12/10/08 - Early Afternoon Clips
By Andy Propst on Dec 10, 2008 | In UK, Online Sources, Select Blogs, National, Industry, Tri-State
Associated Press
The New York Pops Gets New Music Director
Conductor Steven Reineke (RYE'-nuh-kee) has been named music director of The New York Pops, the nation's largest independent pops orchestra specializing in popular music.
New York Observer - The Daily Transom
Saucy, Charming Zoe Kazan Unfazed by Sticky Nude Scene With Leo; ‘Good Job,’ He Told Her
Time Out New York Blog
Chekhov your head
These days, everywhere you look is another article on the nasty life of the modern-day playwright. (Even a seasoned pro such as John Guare watches helplessly as his latest ...
In defense of All My Sons
Maybe you’ve heard: All My Sons is a travesty, a disaster, a rape of a classic American text. Or perhaps you’ve heard that All My Sons is a revelatory work of genius. While it’s neither, it is quite good and necessary viewing for anyone ...
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
The Reader Director Stephen Daldry on Sex Scenes, Rudin vs. Weinstein, and Kavalier & Clay
Dallas Morning News
Broadway Blues
If anyone is planning a Broadway trip over the holidays, this is truly a chance to catch 'em before they close. According to a story that ran in the The Daily Telegraph today, 15 Broadway shows are about to be shuttered...
Playbill
* Tennant Will Be Out of London Hamlet Through Christmas to Undergo Surgery
* Tomei and Reilly Likely for New Romantic Comedy for Fox Searchlight
* PHOTO CALL: Off-Broadway's Signature Opens Williams' Home
* Tony Winner Karen Ziemba to Star in Six Degrees at Old Globe
* Cohen's The Punishing Blow, with Duerr, to Play Manhattan JCC
* Pal Joey's Plimpton Signs On for Showtime Pilot
* Winner of Protect the Human Playwrighting Competition Announced
* Hit Me! The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury to Transfer to London's West End
* James and the Giant Peach, the Musical, Being Developed
TheaterMania
* Chenoweth, Greene to Be Featured on Pushing Daisies CD
* Deborah Rush Joins Cast of Broadway's Blithe Spirit
* Copeland, Gomez, Hoyle, et al. Set for Marsh 2009 Winter-Spring Season
Broadway.com
Deborah Rush Joins Broadway Cast of Blithe Spirit
Talkin' Broadway
Reviews: Sleuth, Gutenberg! in Florida
The Gothamist
Day Without A Gay Promises Less Fabulous Hump Day
Jamespeak
Oh...God...YES!
It's coming back! It's coming back! It's coming back!
Parabasis
oh dear god no!
PBS to broadcast taping of the recent Broadway production of Cyrano. Oy. This production was seriously problematic on a lot of different levels. Ah well, at least Kevin Klein's performance was fucking badass ....
The Playgoer
The Producer's Perspective
10 Audition Tips for Actors.
Sitting on the other side of the table is something that every actor should do. It's incredibly educational and inspirational, because frankly, you realize that while there are lots and lots of people that call themselves actors, there are a much smaller group of Actors (and talent is only a small part of that definition, by the by).
The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show
Give me money or I'll jump off this building
It's donation season, everybody! Yes sirree, it's that time of year when everybody even remotely associated with the Chicago theater community as a participant (actors, ...
The Guardian
What to say about … Carousel
Dec 10 2008:
You recognise You'll Never Walk Alone from the terraces, but you've never seen Carousel and suddenly it's the talk of the town. Time to defer to the critics
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Carrie Dunn: When theatre becomes a pain in the backside
Captain Frodo at La Clique was yet another show where I've endured extreme physical discomfort
Daily Telegraph
Economic downturn hits Broadway: a history of flops
As America's economic woes hit Broadway hard, with 15 shows to close in the next six weeks, Henry Samuel provides a list of theatrical flops.
The Doctor Who fans were there to see David Tennant, not Prince Hamlet
The audience's reaction to the RSC's Hamlet without its Prince, Doctor Who star David Tennant, proves that this was indeed a piece of celebrity casting
Not for the faint hearted
Cinderella is a gory, enthralling Christmas treat at Lyric Hammersmith.
The Stage UK
Broadway launches green theatre initiative
Whatsonstage.com
Tennant Out of Hamlet Until Xmas, Has Back Surgery
In an announcement that will disappoint scores of Doctor Who - not to mention theatre - fans, the Royal Shakespeare Company has confirm...
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