2/9/09 [updated 11:11PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Feb 9, 2009 | In Days Top News
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Associated Press
Robert Anderson,' Tea and Sympathy' Author, Dies
Playwright Robert Anderson, author of such Broadway hits as ''Tea and Sympathy'' and ''You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running,'' has died at age 91.
Jazz Singer Blossom Dearie Dies at 82 in NYC
Blossom Dearie, a classically trained pianist who transformed herself into a jazz singer with a unique baby-doll voice heard in New York and London cabarets for three decades, has died at 82.
Broadway Royalty Remembers Gerald Schoenfeld
Theater royalty from Angela Lansbury to Helen Mirren to Andrew Lloyd Webber turned out Monday to remember Gerald Schoenfeld, head of the powerful Shubert Organization, Broadway's biggest landlord.
Cleveland Plain Dealer On Stage Blog
David Fulford, founder of Carousel Dinner Theatre, is dead at 83
[among Fulford's NY credits: Denis Johnston's "The Moon in the Yellow River" in 1961]
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Broadway's 'Shrek' is Green Again
"Shrek" made a substantial gain at the Broadway box office last week, after a steady decline in its weekly grosses through the month of January.
New York Post
Will Ferrell's Bush League Show
He'll do anything for a laugh -- even insult dead troops
Playbill
* Dines to Star in Loomer's Distracted at TheatreWorks
* Cindy Williams and Eddie Mekka to Star in Kong's Night Out in Michigan
TheaterMania
* Alan Cox, Carrie Fisher, Becky Gulsvig, Stacy Keach, Chita Rivera, and More Receive Helen Hayes Nominations
* Barbara Walsh Replaces Kate Mulgrew in Paper Mill Playhouse's Master Class
Broadway.com
Video Interview: The man who brought Jane Fonda back to the boards, Moises Kaufman
BroadwayWorld.com
* Senate OK's Coburn Amendment Which Will Halt Aid to Theatre & Arts
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Five reasons Congress hates the arts
Playbill
* Broadway Grosses: Feb. 2-8
* Delany Completes Cast of Irons-Allen Impressionism; Design Team Announced
TheaterMania
* Idina Menzel to Guest Star on ABC's Private Practice
* John Patrick Shanley to Be Honored by Ensemble Studio Theatre
Whatsonstage.com
Gipsy Kings’ Zorro Posts Closing Notices, 14 Mar
Gipsy Kings musical Zorro has posted closing notices at the West End’s Garrick Theatre. The premiere production opened in London, following a ten-week regional tour, on 16 July 2008 (previews from 2 July), initially for a limited six-month seas...
Culturebot
Why the Arts Matter to Economic Recovery
Somebody just left a comment - using a pseudonym - asking how funding the arts or appointing a “secretary of culture” would help America. Basically this person thinks that it is a complete and total waste of time. Well, actually, there are numbers that substantiate the fact that the arts and culture sector is a significant economic engine for growth.
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Four New Play Anthologies from NoPassport Press Launched at "Dreaming the Americas" Conference
amNY New York City Theater
Video Preview of The Toxic Avenger
Back Stage - Blog Stage
Andrew Salomon: Will Senate Democrats Abandon the NEA?
Glad to see Senate Democrats have found their backbone and are standing up to Republicans in getting that stimulus bill passed. Oh, wait. Did I say "Senate Democrats" and "backbone" in the same sentence? My apologies.
Gothamist
There's No Spellcheck for Subway Mosaics
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
Outburst at You’re Welcome America Tests Will Ferrell’s Chops
Playbill
* Park, Duffin, Tobie, Nolan Will Be Featured in Walnut Street's Honor and the River
* Dodd, Yorke, Caskey and McGowan to Star in Wicked's Second North American Tour
TheaterMania
* Gary Sinise to Perform at Steppenwolf Gala 2009
* Christine Toy Johnson, Lan Tran, and More Set for Pan Asian Repertory's NewWorks 09
* Edward Hermann and Jay O. Sanders to Headline Huntington's Two Men of Florence
* John Porell to Replace Sam Weisman in Centastage's Random Caruso
The Mirror up to Nature
An Online Debate - Guess Where the PR People Stand?
Thanks to the Oregonian for pointing out a strange article written by the Communications Director of the Guthrie Theater, Melodie Bahan. Bahan has a problem with the deterioration of the newspaper review. And, well, everything goes downhill from there. ...
The Guardian
Great novel, forgettable play: Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me
Ian McDiarmid has adapted Andrew O'Hagan's novel for the stage – but it would have been better left alone
Headlines from earlier in the day are on page two
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