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On the Town (In Concert) reviewed by David Sheward
Director John Rando has given this tale of three sailors on a 24-hour leave in World War II Gotham a fully realized production full of life, excitement, elaborate comic bits, and three-dimensional characters.

Garden of Earthly Delights reviewed by Adam R. Perlman
Candy-colored savagery is the hallmark of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Resembling the work of a sadistic Dr. Seuss, it bursts with fantastical creatures and contraptions.

Variety

Review: On the Town
The Bronx is still up and the Battery down, and "On the Town" remains a helluva show. That's the word just in from City Center, where Encores! has contributed to this fall's cornucopious Leonard Bernstein festival with the musical that first took the remarkable Lenny out of the concert hall and put him on the showbiz A-list.

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Review: `The Arabian Nights’
Berkeley Rep unveils some enchanted `Nights’

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog

Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
-- Katharina Wagner, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival and great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, was uninjured in a car accident on the German autobahn that occurred when the driver died of a heart attack at the wheel.

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

Listen to a play or three for free
Conundrum Stages celebrates its fourth anniversary at 2 p.m. Saturday with a free reading of Lorraine Hansberry's great play, A Raisin in the Sun. Rachel Finley directs Will Barnes, Yvone Christiana, Crystal, John Fell, Devounte Hohing, Kevin Johnson, Dorothy Morrison,...

Orange County Register The Arts Blog

‘The Color Purple’ looks a bit faded at OCPAC

Orlando Sentinel Attention Must Be Paid Blog

* Benji Hurlburt leaving Sak
* Rep receives big B of A grant

Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog

You Tube Listening Treasure: Liza Gives Doris Day A Ring-A-Ding

Playbill

* In the Heights' Merediz Heads to the Chatterbox Nov. 20
* Neu's Gang of Seven to Premiere at LaMaMa Dec. 4

TheaterMania

* Asolo Rep to Hold Town Hall Event December 2

BroadwayWorld

* Broadway in Chicago 2009 Season Series On Sale
* Resonance Ensemble Announces Their 2008-09 Season

nytheatre.com

Review: Garden of Earthly Delights

Bitter Lemons

Is There Such a Thing as Conservative Theatre?
Found this nugget on the Wall Street Journal site. Thanks to Matt Wells at the needtheatre blog for the link. Raises an interesting question: Where are all the Conservative plays? Which raises an even MORE interesting query: Is theatre and conservativism anti-thetical? In the article, Terry Teachout (great name!) puts it this way: …I [...]

The Globe and Mail -Theatre

Theatre and dance critic Clive Barnes, dead at 81
Obituaries in the New York Post and the New York Times. Reading about how Barnes used to sometimes write four reviews a day for the New York Times makes me feel like a real slacker for not updating this blog very much this week...

The Mirror up to Nature

Law and Order - It's About Craft
Whenever I see a critic start to talk about the artistic success of a network show, I tense up a little bit. The temptation to try and put some of that good old postgraduate seminar time to use proves too great for some, if not most.

The Playgoer

Welcome, "Critic-O-Meter"
Well as if a couple of bloggers like Isaac Butler and Rob Kendt did have enough to do

Steve On Broadway

Opening Broadway's Estate Sale
This evening, the show that is arguably the most anticipated play to transfer to Broadway this season -- Horton Foote's acclaimed Off-Broadway hit from last fall Dividing The Estate -- opens this evening at the Booth Theatre.

The Wicked Stage

Venue Attrition
Apologies if another writer in my bloggerhood has already posted on this new study by the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation about the fortunes of Off-0ff-Broadway venues, which I found sobering. To wit:

The Stage UK

Broadway shows its respect for theatre critic Barnes
All Broadway theatre marquees will be dimmed for one minute at 8pm tonight (Thursday), in memory of longtime theatre and dance critic Clive Barnes, who passed away yesterday at the age of 81.

Whatsonstage.com

Review: Bill Bailey: Tinselworm
What is a tinselworm? It’s something I can’t stop thinking about since seeing Bill Bailey’s latest highly entertaining solo show of the same name – but it’s not the only thing. To call what Bailey does simply stand-up – he doesn’t stand sti...