Wit starring Cynthia Nixon opens on Broadway
Theater news for the week of January 21-January 27
Each week, we’re going to keep you up-to-speed with the latest Broadway news and stories. Check back every Friday to see what you missed this week and to catch a glimpse of what’s going on at PlayhouseSquare this weekend. Enjoy!
Happening on Broadway …
Becoming Chaplin to open on Broadway
Becoming Chaplin, a new musical depicting the life of Charlie Chaplin, is set to open on Broadway during the 2012 – 2013 season. Directed and choreographed by Warren Carlye (Finian’s Rainbow), Becoming Chaplin showcases music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and a book by both Curtis and Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan (The Producers). No casting has been announced at this time.
Margaret Edson’s Wit opens on Broadway
Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, starring Tony and Emmy-winning actress Cynthia Nixon (best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City) opened this week at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club and directed by MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, Wit revolves around poetry professor Vivian Bearing as she undergoes experimental treatment for stage-four cancer.
Revival of A Streetcar Named Desire opens this spring
A planned revival of Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire will open at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway this spring. Although dates have not yet been announced, the revival will star Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Wood Harris and Daphne Rubin-Vega. The revival is being produced by Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones of Front Row Productions, which presented the 2008 Broadway revival of William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Upcoming Events at PlayhouseSquare
Flanagan’s Wake –presented by the Frankie Kong Players
Ten Chimneys –presented by Cleveland Play House
HAIR –part of the KeyBank Broadway Series
Slam U Writing Workshop
Joshua Seth’s Beyond Belief
Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak – presented by Dance Cleveland
Why She Had to Dance Learning Distance Program
In Arabia We’d All Be Kings – Cleveland Play House
Kathleen Madigan- Gone Madigan
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