Archives for: February 2009, 20
2/20/09 [updated 11:53PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Feb 20, 2009 | In Days Top News
LATE NIGHT ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Prosky Brothers Will Star in Old Globe's The Price, With Dominic Chianese
* Box Office at the Kerr, Home of Irena's Vow, to Open Feb. 23
* Hair Documentary to Be Screened at 92YTribeca March 4
TheaterMania
* Epic Theatre Ensemble to Honor John Guare and Stanley Tucci
* Signature Announces Cast for D.C. Area Premiere of See What I Wanna See
* Kimberly Gilbert to Star in Taffety Punk's Faithkiller
* Eclipse Theatre Company Announces Cast, Creative Team for Blue Surge
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Arts & Leisure Preview: Oliver Platt, Jane Fonda, Jerry Lewis and More
Wisdom, insights and random observations from this weekend's Arts & Leisure section.
Gothamist
God of Carnage Cast Having Fun With "People Behaving Badly"
The cast of God of Carnage, a new play by Yasmina Reza opening next month on Broadway, sounds like they may be having a little too much fun. Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden spoke to reporters this morning about the play, which concerns two ...
Alice Tully Hall Renovations Revealed, Rapturously Received
Austinist
Austin Shakespeare Produces An Ideal Husband
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Revolution hits a Cuban ad agency
Over at Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables at the moment, artistic director David Arisco is busy doing what he usually does: rehearsing a large-scale musical (in this case Les Miserables, which opens March 6). But once Les Miz is open and running, Arisco will get to work on a challenging, resonant play which may wind up featuring some faces well known to anyone addicted to Ugly Betty, Cold Case and several other current television shows.
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
‘Rent’ dispute heats up at Corona del Mar High School
Register reporter Jeff Overley is working on an update story about that little tempest at Corona del Mar High School over its planned production of “Rent,” which school principal Fal Asrani decided was too risque for the school without having read the script
More details about the Center’s new musical
Here are a couple of interesting updates to that story yesterday about the Orange County Performing Arts Center’s announcement that it would co-produce a world-premiere staging of a new musical, “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Culture Club Blog
Missouri Arts Council gets bad news from state
The Missouri Arts Council has been informed of a budget cut of more than five and a half million dollars for fiscal year 2009.
nytheatre mike 2.0
Bryan Enk Wraps Up Penny Dreadful
Parabasis
A Quick Thought (or two) On Celebrity Casting
Longtime readers of this blog will know that i kind of get a bug up my ass about Celebrity Casting, in particular Hollywood-Stage-Dilettante-Casting on Broadway (Jennifer Garner, Katie Holmes and Julia Roberts being the sort of Unholy Trinity of this).
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Athol Fugard's Next Play Gets Reading
Exciting news for fans of South African playwright Athol Fugard.
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
David Cote: Chekhov your head
Chekhov 101 helps you understand the Russian master.
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 14-20: Where Angels Fear to Tread
* Randolph-Wright to Direct and Roberson to Choreograph Brazilian They're Playing Our Song
* Tony Winner Rupert to Direct Jason Robert Brown's Parade
TheaterMania
* Placido Domingo Is Awarded Birgit Nilsson Prize
* Gilligan's Island: The Musical to Launch New Tour in Florida
* South Coast Rep Announces Cast, Creative Team of Goldfish
The Globe and Mail - Theatre
Spreading the love: Of McAnuff, Mirvish and moonlighting
Our man in New York, Simon Houpt, went to see Des McAnuff's Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls the other day and noticed a familiar Canadian name in the list of producers: David Mirvish. Just an interesting tidbit, the significance of which I leave up to you to ruminate on...I'll be heading down to New...
Pal Joey Blog
Matthew Risch, One Of The Hottest Guys In Theater
The website “afterelton” posted its picks for the 37 hottest guys in theater. Among the Broadway cuties is Pal Joey’s own Matthew Risch.
Stage Banter: Arena Stage Blog
Jane Fonda speaks about "33 Variations" on the Today Show
The Mirror up to Nature
Am I In the Right Room?
Andrew Dickson attends a theatre forum entitled: Audience in Fragments.
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