Harvey, Starring Jim Parsons, Begins Performances on Broadway


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I cannot for the life of me get an LJ-cut to work without deleting half of the text for some reason. Apologies.Will London (By Way of Cyberspace) Be New Route for ‘Pippin’ To Broadway?
By PATRICK HEALY

A circus-like revival of the popular 1970s musical “Pippin,” which director Diane Paulus was aiming for Broadway in the 2012-13 season, is in limbo ( Read more... )

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Gone is the two-tone scarf, the crewneck sweater, the eyeglasses: the signature costume for Mark Cohen, a lead character in the musical “Rent.” During the show’s 12 years on Broadway that character’s look was so familiar it inspired many Halloween costumes in New York. Now, in the new Off Broadway revival of “Rent,” Mark’s stylings are a cap atop ( Read more... )

By PATRICK HEALY

The names Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal, and Daphne Rubin-Vega didn’t mean much in the theater world until they became stars in the 1996 musical “Rent,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning hit Off Broadway that quickly transferred to Broadway and won the Tony Award for best ( Read more... )

Can’t Keep a Good Hippie Down: ‘Hair’ Returning to Broadway

By PATRICK HEALY

The national tour of the 2009 Tony Award-winning production of “Hair” has added an unusual stop to its schedule: Broadway.

The Public Theater announced on Wednesday that “Hair” would return on July 5, little more than a year after it closed on Broadway, for a nearly 10-week ( Read more... )

 Rehearse Me a Little, Wherever You Are


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Jon Cryer and Christina Hendricks Join Philharmonic’s ‘Company’
By DAVE ITZKOFF


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‘Funny Girl’ Revival Is Headed for Los Angeles
By ERIK PIEPENBURG

If Lea Michele should star in the forthcoming production of “Funny Girl” - and that’s still a very big if - she might be able to commute from her day job on the Fox TV series “Glee,” at least for a while. That’s because the revival of the 1964 musical will make its debut at the ( Read more... )

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Proving that it is possible for the star of a CBS comedy to take a break from his series without mortifying the network or his co-stars or burning all of his bridges in the entertainment industry, Jim Parsons, the “Big Bang Theory” star, will join the cast of the coming Broadway production of “The Normal Heart,” the play’s press ( Read more... )