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It’s On: Disney Officially Launches ‘Wall-E’ Best Picture Campaign!

Orange County Register Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog

Win two tickets to see ‘Wicked’ at the Pantages

Playbill

* Seagull's Sarsgaard Makes a "Late Night" Date Oct. 28
* DeMunn Replaces Blasted-Busy Birney in Belber's Geometry
* LAST CHANCE: Irena's Vow and The Affair in 22B
* Fisher, Gentry, Guinan, Wills, Staunton Among Inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellows at Ten Chimneys
* Opening Night, Directed by Van Hove, to Play BAM in December
* NAMT Establishes National Fund for New Musicals
* Kushner, LaBute and Nelson Join Line-Up for Epic's First Vote '08

TheaterMania

* Cambodia's First Modern Musical, Where Elephants Weep, to Premiere in Phnom Penh
* Jeffrey DeMunn to Join Keshawarz, Mudge, O'Donnell in Geometry of Fire
* Zac Efron to Star in Fast-Tracked Footloose Re-Make

nytheatre.com

Review: The Doll Sisters

BroadwayWorld

* Actor Many Beth Fisher Named One of Eleven Inaugural Fellows
* Hal Brooks to Mentor New School Acting and Directing Students in STAGE DOOR
* WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP to Have World Premiere in Cambodia 11/28

Parabasis

How Theater Became America
This article about (potentially excessive) executive pay at top NYC theaters reminds me of something... what is it? Oh, that's right, the blog posts that appeared all over the place roughly six or nine months ago about this issue...

The Producer's Perspective

A marketing double whammy.
Air New Zealand got all guerrilla on us this week with the human billboard campaign featured below. They had an 'open call' for 30 heads to be stamped with their marketing message and sent out into the streets of LA.

The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Medicine Show Blog

Underworld (1927)
Last night, Jen and I went to the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center for a FREE screening of Josef von Sternberg's gangster film Underworld, ...

Superfluities Redux

Call for Papers
David Ian Rabey and Karoline Gritzner of Aberystwyth University in Wales have asked me to pass along the following call for papers:

The Stage UK

National Campaign for the Arts expresses concern over points-based visa inquiry delay
National Campaign for the Arts officials have expressed disappointment over the postponement of an inquiry into the new points-based visa system, which will impact cultural organisations and festivals bringing in foreign performers and companies to the UK.

Lack of funding will result in acting talent shortage in Scottish theatre and TV, warn experts
Leading figures in Scottish theatre and television have warned the sector is facing a shortage of highly trained actors, unless the devolved government increases funding so that two conservatoire-level drama schools can be maintained.

Radio 4 to present the baroness' take on The Sound of Music
BBC Radio 4 is to present a new take on The Sound of Music with a drama that retells the Rodgers and Hammerstein story through the eyes of Maria's rival, Baroness Schräder.

Lisa Spirling wins theatre residency at London's Hospital Club
London's Hospital Club has named Lisa Spirling as the theatre category winner of its 12-month creative residency programme.
Whatsonstage.com

Brenda Blethyn Returns to Manchester for HauntedBrenda Blethyn (pictured), who on Sunday won the TMA Award for Best Performance in a Play (See News, 26 Oct 2008), will return in t...