Archives for: February 2009, 17
2/17/09 [updated 4:13PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Feb 17, 2009 | In Days Top News
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
[sorry a personal thing ended up eating my day]
Associated Press
Sienna Miller's Broadway Debut Set for Oct. 22
The Roundabout Theatre Company says Sienna Miller will open Oct. 22 in its production of ''After Miss Julie,'' playwright Patrick Marber's take on a 19th- century Strindberg classic about class, sex and power.
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Faith Prince Joins Broadway's 'Little Mermaid'
Faith Prince, of "A Catered Affair" and the 1992 Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls," will play Ursula the sea witch in the Disney musical "The Little Mermaid."
You're Welcome Broadway: Ferrell's 'Bush' Breaks House Record
Despite the ongoing recession, Will Ferrell's show "You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush" broke the house record last week at the Cort Theater.
ny1
Broadway's Shoshana Bean Enjoys Indie R&B Career
Gothamist
Pencil This In
THEATER: Hanoi Jane is now Broadway Jane; for the first time in over 45 years (!) Jane Fonda doing theater in New York. The production is 33 Variations by Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project); it's about a musicologist (Fonda) investigating Beethoven's peculiar interest in another
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
--Baring heart and soul for Neil LaBute's "reasons to be pretty" Broadway ad campaign.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Blog
"Re-purposing" the Bard
This sounds interesting. Insurgent Theatre and Alamo Basement, two of Milwaukee's micro-budget stage companies, are producing a one-night-only show consisting of original 10-minute plays inspired by a few words or lines of "re-purposed" text from Shakespeare. Fifteen plays, each from a different Shakespeare work, will be performed
Playbill
* With Taylor Hackford Directing, Revised Musical Louis & Keely to Play Geffen
* Broadway Grosses: Feb. 9-15
* Harwood Double Bill, Taking Sides and Collaboration, to Transfer to West End's Duchess
* Jefferson to Appear in Soho Think Tank's Dreamscape, Red-Haired Thomas, in NYC
* Mirvish Books Little House, Joseph, Young Frankenstein, Priscilla, August and More for Toronto
* League Announces Broadway Demographics for 2007-2008 Season
* John McGlinn, Conductor and Musical Theatre Archivist, Dies at 55
TheaterMania
* Geraint Wyn Davies, Matthew Rauch, Marc Vietor, Matthew Wilkas, et al. Set for Red Bull's Royal Hunt of the Sun
* Broadway League Survey Finds Online Ticket Sales, Young Audience Members on the Rise
* Jenn Colella, Ana Gasteyer, Kate Reinder, and More Set for Broadway Under the Bridge
* Soho Rep to Present U.S. Premiere of Rambo Solo
* Alive From Palestine to Play Kennedy Center
* People's Light & Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for A Tale of Two Cities
Broadway.com
Q&A: Malcolm Gets opens up about love, Lange and The Story of My Life
HuffingtonPost
Jenna Busch: Interview with Rocky Carroll of NCIS
Rocky Carroll has done it all. Comedy on the sitcom Roc, drama on Chicago Hope and lots of theater.
'kül
metaDRAMA: What To Write?
Having already dealt before with the question of what to review, here's something else to consider: once you've decided to review something, what exactly do you write? As in, how much information do you give, especially if you're constrained ....
The Playgoer
Arts Funding Honor Roll
According to yesterday's Times, here are the key House supporters who kept those Arts provisions in the final stimulus bill: ...
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Mark Shenton: Will Jerry Springer razzle-dazzle in Chicago?
The chatshow host admits the songs will be a challenge, but claims his experience as a lawyer will help him play Billy Flynn. Is that enough though?
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: Sheridan Smith Nabs Legally Blonde's Elle???
There was lots of speculation at our Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards Concert on Sunday that Sheridan Smith, who co-hosted the event for a second year in a row with James Corden, might be returning to the musical stage herself to pl...
MID_MORNING ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
ATW Digest - Moses' 'Love/Stories' opens at the Flea - read the reviews
Updated Digests:
* Ruined
* 'Shipwrecked!'
* Uncle Vanya
Gothamist
Billy Mitchell, Apollo Theater Historian
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
David Cote: Attend congress on saving small theaters!
Attend this meeting tonight on the state of small theaters!
Playbill
* "Dark Shadows" Actress Marie Wallace to Star in The Chiselers
* Alexander's "Swell" CD Due in Stores March 16
* Shanley and Krieger's Veronica Will Now Play Hollywood's Hudson Guild Theatre
HuffingtonPost
Marc Ecko Clothing Designer's Times Square Rent Wrangle
Marc Ecko Enterprises faces a nasty legal battle for walking away from its lease at the former Times Square Theater, where it abruptly dropped plans to open a spectacular, three-level flagship store.
The Stage UK
Rising academic content of training is leaving young actors unprepared, claims Hytner
National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner has called for drama schools to increase their focus on practical training for students, warning that too great an emphasis on theoretical study is failing to prepare young actors for the challenges of the stage.
Qdos announces record sales of £18m for 2008/9 season
Pantomime company Qdos has recorded another increase in year on year sales, with its 2008/9 season taking more than £18 million at the box office.
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: Spring Awakens for Transfer from Hammersmith???
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Review - 'Love/Stories' - Romance, Art of Theater Shrewdly Explored
Review - Lydia - Emotions Threaten to Breach the Border
New York Times
Staging Latin American Magical Realism, Complete With Songs
Isabel Allende’s novel “The House of the Spirits” would not seem a natural candidate for adaptation to the stage, but José Zayas and Caridad Svich refused to be daunted.
amNY New York City Theater
Next to Normal Expected to Open at the Longacre Theatre
Rumors are starting to arise that "Next to Normal" will arrive on Broadway this season, opening at the Longacre Theatre in April. ...
TheaterMania
Sutton Foster Gets Her Wish
The Tony Award-winning star of Shrek discusses putting together her first solo CD.
Whatsonstage.com
Jerry Springer Makes Own Musical Debut in Chicago
Six years after the premiere of the controversial West End musical in his name, US talk show host Jerry Springer (pictured) will make his own West End debut, playing super-slick lawyer Billy Flynn Chicago. Springer will join the cast of t...
The Stage UK
West End run for Nunn's A Little Night Music
Trevor Nunn's revival of A Little Night Music is to transfer to the West End's Garrick Theatre next month.
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
With Carbonells come kudos and kvetching
So the nominations for the 33rd annual Carbonell Awards have gone public, and though Monday is dark and a holiday, I can vividly picture the joy and rage flowing through South Florida's theater world.
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
2 sides of a coin coming to stage
Exactly 200 years separate the world premieres of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" in 1728 and "The Threepenny Opera" in 1928. Both were wildly successful. Two Milwaukee theater companies banking on that popularity will give audiences the rare opportunity to see both shows within weeks of one another.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Michael Simkins: Hytner is right: actors should learn to act, not study
The government's obsession with results-based education has made a crisis out of drama
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