Archives for: February 2009, 16
2/16/09 [updated 6:15PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Feb 16, 2009 | In Days Top News
EARLY EVENING ADDITIONS
Dallas Morning News Arts Blog
WingSpan to read Wilson script
Dallas playwright Angela Wilson had a Kitchen Dog Theater reading of her script God Goliath a decade ago, but evidently she considers the piece still in development. WingSpan Theatre ...
Houstonist
Daily-ist Monday: Compleat Female Stage Beauty
In Shakespeare's time, all the Bard's characters, even Juliet, were played by men. That's because the law in 17th century England prohibited women from acting. That changed in 1661 when King Charles made it okay for women to portray themselves on stage and making it illegal for any man to portray a woman.
LAist
Pencil This In: Poetry, Architecture and Joan Rivers on Plastic Surgery and Murder Mysteries
THEATER: In honor of Black History Month, the Towne Street Theatre presents a staged reading of Purlie Victorious, a comedy by the late Ossie Davis. The play had its Broadway premiere in 1961, where audiences were first introduced to the title character Purlie Victorious Judson, a
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Acting Out Blog
Give this Wisconsin congressman a standing ovation
When a small sliver of money for the National Endowment for the Arts was included in the big federal economic stimulus package, some members of the House and Senate went berserk. You know the routine.
Whatsonstage.com
WOS Awards: Full Winners’ Acceptance Speeches
Here's what the people behind the performances and productions you voted for had to say about being your Theatregoers' Choice for the very best that theatre had to offer in 2008. Remarks are presented in the order that awards were announced at the Wh...
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Playbill
* London's Pizza on the Park Will Relaunch in March; McGovern, Marcovicci and More to Perform
TheaterMania
* James Barbour, Marc Kudisch, Kerry O'Malley, et al. Set for Broadway Musicals of 1924
Theatre in Chicago
Court Theatre presents Knott's classic thriller Wait Until Dark
Court Theatre continues its 2008-2009 season with Frederick Knott's classic psychological thriller Wait Until Dark, directed by Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson. The production will run at Court Theatre, 5535 S Ellis Avenue, March 5 - April 5, 2009
Pal Joey Blog
Harold Lang’s “Pal Joey” Number on TV
The 1952 Joey Evans, dancer extraordinaire Harold Lang, appeared on a popular Sunday night variety show and with the Pal Joey company, performed “Happy Hunting Horn.” The number includes some startling dance moves by Lang. This rare kinescope speaks for itself.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
John Nathan: Two views on snitching: from the bridge and the waterfront
Budd Schulberg's play says informing on your colleagues is right. Arthur Miller's says it's wrong. Which of the American heavyweights wins the moral highground?
The Stage UK
Five British playwrights nominated for 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Five British playwrights are in the running for the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for female playwrights working in the English language.
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: Rain Check: McAvoy, Harman & Marshal
James McAvoy, Nigel Harman and Lyndsey Marshal star in Richard Greenberg’s Pulitzer-nominated three-hander Three Days of Rain, in which the three actors play characters across two generations. Roger Foss met them during rehearsals with their director Jamie Lloyd to discuss the complexities involved.
NOONTIME ADDITIONS
TheaterMania
* Florida's Carbonell Award Nominations Are Announced
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Commentary: Carbonell nominations for 2008 announced
The Artful Manager
Shrubs and social systems
... if it seems a stretch to compare your arts organization, the local arts community, or even our national and international cultural industries to shrubs, forests, and animal populations, go ahead and make the stretch. There's good and useful stuff on the other side
Culturebot
Hong Kong Microfest Site Goes Live!
... four great shows, that have all appeared at the Prague Fringe, will be winging their way east in April/May...
lies like truth
Captive Audience
Arts organizations and individual artists employ a variety of different techniques for soliciting audience feedback about their work. The most commonly and innocuous method involves giving out audience surveys during a show or at an exhibition or asking people to complete questionnaires online, sometimes in return for entry into a draw for free tickets or a backstage tour or somesuch.
The Producer's Perspective
Who is in line at the TKTS booth? We found out!
Did you ever wonder who is standing in line for hours waiting for that half-price (or 40%, 30% or 20%-off ticket)? Did you ever wonder where they were from (and how that compared with the overall Broadway audience)? And what shows those peeps wanted to see?
The Stage UK
Thriller Live extends its West End run by four months
Thriller Live - the West End show based around the music of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 - has extended its run at the Lyric Theatre by four months.
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
Feature: Henry Goodman: Why You Should Come & See … Duet for One
Two-time Olivier Award winner Henry Goodman is currently starring opposite Juliet Stevenson in the first major London revival Tom Kempinski’s 1980 two-hander Duet for One at the Almeida Theatre. Swapping regularly between plays and musicals, Goodman was last seen in the West...
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - Time Stands Still in CA - read the reviews
Digest - LaBute's Wrecks opens in London - read the reviews
New York Times
Saving Federal Arts Funds: Selling Culture as an Economic Force
There was a whiplash quality to the action surrounding the preservation of $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts in the final version of the economic-stimulus bill.
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
In the Wings
Last season, the Nature Theater of Oklahoma presented "No Dice," an unusual performance based on the recitation of mundane telephone calls, at Soho Rep. The group is set to return next month with "Rambo Solo," starring Zachary Oberzan. ... “The Secret Agenda of Trees,” a play by Colin McKenna that was a finalist in the Yale Drama Series competition in 2007 and was part of the Cherry Lane Theater’s Mentor Project that year, will have an Off Broadway production this spring. ... The Ohio Theater will present “Red-Haired Thomas,” a dark comedy by Robert Lyons, the artistic director of SoHo Think Tank.
Variety
'Dirty Dancing' to end Toronto run
Producer David Mirvish on Sunday announced a March 29 closing date for the Toronto run of "Dirty Dancing, the Classic Story on Stage." When it shutters, the tuner will have played 582 performances at the Royal Alexandra Theater.
nypress
Baby, It’s Cold Inside
The Frigid Fest is as cool as ever in its third year
Bergen Record
Even in a bad economy, the play's still her thing
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TheaterMania
Zippel It Up!
Tony Award winner David Zippel will present his favorite songs as part of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series.
About Last Night
TT: Secret identities
I recently went to a nightclub to hear a musician whom I know and like. The next morning I got an e-mail from my musician friend, who asked whether I'd recognized the woman who waited on me. The waitress, it seemed, was an actress whom I'd praised in my Wall Street Journal drama column on more than one occasion. ...
The Guardian
Road to Damascus
David Greig's play about Arab-western relations may be doing well in Britain - but what will the Middle East make of it? Charlotte Higgins meets a prolific writer
The Guardian - Performing Arts Blog
Joe Queenan: I'm doing my bit to get America out of the recession - by going to every Broadway show I can
If people don't start buying tickets to the theatre, they won't have any theatre left to go to
Whatsonstage.com
Donmar & Jersey Lead WOS Awards, Record Voting
The winners are announced today (Sunday 15 February 2009) in the ninth annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards, the only major theatre prize-giving decided by the public. Over the past two months, a record-breaking 35,000 people h...
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