10/31/08 [updated 4:20PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Oct 31, 2008 | In Days Top News
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Variety
Curtain closing on kindness?
With a global economy in turmoil, it's harder than ever to make a profit. And things are equally challenging for a not-for-profit.
Nonprofits batten down hatches
Economic climate making theaters nervous
Hardship's wealth of possibility
Economy likely to influence plays
Associated Press
Critics Bellow Over Orchestra Reviewer Losing Beat
The reassignment of a newspaper reviewer critical of Cleveland Orchestra conductor Franz Welzer-Moest left a dissonant trail of questions about censorship and the risk of panning a hometown arts icon.
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Oct. 25-31: A Doll for a Guy
* Gates of Choice, Set in Orthodox Jewish Community, to Get World Premiere in FL
* Broadway League Wants Wireless-Microphone "White Space" Studied More
* Actors' Gang Offers Adult Holiday Treat in Aah! Scrooge Must Die!
TheaterMania
* Oxygen to Premiere Center Stage: Turn It Up on November 1; DVD Release Set for January
* Bowen, Templeman, Whalley, et al. Set for L.A. Theatre Works' The Real Thing
The Clyde Fitch Report
The Landmarks Preservation Commission Finally Explains Its Indifference to NYU's Raping of the Provincetown Playhouse
Some time ago I wrote to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, asking why it has expressed no interest, no concern and, I guess, no awareness of the impending rape and destruction of the Provincetown Playhouse by President John Sexton of New York University and his right-hand gal, the raging anti-preservationist Alicia Hurley. This is the response I received. The line about
Parabasis
One More Note On Institutions
I would also just say that another reason why The Wire is essential viewing is that it takes an institution-based understanding of the problems affecting urban America. David Simon has said that he finds comparisons between The Wire and Shakespeare or The Wire and Dickens ...
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Miami Herald
Private sorrow shifts a season
Adalberto J. Acevedo, the founder and artistic director of the Miami Lakes-based Alliance Theatre Lab, should have been in rehearsals this week for his company's planned Nov. 6 opening...
On Theatre and Politics
Punished for growth
Before the market became particularly volatile, theaters were already in challenging economic model. Accepting poverty isn't a problem. In fact, small theaters in New York City exist in a state of constant poverty, through a combination of the...
Parabasis
Roundabout?
I hate to disagree with my compatriot Aaron Riccio, but I found this post on The Roundabout... strange to say the least... or to be more even-handed, I think it simply reflects some differences in my tastes and Aaron's.
The Playgoer
Print Critics Feel the Heat
"Some theater people are shivering with fear that their jobs are about to disappear. Unfortunately, they won't get much sympathy from anyone else on Broadway. That's because they're newspaper drama critics, those once all-powerful arbiters ...
The Producer's Perspective
When creative teams earn their stripes . . .
It's not in the two years prior to the first preview.
Playbill
* Paul Scott Goodman's Rooms Likely for New World Stages in 2009
TheaterMania
* Daniel J. Travanti and Ellen Crawford to Star in A Touch of the Poet
BroadwayWorld
* DL21C To Take Over New World Stages for Election Day Party
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
Back Stage
I'm Not Easy
Keith Carradine is still probably best known for his role as a womanizing folk singer in the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, for which he also wrote and sang the Oscar-winning song "I'm Easy."
Playbill
* "Laverne & Shirley" Stars Williams and Mekka to Reunite for It Had to Be You
* "Liza Minnelli: The Complete A&M Recordings" Due in Stores in November
TheaterMania
* Patti LuPone Set for November 3 TimesTalk
Broadway.tv
Broadway Disney's Scandalous Ghost: Olive Thomas
BroadwayWorld
* BWW Asks: 'What's Your Favorite Halloween Memory?'
* TOMORROW MORNING, THE MUSICAL Receives Chicago Production Starting 10/31
The Clyde Fitch Report
And Yet, Even More On the Death of Journalism (Well, Arts Journalism)
This morning's doom-and-gloom report comes courtesy of Michael Riedel's column in the New York Post. I've known for some time that Michael Sommers and possibly Peter Filichia were going to be taking buyout packages from the Star-Ledger, but obviously discretion is the better part of valor and all of that.
The Playgoer
Speaking the Institution's Language
Playgoer continues the ongoing conversation about salaries over at his place and makes a couple of points that I think are worth highlighting and expanding on (also, I owe him $10.00).
The Stage UK
Mark Shenton: The best of times is now….
In the midst of the global credit crunch, it may be odd to be declaring that the best of times is now, but that’s what they’re doing nightly at the Playhouse in London, where La Cage Aux Folles last...
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Mark Shenton: Theatre's scariest fright nights
You might think film is scarier than theatre, but my top terrifying stage moments will prove you wrong...
Whatsonstage.com
Gavin’s Mathew Horne Entertains Staunton, 30 Jan
London theatregoers will have a double-dose of Joe Orton black comedies in the coming months. Following the Tricycle’s December staging...
Abdulrazzak Scoops 17th Meyer-Whitworth Award
The 17th annual Meyer-Whitworth Award was presented at the National Theatre last night (30 October 2008) to Hassan Abdulrazzak (pictured) for his play Baghdad Wedding, which ran at the Soho Theatre from 28 June to 21 July 2007. The Meyer-Whitw...
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Bill Aitchison On … 2012
2012 is the latest show by theatre and performance artist Bill Aitchison. Following its recent premiere in Germany, 2012 will get its UK debut on the 10-11 November at Camden Peoples' Theatre as part of the Apocryphal Festival.
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Post
Riedel: Condition: Quite Critical
Some theater people are shivering with fear that their jobs are about to disappear. Unfortunately, they won't get much sympathy from anyone else on Broadway. That's because they're newspaper drama critics, those once all-powerful arbiters who, with a vicious turn of phrase, could close a show, humiliate an actor, bankrupt an...
amNY
Cloris Leachman Finally Ready for Young Frankenstein?
Reuters / Hollywood Reporter
Pulitzer pen crafts "Spidey 4"
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire got out of a rabbit hole, only to be ensnared by a spider's web.
New York Times
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
“Black Watch,” Gregory Burke’s play about a Scottish Army regiment’s perspective on the war in Iraq, has extended performances through Dec. 21 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn. ...Natasha Richardson, Victor Garber, Christine Baranski and Vanessa Redgrave will be among the stars of a gala reading of “A Little Night Music,” ...
Playbill
* National Tour of Happy Days Revs Up for Oct. 31 Debut; Sorge Is Fonzie
* DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Linda Eder, Yellow Brick Road Not Taken and News of Peters and Foster
* Sullivan to Direct Broadway Revival of Look Homeward, Angel
TheaterMania
Peter Filichia's Diary: October Leftovers
It was a month in which – after months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months of waiting, the TKTS booth opened.
BroadwayWorld
* Santa Barbara Theatre Presents Leonard Bernstein's PETER PAN
Bloomberg.com
Obama Tapped Hal Prince, Michael Chabon for Plank to Boost Artists, NEA
Senator Barack Obama writes poetry, gets props from Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z, and is the first White House contender to include a far-reaching arts plank in his platform.
Time Out New York Blog
Jack-o’-lanterns stump for Obama
[trying not to be too off-topic, but this is too choice - Happy Halloween]
The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theatre and Vintage Film Medicine Show
The wonderful world of compensation
Following up on discussions throughout the theater blogosphere, I followed Laura's advice and registered on the website GuideStar. The registration is free, ....
Washington Post
Local Architect Sets The Scene for 'Boom'
Thomas Kamm lays the groundwork for the futuristic fantasy 'Boom' at Woolly Mammoth.
Baltimore Sun
A new vision for arts district
City officials plan to unveil a multiphase plan today to transform a 100-acre arts and entertainment district north of Pennsylvania Station into a $1 billion "cultural crossroads" for Baltimore over the next three decades.
Time Out Chicago Blog
Memorial service for Arpino on November 17
Seattle Times
Paramount's new Broadway season: Familiar musicals, recent plays
Good news for recent Seattle shows "Cabaret" and "Prayer for My Enemy"
Whatsonstage.com
News: McKellen & Stewart Wait in Haymarket Godot, 6 May?
The Stage UK
Mathias to direct McKellen and Stewart in Waiting for Godot
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