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NIGHT-TIME ADDITIONS
Playbill
* What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling Opens Nov. 9 at New World Stages
* Hytner, Norris, Goold, Macdonald and Daldry Will Direct Plays at London's National in 2009
TheaterMania
* Neil Simon to Receive NYC's Handel Mendallion on November 10
* Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder to Play New Year's Eve Concert
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Times
Prolific Director, Off Off Off Off Broadway
The director David Cromer, who is seemingly omnipresent in Chicago, sets his sights on New York City.
The Weill (Almost) Nobody Knows
As champions of Kurt Weill always point out, there is more to his catalog than “The Threepenny Opera.” Two new projects will bring some of his lesser-known productions to the stage.
An Otherworldly Opera That Speaks Klingon
Star Trek fans rejoice: a Klingon Opera is being developed and selections will soon beam down at the Watermill Center.
Associated Press
New Yorkers Trying to Save Historic Tin Pan Alley
A group of New Yorkers is fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, the half-dozen row houses where iconic American songs were born.
New York Daily News
How 'Billy Elliot' got to Broadway
A small English town is the setting for "Billy Elliot," the rags-to-riches - if not tears-to-tutu - story of a striking miner's son who wants to dance. But the author of the film and stage adaptation, Lee Hall, says Billy was actually made in Manhattan.
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
Florence Henderson on Her New One-Woman Show and Why She Was No Fan of Cousin Oliver
Bergen Record
Will fourth time be a charm for Sondheim's "Road Show"?
Washington Post
Standing on Fertile Ground For Creative Expression
In "Grey Gardens," the Tony-winning musical that's landing at Studio Theatre, the start of the second act can really speak to a costume designer. The show's daughter character, Little Edie...
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Chicago theater groups need homes of their own
The Chicago renaissance in the performing arts was built on...
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
They don’t make insults like they used to
Seattle Times
Even in tough times, impassioned artists are forming new Seattle theater troupes
Seattle is home to as many theater startups as ever, despite a tough economy and a sketchy track record for longterm survival of new theatrical troupes. Misha Berson talks to new companies New Century Theatre, Backwards Ensemble Theatre Company and Theatre Machine about their plans — and hopes — as they launch.
The Stage UK - Blog
Mark Shenton: The Broadway village….
It is unfailingly the case that I run into more people on the streets, as well as the theatres, of New York than I ever do at home, at least away from opening nights where a critic’s life is...
The Stage UK
Really Useful Group signs ticketing deal with Viagogo
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group has signed a landmark ticketing deal with Viagogo, Europe's leading secondary ticketing company.
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