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                        FOR 65 YEARS Performing Arts Insider has been the leading source of information
                        about the performing arts in
New York City and around the country.

Each hardcopy issue of PAI includes day-by-day calendar listings of shows ON BROADWAY, OFF & OFF-OFF-BROADWAY, plus DANCE, OPERA, CABARET, AWARDS & SPECIAL EVENTS!

Also included are comprehensive theater guides, listing the author, director, cast, designers, synopsis, theater and box office details, as well as contact information for producers, press agents, general managers and casting directors. Not only that, PAI offers rumors on upcoming big shows, parental guides to Broadway, regional updates, reviews of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and other special, useful and easy-to-read features.

 **** See the bottom of this page for sample listings and content -- just as they appear in every issue of Performing Arts Insider!

PAI is a must for anyone working in the theater, covering the theater for print or media, or for anyone who simply loves the theater and wants the inside scoop!  But just take our word for it:

"Performing Arts Insider is a goldmine of information for the theater professional. I refer to it regularly." Tom Creamer, Dramaturg, Goodman Theater
"As doctors use the Physician's Desk Reference, as attorneys use Westlaw, I use my Performing Arts Insider. It's all the facts at your fingertips." Sherry Eaker, editor-in-chief, Backstage
 
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Performing Arts Insider is published 21 times per year, with 12 monthly issues and 9 mid-month update issues during the busy season.

Standard annual subscription rates:  Full Season (21 issues) $290 or Monthly (12 issues) $175

Current, valid members of theatrical unions such as Equity, SAG, AFTRA, the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, American Theater Critics Association, WGA and Dramatists Guild receive a 15% discount off the above rates!

Expensive?  Yes.  But comparable to other guides that aren't nearly as comprehensive, and for the price of a couple of theater tickets, you get a year's worth of information and enjoyment -- all for much less than $1 a day!


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To have your production listed in PAI:
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Deadlines are the 1st & 16th of each month.

Performing Arts Insider is a TotalTheater publication, (c)2009
Publishers: Richmond Shepard & David Lefkowitz
Editor-in-chief: David Lefkowitz
Ad Sales: Steven Fisch

Special Web-Only Listing for Performing Arts Insider Subscribers: INSIDE CRITICS


see below for sample listings



Day-By-Day  – BROADWAY


DATE  SHOW THEATER OWN     LOCATION PR    DETAILS

 Now
 ALL MY SONS Gerald Schoenfeld Shu    236 W 45 St. Boneau/BB 212-575-3030    End Jan. 11

 Now
 AUGUST: OSAGE Music Box Theater Shu    239 W 45 St. Jeffrey Richards: 212-489-6745    Open run

 Now AVENUE Q Golden Shu    252 W 45 St. Sam Rudy 212-221-8466    Open run

 Now
BILLY ELLIOT Imperial Shu    249 W 45 St. Barlow-Hartman 398-1800    Open run

 Now BOEING-BOEING Longacre Shu    220 W 48 St. Barlow-Hartman 398-1800    Open run

 Now CHICAGO Ambassador Shu    219 W 49 St. Publicity Office 315-2120    Open run
   Now DIVIDING THE ESTATE Booth Shu    222 W 45 St. Philip Rinaldi: 212-501-3201    Limited run

 Now EQUUS Broadhurst Shu    235 W 44 St. Sam Rudy 212-221-8466    End Feb. 8

 Now GREASE Brooks Atkinson Ned    246 W 47 St. Barlow-Hartman 398-1800    Open run


                       Guide - BROADWAY: Current


AMERICAN PLAN, THE
1990 COMEDY-DRAMA. Auth: Richard Greenberg
Dir: David Grindley
Casting: MTC's Nancy Piccione: 212-399-3000
Cast: Mercedes Ruehl, Lily Rabe.
Plot: Girl with dominating mother falls for a handsome man in the Catskills.
History: Op 12/4/90 & Cld 1/18/91 at off-Bway's MTC-Stage I.
Notes: Greenberg won a Tony for penning Take Me Out. Rabe was in the 2006 Heartbreak House revival.
PROD: Manhattan Theater Club Productions (Lynne Meadow, at dir; Barry Grove, exec prod): 311 W 43 St, 8th Fl, NYC 10036. 212-399-3000. Mtc-nyc.org.
GM: Flora Seery
ADV: SPOTco.
PR: Boneau/Bryan-Brown (Aaron Meier): 1501 Bway, #1314, NYC 10036. 212-575-3030.
Samuel J. Friedman  Theater [MTC]: 236  West 47th  Street Prev: Jan. 2, 2009; Op: Jan. 22, 2009; Ltd run



GUIDE – PRESS AGENTS

 

(The following list of theatrical press agents and agencies is alphabetized by last name. Information is subject to change, and staff lists are not complete)

 

Jim Baldassare: 201 West 70 St., #11B, NYC 10023. 212‑362‑3346; fx 787-1041; Jbpressrep@ aol.com.

Barlow‑Hartman Public Relations: 1560 Broadway, #909, NYC 10036. 212-398‑1800; fx 212-398-7110. Staff: John Barlow (john@ barhart.com), Michael Hartman (michael@ barhart.com), Wayne Wolfe, Dennis Crowley, Carol Fineman 212-354-7343.

carolf@ cfpublicity.com), Tom D’Ambrosio (tom@ barhart.com), Andrew Snyder, Gerilyn Shur (gerilyn@ barhart.com), Leslie Baden, Jon Dimond (jdimond@ barhart.com). (Grease,Wicked ,Young Frankenstein.)


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RUMORS


* THE ADDAMS FAMILY. Book: Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice. Score: Andrew Lippa, adapting Charles Addams cartoons. Dir/Set: Phelim McDermott & Julian Crouch. Choreog: Sergio Trujillo. Music Dir: Mary-Mitchell Campbell; Casting: Telsey + Co. Cast; Bebe Neuwirth, Nathan Lane (rumored). PROD: Elephant Eye Theatrical (Stuart Oken, Michael Leavitt & Five Cent Productions). CAP: $10m. GM: 101 Productions. Casting: Telsey + Co. PR: The Publicity Office (Marc Thibodeau): mthibodeau@ publicityoffice.com. Notes: Workshops eyed for Jan. 2009 (PBOL 10/08). Capitalization in place for tryouts and then Bway in 2009-10 season (NYPOST 6/08). Elice & Brickman penned Jersey Boys. Lippa penned the off-Bway Wild Party. Chances: possible.

 

* DIRTY DANCING – The Classic Story On Stage. Musical. Book: Eleanor Bergstein, adapting her 1987 screenplay. Songs: Period hits and new numbers by John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz & Franke Previte. Dir: James Powell. Set: Stephen Brimson Lewis; Light: Tim Mitchell; Sound: Bobby Aitken; Video: Jon Driscoll. Cast: Josef Brown (Johnny), Amanda Leigh Cobb (Baby), Britta Lazenga (Penny). Plot: At holiday camp, daughter meets dance teacher from the wrong side of the tracks. PROD (UK): Jacobsen Entertainment in assoc w/ Lions Gate Films & Magic Hour Productions. Notes: Current staging at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace (9/28-12/7/08) billed as pre-Bway and eyeing the Neil Simon Theater for Fall 2009 (VAR, 10/08). Huge sales for premiere at London's Aldwych (dirtydancinglondon.com; 3/07). Dodgers workshopped it in Aug. 2001, with Laura Breckenridge, Davis Robertson, Michael Rupert & Kaitlin Hopkins. Chances: good.


































 
 
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