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Playbill

* PHOTO CALL: Avow Opens Off-Broadway
* Robin Williams to Return to Broadway in One-Man Show
* Turner, Drescher, Luker, Mosley and Schonfeld Join Broadway for a New America Benefit
* 100 Years of Broadway Benefit to Feature Canonico, Evan and Blanchard

TheaterMania

* Kathleen Turner, Fran Drescher, Rebecca Luker, Stockard Channing, and More Set for Broadway for a New America
* Fran Lebowitz to Join Bryan Batt, Charles Busch, Whoopi Goldberg, and Lypsinka for Legends Reading
* Jeremy Brena, Anna Chlumsky, and More Set for Barefoot Theatre's Mohammed's Radio

Jay Raskolnikov -- half hillbilly, Demi-Culture

On Change
Historically there are a pretty limited number of ways to create change: legislation, taxation, education and shame. In a society that abhors taxation, has little shame (watch any realty TV show), and typically cannot pass much meaningful legislation (unless being seriously...

lies like truth

A Debate Sparked By Andorra
Yesterday, I posted a blog entry about the inclusion of what seems to be a corporate presentation in the San Francisco Fringe Festival's lineup this September. Ian Woodall, a British, Andorra-based mountaineer and motivational speaker with quite a controversial background, is coming to this year's festival with his presentation The Tao of Everest -- a talk he gives predominantly to executives at companies like Microsoft and Ernst & Young.

Live Design Online Blog

Rigging Systems For Small Venues
Whether you're working in a small theatre, a new club, or have a great idea for an event venue, one of the first considerations should be about the rigging and the load-bearing ability of the structure. You have to do your due diligence. Get an inspection by a structural engineer. Just as you need to inspect the electrical service and the plumbing before you sign on the dotted line, you really need

Dirty Dancing Opens In London’s West End
Get out your dancing shoes. The stage version of Dirty Dancing is hot, hot, hot. It's the box-office darling, smash-hit adaptation of the 1987 coming-of-age film that tells the story of a 17 year-old girl who falls in love with a dance instructor during a family vacation at a resort in New York's Catskill Mountains in the summer of 1963. Screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein also wrote the book for the musical,