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Irwin and Turner 5-City WOOLF? Tour Begins Tonight

by BWW News Desk — January 4, 2007

The eagerly anticipated national tour of Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? -- starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin -- begins performances tonight, Thursday, Jan.

Doubt Tour, with Jones, Plays Chicago in January

by BWW News Desk — November 30, 2006

Tony Award -winning Best Actress Cherry Jones stars in the National Touring production of the Tony Award - and Pulitzer Prize-winning play DOUBT, a 'superb new drama' (The New York Times) by John Patrick Shanley.

LaChanze and Norman Set for 11/29 'Purple' Event

by BWW News Desk — November 27, 2006

On Wednesday, November 29th, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple bookwriter Marsha Norman will join Broadway star LaChanze, who will reprise her Tony Award-winning role as Celie in a free event to promote the new book The Color Purple: A Memory Book of the Broadway Musical.

'Purple' Opens Calls for Bway and Tour Held Nov. 28

by BWW News Desk — November 27, 2006

On Tuesday, November 28th, the producers of the hit musical The Color Purple will hold an open casting call for current roles and future replacements for both Broadway and the upcoming national tour, kicking off at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in April, 2007

Murphy, Baranski, Bosco, Etc. Join Encores! Follies

by BWW News Desk — November 20, 2006

More stars have signed on to the eagerly awaited Encores! staged concert of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman classic Follies, presented from February 8th through 11th, 2007 at City Center

The Color Purple Celebrates 1st Year on Broadway, 11/1

by BWW News Desk — November 1, 2006

The smash hit musical, The Color Purple, nominated for eleven 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the recipient of a Best Actress Tony Award, for LaChanze (as Celie), celebrates its first year anniversary on Broadway

Losing Louie to Close Two Weeks Early on 11/26

by BWW News Desk — October 24, 2006

Simon Mendes da Costa's Losing Louie, presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club in its American premiere production, will close two weeks earlier than originally announced

Losing Louie: Stiff Competition

by Michael Dale — October 24, 2006

A precocious young girl once said that nothing can ruin a show like too much exposition, and Act I of Simon Mendes da Costa's comedy/drama is loaded with the stuff

Heartbreak House: Whatever Happened To Class?

by Michael Dale — October 23, 2006

If it's possible to find yourself enjoying a play while simultaneously feeling rather under whelmed by the whole thing, then The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of George Bernard Shaw's dark comedy is perhaps the best example of sorry/grateful to be found on Broadway these days.


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