Issue #199: September 15, 2007

Read the Toronto Star article on Camp Broadway!!
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• S. Epatha Merkerson, familiar to those Law and Order fans as the Lieutenant, returns to her role in the revival of Come Back, Little Sheba opening at the Biltmore on January 24.

• Michael Cerveris will star in the Lincoln Center’s revival of Cymbeline beginning November 1.

• Chazz Palminteri will stage his one-man show A Bronx Tale beginning October 4. Theatre information will be forth coming.

• David Mamet will be represented in the New Year when Laurie Metcalf stars in November at the Ethel Barrymore Theater beginning January 17.

• Kevin Kline returns to Broadway when he stars in the revival Cyrano de Bergerac at the Richard Rodgers Theater on November 1.

• F. Murray Abraham will be starring in two one-acts by legendary playwright Edward Albee at the Cherry Lane Theater opening on March 4.

• Stage and screen actor Brian Dennehy will be heading north next season to tread the boards at Stratford, Ontario in a double bill, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie. He will also star as the King in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well. Dennehy is no stranger to Broadway in 1999 he won the Tony for his performance in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and then four years later in O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

• After receiving good reviews, the producers of Xanadu have booked their first tour date….the Curran Theater in San Francisco beginning August 2008. They are also looking at a London date in 2009.

• Broadway heavy weights are throwing their support behind Democratic leader hopeful Barack Obama when the New Amsterdam Theatre hosts a one-night fund-raising event on September 24. A star-studded cast will take to the stage with the backing of Broadway producers Margo Lion, Roger Berlind, Rocco Landesman, Scott Sanders and Tom Schumacher.