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Elton John's "Cold Christmas" Premieres on Carols for a Cure, Volume 10 Available October 25

TheaterMania

* Full Cast Announced for Arena Stage's Next to Normal
* Full Cast Set for Tovarich at Musicals Tonight

nytheatre.com

Bill Russell on nytheatrecast
On the newest episode of our podcast series, lyricist/librettist Bill Russell (Side Show, Pageant) and director Brad Caswell talk with Martin Denton about the upcoming benefit production of Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens.

amNY New York City Theater Blog

Zac Efron as Alan Strang in Equus?
Might Zac Efron take over for Daniel Radcliffe in the Broadway revival of EQUUS? I highly, highly doubt it. But rumors are flying. ...

Newsday

Linda Winer: Trouble ahead for Broadway?
Ticket sales are up for now, but current economic crisis could be cue for tough times ahead

New York Post

Teen Talk
Real kids compare '13' to real life

Variety

Movies adapt to Broadway playbook
"Frost/Nixon" and "Doubt" are destined to be serious awards season contenders when they open in December, but even as film adaptations of highly popular plays, they are on a road fraught with mixed results and more than a few risks.

Offbeat director fathers 'All My Sons'
Simon McBurney experiments with classic

St. Petersburg Times

Broadway weathers economic downturn

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Next hires a new artistic director
Next Theater in Evanston is announcing its new artistic director on Friday night. The job goes to Jason Southerland, 41, currently a founding artistic director of Boston Theatre Works. He's been in that post for the last eight years and is...

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Dobama is restructuring its management
Dobama Theatre will restructure its management after the Dec. 31 retirement of longtime artistic director Joyce Casey, the theater announced Friday.

Houston Chronicle

'... and L.A. is Burning' to premiere at MST
Y York's comedy looks at the effect of hidden prejudice on friendships and a woman's search for happiness. The play opens Thursday at Main Street Theater.

Los Angeles Times

Vegas: Criss Angel teams with Cirque
The enigmatic, temperamental illusionist realizes a longtime dream with...

The Globe and Mail

Robert Lepage to team up with Cirque du Soleil again
The last time Robert Lepage was hired by Cirque du Soleil, the show he created opened months behind schedule and way over budget.But even though it took an estimated $165 ...

San Francisco Examiner

Naked flesh, Greek tragedy disco dance in ACT's `Good Breeding'

The Stage UK Blogs

Is theatre heading for an economic crash?
With newspapers reporting daily of the worsening global financial situation it’s only natural that we in the theatre world should start wondering about how it is going to affect us? Will people start reigning back their spending on theatre...

Whatsonstage.com

Complex Issues: Getting to Grips with Oedipus
Incendiary drama has just stepped up a gear now that the National Theatre’s hotly anticipated revival of Sophocles’ Oedipus has arrived on t...

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