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By: May. 25, 2018
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1) Brief 5/25: HAIR LIVE!, First Look at SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, and More! Image Carolee Carmello, Kara Lindsay, Ken Page and More Announced For 2018 Broadway At Music Circus Season in Sacramento
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After auditioning performers in New York City, Los Angeles and Sacramento, Broadway Sacramento has confirmed casting for the six shows in the 68th Broadway At Music Circus season. The casts include a number of Broadway veterans-some of whom are making their Broadway At Music Circus debuts-and audience favorites from previous Broadway At Music Circus productions.. (more...)

2) Brief 5/25: HAIR LIVE!, First Look at SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, and More! Image DAISY PULLS IT OFF Returns to the West End
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2018

Fresh from a sell-out run at the Ivy Theatre, the first graduating year of Guildford School of Acting's BA Actor-Musician programme are to bring their unique production of Daisy Pulls it Off, full of quirky characters, splendid scrapes and fabulous friends, to delight West End audiences.. (more...)

3) Brief 5/25: HAIR LIVE!, First Look at SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, and More! Image John Cariani, Donna Lynne Champlin, Jessica Fontanta, & Santino Fontana Lead Transport Group's PROMISES, PROMISES
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2018

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4) Brief 5/25: HAIR LIVE!, First Look at SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, and More! Image Alex Newell to Host Stars in the Alley; Taylor Louderman, Melissa Benoist, and More to Perform!
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2018

The Broadway League is proud to announce that Alex Newell, currently starring as Asaka in Once On This Island, will host this year's STARS IN THE ALLEY free outdoor concert.. (more...)

5) Brief 5/25: HAIR LIVE!, First Look at SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, and More! Image Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Idina Menzel and the Cast of SKINTIGHT
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2018

Idina Menzel will soon star as 'Jodi Isaac' in Roundabout Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Skintight by Joshua Harmon. The company is currently hard at work in rehearsal, check out the photos below!. (more...)

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What we're watching: First look at Ogunquit's Off-Broadway bound SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE!

And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Sir Ian McKellen, who turns 79 today!

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Multi award-winning Ian McKellen has had a 55 year long career on stage and on screen. For the Royal Shakespeare Company he has played Romeo, Macbeth, Iago and King Lear and at the National Theatre, has appeared in productions of Coriolanus, Richard III, Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. He gained his first Oscar nomination for Gods and Monsters and his second for Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He is Magneto to Patrick Stewart's Xavier in the X-Men movies, Richard III and most recently Mr Holmes. He is currently starring in King Lear in Chichester and was last seen on stage in London with Patrick Stewart in No Man's Land.

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