12/9/08 [updated 9:51PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Dec 9, 2008 | In Days Top News
NIGHTTIME ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Theater for Holiday Haters #2: Jackie Beat and Mimi Imfurst
New York Magazine
The Top Ten Plays
The Year in Superlatives
Unfogettable Performances
[I'd snagged the main article but not the three side-bars, so just for completist's sake...]
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Can the Coconut Grove Playhouse come back?
The board of the Coconut Grove Playhouse -- South Florida's largest regional theater, closed since April 2006 and some $4 million in debt -- has just released its plans for bringing the theater back (if all goes well) three to...
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
The big kahuna of the OC. theater season? ‘You, Nero’
Playbill
* Gypsy of the Year Brings in Over $3 Million for BC/EFA
* Robert Prosky, Seasoned Actor of Stage, Film and Television, Dies at 77
* Catch Me If You Can Musical to Premiere in Seattle in Summer 2009
TheaterMania
* New Line Cinema to Produce Rock of Ages Film
* Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab Extends Until March 1
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Long Wharf Premiere of Athol Fugard's Coming Home
* Full Cast Set for CTC's Gruffalo
Broadway.com
20+ terrific musical gifts for the Broadway fan on your shopping list
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Associated Press
A top 10 listing of the best productions in 2008
Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog
John Guare gets `Rich and Famous’ again
Playbill
* Lopez, Garcia and Ortiz to Host In the Heights Workshop
* Signature Theatre Company's Home Extends Through Jan. 11, 2009
* Billy Elliot Tops Time Magazine's Best "10 Plays and Musicals" List
* Cinderella, The Musical Pantomime, with Stefanie Powers, Opens in U.K. Dec. 9
TheaterMania
* PBS to Broadcast Kevin Kline Cyrano January 7
* Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Announces 2009 Season
* Maltz Jupiter Theatre to Present Wonderland
The Globe and Mail - Theatre
Priscilla: Queen of Toronto, and the Irish-Canadian-Australian axis of theatre
This just in from the Mirvii: "David Mirvish is delighted to announce the North American premiere of one of the hottest new musicals. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: the Musical, written by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, and directed by Simon Phillips, will open in the fall of 2009 in a spectacular
The Mirror up to Nature
Bah! Highschool!
This from the Gloucester Times: ... After replacing their annual classic "A Christmas Carol" with Disney cultural phenomenon "High School Musical 2" ...
Daily Telegraph
Storming the show
Edward Bennett took David Tennant's place in the RSC's Hamlet at the Novello Theatre last night.
Olivier, Burton and me
Derek Jacobi talks about his illustrious acting career – and his new West End role as Malvolio in 'Twelfth Night’
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Malkovich to Play Unusual Subject of Unusual Play
John Malkovich, the protean actor, will portray Jack Unterweger, an Austrian criminal, in a play called "The Infernal Comedy."
amNY New York City Theater
In the Heights Holds Open Auditions to Find Lynn-Manuel Miranda's Replacement
Playbill
* Off-Broadway Hit Dog Sees God to Make Toronto Premiere in 2009; Casting Announced
* Waters' Ideas for Sequel to "Hairspray" Film Revealed
TheaterMania
* Duerr to Direct and Star in Off-Broadway Premiere of Cohen's The Punishing Blow
* TCG Publishes Doubt Movie Tie-In Edition
lies like truth
You Winn Some, You Lose Some
Steven Winn, the eminent cultural critic and reporter from The San Francisco Chronicle, just penned his last column for the city's flagging flagship newspaper.
Whatsonstage.com
Update: Tennant Misses Hamlet’s London Opening
UPDATED, Tue 8 Dec 2008 @ 4.30pm: The latest information - including a statement from the Royal Shakespeare Company - has now b...
Gossip: Tennant Hamlet Tickets Auctioned on Ebay for Charity???
The Evening Standard is currently running its second Christmas charity auction, which this year has a distinctly theatrical flavour. Among the lots being auctioned off is a pair of tickets to see David Tennant’s Hamlet on 2 January, which will ...
MID-DAY ADDITIONS
New York Observer The Daily Transom
Playbill
* "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon" Garner Critics' Choice Nominations
* Priscilla Queen of the Desert to Open in Toronto in Fall 2009
* Huffman, Gregory, Carvajal and More Set for What Movie Would Make a Good Musical? Concert
TheaterMania
* Full Cast Set for National Tour of Henry V
* Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Milk Score BFCA Nominations
* Valerie Harper and Jarrod Emick to Star in Looped at Arena Stage
On Theatre and Politics
Think about this, why don't you
David Hare was asked by George Lucas to co-direct The Phantom Menace.
The Stage UK
Jermyn Street Theatre appoints first artistic director in a decade
Gene David Kirk has been appointed as the new artistic director of Off-West End venue the Jermyn Street Theatre.
Bolton Octagon's long-term producing future is under threat - Thacker
Olivier Award-winning director David Thacker, incoming artistic director of Bolton Octagon Theatre, has vowed to fight for more funding to ensure its future as a regional producing house.
EARLY MORNING UK ADDITIONS
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Karen Fricker: Should we be buying British at the theatre?
Michael Billington says there are too many American plays on in London. So should we substitute them with British ones?
The Stage UK
Sylvia Young school move to boost intake
The stage school that launched the careers of stars such as Leona Lewis, Denise Van Outen and Amy Winehouse is to move to new premises next year, allowing it to increase its student numbers and host more part-time courses.
Whatsonstage.com
Suchet & McGovern Complicit with Old Vic's Dreyfuss
David Suchet (pictured) and Elizabeth McGovern will join Richard Dreyfuss in the world premiere of Joe Sutton’s new political drama Complicit, directed by his Hollywood peer Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Southwark Playhouse Announce New Spring Season
South London venue the Sothwark Playhouse have announced their new spring season line-up which will follow on from a successful autumn season which saw the venue play host to a diverse range of shows including Moll Flanders, Unstated and Shakespeare’s R & J.
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - 'Home' revival opens off-Broadway - read the reviews
Digest - 'Slava's Snowshow' opens on B'way - read the reviews [updated 12/9/08]
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Theater for Holiday Haters #1: 'Jackie Hoffman's Scraping the Bottom'
Kid-unfriendly, St. Nick-cursing, sacrilegiously cross-dressing, holiday-hating shows that will help put the oy in your joy
Wall Street Journal
Liza Minnelli Pays Tribute to Kay Thompson
Liza Minnelli recreates the nightclub act of her godmother in her Broadway show "Liza's at the Palace."
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Christopher Sieber
* Cast Complete for MCC's i>The Third Story with Kathleen Turner and Charles Busch
TheaterMania
Readying The Reader
Kate Winslet, David Hare, and Stephen Daldry talk about the controversial film adaptation of Bernard Schlink's novel about an unusual sexual relationship in World War II Germany.
* Rosemary Harris to Star in NYC Run of Oscar and the Pink Lady
Broadway.com
Q&A: Seagull star Kristin Scott Thomas on Oscar buzz and bad mothers
The Clyde Fitch Report
Could the Dream of Marx Brothers Place Be Thwarted?
Miami Herald
Miami's shuttered Coconut Grove Playhouse expected to return as smaller theater
The Coconut Grove Playhouse board has unveiled a plan that includes building a single, smaller theater, a development deal and a larger pool of artistic partners.
Boston Globe
A blue Christmas
Lea DeLaria brings her outrageous attitude - and her Christmas cabaret show - to Boston this week. The Globe recently caught up with DeLaria.
The Independent
Back problem forces Tennant out of Hamlet
David Tennant had to pull out of his sell-out role as Hamlet due to a bad back, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) said today.
The Stage UK
Mark Shenton: Are critics really to blame for the closure of Imagine This?….
When Rodgers and Hammerstein’s now-legendary first musical together Oklahoma! first tried out in New Haven in 1943, one of the early reports of its likely prospects for Broadway proclaimed, “No legs, no jokes, no chance!” That verdict, of course,...
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