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November 9th, 2007 by Myra

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Victory Gardens' 2010 Ignition Festival Gives Voice to Six New Plays Aug. 18-22

Ignition, the new-play reading festival of the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, sheds light on six new works this summer, starting Aug. 18. The plays are directed by leading artists from Chicago and around the country.

Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 18

1873 Birthday of Otto Harbach (1873-1963) who will write lyrics and/or book for more than three dozen musicals including Roberta; No, No, Nanette; The Cat and the Fiddle; Rose-Marie and The Desert Song from 1908 to the 1930s.

"Unexpected Song": Lauren Kennedy Stars in Tell Me On a Sunday Starting Aug. 18

Lauren Kennedy, most recently seen Off-Broadway in the new musical Vanities, plays an English woman looking for love in America in the Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy series production of Tell Me On a Sunday.

Together This Time, With Hedwig's Whitton and West Side Story's Shaw, Begins Aug. 18

Together This Time, a new rock musical, begins performances at the Lucille Lortel Theatre Aug. 18 at 9:30 PM.

Charles Shaughnessy and Rachel York Star in Ogunquit Spamalot Starting Aug. 18

The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Monty Python's Spamalot plays Aug. 18-Sept. 11 at the Maine venue.

THE LEADING MEN: Opposite His Real-Life Wife, Jason Danieley Is Next to Normal's New Husband

Jason Danieley, of Broadway's The Full Monty, talks about playing the harried father struggling to keep his family off the brink off chaos in Next to Normal.

Broadway's Tony-Winning South Pacific Revival Airs on PBS Aug. 18
The Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's WWII musical South Pacific, starring Tony winner Paulo Szot and Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara, is broadcast live Aug. 18 on PBS' "Live from Lincoln Center" series.
Dana Ivey to Read Suddenly, Last Summer in Provincetown
Tony Award-nominated actress Dana Ivey will star as Mrs. Venable in a one-night-only reading of Suddenly, Last Summer at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in September.
Passing Strange, a DC Hit, Gets Final Extension to Aug. 29

The intimate new Studio Theatre production of the coming-of-age musical Passing Strange, in Washington, DC, has been extended for a second time, now to Aug. 29.

LAST CHANCE: What's Closing This Week

Here's Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway, Off-Broadway and world-premiere productions before they take a final bow.

Lyric Stage's My Fair Lady to Feature 38-Piece Orchestra; Casting Announced

Edwardian England will come to Dallas with the Lyric Stage production of My Fair Lady, which will run Sept. 10-19 in the Irving Arts Center's Carpenter Performance Hall in Irving, TX.

Casting Complete for Old Globe Double Bill of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound

The Old Globe in San Diego has announced complete casting for its in-repertory productions of the related Neil Simon plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, to star the previously announced Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba as matriarch Kate.

Albee, Bock, Greenspan, Million Dollar Quartet Cast to Appear at 92Y Tribeca in September

92Y Tribeca will offer a panel of playwrights and a musical performance evoking rock-n-roll legends in September.

Joe Iconis to Perform Free Concert with Williams, Morse, Lawson, Weiss, Dederiksen

Drama Desk nominee Joe Iconis will perform a free concert in the green room of the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport, Long Island, following the theatre's Aug. 20 performance of Damn Yankees.

Baldwin and Cleale Will Vow I Do! I Do! A Bit Longer at Westport

The Westport Country Playhouse production of I Do! I Do!, starring Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and Drama Desk nominee Lewis Cleale, has added an additional three performances.

MARQUEE VALUE: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Belasco

Production: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, directed by Bartlett Sher with choreography by Christopher Gattelli, book by Jeffrey Lane, music and lyrics by David Yazbek, starring Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Sherie Rene Scott, Laura Benanti, de'Adre Aziza, Mary Beth Peil and Nikka Graff Lanzarone.

MARQUEE VALUE: Driving Miss Daisy at the Golden

Production: Driving Miss Daisy, directed by David Esbjornson, written by Alfred Uhry, starring James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave and Boyd Gaines.

Marathon Theatrical Event Gatz Extends Public Theater Run

The New York debut of Elevator Repair Service's Gatz, a six-and-a-half-hour theatrical reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel "The Great Gatsby," has extended its run at the Public Theater an additional two weeks Off-Broadway. Performances will begin in late September.

PHOTO CALL: Power Balladz Off-Broadway

Power Balladz, the 90-minute tribute to the rock anthems of the '70s, '80s and '90s, began previews on Aug. 5 and will open on Aug. 19.

Wicked's Gaelen Gilliland Will Be Part of Cast of Fire Island Merrily We Roll Along

Gaelen Gilliland, who has appeared on Broadway in 9 to 5, Legally Blonde and Wicked, will play Gussie in the Fire Island Pines Arts Project's upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.

Casting Announced for Falsettos in Washington, DC

Jeffrey Johnson, Michael Sazanov and Lisa Carrier Baker will star in the Ganymede Arts production of William Finn and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos.

PHOTO CALL: Anthony Rapp, Krysta Rodriguez and Jason Tam Rock Out at the Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree

Broadway stars Anthony Rapp, Krysta Rodriguez and Jason Tam joined songwriter Joe Iconis for his Rock and Roll Jamboree at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Aug. 16.

Memphis' Iglehart, Bass, Morton, Parker to Sing for Broadway Impact at Joe's Pub

Cast members from the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis will perform a concert to benefit the marriage-equality grassroots organization Broadway Impact Aug. 23 at 7 PM at Joe's Pub.

Off-Broadway's Trust Exercises

Zach Braff, Sutton Foster, Bobby Cannavale and Ari Graynor sat down for lunch with Playbill in between recent rehearsals for the dark comedy Trust.

Hugh Panaro and Sara Jean Ford Will Sing Phantom's High Notes Starting in September

Hugh Panaro will once again don the mask of The Phantom of the Opera at Broadway's Majestic Theatre, playing opposite the touring "Christine" Sara Jean Ford. They will begin performances Sept. 7.

Dana Acheson, Kelly McCreary and Clayton Apgar Set for Perfect Harmony Off-Broadway

Perfect Harmony, a play with music about competing high school a cappella groups, will debut at the Stoneham Theatre in Massachusetts prior to its Off-Broadway return this fall.

Sh-K-Boom Records to Release "Clear Blue Tuesday" Soundtrack Featuring Schonfeld, Ayers

On Aug. 24 Sh-K-Boom Records will release the soundtrack for "Clear Blue Tuesday," the new movie musical that opens Sept. 3 at Quad Cinemas in Manhattan.

Max von Essen, Jill Paice, Christiane Noll, John Barrowman Sing on Lloyd Webber Love Song CD

A host of New York and London theatre stars are featured on a new recording that spotlights the love songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

James Barbour, One Man Star Wars, Lypsinka and More Are "Extras" in Asolo Rep Season
Asolo Rep in Sarasota, FL, will welcome The Second City, James Barbour, John Epperson as Lypsinka and more as part of its special-events programming in 2010-11.
Palm Beach DramaWorks to Feature Plays By Shaw, St. Germain, Margulies and McDonagh in 2010-2011

Palm Beach DramaWorks, which is dedicated to producing "provocative and timeless productions that personally impact each individual," has assembled a varied program for its 2010-2011 season.

Beehive to Feature Misty Cotton, Stacy Francis, Kelly Provart and More

Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities will present the 1960's girl group musical Beehive Sept. 15-Oct. 3 at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.

Everyday Rapture's Lindsay Mendez and Marco Paguia to Play Joe's Pub

Everyday Rapture's Lindsay Mendez and Marco Paguia, who met while working on that aforementioned Broadway production, will join forces for an upcoming concert at Joe's Pub.

Tony Winner Lea Salonga to Sing National Anthem on FOX

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga, who played the Cafe Carlyle in March, will be in San Diego to sing The National Anthem during the upcoming San Diego Padres baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Brooklyn Theatre Company to Reopen with Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House

Playbill.com has learned that the Charlie Pineapple Theatre Company in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will reopen after a four-year hiatus in October.

Schedule of Upcoming Broadway Shows

This list is updated periodically.
PHOTO CALL: Darius de Haas, Kerry O'Malley and More Perform William Finn's Elegies

A concert of William Finn's Elegies: A Song Cycle was presented Aug. 16 at The LGBT Center in Manhattan.

Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 17

1871 Playwright Jesse Lynch Williams is born today. During the 1917-1918 theatre season, Williams' play, Why Marry?, will win the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Shoshana Bean Makes London Concert Debut Aug. 17

West End stars Dianne Pilkington (Wicked, The 39 Steps), Oliver Tompsett (Wicked) and Daniel Boys (Avenue Q) and Broadway's Michael Arden (London's Aspects of Love) and Gavin Creel (London's Hair, Mary Poppins) are Shoshana Bean's guest stars when she makes her London concert debut Aug. 17 at the Ambassador's Theatre.

Reading of "Wonder Drug," with David Alan Basche, Alysia Reiner, Jessica Blank, Presented Aug. 17

A staged reading of selects scenes from Caitlin McCarthy's film "Wonder Drug" will be presented Aug. 17 at Manhattan Theatre Club.

"Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin" CD, Featuring Former Beach Boy, in Stores Aug. 17

Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, sings the classics of Broadway and Hollywood composer George Gershwin on the new recording, "Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin," on the Disney Pearl label. It's in stores and available through online retailers starting Aug. 17. A special vinyl edition will be released Aug. 24.

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