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Public Theater Names New Executive Director
In his last post at the Atlantic Theater Company, Andrew D. Hamingson ushered ?Spring Awakening? to Broadway.
New York Times - August 7 - 2008

Theater Review | 'Suspicious Package': The Price of Admission Includes a Starring Role
Scavenger hunts, cinema, the game of Clue, video and Microsoft?s Zune media player converge in ?Suspicious Package,? a distinctly 21st-century form of participatory theater.
New York Times - August 7 - 2008

Theater Review | 'Twelve Ophelias': Get Thee to a Pool, Girlfriend
?Twelve Ophelias,? a free summer show outdoors at the McCarren Park Pool, is too fragmentary to be much more than a curiosity.
New York Times - August 7 - 2008

Arts, Briefly: First Shakespeare Theater Discovered
Archaeologists in London have unearthed the remains of what is believed to be one of the earliest playhouses in the city and the first to present a Shakespeare play.
New York Times - August 7 - 2008

Arts, Briefly: ?Osage County? Will Go to the Big Screen
The award-winning Broadway play ?August: Osage County? will become a movie, Playbill has reported.
New York Times - August 7 - 2008

'13' the Musical Is Now Also a Novel, With a Musical Surprise Imbedded
(Playbill)
Playbill - The Broadway-bound teen-driven musical 13, beginning previews Sept. 16 at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, is available in a different form - as a novel for kids - in bookstores now.
Yahoo - August 7 - 2008

Heisler, Moran and Hernandez to Conjure Antigone's Woe in 'Too Much Memory' at FringeNYC
(Playbill)
Playbill - Laura Heisler, Peter Jay Fernandez and Martin Moran are among cast members of Rising Phoenix Repertory's world premiere production of Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson's Too Much Memory, a theatrical collage borrowing elements of the ancient Greek story of Antigone, as part of the 11th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.
Yahoo - August 7 - 2008

A Family Milestone: 'August: Osage County' Will Play 300th Show
(Playbill)
Playbill - The Broadway run of Tracy Letts' Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-honored August: Osage County will hit 300 performances on Aug. 13.
Yahoo - August 7 - 2008

Page, Plunkett, Morfogen, Matthews, Esper to Join Langella in Broadway's 'Man for All Seasons'
(Playbill)
Playbill - Patrick Page's King Henry VIII will face off against Frank Langella's Sir Thomas More, the man who lost his life standing his moral ground before the monarch, in Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of A Man for All Seasons.
Yahoo - August 7 - 2008

British Musical Comedy 'Half a Sixpence' Opens at Goodspeed
(Playbill)
Playbill - Half a Sixpence, the musical comedy about a London shop assistant tempted by money, opens in a rare revival at Goodspeed Opera House Aug. 6 in Connecticut.
Yahoo - August 7 - 2008

Balcony Scene Is Set for NJ 'Private Lives'
(Playbill)
Playbill - Scott Barrow, Caralyn Kozlowski, Robert Gomes and Charlotte Parry are the four newlyweds in the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's new production of Noel Coward's Private Lives, starting Aug. 6 toward an Aug. 9 opening.
Yahoo - August 7 - 2008

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