AmericanTheaterWeb NewsClips

Associated Press

Beyonce, Wonder, Springsteen at Inaugural Event
Judging by the lineup, Sunday's inaugural celebration for Barack Obama at the Lincoln Memorial is a coveted gig for music's top names.

NY Director Accused of Attacking Wannabe Actresses
At least four women have accused the Academy Award-winning songwriter of ''You Light Up My Life'' of luring them to his home and sexually assaulting them while they auditioned for movie roles, police said.

Tom O'Horgan, Director of Original 'Hair,' Dies
Tom O'Horgan, a leader in New York's experimental theater scene in the 1960s who went on to direct the exuberant, often freewheeling Broadway productions of ''Hair'' and ''Jesus Christ Superstar,'' has died at the age of 84.

Bloomberg.com

Madoff Recalls Embezzling Edwardian in `Voysey Inheritance': John Simon
Who said the following:

Variety

Broadway box office takes a dive
The Broadway sales cume plummeted last week -- which was only to be expected, after the closure of a whopping nine productions the previous frame.

Kristin Chenoweth joins 'Music'
Actress set for Kern and Hammerstein musical

Cast set for 'God of Carnage'
Gandolfini, Harden headed to Broadway

'Wicked' in Los Angeles: $145 mil
Overall tally for show was 1.8 mil admissions

Stage vet Tom O'Horgan dies
Leader of experimental theater scene in '60s

Back Stage

The Shipment reviewed by Gwen Orel
Is it possible to stage anything new about African-American identity politics? Young Jean Lee's The Shipment seems to present familiar stereotypes for your entertainment -- but look again: There's more here than meets the eye.

Yanagai! Yanagai! reviewed by Karl LEvett
This drama by Australian playwright Andrea James is a heartfelt cry for justice. It concerns the Yorta Yorta people and their unsuccessful fight for title to their ancestral land along the banks of what is now called the Murray River.

County of Kings: The Beautiful Struggle reviewed by Andy Propst
Lemon Andersen's one-man show County of Kings: The Beautiful Struggle begins with a moment of jubilation as he recalls the night that he and his castmates won the Tony Award for their work in Def Poetry Jam.

The Crumb Trail reviewed by David A. Rosenberg
Four actors enter, jump up, grasp, and hang from an overhead bar. When they jump down, an older man puts on a red cap and proceeds to make bread in a bread machine, a younger man whitewashes part of the floor, and the women, eventually joined by the men, go into a frenzied dance.

Transition reviewed by Paul Menard
The title of Reggie Watts' latest postmodern performance mash-up, Transition, implies that the singer turned comic performance artist is working toward something. Unfortunately, this slapdash entry in the Public Theater's Under the Radar festival provides evidence to the contrary.

Woyzeck reviewed by Lisa Jo Sagolla
Ignited by brisk kinetic energy, startlingly eloquent employment of plain wooden chairs, and fervent Astor Piazzolla tango music, the Sadari Movement Laboratory's Woyzeck is a highly stimulating yet sunnier-than-usual interpretation of the famously dark tale of a tormented German soldier who murders his wife.