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If Matthew Weiner Doesn’t Come Back, Bryan Batt Will Sing ‘Les Miz’

Seth Rogen Is Really Into Porno
....Fat Man and a Little Coke: Rotund long-haired actor Dan Fogler will play rotund long-haired comic Sam Kinison in HBO's biopic of the foul-mouthed funnyman, ...

Theatre in Chicago

The Bowery Boys to Make World Premiere at the Marriott Theatre
The Bowery Boys, a new musical, will make its highly anticipated world premiere at the Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive; previewing December 10th, opening December 17th, and running through February 15th.

Win a Walk-On Role in Wicked

Playbill

* Deborah Gibson, Spencer Day and Phantom Touring Cast to Offer Holiday Benefit
* Elaine Stritch to Return to "30 Rock" in December
* "Spring Awakening Loves the 90's" Concert to Benefit Broadway Cares
* A New Boy Will Head to London's Trafalgar Studios in March 2009
* Little, Keelan, Terry and Holdbrook-Smith Will Offer 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover at Christmas
* New Cast Announced for Canadian Production of Jersey Boys
* Talk Show Watch: Radcliffe and Griffiths on "Charlie Rose," Chenoweth on "Jay Leno"

TheaterMania

Berlin's Back on Broadway!
Stephen Bogardus, Kerry O'Malley, Jeffry Denman, Meredith Patterson, and Walter Bobbie give a sneak peek at the new Broadway musical Irving Berlin's White Christmas.

* Canonico, Daniel, Hunton, Pritchard, et al. Set for Want the Change
* Anderson, Bucchino, Glover, Metcalf, et al. Win 2008 Ovation Awards

Broadway.com

* Jayne Atkinson Joins Broadway Revival of Blithe Spirit
* Kathleen Turner to Co-Star with Charles Busch in Off-Broadway Comedy The Third Story

CurtainUp

Review: American Buffalo
John Leguizamo's dynamic physicality makes for an eminently watchable Teach. Cedric the Entertainer is a credible Don. However, this revival could use more Mametian snap, crackle and pop . .

BroadwayWorld

* SPRING AWAKENING 'Loves the 90's' at Upright Cabaret 11/23
* Shinn's DYING CITY to Receive LA Premiere at Neighborhood Playhouse 11/18

An Angry White Guy in Chicago

In the Economic Maelstrom, the Gypsy is King
What About the DCA Theater Program?

The Globe and Mail - Theatre

Your morning theatre press releases: Shaw Festival attendance up; Canadian Jersey Boys cast announced

The Guardian

What to say about … Treasure Island with Keith Allen
You don't need to spend your pieces of eight to have an opinion on the Theatre Royal Haymarket's pirate panto

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Ajesh Patalay: What Barack's Campaign Can Teach the West End
Theatres would do well to pay attention to how politicians are starting to use the web

The Stage UK

Hairspray scoops top musical at Variety Club Showbiz Awards
West End show Hairspray has been named the top musical theatre production of the year at the 56th annual Variety Club Showbiz Awards.

Stag Theatre saved from demolition
Kent's Stag Theatre, which went dark in July after its operating company went into administration, has been saved from demolition and will reopen in the new year following a successful take-over bid by Sevenoaks Town Council.

Strictly Come Dancing judge's Sunset Boulevard to transfer to London
A new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, which opened at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury earlier this year and is directed by Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood, is set to transfer to London's Comedy Theatre on December 4.

Whatsonstage.com

Ralf Little Leaves Lover More Ways at Bush for Xmas
Heartbreak will be back on the menu at the Bush Theatre next month with the return of the summer box office hit now given a cruelly festive twist. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover … at Christmas will have a limited season from 10 December 2008 (previe...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Noises Off, New Wimbeldon Theatre
Michael Frayn's uproarious farce has come to Wimbledon on a national tour. This is a top drawer, copper-bottomed, dead cert of a play, from first line to last. A million people have laughed along with the antics of the cast of Nothing On – and it is ...

Whatsonstage.com - Blogs

Michael Coveney: Cohen for a song, and is Boris Godunov?
I’m increasingly drawn to the songs of ancient troubadors who can’t really sing all that well these days, and I had Leonard Cohen placed third in my personal line behind Tom Waites and Randy Newman.

London Theatre Guide

Bush gives breaking up a festive twist
The Bush theatre’s collected tales of relationship endings, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, returns to the West London venue next month with a new seasonal slant

Sunset Boulevard recreated in West End
The Watermill Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard transfers to the West End in time for Christmas, opening at the Comedy theatre on 15 December, after previews from 4 December.