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TT: Clive Barnes, R.I.P.
When I was a teenager and first became aware of criticism as a profession, Clive Barnes was one of its very biggest names. Born in 1927, Barnes had come to this country in 1965 to work for the New York Times. Right from the start, he was the kind of writer who got written about, in part because he had two arrows in his...

Playbill

* Rose, Poulos, Walker and More Will Join Fowler for In the Theatre Musical Readings
* Shakespeare's Globe Announces 2009 Season
* Reba McEntire May Head Back to Broadway in Cole Porter Classic
* Will Gandolfini and Harden Star in Broadway Staging of Reza's God of Carnage?

Orlando Sentinel Attention Must Be Paid Blog

A little pre-holiday theatrics
This clip combines dance, music and theater, with allusions to film. It's got it all.

An Angry White Guy in Chicago

I Believe...
...that artists who believe that it's "all just subjective" are either shills for bucks or are secretly embarrassed by their weakass work. Take a stand or move over for something with balls. ....

Theatre in Chicago

Richard Chamberlain to Star as King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Natasha Tripney: The etiquette of leaving the theatre mid-play
During a recent show, a couple left their seats 20 minutes before the end. Surely it's not fair to disrupt the rest of the audience?

Whatsonstage.com

Ten Years On, Mark Little Defends Caveman Again
A decade after he made his West End debut in Defending the Caveman, Australian comedian and television presenter Mark Little (pictured) will reprise his role in the Olivier Award-winning one-man comedy, with...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Robyn Moore … Eastender in the Southend
Robyn Moore is best known to the British public as Ex-Eastender Shirley Benson, but she is about to grace our stages as she opens in a powerful new Australian play, The Ides of March at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington. It runs from 25 November until 21 December. Keith ...

Alex, Mercury Theatre, Colchester
Question: how do you put a cartoon strip – an adult one at that, about corporate man at his most devious – live on stage? Answer: take a script by Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, add direction by Phelim McDermott, animations by Peattie and then just ...

London Theatre Guide

Globe loves 2009
Shakespeare’s Globe will celebrate young love in its season next year, which includes three of the bard’s romances and a new version of Euripides’s Helen by Frank ...

First Night Feature: The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbes
In the atmospheric setting of Wilton’s Music Hall, simultaneously ancient and modern, the Royal Shakespeare Company launches its 2008 London season with the world premiere of The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbes.