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Marcy Harriell to Play Vanessa in In the Heights

Mandy Patinkin Brings His Cabaret Shows to the Public

Reuters

Rock musical "Hair" returning to Broadway
Groundbreaking 60s rock musical "Hair" will return to Broadway in February for the first time since the show debuted there four decades ago, producers said on Thursday.

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

'Gatz': six hours required

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

Tony nominee comes to New Vista
Crista Moore made her Broadway debut opposite Tyne Daly in the 1989 revival of Gypsy, playing vaudeville kid-turned-striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. She followed that turn, which earned her a Tony Award nomination, with 1996's Big, which got her another Tony nod.

Back Stage

Search Engine
Matthew Barry began his Hollywood life as an actor, appearing in such films as The Wraith and Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna. These days he's a respected casting director.

Time Out New York

Breaking The Waves
British director Katie Mitchell marries Virginia Woolf and live video.

Review: Hunchback
Children will be engrossed—maybe also grossed out—by this gruesome puppet take on Victor Hugo's classic.

Review: Surrender
Do you have what it takes to fight America's enemies abroad? An interactive military show tests your mettle.

Review: The Grand Inquisitor
Peter Brook directs a ruthlessly minimalist version of a Fyodor Dostoyevky's parable: It's antispectacle.

Review: Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live!
In this audience-provoking clown dud, history repeats itself—but only in the unpleasant, acid reflux sense.

nypress

Streep Tease!
The Gummer girls

Roots and Shoots
The Language of Trees talks terror

Playbill

* Men Are Real Set for Friday Engagements Off-Broadway
* PHOTO CALL: Outer Critics Circle Lauds "Return of the Playwright"
* Susan Egan Will Offer The First Farewell Tour Nov. 16 in L.A.

TheaterMania

* Bernhard, DeLaria, Ferguson, Hoffman, LaChanze, Lewis, O'Hara, Porter to Play Joe's Pub
* Full Cast Announced for Goodman's Christmas Carol
* Higgins, Horrocks, Richardson, Rylance, Shawn, et al. Set for Royal Court Season

Broadway.com

* Mandy Patinkin to Present a Trio of Concerts at Public Theater

Video: White Christmas rings in the holidays with a sneak peek at rehearsals

Superfluities Redux

Archives: On Reading Howard Barker's Gertrude

The Guardian

Royal Court spring season returns theatre stars to their roots
New plays by Polly Stenham, Jez Butterworth and Mark Ravenhill will be presented at London's Royal Court next year, it was announced today. The spring–summer 2009 programme will find all three writers returning to the west London theatre that gave them their big break...
The Stage UK Blog

Grad's Club: Playing at Playwriting
For someone with writers block I seem to have an awful lot to blog about. However, ‘bloggers block’ is not the issue. In a few days it’s the deadline for Paines Plough’s emerging playwright competition (Future Perfect 09) and...

Whatsonstage.com

The Big Interview: Zena Edwards
Performance poet Zena Edwards is billed as the "cutting edge of contemporary urban writing and lyricism, with a sensuous, rhythmic style born from a diverse range of influences, from African music and storytelling to world jazz innovators via hip hop, and spoken word artists Linton Kwesi Johnson and Roger ...

London Theatre Guide

Bad? No it's a Thriller
Thriller – Live, a high-energy, all singing, all dancing tribute to the legendary singer Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, is moonwalking into London and the search is on to find a new West End star...

First Night Feature: Rank
Three Irish taxi drivers waiting around at Dublin airport, desperately hoping for customers, sounds like an unlikely setting for a thriller. But Rank takes this group of seemingly normal men and leads them down an increasingly dangerous path.