Bonnie & Clyde, with music by Tony Award nominee Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Tony winner Don Black and a book by Ivan Menchell, will play the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre beginning Nov. 4.
Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan play the notorious outlaw couple.
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A Cover Story: Bonnie & Clyde
Friday, October 28th, 2011A Cover Story: Seminar
Thursday, October 27th, 2011Seminar, Theresa Rebeck’s new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially damaging teacher, played by Alan Rickman — an actor often on the brink of a sneer — begins Broadway performances Oct. 27 at the Golden Theatre.
In Seminar, according to the producers, “four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, sex is used as a weapon and hearts are unmoored. The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this provocative new comedy.”
The cast also features Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Jerry O’Connell and Hettienne Park.
A Cover Story: Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Thursday, October 20th, 2011Hugh Jackman, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway debut in The Boy from Oz, will return to The Great White Way in his solo show, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway. Performances begin Oct. 25 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
In Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, the stage and screen star performs a personal selection of his favorite musical numbers that reflect on his life and career.
Warren Carlyle directs and choreographs, with musical direction by Patrick Vaccariello.
A Cover Story: Venus in Fur
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Venus in Fur, David Ives’ two-character play about the relationship between a hungry actress and a controlling writer-director, made its Broadway premiere Oct. 13 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Emmy Award nominee Hugh Dancy plays Thomas, a demanding theatre artist who has written a play based on the erotic novel “Venus in Fur.” Vanda (Tony Award nominess Nina Arianda) is a gifted actress who wants the lead role. Her audition is billed as “an electrifying game of cat and mouse blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex.”
Walter Bobbie directs.
A Cover Story: Chinglish
Saturday, October 15th, 2011Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang’s comedy Chinglish began performances at the Longacre Theatre Oct. 11.
According to the producers, “Chinglish is the new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication. It is the story of an American businessman desperate to launch a new enterprise in China. There are only three things standing in his way: He can’t speak the language. He can’t learn the customs. And he’s falling in love with the one woman he absolutely can’t have.”
The cast features Gary Wilmes, Jennifer Lim, Stanley Pucci, Larry Lei Zhang, Christine Lin, Angela Lin and Johnny Wu.
A Cover Story: Godspell
Friday, September 30th, 2011A new revival of Godspell begins performances at Circle in the Square Theatre Oct. 13.
Conceived and originally directed by John-Michael Tebelak with music and lyrics by Academy and Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin), Godspell — a hip musical re-telling of the New Testament’s Gospel of Matthew — made its New York City premiere in May 1971.
Director Daniel Goldstein’s cast includes Hunter Parrish as Jesus, Wallace Smith as Judas, Uzo Aduba, Nick Blaemire, Celisse Henderson, Morgan James, Telly Leung, Lindsay Mendez, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle and George Salazar.
A Cover Story: Other Desert Cities
Monday, September 19th, 2011Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities will begin previews at the Booth Theatre Oct. 12.
The work centers on a shamed Republican family who buries a crime committed by their eldest son, only to have their daughter return home with news of an explosive memoir.
Director Joe Mantello’s cast features Stacy Keach, Stockard Channing, Judith Light, Rachel Griffiths and Thomas Sadoksi.
A Cover Story: The Mountaintop
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011Samuel L. Jackson portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in The Mountaintop, which begins performances Sept. 22 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
Taking place on April 3, 1968, The Mountaintop, press notes state, is a “gripping reimagining of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After delivering his legendary ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious young woman delivers room service, King is forced to confront his past, as well as his legacy to his people.”
Kenny Leon directs a cast that also features Angela Bassett.
A Cover Story: Relatively Speaking
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011Relatively Speaking — three one-act comedies by the writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen — begins performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre Sept. 20.
Directed by John Turturro, the cast comprises Caroline Aaron, Bill Army, Lisa Emery, Ari Graynor, Steve Guttenberg, Danny Hoch, Julie Kavner, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud, Marlo Thomas, Katherine Borowitz, Jason Kravits, Richard Libertini, Mark Linn-Baker and Patricia O’Connell.
A Cover Story: Man and Boy
Thursday, August 18th, 2011The Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Terence Rattigan’s Man and Boy begins performances at the American Airlines Theatre Sept. 9.
Here’s how Roundabout bills the 1963 play: “At the height of the Great Depression, ruthless financier Gregor Antonescu’s (Langella) business is dangerously close to crumbling. In order to escape the wolves at his door, Gregor tracks down his estranged son Basil in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village apartment as a base to make a company-saving deal. Can this reunion help them reconcile? Or will this corrupt father use his only son as a pawn in one last power play? Man and Boy is a gripping story about family, success and what we’re willing to sacrifice for both.”
Maria Aitken (The 39 Steps) directs a cast that includes Oscar nominee and three-time Tony winner Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon, Fortune’s Fool, Seascape) as Gregor Antonescu, with Adam Driver as Basil Anthony, Francesca Faridany as Countess Antonescu, Zach Grenier as Mark Herries, Brian Hutchison as David Beeston, Virginia Kull as Carol Penn and Michael Siberry as Sven Johnson.
