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New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

'South Pacific' Finds its New Nellie
Kelli O'Hara will be replaced in "South Pacific" by Laura Osnes, who will be replaced in "A Little Night Music" by Erin Davie.

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

Billy Elliot Trio Eligible for Joint Tony

Playbill

* Ahmanson Season Has Poppins, August, Spamalot, Pacific and Revised Dreamgirls
* PHOTO CALL: Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre Celebrates 200th Birthday
* Woodard, Noonan, Puritz, Sayre, Franklin and More Cast in Cabaret Girl
* Seldes, Baker, Jones and Mays to Populate Williamstown's 2009 Summer Season
* Menzel Adds Tour Stops in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware
* Pete Townshend's Quadrophenia to Become U.K. Stage Production
* Lauper, Janney, Shelley, Bean, Breaker and Houdyshell Join Star-Studded Defying Inequality Benefit

TheaterMania

* Andrea McArdle to Perform Benefit for Westport's Music Theatre
* Malcom Gets, Allison Janney, Cyndi Lauper, and More Join Starry Defying Inequality Benefit
* Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces 2009 Season

The Artful Manager

Of art and innovation
I've grown a bit weary of our lofty but vague advocacy of the arts. In our rhetoric and our strategy, we've become interchangeable with any other industry in search of public money, favorable legislation, or civic priority. Which is why I particularly like the specifics and evidence of this article on artistic endeavor and scientific innovation.

'kül

STUFF (To Do This Weekend) - 2/13-2/15
Tonight, go check out The Nonsense Company's Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/Conversation Storm. If my reviews (of the '08 FRIGID version and this '09 return) didn't convince you, how about this trailer? If two innovative plays for the price of one didn't get your attention, how about adding on a talkback with Martin Denton and reducing the price to $10 (if you order online and use the code PS122)?

The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show

It's DVD Friday!
Audrey Hepburn's career as a leading actress in Hollywood was very short. Just 14 years separated her Oscar-winning first role in Roman Holiday and her last in Wait Until Dark. After the release of the latter film, for

Scrappy Jack's World-Wide Theatricals and Dime Museum

scrappy jack wants you
We're kicking off a membership drive for the League of Independent Theater, the advocacy group for 99 seat theaters and the artists who love them.

Visible Soul

Quote of the Day
"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that

Daily Telegraph

On the Waterfront
Steven Berkoff's stage adaptation of the cult film On The Waterfront has style and panache.

Whatsonstage.com

Gossip: NT Getting Lovers in the Mood for Valentine's???
It may only be February, but things are hotting up at the National Theatre with a special Valentine’s Day screening of Shakespeare in Love. Visitors can relax with a warm blanket (and a date) for the free outdoor screening of the Tom Stoppard...