10/30/08 ]updated 7:47PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Oct 30, 2008 | In Days Top News
END OF DAY ADDITIONS
Variety
'August' producers team on 'Angel'
Broadway revival to open next fall
Abdulrazzak wins Meyer-Whitworth
Scribe nabs U.K. award for 'Baghdad Wedding'
Broadway braces for rough weekend
Halloween, economy to ding box office
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
A Manson accomplice speaks in Cornerstone Theater's 'For All Time'
'Lovelace: The Rock Opera' @ Hayworth Theatre
Orange County Register Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog
Heartthrob du jour: Demian Bichir
Earlier this week I interviewed Demian Bichir, who my wife recently proclaimed “the sexiest actor in the solar system.”
The Globe and Mail - Theatre
How do you solve a problem like (West Side Story's) Maria? Chilina Kennedy
Ask and ye shall receive: Chilina Kennedy, who wowed them in The President and Wonderful Town at the Shaw Festival this year, has been stolen in the night by the Stratford Festival.Kennedy will be playing the comely courtesan Philia in Stratford head honcho Des McAnuff's production of A Funny Thing Happened - Follow link to read full post
The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show
The big numbers
There's further discussions by the east coasters on Bloomberg's article on artistic-director salaries from Isaac and Garrett. Garrett has pointed out that this issue was brought up months ago, so I took a look at this blog post from him on March 31st: ...
The Wicked Stage
Controversy Is Always a Winner
That is, until you have to give away the free tickets:
Playbill
* McGillin and Phantom's Masqueraders Will Appear on "Early Show" Oct. 31
* Romantic Poetry Won't Get Extension Week at MTC
TheaterMania
* Biggs, Gallagher, Halston, Parrish, Scott, Urie, et al. Set for Artios Awards on November 10
* Mia Barron and Darren Pettie to Star in Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy
Broadway.com
Fresh Face: Jarrod Spector hits a high note as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys
Whatsonstage.com - Blogs
Michael Coveney: Will Adrian Lester be the next Doctor Who?
The news that David Tennant is to step down soon as Dr Who is certain to fuel the widespread speculation that he might be succeeded by Adrian Lester as the first ever black time-traveller in the long-running television series.
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Lightning, Mojica, St. John and Waterston Set for Public's Native Theater Festival
* O'Hara, Luker and Dansicker Will Honor Cook in Song Nov. 17
* 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother Plays Philly Dec. 11-21
* Pieces of Noah Haidle's New Local Time Cycle Developed in Goodman Readings
TheaterMania
* Bean Joins Bohmer, Callaway, et al. in Kennedy Center's Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
* Courtney, Gurney, Moses, Swados Added to Flea 2008-2009 Season
The Clyde Fitch Report
Even More on the Death of Journalism
Again, I know these blogpost titles are hyperbolic. But is anyone suggesting these headlines mean all is rosy for journalists? Is anyone suggesting these changes aren't going to hit arts journalism particularly hard?
Woman Seeking...a Theatre Company Discovers Rachel Crothers
The Mirror up to Nature
Walmart Foundation to Non-Profs
If there are too many of you, the population won't be served.
The Playgoer
Arts Advocacy Orgs Merge
The indispensable Americans for the Arts have just announced a merger with the Business Committee for the Arts. Together they will form what Crain's calls "the largest such group [arts advocacy] in the private sector."
The Producer's Perspective
Doing our part to turn out the vote.
Ok, ok . . . maybe we were trying to get some press too.
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Picasso at the Lapin Agile, with Bassham, Farwell and Fischer, Added to New Rep Season
* "Mamma Mia!" Has Brought in One-Half Billion Dollars at the B.O.; Now Top Grossing Brit Pix
* Callaway, Gravitte and Coulter to Join Schwartz for Defy Gravity Concerts in CA
TheaterMania
* David Greig's Caligula to Get NYC Premiere in December
* Full Cast, Creative Team for TFANA's Chair
* David Rockwell to Design 81st Annual Academy Awards
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Meet the Team … Ordinary Days
Ordinary Days, a new musical by up-and-coming American writer Adam Gwon, receives its European premiere at the Finborough Theatre next week (3 November). We recently caught up with director Adam Lenson and cast members Hayley Gallivan, Julie Atherton, Kenneth Avery-Clark and Lee William-Davis to tell us more about it…
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Busch's "Psycho Beach Party" to Air on WNET/Thirteen in November
* Sheik and Pritchard to Perform in Westport Nov. 14
TheaterMania
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Dear Edwina
Talkin' Broadway
The weekly podcasts provided by SonyBMG in celebration of the release of the 4-CD Tribute Set "Story So Far..." are now available through a media player on Talkin' Broadway's...
Broadway.tv
* Haunting Broadway: The Ghost of David Belasco
The Clyde Fitch Report
Does the City Planning Commission Actively Loathe Greenwich Village?
Two days ago I received one of those sadly frequent "preservation alerts" from Andrew Berman at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. I've been concerned in past weeks that Andrew was doing a little too much reacting to news stories and not
The Playgoer
The Guardian
Liverpool's Everyman set for £40.5m redevelopment
The Everyman theatre, which launched the careers of Alan Bleasdale and Julie Walters, is to he knocked down and rebuilt in a major £40.5m development project beginning in 2010
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Andrew Haydon: With friends like the ICA, live art doesn't need enemies
ICA programmes ruin good live art work with incomprehensible and pretentious descriptions
Whatsonstage.com
Norton, Garrett, Ball & Boys Launch WOS Awards
Graham Norton will join Lesley Garrett, Michael Ball, Mel Giedroyc and the stars of Jersey Boys - Ryan Molloy, Stephen Ashfield, Gl...
Whatsonstage.com - Blogs
New directions
Michael Billington’s Critical Comment column appears each month in What’s On Stage magazine. Michael Billington is drama critic of the Guardian and has been voted top critic by Whatsonstage.com theatregoers. ....
The Stage UK
* Australian Carroll cast as alternate Nancy in Oliver!
'Crisis? What crisis?' ask defiant West End theatre producers
Exclusive: Theatre producers have hit back at claims that the West End has been plunged into a 'credit crunch crisis', branding recent reports of a box office crash as 'hysteria' and insisting there is no evidence that the global financial situation has yet caused shows to close.
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - Brook's 'Grand Inquisitor' opens - read the reviews
* Review Religion Used for Political Gain and Power
Digest - Roundabout opens 'Language of Trees' - read the reviews
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Gerald Arpino, a Founder of Joffrey Ballet, Dies at 85
New York Daily News
Remembering 'War of the Worlds'
The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming! That's what listeners to Orson Welles' radio dramatization of "War of the Worlds" feared. The Halloween-themed broadcast aired October 30, 1938 - 70 years ago Thursday.
Time Out New York
Profile: Peter Brook
English directing god Peter Brook dusts off some Dostoyevsky.
Weekly Vlog: The weekly vlog
David Cote and Adam Feldman trade notes on the week's offerings.
Hartford Courant
Rizzo: Hartford Stage Company To Present "Dying Stage'
Ryan King and Diane Davis will star in Christopher Shinn's "Dying City" at Hartford Stage Jan. 8 to Feb. 8.
New Haven Advocate
Here's the Story
The Story of My Life, a new musical at Goodspeed.
Star-Ledger
What is the value of 'free' tickets?
Bloomberg.com
Sick Economy Makes Nonprofits Slash Budgets, Cancel Galas, Brace for Worse
Last spring, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center sent Wall Street firms its annual pitch for a major donor to underwrite the group's fall gala and quickly began receiving rejections
TheaterMania
Loose Lips
Billy Elliot's Carole Shelley gives a grand performance; Weeds star Demian Bechir is taking the Waters; and Viola Harris shows her Devotion to Terrence McNally.
BroadwayWorld
* Arena Stage Announces Musical Symposium 'Where Are you Taking Me?: What's Next in Musical Theater'
Chicago Tribune
'Addams Family' musical to debut in Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
An altogether ooky opening is bound for Ford Center
Make way for Gomez, Morticia, Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley and all the rest. "The Addams Family" -- a new musical inspired by cartoonist Charles Addams' droll, goth-style, decidedly macabre version of the American family -- is set for its pre-Broadway world premiere at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts/ Oriental Theatre, running Nov. 13, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010
The Globe and Mail - Theatre
This Shaw Festival ain't big enough for the both of us Kennedys...
Hey, the Shaw Festival announced its 2009 principal casting and creative today. If you're interested in such things, I've posted the press release here, so you can read about who's in and who's out next season in Niagara-on-the-Lake. (The press release hasn't made it on the Shaw website yet, but when - Follow link to read full post...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fringe theater trailblazer is celebrated
Twenty years ago, Philadelphia performance artist/playwright Greg Giovanni named his loose collective of club kids, punk bohemians, and gay street urchins Big Mess Theatre
Baltimore Sun
There's nothing standard about Peters
Bernadette Peters exudes diffidence.
The Mirror up to Nature
Why Finish a Play?
Thomas Garvey talks about the recent emphasis on new plays by regional houses. He uses, as examples, several of the recent premieres we have seen in Boston.
Time Out Chicago
Jon
Collaboraction adapts a “genius” short story.
The Stranger
Theater News
Shitstorm at the Rep
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Carrie Dunn: West End girl: News from musical land
In a new weekly series, I'll be keeping a close eye on the chorus lines to bring you the latest news about musical theatre
The Stage UK Blogs
Mark Shenton: Confession time….
Critics are only human - we all make mistakes. And no one beats me up more for mine than me! So today it’s time to fess up, as they say Stateside, to one of mine: I’ve already admitted here...
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