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The Broadway wing of the Grammy Awards nominees announced this morning included five-time winner Steve Martin and five-time nominee Sarah Bareilles. Also in the mix: Kinky Boots (produced by Masterworks Broadway), the Cyndi Lauper-scored show that won the 2014 Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album, cited this time for…

Producer Joey Parnes today announced that Bright Star, the new musical from 2016 Tony Award nominees Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 26, after 30 previews and 109 regular performances. Parnes, with help from Martin and company, valiantly kept the $10.5 million…

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on two wonderful banjo-and-whimsy fueled albums (the first, Love Has Come For You, won a Grammy in 2013 for best American roots song). Fans of Martin’s wide-ranging gifts as comedian, author, movie star, art collector, playwright  (count me in) have seen his avocation as…

A tryout journey that began last year at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre will continue east to Broadway with its next stop now set: The Steve Martin/Edie Brickell-penned musical Bright Star will have a run at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater beginning December 2 and running through January 10, 2016, according to…