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Associated Press

Clive Barnes, Theater, Dance Critic, Dies at 81

Variety

Critic Clive Barnes dies at 81
Covered the N.Y. theater scene for 40 years

Bloomberg.com

Clive Barnes, Avuncular Broadway Critic and Dance Biographer, Dies at 81
Clive Barnes, the avuncular and quotable critic who covered New York’s theater and dance scene for more than 40 years, died early this morning in Manhattan at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He was 81 and recently had been diagnosed with liver cancer.

New York Times

Clive Barnes, Dance Critic, Dies at 81
As a critic in Britain and later for The New York Times, Mr. Barnes helped bring dance to a broad audience with an exuberant style

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Share Your Memories of Clive Barnes

City Opera Castaway Lands at Brooklyn Philharmonic

New York Post

Longtime Post Arts Critic Clive Barnes Dies at 81

Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog

Hints That Billy Elliot is a Poufter

Orange County Register The Arts Blog

The Ovation Awards: a complaint

New York Observer The Daily Transom Blog

Will Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon Find Favor With the Academy? 'He's Not a Dick,' Says NYT's David Carr

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

Robin Williams Plays UCB!

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Culture Club Blog

Paula West: Cabaret or Jazz?

Playbill

* Hairspray's Shaiman and Wittman Will Discuss Prop 8 on "Theater Talk"
* Rock On! Toronto's We Will Rock You Extends to February 2009
* Tickets for Broadway Revival of Hair Available to American Express Members Nov. 19
* Shubert Ticketing and Sapient Corporation Will Revitalize Telecharge.com
* BBC Radio to Broadcast Barrowman's Concert at London's Mermaid Theatre

Broadway.com

Story: 24 star Cherry Jones gets presidential; previews Meryl Streep in Doubt

The Clyde Fitch Report

Peter Dinklage, Jessica Hecht, Keira Naughton, Among Those Pairing Up with Young Playwrights at 52nd Street Project

nytheatre mike 2.0

Revisiting Some Classics
I’ve been revisiting some classics lately, works that I was first exposed to as a kid and have a newfound (or just different) appreciation for as an adult.

OnTheatre and Politics

I think this
...is really cool. ... Chicago Theater Database.

Parabasis

How Theatre Can Save Your Soul
Read all about it here.

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Chris Wilkinson: Noises Off: Content is no longer the king in theatre
Issues tackled by the blogs this week span working in Japan, censorship, diversity and the tendency to talk about process rather than content

Alexis Soloski: Stanley the Robot: a star is built
Stanley's theatrical debut has me wondering whether android actors might be the future

London Theatre Guide

The Big Interview: Una Stubbs
Currently appearing in The Family Reunion at the Donmar Warehouse, actress Una Stubbs tells Caroline Bishop how bringing up her own family has shaped her career.

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MID-MORNING ADDITIONS

About Last Night

TT: Clive Barnes, R.I.P.
When I was a teenager and first became aware of criticism as a profession, Clive Barnes was one of its very biggest names. Born in 1927, Barnes had come to this country in 1965 to work for the New York Times. Right from the start, he was the kind of writer who got written about, in part because he had two arrows in his...

Playbill

* Rose, Poulos, Walker and More Will Join Fowler for In the Theatre Musical Readings
* Will Gandolfini and Harden Star in Broadway Staging of Reza's God of Carnage?

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Natasha Tripney: The etiquette of leaving the theatre mid-play
During a recent show, a couple left their seats 20 minutes before the end. Surely it's not fair to disrupt the rest of the audience?

Whatsonstage.com

Ten Years On, Mark Little Defends Caveman Again
A decade after he made his West End debut in Defending the Caveman, Australian comedian and television presenter Mark Little (pictured) will reprise his role in the Olivier Award-winning one-man comedy, with...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Robyn Moore … Eastender in the Southend
Robyn Moore is best known to the British public as Ex-Eastender Shirley Benson, but she is about to grace our stages as she opens in a powerful new Australian play, The Ides of March at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington. It runs from 25 November until 21 December. Keith ...

London Theatre Guide

Globe loves 2009
Shakespeare’s Globe will celebrate young love in its season next year, which includes three of the bard’s romances and a new version of Euripides’s Helen by Frank ...

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THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES

AmericanTheaterWeb

Digest - Sondheim and Weidman's Road Show Opens - read the reviews

Digest - Moses' Back Back Back opens - read the reviews
* Review - Baseball's Steroid Scandal Revisited

New York Times

Tragedy Tomorrow, Economic Woes Tonight
Those in the industry wonder not only about empty theaters, but also about the effect on the stream of creative work.

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Marissa Jaret Winokur Returns to 'Hairspray'

New York Post

Riedel: Reba targets stage return
You're the top You're a blue sapphire You're the top You're Reba McEntire By way of Cole Porter, I'm happy to report today that the delightful Reba McEntire may be back on Broadway next year, starring in a revival of "Anything Goes" for the Roundabout. Reba, as the world knows her from her long-running TV...

NPR

After Years, Sondheim's 'Road Show' Pulls Into NY
[this has some pretty nifty sound-clips as part of it]

Wall Street Journal

He's Piloting 'Billy Elliot' -- Again
Stephen Daldry's movie has come to Broadway. He sits down for an interview to talk about his love of the theater.

Bloomberg.com

`Holocaust Musical' Team Defends London Project Inspired by Warsaw Ghetto
From time to time, some music-theater friends come up with unlikely subjects for musicals. Like, ``Telephone Directory Spectacular'' or ``Crochet on Ice!'' Now the press has dubbed a new London show ``The Holocaust Musical.''

Variety

Situation changes for org
Ad agency renamed

Back Stage

Theatres of Color to Hold Public Hearing
The Coalition of Theatres of Color, a collective of 15 African-American and Latino theatres in New York, will hold a free public hearing on Nov. 24 about the affects of the economic downturn on theatres of color.

TheaterMania

Peter Filichia's Diary: 20 More Clever Broadway Musical Moments
We’re talking clever this week – meaning the cleverest musical moments in songs that have graced the Broadway stage. I gave 20 on Monday, but 20 simply is not enough. Here are 20 more to indicate how clever some of our musical theater writers have been. In alphabetical order: ...

The Stage UK Blogs

Mark Shenton: Always had a fondness for you, I did…
The West End transfer of Sweeney Todd to Drury Lane in 1980 - in a shamefully short-lived transplant of Hal Prince’s Broadway production - was the first Sondheim musical I ever saw in a version of its original production,...

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Richard Chamberlain to take Pythonesque turn in Chicago

Whatsonstage.com

Globe Gets into Greek Drama, More 2009 Premieres
Shakespeare’s Globe will go back even further than the bard in the classical canon next summer with its first full-scale Greek drama, a new version of Euripides’ fifth-century BC play Helen. The 2009 summer season at the open-air Bankside landmar...

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