Playbill - Eleanore Reznikoff, a theatre producer who later became a film marketing and advertising executive, died Aug. 9 in Los Angeles, Variety reported. She was 57.
Playbill - Tony Award winner and Stratford Festival veteran Christopher Plummer has returned to his old Ontario stomping ground to play Julius Caesar - Shaw's Caesar, not Shakespeare's.
Playbill - Muddy River Opera Company, the jewelbox troupe that performs operas and musicals in Quincy, IL, has found a Mr. Lincoln for its 2009 world premiere production of Abe, a musical celebrating the early life of Abraham Lincoln.
Playbill - Joanna McClelland Glass' Palmer Park, a look at post-riots Detroit, when "white flight" was rampant, opens Aug. 16 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.
Playbill - Morris Panych's new stage production of Moby Dick, adapted from the novel by Herman Melville, opens Aug. 17 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's intimate Studio Theatre following previews from July 22.
Playbill - The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario announced its 2009 season on Aug. 18, revealing a playbill reflecting the festival's passion for the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, plus classical and contemporary repertoire, and works by living Canadian writers.
Playbill - Naomi Jacobson, Sarah Marshall, Meghan Grady, Eli James, Amy McWilliams and Emily Townley are featured in the world premiere of Jason Grote's Maria/Stuart, an eccentric tale of strong women, opening the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's new season Aug. 18.
Playbill - Broadway, film, television and Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey veteran Laila Robins, who'll slip into the skin of faded belle Blanche du Bois in the troupe's A Streetcar Named Desire, will be joined by a fellow veteran of the company, Gregory Derelian, as brutish Stanley Kowalski.
Playbill - Peter Bartlett, the effete and dryly comic actor of Off-Broadway's The New Century and Broadway's The Drowsy Chaperone, will star opposite David Pittu in Pittu's comedy with music, What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, a portrait of a musical theatre artist you've never heard of, for Atlantic Theater Company.
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