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Celebrating its 66th year ÊTheatre WorldÊ is the most comprehensive record of the theatrical season on Broadway Off-Broadway Off-Off-Broadway and in regional theatre. Each of the 1 000-plus entries includes photos a complete cast listing producers directors authors composers opening and closing dates song titles and plot synopses. ÊTheatre WorldÊ also features the year's obituaries a listing of all nominees and winners of the major theatrical awards the longest-running shows on and Off-Broadway and a complete index.ÞÞThe 2009-2010 season found big-screen stars continuing their trend of taking to the stage with Jude Law in ÊHamletÊ and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Stephen Sondheim's ÊA Little Night MusicÊ lighting up Broadway while Cate Blanchett wowed all at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Tennessee Williams' ÊA Streetcar Named DesireÊ. Donald Margulies' ÊTime Stands StillÊ with Laura Linney and David Mamet's ÊRaceÊ with James Spader led the season of new Broadway plays while David Greenspan's one-man ÊThe MyopiaÊ and Horton Foote's magnum opus ÊThe Orphans' Home CycleÊ debuted to raves Off-Broadway. ÊFela!Ê based on the life of African-American composer Fela Anikulapo Kuti was a musical sensation and ÊDreamgirlsÊ had another noteworthyrevival at the Apollo Theatre that went on to a successful national tour. Regionally Hughie and Krapp's ÊLast TapeÊ starring Brian Dennehy at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and ÊAmerican IdiotÊ the Green Day musical at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre were regional hits.

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Ben Hodges is the editor-in-chief of Theatre World, the co-editor of The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals, the editor of the Lambda Award finalist Forbidden Acts: Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century, and editor of The Play That Changed My Life America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Most Influenced Them all published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. He is also the editor of Outplays: Landmark Gay and Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century. He lives in New York City. Scott Denny is an actor and singer who has performed across the country on three national tours and at several regional and dinner theatres. He has been the associate editor for Theatre World since 2005 and also served as a 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. He lives in New York City.

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