Playwrights Horizons

Legit News: 'Burnt Part Boys' opens spring 2010 -- Off Broadway stalwarts Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theater will team for the first time to co-produce the musical "The Burnt Part Boys," scheduled to bow in spring 2010 following two developmental productions.

Legit News: Gibson play to begin previews Nov. 6 -- Julianne Nicholson ("Law and Order: Criminal Intent," "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men") will star in "This," the new play by Melissa James Gibson ("[sic]") bowing at Playwrights Horizons this fall.

Gotham: Director replaces Schmidt in musical -- Joe Calarco has replaced Erica Schmidt as helmer of “The Burnt Part Boys,” the Off Broadway tuner to be produced by Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theater in the spring.

“Circle Mirror Transformation” and “The Emperor Jones” are two great productions, with not a single bold-face name.

NEW YORK — Parker Posey has withdrawn from a lead role in the upcoming Playwrights Horizons' production of "This" after developing Lyme disease. Artistic director Tim Sanford says the play by Melissa James Gibson will open Dec. 13 as scheduled at the off-Broadway theater. Previews begin Nov.…

Legit News: Welch, Baccarin, Siegfried join play -- Christopher Evan Welch, TV vet Morena Baccarin and Off Broadway regulars including Stephen……latest from Theresa Rebeck ("Mauritius," "The Scene") at Off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons.

Annie Baker’s new play is absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny.

Anger is in the American bloodstream in “Prayer for My Enemy,” the provocative, confused and confusing new play by Craig Lucas.

Evan Smith’s insubstantial but funny play sometimes feels like a Very Special Theological Episode of “The Golden Girls.”

Legit News: Duo will topline new tuner at Playwrights Horizons -- Jane Krakowski and Christian Borle will topline a reading of new tuner "Mrs. Sharp" at Playwrights Horizons later this month.

Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy is a mostly flatfooted satire of the blurring line between television news and entertainment.

The dearth of blush-inducing signage around Times Square will soon be rectified when the Sarah Ruhl play “In the Next Room (or the vibrator……of what seems like 50 movies a year to appear in a new stage work at Playwrights Horizons, the theater company announced. Ms. Posey will be…

Lyme Disease, which terrified people briefly in the 1980s before HIV showed up and put things in perspective, is an infection of Borellia bacteria, generally spread by rodent-borne ticks. Initial infection is marked by a peculiar bullseye-patterned rash. Subsequent symptoms include but are not…

NEW YORK (AP) -- Parker Posey has withdrawn from a lead role in the upcoming Playwrights Horizons' production of "This" after developing Lyme disease....

Scarlett Johansson, born on the 22nd of November, 1984, in New York City, has an older brother and sister and a twin brother. She divides her time……the off-Broadway production of Sophistry with Ethan Hawke at New York's Playwrights Horizons.Scarlett has been in seven movies, the first…