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Goodman Theatre has extended the run of the world-premiere production of Chinglish, the Broadway-bound new comedy by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang. The run in Chicago now ends July 31 instead of July 24.

"Little Shop of Horrors" runs from July 16th—August 7th. Based on the 1960 cult movie by Roger Corman with Jack Nicholson, "Little Shop" opened Off-Broadway and played 2,000 performances to become the highest-grossing and third longest-running musical in Off-Broadway history.Annapolis, MD (PRWEB) July 06, 2011 Infinity …

The limited run of Manhattan Theatre Club's new production of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play Master Class will get an extra week, now to Aug. 21 at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Jenn Thompson, the New York City-based director whose 2008 staging of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale was embraced by critics when it got a popular staging by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, was named co-artistic director of the Off-Broadway company. She succeeds Simon Jones, who is stepping down after 12 years.

Classic Stage Company's acclaimed production of Unnatural Act, the play about a Harvard tribunal aimed at rooting out gay students in the Jazz Age, has been extended one week to July 17.

Some performances are inevitable. The actor is such a big star, and so perfectly suited to a classic role, that it's only a matter of time before the marriage of that thespian and that part happens and a production is born. Christopher Plummer does King Lear? But of course he does! Patti LuPone plays Mama Rose? What would …

Bernadette Peters and the rest of the stars of the Kennedy Center production of "Follies" will be moving north to Broadway.

NPR’s Robert Krulwich wrote a fun blog post yesterday. It was about Jack Gasnick, a hardware store owner in Manhattan who in 1955 supposedly found fish flopping around his New York City store’s basement after it had been flooded by Hurricane Diane. Gasnick claimed the water came from a stream that ran under his building, …

Kim Cattrall will soon be sipping cocktails on a Broadway stage.

Kelly Bishop, the original Tony Award-winning Sheila of A Chorus Line, will step into the fur of wealthy matron Evangeline Harcourt in the Tony Award-winning production of Anything Goes, succeeding Jessica Walter, who exits July 31. Bishop begins at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Aug. 9.

It'll be Christmas in July at Ars Nova in Manhattan on July 25 when Naughty/Nice, a new musical comedy boasting darkly funny misfit-kids' letters to Santa Claus, gets a concert staging to benefit ASTEP/Artists Striving to End Poverty.

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer will return to the St. James Theatre, his American Idiot home, to stage his revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Harry Connick Jr. Previews begin Nov. 12 toward a Dec. 11 opening.

Broadway's Music Box Theatre is where Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross will snipe, argue and romance each other in Noël Coward's balcony-set comedy Private Lives, directed by Richard Eyre for a run that begins Nov. 6. Complete casting was also announced June 29.

Dolly Parton's new album "Better Days" has a hint of Broadway on it. The singer-songwriter performs four songs from her Broadway musical 9 to 5 on the 12-track disc, which was released June 28.

Stage and screen star Brooke Shields, who was seen in the recent world premiere of the new musical Leap of Faith in Los Angeles, returns to Broadway June 28, slipping into the skin of Morticia in the musical comedy The Addams Family at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

Venus in Fur, David Ives' two-actor Off-Broadway comedy that introduced future Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda to audiences in 2010, will make the leap to Broadway this fall.

David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, the tale of an American businessman in China — currently getting a well-reviewed world-premiere production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago — will move to Broadway this fall.

The world premiere of the play All New People, penned by "Scrubs" star Zach Braff, begins previews Off-Broadway June 28 at Second Stage Theatre. Justin Bartha, David Wilson Barnes, Anna Camp and Krysten Ritter star.

David Henry Hwang's new play "Chinglish" about a clash of cultures is coming to the Crossroads of the World.

DETROIT (Billboard) - The Temptations have been many places during their 50-or-so years together. Now Broadway beckons.

Another member of the "Harry Potter" franchise is returning to Broadway. This time it's Alan Rickman.

Nina Arianda is taking a big step forward by taking one back.

We wouldn't recommend spending $75 million, getting investigated by the New York Board of Labor over unsafe working conditions and ousting your director late in production as the best strategy to find success on Broadway, but it certainly seems to have worked for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The oodles of worldwide publicity …