10/24/08 [updated 4:12PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Oct 24, 2008 | In Days Top News
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog
Attention Poltergeisters and Big Chillis! JoBeth Williams has arrived
San Jose Mercury News Karen D'Souza Blog
Bitter Lemons
A Challenge from a “Stranger”
Check out Brenda Kiley writing a manifesto of sorts in Seattle’s “The Stranger”, declaring the ten things American Theatre needs to do now to remain vital for the next generation of ...
The Clyde Fitch Report
John Madden, Former Drama Desk President, Dies at 76
The Mirror up to Nature
G to "g"
The Boston Globe launched a redesign today. The most significant part for my readers is the consolidation of arts coverage into a 6 day a week tabloid insert called g. The general agenda of the content can be found here. This is a big expansion of the previous, limited Calendar-type inserts.
Parabasis
Soderburgh to make a rock-n-roll musical about Cleopatra??
Playbill
* Sullivan, Robbins, Larsen, Asher and Newman to Guest in Glimpses of the Moon
* Tix to Broadway's 2009 Kung Fu Spectacle, Soul of Shaolin, Go on Sale Oct. 29
* "Deep Throat" Star Is Subject of Rock Opera, Lovelace, in L.A.
TheaterMania
* Wicked to Hold Open Call For Leading Roles on November 8
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Huntington's Rock 'n' Roll
Whatsonstage.com
Cast: Spring Awakening Stars, Atherton Back on Q
Three newcomers will star in the UK premiere of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Spring Awakening, which runs at west London’s ...
Latest Gossip: Salisbury’s Christmas Show Dances to West End???
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Martin, Cumpsty and Yazbeck Join Encores!' On the Town
Back Stage
The Discovery Channel
Rick Pagano is a well-rounded casting director. He boasts credits in big-budget studio extravaganzas, intimate independent fare, popular television series, and acclaimed stage productions.
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Spring('s) Awakening
Spring Awakening, the sensationally good musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, won the Tony Award as the best musical of the 2006-2007 Broadway season. Like Hairspray and Spamalot, the musical has fallen victim to these tough economic times and will close Jan. 18, after a two-year, 859-performance run.
Playbill
* Buchanan, Spieler and Scott Set for Reading of Myspace Musical Top 8
* Bradshaw, Hunter, Kron, O'Connor and Kopit Named Lark Playwrighting Fellows
TheaterMania
* Ferguson, Kudisch, Lewis, Radnor, et al. Set for October 30 Don't Quit Your Night Job
* Full Cast, Creative Team Announced for Keen Company's Beasley's Christmas Party
Broadway.com
China's Soul of Shaolin to Play Marquis Theatre in January
Parabasis
The Producer's Perspective
While a great review from the NY Times doesn't mean you're a hit . . .
. . . it's still nice to get one. :-)
The Guardian
Stage news roundup: Malkovich in Mexico, Liza at the Palace
A host of stars are to tread the boards this season, as Liza Minnelli returns to Broadway and John Malkovich takes his production of The Good Canary south of the border
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
The Big Interview: Tim Etchells
Spectacular (pictured) is the latest provocative and playful new work from internationally renowned Sheffield-based performance company Forced ...
Environmentally Friendly Touring Theatre? You Must be Living in Cloudcuckooland
One director’s decision to spread the word about not trashing the environment to kids through musical comedy and the challenges doing this across the country, in Edinburgh and in London without trashing the environment!
LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Final Casting Announced for The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken Benefit Oct. 27
Review - Hughie - Top-Notch Performances Allow for Identification
* Digest - The Master Builder with Tony Winner Naughton opens - read the reviews
* Digest - High School Musical 3 movie
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Oct. 18-24: Down They Go
* Unfinished Version of Miramax's "Doubt" Will Open AFI FEST 2008
* Pascal Will Sing Kander and Ebb, Larson, Joel, Beatles and More at Feinstein's
TheaterMania
* Blackhurst, Maye, Mayes, Reams to Appear at MAC Seminar
The Playgoer
Take the Off-Off Demographics Survey
That is, if you're a New York City theatre artist who frequents the land of AEA Showcase Codes.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
What to see this week
This Halloween brings theatrical treats from Carnesky's Ghost Train to Peachy Coochy Nite
THE DAY'S FIRST CLIPPINGS
AmericanTheaterWeb
ATW Digest - 'Speed-the-Plow' revival opens on B'way - read the reviews
* Review - Hollywood and Its Players Dissected
New York Post
Riedel: Winter Forecast: $evere
Cash crisis smacks B'way
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Tony Kushner Battles Wordiness, Sinus Medication In Acceptance Speech
The opening remarks of Tony Kushner's acceptance speech for the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
New York Daily News
Hell's Kitchen kids whip up batch of 'Disaster Plays'
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Axis Theater plays home to the works of 12- and 13-year-old playwrights from The 52nd Street Project, which pairs students...
Associated Press
Broadway's 'Spring Awakening' Will Close Jan. 18
Variety
Columbia, Apollo team for oral history
University to help safeguard 'cultural institution'
Playbill
* DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Ashford, Bean, Espinosa, Murney and Thompson
TheaterMania
Peter Filichia's Diary: Read Any Good Books Lately?
I could say to you, “So how do you plan to spend your weekend?” but I’m going to pose a much more important question: “How do you plan to spend Monday night?”
Boston Globe
Stages: Side by side with Sondheim
Los Angeles Times
Houston Chronicle
Main Street premiere wins playwriting award
...and L.A. Is Burning claims Smith Prize
Bitter Lemons
Legitimizing Los Angeles Theatre Continued
Matt Wells from NeedTheater offers some helpful links for LA theatre companies to get in touch with regional theatres: Check out http://nitc.freeforums.org for info on NITC (National Indie Theater Collective) ...
The Times UK
Suspected heart attack given a miss
The theatrical adage that the 'show must go on' was stretched to heroic lengths as Ian McDiarmid was taken ill
The Guardian
Tennessee Williams: A portrait of the playwright as painter
Michael Garady remembers his relationship with the great American dramatist, who had a second career as an artist
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Chris Wilkinson: Ok, so navel-gazing theatre isn't all bad
I used to find self-referential theatre irritating - but then I saw Rupert Goold's Six Characters
The Stage UK - Blogs
Mark Shenton: Theatre on gay time (and living in gay times)….
It’s an opening night convention that performances begin at 7pm. That’s historically been to accommodate the overnight critics - the handful who have to rush for the exits as the curtain falls to file their reviews for the next...
Whatsonstage.com
McAvoy & Harman Make Three Days of Rain in Feb
James McAvoy (pictured) and Nigel Harman will star in the first West End revival of Richard Greenberg’s 1997 play Three Days of Rain ...
Cast: Mastrantonio Takes View, Pride, Cinderella
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