Celebrating its 66th year, Theatre World 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. Theatre World 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. The
2009-2010 season, found big-screen stars continuing their trend of
taking to the stage, with Jude Law in Hamlet and Catherine Zeta-Jones in
Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music lighting up Broadway, while Cate
Blanchett wowed all at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Tennessee
Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still
with Laura Linney and David Mamet's Race with James Spader led the
season of new Broadway plays, while David Greenspan's one-man The Myopia
and Horton Foote's magnum opus The Orphans' Home Cycle debuted to raves
Off-Broadway. Fela! based on the life of African-American composer Fela
Anikulapo Kuti was a musical sensation and Dreamgirls had another
noteworthyrevival at the Apollo Theatre that went on to a successful
national tour. Regionally, Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape, starring Brian
Dennehy at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and American Idiot, the Green
Day musical, at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre were regional hits.
