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Theater: Not Even White-Out Will Help
Stain’s family dysfunction is dirty but tired

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Morning News: Thursday, July 24, 2008

Playbill

* Rent Performance to Hit Screens Nationwide in September
* Grote's Schiller-Inspired Tale of Suburban Family, Maria/Stuart, Premieres Aug. 18 at Woolly Mammoth
* Academy Award Winner Thompson to Pen Screenplay for "My Fair Lady" Remake
* PHOTO CALL: Sweeney Todd, with Mark Jacoby, at Sacramento Music Circus
* Calvert, Ephraim, Green and Umphress Join Tsakalakos at the Barrington July 24-26
* Steve Ross to Return to London with Sondheim Cabaret, Good Thing Going
* Gleeson, James, Crane and Marsh Will Star in Shinn's Now or Later at London's Royal Court
* Stritch, Feinstein, Strouse and Vereen to Be Part of Paige's Spotlight On Series
* Barbara Ann Teer, Founder of National Black Theatre, Inc., Dies at 71

TheaterMania

Review: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Brent Barrett, Perry Ojeda, and Dee Hoty shine in the Cape Playhouse's highly entertaining version of the hit Broadway musical.

Review: Homeland
Laurie Anderson's brilliant new song cycle tackles the topics of insecurity and anxiety.

* Cook, Glover, Mazzie, Morris, Sedaris, Wong, et al. Set for McCarter Season
* Full Cast , Creative Team Announced for Grote's Maria/Stuart at Woolly Mammoth
* Hairspray 2 Film Is In the Works

Broadway.com

* Hairspray Movie Musical Sequel in the Works

CurtainUp

Review: Stain
Many enjoyable moments that even the blatantly unsatisfying ending does not destroy. Too bad it doesn’t hold together as either comedy or serious drama. . .

Review: The Next Big Thing
A cute nostalgia piece and a fine way to spend a couple of hours. Bring your Vans and skinny ties.

The Clyde Fitch Report

Alicia Hurley, Complicit in NYU's Campaign of Lies and Deceit About the Provincetown Playhouse, Savaged Anew

Superfluities Redux Blog

What Would Jesus Buy?
If on its first release you missed the Morgan Spurlock-produced, Rob VanAlkemade-directed What Would Jesus Buy?, a 2007 documentary about Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, you can now find it at better video stores everywhere (as well as through ...

the nytheatre i Blog

Midtown International Theatre Festival
Although FringeNYC is already keeping us busy here at nytheatre.com, there is another fairly large theatre festival currently in progress that we don't want to lose sight of: MITF...

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Chris Wilkinson: Noises off: Actors get their act together
Brian Logan: The Big Lie at Latitude: more alive than dead

Whatsonstage.com

Marsh Reunites With Redmayne for Later Premiere

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Out of His Mind, Shaw Theatre
New Yorker Marc Salem labels himself a “mentalist”, “developmental psychologist” and “student of the human mind for over thirty years”. After introducing himself and proudly highlighting the fact this is his 7th season at the Shaw...

5 Reasons to See … A Conversation With Edith Head
Susan Claassen stars as the legendary Hollywood designer Edith Head - winner of eight Oscars - in A Conversation With Edith Head, at the Studio Space at the Leicester Square Theatre, (formerly The Venue) 5 Leicester Place, London WC2, from 29 July - 31 August.

London Theatre Guide

Chitty surprised with Young Vic Award
Laurence Olivier Award-winning designer Alison Chitty has been presented with the 2008 Young Vic Award. The honour is bestowed annually on a theatre professional who has inspired younger generations of theatre artists