12/11/08 [updated 4:12PAM]
By Andy Propst on Dec 11, 2008 | In Days Top News
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
The Gothamist
Warning: Real Life is Long Inside the Actor's Studio
Pencil This In
From the author of underdog hit musical Urinetown comes The Truth About Santa, a comedy about a middle-manager who ...
Playbill
* Cast Album of Abie's Island Rose, With Mac Rae, Rosen, Woods, Grant, Released Dec. 16
* Night Music Concert Will Now Play Studio 54; Socha, Currie and More Join Cast
* Tony Winner Ebersole to Play TX, FL and CA in January 2009
TheaterMania
* Robert Wilson World Premiere to Be Part of Guggenheim's 2009 Works & Process Series
* David Greenspan and Everett Quinton to Star in Cornbury
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Itamar Moses' Love/Stories at the Flea
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Target Margin's Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Broadway.com
Fresh Face: Up-and-comer Matthew Risch steps into the spotlight in Pal Joey
The Playgoer
"Are drama critics necessary?"
That's the facetious title of this week's "Theatre Talk" TV show, where Michael Riedel will again spotlight Jacques le Sourd, just recently let go from the Gannett chain, among others.
The Times UK
Happiness is an understudy called Hamlet
David Tennant's bad back has catapulted unknown actor Edward Bennett into the West End title role. He's scared - but thrilled, too
Josh Hartnett accepts £20,000 over sex claim
The Hollywood star accepted £20,000 in libel damages today over the Daily Mail's false 'sex on camera' allegations
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Cancellation With a Z
The title of her show notwithstanding, Liza Minnelli was most definitely not at the Palace on Wednesday night.
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal Present a Very Indie Uncle Vanya
Back Stage
Water(gate) Under the Bridge
Frank Langella won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Richard Nixon in the play Frost/Nixon, but he prefers his performance in the film version. "It's less theatrical, more internal, and more tragic."
The 'Road' Traveled
When Michael Shannon heard that a film adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel Revolutionary Road was in the works, he knew he wanted to be a part of it.
Playbill
* Liza's at the Palace . . .! Extends Through the New Year
* Three Decembers, a McNally-Inspired Chamber Opera, Makes West Coast Debut Dec. 11
* The Show Won't Go On: Rent Canceled at Texas High School
TheaterMania
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Walnut Street's Streetcar Named Desire
Daily Telegraph
Hollywood in-breeding
Carrie Fisher's wonderful memoir shows she is more than Princess Leia from Star Wars.
The Stage UK
Really Useful Group to launch channel on YouTube
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Really Useful Group is to launch its own channel on video site YouTube.
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Julian Armistead Wins Protect the Human Playwriting Competition
Oxford-based playwright and teacher Julian Armitstead has been announced as the winner of the second annual Protect the Human playwriting competition produced by iceandfire
LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Gyllenhaal, Sarsgaard Join "Uncle Vanya" Cast
Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal will join the cast of Classic Stage Company's "Uncle Vanya."
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
The Golden Globes: Who Got Snubbed?
Playbill
* Kids Can Go Free at Off-Broadway's Marvelous Wonderettes
* Dear Edwina Encores to Feature Songwriters Heisler and Goldrich
* "Doubt," "Frost/Nixon" and "Mamma Mia!" Among Golden Globe Nominees
TheaterMania
* Baldwin, Field, Harris, Parker, Sedgwick, Spacey, Wiest, et al. Receive Golden Globe Nominations for TV
* New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players to Perform New Year's Eve Gala
* 2008 Henry Hewes Design Awards Winners Announced
Broadway.com
Video: Backstage at White Christmas, hosted by Meredith Patterson
Video Blog: Gregory Jbara and Broadway's three Billys: David, Kiril & Trent
Scrappy Jack's World-Wide Theatrical and Dime Museum
Feingold and faith
This is Feingold, writing in the Voice about eight years ago, an essay titled "Your Future, My Past":
The Guardian
DaDa Awards recognize disbility arts
The DaDa Awards celebrate excellence in the work of deaf and disabled artists
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Kelly Nestruck: The battle for Bulgakov's nationality
Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a cultural cold war over the nationality of one of the world's most celebrated playwrights
Michael Simkins: Slitting your throat and other theatrical hazards
An actor recently had a perilously close shave with a real knife on stage. Here's further proof that breaking a leg is the least of a performer's worries
Andy Field: Home is where the art is
More and more artists are blurring the lines between the domestic and the theatrical
Whatsonstage.com
Oliver! Cancels First Two Previews; More Rehearsals
Producer Cameron Mackintosh has cancelled this week’s first two preview performances – this Friday evening and Saturday matinee...
Maria Friedman Stars in Albert Hall King & I, 12 Jun
Maria Friedman will move from the small-scale to the epic-scale for her next project – starring in a new fully staged, in-the-round production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1951 Broadway classic The King and I, which will run at the...
Whatsonstage.com - Blogs
Michael Billington: Pulling their Hare out?
I find our attitude to David Hare very odd. He writes good plays. He has a loyal public. He addresses contemporary issues. Yet, increasingly, his work seems to attract the wrath of the “commentariat” ...
London Theatre Guide
Tkts to sell advance tickets in Leicester Square
The world-famous tkts ticket booth in Leicester Square – the original and, still, the only official half-price ticket booth in London – has announced a significant new service for customers. In addition to on-the-day half-price theatre tickets sales, the booth will now also sell advance tickets for a range of events.
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Theater for Holiday Haters #3: Stocking Stuffers
Even more kid-unfriendly, St. Nick-cursing, sacrilegiously cross-dressing, holiday-hating shows that will help put the oy in your joy.
Time Out New York
His word is Bond
Edward Bond and director Robert Woodruff evoke totalitarian chills in Chair.
Variety
HBO to air Will Ferrell's 'Bush' show
Broadway show begins previews on Jan. 20
TheaterMania
* Carroll, Cothran, Turman to Star in LA Theatre Works' Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Time Out New York Blog
So what’s up with the Ohio Theatre?
Edge New York
Justin Bond comes "Close to You" this holiday season
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
Margulies’ new play attracts all-star cast
The Independent
Brightest young things: The next generation of stars recreate famous roles
You may not recognise them now, but these young British actors could be tomorrow's movie superstars. Alice Jones introduces the faces of the future – and they recreate their favourite moments from the silver screen
The Guardian
Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality
An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one
The Stage UK
Producers may boycott Edinburgh fringe after box office cash delays
Exclusive: Producers have warned venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that they may bypass the event in future years if ongoing problems with recouping box office receipts are not solved.
The Stage UK Blogs
Mark Shenton: Another theatrical lottery….
The theatrical recession is starting to bite at the top as well as the bottom. Last week, I reported in a Guardian blog on a scheme to offer a family package to Cameron Mackintosh produced musicals in the West...
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