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The two-night scripted miniseries HOUDINI follows the epic tales of Harry Houdini as he emerges as America

RAGTIME 'Probable' to Headline Shaw Festival Next Year
by Kelsey Denette - August 01, 2011

RAGTIME had its world premiere in Toronto in 1996, and according to Toronto.com, the show 'in all probability' will make a return to the city as the Shaw Festival's headlining musical next year....


THE HOUDINI BOX Set for Skokie Run 3/14-25
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2012

Chicago Children's Theatre's new musical THE HOUDINI BOX, currently enjoying a run at Chicago's Mercury Theater through Mar 4, will transfer to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 N. Skokie Blvd. in Skokie, for a second suburban run, Mar. 14-25....


Landor's RAGTIME - THE MUSICAL Ends Run Tonight, 10/8
by BWW News Desk - October 08, 2011

Landor's RAGTIME - THE MUSICAL Ends Run Tonight, 10/8 ...


Park Square Theatre Presents RAGTIME 1/20-2/19
by Erik Smith - November 16, 2011

Journey back to turn-of-the-century America, where Scott Joplin's ragtime music fills the air with an infectious beat. Ragtime: the Musical, weaves a spellbinding story of three families whose lives collide against the backdrop of New York in 'the American Century'-a white family living the privileg...


Louisa Lydell And More Set For Landor's RAGTIME - THE MUSICAL Sep 1 - Oct 8
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 11, 2011

Casting is now complete for the Landor Theatre revival of Ragtime The Musical, which opens for a 6-week season from September 1 - October 8....


Ramin Karimloo's HOUDINI Musical Aiming for West End Run in 2012
by Nicole Rosky - November 01, 2011

According to Whatsonstage, theatre star Ramin Karimloo, who will soon star as Val Jean in the West End production of LES MISERABLES, will 'produce and lead 'Houdini, the Musical,' which is aiming for a West End run at the end of 2012....


Susan Mosakowski’s ESCAPE Begins 6/7 at La MaMa
by Kelsey Denette - April 24, 2012

Since its first production, The Seven Deadly Elements, premiered at La MaMa E.T.C. in 1977, the Soho-based Creation Production Company has worked to generate innovative forms of theatre....


The Opera House Players Present RAGTIME, Closes 5/22
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2011

The Opera House Players will present the musical RAGTIME from May 6 - 22, 2011 at the Broad Brook Opera House, 107 Main Street, Broad Brook, CT....


NYPL Celebrates Gyspy Rose Lee's Birthday, 1/8
by Nicole Rosky - January 06, 2011

On January 8, 2011, the world's most famous burlesque performer turns 100 years old. Join LIVE from the NYPL for a centennial celebration of the birth of Gypsy Rose Lee: novelist, playwright, New Yorker essayist, fashion icon, actress, activist, member of New York's literati, world-famous 'ecdysiast...


Ted Schneider, Susan Louise O’Connor, et al. to Lead La MaMa's ESCAPE
by Kelsey Denette - May 11, 2012

Since its first production, The Seven Deadly Elements, premiered at La MaMa E.T.C. in 1977, the Soho-based Creation Production Company has worked to generate innovative forms of theatre. ...


The House Theatre of Chicago Announces Death and Harry Houdini 1/29
by BWW News Desk - January 19, 2012

The House Theatre of Chicago continues its 10th anniversary season with an all-new re-imagining of the company's inaugural production and first ever hit, Death and Harry Houdini, opening on January 29, 2011 at The Chopin Theatre (1543 W. Division St.)....


DEATH AND HARRY HOUDINI Miami Premiere At The Arsht Center Opens Tonight!
by Beau Higgins - April 26, 2012

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly presents The House Theatre of Chicago's critically-acclaimed production of DEATH and HARRY HOUDINI. This play marks the second House Theatre of Chicago production presented at the Adrienne Arsht Center after last season's...


BWW Reviews: 'Extraordinary' Performances Highlight Street Theatre Company's RAGTIME IN CONCERT
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 17, 2011

More to the point, Ragtime in Concert at Street Theatre Company is not to be missed. It is an awe-inspiring night of theater, staged with confidence and a practiced eye for what works visually by Cathy Street and Jane Kelley (who also conducts the 30-some member ensemble) and featuring the always si...


Jewish Museum Offers Series For Homebound Seniors
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 24, 2011

For the country's millions of homebound seniors, innovative collaborations like the one between Selfhelp's Virtual Senior Center and The Jewish Museum may make staying at home a much more interesting proposition....


RAGTIME's London Revival Opens At Landor Theatre
by BWW News Desk - September 01, 2011

Ragtime the Musical is to get a major London revival in a 6-week season from September 1....


Park Square Theatre Presents RAGTIME 1/20-2/19
by BWW News Desk - January 26, 2012

Journey back to turn-of-the-century America, where Scott Joplin's ragtime music fills the air with an infectious beat. Ragtime: the Musical, weaves a spellbinding story of three families whose lives collide against the backdrop of New York in 'the American Century'-a white family living the privileg...


Chicago Children's Theatre's The Houdini Box Lands $20,000 NEA Grant
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 19, 2011

Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced yesterday that Chicago Children's Theatre has been recommended for a grant of $20,000 to support the company's highly anticipated world premiere adaptation of Brian Selznick's The Houdini Box....


Arsht Center Presents Tenth Anniversary Production Of NE 2ND AVENUE
by Beau Higgins - December 29, 2011

Directed by Michael Garces, NE 2ND AVENUE depicts the lives of eight distinct characters: a Puerto Rican small-time drug dealer, a deprived African-American young lady, a Haitian jitney driver, a Cuban-Jewish grandfather, a Rasta Man, an African-American adolescent trying to find his footing in life...


The House Theatre of Chicago Announces Upcoming Season, Including New Works
by Kelsey Denette - June 21, 2012

The House Theatre of Chicago announces its 11th Season creating 'Amazing Feats of Storytelling.'...


BWW Reviews: RAGTIME, Landor Theatre, September 6 2011
by Gary Naylor - September 07, 2011

Gary Naylor enjoys a small scale production of an epic musical....


NYPL Celebrates Gyspy Rose Lee's Birthday, 1/8
by BWW News Desk - January 08, 2011

On January 8, 2011, the world's most famous burlesque performer turns 100 years old. Join LIVE from the NYPL for a centennial celebration of the birth of Gypsy Rose Lee: novelist, playwright, New Yorker essayist, fashion icon, actress, activist, member of New York's literati, world-famous 'ecdysiast...


GOODNIGHT MOON Launches Chicago Children's Theater Season
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2011

A new musical version of Goodnight Moon like you've never seen before will launch the 2011-2012 season for Chicago Children's Theatre (CCT), Chicago's #1 presenter of top-quality professional children's theater....


Ramin Karimloo to Produce and Star in HOUDINI Musical?
by Nicole Rosky - September 29, 2011

According to Winnepeg Free Press, West End star Ramin Karimloo, who will soon be starring in the 25th Anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera, might be 'producing and starring in 'Houdini, the Musical' in London at the end of next year.' Broadway-bound Hugh Jackman has long been rumored to b...


Museum Of The Moving Image Hosts MAGICIANS ON SCREEN
by BWW News Desk - December 10, 2011

Magic and movies are popular art forms based on make-believe. Magicians were once the world's most popular entertainers-but once cinema supplanted them, magicians quickly embraced the moving image, using it to create astonishing new illusions....


Louisa Lydell And More Set For Landor's RAGTIME - THE MUSICAL Sep 1 - Oct 8
by BWW News Desk - September 01, 2011

Casting is now complete for the Landor Theatre revival of Ragtime The Musical, which opens for a 6-week season from September 1 - October 8....






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