3/2/09 [updated 4:33PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Mar 2, 2009 | In Days Top News
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Back Stage
24th Annual Back Stage Bistro Awards Gala
More than 30 of cabaret¿s brightest stars will be honored at the 24th annual Bistro Awards, which will take place on Tuesday, April 28 at Gotham Comedy Club.
Nice Queen
Tempers flare in “The Savannah Disputation,” but Marylouise Burke stays stubbornly—and hilariously—sweet.
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
Susan Avery: Guys and Dolls: Scenery malfunction
A near disaster at Guys and Dolls.
Playbill
* 9 to 5 Box Office Ticket Offer Extended to March
* Chenoweth, Leachman and Moore to Discuss Memoirs at Manhattan Barnes and Noble
* Arena Stage Will Host McGovern's Theatrical Concert Long and Winding Road
* CA's Marin Theatre Will Premiere Sunlight in 2009-10
TheaterMania
* Matthew Broderick, Elaine Stritch Set for Hope Triumphs Fear
* Victoria Clark, LaChanze, Jonathan Groff, BD Wong Set for Playwrights Horizons Gala
Broadway.com
* Mary Printz, the Inspiration for Bells Are Ringing, Dead at 85
MY NEW YORK: What NYC treat does Happiness' Jenny Powers want in her belly?
Being Audrey, a new musical
Meet the cast of BEING AUDREY...
Tuesday night was a very exciting next step in the making of BEING AUDREY: the first readthrough and meet and greet with the cast! It’s a completely new experience for everyone to hear the script being read for the first time with the people who will bring it to life on stage. The enthusiasm for the script was palpable, the laughs were plentiful! Read on as we introduce you to the actors who are making it possible. More soon from behind the scenes!
Between Productions
Designing women
As Women's History Month begins, a reminder of a special exhibit, "Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance," showing through May 2 at the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
'kül
lies like truth
Tragic Magic
Last night, a group of about 25 Bay Area theatre community people got together at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco for the latest in an ongoing series of Theatre Salons. Organized by theatre director Mark Jackson, actress Beth Wilmurt, director John Wilkins, producer Kimball Wilkins, theatre critic Rob Avila and yours truly, the Salons aim to bring folks from disparate corners of the local performing arts landscape for wine, food and discussion on a topic of pressing cultural interest of the founding committee's choice.
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: NT Faces Further Protests Over England People???
Onstage fights at the National Theatre are nothing new, but playwright Richard Bean witnessed the real thing on Friday during a discussion of his controversial play England People Very Nice when two protesters mounted the Olivier stage to accuse ...
Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe
St. Stephens Reopens with The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
After resting unused for over three decades, St. Stephen’s will reopen its doors next month with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (17 March – 19 April). Presented by Antic Disposition, this performance will be the first to grace the stages of St. Stephens following its recent £4 refurbishment. Co-directors ...
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Look on the Bright Side: Welsh Town Overturns 'Life of Brian' Ban
A Welsh town's 30-year prohibition on "Life of Brian" has since been allowed to expire, and the movie will be shown there for the first time at a screening on March.
Back Stage - Blog Stage
Andrew Salomon: Gilla Roos Clients Out Thousands of Dollars
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Star-Ledger Entertainment Blog
Broadway composer Marc Shaiman hosts Paper Mill master class
Playbill
* Alvin Klein, Longtime Theatre Critic for New York Times, Dies
* THE LEADING MEN: Cavenaugh and Shulman
* Broadway Shows Will Go On Despite Blizzard
* Brakefield Company Will Produce New Film "Uncredited—The Marni Nixon Story"
TheaterMania
* Patty Duke to Be San Francisco Wicked's New Madame Morrible
The Producer's Perspective
Amazon can do it. Why can't we? Earn cash with my new Altar Boyz affiliate program.
One of the first chinks in the armor of the big traditional media companies was first noticed in 1996, when Amazon.com turned us all into media companies with the unveiling of their monster affiliate system.
Theatre Ideas
La Times and the NEA -- Kill Me Now
Joshua Conkel drew my attention to this post on the Huffington Post by playwright Jon Robin Baitz, who apparently was asked, along with other "artists/cultural figures," by the L. A. Times "what they might do if they ran the N.E.A." The list of respondents: Bill T. Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Noah Wyle, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Frank Gehry, Tom Hayden, Tim Robbins, ...
The Wicked Stage
Immodest Proposal
I'm with Ian David Moss: It really does seem like Jon Robin Baitz is auditioning for the post of NEA chair with this succinct, stimulating LA Times editorial. It's formidable, straight-faced, provocative without rancor, specific but not mind-blurringly wonkish. Even when it seems he's being impish, Baitz is being admirably sensible: ...
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Femi Fola: What a frame-up: Want to See More of Me? got a bum rap
I fail to see how the black British actors in this exhibition were 'stripped of dignity'
Daily Telegraph
Bette Midler: 'I give it to 'em between the eyes'
The woman who began her career singing in seedy bath-houses is now the star of the biggest, brashest, lewdest show Vegas has ever seen. Why then, does she still feel like an impostor?
The Stage UK
The arts proves more popular than sport during recession
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - Kaspar Hauser at The Flea - read the reviews
Digest - Chatauqua! at P.S. 122 - read the reviews
Playbill
* Felder's Beethoven, As I Knew Him to Launch Cleveland Play House's 2009-2010 Season
* Marans' Temperamentals to Play Off-Broadway's Barrow Group Studio Theater
* Minnelli, Aznavour, Fraser, Testa, Morton and More Among Bistro Award Winners
* Broadway for a New America Benefit Postponed Until April
TheaterMania
* Julie Gold, Carol Hall, Liza Minnelli, Euan Morton Among 2009 Bistro Award Winners
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Arthur Laurents, a Great Old Broad
I just finished reading the advanced copy of Arthur Laurents' new book, "Mainly on Directing." (Publication date is March 16.)
HuffingtonPost
Katie Holmes Talks Suri, Tom, Rumors, And Cooking
Katie Holmes, fresh off her run in Broadway's "All My Sons," talks motherhood, marriage and her limited cooking in the April issue of Glamour magazine.
Nonprofits: State Laws Blocking Access To Funds
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - Guys and Dolls revival opens on B'way - read the reviews
* Andy's review at TheaterMania
Digest - Lawrence's 'Widowing of Mrs. Holyroyd' opens - read the reviews
New York Daily News
Aging Jane's not Fonda gettin' old
"Barbarella" has turned into one of the "Golden Girls." Actress Jane Fonda - a 1960s sex kitten who just turned 71 - was startled when she saw publicity shots for Moises Kaufman's "33 Variations," her...
New York Magazine
Angela Lansbury - On Her Influences
New York Times
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
“End Days,” a new play by Deborah Zoe Laufer, will have its Off Broadway premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theater starting March 25. ...
Guys, Dolls and Busted Dreams: A Damon Runyon Sampler
TheaterMania
* Broadway for a New America Benefit Postponed Until April 13
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Alexis Soloski: Adapting The Telephone Book – and other tough calls
Playwrights are turning to increasingly abstruse texts, such as this volume inspired by Derrida and exploring Heidegger. Which plays have the strangest source material of all?
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
David Schwimmer, Haiti and Icarus are all on Lookingglass season
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Guthrie names actors for festival of Kushner plays
New York and Twin Cities performers have been cast for a Kushner musical, a new play and a collection of short works.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
As the show goes on, the budget goes down
Next season at the History Theater will be one play shorter than planned. At the Children's Theater Company and the Jungle, open jobs are going unfilled. At Park Square Theatre, every expense — from printing and postage to box office staff — is being scrutinized with a keen eye.
HuffingtonPost
Jon Robin Baitz: The Future of the National Endowment for the Arts
The Stage UK
High School Musical 2 to be transformed into a stage show
High School Musical 2 is being turned into a stage show and will tour the UK later this year, following the success of the first theatrical adaptation of the Disney films
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: Ford Davies Lets Slip Hamlet Film Plans???
Good news for those of you who signed the petition to get a filmed version of David Tennant's Hamlet – according to yesterday's Sunday Telegraph, it looks like the project is going ahead. Speak...
After Via, Hare & Daldry Reunite at Court for Wall
More than a decade after he made his acting debut in Via Dolorosa::E8821027074505 (pictured), playwright David Hare and director Stephen Daldry will reunite this month for another meditation on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The new 40-minute piece...
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