Joan Stein, who made her breakthrough as a theater producer while working as a waitress in Manhattan and went on to produce dozens of shows and share a Tony Award, died on Aug. 3 in Los Angeles.
In the show Ms. Payne sketches Fitzgerald's life and times, beginning with her breakthrough at an Apollo Theater contest at which she intended to dance but at the last minute switched to singing.
Though he had never acted, Mr. Pascal was cast in the lead role, the H.I.V.-infected punk rocker and recovering addict Roger Davis, in the original 1996 production of Jonathan Larson's breakthrough musical at the New York Theater Workshop.
On Monday, the much-heralded Anglo-Irish playwright MARTIN McDONAGH returns to the stage that played host to his breakthrough in America, the Atlantic Theater Company, with another raucously violent comedy, albeit one with a more pointed political subtext.
Ms. Cook, 83, has been on of the premiere interpreters of musical theater works since her breakthrough performance on Broadway in 1956 as Cunégonde in "Candide".
Ms. Cook, 84, has been one of the premier interpreters of musical theater works since her breakthrough performance on Broadway in 1956 as Cunégonde in "Candide".
Ms. Cook, 83, has been on of the premiere interpreters of musical theater works since her breakthrough performance on Broadway in 1956 as Cunegonde in "Candide".
Yet last month, when Mr. Steel announced the 2012-13 season, he proclaimed new long-term arrangements with two established theaters as a major breakthrough.
She even calls the divey East Village landmark Performance Space 122, where she was hilarious in her breakthrough play, "Matt & Ben," a "beautiful theater".
Melissa Errico's formidable beauty is probably the most persuasive element in the Irish Repertory Theater's revival of George Bernard Shaw's breakthrough comedy "Candida".
