11/21/08 [updated 4:07PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Nov 21, 2008 | In Days Top News
Variety
Broadway B.O. sees lull before Thanksgiving
'Plow,' 'Seagull' buck downward trend
Choreographer Arte Phillips dies at 49
Theater veteran was a champion hustle dancer
Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog
Nothin’ like this Dame: Humphries returns, Edna in tow
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Monster Mash: News and Headlines
-- Quebecois theater artist Robert LePage -- who is appearing with Ex Machina in "The Blue Dragon" through Saturday at UCLA's Freud Playhouse -- will team up with dancer Sylvia Guillem and choreographer Russell Maliphant to create a new show called "Eonnagata" to be part of the 2009 season at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre.
Playbill
* Decision on American Buffalo's Future to Be Decided Nov. 24
* Norm Lewis' "This Is the Life" CD Now Available On-Line
TheaterMania
Join the Circus
Brad Oscar stars in the title role of Barnum at Sarasota's Asolo Repertory Theatre.
Mulholland Drive
Director Kiff Scholl discusses Sacred Fools Theater Company's annual production of A Mulholland Christmas Carol!, which adds some local color to Dickens' holiday perennial.
* Isaac Mizrahi to Narrate Guggenheim's Peter & the Wolf
* Full Cast Set for The Ark Big, Fat, Funtime Holiday Spectacular
* Theater J to Present Deborah Leiser-Moore's Cordelia: Mein Kindt
The Clyde Fitch Report
Horse Trade's Frigid New York Festival Needs Your Help
DC Theatre Scene
Interview: Kimberly Gilbert
An interview with actress Kimberly Gilbert appearing in Woolly Mammoth’s production of Boom by Joel Markowitz Boom, the three actor Peter Sinn Nochtrieb comedy, shifts into high gear with the performance of Kimberly Gilbert. Here she takes us into the world of her character Jo - an angry woman who would definitely not be a good candidate for [...]
The Mirror up to Nature
Sarah Ruhl on American Theatre and Boston
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MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
Great Park to be future home for Cirque du Soleil?
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Northlight headed Off-Broadway
Time Out New York Blog
The state of the Off-Off union
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
Oscar Futures: Can Kate Beat Meryl?
‘24’ Star Cherry Jones on Playing the President and What She Thinks of Meryl Streep in ‘Doubt’
Is New York City Opera Headed for Bankruptcy?
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Nov. 15-21: Now Departing
* 23 Knives, Caesar and Cleopatra and Booth Comprise 2009 Resonance Ensemble Season
TheaterMania
* Mamma Mia! DVD to Get December 16 Release
* Aiken, Baldwin, Connick, Estefan Added to Rosie Live Special
The Clyde Fitch Report
The Guardian
One million tiny plays about Britain
Craig Taylor's snapshots of life in the UK continue with a young man helping a woman carry her pram up a long staircase ...
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Nosheen Iqbal: Pete Postlethwaite's Lear: Should more directors take criticism?
Rupert Goold's King Lear appears to have been altered in response to griping critics - and its cast. Is this a new trend?
London Theatre Guide
Annis in Conways at National
Francesca Annis has been cast in Rupert Goold’s debut production at the National Theatre, Time And The Conways, which opens in the Lyttelton on 5 May
LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
Time Out New York
“It’s about fucking time!”
That’s our reaction to hearing that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are writing a Broadway musical. About Mormons. Starring Cheyenne Jackson and his gaymazing
Playbill
* New Musical 13 to Close on Broadway in January 2009
* Broadway Will Get Crafty with ActorCrafts Fair Nov. 22
* Ford's Theatre to Reopen With Productions of Heavens Are Hung in Black and Civil War
TheaterMania
* Broadway's 13 to Close on January 4
* D.C.'s Ford's Theatre to Hold Grand Reopening February 2009
Broadway.com
Fresh Face: Lorenzo Pisoni is the ultimate equine hero in Equus
Video: History's Mizners make a musical at off-Broadway's Road Show
Parabasis
Why Should You Check out Under The Radar?
The Stage UK
Female writers triumph in the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition
Female writers have stormed this year’s Bruntwood Playwriting Competition for the Manchester Royal Exchange, with three of the four winners being women.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Lyn Gardner: What to see this week
Now seems a good time to be planning your festive entertainment, with plenty of non-tinsel performances as well as panto dames
London Theatre Guide
Atwell joins View From The Bridge
Actress Hayley Atwell is the latest cast member to be confirmed for the 2009 revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge, joining the previously announced Ken Stott and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
A Touch of Frost at Trafalgar Studios
Sadie Frost is to return to the stage for the first time in more than 20 years to play a woman obsessed with pop star Madonna. The play, entitled Touched…For The Very First Time, runs at Trafalgar Studio 2 from 4 February to 14 March
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - Foote's 'Dividing the Estate' arrives on B'way - read the reviews
Digest - 'On the Town' plays Encores! - read the reviews
New York Times
A Jersey Boy’s Moment as Broadway’s New Pal
Christian Hoff has his first shot at a major leading role with the lead in Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “Pal Joey.”
New York Post
Michael Riedel: Constrictive criticism
Shrinking circle still guards its secrets
Variety
Off Off Broadway scene suffering
'Tis the season to announce closings. According to a survey from the New York Innovative Theater Foundation, more than 25% of the Off Off Broadway venues in New York's theater-heavy West Village and Midtown neighborhoods have closed in the last five years.
'Sister Act' hits sky high sales
West End production to open June 2
Back Stage
Snow Business
Cast members of Irving Berlin's White Christmas talk to Back Stage about their famous roles and what happens when movie musicals take to the stage
amNY
Playbill
* DIVA TALK: Chatting with Liza Minnelli Plus News of Bean, Callaway and Murphy
* Mark Jacoby to Star in Florida Production of Sleuth
TheaterMania
Peter Filichia's Diary: When Revivals Disappoint
Migawd! Will American Buffalo really pull the plug so quickly?!
About Last Night
TT: The ghosts of Studio One
Like many another aging baby boomer, I'm fascinated by early television, and in particular by the live telecasts that dominated network TV from its inception at the end of the Forties to the introduction of videotape in the late Fifties.
http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2008/11/tt_the_ghosts_of_studio_one.html
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Theatre Rhino Secedes From California
It's not unusual to come across people in California think that the state should secede from the rest of the country. Until yesterday evening, however, I'd never heard of a group of Californians who want to secede from the state.
Albany Times-Union
Tanglewood 2009 season announced
A celebration of flutist James Galway's 70th birthday, a full staging of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and a concert performance of the third act of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" will be among the highlights of the recently announced 2009 season of Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, Mass.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Phila. arts and culture groups brace for cuts
It's been a depressing stretch for arts and cultural groups in Philadelphia. At every meeting where budget cuts come up - and in what meeting don't they? - faces are glum. Sighs are heavy.
Boston Globe
Stages: Office work pays off for playwright
Two works centered around office life by New York playwright Adam Bock — "The Receptionist" and "The Thugs" — are being staged locally.
TheStage UK - Blogs
Mark Shenton: Phoney philanthropy and other headline(r)s….
As if the credit crunch isn’t going to affect the ever-burgeoning development departments of theatres up and down the land, who have been learning from the American way of supplementing their grant incomes by corporate and private donations but...
Whatsonstage.com
* Sadie Frost Is Touched by One-Woman Madonna in Feb
* Lion King Back in Royal Favour, Disney Celebrates
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