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* Naughton Will Be Part of America Reborn? at Symphony Space
* Creative Team Announced for Public LAB's Tales of An Urban Indian

TheaterMania

* Jasmine Guy, TC Carson, Eugene Lee to Headline True Colors' Miss Evers' Boys
* Roundabout Theatre Company to Establish Permanent Archive

New York Magazine

What’s Superman Singing?
In the just-released Final Crisis 7, Superman kills Darkseid by singing a song into the Miracle Machine (it makes sense in context, sort of) — but writer Grant Morrison doesn't tell us which song. The latest comic-blog meme is to guess. So far, this one is our favorite. [Dr. K's 100-Page Super Spectacular, Registered Weapon]
[A Challenge to ATW Readers - Why Not Start Suggesting the Broadway Tune That Might Inspire the Man of Steel in a Time of Crisis? - email me at info-at-americantheaterweb-dot-com]

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog

No day like today for fans of Broadway's 'Rent'
February is shaping up to be the beginning of a season of love for fans of the Broadway musical “Rent.”

Dallas Morning News Arts Blog

Labyrinth Theatre closes
Richardson's Labyrinth Theatre announced today that it is ceasing operations and that the remaining two shows of the current season have been canceled. The company, founded by Kevin L Ash in 2004 performed in the Arapaho United Methodist Church and was one ...

DCist

Cool Papa’s Maurice Hines and Tom Jones
Cool Papa’s Party A conversation with choreographer Maurice Hines and writer/director Thomas W. Jones II by Joel Markowitz It was late, the end of a long evening rehearsal, and the cast of Cool Papa’s Party had one more song in them - “Sho’ Can Dance” which they recorded for us before quitting the stage, leaving just me, 12-time ...

Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog

Attend the tale of a theater god
Stephen Sondheim (shown in the photo with the late George Furth...

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New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

'Ponzi's Scheme': The Musical?
The producer Jean Doumanian is developing the non-fiction book "Ponzi's Scheme" into a musical

Kennedy Center Offers Help to Struggling Arts Groups
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will offer free emergency planning assistance to struggling nonprofit arts organizations through a Web site.

Type On, Golden Blogger: Reading Jane Fonda's Web Journal
Jane Fonda has begun her first-ever web journal to chronicle her return to Broadway in "33 Variations."

Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog

Grey Gardens Blooms Again

What Are The Best Broadway Musicals Of All Time?

Back Stage - Blog Stage

Obama’s Policy: You’ve Gotta Have Art
As President Barack Obama steps into office this week, he is confronted by a range of crises that seemingly dwarf any concerns about the arts. Fortunately, the 44th president is a holistic thinker whose policy prescriptions dovetail with issues confronting the larger world. For ...

Playbill

* Creative Team Announced for Public LAB's Tales of An Urban Indian

TheaterMania

* Desperate Housewives' Ricardo Antonio Chavira Stars in Chalk Repertory's Three Sisters
* Atlantic's Cripple of Inishmaan Extends Until March 15
* Penny Fuller, Mark Jacoby, Laura Osnes to Headline WPPAC's A Little Night Music
* Cusi Cram, Lucinda Coxon, Charlayne Woodard Set for Primary Stages 2009-2010 Season

Jay Raskolnikov -- half hillbilly, Demi-Culture

Advice for Staged Readings
Here is a question for y'all out there.

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CDs/DVD: Notes on Some Feb. 3 Releases

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

New Primary Stages Lineup Highlights Women Writers
The coming 2009-2010 season of Primary Stages will feature plays by Cusi Cram, Charlayne Woodard and Lucinda Coxon.

New Season for New York Pops
The New York Pops has announced the lineup for its 2009-2010 season, the first in which it will be led by its recently appointed music director, Steven Reineke.

Playbill

* Murney, Farnsworth, Neville and Fletcher Star in Lyric Theatre's Tommy
* NYC's Zooman and the Sign Will Feature Gravatt, Portia, Jones, Coleman and More

TheaterMania

* Aaron Lazar, Robert Newman, and More set for North Shore Music Theatre Benefits
* Memorial Service for Shubert Chairman Gerald Schoenfeld Set for February 9

The Globe and Mail - Theatre

Canadian Stage: No news is today's news
There's been a rumour going around that the Canadian Stage search committee has chosen the company's new artistic producer and it is someone from outside Canada. You may have heard this rumour in such places as a comment left on this blog on Saturday or, you know, today's Toronto Star.The truth of the...

Live Design Online

Anatomy Of A Musical
The fact that one small boy can command the stage at times in Billy Elliot The Musical is quite a tribute to its creative team, especially considering that sound designer Paul Arditti, lighting designer Rick Fisher, costume designer Nicky Gillibrand, and set designer Ian MacNeil have many more operas and plays under their collective belt than musicals. But Billy Elliot, which premiered in London in...

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Noah Birksted-Breen: Behind the curtain: a new golden age for Russian theatre?
Some brilliant Russian plays are slipping under the Putin regime's radar

The Stage UK

ATG box office manager and assistant avoid jail after £24,000 false accountingA West End box office manager who helped steal £24,000 from the Ambassador Theatre Group's Comedy Theatre has avoided jail.

ACE's Frayling attacks planning of Cultural Olympiad
Outgoing Arts Council England chairman Christopher Frayling has hit out at the organisation of the Cultural Olympiad, claiming that it has "too many front doors" and needs one "ringmaster" to oversee the event.

Whatsonstage.com

Gossip: Pitmen Paints Biographical Picture of Casanova???
Which of you all-round culture vultures have been paying attention? Ian Kelly, one of the leading actors in Lee Hall’s award-winning play The Pitmen Painters - which has just been nominated for the Olivier for Best New Play, adding to its Whatsonsta...

 

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Donmar & La Cage Lead Olivier Nomination Tallies
Continuing its success in the Evening Standard (where it won four prizes), Critics’ Circle (another four) and our own Whatsonstage.co...
* Full List: Laurence Olivier Nominees Announced