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New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

‘Hair’ Revival Gets Theater, Opening Dates

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

The biggest show in Chicago needed no opening act
Tuesday night belonged to Grant Park. And to the tens of thousands of Chicago supporters of Barack Obama. And to a moment so singularly historic, Chicagoans couldn’t quite believe that the pictures being beamed around the world came from their...

Obama and Second City: The money shots
They're right here. Official White House comedy troupe? First satirists? A spot on the inaugural line-up. We'll have to see. But this we know. Tina Fey is no longer Second City's only highly placed friend.

CinStages Buzz Blog

Backstage Treasures online auction opens Nov. 17
Here come the holidays and you're fresh out of ideas! At 8 a.m. Nov. 17, Cincinnati Arts Association raises the curtain on it’s annual Backstage Treasures…and More! online auction that supports CAA’s arts education programs.

Orange County Register The Arts Blog

‘Stomp’ returns to the Center. All is forgiven?

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Director/sound designer stages `The Redeemer’ between your ears

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

Arts visonary is honored
Lilia Garcia spent her 35-year career with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools acting on a bedrock belief: The arts have the power to change lives.

Associated Press

Michael Crichton, Author, Dies at 66
He wrote the blockbuster science-fiction novels “Jurassic Park,” “The Andromeda Strain” and “State of Fear.”

Back Stage

Having 'Something' to Say
When the curtain rises on one of monologuist Mike Daisey's pieces, he's doing it for the first time. He does not rehearse or have a script. Still, he knows his purpose.

The Clyde Fitch Report

Liza on the Ice
Well, no, Liza isn't going to be on the ice when she has her upcoming Broadway appearance -- and I have been duly reprimanded by a certain individual for not even mentioning that this great star and grea...

The Playgoer

FCC Greenlights "White Space" Plan
Ok, well in other news... That pending FCC bandwidth decision I wrote about yesterday that could drastically impact theatres' technical communications? No longer pending. Over the objections of television...

Playbill

* Loesser-Flavored Benefit Will Boast Morse, Feinstein, Lee, Graae, Groener
* [title of show] Team Heads to 92YTribeca Nov. 5
* Cast Set for Hartford's Brand:New Festival of Plays
* Bikel's New Song-Filled Aleichem Bio, Laughter Through Tears, to Play DC and FL
* Hair to Play the Hirschfeld Beginning February 2009
* "Madtv" Star Parker Will Be Broadway's Elphaba in 2009
* Sing-a-Long Screenings of "High School Musical 3" Will Hit Theatres Nov. 7
* PHOTO CALL: MTC Goes Back Back Back with Moses' Baseball Drama Off-Broadway
* TKTS Downtown Brooklyn Location Adds Saturday Hours, Replacing Monday
* 92YTribeca to Host "On Stage with Spring Awakening" Nov. 10
* "Theater Talk" to Welcome Billy Elliot Director Daldry
* Tony Winner Patinkin to Return to the West End
* Chenoweth to Perform During Thanksgiving Day Parade; TV Appearances, Too
* Smith Will Be Frederick Douglass in Classical Theatre of Harlem's Stepchild Reading
* Galloway and Poe to Star in London Cries at Off-Broadway's Irondale Center

TheaterMania

* Full Cast Announced for Westchester Broadway Theater's A Wonderful Life
* Shakespeare Festival/LA to Honor Baz Luhrmann
* Mamma Mia! CD/DVD Package to Get November 25 Release
* Van Hansis to Star in Les Freres Corbusier's Dance Dance Revolution
* Bikel, Feinstein, Groener, Morse, et al. to Participate in Loesser Celebration at Taper
* Hair to Begin Performances at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre February 13
* Horton Foote to Participate in Pre-Performance Talk for Dividing the Estate
* Bacon Brothers, Grandma, et al. Set for Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square
* Theater J to Present Theodore Bikel's Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears

Broadway.com

* Age of Aquarius to Dawn on Broadway with Hair at the Hirschfeld Theatre
* Donna Vivino Flies High as Elphaba on Wicked National Tour

Review: A new CD takes John Simon on a Marvelous nostalgia trip

Talkin' Broadway

Review: The Thugs in Chicago

nytheatre.com

Review: Penny Dreadful
Review: The Spanish Wives

CurtainUp

Review: The Language of Trees
A heartbreaking, beautifully written play wisely and winningly tinged with humor . . .

The Times UK

Otter Pie, Paisley Arts Centre
I simply have not been so intrigued or challenged by a new show from Scotland for a long time, says Robert Dawson Scott

The Guardian

Tennessee Williams on stage and screen
Gallery: With a season of his plays at the Tron in Glasgow and a retrospective of movies at the BFI Southbank in London, Tennessee Williams is hotter than ever. Here's a reminder of the film and theatre productions of his plays

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Carrie Dunn: West End girl: Singing through the credit crunch
Musicals seem to be embodying the bleak mood of the nation, but Oliver! is on its way to cheer you up

London Theatre Guide

The First Night Feature: Lucky Seven
Anthony Clark directs a new play by Hampstead theatre writer-in-residence Alexis Zegerman, which focuses on the human obsession with comparing ourselves to others.

The Big Interview: Denis Lawson
On stage for the first time in years in one of London’s most uplifting shows, actor Denis Lawson is enjoying the lighter side of life, finds Caroline Bishop.

West End captured in half century of images
A new exhibition collecting 50 years of images from theatrical photographer Reg Wilson opened at the Playhouse theatre yesterday. Titled Capturing The Moment, the display includes some of the most iconic West End images of the 20th century.

Rat Pack plays Palladium
Frank, Sammy and Dean will be back in London this Christmas spreading their own style of festive cheer as Christmas With The Rat Pack – Live From Las Vegas comes to the London Palladium for six performances on 14, 21 and 28 December.