Archives for: March 2009, 05
3/5/09 [updated 3:49PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Mar 5, 2009 | In Days Top News
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Sibling Revelry: Brothers Travel the World in Karma Cookie, Premiering in Philly
TheaterMania
* Molly Ephraim, Peter Friedman, Deidre O'Connell and More Set for End Days
Broadway.com
Backstory: How Noel Coward wrote his haunted hit Blithe Spirit...in six days flat!
Sh-K-Buzz Blog
Christine Ebersole to perform in Kennedy Center’s 2009-10 Season
The Clyde Fitch Report
Will LPC Chair Robert B. Tierney Help Marx Brothers Place Become Reality?
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
New York Times
Checking Disney Rules at the Door
The costumes aren’t the only thing shifting in the quick-change room at the Minskoff Theater.
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Broadway to Dim Its Lights for Horton Foote
The marquees of Broadway theaters will be dimmed on Thursday for one minute at 8:00pm in tribute to Horton Foote, who died on Wednesday.
Associated Press
Fantasia to Reprise Her Role in 'The Color Purple'
''American Idol'' winner Fantasia Barrino will reprise her lead role of Celie in the first North American touring production of ''The Color Purple'' when the Broadway musical opens in Washington.
Star-Ledger Entertainment Blog
Tony nominee 'Master Class' makes the show go on
TDF Backstage
Hearing the Call
In "This Beautiful City," composer Michael Friedman followed his characters' words to get closer to their spirit.
Time Out Chicago Theatre Blog
Horton Foote and film
Horton Foote passed away yesterday, and the obituary tributes are rightly spotlighting his work as a playwright, while noting that he wrote screenplays as well. I’ll leave the discussion of his theatrical work to my colleagues, but it’s worth remembering his screenplays, which show him as a great adapter of others, a talented creator of original material...
Publicola
The End of the P-I Is Nigh, But Maybe Not So Nigh As Staffers Think
Yesterday evening, the Stranger’s Eli Sanders posted about rumors swirling in the P-I newsroom that the final P-I print edition may roll of the presses sooner than had been expected. Until now, the operating assumption, based on a previous statement from Hearst...
Playbill
* Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare, with Bosco, Easton and Chalfant, Rescheduled for March 18
TheaterMania
* Brian Dennehy Joins Goodman Theatre's Artistic Collective
* Craig Carnelia, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lari White Set for Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project
Broadway.com
* Tony Winner Sydney Chaplin, Son of Charlie, Dead at 82
Culturebot
Five Questions For: Rachel Chavkin
Artistic Director/Freelance Director/Theatre Educator
The Mirror up to Nature
Just a Little Marketing Reality Check
Ken Davenport, over at The Producer's Perspective, gives a few hard numbers on the marketing of new musicals: ...
The Producer's Perspective
In defense of the screen to stage adaptation.
While watching Honeymoon In Vegas the other night, I took a twitter poll asking for a quick thumbs up or thumbs down on the idea of making Honeymoon into a musical (a project that is currently in development
Superfluities Redux
Howard Barker's Art of the Theatre
Registration is now open for Howard Barker's Art of the Theatre, a three-day international conference centered on the dramatist's work, at Aberystwyth University in Wales, 10-12 July 2009. Barker himself will provide a keynote address, "Pity and Pretending: Tragedy's Rebuke to the Pseudo-Ethical," along with other ..
The Guardian
Lyn Gardner: Speaking Shakespeare as you like it
Tim Supple's production of the Bard's comedy is full of different accents – and all the better for this variety
The Stage UK
Plowright becomes honorary president of English Stage Company
Dame Joan Plowright has been appointed honorary president of the Royal Court Theatre's governing body, the English Stage Company.
Whatsonstage.com
Albert Hall Unveils Plans for £3m In-the-Round King
There’s no expense being spared at the Royal Albert Hall (pictured) for the upcoming revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1951 Broadway classic The King and I, starring Maria Friedman and Lost’s Daniel Dae Kim ...
Gossip: Will People Support Arts During Credit Crunch???
Well, according to a new survey, yes they will! New research suggests that in the current recession, more people are likely to buy tickets to see the performing arts than spend money on sports events or video games. The poll was conducted by agency...
Feature: Ciarán Hinds On … Getting Burnt at the National
Ciarán Hinds' myriad stage credits include Peter Brook's epic production of The Mahabharata, Richard III for the RSC and Closer at the National, which subsequently transferred to Broadway. Since then, he's forged a successful film career with credits including Road to Perdition, Calendar Girls, Munich and ...
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3/5/09 - Overnight News with Horton Foote Obituaries
By Andy Propst on Mar 5, 2009 | In Days Top News
Associated Press
Playwright, Screenwriter Horton Foote Dies at 92
Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in ''The Trip to Bountiful,'' ''Tender Mercies'' and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of ''To Kill a Mockingbird,'' died Wednesday in Connecticut, Paul Marte, a spokesman for Hartford Stage, said. He was 92.
Kirk Douglas, at Age 92, Stars in One-Man Show
Kirk Douglas emerges from behind a black curtain and walks purposefully, if a bit unsteadily, to center stage.
Bloomberg.com
Horton Foote, U.S. Dramatist, `Mockingbird' Screenwriter, Dies at 92
Horton Foote, the Pulitzer Prize- winning American dramatist who received an Academy Award for his 1962 screenplay adaptation of the classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died today in Hartford, Connecticut. He was 92.
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Horton Foote, Playwright, Dies at 92
Horton Foote, who chronicled America's wistful odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas, died in Hartford, Connecticut on Wednesday. He was 92.
amNY New York City Theater
Horton Foote Dies at 92
I can't believe it. Horton Foote, the 92-year-old playwright whose works include "The Young Man from Atlanta," "The Trip to Bountiful" and most recently "Dividing the Estate" died at his Hartford, CT home on March 4. Hartford Stage and the Signature Theatre Company are still set to co-produce the world premiere of his "Orphans' Home Cycle" next season.
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Wonderfully Horton
Horton Foote, who died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday in Hartford just 10 days shy of his 93rd bithday, made a memorable appearance in January in a public "conversation" with Michael Wilson at Hartford Stage.
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
Adam Feldman: Here she is, boys: Leslie Kritzer
Rising diva Leslie Kritzer shoots for musical-theater stardom.
Playbill
* Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Horton Foote Is Dead at 92
TheaterMania
* Pulitzer Prize Winner Horton Foote Dies at 92
* Richard Foreman's Work Receives DVD Release
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