11/13/08 [updated 12:23AM EST, 11/14/08]
By Andy Propst on Nov 13, 2008 | In Days Top News
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LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Associated Press
APNewsBreak: Met Opera to Cut 'Ghosts'
The Metropolitan Opera is giving up ''The Ghosts.''.
Variety
Met cuts 'Ghosts'
Opera company drops revival
Humana Fest unveils lineup
Plays by Lee, Wallace, Kazan on the slate
Village Voice La Dolce Musto Blog
I Met Elton's Husband at a Gay Bar!
Reuters
Robert Redford pushes role for art in social change
Oscar-winning director Robert Redford is concerned that money for the arts will dry up amid a deepening global financial crisis, and he is pushing for the arts to play a greater role in social change.
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Theater review: 'The Blue Dragon' at UCLA Live
Orlando Sentinel Attention Must Be Paid Blog
Fringe deadline Saturday
Saturday's the deadline for all of you who want to be in the 2009 Fringe. Here's the info: Attention Fringe artists, past, present, and future! Hurry, hurry! Time is Running Out! There is still time to get your application in...
It's 'Avenue Q' Mary-oke time
Broadway meets ... well, way-way-way-off-Broadway when Avenue Q makes it to Hamburger Mary's next week. It's Mary-oke time, and the goal is not just to sing karaoke but to do it with a puppet on your arm. Sounds like something...
Playbill
* Streep Eyeing Role in Film of "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat"
* CBS' "Thanksgiving Day Parade" Broadcast to Feature Mary Poppins, Grease and Aiken
* Barbara Cook CD Signing and Performance Canceled for Nov. 13
TheaterMania
* Dugan, Kerr, Rogers, Stuhr, et al. Set for Yale Rep's Rough Crossing
* [title of show] Cast to Join NYC Gay Men's Chorus for Holiday Concert
Broadway.com
Video: Get to know the proud men of off-Broadway's Streamers
BroadwayWorld
* Whoopi Talks UK SISTER ACT: The Musical on 'The View'
* World Premiere of 'POTATOES OF AUGUST' At Dixon Place 12/4
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Norman and Brown's Trumpet of the Swan to Feature Bates, Kennedy, Thomas and Willard
* Equus Expands Student Rush Ticket Policy
* Rosie's Gala to Feature Tribute to Rivera with Neuwirth, Ebersole and West Side Story Cast
TheaterMania
* Melora Hardin to Join Broadway's Chicago on December 29
* Astin, Borle, Callaway, de Jesus, Huffman, et al. Set for Bound for Broadway
* Full Cast Set for 1812 Production's Cherry Bomb
The Artful Manager
Enabling and rewarding your critics
There's more and more conversation out there (at least that I'm hearing) about embracing and enabling audience members to connect around your content and contribute their own perspectives. Whether through discussion...
The Mirror up to Nature
Play Descriptions and A New Genre?
I love reading through the summaries from The Dramatist Play Service and Samuel French Catalogues.
The Stage UK
Really Useful Group website to offer social networking
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group has overhauled its website to include a new social networking section where theatre fans can have their own show-themed profile pages.
More4 to celebrate McKellen's career with a season of programmes
More4 is to celebrate the career of Ian McKellen with a special season of programmes, including a new film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear.
The Stage UK - Blogs
Mark Shenton: Back to school….
Musicals are, of course, taken seriously in New York, or rather more seriously, than anywhere else I know: everyone talks about them, everyone goes to them, and Broadway revolves around them. (Or at least it does in the circles...
NOON-TIME ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Metropolitan Opera Still Looking to Cut Costs
Back Stage
Linked In
Actors are turning to the Internet for support, social networking, and self-promotion. They are creating new roles for themselves: that of a "cyber self." "You need to use the Internet to have any career at all," says actor David Blue.
CinStages Buzz Blog
Humana Fest announces 2009 line-up
Theatre in Chicago
Mary Poppins Tickets Go On Sale
Playbill
* Jana Robbins to Direct Little Women Musical
* Naughton and Woodward to Wrap A Holiday Garland Around Westport
* Cooper and Carney Will Join Oscar Winners Mirren and Irons in Taymor's "Tempest"
TheaterMania
Mary Me!
Scarlett Strallen and Adam Fiorentino take over the leading roles in the Broadway production of Mary Poppins.
* Full Cast Set for Overtone Industries' It's a Pretty Good Life
The Mirror up to Nature
Political Playwrights Caught Napping?
Dominic Cavendish, in the UK Telegraph, takes in the new David Hare play Gethsemane. Hare's play, he tells us, has the same flaw that many left wing political plays seem to have...it tries to pin most of the problems on a "loss of idealism."
The Producer's Perspective
Overheard at Angus. Vol. 1.
Today marks the debut of a new feature on TPP: Overheard at Angus. For those of you who aren't familiar with...
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Michael Billington: What power does political theatre have?
Critics shouldn't expect Gethsemane to have real political clout, we should celebrate it for engaging with society
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Updated Digests: Saturn Returns * Bury the Dead * Streamers * Sleepwalk With Me * Mindgame
Playbill
* Engquist and Lebeaux Set for Free Songbook Concert Nov. 24
* Memorial for Harry S. Gold, Disney Theatricals Executive, Set for Nov. 17
TheaterMania
* Brown, Cavenaugh, Kudisch, Lazar, Murney, et al. Set for Broadway Unplugged
* Bogart, Kazan, Mee, Wallace, Yew, et al. Set for Humana Festival
Culturebot
http://culturebot.org/2008/11/13/heads-up-gatz-empac/
The Guardian
Scenes at the museum
Researching Gilgamesh in the British Museum, Jacqui Honess-Martin came across the story of an unlikely excavator in Nineveh. Where better to stage his tale than alongside the museum's Babylon exhibition?
The Stage UK
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: Past/Present/Future for...Douglas Hodge
Actor-director Douglas Hodge stars as drag queen Albin in Terry Johnson’s acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory production of Broadway musical comedy La Cage Aux Folles, now transferred to the West End. As an actor, he has appeared in more than ten Harold Pinter plays and his other recent stage credits include Titus Andronicus, Pericles...
Gossip: Meantime Douglas Hodge Makes a New Musical???
Douglas Hodge is a busy boy. Not only is he currently starring in La Cage Aux Folles and preparing to direct Jonathan Pryce in Athol Fugard’s Dimetos at the Donmar Warehouse in the new year, he’s also writing a musical of his own...
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - 'Farragut North', with Noth, Gallagher, Whitlock, opens - read the reviews
* Review Dive Back into Presidential Politics, With Some Sharks
amNY New York City Theater
Interview with Tony Yazbeck on On the Town
New York Post
Liz Smith: Nothing bumpy about this night
'All About Eve' reading...
ny1
The Great White Way Impacted By The Wall Street Crunch
Time Out New York
Ball and change
Itamar Moses steps up to bat with Back Back Back.
Bloomberg.com
Crisis, What Crisis? Theater Producer Friedman Flourishes as Markets Slump
British theater producer Sonia Friedman says she's hardly noticed the financial crisis.
New York Times
Theater Director Resigns Amid Gay-Rights Ire
The artistic director of the California Musical Theater resigned on Wednesday in the face of growing outrage over his support for Proposition 8.
Washington Post
Kennedy Chief Comes to an Opera's Rescue
Michael M. Kaiser, the president of the Kennedy Center, has developed a reputation for saving performing arts organizations that...
NEH Chairman Bruce Cole Will Leave Post in January
Bruce Cole, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities for the past seven years, announced yesterday he is...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tarell McCraney, once an assistant to August Wilson, is a playwright to watch
Tarell Alvin McCraney is a young black playwright from Miami, educated at DePaul and Yale, who already has a number of plays to his credit, including three running this month in London.
Time Out Chicago
Gatz
The Great Gatsby gets a seven-hour stage treatment
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Milwaukee family's WWII-era letters inspire musical
Lincoln State Bank executive Martin Daly had a weekly routine in the mid-1940s. Every Wednesday morning, without fail, he would slip a small stack of customized stationary into the office mimeograph machine and run off nine or 10 copies of "The Daly News." Sometimes snapshots were pasted to the paper.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cigarette-tax arts fellowship information is online
The diciest part of distributing Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for the arts is about to start.
Cleveland Scene
Money And The Bank
Will Pnc Bring Its Largesse To Cleveland Arts Groups?
Cincinnati CityBeat
Curtain Call: Theaters, Actors, Etc.
To Cover the Arts or Not
San Diego Union-Tribune
'You have to believe this ridiculous story absolutely'
Even Kubla Khan should be able to get in the groove with Playhouse's loopy, earnest 'Xanadu'
The Independent
Keith Allen: The rogue rides again
He's better known these days as Lily's dad, but Keith Allen is centre stage once more – as Long John Silver in the West End. Elisa Bray warms to his charms
The Guardian
Nicolas Bataille
Obituary: Director of The Bald Prima Donna, the world's longest-running play at the same venue
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Natasha Tripney: Music for the theatre must be fine tuned-soundscape
How do composers make sure a soundscape for the stage is complementary to the action rather than intrusive
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