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Playbill

* Tale of Two Cities' Lazar Joins Broadway Unplugged Line-Up
* The Broadway Boys to Offer Holiday Concert at Birdland in December
* Cook Celebrates New CD, "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," Nov. 13 at NYC Barnes & Noble
* Engquist and Lebeaux Set for Free Songbook Concert Nov. 24
* Memorial for Harry S. Gold, Disney Theatricals Executive, Set for Nov. 17

TheaterMania

* Brown, Cavenaugh, Kudisch, Lazar, Murney, et al. Set for Broadway Unplugged
* Sarah Ruhl to Appear at Drama Book Shop on November 18
* Bogart, Kazan, Mee, Wallace, Yew, et al. Set for Humana Festival

An Angry White Guy in Chicago

How a Paradigm Shifts

Culturebot

http://culturebot.org/2008/11/13/heads-up-gatz-empac/

The Guardian

Scenes at the museum
Researching Gilgamesh in the British Museum, Jacqui Honess-Martin came across the story of an unlikely excavator in Nineveh. Where better to stage his tale than alongside the museum's Babylon exhibition?

The Stage UK

BBC revamps entertainment department to attract more commissions
The BBC has revamped its entertainment department to bring the genre's in-house production and development teams closer together in a "push for more commissions".

Kinnear and Hinds join Flannery's Burnt by the Sun cast
Rory Kinnear and Ciaran Hinds are set to star in a new stage adaptation of 1994 Oscar-winning film Burnt by the Sun, at the National Theatre next year.

November 13: Lenny Henry, Denis Lawson and the Devil’s Whore
In this week’s issue of The Stage we talk to Denis Lawson , who has joined the cast of La Cage aux Folles in the role of Georges. He talks about the various acting challenges in his career: I...

Whatsonstage.com

Feature: Past/Present/Future for...Douglas Hodge
Actor-director Douglas Hodge stars as drag queen Albin in Terry Johnson’s acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory production of Broadway musical comedy La Cage Aux Folles, now transferred to the West End. As an actor, he has appeared in more than ten Harold Pinter plays and his other recent stage credits include Titus Andronicus, Pericles...

Hartnett, Corden & Vaughan Join Old Vic's 24 Hour
The Old Vic has announced the initial participants for its fifth annual theatre challenge, The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala, which this year takes place on Sunday 30 November 2008. Josh Hartnett (pictured), currently starring in the West End i...

Gossip: Mitchell's Mathilde Attracts All-star Reading???
Following acclaim at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Conor Mitchell’s musical Mathilde is receiving another all-star outing this week in London. The workshop reading – performed by a company including Sam...

Gossip: Meantime Douglas Hodge Makes a New Musical???
Douglas Hodge is a busy boy. Not only is he currently starring in La Cage Aux Folles and preparing to direct Jonathan Pryce in Athol Fugard’s Dimetos at the Donmar Warehouse in the new year, he’s also writing a musical of his own...

London Theatre Guide

First Night Feature: On Emotion
Are we the puppets of our emotions? That is the question asked and pondered in the new ‘Theatre Essay’ from On Theatre, currently playing at the Soho theatre