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* Tony Winner Emick Will Join Emmy Winner Harper for Looped in Florida
* Winters, Grody, Feiffer, Elliot, Broderick, Sommer and Degnan Set for Jacob's Ladder Reading
* Tony Winner Peters to Guest on "Ugly Betty"
* Scott Alan's "Keys" CD, with Murney, Blickenstaff, Graff, Lewis and Foster, Now Available
* Burgess and The Broadway Boys Will Join Brinberg for A Simply Barbra Holiday Spectacular

TheaterMania

* Valerie Harper and Jarrod Emick to Star in Florida Production of Looped
* Bernadette Peters to Guest Star on ABC's Ugly Betty
* If You See Something Say Something to Become Feature Film

BroadwayWorld

* Mart Crowley's 'For Reasons That Remain Unclear'
* 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' To Hit South Florida
* Theatre Museum Presents 'Box Office to Backstage' Panel Discussion 11/12

ArtSake

Listening in on the Lunchbox Lab
On the CinemaTech blog, Scott Kirsner shares audio from a recent “Lunchbox Lab” that was organized by a number of Boston-area film organizations. The discussion centered on film/video distribution on the internet for independent filmmakers. Scott recorded the conversation and is streaming it on his site. To quote Scott: ...

The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show

The content question
Tony Adams has started a lovely discussion about content. There are plenty of comments from folks you all know and love, and then there's a post from Kris Vire, following up on HIS views on the question of content. Specifically, Kris is talking about the American theater's greatest enemy: the MFA. ...

The Stage UK - Blogs

Mark Shenton: Another New York coincidence…
On Monday evening, as I wrote here yesterday , I saw What’s that Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling , which is all about a fictional composer of bad musicals, with extracts from some of the shows he has...

The Guardian

What to say about David Hare's Gethsemane
Everyone's talking about Hare's new play at the National, but there's no need to remain tight-lipped if you haven't seen it. Pick and mix these quotes from the critics

Enter Blair: New Labour on stage
Quiz: David Hare's Gethsemane is the latest play to examine Blair's time at No 10. Plenty of other writers have produced political plays in recent years. Have you been paying attention?

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Andy Field: Should theatre be more dangerous?
The most exciting theatrical experiences have an edge of real risk - but where does the line lie?

Whatsonstage.com

Sunset Boulevard Confirms West End Transfer
...Watermill Theatre’s recent revival of Sunset Boulevard will transfer to the West End’s Comedy Theatre next month, opening on 15 December 2008 (previews from 4 December). Based ...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Canterbury Tales, Greenwich Theatre
Chaucer's verse sequence of The Canterbury Tales is familiar to most of us from various points of our life. These may be at school or college, through film, television or even stage adaptations. But you're unlikely to have experienced anything like the 2006 collaboratively-written version directed by Richard ...

Hope and Glory, Humble Theatre
Humble Theatre is a young theatre company whose previous work has included plays that tackled the sex trade, discrimination and children in care. Their new home is a room below the Prince Edward pub in Bayswater. They hope the venue will become the next new full-time fringe theatre ...

Whatsonstage.com - Blogs

Michael Coveney: Politicos turn up for Hare play
Interesting that the Guardian puts Michael Billington’s rave review of the new David Hare play Gethsemane on its front page today. The minute the political and cultural life of the country comes under proper scrutiny in the theatre, the media takes the theatre more seriously.

London Theatre Guide

Buddy rocks off in Feb 2009
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story will end its rocking West End run at the Duchess theatre on 7 February 2009, four days after the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s tragic death.

The First Night Feature: Gethsemane
Politicians, fundraisers, journalists and ordinary members of the public swing around an ethical pivot in David Hare’s new play Gethsemane, which premiered at the National’s Cottesloe theatre last night.