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More Than a Catchy Title? Learning About In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play on Opening Night

More Than a Catchy Title? Learning About In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play on Opening Night

An exciting playwright in her Broadway debut, two Tony Award winning stars, a buzzworthy title and devoted band of supporters including Mary-Louise Parker, Adam Duritz, Michael Urie, Leigh Silverman, Stephen Pasquale and more? It must be opening night of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play, which made itself official on November 19 at The Lyceum ...

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Be a Winner: Follow Broadway.com on Twitter and Facebook

Be a Winner: Follow Broadway.com on Twitter and Facebook

This week, Broadway.com’s Twitter ventured into a new land: ticket giveaways! That's right. In addition to bringing you the latest news, photos, videos and features, we brought you actual theater. As part of our first-ever Free Tickets Friday, we gave away pairs of tickets to shows like Wicked, The Lion King and The Phantom of the Opera ...

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In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play's Buzzworthy Opening Night

In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play's Buzzworthy Opening Night
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Sporting one of the most provocative titles to hit Broadway in a while, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play officially opened on November 19, setting audiences buzzing at the Lyceum Theatre. Headed by Tony winners Laura Benanti and Michael Cerveris, the show centers on Dr. Givings, who treats overwraught Victorian women (and men) suffering from ...

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Enter Laughing Aims for Broadway Bow Next Season

Enter Laughing Aims for Broadway Bow Next Season

Enter Laughing is eyeing a Broadway run next season, according to The New York Times. The show, which was a hit for the York Theatre company earlier this year, was directed by Stuart Ross and starred Josh Grisetti.

The musical comedy, which is based on the early life of comedian Carl Reiner and the play by Joseph Stein, tells the ...

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First Look: Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth and the Cast of The Addams Family on Stage

First Look: Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth and the Cast of The Addams Family on Stage

Snap, snap! They may be altogether ooky, but we still can’t wait until The Addams Family lands on Broadway. The new musical, starring Tony winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, begins previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York in March, but they are wowing crowds right now at Oriental Theatre in Chicago through January 10. Entertainment Weekly’s ...

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Exclusive Clips! Broadway's A Tale of Two Cities Gets Second Curtain on PBS

Exclusive Clips! Broadway's A Tale of Two Cities Gets Second Curtain on PBS

For those of you who missed A Tale of Two Cities on Broadway last year, fear not: Michael York will narrate A Tale of Two Cities in Concert, the original Broadway musical adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel, in a staged performance to be broadcast on various PBS stations this Thanksgiving week and into December (check local listings for ...

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Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks to Star in West End Debut of Agatha Christie's A Daughter's A Daughter

Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks to Star in West End Debut of Agatha Christie's A Daughter's A Daughter

Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks will star in the West End premiere of Agatha Christie's A Daughter's A Daughter, beginning performances at Trafalgar Studios 1 on December 14. The limited four-week run, directed by Roy Marsden, plays until January 9, 2010. The production marks the first full-scale mounting of the play since its original debut in 1954.

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Dean-Charles Chapman Joins London's Billy Elliot in the Title Role

Dean-Charles Chapman Joins London's Billy Elliot in the Title Role

Dean-Charles Chapman is returning to the London production of Billy Elliot on November 23. The young performer, who has previously played the parts of Small Boy and Michael in the smash musical, will now take on the title role at the Victoria Palace Theatre.

Chapman, a 12-year-old Essex native, was a part of the original cast when he played Small ...

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Horton Foote's Remarkable Orphans' Home Cycle Begins at Signature Theatre

Horton Foote's Remarkable Orphans' Home Cycle Begins at Signature Theatre
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In what is already being hailed as the theatrical event of the season, the first of three parts in Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle has made its debut at Signature Theatre Company. This massive undertaking, involving nine plays and 22 actors playing multiple roles, follows Horace Robedaux (a character based on the late playwright’s father) from 1902, when ...

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It'll Make You Happy: Extensive Video from a Glittering New Dreamgirls

It'll Make You Happy: Extensive Video from a Glittering New Dreamgirls

It's been 22 years since a fully-staged production of Dreamgirls has played New York, and from the look of this video, it was worth the wait! Sit back and relish in almost 15 minutes worth of footage from Robert Longbottom's new production of the well-loved musical, including clips of newcomer Moya Angela's stirring "(And I Am Telling ...

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