2/11/09 [updated 7:06PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Feb 11, 2009 | In Days Top News
EARLY EVENING ADDITIONS
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
Video of the Day: This Beautiful City
David Cote: A star is born: Condola Rashad
Nepotism is to show business as toxic waste is to nuclear power: inevitable and a source of pollution. It’s just not fair that Sophia Coppola can raise ...
Adam Feldman: Variety shows are the new spice of theater
Variety shows may never technically have gone away. But that doesn’t stop us, fearless trend-spotters that we are, from boldly declaring: Variety shows are back! And it’s not surprising that this time-honored genre should be ...
Dallas Morning Arts Blog
DCist
To Hell And Back With Synetic's Dante
It feels pretty sadistic to voluntarily let someone put you through hell, but Synetic is making a pretty good case for it.
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Arts jobs are real jobs
One puzzlement in the debate over the congressional stimulus bill has been the inability — or the perverse refusal — of many to include jobs in the culture industry as a legitimate concern. Politicians of various stripes, from California Democrat Dianne Feinstein to Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, seem blind to the simple reality.
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
Louis Prima play struggled to be born
Entertainer Louis Prima owned one of those larger-than-life personas that defy easy dramatization.
Playbill
* Pasadena Playhouse's Hit Musical Stormy Weather Extends to March 8
* After a Raft of Raves, Ruined Gets Two-Week Extension in NYC
TheaterMania
* Patti LuPone, Liza Minnelli, and More Set for Virginia Arts Festival
* Eden Espinosa to Perform at Joe's Pub in March
* Jersey Boys' Australian Cast Announced
* Cast and Creative Team Set for Grey Gardens at the Ordway Center
Broadway.com
Backstory: How beloved musical Guys and Dolls hit the Broadway jackpot
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Star-Ledger Arts Blog
In a labor of love, Rapp reprises role on tour that includes stop in Newark
Playbill
* Robinson, Blake, Coleman and Holland to Star in Joe Turner's Come and Gone Revival
* Chicago Revival to Make Thailand Premiere Feb. 12
TheaterMania
* Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Repertorio Espanol's The House of the Spirits
* Idina Menzel to Play Glenside's Keswick Theatre March 25
HuffingtonPost
Ariston Anderson: WET women fight for meatier roles in entertainment
...But while there are some incredible meaty roles for actresses out there, they're certainly not the majority. Enter WET, or Women's Expressive Theater, a not-for-profit production company ...
Paul Katz: Barbra Streisand's Masterpiece Yentl Finally on DVD
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
amNY New York City Theater
Laura Benanti Joins Cast of Durang's Why Torture is Wrong
The Public Theater has announced complete casting for Christopher Durang’s "Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them." Laura Benanti, Audrie Neenan, and Richard Poe will join the previously announced Amir Arison, David Aaron Baker, Kristine Nielsen, and John Pankow in this world premiere comedy, directed by Nicholas Martin.
Theatre in Chicago
A Bronx Tale Comes to Chicago
A Bronx Tale, written by and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri, will be making a stop in Chicago. This funny and touching memoir about a young man's experiences growing up in the Bronx during the 1960s will play at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre for a limited engagement March 10 - 22, 2009.
Playbill
* Off-Broadway's The Third Story, with Kathleen Turner, Extends
* The Hairy Ape, Freshly Groomed by The Hypocrites, Opens Feb. 11 in Chicago
TheaterMania
* Josie de Guzman to Star in Alley's Man Who Came to Dinner
* Charles Fuller, Leslie Lee, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and More Set for In Conversation Talks at Macy's
The Clyde Fitch Report
Shepard Sobel Leaving Pearl Theatre; J.R. Sullivan Named Replacement
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Maev Kennedy: Is David Tennant really our greatest Shakespearean?
Vote now to secure your favourite Shakespearean a place in the hall of fame
Daily Telegraph
Romeo and Juliet production sparks fears over knife crime
It is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, the tragic tale of the teenage, star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet whose romance tears two rival gangs and their families apart.
Londonist
Shunt To Expand: Going Beyond The Vaults
Fans of those deliriously oddball performance / art / lounge / bar persons who are Shunt will be pleased to hear that they Shunt are expanding.
The Stage UK
Musical Jet Set Go! to transfer to London's Jermyn Street Theatre
Jet Set Go!, a new musical which premiered at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is to transfer to London venue the Jermyn Street Theatre.
NOONTIME ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Updated Digests:
* The Third Story
* 'You're Welcome America'
* Minsky's
* Shipwrecked!
Playbill
* Buntrock Joins Starry Cast of White Plains' Night Music
* LaMaMa Will Present "New Voices Heard" Feb. 18
* Milwaukee Rep's Pride Prejudice, With Stark and Goodman, to Begin March 3
* 23rd Annual Easter Bonnet Competition Will Play the Minskoff
TheaterMania
* Brad Oscar, Alice Ripley, and More Set for Arena Stage Benefit
The Clyde Fitch Report
Chew On This: Dentyne, MTC Announce Playwriting Contest
The Playgoer
On Second Thought--Yes, Tax Broadway
Last week the NY Times editorial page took a stand against the proposed "Broadway Tax" being floated in Gov. Patterson's new emergency budget cuts.
The Producer's Perspective
Live Nation and Ticketmaster Merge: What does it mean for Broadway?
Live Nation has been on a tear over the past few years, shaking things up first with music deals (like Madonna's), second with announcing that they were going to sever ties with Ticketmaster and create their own ticketing service...
The Wicked Stage
Both Sides Now
John Lahr conducts a fascinating Q&A with New Yorker readers--fascinating, contentious, and just a little self-serving. He begins by acknowledging his father, vaudevillean legend Bert Lahr (he taught Lahr fils "the importance of corrupting an audience with pleasure"). Then he throws down the gauntlet:
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Mark Fisher: Puppetry of the penis – and mannequin hanky-panky too
11 Watching actors strip off is one thing, but the Manipulate festival had everything from full-frontal taps to fornicating letters of the alphabet
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Unbroken, The Gate Theatre
La Ronde, Arthur Schnitzler's frank examination of cyclical promiscuity, was denigrated as mere pornography at the start of the 20th Century. Alexandra Wood's Unbroken is the second play in the past year to take Schnitzler's as its inspiration. Like Phil Wilmott's F**king Men, recently
London Theatre Guide
The Big Interview: Juliet Stevenson
As one of the UK’s leading actresses, Juliet Stevenson’s relationship with the stage is surprisingly uneasy. During the short time we spend chatting it becomes clear that the Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress is torn when it comes to working in the theatre, writes Matthew Amer.
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