Rush Hour News Brief — March 24 | Playbill

News Rush Hour News Brief — March 24

By Robert Viagas

Mar 24, 2016

The top news of the day in five minutes or less.

Carmen Cusack and Paul Alexander Nolan in <i>Bright Star</i> — Carmen Cusack and Paul Alexander Nolan in Bright Star Nick Stokes

Here are the top theatre news stories that broke this afternoon and are ready to break this evening. To read more, just click the link.

Comedian and playwright Steve Martin makes his debut as Broadway songwriter as his musical with Edie Brickell, Bright Star, opens tonight.

Shuffle Along canceled its fourth Broadway preview this week; producers say star Audra McDonald will be back Friday.

After news of rapper Phife Dawg's death, Lin-Manuel Miranda worked quotes from his songs into the March 23 performances of Hamilton.

The classic Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur newspaper drama, The Front Page, is headed back to Broadway.

John Legend has announced that he is producing Turn Me Loose, an Off-Broadway biography of 1970s comedian and social activist Dick Gregory.

Chicago's Marriott Theatre responded to a community outcry over a production of Evita with hardly any actual Latino actors in the cast.

The full cast was announced for Kristin Chenoweth's world premiere of I Am Anne Hutchinson, a new theatre piece by the composer of Big Fish and The Addams Family.

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