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2/21/09
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New York Daily News
Play really hit 'Sopranos' star
James Gandolfini had people praying for their lives on a regular basis as mobster Tony Soprano. But to land a role in Broadway's "God of Carnage," the Emmy winner was the one doing the begging.
New York Post
Puppets with an edgier story line
Their shows often feature puppets, but downtown's HERE Arts Center isn't generally a place to take the kids. Such recent fare as...
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Annalee Thinking "Magically?"
Annalee Jefferies who was a stellar Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and a sex-and-the-city single mom in "Bad Dates" at Hartford Stage -- to name a few of the many roles she's played there, is said to be eyeing a gig at Hartford's TheaterWorks in "The Year of Magical Thinking."
Variety
Broadway bows to bottom line
Producers try to trim without losing pizzazz
Off Broadway fare shining bright
'Inishmaan,' 'Becky Shaw,' 'Ruined' all big hits
Theatre in Chicago
Comedy and Chaos Flood Navy Pier with Twelfth Night
Chicago Shakespeare Theater will conclude its 2008/09 subscription season with Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare's rollicking comedy of disorder and revelry staged by London's Bush Theatre Artistic Director Josie Rourke. CST's Courtyard Theater stage will be flooded with water to create the coast of the imaginary world in which the play is set...
Encore Michigan
* A FEW MINUTES WITH: Kyle Riabko of Spring Awakening at Wharton Center
Treasure Coast Palm
Second 'Male Intellect' coming to Jupiter theater
About 10 years ago, stand-up-comic-turned-relationships-guru Robert Dubac first came to Florida with his gender gap one-man show, “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?”Not only does he keep coming back, the thought-provoking comedy has traveled the world.
The Times UK
Mamma Mia!'s Catherine Johnson on her new play
The creator of Mamma Mia! was a broke single mum, then her musical turned into a £400m-grossing movie
Nicholas de Jongh and the Plague Over England
It is 'not a scandal biopic' - the story of John Gielgud, and what happens when he is caught soliciting a policeman in a 'cottage'
The Guardian
The surreal story of The Sound of Music
Scarlett Johansson casting rumours, tie-in talent shows, a Hollyoaks plant ... We trace the curious tale of a very modern musical...
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
New Six-Person Venue Opens in Brixton
Arch468, a new London theatre space, is set to stage Caryl Churchill’s Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (17 February – 22 March) as its first long-run stage performance. The venue boasts a unique set-up in that it houses only six audience members at any one time
London Theatre Guide
Duchess goes on Bear Hunt
A stage adaptation of Michael Rosen’s We’re Going On A Bear Hunt is to play a season of daytime performances at the Duchess theatre this summer, from 9 July to 16 August.
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