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LATE NIGHT ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Tony Winner Cariou to Direct New Musical Rob Roy
* Lady with All the Answers, Jailbait and Lascivious Something Comprise 2009 Cherry Lane Season
* Alee Ralph, Production Supervisor and Casting Agent, Dies at 45
TheaterMania
* Gets, Kuhn, Moran, Prince, Testa, et al. Set for Broadway Beyond Borders
LATE DAY ADDITIONS
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Nov. 8-14: Billy, Do Be a Hero!
TheaterMania
* Bundy, Dancy, Margulies, Nixon, Perez, Schreiber, Stiles, Wood, et al. Set for 24 Hour Plays
* Bogardus, Goldenhersh, Madigan, Richardson Set for Black Swan Reading
Broadway.com
Video: Patti LuPone on the nightclub act that launched a legend
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
California, meet your new poet laureate
The Mirror up to Nature
Boston Theatre - Friday Roundup
The Wicked Stage
The Death of Music
Not really--just evidence from The Hollywood Reporter of further hard times in the music business, in this case the film-scoring end of it. Sample anecdote:
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
ny1
NY1 Theater Review: "Billy Elliot"
Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog
* Hey, Ben Folds! Please write a musical!
Pete Townshend and The Who did it. Phil Collins did it badly. Duncan Sheik did it brilliantly. Billy Joel sort of did it. And Elton John does it every other day.
Baltimore City Paper
Towson University's Critic! Theatre Artist and Critic Symposium
Playbill
* Crowley, Ludwig, Altomare, Metz and More Cast in McCarter's A Christmas Carol
TheaterMania
* Ann Hampton Callaway to Release At Last in February
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Nabokov and London’s Top Theatre Talent Tackle Current Affairs
Olivier award winning playwright Nicholas Wright will be amoung a group of talented theatre practitioners who will take on the Present: Tense challenge set by new writing theatre company Nabokov. The artists, who also include UK Young Storyteller of The Year Rachel Rose Reid, the Brit School’s young theatre company ...
NOONTIME ADDITIONS
New York Daily News
'Billy' makes great leap onto B'way
The transfer of musicals from film to Broadway has a spotty history. But "Billy Elliot," the irresistible new show from London, is that rare production - one that brings all the elements together and creates a fresh emotional experience.
ny1
"Billy Elliot" Opens As "Gypsy" Announces Its Close
Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog
Ken Russell, Master Filmmaker, Speaks
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
-- An exhibition of works by playwright Edward Albee and Brooklyn artist John Beech goes on display at a New York gallery.
Back Stage
Grand Dame
When Marian Seldes speaks with you, it's as if you are the only person in the world. Some lucky performers will have the chance to be the focus of such attention at Actorfest in New York.
Playbill
* Taking Cue From Alger and Cohan, Writers Make New Musical Bowery Boys; Cast Announced
* Taratula Will Inhabit Heche in Premiere of Call Me Anne
The Playgoer
Not So Well-Endowed
Even the mighty Oregon Shakes--and its fabled endowment or all endowments--has not been spared the economic hard times:
The Producer's Perspective
Something fun for Friday.
13 has a new toy.
London Theatre Guide
Lion King celebrates 10th year with special performances
As Disney’s The Lion King prowls into its 10th year in the West End’s theatrical jungle, it is marking the occasion with special appearances on the Royal Variety Performance and Radio’s 2 Friday Night Is Music Night, making musical theatre history in the process
Haymarket hunts for treasure on Sundays
Treasure Island will join the growing list of London shows to stage Sunday performances when it changes its schedule at the Theatre Royal Haymarket next month.
LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Director Scott Eckern's resignation over his support of Prop. 8: A game-changer in theater history?
Playbill
* "Broadway By the Year" to Salute 1927, 1931, 1944 and 1970 in 2009
* Jennifer Holliday and Piper Laurie Will Join San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus for Dec. 1 Holiday Concert
TheaterMania
* Harrison, Rauch, Stuhlbarg, et al. Set for Red Bull's The Malcontent
The Clyde Fitch Report
Remember the Death of Journalism?
Well, it's still with us. I woke up to find this in my email box today, courtesy of Mediabistro's Daily Media News Feed:
Parabasis
I almost don't know what to say
Other than that this is outrageous: ....A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama. The Democratic president-elect supports abortion rights, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil," the priest said.
The Guardian
Stage news roundup: The National goes for Goold
Rupert Goold is to direct JB Priestley's Time and the Conways at the National, Sadler's Wells has spring in its step and Pal Joey swings into Studio 54 in New York
What to say about...Billy Elliot on Broadway
You're not sure if you can afford a trip to New York to see it, but that shouldn't stop you having an opinion on the American transfer of the British hit musical
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Carie Dunn: Am-dram can only benefit from the free theatre ticket scheme
The National Operatic and Dramatic Association's chief executive's criticism of the free ticket project is misguided
The Stage UK
Sunday's Songs of Praise to focus on songs from the musicals
Paul Nicholas and Tim Rice are to feature in a special edition of Songs of Paise on Sunday, which will have a focus on musical theatre.
Whatsonstage.com
Cast - Dominic Cooper in Phaedra; Dimetos & Days
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
The Big Interview: Nadia Latif
Nadia Latif trained as a director at RADA. She founded Tabula Rasa Theatre in 2003, for whom she has directed a number of productions, and was recently shortlisted for the Jerwood Award at the Young Vic. Since moving to London from the Sudan ten years ago, she has worked at ...
London Theatre Guide
Last chance for Olivier judges
Theatre fans who fancy helping to select 2009’s best work and seeing a year’s worth of free productions in the process, have just two weeks left to apply to be Laurence Olivier Awards judges. Applications close on 28 November.
THE MORNING'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - 'Billy Elliot: The Musical' debuts on B'way - read the reviews
* Review - Billy Elliot: The Musical - Simply Electrifying
New York Times
Arts, Briefly: ‘Gypsy’ Revival With Lupone to Close
New York Post
Riedel: Dollar 'Billy' leaps to mine
B'ways success began in bath
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
Jim Jones and Damon Dash on Their New Play and Making the Next ‘Reasonable Doubt’
USA Today
'American Buffalo' stars feast on diversity
Playbill
* DIVA TALK: Chatting with White Christmas' Kerry O'Malley Plus Fraser and Testa's Together Again
Broadway.com
Video Blog: Billy Elliot dad Gregory Jbara gets caught playing with his tutu
The Stage UK
Mark Shenton: A Broadway first night triumph…
London critics are used to being part of the event of a first night, but it creates an unusual tension: we’re there to work and to judge, and the rest of the usually invited audience of friends and investors...
Washington Post
Father of the Follies
Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business By Ethan Mordden
Baltimore Sun
'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' starts its run here
How do you pack up a Broadway musical and take it on the road?
Boston Globe
Stages: Dreaming of a dark Christmas
"The Seafarer" by Conor McPherson and directed by Carmel O'Reilly is an Irish tale of alcoholism and redemption.
Chicago Sun-Times
From 'CSI' to Steppenwolf, William Petersen's journey
William L. Petersen is in the process of getting his theater groove back. The actor’s final episode of the longrunning CBS series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” already has been shot and is set to air in January. And ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Muny announces most of ‘09 season
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