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Associated Press

People's Choice Awards Nominees Announced

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog

Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
-- The Library of Congress has acquired the papers of lyricist Howard Ashman ("Little Shop of Horrors," "The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin.”)

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

Off and writing
Fueled by pizza, beer and maybe a little fear, seven playwrights are spending the night doing what playwrights do: ...

Orlando Sentinel Attention Must Be Paid Blog

Theater review: Hubris's 'The Pillowman'

Atlanata Journal-Constitution ATLArts Blog

Review: 'High School Musical 2' @ the Fox

Back Stage

King of Collaborators
Meanwhile three of Thomas Schumacher's musicals are enjoying hit runs on Broadway, while several of his productions are touring the country or playing internationally.

Book Review: New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007
Lawrence Harbison selected seven outstanding new works by promising playwrights, and I felt a surge of positive energy about the book.

Sensedance reviewed by Lisa Jo Sagolla
Commendably danced by his chamber ballet company, Sensedance, this program of nine pieces of Henning Rübsam's choreography proves tame, derivative, and dated.

Back Stage - L.A. Reviews

Review: Desperate Writers
There is potential hilarity in the trials and tribulations of Hollywood writers who battle with capricious studio executives, but the storytellers should set a consistent comedic style.

CinStages Buzz Blog

Bravo to CCM Studio's On the Verge

Playbill

* Seattle Honors Late Playwright with August Wilson Way
* Carmello, Gets, Testa, DeRosa and Kirkwood Sing Finn's Infinite Joy at Joe's Pub Nov. 10
* ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Sunnybrook Farm's Bounty

TheaterMania

Welcome to the Neighborhood
Zoe Caldwell, Julie Chen, Ted Danson, Tammy Grimes, Anne Jackson, Diane Keaton, Christopher Meloni, Les Moonves, Mary Steenburgen, Eli Wallach, and Kate Winslet help the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre celebrate its 80th anniversary.

* Frechette, Halston, Hoffman, et al. to Star in Reprise of TWEED's Posteriors
* New Rockette Dolls Will Be Unveiled at FAO Schwarz
* Cast Announced for Jim Neu's Gang of Seven at La MaMa
* Gari, Knee, Kristen to Participate in Late Nite Comic Event at Drama Book Shop
* Ciaran Hinds and Rory Kinnear to Star in National's Burnt by the Sun

Broadway.com

Seattle Honors Playwright August Wilson With Renamed Street

The Wicked Stage

Ideas That Pay
If I've seemed less than concerned about the rolling collapse of the newspaper business in previous posts, let me correct that impression. The biggest problem with the slow death march of advertising- and subscription-supported...

The Guardian

Is the Holocaust a suitable subject for a musical?
Poll: The new West End show Imagine This is set in the Warsaw ghetto. Is it appropriate to give this episode of history a musical treatment?

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Natasha Tripney: Open-ar theatre is a risk worth taking
Scarborough's huge, derelict outdoor theatre is to be renovated. Now they need to decide how best to use it