This classic Broadway production has not been seen in the West End for almost 35 years.
The Broadway production of Enron lasted just over a month, closing on 9 May, 2010.
Angela Lansbury originated the role in a 1979 Broadway production of the musical, which won eight Tony awards.
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Neeson and Linney previously starred together in the Broadway production of the Crucible.
Earlier this week he received a Tony nomination for his role in a Broadway production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Mr. Cromer is set to direct "Rent" in Chicago later this year and is working on an anticipated Broadway production of the musical "Yank!"
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It will be exciting, it will bring back memories of the opening night (of the Broadway production, in 1959), meeting Marlene Dietrich at the St.
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As for Thornton Wilder's "Our Town, " it's usually performed by some two dozen actors, and the original 1938 Broadway production fielded a cast of 51.
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Despite its universally bad reviews, the play has been kept alive through two or three times the number of previews than any other Broadway production.
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Kerr was perhaps best known for his role in the 1953 Broadway production of Robert Anderson's Tea And Sympathy, for which he won a Tony Award.
Both the Broadway and the off-Broadway production try to substantiate an unpromising bit of literary fluff, highlighting the poem's stale stereotypes and its lack of plotting.
The Broadway production is basically moving a few blocks north.
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The 47-year-old Mr. Cromer, who won a MacArthur "genius grant" in 2010, may be best known for his off-Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town, " the longest run in the play's history.
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Educated at Harvard University, Kerr received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a sensitive school boy who was bullied for being a suspected homosexual in Elia Kazan's 1953 Broadway production of Tea and Sympathy.
The original 1953 Broadway production of "Picnic, " for instance, ran for 477 performances, and the film version, which starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell, was one of the biggest box-office smashes of 1955.
Johansson, currently starring in a Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, said the audition for Les Miserables "brought back so many memories" from when she tried out for the role of Cosette as a child.
The Group Theater, headed by Harold Clurman, who helped blaze the trail for Method acting, went to see Frances Farmer in the show and hired them both for the Broadway production of Clifford Odets's play "Golden Boy" in 1937.
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Authorities said the Twitter user posted a threat about an attack at the Longacre Theater in midtown Manhattan, where former boxing champion Mike Tyson, 46, is performing his one-man show, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, " a Broadway production that centers on his well-publicized life.
Amy Adams, who is taking time out from her film career to play the Baker's Wife, proves to be a very good singer who is also at ease onstage, though she lacks the apple-crisp bite of irony that Joanna Gleason brought to the original 1987 Broadway production.
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However, she returned triumphantly to New York's Broadway in a 1978 production, Timbuktu!
In recent months, Tom Hanks had been in talks to make his Broadway debut in a production of Ms. Ephron's play "Lucky Guy, " about newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.
Holmes, who became a star in the teen soap opera Dawson's Creek, made her Broadway debut in the 2008 production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.
Taylor began her career in production, working for Broadway producer Richard Frankel.
They appeared in more than 100 productions together during their 59-year marriage, including their joint Broadway debut in the first New York production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband in 1996.
The latest Broadway iteration began as an "Encores" production minimal staging with the actors performing in front of a 30- piece orchestra.
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The comedy has previously been adapted for Broadway and the West End, but that production transported the action from Sheffield to Buffalo, New York.
That run ended in mid-January and the creative team from the Broadway show, which had cast each European production, tapped Verkaik to come to New York.
Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made enough money off of the show, which debuted on Broadway in 2011, to launch their own production company.
Cooper has written an emotionally layered story about the frustrating effects of the disease on both patient and caregiver, which opened Tuesday night off-Broadway, in a well-done Transport Group production at the Duke on 42nd Street.
The show will open on Broadway next year, followed shortly after by an Australian production.
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