Theatre World Volume 68: 2011-2012 - Tapa dura

(Book). Celebrating its 68th year, Theatre World remains the definitive annual record of the American theater the most complete record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and regional theater seasons complete with cast listings, replacements, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, plot synopses, plus obituaries, longest-running listings, awards, and photos. On Broadway, movies turned musicals continued to be successful, with Tonys for Once (Best Musical) and its star Steve Kazee (Best Actor in a Musical), and Disney's stage adaptation of Newsies (Best Score). Mike Nichols received his ninth Tony for direction of Death of a Salesman (Best Revival of a Play); Audra McDonald became the only African-American actress to win five Tonys ( The Gershwins' Porgy and Bes s); meanwhile, Tonys went to newcomers Nina Arianda (Best Actress in a Play, Venus in Fur ) and James Corden (Best Actor in a Play, British import One Man, Two Guvnors ). Off-Broadway, Sweet and Sad , opening (and set on) the tenth anniversary of 9/11, won raves at the Public Theater, as did Nina Raines' Tribes . Regionally, Newsies debuted at New Jersey's Papermill Playhouse; and End of the Rainbow , at the Guthrie in Minneapolis, garnered its star Tracie Bennett a Theatre World Award as well as a Tony nod for her portrayal of Judy Garland.

Ben Hodges (Jersey City, NJ) is editor in chief of Theatre World, is the coeditor of The Commercial Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals, and the editor of Forbidden Acts: Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century and The Play That Changed My Life.

Scott Denny (New York, NY) has been the associate editor for Theatre World since 2005, and also served as producer of the Theatre World Awards from 2007 to 2009. Originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, he received a BFA in performing arts from Western Kentucky University.