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Thanksgiving Week Wrap Up I hope you all had a family- and food-filled Thanksgiving! Herein, I'll bring you up to date on some notable happenings and announcements from last week (scroll down to learn what happened this week): Alex Timbers ( Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson , Peter and the Starcatcher ) will direct a Broadway revival of The Philadelphia Story . The revival will be produced by Roundabout Theatre Company (so you can expect some starry names among the cast) at its American Airlines Theatre in fall 2013. Playbill has details. Green Day , according to Rolling Stone , will release a documentary of the making of their triple album Uno! Dos! Tre! , called, appropriately, Quatro! The flick will be released in 2013 but VH1 viewers got to catch a glimpse of some highlights this Wednesday. The Leap of Faith original Broadway cast recording, as previously reported, will be released digitally on December 4 and on CD on December 18. Last week, the producers announced th...

Tony Wrap Up The 66th Tony Awards are in the history books, and it was a great, performance-filled broadcast, with several well-deserved wins, a few surprises and lots of heartfelt speeches. Here are some things to help you gradually recover from Tony fever! Tony wrap up , including the full list of winners Pinterest board full of Tony pics , with red carpet and after party photos Official Tony photos from the Tony website ( and here's even more! ) Party photos , from the New York Times Vogue  followed four nominees , including eventual winner Nina Arianda, as they got ready for the Tonys. News: on the heels of its Tony win for Best Play, Clybourne Park  has extended its run. The Pulitzer and Tony winning play will now run through September 2 . Videos: (1) Broadway.com interviews the stars as they walk the red carpet  (below); (2) Steve Kazee after his win ; (3) Nina Arianda after her win ; (4) Side by Side by Susan Blackwell: Susan chats with the Tony wi...

"Don't Owe You a Thang" Check out the latest from Gary Clark, Jr.:  Next Season on Broadway... We may find the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods transferring out of the woods and into a proscenium theatre, with Amy Adams in tow. Hands on a Hardbody (with music by Phish's Trey Anastasio ) will tread the boards. Annie will be back ( as we learned last week ), headed by Katie Finneran as Miss Hannigan. We may see a revival of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , this one (possibly) starring Tony winner (for A View from the Bridge ) Scarlett Johansson as Maggie and either Jeremy Renner ( The Hurt Locker ) or Chris Pine ( Star Trek (the recent movie remake)) as Brick. Visit Playbill for details. Rob McClure will play the title role in the upcoming Broadway musical Chaplin . And Off-Broadway ... The Last Five Years is coming back to New York! This breakthrough work from Tony-winning songwriter Jaso...

The Great Gatsby It's here! The trailer for Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby , starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan has been released. This. Looks. Incredible. It comes to a theater near you on December 25, 2012. Anchorman: The Legend Continues Exclusive Anchorman 2 Teaser from Will Ferrell Peter and the Starcatcher Starstuff Another week means another episode of Boy's Life , the Adam Chanler-Berat-hosted behind-the-scenes look at Peter and the Starcatcher . In this week's episode, Chanler-Berat reports on the scene at the Starcatcher lottery. Watch below ! And then head over to Broadway.com to take a look at these photos of the Starcatcher cast greeting notable audience members , like Tony host Neil Patrick Harris! Plus, Playbill gets the scoop on the pineapple motif at Starcatcher . (Hint: Playwright Rick Elice says, "pineapples were the iPa...