1/5/09 [updated 4:01PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Jan 5, 2009 | In Days Top News
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Time Out New York Blog
You can’t stop the beat. Or can you? Hairspray closes. We go backstage.
Playbill
* Broadway Grosses: Dec. 29 - Jan. 4
TheaterMania
* Frost/Nixon Gets Producers Guild of America Best Picture Nomination
* Galati, Smith, et al. Set for Steppenwolf's The Tempest
'kül
What Sounds Cool: January 2009
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
Was Kodak’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ a big Scrooge up?
I’ve heard some grumbling that the new production of “A Christmas Carol” at the Kodak Theater, which featured Christopher Lloyd as Scrooge, was more than a little underwhelming. (There’s plenty of evidence that producer Kevin Von Feldt’s production was having some problems.)
Playbill
* "Mamma Mia," Field, Applegate and Parker Among People's Choice Award Nominees
Culturebot
more thoughts on the Ohio
Most recent update I can find about the imminent closing of the Ohio Theatre is AD Robert Lyons’ letter on their site.
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Shaw Theatre to Host Kerry Ellis’ First Project After Wicked
Kerry Ellis, whose role as Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked took her career to new heights, is planning to appear in the more intimate 400 seat Shaw Theatre for two nights only in a show celebrating the very best British music from the worlds of theatre, film and pop ...
NOONTIME ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Fringe Festival Copes With Financial Crunch
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe may be forced to shut down its popular Fringe Sunday event because of a funding shortage.
Bloomberg.com
Winokur, Fierstein Lead `Hairspray' to Raucous Final Bows: Jeremy Gerard The first Sunday of 2009 saw the closing of nine Broadway shows. It’s a safe bet that no performance was more raucous than the “Hairspray” finale after 6 1/2 years at the Neil Simon Theatre.
DC Theatre Scene
Finding Yolanda at Arena Stage’s Casting Call
Playbill
* Nederlander Box Office Opens Jan. 5 for Guys and Dolls Revival
TheaterMania
* CSC's Uncle Vanya, with Gyllenhaal, O'Hare, Sarsgaard, et al. to Open February 12
* Jason Robert Brown to Teach Master Class at Covina Center for the Arts
Broadway.tv
Inside A Broadway Casting Cattle Call
The Producer's Perspective
Comedy isn't the only thing that comes in threes.
Here is a set of three news items posted on Playbill.com in the last seven days that isn't so funny: ...
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: Lloyd Webber Says Hello, Connie! in 2010???
Rumours are rife that Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning a West End revival of the enduringly popular Jerry Herman musical Hello, Dolly!, starring his I'd Do Anything protégé Connie Fisher in the title role. Lloyd Webber reportedly let sli...
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Menier's Little Shop of Horrors Will Tour U.K.
TheaterMania
* 2009 Nightlife Awards Winners Announced; Block, Gatlin, Morton, Tune to Guest Star
BroadwayWorld.com
Alliance for the Arts Report Shows 80% of Nonprofit Groups Cutting Back
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Josie Rourke: The playwrights under Pinter's influence
From Dennis Kelly's political rigour to Anthony Weigh's bold rejection of conventions, Harold Pinter is unquestionably in the DNA of today's dramatists
The Stage UK - Blogs
Mark Shenton: Pinter’s passing and other West End notes…
Isn’t it weird that they managed to dim the lights of all Broadway’s theatre marquees for a minute last Tuesday to honour the passing of Harold Pinter, as reported here - yet the West End could only finally muster...
Whatsonstage.com
Robert Shaw On … Staging Plath’s Only Play
A new production of Three Women, Sylvia Plath's only play, opens tonight (5 January 2009) at the Jermyn Street theatre. Here, director Robert Shaw tells us what drew him to the project, and why it took two years to come to fruition.
The Day's First Top Stories
New York Times
Pat Hingle, Versatile Actor With Recurring Role in Batman Movies, Dies at 84
Mr. Hingle was a versatile character actor of stage and screen who became accustomed to winning critical praise in a career that spanned five decades.
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
The producers of “Reasons to Be Pretty,” the Neil LaBute play that begins previews on Broadway on March 13, are looking for people of all shapes and sizes for an advertising campaign. ...
The New Yorker
Hilton Als: Paul Celan, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Chicago Tribune
Economy may affect theater greats' historic home
Tours and programs at the former home of theater greats Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt have gained in popularity in the past two years.
[Associated Press story]
Theatre in Chicago
ATC presents True West and topdog/underdog in Rotating Repertory
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland-area theaters taking measures to stay in business
They're shocked by the sudden demise of Akron's Carousel Dinner Theatre, and they're stinging from 20 percent drops in ticket sales for popular holiday shows.
Austin American Statesman
Butler Opera Center to stage works by Bernstein, Mozart
...The Butler Opera Center is presenting an operatic double-header there: Leonard Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti," which has nothing much to do with that island paradise; and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Impresario," which has everything to do with the troubles involved in auditioning two very competitive divas.
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Amy Freed says comedy isn't hard -- it's really hard
The Times UK
Why Alison Steadman won't be heading for the Hills
Alison Steadman is happy to talk about her new play and Gavin & Stacey, but don't mention the H-word
The Guardian
Stanley Eveling
Obituary: Playwright linked to the Traverse Theatre
Whatsonstage.com
Deanna Dunagan On ... Ensemble Acting Steppenwolf Style
American actress Deanna Dunagan plays pill-popping matriarch Violet Weston in the Steppenwolf Theatre production of August: Osage County, wh...
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