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LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
-- Katharina Wagner, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival and great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, was uninjured in a car accident on the German autobahn that occurred when the driver died of a heart attack at the wheel.
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Listen to a play or three for free
Conundrum Stages celebrates its fourth anniversary at 2 p.m. Saturday with a free reading of Lorraine Hansberry's great play, A Raisin in the Sun. Rachel Finley directs Will Barnes, Yvone Christiana, Crystal, John Fell, Devounte Hohing, Kevin Johnson, Dorothy Morrison,...
Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog
You Tube Listening Treasure: Liza Gives Doris Day A Ring-A-Ding
Playbill
* Neu's Gang of Seven to Premiere at LaMaMa Dec. 4
TheaterMania
* Asolo Rep to Hold Town Hall Event December 2
BroadwayWorld
* Resonance Ensemble Announces Their 2008-09 Season
The Globe and Mail -Theatre
Theatre and dance critic Clive Barnes, dead at 81
Obituaries in the New York Post and the New York Times. Reading about how Barnes used to sometimes write four reviews a day for the New York Times makes me feel like a real slacker for not updating this blog very much this week...
Steve On Broadway
Opening Broadway's Estate Sale
This evening, the show that is arguably the most anticipated play to transfer to Broadway this season -- Horton Foote's acclaimed Off-Broadway hit from last fall Dividing The Estate -- opens this evening at the Booth Theatre.
The Wicked Stage
Venue Attrition
Apologies if another writer in my bloggerhood has already posted on this new study by the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation about the fortunes of Off-0ff-Broadway venues, which I found sobering. To wit:
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Review - Continuous City - Is There True Connection in an Age of Hyperconnectivity?
amNY
Deaf West to Stage Pippin to Hearing and Non-Hearing Actors
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
‘American Buffalo’ Goes Way of the Buffalo
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
To create 'Ruined' play about African horrors, they went to Africa
Robert Falls' 'American Buffalo' to close fast on Broadway
Playbill
* Tony Winner Lloyd Young to Make Feature Film Debut in "Oy Vey My Son Is Gay"
TheaterMania
* Billy Elliot Casting Documentary to Air on Channel 13 on December 1
* Perez, Rodriguez, et al. to Participate in Our Time's One-Act Play Program
On Theatre and Politics
OOB Venues Study Published
The New York Innovate Theater Foundation has completed a five-year study of Off Off Broadway venues. It's fantastic to see efforts being made to show the real, not anecdotal, behavior of Off-Off Broadway
The Producer's Perspective
The Stage UK
Bond and Glen to star in Radio 3's Milton season
Samantha Bond and Iain Glen are to star in a new radio production of John Milton's dramatic poem Samson Agonistes.
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: Peter Polycarpou On ... The Ethics of Imagine This
Peter Polycarpou's acting credits include the original West End productions of Miss Saigon and Les Miserables. He has also played the title role in Phantom of the Opera, and counts Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Trever Nunn’s NT revival of Olkahoma! amongst his many other stage credits.
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Ollie Dimsdale On … Filter, Tequila and Toby Belch
In association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Filter's version of the much performed Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night raised a few eyebrows when it appeared at the Edinburgh festival last year, not least because actor Ollie Dimsdale insists on playing the role of the drunken Sir Toby Belch with a few ...
LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Broadway to Dim Its Lights Nov. 20 in Honor of Late Clive Barnes
* Casting Announced for Rare Revival of Bernstein's Peter Pan
* Olivier Winner Friedman Will Celebrate The Great British Songbook in February 2009
TheaterMania
* D'Amboise Family, Mann, Tamblyn to Participate in Jerry Robbins Tribute
The Fortress of Jason Grote
Two NYC events: "Rebuilding Hope" and "London Cries"
The Playgoer
Time to Merge?
At least 100,000 nonprofits nationwide will be forced to close their doors in the next two years as a result of the financial crisis, according to Paul Light, professor of public service at New York University.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Carrie Dunn: West End Girl: Sunset Boulevard is ready for another closeup
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical returns to Theatreland, Jason Donovan's Priscilla pals are confirmed and Douglas Hodge has a new show up his sleeve
Lyn Gardner: Speaking Shakespeare in tongues
As Footsbarn's A Midsummer Night's Dream proves, capturing the spirit of a play can be more important than enunciating every word
The Stage UK - Blogs
Mark Shenton: The dimming of a critical light on Broadway….
It’s not, of course, the business of critics to be liked, let alone loved. Yet the passing yesterday of Clive Barnes, at the age of 81, has provoked an outpouring of generous tributes: in a video on the New...
(Sorry we can’t) Imagine This
As I blogged a couple of months ago , it was always going to be a tough sell. Imagine This - the show which will forever be known as ‘the holocaust musical’ - opened at the New London Theatre...
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: 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...
Food Poisoning Takes Josh Hartnett Out of Rain Man
Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett has been forced to miss four performances of Rain Man this week after contracting food poisoning. Producers say that he’ll be back on by tomorrow night. Hartnett’s last performance was on Monday nigh...
London Theatre Guide
La Clique extends at Hippodrome
Quirky variety show La Clique has extended its run at the Hippodrome until 19 April ahead of the Leicester Square venue’s proposed conversion into a casino.
First Night Feature: Imagine This
Imagine This: an original new musical opening in the West End, one not based on a book, a film or a band’s back catalogue, and not a transfer from Broadway. It has been a rare occurrence of late, but it happened last night at the New London theatre.
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Times
Turnaround Specialist Talks of City Opera Plans
Even before the full board of New York City Opera learned that its proposed savior, Gerard Mortier, was saying goodbye, its chairwoman had turned to a man known in the arts as a turnaround specialist.
Arts, Briefly: New Space for the Arts
The Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s have completed the purchase of three theaters below the three floors that the center already owns at 450 West 37th Street in Manhattan. ...
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
'Impressionism,' With Irons and Allen, Finds a Theater
Michael Jacobs's new play, "Impressionism," in which Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen star as a photojournalist and a New York gallery owner, will be coming to Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.
New York Daily News The Cultural Tourist Blog
Clive Barnes
I remember precisely when I first became aware of Clive Barnes. ...
amNY
'American Buffalo' to Close on Sunday
New York Post
As ever, a gentleman
Clive Barnes, 1927 - 2008
Liz Smith: Queens on the bus go 'round
The successor to that moneymaking hit "Mamma Mia!" may well be the stage musical of the cult movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," set to bow in London's West End in March. (And once something is a hit there, it's usually bound for Broadway.)
Time Out New York
Exit stage right
Scott Eckern and Christine Ebersole test the tolerance of the theater.
Builders Association
Multimedia wizard Marianne Weems knows the medium is the message.
Hartford Courant
Rizzo: A Revival For National Theatre Of Deaf
The National Theatre of the Deaf is back — though it never really left.
USA Today
Economy acting out on Broadway attendance
Variety
Yale establishes music branch
Yale U. is diving into the musical theater world in a big way. University has established the Yale Institute for MusicTheater, Theater, collaboration between Yale's Schools of Drama and Music.
Vaudeville vet Irving Brecher dies
Worked with Milton Berle, Marx Brothers
Playbill
* London Cries, with Galloway and Poe, Begins New York Run Nov. 20
* Hump Day: Cory English Is Young Frankenstein's New Igor, Starting Nov. 25
* Full Cast Named for Broadway Bow of American Plan, Greenberg's Catskills-Set Play
TheaterMania
All Over the Map
Brad Oscar stars in the title role of Barnum in Sarasota. Plus: The Princess and The Black-Eyed Pea in San Diego and A Mulholland Christmas Carol in Los Angeles.
* Arden, Gettelfinger, Harris, Taylor, et al. Set for L.A.'s Pippin
* Mitchell to Direct Mel B and Monaco in PEEPSHOW at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood
Broadway.com
Video: On the Town brings old "New York, New York" back to Encores!
BroadwayWorld
* Patti LuPone Guests on AP's "On Broadway" Podcast
The Clyde Fitch Report
Everyone Should Read Doric Wilson's Post on Proposition 8
The Hub Review
Acid dreams
It seems in Boston these days you have to go off the grid to find a theatre willing to tackle plays of real intellectual challenge. Our larger houses are currently diddling with the likes of Rock and Roll or The Santaland Diaries, so it's comforting to see that companies on the fringe are still risking their rent checks on truly edgy ...
The Independent
Restoration drama: How Chekhov's home has fallen into disrepair
When actor Michael Pennington visited Chekhov's home, he expected to find it perfectly preserved. What he found was a cultural tragedy
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
The Carbonell conversation continues
Monday's abrupt announcement by the Carbonell Awards board of directors that it was suspending judging of productions that open in 2009 brought a firestorm of reaction, most of it negative. For a sampling, read and ponder the comments that follow...
Time Out Chicago
Doug Peck
The in-demand music director takes on Northlight's Grey Gardens.
CinStages Buzz Blog
Cincy native David Goldsmith's Masada opens tonight in London
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