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Gyllenhaal, Sarsgaard Join "Uncle Vanya" Cast
Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal will join the cast of Classic Stage Company's "Uncle Vanya."

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

The Golden Globes: Who Got Snubbed?

Playbill

* CSC's Uncle Vanya Will Star Sarsgaard and Gyllenhaal, Joining O'Hare
* Kids Can Go Free at Off-Broadway's Marvelous Wonderettes
* Carroll, Cothran, Jr. and Turman to Star in L.A.T.W.'s Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
* Dear Edwina Encores to Feature Songwriters Heisler and Goldrich
* Wendland, Lindsay, Holder, Findlay and Sugg are Henry Hewes Design Award Winners
* Boeing-Boeing Tony Winner Rylance to Star in Nice Fish!; Warchus Directs
* "Lost" Star Daniel Dae Kim and Maria Friedman to Head Royal Albert Hall King and I
* London Revival of Oliver! Delays First Preview
* "Doubt," "Frost/Nixon" and "Mamma Mia!" Among Golden Globe Nominees
* PHOTO CALL: Prayer for My Enemy Opens Off-Broadway

TheaterMania

* Baldwin, Field, Harris, Parker, Sedgwick, Spacey, Wiest, et al. Receive Golden Globe Nominations for TV
* New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players to Perform New Year's Eve Gala
* 2008 Henry Hewes Design Awards Winners Announced
* John Glover to Join Cast of TV's Heroes
* HBO to Present Live Telecast of Will Ferrell's Broadway Show
* Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Mamma Mia! Score Golden Globe Nominations for Films
* Maria Friedman and Daniel Dae Kim to Star in London The King and I

Broadway.com

* Doubt, Frost/Nixon and Mamma Mia! Nab Golden Globe Nominations
* HBO to Air Live Broadcast of Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America
* Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty Books Lyceum Theatre
* Judy and Me Sets Closing Date

Video: Backstage at White Christmas, hosted by Meredith Patterson
Video Blog: Gregory Jbara and Broadway's three Billys: David, Kiril & Trent

Talkin' Broadway

S.F. Reviews: Arabian Nights, Dame Edna, Ben Franklin in Paris

The Hub Review

Video art of the day

Scrappy Jack's World-Wide Theatrical and Dime Museum

Feingold and faith
This is Feingold, writing in the Voice about eight years ago, an essay titled "Your Future, My Past":

The Guardian

What to say about … Hamlet without David Tennant
You were all set to rave about David Tennant's Dane but then a bad back kept him offstage and Edward Bennett got the spotlight. Alas, poor David … but what's the critical consensus on his understudy?

DaDa Awards recognize disbility arts
The DaDa Awards celebrate excellence in the work of deaf and disabled artists

The Goblin Who Saved Christmas, Northern Stage, Newcastle
This Christmas show is lacklustre and low on humour - despite the fart jokes, says Lyn Gardner

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Kelly Nestruck: The battle for Bulgakov's nationality
Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a cultural cold war over the nationality of one of the world's most celebrated playwrights

Michael Simkins: Slitting your throat and other theatrical hazards
An actor recently had a perilously close shave with a real knife on stage. Here's further proof that breaking a leg is the least of a performer's worries

Andy Field: Home is where the art is
More and more artists are blurring the lines between the domestic and the theatrical

Whatsonstage.com

Oliver! Cancels First Two Previews; More Rehearsals
Producer Cameron Mackintosh has cancelled this week’s first two preview performances – this Friday evening and Saturday matinee...

Maria Friedman Stars in Albert Hall King & I, 12 Jun
Maria Friedman will move from the small-scale to the epic-scale for her next project – starring in a new fully staged, in-the-round production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1951 Broadway classic The King and I, which will run at the...

1st Night Photos: Branagh Supports Jacobi's Night

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover … At Christmas, Bush Theatre, London
To some, love is a many splendoured thing. To the characters depicted in the Bush Theatre's Christmas show, however, it's painful, rude and dysfunctional – but mercifully, often incredibly funny.

Whatsonstage.com - Blogs

Michael Billington: Pulling their Hare out?
I find our attitude to David Hare very odd. He writes good plays. He has a loyal public. He addresses contemporary issues. Yet, increasingly, his work seems to attract the wrath of the “commentariat” ...

London Theatre Guide

Oliver! cancels first two shows
The musical Oliver!, which was due to start previewing on Friday, has cancelled its first two performances at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in order to allow more rehearsal time for the large cast. The show now begins previews this Saturday evening, 13 December.

The King And Friedman at Albert Hall
Maria Friedman is to star as Anna in a fully staged in-the-round production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I at the Royal Albert Hall next year, from 12 to 28 June.

Tkts to sell advance tickets in Leicester Square
The world-famous tkts ticket booth in Leicester Square – the original and, still, the only official half-price ticket booth in London – has announced a significant new service for customers. In addition to on-the-day half-price theatre tickets sales, the booth will now also sell advance tickets for a range of events.

First Night Feature: Twelfth Night
It is not every day you see Sir Derek Jacobi in yellow stockings, but you can right now at the Wyndham’s theatre as he plays Malvolio in the second production in the Donmar Warehouse’s West End season, Twelfth Night.