Playbill - Music director Rob Fisher says Ralph Burns was one of the reasons why it was easy for Encores! to say "yes, yes" to No, No, Nanette. -- read full article
Playbill - Certainly - and suddenly! - Tony nominators have a super-arduous weekend of deliberation ahead of them, thanks to the 11th hour arrival of Top Girls May 7 at the Biltmore, serving up a mother lode of prime actress contenders for consideration. -- read full article
Playbill - Romeo and Juliet, Tony Award winner Des McAnuff's first production as artistic director at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, begins May 7 at the Ontario festival's flagship space - the Festival Theatre. -- read full article
Playbill - Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, a world-premiere musical by Stephen King and John Mellencamp, will no longer be produced as part of the Alliance Theatre's 2008-09 season, the Atlanta theatre company announced May 5. -- read full article
Playbill - Pasadena Playhouse, Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley and Armica productions will present the West Coast premiere of the Lena Horne biographical musical Stormy Weather, starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams, in early 2009. -- read full article
Playbill - The Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best New Play was given to Joseph Goodrich for his play Panic at a May 1 ceremony in Manhattan. -- read full article
Playbill - Jonathan Clem, Peter Friedman, Mary McCann and JoBeth Williams will star in the world premiere of Annie Baker's Body Awareness, a production of Atlantic Theater Company in its intimate Atlantic Stage 2 space. -- read full article
Playbill - Tony Award winner Judith Ivey will be The Lady With All the Answers - newspaper advice columnist Ann Landers, that is - in the Northlight Theatre's Midwest premiere of David Rambo's solo-actress play, The Lady with All the Answers, May 27-June 29. -- read full article
Playbill - The California leg of the world premiere co-production of Jeffrey Hatcher's theatrically playful, small-cast Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde plays San Jose Repertory Theatre May 10-June 8. -- read full article
Playbill - Secrets of a Soccer Mom, the new play by Kathleen Clark directed by two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey, will play its final Off-Broadway performance May 4 after 69 regular and 17 preview performances. -- read full article
Playbill - Billy Finnegan's At the End, a dark vision of a future New York City, gets read April 28 as part of Theater for the New City's "New City, New Blood" reading series. -- read full article
Playbill - John Cudia, a masked man on the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera, takes over the title role in the Broadway production on May 22. -- read full article
Playbill - Philadelphia Theatre Company's first season in its new home - the Suzanne Roberts Theatre - ends May 16-June 15 with the world premiere of Tony Award winner Bill Irwin's The Happiness Lecture, conceived and performed by Irwin. -- read full article
Playbill - The cast of South Coast Repertory's new production of Alan Ayckbourn's farce Taking Steps, May 16-June 15 on the Segerstrom Stage, will include Bill Brochtrup, Emily Eiden, Louis Lotorto, Kasey Mahaffy, Rob Nagle and Kirsten Potter. -- read full article
