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* Hagan, Naughton and Riesco to Inhabit One-Acts from Our Time Theatre Company
* London's Imagine This, Musical About Actors in the Warsaw Ghetto, Will Close Dec. 20
* Chekhov Is a Hit: Broadway's The Seagull Recoups Investment

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* A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe CD Gets Release

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* Hair Advances Start Date on Broadway
* Nick Spangler of The Fantasticks Wins The Amazing Race

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* President-Elect Obama Speaks of White House Cultural Revival on NBC's MEET THE PRESS
* 'NYS ARTS DAY' In Albany Will Take Place On 2/3/09

An Angry White Guy in Chicago

REVIEW: Dreams in the Witch House
presented by WildClaw Theatre Company

Extra Criticum

You've got to be carefully taught...
I got a call this morning from a playwright friend who lives in another state. She called to talk about a listserv we are both on, specifically about how to respond to a post and some backchanneling that had upset...

Parabasis

Our Gift To Dionysus
We all know the roots of our art come from the plays performed at the annual Feast of Dionysus. Were we alive then, and male, and of a certain age, and free, we'd be required by civic and religious duty to sit through an all day theatre festival at the end of which prizes were given out to the favorites.

The Playgoer

"Corpus Christi"...Again

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Chris Wilkinson: What does theatre really say about Iran?
A season of performances at the Barbican confronted stereotypes about Iran and presented some intriguing parallels with western traditions of theatre

Mark Espiner: hDeutsch Mark: My cultural hangover from Berlin
London looks bright after my Berlin culture binge - but its audiences are muted by comparison

The Stage UK - Blogs

Mark Shenton: Christmas in the theatre….
There was at least one unhappy punter in the interval at the Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue: she was wondering when Eddie Izzard was going to appear. She had bought her tickets online for last night’s performance there, and it was...

Whatsonstage.com

Feature: Brief Encounter With … Ron Cook
Actor Ron Cook plays Sir Toby Belch alongside Derek Jacobi's Malvolio in Michael Grandage’s Donmar West End production of Twelfth Night, which opens this week at the Wyndham’s Theatre. Cook’s recent stage credits include The Seafarer ...