3/6/09 [updated 11:45PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Mar 6, 2009 | In Days Top News
NIGHTTIME ADDITIONS
Associated Press
'Impressionism' Delays Its Broadway Opening
''Impressionism,'' which stars Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen, has delayed its Broadway opening by nearly two weeks.
Variety
'Wilshire' theater now 'Saban' theater
Donation from Saban family brings new name
Soho Rep's risks pay off
Edgy fare boosts off Broadway venue
'West Side Story' gets makeover
Laurents makes gritty changes to classic
Playbill
* Lovelace, Popular Rock Opera About "Deep Throat" Star, to End March 29 in CA
* Mary Stuart Box Office to Open for Business March 9
TheaterMania
* Casting Announced for Signature Theatre's LaChiusa's Laides
* Michael Friedman, Mark Hollmann, David Zippel, and More to Participate in 2009 Festival of New American Musicals
* Jill Abramovitz to Star in Westchester Broadway Theatre's Funny Girl
* Jarrod Emick, Kingsley Leggs, and More Set for Ford's Theatre's The Civil War
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Video Promo Released for Busch, Lypsinka Legends! Benefit
TheaterMania
* Jim True-Frost to Direct Ladybird for American Repertory Theatre
* Florida Rep Announces Cast for Art of Murder
* Cast Announced for Hobo Junction's Bad Guys in Suits
Being Audrey, a new musical
James Hindman on writing the book for BEING AUDREY
Culturebot
4th Annual St. Purim’s Day Bash
This year, St. Purim’s Day falls on Friday the 13th, so The Tank has invited downtown theater art rockers Death Mask to rock you all night long. Or at least part of the night.
The Stage UK
Society for Theatre Research announces 2008 Theatre Book Prize short list
The Society for Theatre Research has announced the short list for the 2008 Theatre Book Prize.
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New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
A Musical Afterlife Planned for "Ghost"
Illustrating Karl Marx's lesser-known maxim that history repeats itself first as a chick flick and second as a musical, the 1990 romance "Ghost" will become the latest cinematic weepie to be translated to the stage.
Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 28-March 6: Guys and Dolls, Reinvented
* Hartford Stage and Signature Committed to Foote's Orphans' Home Cycle
* Rattlestick Extends Run of Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play
TheaterMania
* E. Faye Butler, Marva Hicks, NaTasha Yvette Williams et al. Set for Arena Stage's Crowns
* Lindsay Crouse, Karen MacDonald, Paula Plum, and More Set for Gloucester Stage's 2009-2010 Season
Broadway.tv
Broadway Waiting For Godot Nearly Over
Coming in April 2009, one of the Twentieth Century's most influential plays returns to Broadway when Waiting for Godot begins a new run at theatre, Studio 54. The classic Samuel Beckett play, which originally ...
Broadway Snapshot: Rock Of Ages Gets Rolling
Broadway's rock n roll springtime is revving up with arrival of revival HAIR and the new kid on the block Rock Of Ages. The cast and creative team behind Broadway's new musical about dreams, guitar heroes, and the ability to ...
BroadwayWorld.com
Toxic Avenger Blog: WEEK 2, DAY 1, YANKEES 4
The Clyde Fitch Report
Can We Defend the $50M NEA Increase When It Only Protects the Status Quo?
The Playgoer
Downtown Crunch Pow Wow
“Frankly, I think we need space before we need money."-John Clancy, League of Independent Theater....From what seems like a very extensive discussion held last week on the state of producing 99-seat style ...
Daily Telegraph
Isadora Duncan: sublime or ridiculous?
Isadora Duncan’s bizarre death was a brutal end to a controversial life. Ismene Brown looks back at the dancer’s colourful story.
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
Kritzerland Brings Cast Recording of Anya to CD in Limited Edition
Playbill
* "Working in the Theater" Series to Rebroadcast "Horton Foote's America" March 6-7
TheaterMania
* Thomas Bradshaw, Yussef El Guindi, Lisa Kron, and More Set for ROUGH Reading Series
The Hub Review
The Foothills carries on
After expressing doubt regarding its ability to finish its current season, the Foothills Theatre in Worcester has announced it will, after recent donations, open its next show, The Best Little ...
Huffington Post
Bob Giloth: Nonprofit Stimulus
The Mirror up to Nature
Boston Theatre - Friday Roundup
Superfluities Redux
From the Archives: 95 Sentences About Theatre
Travalanche
IN PRAISE OF FREAKS
Memo to publicists and producers: ....
Daily Telegraph
Nicholas Hoult: about a man
Nicholas Hoult found fame as a pudding-bowl-haired 12-year-old and notoriety playing a loose-living adolescent. On the eve of his West End stage debut, he tells Ajesh Patalay how he made the awkward leap from child actor to adult star.
The Stage UK
Novel Carrie's War to become West End play
Nina Bawden’s novel Carrie’s War has been adapted for the stage and will run for a limited season at the West End’s Apollo Theatre later this year.
Credit Crunch Cabaret extended
Credit Crunch Cabaret, the show currently performed every Monday evening at the Lyric Theatre in London, is to extend its run by five weeks.
Whatsonstage.com
2009 Laurence Olivier Winners Announced Sunday
Winners of the 33rd annual Laurence Olivier Awards, London's equivalent of the Tonys and the UK's most prestigious stage awards, are announced this Sunday evening, 8 March 2009
Whatsonstage.com - Blogs
Michael Coveney: Wide of the Mark altogether now
In sniffing out homophobic tendencies where none exist — put it this way: Graham Norton can make jokes about leather pouffes because he’s obviously gay but I can’t because I might not be – my old friend Mark Shenton has committed a notable clanger in suggesting that my book The Aisle is Full of Noises was withdrawn as a result of legal action taken by Milton Shulman after I dubbed him a kosher butcher.
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Where's Andy? - A question with multiple answers
New York Times
A Dramatist Who Cozied Up to the Chill Within the Hearth
Horton Foote’s plays have always felt like home to me. You don’t have to have grown up Southern, as I did, to respond this way to the soft-spoken tales of small-town Texas.
New York Post
Riedel: Her 'Hedda' examined
Parker politely disputes diva label
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Robin Williams to Undergo Heart Surgery
Robin Williams has halted the tour of his one-man comedy show, "Weapons of Self-Destruction," to undergo heart surgery.
amNY New York City Theater
* Phylicia Rashad Joins August: Osage County Cast
The Stage UK - Blogs
Newsblog: Harper’s bizarre top 20 women in theatre
Harper’s Bazaar (yes, that wasn’t a typo in the headline) has announced who it (and a jewelry company) believes are the 20 most powerful women in British theatre. As someone who helps compile The Stage’s own power list
Variety
Playwrights fest to bow play pair
Greenberg, Gunderson works to premiere
'Back to Bacharach' to make LA debut
Kathy Najimy headlines musical review
Foote's 'Orphans' still on track
'Cycle' set for New York, Hartford stagings
Playbill
* DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Rooms' Leslie Kritzer Plus Sutton Foster's "Wish"
* Cast Album Planned for The Story of My Life
TheaterMania
Michael Shulman finds a Way
After starring in Off-Broadway's White People, the young actor-producer hits the road in the new film Sherman's Way.
Peter Filichia's Diary: Wilder! Cromer! Wilder!
Wham, bam, thank you, David Cromer!
* David Sanborn's King David Musical to Play the Promise Theater
* HBO's Grey Gardens to Debut on April 18
The Villager
Finding herself
On a fine sunny Friday in her 35th year as one of America’s most admired and busiest actresses Off-Broadway, on Broadway, on television, in films, or anywhere, Tovah Feldshuh rounded out her afternoon with 30 minutes on the elliptical machine, to work up a sweat; lifted 10-pound weights for half an hour then swam 40 laps before show time.
Boston Globe
Shakespeare & Co. mixes old and new
For their 2009-10 season, the company's expanded lineup has works ranging from "Hamlet" (left) and "Othello" to "Shirley Valentine," Golda's Balcony," and more.
Miami Herald
'Les Miz' goes on despite miserable economics
Actors' Playhouse stages an ever-popular epic musical with fiscal caution and experienced talent.
Chicago Tribune
Canceled shows mar spring theater season
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Minnesota Playlist
360 Degrees of committee and consensus
Theatre in the Round's Steve Antenucci describes how to grudge, kick and scream your way to a season.
Encore Michigan
BoarsHead Theater announces 2009-2010 season
Dallas Morning News Arts Blog
Reaction to Horton Foote obituary
Denver Post
Curious designers rise to a challenge from the depths
Orange County Weekly
It's the Stupid Economy at Rude Guerrilla Theater Co.
The Stage UK
Hit film Ghost to be transformed into West End musical
Lord of the Rings director Matthew Warchus is bringing a new stage version of the Oscar-winning film Ghost to the West End in 2010.
The Independent
Observations: Get thee to Shoreditch, go
What would Shakespeare write if he were alive today? Would he tell the tale of Ridley, a kind but vain Hoxton rock-star, who lets his three biggest fans have first listen to his new studio album before asking them each in turn...
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