11/10/08 [updated 4:04PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Nov 10, 2008 | In Days Top News
LATE NIGHT ADDITIONS
amNY New York City Theater Blog
* The Difference Between High School Musical and Grease
Playbill
* Telsey, Carnahan and Calleri Win Artios Awards Nov. 10
* Shrek the Musical Has Fresh Website and New Social Networking Site, "Shrekster"
* Jolly Holland Days: Mary Poppins Will Get Production Near Amsterdam
* Bohmer, Lyng, Cox, Castle Bring Musical Pride and Prejudice to Life in NYC Reading
TheaterMania
* Performers Announced for Olney's 70th Anniversary Celebration
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Breaking Up is Hard To Do
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Chad Jones' Theatre Dogs Blog
Theater news: Moon gets `Spirited,’ Encore nabs Nachtrieb, `March’ goes on
amNY New York City Theater Blog
William Finn Stuff at Joe's Pub
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
MGM to Post Crap on YouTube
Bowing to intense pressure from fans of 2003's Bulletproof Monk and decades-old episodes of American Gladiators, MGM will become the first major studio to post full-length movies and TV shows that nobody really wants to watch on YouTube. The ...
Playbill
TheaterMania
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Apple Tree's John & Jen
* Pat Harrington to Star in Ray Bradbury's Falling Upward
* David Pittsinger to Fill In for Paolo Szot in South Pacific
* Full Cast and Creative Team Announced For Uncle Mike Ruins Christmas
* Stephen Sondheim and Frank Rich to Speak at Philadelphia's Verizon Hall
Broadway.com
My New York: What NYC hot spots are part of Mermaid prince Sean Palmer’s world?
Photo Op: South Pacific puckers up to recreate an iconic image
The Playgoer
Deep Thoughts
Equating the American Theatre with Broadway is like limiting discussion of movies to major Hollywood studio releases. Or all television to prime time programming on "the three networks."
The Wicked Stage
Dorn Again
When I look to count my blessings, as I often do, high among them is the chance not only to see some of the best theater in the world but to view it with heightened critical attention, and on occasion to meet and talk to its makers. As much as it can be a relief to see a show as a "civilian," ...
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: Stepping Out With Steppenwolf
Chicago’s acclaimed Steppenwolf Company returns to the National Theatre, with August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ five-time Tony Award-winning diabolically funny family drama set in rural Oklahoma. Michael Coveney looks forward to an overdue comeback.
See all of the mid-afternoon clippings
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Associated Press
People's Choice Awards Nominees Announced
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
-- The Library of Congress has acquired the papers of lyricist Howard Ashman ("Little Shop of Horrors," "The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin.”)
Atlanata Journal-Constitution ATLArts Blog
Review: 'High School Musical 2' @ the Fox
Back Stage
King of Collaborators
Meanwhile three of Thomas Schumacher's musicals are enjoying hit runs on Broadway, while several of his productions are touring the country or playing internationally.
Playbill
* Carmello, Gets, Testa, DeRosa and Kirkwood Sing Finn's Infinite Joy at Joe's Pub Nov. 10
TheaterMania
* Frechette, Halston, Hoffman, et al. to Star in Reprise of TWEED's Posteriors
The Wicked Stage
Ideas That Pay
If I've seemed less than concerned about the rolling collapse of the newspaper business in previous posts, let me correct that impression. The biggest problem with the slow death march of advertising- and subscription-supported...
The Guardian
Is the Holocaust a suitable subject for a musical?
Poll: The new West End show Imagine This is set in the Warsaw ghetto. Is it appropriate to give this episode of history a musical treatment?
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Natasha Tripney: Open-ar theatre is a risk worth taking
Scarborough's huge, derelict outdoor theatre is to be renovated. Now they need to decide how best to use it
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Neil Simon Given NYC's Handel Medallion Nov. 10; Mayor Also Recognizes MacDermot, A.R.T./NY
BroadwayWorld
* Hal Holbook's 'Mark Twain Tonight' Comes to Marin Center Nov. 22
* 'Gang of Seven', New Comedy by Jim Neu to Run at La MaMa E.T.C.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Lyn Gardner: Theatre is a question of responsibility
It's easy to tell if you enjoyed a play or not. It's harder to work out who to praise or blame
The Stage UK
Mark Shenton: Yesterday in Chicago with Tomorrow Morning….
Only yesterday the New York Times Arts and Leisure supplement led with a feature on Chicago theatre, and highlighted the career of a noted local theatre director there that began by asking, “Is David Cromer the most talented theatre...
Whatsonstage.com - Blogs
Michael Coveney: Hare today, gone tomorrow…
You might think that playwright David Hare and Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre would not be on the same side about anything, but both seem to agree that public figures deserve all the opprobrium that gets dumped on them from the sidelines.
London Theatre Guide
Soho turns 40
Soho theatre celebrates its 40th birthday in 2009 with a programme of work that includes a new piece by Steve Thompson, the award-winning first play of model turned playwright In-Sook Chappell and a new site-specific piece.
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - Russell-directed Mindgame opens off-Broadway - read the reviews
Digest - Transport Group Revives Shaw's Bury the Dead - read the reviews
New York Times
When Modernism and Judaism Converged on the Moscow Stage
“Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949” at the Jewish Museum tells a fascinating tale of two vanguard theater companies that flourished in Moscow after the Bolshevik Revolution.
[kept meaning to post this after reading on train on Friday. sorry...]
New York Post
A troupe's movement - Jewish stage art pre-Stalin
Way before Marc Chagall did windows, he worked in the theater. Painting murals, designing sets and costumes, even mak ing up the
Associated Press
Chris Noth strives to regain his stage legs
Chris Noth's focus had shifted from career to family when his agent called about a role in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway production of a new political drama, “Farragut North.”
Wall Street Journal
Enter, Stage Right?
You would be hard-pressed to find a play with a conservative political message, but that's certainly not a bad thing.
Bloomberg.com
Horton Foote, Hillary Fan, Celebrates Obama, Recalls Small-Town Texas Klan
When Horton Foote opened the door to greet me at his temporary digs, a 46th-floor aerie high above Times Square, he was, as always, impeccably dressed in a burgundy V-neck sweater and...
TheaterMania
Peter Filichia's Diary: Six Directors in Search of No Credit
Back in the days of half-hour radio shows and early TV, there was Queen for a Day. It had nothing to do with Broadway musicals, but I DID think of it the other day when I learned that a Broadway musical had been a Director for a Day.
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Chicago to host premiere of major new musical about Rob Roy
Attention all descendents of Clan MacGregor! Rob Roy is riding into the town. Singing all the way. The Arie Crown Theatre is to announce Monday that "Rob Roy The Musical," a major new international musical based on the iconic Scottish...
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Northeast Ohio arts groups prepared to weather economic storm
Foreclosed mortgages. Banks failing. Retirement accounts in the toilet. Jobs gone.
Dallas Morning News
In spite of a tough economy, three theater companies just launched in Dallas County
Talk about brave: Despite the nation's troubled economy, three startup theater companies opened productions Friday, all part of ambitious inaugural ...
Variety
Street named for August Wilson
Seattle road dedicated to playwright
Daily Telegraph
Adriano Shaplin: 'Shakespeare? Man, I can do better!'
Acclaimed dramatist Adriano Shaplin talks to Dominic Cavendish about his new play - and his apparently boundless self-belief.
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