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Review - Liza's at the Palace...! - A Most Welcome Return

Associated Press

Liza Minnelli lights up Broadway's Palace Theatre until Dec. 28

Bloomberg.com

Radiant Liza Minnelli Glitters, Struts at New York Palace: Jeremy Gerard
The shimmering outfits -- white, black and, of course, red -- are by Halston. The familiar anthems are by John Kander and Fred Ebb. The backlit silhouette -- legs apart, hair spiky, right arm thrust skyward, is unmistakable.

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Marc Shaiman on 'Prop 8 - The Musical'

New York Daily News

Liza dazzles in holiday show
Liza Minnelli's spectacular holiday happening "Liza's at the Palace ..." finds Liza with a Z fit, funny, surprisingly energetic and in her best voice in ages.

Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog

Casting Alert: Hartnett and Culkin Broadway Bound?

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Humbug! Here we come a-`Carol’-ing

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

Marc Shaiman has his say in song
After California voters passed Proposition 8, restricting marriage to heterosexual couples, Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman did two things. Shaiman, who wrote the Hairspray lyrics with his longtime partner Scott Wittman, discovered that the artistic director of the Sacramento-based California Musical...

Playbill

* Hearn, McNair and Gilfry to Star in Ravinia's Camelot
* Thriller—Live Casts Three 13-Year-Olds to Share Role of Young Michael Jackson
* "Dare," with Rossum, Cumming, Gasteyer, Huffman and Bernhard, to Be Screened at Sundance
* London's Sound of Music to Close in February 2009
* Friel, Cohn, Smith, Campbell and More Set for Free Reading of Lighter: The Diet Musical
* Richardson, Welch and Hodges May Star in AMC Political Thriller
* Cannavale Will Take Aim in ABC's "Cupid"
* Tomorrow Morning Musical Gets U.S. Cast Album and Aims for Off-Broadway
* Luhrmann to Receive Satellite's Auteur Award for "Australia"
* Schwimmer, Slotnick, Stillman, Catlin Will Populate Lookingglass' Our Town in Chicago
* Tony-Winning Jersey Boys to Make Boston Premiere in 2009
* Melba Moore and Darlene Love Will Team for San Francisco Concert Engagement

TheaterMania

Palace Guests
Sandra Bernhard, Tony Danza, Vincent D'Onofrio, Christine Ebersole, Cheyenne Jackson, Shirley MacLaine, Mary-Louise Parker, Elaine Stritch and more stars attend the opening of Liza's at the Palace...!

* Preliminary Casting Announced for London's Thriller - Live
* Bostwick, Gravitte, Luker, Mason, et al. to Join New York Pops' Charles Strouse Concert
* Jackie Mason to Try Out New Material at Emelin Theatre
* Olympia Dukakis Set for Orlando Shakespeare Theater's PlayFest!
* Keenan-Bolger, Kuhn, McKechnie, Walsh, et al. Set for Transport Group Gala
* The Builders Association, Improbable, et al. Set for WEXner Center's 2009 Season
* Terry Farrell, Brian Baker Set for Love Letters at Hershey Area Playhouse
* Full Cast Set for Dead Man's Cell Phone at TheaterWorks
* Chicago Cast of Tomorrow Morning Set to Record Cast Album

Broadway.com

Camelot, 42nd Street, Forum on Tap at Goodspeed

nytheatre.com

Review: Opening Night

Bitter Lemons

The Cheap Seats
Check out LA Weekly Chief Theatre Editor Steven Leigh Morris’s hilarious autobiogaphical tale of a critic getting caught up in the action. Ah, theatre.

“The Little Dog Laughed” - 80% - Sweet
It’s a play that probes the obvious and discovers almost nothing amidst some sweet repartee, and a quartet of performances (Zoe Lister-Jones plays the hustler’s sardonic girlfriend) ....

Culturebot

Opening Night for Two More Nights
I have to work at ye olde day-jobbe so this is by necessity a quick one. Saw Ivo Van Hove’s Opening Night at BAM last night. It was AMAZING. Go check it out. It is playing until the 6th.

ecoTheater

In the Audience
I’ve worked in theater in some form or another since high school. I have had a bad habit throughout my life in theater of being the type who says (or at least thinks) “I don’t want to go watch theater, I see so much of it from backstage, from the booth, I see it in rehearsals all day long…” So, I don’t sit in the audience much.

The Globe and Mail - Theatre

The Siminovitch sitch: Daniel MacIvor and Alisa Palmer back and forth
Yesterday, I linked to playwright Daniel MacIvor's blogged response to the recent Siminovitch story, in which he questioned director Alisa Palmer's motivations for talking about her concerns with the prize's transparency; now, he has quite decently given Palmer space to respond to what he wrote on his...

The Hub Review

A crackling Nutcracker

The Mirror up to Nature

Snark of the Day
Michael Feingold gets a little too Grinchy:

"It's More Than a Speculation - It's a Prediction !"
There is something magical that happens when a good actor doesn't realize he or she is in something schlocky. When an actor tries to go against the grain of the project it can create moments of unexpectedley high camp.

Hollywood Ethos
George Hunka writes about American drama:

Oh Boy - This Again
Don Hall points us to an outrageous case of a critic leaving a play at intermission, and then, astonishingly, the critic publishes a review without mentioning that fact.

Parabasis

Layoffs
I'm hearing about lots of layoffs in nonprofit theaters. Is that happening where you are? Whaddya know? Leave us a comment!

The Wicked Stage

Best-Kept Secret
Chris Wells, ex-Actors' Gangster and fellow former Angeleno, is one of my favorite stage and/or cabaret performers, but I haven't seen him perform in quite a while--unless I can count his monthly "gig" leading a secular artist's service called The Secret City, ...

The Stage UK

BBC iPlayer pulls in a million requests a day
BBC iPlayer received more than a million viewing requests a day last month, according to data released by the Corporation.

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Carrie Dunn: West End girl: Is the circus coming to town?
Barnum seeks a ringleader; Eva, Avenue Q and Wicked are assigned leading ladies; and fingers crossed for a bit of Hugh Jackman magic in London

Whatsonstage.com

Photos: Three Young Michaels Cast for Thriller at Lyric
A photocall was held at the Lyric theatre this morning to announce the three boys who will share the role of the young Michael Jackson in t...

The Sound of Music Confirms Closing Date, 21 Feb