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The Telegraph

David Beckham musical set for West End stage
Such is old 'Goldenballs'' phenomenal appeal to the public that a librettist is talking to West End producers this week about staging a musical entitled David Beckham – The Theatre of Dreams.

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New York Times

Nicky Silver, a Bit Less Angry, Is Back With a New Play, ‘Three Changes'
Nicky Silver on the stage at Playwrights Horizons, where his new play, “Three Changes,” is in previews, headed toward a Sept. 18 opening. ...

A Guide to the Obscure References in ‘[title of show]
To ensure that no theater reference goes unappreciated in their musical, the creators and two of the co-stars of “[title of show]” created a cheat sheet.

Letter Orchestrations: Who Writes the Songs from Stephen Sondheim

Newsday

Linda Winer: A horse is more than a horse in 'Equus'

Bergen Record

Slow economy dims the lights on Broadway [Associated Press Feature]

The Independent

Exit, the king: Is Alan Ayckbourn set for one glorious final act?
He has fallen out of fashion in the West End, suffered a stroke and entered his last season in charge at Scarborough theatre. But could Britain's most prolific playwright, Alan Ayckbourn, enjoy a last hurrah?

The Times UK

Josh Hartnett in Rain Man
How will Hollywood movie heart-throb Josh Hartnett fare on the London stage in a role in which Tom Cruise excelled?

The doctor will see you now... if you join a very, very long queue
A mix of Shakespeare fans and Doctor Who fanatics are queueing around the block to see David Tennant in Hamlet, but at the stage door the teenagers...

Boston Globe

First lady, second take
"Eleanor: Her Secret Journey," which opens at the Berkshire Theatre Festival Tuesday, captures Eleanor Roosevelt in 1945, in the wake of her husband's death.

St. Paul Pioneer Press

In the context of big-city theater, he isn't much more than Little Mouth on the Prairie
When a theater critic is critical of "Little House on the Prairie," readers have much to say to him.

Denver Post

PHAMALy is basking in Democratic convention spotlight

Los Angeles Times

'Vanities' the musical is a friendship

San Diego Union-Tribune

Shake, rattle and roll!
Playhouse's 'Memphis' uses story of rock's beginnings – 'when all the rules were changing' – to examine race, and more, in America