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MID-DAY ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Will Spring Awakening and In the Heights Hit the Big Screen?
* Additional Performances Added for Blasted's Off-Broadway Run
* Broadway for Obama Concert to Feature Lopez, Burgess, Hicks, Dixon and More
* Hey, You Know What Movie Would Make a Good Musical? to Play the Zipper
TheaterMania
* Giamatti, Gleason, Rabe, Strathairn Set for LATW's The Rivalry
* Gummer, Kates, O'Connor, et al. Set for The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Walnut Street's Hairspray
* Irons, Mirren, Molina, et al. Set for Taymor's Tempest Film
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Brian Logan: Where are the Joan Littlewoods of today?
You have to look hard to find radical, popular companies that are engaged with the parts of society theatre usually leaves behind
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Five Reasons To See … Paperweight
Paperweight, the absurd story of two men trapped in mindless office jobs, plays at the Camden People’s Theatre 7-25 October. Here are five very good reasons why you simply can’t miss it:
London Theatre Guide
The Big Interview: Paulette Randall
Matthew Amer meets the be-jewelled Radio Golf director to discuss all things from August Wilson to technophobia.
AmericanTheaterWeb
ATW Digest - Langella opens 'Man for All Seasons' on B'way - read the reviews
* ATW Review - Langella Shines in Historical 'Seasons' Revival
ATW Digest - Scott Thomas opens in 'Seagull' on Broadway - read the reviews [updated 10/8/08]
New York Times
Theaters Monitoring Wall Street Drama
For people who work in and around Broadway, as for pretty much everyone else in the country, the main stage in recent weeks has been on Wall Street.
New York Daily News Cultural Tourist Blog
Jones and Schmidt
A lot of the events I've gone to recently have been evenings of reminiscence. I don't think this is such a bad thing in a city that destroys and reinvents itself as relentlessly as New York. It's useful to recollect The Past, especially when The Present seems as chaotic as it does right now.
New York Post
Riedel: Taymor's web of riches
'Spider-man' budget swells to $40 million
Associated Press
Broadway news
Broadway buffs just can't get enough of Stephen Sondheim on CD.
TheaterMania
Peter Filichia's Diary: Lousy Logos
There I was, walking down Broadway when I saw it. I was immediately disheartened. It’s above the marquee of the Broadway theater for all to see and stare.
Washington Post
Backstage: Setting Up House In 'Busytown'
Imagination Stage's Creative Blueprint
Theatre in Chicago
Steep Christens New Space With 'Seven Days'
Steep Theatre, the small but critically-respected storefront company known for its productions of The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot in 2006 and Brecht's The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui ...
Daily Herald
From Madame Morrible to 'Mame'
Barbara Robertson, one of the mainstays of the Chicago theater scene, is going to play one of the great female roles in American music theater: the unstoppable auntie in Jerry Herman's brilliant ...
Dallas Morning News
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts nears fund goal, plans opening in Oct. '09
The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts announced Tuesday that it has raised $334 million toward its goal of $338 million, and that it will open on Oct. 12, 2009, with grand-opening festivities through Oct. 18, 2009.
San Francisco Examiner
TheatreWorks tunes up Wilson's `Radio'
The Mirror up to Nature
Marge or Jerry?
Roger Ebert takes a movie critic's view of the VP debate. ...
The Guardian
The silver stage
Film and theatre belong together. But the West End trend of re-enacting cinema hits is troubling
The Stage UK
Illusionist Derren Brown to make acting debut in Gatiss Christmas drama on BBC4
Derren Brown is to make his acting debut in Mark Gatiss' new BBC4 supernatural drama Crooked House.
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