1/6/08 - Nighttime Clips
By Andy Propst on Jan 6, 2009 | In Online Sources, Select Blogs, National, Industry | Send feedback »
Fox News
Josh Brolin Knows How to Speak His Mind
[included simply because i know that his comments about Brantley will be raising eyebrows for a day or so]
Playbill
* Foote and Wilson to Discuss To Kill a Mockingbird at Hartford Stage Jan. 12
* Offering More Chances to Bewitch, Broadway's Pal Joey Extends
* Dawson Takes a Poke at Relationships in Toronto World Premiere Them & Us
TheaterMania
* Pal Joey to Extend Through March 1
* Scott Nevins to Host NYC Gay Men's Chorus' The BIG Gay Sing in March
* Yale University to Present Robert Marc Friedman's Remembering Miss Meitner
* Booker, Marek, Serrales, et al. Set for Colorado New Play Summit
Broadway.com
Pal Joey to Extend Run at Studio 54
The Globe and Mail - Theatre
Notes from New York: In which Patti gets Lu-pwned
The Critical Condition
1/6/08 - Late Afternoon Clips
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Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog
Mariah Carey Coming To Broadway?
British papers have announced that songbird Mariah Carey is in talks to present her life story as a Broadway musical, ...
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Al Gore, Bill Maher, Ann Coulter, Arianna Huffington, Karl Rove and more all coming to Chicago Theatre
Madison Square Garden Entertainment has booked a slew of huge political and media names for the Chicago Theatre--including former vice-president Al Gore, comedian Bill Maher, conservative provocateur Ann Coulter, media enterpreneur Arianna Huffington and political guru Karl Rove. They're all...
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Mayor Villaraigosa launches LA Arts Month
LAist
Oscars Relaunch Website: We Do More Than Just the Oscars
Dallas Morning News Arts Blog
Blacken Blues season canceled
Artistic director Willie Holmes announced today that Blacken Blues Theater has canceled its 2009 season. The remaining three shows had been scheduled for the new Bishop Arts Theater Center in Oak Cliff, but Holmes cites the economy, among other things, as the reason for the cancellation.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A fun show at the Sheldon
Scott Miller and the “New Line All-Stars” put together a really fun show last night (Monday, 1/5/09), “Night of the Living Show Tunes.” Yeah, it’s a musical theater revue - one with some really funny, smart material ...
San Jose Mercury News AEI Blog
Disney’s High School Musical returns to San Jose
OMG! Disney’s tween pop culture juggernaut “High School Musical,” the Ice Tour is skating on back into San Jose. Troy, Gabriella and the gang doing line-dancing crazy eights. Who...
Playbill
* Buffalo's Road Less Traveled to Premiere Romantic Comedy Twice Around
* Tony Winner Chenoweth to Play St. Louis' Fox Theatre Jan. 10
* PHOTO CALL: Pascal, Rapp and Stewart Headline New Rent Tour
* Tommy Tune to Perform Steps in Time in Stamford in February
TheaterMania
* Liza's at the Palace... CD to Be Released February 3
* The Kitchen Announces Winter 2009 Season
* Cast, Creative Team Set for Mammals at the Lost Studio
* Cast, Creative Team Set for Light Up The Sky at Open Fist Theatre
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Orlando Shakespeare's Wittenberg
The Clyde Fitch Report
Gene Frankel Theatre Says, "Watch Us Make a Festival!"
I get a lot of releases, but this is especially interesting because it takes the whole open-rehearsal idea, which is fast coming into vogue, and explodes it, letting these audiences see auditions and casting and just about everything else short of hiking up one's skirt in the bathroom.
99seats
What Does Meaning Mean?
Isaac got the ball rolling with a long post about post-show talkbacks and why artists don’t like to talk about what their work means. Matthew Freeman picked it up, examining it from the perspective of a writer. I figure I’d take a whack at it. I think there’s a semantic issue here.
Parabasis
The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show
$110,000 to go
While I was away for the holidays, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, one of the country's leading companies championing new plays, blared the horn of distress: They had to raise a total of $350,000 by January 9th or close its doors forever.
The Times UK
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour back in London for first time since 1977
It's Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s seldom-seen musical. The National Theatre aims to show it can still captivate
Sleeping Beauty, Unicorn, London
While Rosy Fordham's adaptation bursts with ideas, it's a draft or two away from making them coherent
Why the Whales Came, Old Rep, Birmingham
A well cast adaption of Michael Morpurgo's book shows reverence for nature's wonders with mystery, excitement and passion
1/6/09 - Mid-Afternoon Clips
By Andy Propst on Jan 6, 2009 | In Online Sources, Select Blogs, Tri-State, South, California | Send feedback »
Gothamist
Pencil This In
THEATER: There have been no shortage of Hedda Gabler revivals in recent years, with Cate Blanchett playing Ibsen's restless malcontent at BAM in 2006, Elizabeth Marvel portraying her in Ivo Van Hove's sensational 2004 production, and robots replacing ...
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Rising Action makes Phelps' calendar
Tolerance and the name Fred Phelps are rarely used in the same sentence. The founder of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas -- a tiny congregation whose members are mostly related to Phelps by blood or marriage -- will...
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
New ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ movie in the works
Back Stage - Blog Stage
Dan Lehman: Guests 'Sleepwalk' with Mike Birbiglia
Playbill
* Denver Center Reveals Casting for World Premieres of Inana and Dusty
* Shrek Star to Head to the Chatterbox Jan. 8
* Cashman, Bouchard, Brady and More Will Join Lewis in 5th Avenue Theatre's Hello Dolly!
* THE LEADING MEN: Hewitt and DeGennaro
* Vineyard Sets Dates for Off-Broadway Run of Civilians' This Beautiful City
* Cumpsty, Cumming, Turturro, Sexton, Kulick, Edelstein Rehearse "Monday Night Othello"
* Chicago's Braxton to Host Harlem Inaugural Gala for Barack Obama
TheaterMania
*Beck, Cash, Eaves, Keating, et al. Set for Ars Nova's Playlist
* Judd Hirsch to Star in Seattle ACT's Below the Belt
* Complete Cast Announced for 5th Avenue's Memphis
* Beazer, Bouchard, Cashman, et al. Will Join Jenifer Lewis in 5th Avenue's Hello, Dolly!
* Jessica Lange to Present at Golden Globe Awards
* Gerald Hiken Cast in TheatreWorks' Twentieth Century
* Cast Set for Speech & Debate at Illusion Theater
* Cast Set for Black Angels Over Tuskegee
The Critical Condition
The Last Image in “The Wrestler”
Everything I Know I Learned from Musicals
The Glorious Ones on CD
I've made no secret of my undying affection for the work of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, easily the most talented and versatile musical-theater writing team that we currently have. Which is why I was so disappointed in their most recent show, The Glorious Ones. (Read my review here.) I found the piece unfocused and uninvolving in performance.
lies like truth
Great Shakes
Over the weekend, I was introduced to what strikes me as a powerful and highly entertaining educational tool to help teachers turn elementary and high school kids as well as undergraduates onto Macbeth. Created in San Francisco by two Stanford lecturers - Jeremy Sabol and Greg Watkins ...
On Theatre and Politics
On "Meaning"
Isaac posts a question about discussing the meaning of our work here. Good topic for a January day, I think. Here's a bit of the post.
The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show
Look, what I don't understand
Opening this week for a run at the Athaeneum Theatre is Look, What I Don't Understand, a solo performance by Anthony Nikolchev in association with Thirteen Pocket.
what's good / what blows in new york theatre
RESOLUTION #9: ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP!
I don't know about you people, but I'm chock full of resolutions this year. No more smoking, No more laziness, Start working on those short stories, And most importantly.....
The Stage UK
BBC iPlayer receives record viewing requests over the Christmas season
Online catch-up service BBC iPlayer received 41 million viewing requests in December, with programmes such as Gavin and Stacey and The Royle Family contributing to its success.
Whatsonstage.com
Kingston Rose Given £2.7m Council Bailout Package
A week ahead of its first birthday, the Rose Theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames has been saved from closure by a £2.7 million loan over three years, funded jointly by Kingston Council and Kingston University. As part of the deal, the...
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