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Playbill

* Butler Will Star in Baltimore Centerstage's Caroline, or Change
* Free NYTW Weekend Reading to Feature Robbins, Maxwell, Lenox and Martindale
* Davis, Rhoads, Knoll and More Cast in 42nd Street Moon's Ben Franklin in Paris
* Tom Beckett to Play 30 Roles in Barrington's Holiday Offering This Wonderful Life
* TMA Awards Honor Blethyn, Boyd, Conley, Hall, Kenwright and Black Watch

TheaterMania

* Sharon Gless to Headline Film Version of Allen's Hannah Free
* Rita Moreno to Bring Little Tributes to Rrazz Room
* Maria Friedman: Rearranged to Return to West End
* Irena's Vow Gets Three-Week Extension

Broadway.com

Feature: Halloween Treat: A How-To Guide to Broadway-Themed Costumes

BroadwayWorld

* Shotgun Players Present MACBETH at Ashby Stage Starting 12/4
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An Angry White Guy in Chicago

I Believe...
...that any artistic director who picks a script to produce based primarily for it's marketability should be forced to watch an endless stream of Legally Blonde: The Musical while having screaming thirteen year old girls jam American Girl Dolls and pictures of Zach Efron up his ass until he begs for mercy and tells where all the al Queda cells are and what the Colonel's Secret Recipe is (I think it's Lawry's Seasoning Salt).

The Clyde Fitch Report

Jack Zink, Theatre Critic, Dies at 61
I received this today from Chris Rawson of the American Theatre Critics Association. It was reported on back in August but I thought the recollections were especially poignant.

Culturebot

Screen Test
When I first moved to New York in 1995 I only knew two people. One of them was the poet/performer/man-about-town Bobby Miller who hosted the reading series Verbal Abuse at the nightclub Mother....

The Stage UK Blogs

Mark Shenton: Spotted at the theatre….
Of course it’s no surprise to see theatre critics at the theatre: it’s where you’ll find us most nights. And of course, thanks to the way the press night system works, we’re mostly there together on the same night...

The Guardian

Love's Labour's Lost on stage and screen
Gallery (11 pictures): As Peter Hall's production of Love's Labour's Lost plays at the Rose in Kingston, brush up on one of Shakespeare's

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Charlotte Higgins: The case of the missing women playwrights
Female dramatists in New York are protesting against their low exposure in theatres. Should women in Britain be doing the same?

Whatsonstage.com

Maria Friedman Is Rearranged Again in West EndMaria Friedman will bring her latest acclaimed concert show Maria Friedman: Rearranged to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios for 25 per...

Review: Love's Labour's Lost (Kingston)
For Peter Hall's first home-grown production at the Rose, he has returned to the first Shakespeare play that he directed. It would be hard to believe that the version he produced more than 50 years ago was as slow moving and as solemn as this one. ...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Happy Jack, Landor Theatre
John Godber is one of our most prolific playwrights, a Northerner who glorifies his roots in many of his works, most especially those written for the Hull Truck Theatre Company. ...

London Theatre Guide

Well-lit Bush catches Crabs
West London new writing theatre the Bush, back to normal following its brief interlude without lighting, will stage Joel Horwood’s I Caught Crabs In Walberswick from 11 November to 6 December (press night 13 November).