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Associated Press

Barbara Walters Interviews Oscar Host Hugh Jackman 1
Hugh Jackman is a charmer and the height of cool.

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

Is a Play About Gaza Anti-Semitic? Read the Script.
Some critics have charged that the 10-minute play "Seven Jewish Children," by British playwright Caryl Churchill, is anti-Semitic. The Royal Court Theater's Web site allows readers to download the full text of the play and read it for themselves.

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog

OC theater to stage controversial Gaza play
Rude Guerrilla Theatre Co. got one of its first and biggest shots of publicity in 1999 when it staged the West Coast premiere of Terrence McNally's "Corpus Christi," a show that previously had riled certain Christian and Muslim groups by depicting Jesus and his disciples as sympathetically drawn gay men. .... will perform is "Seven Jewish Children, a play for Gaza," a new 10-minute play by eminent English dramatist Caryl Churchill that is single-mindedly critical of the recent Israeli military campaign. It will be staged once, as a reading, on March 22.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Acting Out Blog

A Very Different Topic
Few Milwaukee Rep productions in recent years have been as strongly loved and hated as its fall staging of "Eurydice" in the Quadracci Powerhouse Theater. Fast rising playwright Sarah Ruhl took the Greek Orpheus myth and spun it in a new direction that delighted some and turned off others.

Playbill

* Cerveris, O'Hara, Graham, Testa, Ripley and Lenox Set for Our Time Theatre Gala
* Jocelyn Named Artistic and General Director of CanStage
* Cotton Will Succeed Alvin in Off-Broadway's Marvelous Wonderettes

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Chris Wilkinson: Noises off: Taxing times for American theatre
US bloggers continue to put the recession centre-stage and consider a tax on Broadway tickets to boost the non-profit sector

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MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS

TDF Backstage

Culture Swap
Darrell Dennis spins hilarious, harrowing, and increasingly relevant “Tales of an Urban Indian.”

Time Out New York Upstaged Blog

David Cote: Eugene O’Neill: Bitter much?
Eugene O'Neill's favorite words…

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

Viola Davis Confesses...

Playbill

* A Moon to Dance By, with Alexander, Cuccioli and Saxe, to Conclude Run Feb. 22
* Knapp, McElfresh and Schrider to Star in Simon's Greek Holiday Off-Broadway

TheaterMania

* ACT Announces Schedule for Seventh Annual Young Playwrights Festival

Jay Raskolnikov -- half hillbilly, Demi-Culture

Maritime Marketing
Not long ago Kris Vire posted on the TOC Blog about how awful many non-profit arts organizations are at marketing.

The Playgoer

Caryl Churchill's "Seven Jewish Children": "Corrie" redux?
So you may have heard Caryl Churchill was unveiling a new short piece in London protesting the Israeli strikes against Gaza. The 10-minute vignette, Seven Jewish Children, is now up and running at the Royal Court and is downloadable (free) from their website.

The Stage UK

Harewood to join BBC1's Robin Hood as Friar Tuck
Criminal Justice actor David Harewood is to play Friar Tuck in BBC1's new series of Robin Hood, which will be broadcast this spring.

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