Playbill: Oscar Nominee Hathaway to Star in Shakespeare in the Park's Twelfth Night

Oscar Nominee Hathaway to Star in Shakespeare in the Park's Twelfth Night

By Adam Hetrick
February 12, 2009

Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway will star as Viola in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night this summer.

Daniel Sullivan will direct Twelfth Night, which will kick off the summer of free theatre at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Sullivan previously staged A Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare in the Park in 2007. Twelfth Night will run June 9-July 12.

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Playbill: Producers Say Minsky's Will Bump and Grind on Broadway in 2009-10

Producers Say Minsky's Will Bump and Grind on Broadway in 2009-10

By Kenneth Jones
February 12, 2009

Producers Kevin McCollum and Bob Boyett plan to bring Minsky's — the new Charles Strouse musical now playing in Los Angeles — to Broadway, McCollum told the Associated Press.

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Playbill: Breaker, Butz, Esparza, Leavel, O'Hara, Ripley and More Set for MCC's Miscast Benefit

Breaker, Butz, Esparza, Leavel, O'Hara, Ripley and More Set for MCC's Miscast Benefit

By Ernio Hernandez
February 12, 2009

Daniel Breaker, Norbert Leo Butz, Raul Esparza, Beth Leavel, Kelli O'Hara, Steven Pasquale, Alice Ripley and Aaron Tveit will appear in MCC Theatre's annual benefit, Miscast 2009, March 9.

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Playbill: Davie Replaces South Pacific-Bound Osnes in White Plains' Night Music

Interesting to see both "Nikki"'s from Curtains play the role of Anne Egerman (Davie having replaced Paice when Paice went to the UK to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.

Davie Replaces South Pacific-Bound Osnes in White Plains' Night Music

By Andrew Gans
February 12, 2009

Erin Davie, who has been seen on Broadway in Curtains and Grey Gardens, has replaced the previously announced Laura Osnes (Grease) in the White Plains Performing Arts Center's upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music.

Davie will now play the role of Anne. Osnes is departing the production to succeed Kelli O'Hara as Nellie Forbush in the Broadway revival of South Pacific.

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