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New York Times

Veteran Producer in Talks to Aid ‘Hair’
The Public Theater is recruiting Jeffrey Richards, the veteran Broadway producer, to help raise the $6.5 million budget for the revival of “Hair.”

Time Out New York

Cabin fever
Cast and audience fly high together in Wickets.

AmericanTheaterWeb

Review: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas – Striking a Pleasant, Wholesome Chord

Gothamist

Extra, Extra
-- U2's The Edge talks Spiderman: The Musical, and he thinks he could open on Broadway in a year.

nypress

Best of the Fests
A Downtown theater fest smackdown

Christian Science Monitor

Long-forgotten old-time music finds new audience
Roots music from the early 20th century is experiencing a mini-revival with a series of new CD releases.

Variety

Broadway critics leave Gotham
Pundit departure has theater watchers wary

Daily Telegraph

Daniel Radcliffe has a song in his heart
Mandrake hears that Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter star who is currently starring in Equus on Broadway, wants to try casting his spell over a musical.

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Michael Billington: 2009: a new cultural resolve
There were potholes in my cultural experience of 2008, but at least I experimented without becoming trendy, and I will do better next year

The Independent

Empathy for the devil: Stephen Daldry on sex scenes, war crimes and Billy
Stephen Daldry might have spent much of the last year worn out by a punishing work schedule, but when we meet in downtown Manhattan shortly before Christmas he is relaxed and refreshed.

Providence Journal

Trinity Rep Radio Theater returns Friday, Saturday and Sunday on WRNI
Trinity Rep takes to the air, again. Providence’s venerable theater company continues its third season of Trinity Rep Radio Theater, which is presented in partnership with WRNI, Rhode Island’s NPR station, this weekend.

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

LaBute in person for one night only at Profiles

Edge Chicago

Steppenwolf’s Martha Lavey
Steppenwolf Theater Company and Martha Lavey are household names for theater-savvy (or -obsessed) Chicagoans, or we gay folk who are impressed by a "little..

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Taking the lead: Dione Kennedy, Bass Hall’s new day-to-day leader, is charting a course to weather the stormy economic outlook and come out on top

Orange County Register The Arts Blog

Should we bail out the arts?
This Washington Post article confirms what we’ve been documenting on the Arts Blog for some time — America’s cultural institutions are being hit hard by the economic freefall. Opera companies, theaters and art museums are struggling all over the U.S. Should the Obama administration consider a bailout for the arts?

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