10/14/08 [updated 3:34PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Oct 14, 2008 | In Days Top News
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Culturebot
IRT vs. The Developers
This article in the NY TIMES tells how Village Nonprofit Groups Say They Are Surprised by a Steep Rise in Rents. They’re talking about the Archive Building, home to IRT...
Playbill
* Waiting for Godot, with Bill Irwin, Will Not Play Seattle Rep
TheaterMania
* Site-Specific Funeralogues to Debut in November
* Broderick and Parker to Host Broadway Voices For Change, Starring Cook and McDonald
* Jason Robert Brown to Host 13 Q&A Series
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Financial crisis -- or arts opportunity?
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
"Tortilla" reunites Ferra and Santeiro
Max Ferra, the founder of New York's INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center, liked Luis Santeiro's first play -- Our Lady of the Tortilla -- so much that he staged its world premiere at his Manhattan theater in 1987.
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Oh, what a night for 'Jersey Boys'
With a new Frankie in place (Cory Grant, above) and no end in sight to the run, the Chicago production of "Jersey Boys" celebrates its one-year anniversary Tuesday night. There's to be a cake and a specially crafted, Four Seasons-style...
Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog
Katie Holmes To Be Protested on Opening Night
Back Stage
New Musicals, Familiar Faces
Alumni talent will have a strong presence this year at the National Alliance for Musical
Playbill
* "Frost/Nixon" Film Will Hit U.S. Theatres in December
* Chicago's Greasy Joan Conflates Chekhov Stories for Premiere of Life in the Country
TheaterMania
* Million Dollar Quartet to Transfer to Chicago's Apollo
the nytheatre i
Possible Loss of 4 More Greenwich Village Theatres?
The Stage UK
Above the Stag fringe theatre to focus on original gay writing
A 50-seat fringe venue dedicated to new writing is to open this week near London's Victoria Palace Theatre.
Whatsonstage.com
Sean Holmes Succeeds Farr at Lyric Hammersmith
Sean Holmes has been appointed as the new artistic director of west London’s Lyric Hammersmith. He begins in spring 2009, ...
Grandage Directs Law's Hamlet, Delays NT Debut
London Theatre Guide
Haig and Mackichan Loot the Tricycle
David Haig and Doon Mackichan have joined the previously announced Matt Di Angelo (pictured) in the cast of Joe Orton’s Loot at the Tricycle theatre. Also appearing in the Sean Holmes-directed revival are Jim Creighton, James Hayes and Javone Prince
LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Florence Henderson to Play Feinstein's at Loews Regency in November
* Sondheim, Close, Kurtz, Lopez, Prince and Seldes Will Help Launch "Divas!" Tome
Talkin' Broadway
The Talkin' Broadway 2008 Summer Theatre Festival Citations Annnounced
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Veronica Lee: Ivanov and Oedipus show how hard it is to translate plays
Tom Stoppard's new version of Ivanov fails to achieve the accuracy of Frank McGuinness's Oedipus
The Stage UK
Chekhov's life dramatised in R4 series
BBC Radio 4 is to dramatise Irene Nemirovsky's biography of playwright Anton Chekhov in a production serialised over a week in November.
Seatwave attacks RSC clampdown on ticket-reselling as 'antiquated'
Leading secondary ticket agent Seatwave has accused the Royal Shakespeare Company as being behind the times for attempting to clamp down on the reselling of tickets to sold-out performances of David Tennant's Hamlet.
Pinter replaces Mandelson as Central president
Playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter has succeeded Labour politician Peter Mandelson as president of the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Whatsonstage.com
Stevenson & Goodman Duet Begins Almeida 2009
Olivier Award winners Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman will star in Tom Kempinski’s 1980 two-hander Duet for One at the ...
THE MORNING'S TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
ATW Digest - Rapp's 'Kindness' opens - read the reviews
Updated digests:
* 'A Man for All Seasons'
* 'Blasted'
* '13'
* 'The Seagull'
New York Times
Shaking Up ‘Woyzeck’ With Earthy Rock and Flying Trapeze
The title character of “Woyzeck,” a credulous Everyman driven to insanity by authority figures and jealousy, wouldn’t be out of place in one of Nick Cave’s songs.
New York Daily News
Daily News Deja Vu: 'To Be or Not to Be'
Way before Mel Brooks poked fun at Nazis in "The Producers," Ernst Lubitsch's influential 1942 film "To Be or Not to Be" mocked the Gestapo. Brooks ended u...
[sorry I missed this on Sunday]
Angela Lansbury Returns to Broadway in 'Blithe Spirit'
* Angela Lansbury Joins Blithe Spirit (amNY)
* Angela Lansbury joins 'Blithe Spirit' (Variety)
* Angela Lansbury to Return to Broadway in Blithe Spirit Revival (Playbill)
* Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett, Christine Ebersole Now Set for Broadway Blithe Spirit (TheaterMania)
New York Post
Harry's mane man
So, this is the guy Harry Potter thinks is hot. Meet "Equus" actor Lorenzo Pisoni, of whom Daniel Radcliffe said, "If I was gay or a female, I'd just want to marry him. He's gorgeous, and he's a really cool bloke as well." As they say in "Equus" (well, maybe they don't): Whoa! "Honestly...
TheaterMania
Loose Lips
Legally Blonde's Autumn Hulbert glimpses a new job; Chris Diamontopoulos gets a new start; and Michael Hayden learns a new language.
Wall Street Journal
Fall Arrivals
Bold-face names and big productions are heating up the fashion, theater and restaurant scenes in New York this season.
Chicago Tribune
Tanya Saracho, playwright
Writers this good don't stay unknown for long
Theatre in Chicago
Changing of the Guards at Stage Left
This season there's a whole lot of moving and shaking going on around some of Chicago's most reputable Off-Loop theatres. After eight years, Stage Left ...
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Defunct Theatre de la Jeune Lune sells building
The board of directors of Theatre de la Jeune Lune has signed a purchase agreement to sell its building at 101 N. 1st St. in Minneapolis
Los Angeles Times
NoHo takes the stage
Theater and the arts have key roles in the San Fernando Valley district, but...
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Stars turn out for opening of Ebony Repertory Theatre
Seattle Times
Seattle Rep replaces two canceled shows on 2008-09 lineup
Whatsonstage.com
Extensions: Dancing, Lion, Billy, Les Mis, Phantom
Come Dancing, the new musical written by and starring former Kinks singer-songwriter Ray Davies (pictured), has extended its limited ...
Whatsonstage.com Blogs
Michael Coveney: Juliette of the spirits
What is it about French actresses? Outside of Vanessa Redgrave, we simply don’t have an English actress who gives herself in body and soul to an audience as Juliette Binoche does. Or Isabelle Huppert. Or Charlotte Gainsbourg. Or even Isabelle Adjani. ...
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