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David Pittsinger to Succeed Szot in South Pacific

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

Laughs, politics and bawdy bits
So the second 24-Hour Theatre Project is history now. I'm exhausted, and all I did was watch people like playwrights Jonathan Wemette, Andrew Rosendorf and Andie Arthur (all mustering exhausted smiles in the first photo) work. If our incoming president...

AmericanTheaterWeb

Call For Submissions: Fifth Annual Berkshire Fringe

Playbill

* Sleepwalk With Me Opens at the Bleecker Street Theater Nov. 11
* Nevins' Birthday Bash to Include Blonsky, Burgess, Cates, Pazakis and More
* Landau, Lind, Booth, Drena, Meyer, Hicks and More Are Suzi Bass Award Winners
* Tony Winner Cook Will Join Tunick at Birdland Nov. 24
*Weinstein Co. Acquires Worldwide August: Osage County Film Rights
* Talk Show Watch: Billy Elliot on "The View," Rock of Ages on "Conan"

An Angry White Guy in Chicago

Scenes from Films That Blow My Mind

Extra Criticum

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Zombies but Were Afraid to Ask

Jamespeak

Twin Peaks Episode 29 (David Lynch, 1991)

On Theatre and Politics

Where you buy and what you buy
Just something I'm curious about...

The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show

Hard-working polish man
I'm teaching Polish Cinema next semester at Columbia College, and if you're wondering where I've been the last few days, it's mostly been filled with preliminary preparations for this class. It's the first "National Cinema" class...

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

David Thomson: Ben-Hur at the O2 will be an epic farce
A planned stage adaptation can't hope to match the spectacle of Charlton Heston's famed Hollywood version

The Stage UK

Godley to star in Jones' Radio 3 play about man who fakes amnesia
Humble Boy writer Charlotte Jones has penned a new play for BBC Radio 3 about a man who fakes memory loss to help him rebuild his life.

The Stage UK - Blogs

Mark Shenton: The bad smell of musicals feeding on themselves…
Only the other day I wrote here about how there’s a line in the new Broadway musical 13 , set in Appleton, Indiana, that has one of the kids there referencing the fact that there’s a Broadway musical version...

Whatsonstage.com

Coward, Frayn & McGuinness Mark Hampstead 50th
North London’s Hampstead Theatre marks its 50th anniversary in 2009, and as previously tipped (See The Goss::E8821225740679, 3 Nov 2008), will kick off the year “celebrating half a century of new writing” with a revival of Private Lives, the classic ...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

The Long Road, Soho Theatre
Newspapers trot out the facts and figures of knife crime on a seemingly daily basis. What little we see of the people affected by such momentary murders reduces to ill-fitting labels and quotations of despair. Shelagh Stephenson's The Long Road serves a desperate and poignant ...

London Theatre Guide

Come Dancing with Sadler’s Wells
Four of the professional dance stars of BBC television show Strictly Come Dancing will show off their moves next spring as part of Sadler’s Wells’s new season.

The First Night Feature: The Long Road
The collision of two lives, once totally unrelated and unknown to each other, can have truly catastrophic results, binding the pair together in an unexpected and painful way.