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‘New York’ Magazine TV Critic, John Leonard, Dies

Back Stage

Arjuna's Dilemma reviewed by Ronni Reich
What to call Arjuna's Dilemma doesn't matter as much as what productions of its kind will mean for all types of music theatre, especially opera.

Florence Henderson: All The Lives of Me...A Musical Journey reviewed by David Finkle
It's only die-hard Carol Brady fans who'll likely derive unmitigated pleasure from a program deficient in so many ways.

Variety

Review: The Pig Iron People
Vet Oz radio and TV comedian and commentator John Doyle's debut as a playwright heralds the arrival of a legit figure to watch. The Sydney Theater Company's world preem of his "The Pig Iron People," a neighborhood drama played out between the seven inhabitants of a row of closely positioned terrace houses on Liberal Street in inner Sydney, is bold and fresh.

Review: Othello
A physical-theater take on Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy and racial tension set in contemporary Northern England is in principle a gutsy idea, but overall Frantic Assembly's production is surprisingly cautious.

Back Stage - L.A. Reviews

Review: The Family of Mann
The title of Theresa Rebeck's play refers to an awful sitcom about grown-up kids attempting to move back in with their parents. And we do see a few episodes of the show.

Review: Happy Days — A New Musical
In the grand tradition of Grease and Bye Bye Birdie, Garry Marshall's beloved hit television series of the 1970s has become a full-fledged musical.

Review: Mary's Wedding
At its core, playwright Stephen Massicotte's dreamscape about love and loss, set against the backdrop of World War I, is bittersweet and heartbreaking.

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Review: `Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’

Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog

I'm in a Big Gay Musical
I was just cast in a movie, kids, and it's a real stretch: I play a character called "Gay Man"! It's in Big Gay Musical, a film by Casper Andreas, who previously did such fine features as Slutty Summer and A Four Letter Word.

The Clyde Fitch Report

Arts Advocacy Update LXV
The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Cultural Policy Listserv, email blast of November 5, 2008: ...

Today's Death-of-Journalism Update

The Daily Transom Blog

They're Just Like Us! Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise Get Lunch at Zaro's

Playbill

* Busch Replaces Daly in Project Shaw's Jitta's Atonement
* LePhong, St. Louis, Murphy-Johnson and Gipson to Star in L.A. Premiere of The Life
* Keri Russell Will Be Eve in Actors Fund's "All About Eve" Reading
* Harnar's The 1959 Broadway Songbook to Play 59E59 Theaters
* Broadway's "Madame Defarge," Natalie Toro, to Release Solo Album; Sutton Foster Guests
* Blaemire, Farha, Lisitza, Marcus and More Cast in Iconis' ReWrite
* Calvert, Glass, Law, McKinsey and Sowers Will Explore The Trouble with Doug
* Early Edition of "The After Party" to Feature Q's Wheatley and Cities' Richards

TheaterMania

* Blackwell, Blickenstaff, Cavenaugh, Jones, et al. Set for Sonnet Sings the Bard
* Charles Busch Replaces Tyne Daly in Project Shaw's Jitta's Atonement
* Full Cast Announced for York Reading of Take Me America
* Keri Russell to Play Eve Harrington in Actors Fund's All About Eve Benefit Reading
* Blaemire, Lisitza, et al. Set for Iconis' ReWrite

Broadway.com

* Keri Russell Nabs Title Role in All About Eve Reading

Backstory: Mining for talent: How Billy Elliot struck gold onstage

nytheatre.com

Review: Missa Solemnis

The Times UK

Any Which Way, Only Connect Theatre, London
Directed in a confrontational promenade production by Maggie Norris gives the charity’s theatre an arresting inauguration

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Matt Wolf: All My Sons: a play for Obama's America?
Miller's classic may be 50 years old, but Simon McBurney's Broadway production captures the mood of the moment