv" Star Parker Will Be Broadway's New Elphaba; Tveit Returns, Too (Playbill)
Playbill - Nicole Parker, who recently wrapped her seventh season on Fox's "MADtv," will join the Broadway company of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked Jan. 16.
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Dawson Takes a Poke at Relationships in Toronto World Premiere 'Them & Us' (Playbill)
Playbill - Four actors portray 30 characters in a series of vignettes that explore male-female relationships in the world premiere of actor-writer Tracy Dawson's Them & Us, opening Jan. 8 after previews from Jan. 6, in a production by Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto.
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'Po Boy Tango', a Tale of Cooking and Culture Clash, Makes World Premiere in IL (Playbill)
Playbill - Northlight Theatre's world-premiere production of Kenneth Lin's cross-cultural relationship play, Po Boy Tango, begins Jan. 7 in suburban Chicago.
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Broadway-Bound 'West Side Story' Opens at DC's National (Playbill)
Playbill - The Broadway-bound revival of the ground-breaking musical West Side Story, which made its world premiere at the National Theatre in 1957, officially opens at that Washington, DC, landmark Jan. 7. Previews, under the direction of the show's librettist, Tony Award winner Arthur Laurents, be …
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Crime writer Mofina juggles work and murders (Reuters)
Reuters - Mofina said his latest book, "Six Seconds," released in the United States and Canada this week, was written the same way as his other eight books -- plotted on the bus on the way to work then typed out in his suburban basement in Ottawa.
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'Hedda Gabler', Starring Parker, Cerveris, Stormare and Sparks, Begins Broadway Run (Playbill)
Playbill - Tony Award winner Mary-Louise Parker exercises a trigger finger starting Jan. 6, with the first Broadway preview of Christopher Shinn's new adaptation of Hedda Gabler, the Henrik Ibsen classic about an unhappily married woman in 1880s Norway.
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Buffalo's Road Less Traveled to Premiere Romantic Comedy 'Twice Around' (Playbill)
Playbill - Road Less Traveled Productions, filling a void in Buffalo, NY, lately following the 2008 shutdown of Studio Arena Theatre, offers the world premiere of Darryl Schneider's romantic comedy, Twice Around, about a man's middle-school crush resurfacing after many years, Jan. 23-Feb 15.
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