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A STEADY RAIN stars Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig dropped by to welcome her back to Manhattan! You can watch them surprise her right here on STAGE TUBE!

Magic Theatre, San Francisco's premiere home for new plays, kicks off its 2009-2010 Season with Goldfish and the world premiere of Mrs. Whitney - two plays by John Kolvenbach playing in rep this fall.

This past Sunday's matinee performance of A STEADY RAIN 'treated' the audience to a lesson of how to deal with a noisy ticket holder who forgot what respect and decorum means when attending a theatrical production. RIALTO CHATTER received a slew of messages about the incident, but we thought this fantastic recap by Roland Teco on his Extra Criticum blog summed it all up with style and wit. We bring you an excerpt of his essay right here on BWW

A STEADY RAIN stars Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig chatted with The New York Times about their new Broadway play.

Beginning Thursday, September 10, 2009, Student rush tickets for the strictly limited 12 week Broadway engagement of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in A STEADY RAIN will be available at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre box office with a valid student ID. Student rush tickets are only sold the day of the performance, when the box office opens, (10am Monday ? Saturday, 12pm Sunday) on a first come first served basis, and are $31.50 with a limit of two tickets per student/ID.

During a break from rehearsals, A STEADY RAIN stars Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig chatted with USA Today on a break from rehearsals. The pair talk about how they both joined the project, meeting each other previously at Hollywood parties and how they'd like to be remembered.

Producers Frederick Zollo, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Raymond L. Gaspard, Frank Gero, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Jeffrey Sine, Michael Rose and Robert Cole announced today that Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman will star together on Broadway in A STEADY RAIN, a critically acclaimed two-character play by Keith Huff. Directed by Tony Award nominee John Crowley, A STEADY RAIN begins previews on Thursday, September 10, 2009 and opens Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street) for a strictly limited 12 week engagement through Sunday, December 6, 2009.

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Daniel Craig has signed on to star in the Morgan Creek psychological thriller Dream House, it was announced today by James G. Robinson and Rick Nicita, co-chairmen of Morgan Creek Productions.

The website for the upcoming Broadway drama starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, A STEADY RAIN, is now live at www.asteadyrainonbroadway.com.

Entertainment Weekly reveals the first publicity photo of Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig in character for the Broadway play A STEADY RAIN. Jackman and Craig play Chicago cops who are lifelong friends who must offer their differing accounts of a few harrowing days that changed their lives forever.

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre box office (236 West 45th Street) opens Thursday, August 20, at 10am, for the strictly limited 12 week Broadway engagement of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in A STEADY RAIN.

Tony Winner Hugh Jackman is featured in the September issue of Vogue magazine. The article is titled 'Hugh Jackman, Broadway's Sexiest Star' and details his return to Broadway in A STEADY RAIN plus news of some of his future projects, including a tidbit about the star wanting to do a Shakespeare play with Trevor Nunn. The issue is on news stands now.

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre box office (236 West 45th Street) opens Thursday, August 20, at 10am, for the strictly limited 12 week Broadway engagement of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in A STEADY RAIN.

The world premiere of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, by Academy Award®- winning playwright Martin McDonagh will open on Broadway on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at a theatre to be announced (the date of the first preview will be announced soon). Directed by John Crowley (A Steady Rain), A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE will be McDonagh's first play to originate on Broadway.

According to the Atlantic Theater Company season announcement, Robert Fox will be producing Martin McDonagh's new play, A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, on Broadway this coming winter.

Hollywood favorites, and theatre's newest stars, Anne Hathaway and Daniel Craig have been included on Vanity Fair's 2009 International Best-Dressed List.

Variety reports that Twentieth Century Fox has signed Hugh Jackman to star as P.T. Barnum in a new musical 'The Greatest Showman on Earth' which will be a contemporary musical written by Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City).

Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, stars of the upcoming Broadway production of A STEADY RAIN, surprised many when they showed up unannounced at Chicago's Cook County courthouse yesterday. The megastars were in town to perform background research for their new Broadway play, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Dramatists has a special block of orchestra tickets on reserve to A STEADY RAIN, the hottest upcoming Broadway show starring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman and directed by Tony-Award nominee John Crowley. With stars of this caliber, tickets are in high demand, but Chicago Dramatists will be hosting a benefit performance on November 14th. A STEADY RAIN, the smash hit production by Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright, Keith Huff, thrilled audiences during its two critically and publicly acclaimed runs in Chicago and will open in New York City this September.