THE UNDERSTUDY playwright Rebeck in WWD

Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Understudy opens on Thursday, November 5 at the Laura Pels Theatre.    
WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY
October 27, 2009
Good Humor: Playwright Theresa Rebeck Pens a Comedy
By Vanessa Lawrence
If literary homicide were a crime, Theresa Rebeck would be serving a rather lengthy sentence. In a recent tide of work, including “The Bells,” [...]

Maksim returns to Burn the Floor, joined by “Dancing with the Stars” co-star Kym

MAKS IS BACK!
Maksim Chmerkovskiy Returns
to Broadway’s BURN THE FLOOR
Joined by Kym Johnson
of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars”
Beginning November 27
*  *  *
BURN THE FLOOR EXTENDED A SECOND TIME
NOW THROUGH JANUARY 10, 2010
 
The producers of Broadway’s biggest dance hit announced today that Maksim Chmerkovskiy will rejoin the cast of BURN THE FLOOR on Friday, November 27th, [...]

BC/EFA Announces 21st Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition

THE 21ST ANNUAL
GYPSY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
TO BE HELD MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 & TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8
AT THE PALACE THEATRE
 
TICKETS ON SALE NOW VIA
WWW.BROADWAYCARES.ORG
 
ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS
 
Throughout the years, the GYPSY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION has become one of the hottest and most anticipated tickets of the fall season.  [...]

SHREK THE MUSICAL “I’m a Believer” Music Video feature on Broadway.com

SHREK THE MUSICAL® 
“I’M A BELIEVER” MUSIC VIDEO
FEATURED ON BROADWAY.COM
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO 
As previously announced, SHREK THE MUSICAL®, the Tony Award®-winning production, recently added the song “I’m a Believer” to the production. Broadway.com caught up with the cast when they went into the studio last month to record the song. Click the link below [...]

“The Miracle Worker” Starring Breslin, Pill Returns to Broadway This Spring

FIRST BROADWAY REVIVAL OF WILLIAM GIBSON’S
 
THE MIRACLE WORKER
 
50th ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION STARRING
 
ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE ABIGAIL BRESLIN
IN HER THEATRICAL DEBUT
 
TONY AWARD® NOMINEE ALISON PILL
 
Directed by KATE WHORISKEY
 
CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE THIS SPRING
 
Producer David Richenthal is pleased to announce the first revival of William Gibson’s THE MIRACLE WORKER as the Tony Award® winning play celebrates [...]

BYE BYE BIRDIE’s Gina Gershon on NBC’s “Today Show”

BYE BYE BIRDIE’s
Gina Gershon
will be featured on
NBC’s “Today Show”
tomorrow, October 29th between 10:00-11:00AM  
on Channel 4
“Fifty years on, “Bye Bye Birdie” is still as light, frothy, and irresistible as an egg cream.”
 – New Yorker Magazine, John Lahr
at the Henry Miller’s Theatre on Broadway
Gina Gershon, star of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Bye Bye Birdie, will conduct [...]

Roundabout’s ORDINARY DAYS featured on NYTimes.com

NYTimes.com
ArtsBeat
October 27, 2009
 
Five Questions About ‘Ordinary Days’
By Erik Piepenburg
Adam Gwon’s first job out of college was an intern at the Roundabout Theater Company, in the development office. “I worked on their computers, entering donations and setting up opening night reservations,” he said. “It’s surreal to be on the other end of that.”
Mr. Gwon, 29, is [...]

Variety reviews Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle

NOTE: Horton Foote’s THE ORPHANS’ HOME CYCLE begins performances on November 5 at Signature Theatre Company at the Peter Norton Space, 555 West 42nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues.  Visit www.signaturetheatre.org  for details.
 
The Orphans’ Home Cycle

A Hartford Stage, Signature Theater Company presentation of a play cycle in three parts and nine acts by Horton [...]

A View From The Bridge to open on Broadway January 24

LIEV SCHREIBER AND SCARLETT JOHANSSON
TO STAR IN ARTHUR MILLER’S
 “A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE”
DIRECTED BY GREGORY MOSHER
ON BROADWAY AT THE CORT THEATRE
FOR 14 WEEKS ONLY
OPENING JANUARY 24, 2010
PREVIEWS BEGIN MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2009
Tony® Award-winner Liev Schreiber and Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson, in her Broadway debut, will star in Arthur Miller’s A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE [...]

Guthrie’s Joe Dowling returns to acting roots in Friel’s Faith Healer

GUTHRIE DIRECTOR JOE DOWLING RETURNS TO HIS ACTING ROOTS
IN BRIAN FRIEL’S FAITH HEALER AT THE GUTHRIE
 
Brian Friel’s Faith Healer opened last Friday at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, with director Joe Dowling — making his American acting debut — in the title role, opposite longtime Guthrie favorites Sally Wingert and Raye Birk, with Benjamin McGovern [...]