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Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater

Patrick Healy, Kate Taylor The New York Times 06/24/2011
"The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" to debut off-Broadway

A one man play based on Steve Jobs' life and his impact on humanity is set to debut off-Broadway. "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," written, produced and starring Mike Daisey, will premiere on Oct. 17, 2011 at The Public Theater in New York, with previews starting next week.

Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater

Leaders of the Theater for a New Audience, one of New York’s premier Shakespearean troupes, reached a milestone on Friday in their decades-long dream for a home as they held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $47.5 million theater. The project represents an unusually large financial commitment by the city to move an arts organization — in this case, a critically acclaimed theater company from Manhattan — into Brooklyn.

Folk opera based on Bill Clinton to open in New York

Suzi Parker Reuters Canada 06/17/2011
Folk opera based on Bill Clinton to open in New York

An Americana folk opera based on a teenage Bill Clinton debuts this weekend in New York, featuring some of the exaggerated Southern characters who surrounded him growing up, such as his fun-loving mother.

Musical based on Stephen King’s novel ‘Carrie’ to return from the dead next year in New York

The story of “Carrie,” that weird high school girl who exacts revenge on bullies with her telekinetic powers, is coming back to a New York stage.

New York Times Critic Casts Lady Gaga on Broadway

Stephen M. Silverman People 05/30/2011

Woody Allen to Return to Broadway this fall

The Wall Street Journal 05/17/2011
New York Times Critic Casts Lady Gaga on Broadway

Witness the casting suggestions by Ben Brantley, the chief drama critic of The New York Times – who, in his imagination at least, is offering some plum roles to stars whose reputations could use a little polishing. Lady Gaga as Auntie Mame, anyone?

Woody Allen to Return to Broadway this fall

Three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May are being bundled together and heading to Broadway this fall.

David Hyde Pierce to return to New York stage

David Hyde Pierce will return to the New York stage in December as an obsessive book editor.

Samuel L. Jackson to debut on Broadway -- as Martin Luther King

Samuel L. Jackson will make his Broadway debut as Dr. Martin Luther King in the Broadway production of Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop."

Another Injury Rocks 'Spider-Man'

MARK KENNEDY My FOX NY 03/22/2011
Former New York City madam Xaviera Hollander to create musical adaptation of 'Happy Hooker' memoir

"The Happy Hooker" is looking for clients on Broadway! A musical adaptation of Xaviera Hollander's best-selling 1971 memoir is in the works, according to Yvonne Dunleavy, one of Hollander's co-authors and ex-wife of tabloid legend Steve Dunleavy.

Another Injury Rocks 'Spider-Man'

Is this the curse of the Spider-Woman? T.V. Carpio stepped in to replace another actress injured in Broadway's troubled "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." She has now herself been sidelined after an accident.


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