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* Neil Simon Given NYC's Handel Medallion Nov. 10; Mayor Also Recognizes MacDermot, A.R.T./NY

TheaterMania

Review: Disney's High School Musical
The Paper Mill Playhouse offers a properly perky version of the teen-friendly musical.

BroadwayWorld

* Hal Holbook's 'Mark Twain Tonight' Comes to Marin Center Nov. 22
* 'Gang of Seven', New Comedy by Jim Neu to Run at La MaMa E.T.C.

An Angry White Guy in Chicago

Swing DADAs in the World
They Really Aren't Mimes and I Like Noah's Jacket...

A Page from Jame McGonnigal's Journal

A Letter from Susan Egan...
Part of a growing online controversy over Scott Eckern (of California Music Theatre) and his support of CA's proposition 8

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Lyn Gardner: Theatre is a question of responsibility
It's easy to tell if you enjoyed a play or not. It's harder to work out who to praise or blame

The Stage UK

Mark Shenton: Yesterday in Chicago with Tomorrow Morning….
Only yesterday the New York Times Arts and Leisure supplement led with a feature on Chicago theatre, and highlighted the career of a noted local theatre director there that began by asking, “Is David Cromer the most talented theatre...

Whatsonstage.com

Kinnear & Hinds Are Burnt by Flannery at National
Ciaran Hinds (pictured) and Rory Kinnear will star in Peter Flannery’s new stage adaptation of the 1994 Oscar-winning Russian film Burnt by the Sun (Utomlyonnye solntsem), which receives its world premiere, directed by Howard Davies, at the N...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Five Reasons to See … Dear Heart
Dear Heart is the afternoon play at the King’s Head Theatre, running at 3pm weekdays and 1pm weekends until 30 November. Here, writer/director Jenny Davis tells us why we shouldn't miss it…

Whatsonstage.com - Blogs

Michael Coveney: Hare today, gone tomorrow…
You might think that playwright David Hare and Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre would not be on the same side about anything, but both seem to agree that public figures deserve all the opprobrium that gets dumped on them from the sidelines.

London Theatre Guide

Soho turns 40
Soho theatre celebrates its 40th birthday in 2009 with a programme of work that includes a new piece by Steve Thompson, the award-winning first play of model turned playwright In-Sook Chappell and a new site-specific piece.