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New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Donation Sends Shakespeare Plays Home to The Globe

‘In The Heights’ Movie In The Works

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NY1 Theater Review: "Forbidden Broadway Goes To Rehab"

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Arie Crown Theatre to get new sign on Lake Shore Drive
The Chicago theater district will be extending all the way to the McCormick Place convention center. Visually, at least. A spokesman for the Arie Crown Theatre "a full-blown Broadway roadhouse but one long lacking sufficient visibility to attract major shows" says that...

CinStages Buzz Blog

Minstrelsy gets free performance Nov. 11 at Know

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

Countdown to creativity
Just two days from now, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, some excited (and no doubt nervous) playwrights will get the first hint of how they'll be spending a long night's journey into day.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLArts Blog

'A Lesson Before Dying' @ Theatrical Outfit

Back Stage

Page Views
If you're a performer — even an established and regularly working actor — who has thought about making the transition into screenplay writing, don't expect to garner immediate respect.

No Magic Spell
Casting directors may have power over actors' careers, but independent CD Paul Russell implores actors to treat him like a regular human being.

Playbill

* D'Amboise & D'Amboise Set for Chicago's "Talkback Tuesdays" Series
* Collector John Wolfson Will Give Rare Shakespeare Folios to London's Globe
* "A Way Back to Then": Blickenstaff Will Return to Mermaid Cast in 2009 as Ursula
* PHOTO CALL: Jersey Boys Celebrate Three Years on Broadway
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Nov. 1-7: See Jane Play
* PHOTO CALL: Encores! Goes On the Town
* Luker Will Sing Work of Heisler, Goldrich, Blumenkrantz and More at the Kennedy Center
* Beth Fowler Will Be Joan Littlewood in In the Theatre Musical Reading
* CBS "Sunday Morning" to Welcome Billy Elliot's Creators and Stars Nov. 9
* Ackerman, Budd, Reams and More Will Join deRoy at the Metropolitan Room Dec. 4
* Cullum Is New Patriarch of Osage County Starting Nov. 11; Ross and Warren Also Join
* NBC's "Today" to Welcome Equus Star Nov. 10
* Arden, Egan, Espinosa, Graae, Gravitte, Hilty, Morrow and More Will Sing Schwartz Nov. 24
* Maye, Cooper, Cavenaugh, Murney, Noll and More Join Broadway Unplugged Line-Up
* London's Donmar Dominates Evening Standard Theatre Awards Short List
* Universal Plans Silver-Screen Adaptation of In the Heights
* A Trove of WWII Letters Inspires New Musical, The Daly News, Premiering in Milwaukee

TheaterMania

* Cullum, Ross, Warren to Join Cast of August: Osage County
* Universal to Produce Film Adaptation of In the Heights
* Branagh, Ejiofor, Grandage, Tyzack, et al. Receive London's Evening Standard Nominations
* Cavenaugh, Freeman, Lisitza, Maye, et al. Added to Broadway Unplugged

Broadway.com

John Cullum, Samantha Ross and Amy Warren Join August Cast

Fresh Face: Elisabeth Moss

Talkin' Broadway

On the scene: Opening night of 'If You See Something Say Something

The Clyde Fitch Report

Rising Phoenix Repertory Announces Its First Off-Broadway Transfer

Jamespeak

Angel Eaters
A glib way to describe *Angel Eaters,* Johnna Adams' engrossing, funny and disturbing play, would be to tell you to imagine *The Exorcist* or * Re-Animator* as if written by Tennessee Williams. But again,...

The Mirror up to Nature

The Corporate Circuit
This India Times article talks of how theatre impresarios in that country are tapping into corporate money: Ashvin Gidwani typifies the phenomenon. Seven years ago, he was producing sex comedies in league w...

Boston Theatre - Friday Roundup

On Theatre and Politics

The Most Damaging Wound
The Most Damaging Wound opens tonight. It's a new play by Blair Singer, directed by our pal Mark Armstrong. Definitely check it out! Mark posted a series of videos to illuminate us about the show. Take ...

The Producer's Perspective

The 13 hostess with the mostess.
One of our marketing strategies on 13 is to try and create a "tug on mom's coat" syndrome in our younger audiences. If you can get a young consumer passionate enough about a product,

The Guardian

Donmar sweeps nominations in Evening Standard theatre awards
Michael Grandage's Donmar Warehouse leads the field with six nominations at this year's Evening Standard theatre awards, announced today

Stage news roundup: Ben-Hur at the 02, Dreyfuss at the Old Vic
On Ben-Hur at the O2, Dreyfuss at the Old Vic and outstanding small spaces

Rare Shakespeare texts donated to Globe Theatre
A US collector has pledged priceless texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to London's Globe theatre, it was announced today

King Lear, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
No Rupert Goold production is ever dull, but his first Lear turns out to be a startlingly wayward, hit-and-miss affair, says Michael Billington

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Lyn Gardner: hWhat to see this week
A great week to go to the theatre before panto season begins in earnest

Nosheen Iqbal: Who would you cast in the Michael Jackson musical?
The show's producers are holding auditions for 11- to 15-year-olds. It's a shame they won't think outside the box

Matt Wolf: Evening Standard awards snub commercial theatre
This year's shortlist gives the West End short shrift

Michael Billington: Dramatists should take a leaf out of Dostoevsky's book
Enda Walsh and Theatre O's adaptation of The Brothers Karamzov is a timely reminder of the inherent theatricality of Dostoevsky's writing

Whatsonstage.com

Sister Act Musical Premieres at Palladium in June
As previously tipped, Sister Act: The Musical will receive its European premiere in the West End next year, op...

Robin Williams Aims Weapon at Bush, Two Nights

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Spectacular, Riverside Studios
Spectacular opens with a slightly apologetic actor dressed as Death in a rather makeshift tracksuit with a skeleton painted on it. ...

Delirium, Barbican
On paper, this ought to be a cracker. Enda Walsh is the coming thing; Chatroom brought his name to the collective consciousness and The Walworth Farce is keeping it there, courtesy of the NT. The ...

London Theatre Guide

Colman debuts in National spring
The National Theatre has confirmed its spring season of shows, which includes the Southbank debut of Peepshow star Olivia Colman.

Williams shows off Weapons at Gielgud
American actor and comedian Robin Williams is bringing his stand-up show Weapons Of Self-Destruction to the Gielgud theatre for two nights only on 13 and 14 November, in aid of the Prince’s Trust.

Donmar tops Evening Standard shortlist
The Donmar Warehouse leads the shortlisted nominations in the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards with a total of six nominations for three of its shows.

First Night Feature: Othello
There may never have been a more unlikely setting for Shakespeare’s tragedy of jealousy than a West Yorkshire housing estate pub at the turn of the millennium.