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Associated Press

'Earthly Delights' again finds life on stage

'Impressionism' Sets a March 12 Broadway Opening
The opening date and Broadway theater have been set for the world premiere of ''Impressionism,'' a play by Michael Jacobs starring Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen.

Next Deadline in Actors Dispute: Awards Season
The Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios plan to hold their first contract talks in four months on Thursday and will negotiate this time with the help of a federal mediator.

Bloomberg.com

Tree Huggers, Bible Thumpers Shed Tears, Crack Wise: San Francisco Stage
“The Quality of Life,” Jane Anderson’s play about a conservative couple from Ohio who visit their liberal relatives in Northern California, can’t quite decide whether it wants to be a lightweight comedy or a touching drama.

USA Today

Economy acting out on Broadway attendance

Variety

Yale establishes music branch
Yale U. is diving into the musical theater world in a big way. University has established the Yale Institute for MusicTheater, Theater, collaboration between Yale's Schools of Drama and Music.

'Impressionism' set for Schoenfeld
Irons-Allen drama begins run in March

Vaudeville vet Irving Brecher dies
Worked with Milton Berle, Marx Brothers

Review: Garden of Earthly Delights
When she first synthesized the disciplines of dance, theater, music and painting, Clarke created a new language -- intense, erotic and unnerving -- that's still an inspiration for performance theater companies and a special thrill for auds famished for visual beauty.

Imagine This, New London Theatre
Criticizing "Holocaust," playwright Dennis Potter dismissed the argument that the 1978 miniseries was moving. If you couldn't make the murder of 6 million Jews moving, he retorted, you shouldn't be working in television. "Imagine This," the heartfelt new musical set during the last days of the Warsaw Ghetto, is no different. The inevitable final scenes of Timothy Sheader's skilled, uncynical production have both restraint and power, but not enough to overcome the preceding obstacles thrown up by its writers' handling of the highly sensitive -- and hard-to-sell -- subject.

Back Stage

Brian Stokes Mitchell: Songs... I Like To Sing reviewed by David Finkle
Shortly after gleefully handling Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin" at his just-concluded Feinstein's at Loews Regency gig, Brian Stokes Mitchell referred to the post-election euphoria sweeping the globe.

The 5th Annual Broadway Unplugged reviewed by David Finkle
Scott Siegel's Broadway Unplugged series is proving to be one of the most important annual events for anyone interested in how musicals are offered to the public.

Continuous City reviewed by Adam R. Perlman
Blue skies and smiling faces. Open windows and open vistas. The whole world is out there — and we'll bring it to you.

Perdita reviewed by Ronni Reich
The son of globe-trotting, award-winning feminist Perdita Huston, Pierre-Marc Diennet has a story to tell, and it is one most of us probably haven't heard before.

Back Back Back reviewed by David A. Rosenberg
Although the title refers to an announcer's call as a baseball flies for the fence, Back Back Back is more bunt than home run. The first half of Itamar Moses' play about a true-life scandal might as well be written in code.

Road Show reviewed by David A. Rosenberg
After 56 years, four titles, three directors, numerous readings, one New York workshop, and two out-of-town engagements, Stephen Sondheim's latest musical has finally arrived. Was it worth the wait? Of course.

Dancing in the Dark reviewed by Gwen Orel
It's not a good sign when the overheard comments of the senior citizens sitting in front of you are twice as engaging as the play you're reviewing.

The Funeralogues reviewed by Andy Propst
Sex and the City meets Six Feet Under in the self-conscious solo comedy The Funeralogues.

Zero reviewed by Marc Miller
Danny O'Connor can do wasted like nobody's business.

Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano: Remembering John Wallowitch, Lew Spence, and Murray Grand reviewed by David Finkle
Thanks to Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano — who evidently make good friends and are good friends to the friends they make — I started thinking about why songs become standards and how.