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MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
[caught a break and had 45 minute in hotel room...so here goes...next ones will be tonight]

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Donation Sends Shakespeare Plays Home to The Globe

‘In The Heights’ Movie In The Works

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Arie Crown Theatre to get new sign on Lake Shore Drive
The Chicago theater district will be extending all the way to the McCormick Place convention center. Visually, at least. A spokesman for the Arie Crown Theatre "a full-blown Broadway roadhouse but one long lacking sufficient visibility to attract major shows" says that...

Playbill

* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Nov. 1-7: See Jane Play
* "A Way Back to Then": Blickenstaff Will Return to Mermaid Cast in 2009 as Ursula
* Beth Fowler Will Be Joan Littlewood in In the Theatre Musical Reading
* CBS "Sunday Morning" to Welcome Billy Elliot's Creators and Stars Nov. 9
* A Trove of WWII Letters Inspires New Musical, The Daly News, Premiering in Milwaukee

TheaterMania

* Cullum, Ross, Warren to Join Cast of August: Osage County
* Cavenaugh, Freeman, Lisitza, Maye, et al. Added to Broadway Unplugged

Broadway.com

Fresh Face: Elisabeth Moss

The Clyde Fitch Report

Rising Phoenix Repertory Announces Its First Off-Broadway Transfer

The Mirror up to Nature

The Corporate Circuit
This India Times article talks of how theatre impresarios in that country are tapping into corporate money: Ashvin Gidwani typifies the phenomenon. Seven years ago, he was producing sex comedies in league w...

The Guardian

Stage news roundup: Ben-Hur at the 02, Dreyfuss at the Old Vic
On Ben-Hur at the O2, Dreyfuss at the Old Vic and outstanding small spaces

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Nosheen Iqbal: Who would you cast in the Michael Jackson musical?
The show's producers are holding auditions for 11- to 15-year-olds. It's a shame they won't think outside the box

Matt Wolf: Evening Standard awards snub commercial theatre
This year's shortlist gives the West End short shrift

Michael Billington: Dramatists should take a leaf out of Dostoevsky's book
Enda Walsh and Theatre O's adaptation of The Brothers Karamzov is a timely reminder of the inherent theatricality of Dostoevsky's writing

Whatsonstage.com

Sister Act Musical Premieres at Palladium in June
As previously tipped, Sister Act: The Musical will receive its European premiere in the West End next year, op...

Robin Williams Aims Weapon at Bush, Two Nights

London Theatre Guide

Colman debuts in National spring
The National Theatre has confirmed its spring season of shows, which includes the Southbank debut of Peepshow star Olivia Colman.

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THE MORNING'S TOP STORIES
[next link will be late day or early evening - see David Cote's Histriomastix for details]

New York Times

Arts, Briefly: Betty Boop Wiggles Onto Broadway

New York Post

Riedel: Very few Fonda memories
'62 B'way disaster shadows her return

Wall Street Journal

Elton John: Back to Broadway
Rock star Elton John talks about his musical 'Billy Elliot' and crying at the movies.

Variety

Universal gets 'In the Heights' rights
Flush from the global returns of "Mamma Mia!," Universal Pictures is tuning up another stage musical transformation. The studio has acquired rights to turn the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "In the Heights" into a feature.

New York Daily News

Sondheim 'Show' of swindlers has pros & cons
Con artists are an honored tradition in musical theater, from "The Music Man" to "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." The latest singing swindlers are Addison and Wilson Mizner.

amNY

Interview with John Gallagher Jr. on Farragut North

Playbill

* DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Ute Lemper Plus News of Minnelli, Peters and Chenoweth

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Arlene Crewdson exiting Pegasus Players
After 30 years running Pegasus Players, a long-lived non-Equity theater located at Truman College on Chicago's North Side, Arlene Crewdson is stepping down. Crewdson, whose title has been executive director, said Thursday she intends to play the new role of...

Encore Michigan

Stratford Shakespeare Festival announces Michigan Residency events beginning Nov. 10

Los Angeles Times

Tight economy puts squeeze on arts
Closures, layoffs and downsizing are the order of the day as the downturn...

It's time for the arts to get creative -- about money

The Independent

Could they really do 'Ben-Hur' on stage
A theatrical version of the classic film costing £5m will take live entertainment to a new level, says London's O2 Arena

The Times UK

Priceless Shakespeare collection to return to Britain
The Globe Theatre is to receive more than 450 works from a US collector, including a first folio of 18 Shakespeare plays

What next, a Battleship Potemkin at Wembley?
Ever since Kathleen Turner flashed her all in The Graduate, transposing movies to the stage has become a trend

Whatsonstage.com

Donmar Leads Standard Shortlists, Jersey Dropped
The Donmar Warehouse’s increasing domination of Theatreland is underlined with the announcement today of the shortlists in this y...

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