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Chicagoist

Actor Shepard Arrested in Normal
Actor Sam Shepard has been arrested for speeding and drunk driving in Normal. According to the AP, he was stopped about 2 a.m. this morning, for going 46 in a 30 MPH zone. According to reports, when he was pulled over, he drove up on the curb.

Associated Press

Actor Sam Shepard Suspected of DUI in Illinois
Police in Illinois say actor and playwright Sam Shepard has been arrested on preliminary charges of speeding and drunken driving.

Playbill

* Tennant Returns to London Run of RSC's Hamlet for Final Performances

TheaterMania

* National Society of Film Critics Honor Mike Leigh

Daily Telegraph

Harold Pinter faces opposition to memorial in Poets' Corner
Harold Pinter was buried in a small private funeral last week, but the Nobel Prize-winning playwright may soon have a more public commemoration. His friends and family tell Mandrake that they want him to be accorded the honour of a memorial in Westminster Abbey.

Kate Winslet loses out on Finding Neverland musical to Katie Holmes
Kate Winslet's critically acclaimed performance in Finding Neverland might have earned her an Oscar nomination, but it has not led to the actress being offered a part in a new stage adaptation. Mandrake hears that the role of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in a musical version of Finding Neverland has instead been offered to Katie Holmes, the 30-year-old American wife of Tom Cruise.

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Newsday

Fast Chat: Martha Plimpton stars in 'Pal Joey'
Martha Plimpton is making her musical theater debut as sexy chorus girl Gladys Bumps in Rodgers & Hart's "Pal Joey."

New York Post

Rainbow Room Will Shut Eatery

St. Petersburgh Times

Recent Broadway plays, musicals echo tough times

Wall Street Journal

What They Do for Love
Terry Teachout discusses amateurs in the artistic world, from Winston Churchill to Gilbert Kaplan.

Back Stage

Horn of 'Plenty'
Versatile British scribe David Hare has worn the hats of producer, director, and writer in theatre, film, and television, but he is best known as an acclaimed playwright. "I have been at it for a long time," he says.

Daily Herald

Goodman Theatre to celebrate O'Neill

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Akron's Carousel Dinner Theatre closing after Saturday performance
The final curtain falls on Carousel Dinner Theatre tonight when the Rubber City institution closes after 35 years of serving musicals and prime rib to hundreds of thousands of Northeast Ohioans hungry for live entertainment.

Los Angeles Times

Amy Freed on what's funny and how to get there
Someone once said that dying is easy, comedy is hard. As her new play, 'You,...

The Times UK

Mandy Patinkin on acting versus singing
He famously swaggered through The Princess Bride but it’s as a singer that Mandy Patinkin excels, says David Cote

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