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Theater for a New Audience Announces Season, With Room for More Shakespeare
The leaders of Theater for a New Audience said they were hoping to remount their recent acclaimed productions of “Othello” and “Hamlet” in the 2009-10 season.

On the London Stage: New York Theater Under the Knife
Gerard Alessandrini's 'Forbidden Broadway,' which spoofs shows playing on both sides of the pond, opens for the third time in London.

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

'Little Mermaid' to Close
The musical adaptation of the 1989 Disney animated feature will close after its Aug. 30 performance.

Star-Ledger

Outdoor 'Tempest' makes for an island getaway

Time Out New York Upstaged Blog

Fish out of water: The Little Mermaid gets the hook
Disney's the Little Mermaid will close on August 30

Illyria overload: Stop the Twelfth Night madness!
Can we have a moratorium of productions of Twelfth Night?

Variety

Tucci to direct 'Lend Me a Tenor'
Actor to make Broadway helming bow with revival -- Stanley Tucci is expected to make his Broadway directing bow on a revival of Ken Ludwig's farce, "Lend Me a Tenor," to star "Grey's Anatomy" alum T.R. Knight.

Dukakis, Fricker set for 'Cloudburst'
Duo will star in forthcoming road-trip comedy -- Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker will star in road-trip comedy "Cloudburst" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.

Playhouse taps exec director
Stephen Eich to take post -- The Pasadena Playhouse has tapped Stephen Eich executive director.

'Little Mermaid' to close on Aug. 30
Broadway musical plans fall tour -- Broadway tuner "The Little Mermaid" will shutter Aug. 30, after a run of less than two years.

Laura Linney makes 'Time' for Broadway
Actress to star in Donald Margulies play -- Laura Linney will topline the Manhattan Theater Club production of Donald Margulies' "Time Stands Still," a staging now bumped up to the org's Broadway space.

BackStage

NYC's Diamond District Sparkles in New Musical
"Diamonds at 22 West," a musical comedy set in New York City's famed Diamond District, will take center stage next month at a New Jersey playhouse.

Speed Mouse reviewed by Lisa Jo Sagolla
Written, directed, and performed by David Collins and Shane Dundas, "Speedmouse: The Worst of the Umbilical Brothers" is a wonderfully wacky fusion of mime, slapstick, and standup comedy.

BackStage - BlogStage

* 'Little Mermaid' Closing August 30, Tour Planned
* 'Web Site Story' Spoofs Broadway, Internet

TheaterMania

* Broadway's Little Mermaid to Close August 30; National Tour to Launch in 2010
* John Herrera, Christine Pedi, Faith Prince, et al. Set for York's Luck Reading
* Leslie Hall to Emcee and Perform in About Face's The Homo Show
* Musical Theatre West Announces 2009 Broadway in the Park Gala

Playbill

* 39 Steps Talkback Features Michele Balan June 30
* Musical of Musicals (The Musical) Will Return for York Theatre Benefit July 8
* Davy Jones' Locker: Broadway's Little Mermaid to End Aug. 30; National Tour Planned

Broadway.com

* The Little Mermaid to End Broadway Run August 30

Talkin' Broadway

Review: King Lear in D.C.

Boston Globe

'The Little Mermaid' sets its final Broadway swim
"The Little Mermaid" is set for its final Broadway swim. The lavish musical based on the Disney animated film will close Aug. 30 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York after a run of 685 performances.

Orlando Sentinel

* 'Little Mermaid' closing on Broadway
* 'Nutty Professor' headed for Broadway, and local boy's still involved
* Jobs available for NY Musical Theatre Festival in September

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

It's the Toners, bro
I felt like a spy from Babyboomerland when I went to the Toners in Time show in Coral Gables on Sunday. The creation of playwrights Marco Ramirez, Lucas Leyva and Alex Fumero (the guys behind the new Foryoucansee Theater company), Toners in Time was a brash creative attempt to get the club crowd to try theater. It worked, and not just because the tickets were only $10 each.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Culture Club Blog

St. Louis actress Tennessee-waltzes off
One of St. Louis’s most versatile young actresses, Magan Wiles, is leaving town to continue her education. Later this…

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster

* Jude Law, Laura Linney heading for Broadway

LAist

Pencil This In: Tiny Vaudeville @ the Echoplex, NewFilmmakers LA Screenings
THEATRE:Theatre West continues its new play reading series tonight at 8 pm featuring plays written by the company’s playwrights and performed by the company’s actors. On stage tonight is P.G. Sturges’ “Two Gentlemen of Manhattan.” Two life-long friends take to a life of crime and end ...

Seattlest

NYCeattleite: Louis Hobson, Starring in His First Broadway Show
Tacoma native and former Seattle theater stalwart Louis Hobson scored his first Broadway role this year, and it's a great one. Not just a great role, with turns comedic and dramatic, but one that's in a terrific and affecting show. Hobson plays Dr. Madden in the musical Next to Normal, ...

BBB-Blogger

* Jersey Boys Gets A Royal Welcome in Raleigh
* KRISTINA in Concert Website Now Live
* Laura Linney to star in MTC’s TIME STANDS STILL

The Halcyon Blog

Question for Y'all
What are you willing to do/change to attract audiences? What are you unwilling to do/change?

Just Shows To Go You

Euan Morton at Castle On The Hudson
I’ve been nursing a mad man crush on Euan Morton’s voice ever since he starred as Boy George in Taboo, so I was especially pleased that he opened his delightful set at Castle On The Hudson with that show’s “Pretty Lies”. (Bonus for Taboo fans: Liz McCartney in the ...

Parabasis

Interesting Interview with David Adjmi
Can be found at Tablet, a new website about modern Jewish identity.

Sh-K-Buzz

Backstage at Hair with Will Swenson
Join “Hair” star Will Swenson on an indepth backstage tour of the Al Hirschfeld Theatre!

The Stage UK

John Malkovich brings serial killer Jack Unterweger back to life on Vienna stage
Actor to star in The Infernal Comedy, an operatic depiction of the Austrian celebrity writer and murderer

The Guardian

Theatre review: The Hypochondriac Playhouse, Liverpool
Roger McGough's first attempt at turning Molière into a Mersey wit led to a giddy adaptation of Tartuffe that became one of the highlights of Liverpool's year of culture. Now he and director Gemma Bodinetz have teamed up again to apply the common touch to the playwright's final masterpiece.

Big City: Lost, and Found, in the Tideland of Times Square
The makeshift pedestrian mall is viewed by some as shoddy, sedentary and unworthy of New York, but tourists see it as an oasis of calm.

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Kennedy Center to Spread the Knowledge
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday is to announce a national tour for a program it started in February to help struggling nonprofit arts organizations around the country.

Laura Linney to Star in 'Time Stands Still' on Broadway
The last time Laura Linney appeared in a play by Donald Margulies, in the 2004 Broadway production of "Sight Unseen," she picked up her second Tony Award nomination. Now Ms. Linney (of "John Adams" and "The Savages") is to work with Mr. Margulies ("Dinner With Friends") again in Manhattan Theater Club's coming Broadway production [...]

Time Out New York Upstaged Blog

Air-guitar orgy at Rock of Ages
Air guitar over Broadway

Fairfield County Weekly

Time and Time Again
tick, tick...BOOM!

The Valley Advocate

StageStruck: Minority Report
During the intermission of Dividing the Estate ...

Bard Blanket Bingo
Break out your blankets; it's time for some theatre in the great outdoors. To ...

Variety

'Oleanna' set for Golden Theater
Mamet play to take over for 'Avenue Q' -- The expected Broadway transfer of David Mamet play "Oleanna," starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, has snapped up the Golden Theater, currently home to tuner "Avenue Q," which just announced its closing.

BackStage - BlogStage

* Lincoln Center Screening Classic Movie Musicals this Weekend
* Vital Theatre Offers Free Tickets Via Twitter
* 'Rock of Ages' Takes Aim at Air Guitar Guinness World Record
* 'Hair' Star Gavin Creel Taking August Vacation
TDF Backstage

Laugh Like a Queen
Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter Learn How Americans Like Their "Mary Stuart"

* Nicholas Rodriguez to Spell Demond Green in Off-Broadway's Toxic Avenger
* Laura Linney to Star in MTC's Time Stands Still on Broadway
* Horton Foote, Beth Henley, Joe Pantaliano, et al. to Be Part of Hartford Stage Season
* Additional Casting Announced for Taper's Parade, Starring T.R. Knight
* Stephen Eich Named Executive Director at Pasedena Playhouse
* TFANA and Irondale Unite for Prospero's Island Benefit

Playbill

* Midtown Festival Musical Connect/Disconnect to Feature Keeling
* Tony Nominee Laura Linney Will Star in Margulies' Time Stands Still on Broadway
* LAST CHANCE: The Wiz and Coraline
* DC Capital Fringe Has Krapp's Last Power Point, House of Usher, Big Angry Booty and More
* PHOTO CALL: Twelfth Night at San Diego's Old Globe

Broadway.com

* Nicholas Rodriguez Takes the Stage in The Toxic Avenger
* Laura Linney Headed Back to Broadway in Margulies' Time Stands Still
* Hamlet, Starring Jude Law, to Play B'way's Broadhurst Theatre in the Fall
* Mamet's Oleanna, Starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, Is Broadway Bound
* Join B'way Stars at Sea! R Family Announces Special Rate for July Cruise

nytheatre.com

Review: Brief Shorts

Review: Third Wing / December

Source: Project 24/7
Project 24/7 is to the Source Festival 2009 as Iron Chef is to cooking. In Iron Chef, culinary masters are assigned an ingredient (squid!) at random and told to construct an entire meal (Squid Salad! Lemon Drop Squid Soup! Roast Squid with Béarnaise Sauce! Squid Ice Cream!) around it - all in one hour. In [...]

Lyle the Crocodile
After the beautiful opening scene of Lyle the Crocodile, I’m holding my breath. Could the rest of the production be as good? An hour and a half later, I answer yes. This is children’s theater at its best. I understand why Imagination Stage’s Artistic Director Janet Stanford wanted to revisit this show, which they originally produced [...]

The Producers’ Ben Dibble
With less than an hour before curtain for Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers, actor Ben Dibble sat down with Joel Markowitz backstage at Walnut Street Theatre. Ben is wowing Philadelphia audiences with his gorgeous voice and comedic talents playing the nebishy, blue blanket snuggling accountant and “wannabe producer” Leo Bloom. “It’s [...]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Culture Club Blog

Stray Dog has a puppy
Stray Dog Theatre has taken a smaller, younger, and even more weirdly-named company, [insert name here] Theatre Project, into its. . .kennel.

Dallas Morning News Arts Blog

Wilkerson to join Artisan Center Theater
It's a real mark of how serious that mid-cities community institution, Artisan Center Theater, is about upping the ante that it has hired John Davidson as artistic director, effective Aug. 1. Wilkerson just directed a successful My Fair Lady for the company -- and that was surprise enough, since Wilkerson is hardly a community theater sort of guy.

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog

* 'Oleanna' will move to Broadway this fall

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

College Humor’s `Web Site Story’
These crazy kids went and put on a musical!And it’s a canny spoof of West Side Story – more cutting edge, sorry to say, than the revival currently on Broadway.

Seattle Times

Jude Law is set to play Hamlet on Broadway this fall
Jude Law will play Shakespeare's melancholy Dane on Broadway this fall.

Seattlest

Can't Miss It: Tuesday
* ONE SINGULAR SENSATION: James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's award-winning documentary Every Little Step is finally in Seattle, and we think musical and film lovers alike will ....
* DRAG KINGS!: Okay, so yes we know that Pride weekend just ended, but who doesn't love a good comedy/drag show? Puget Sound drag troupe The Royal Knights will be at the Jewel ...

I Interview Playwrights Part 19: Dan Trujillo

BBB-Blogger

* The 39 Steps continues Talkback Tuesday tonight with Michele Balan

Culturebot

PEW FELLOWSHIPS IN THE ARTS ANNOUNCES 2009 AWARD RECIPIENTS

Huffington Post

Brad Balfour: Q&A: Singer/Actress Stephanie J. Block Steps Out With 9 to 5: The Musical
With her powerhouse voice and incredible range, Stephanie J. Block is the most substantial singer of the trio that makes up the stars of 9 to 5: The Musical, a timely re-working of the classic 1980s movie. In both film and stage version, three women working in an office who ...

On Theatre and Politics

NY Innovative Theater Awards
I've got a very interesting meeting with the New York Innovative Theater Awards crew tomorrow. I'll keep you posted about the details. Suffice to say, I'm excited.

The Playgoer

Critic Sues Actor
But not for any reasons you might guess.

The Producer's Perspective

Advice from an Expert: Vol. 9. A Damn Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
I got a bunch o' emails after my blog about my experience in the UK a few weeks ago. One of them was from an actual expat American living and working in London. Since he has such a unique perspective on what and why things are different in the land of fish and chips, I thought we might all learn from letting him have a post. So here's Jason Ferguson . . .

Sh-K-Buzz

* Klea Blackhurst brings Everything the Traffic Will Allow to the Snapple Theatre Center
* Photos! – Cast of Hair on GMA
* Kelli O’Hara welcomes Baby Boy
* Hair cast members to kick-off NYC Summer Restaurant Week

Steve On Broadway

Agosto Em Osage
Can't wait for the North American tour of August: Osage County to get your fix of Tracy Letts' landmark play?

The Wicked Stage

Deadly vs. Alive
I have to second Isaac on today's "must read": Gus Schulenberg's post at Flux on quality, values, and criticism, triggered by the recent National Summit for Ensemble Theatres. Isaac focuses on Gus's last point, about better ways to share criticism among artists, but having a ...

Even More Mamet: 'Oleanna' Headed to Broadway
The production, which is transferring from the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, stars Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles as a college professor and a student who accuses him of sexual harassment.

Pina Bausch: A Worldly Choreographer
Andrea Mohin/The New York Times. Rainer Behr and Shantala Shivalingappa in "Bamboo Blues" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December. Pina Bausch, who died today at 68, created many pieces throughout her career inspired by her travels to Turkey ("Nefés"), Portugal ("Masurca Fogo"), the United States ("Nur Du (Only You)") and several other countries. During [...]

Pina Bausch Dies
Pina Bausch, the choreographer and exponent of the neo-expressionist form of German dance known as Tanztheater, has died. She was 68.

Donmar Warehouse's 'Hamlet' Coming to Broadway With Jude Law
That collective "oooh" you just heard from Broadway is the sound of theatergoers whose solid flesh has melted and resolved itself into a dew.

Postcard From London: Talk About the Weather. Lots of Weather.
There's a heat wave in London, but in theaters there's a lot of rain, snow and sky falling.

Jeff Goldblum Reacts to Reports That Jeff Goldblum Has Died
Stephen Colbert turned in late-night comedy's most pointed reaction yet to a week of celebrity deaths and the news media's coverage of them.

New York Post Theater Blog

So long Pina Bausch
Pina Bausch died today, just five days after being diagnosed with cancer. She was 68. In recent years, she and her company, Tanztheater Wuppertal, had become popular regulars at BAM. It's difficult to underestimate Bausch's importance in dance, particularly a specific kind of dance-theater that's very popular in Europe. I'll come back to it in further detail in another post.

Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog

Cirque du Bridgeport
Cirque du Soleil is returning to Connecticut -- with an arena show in Bridgeport.

Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog

Could Farrah Fawcett Act?
I know I can act. Every time someone quips "Farrah picked the wrong day to die"--meaning that she unexpectedly ended up losing headline space to Wacko Jacko--I squeal with laughter as if it were the...

Time Out New York Upstaged Blog

Jude Law’s Hamlet is Broadway bound
Jude Law's Hamlet comes to Broadway

Variety

Jude Law's 'Hamlet' set for Broadway
Donmar Warehouse production heads to N.Y. -- The Donmar Warehouse production of "Hamlet" toplined by Jude Law will make the transatlantic leap to Broadway this fall.

* Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles to Star in Broadway Oleanna
* John Aniston, Jason Graae, Jesse Lee Sofer, Victoria Tennant, Constance Towers Set for TV's Awakening of Spring
* Broadway's Hair to Perform at NYC Summer Restaurant Week Kick-Off
* Klea Blackhurst to Reprise Everything The Traffic Will Allow at Snapple Theatre Center
* Jude Law to Star in Broadway Hamlet
* Jersey Boys' Des McAnuff and Jeff Madden Among 2009 Dora Award Winners
* Pina Bausch Dies at 68
* Jeff Daniels' Escanaba to Debut at Purple Rose Theatre Company
* Savion Glover, Mark Morris, Basil Twist, et al. Set for City Center's Fall for Dance Festival
* Rachel York to Perform For The Love of It at Hollywood's Magic Castle
* Jennifer Leigh Warren to Headline Upright Cabaret's American Anthem -- Live
* Jason Alexander to Perform in New Jersey
* Tyne Daly and Xanthe Elbrick to Star in Project Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession
* Tony n' Tina's Wedding Debuts at South Beach's Mansion

Playbill

* Kunze, Green, Aduba, Kantor, Krombach, Mendoza and More Cast in Muny's Godspell
* Pullman and Stiles Will Star in Oleanna on Broadway, Opening Oct. 11
* "Law & Order: SVU" Will Return in the Fall with Hargitay, Meloni and Lahti
* Blackhurst Will Salute Merman in Everything the Traffic Will Allow at the Snapple Theater Center
* Jude Law Hamlet to Play Broadway in September
* Escanaba, Daniels' Third Comedy About U.P. Folk, Will Premiere at Purple Rose
* Ackerman, Allen and Crosby Cast in Gentleman's Wish for Midtown Festival
* Stephen Eich Joins Pasadena Playhouse as Executive Director
* Ban and Pastor to Star in Zorro — the Musical at France's Folies Bergère; Renshaw Directs
* MI's Meadow Brook Will Stage Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepy Hollow, Mindgame and More
* Halston and Sweetie to Be Part of Pic-Up at Abrons Arts Center
* Amas Names Choreographer Torres Artist-in-Residence
* Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark's Ezralow to Choreograph Cats in Italy
* Rachel York to Play The Inner Circle at the Magic Castle in Hollywood
* CHART TOPPERS, Fourth Week of June
* American Anthem Concert to Feature Warren, Lowe, Thomas and More
* Tony Nominee Creel Will Take Vacation from Broadway's Hair in August
* Marcy and Zina Show to Feature Abramovitz, Blumenkrantz, Kelly and More
* Daly, Dugan, Elbrick, Irving and Murray Set for Project Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession
* Toronto's 2009 Dora Awards Go to McAnuff, MacKenzie, Eternal Hydra, Sound of Music

Chicagoist

City Awards $1M in Arts Grants, Accepting New Apps

California Chronicle

Honky Tonk Fairytale
Ten Cent Night, a sensational new play at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, hits all the right buttons. Funny and touching....