3/8/09 [updated 10:54PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Mar 8, 2009 | In Days Top News
NIGHTTIME ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Cannavale, Harner, Hoffman, Paulson and Rappaport to Star in Gingerbread House
TheaterMania
* Tony Award Winner Anna Manahan Dies at 84
Whatsonstage.com
Olivier Analysis: Donmar, RSC, Black Watch on Top
Continuing its success in the Evening Standard (where it won four prizes), Critics’ Circle (another four) and our own Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards (five), the Donmar Warehouse has tonight (Sunday 8 March 2009) converted ...
Speeches: And the Laurence Olivier Winners Said
Winners for this year's 33rd annual Laurence Olivier Awards, London's equivalent of the Tonys and the UK's most prestigious stage awards, were announced this evening at a star-studded ceremony held at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane. Highlights...
Full Results: Laurence Olivier Winners Announced
Winners for this year's 33rd annual Laurence Olivier Awards, London's equivalent of the Tonys and the UK's most prestigious stage awards, were announced this evening at a star-studded ceremony held at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane. The full l...
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Times
Schuyler Chapin, 86, Champion of New York Arts, Dies
Mr. Chapin’s string of jobs in the arts included general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, cultural affairs commissioner of New York City and dean of the school of the arts at Columbia University.
Enter the Anti-Diva, Stage Right
Twenty-six years after making her New York stage debut and 20 years after leaving the stage for the movies, Joan Allen is back on Broadway.
A Musical Giant, Obsessed With a Little Tune
Whatever one’s take on “33 Variations” as a theater piece, it is an innovative and engrossing exercise in music appreciation.
Rekindling Robbins, a Step at a Time
For “West Side Story,” choreographer Joey McKneely has been charged with the difficult task of recreating Jerome Robbins’s work for a new generation.
New York Daily News
Colin Hanks' big moment
Colin Hanks has called his recent guest appearances in “Mad Men” the turning point in his career since it was his “first adult role.” And this month marks a couple of new firsts for the 31-year-old actor.
New York Post
Gangbusters!
Fifty-two years later, there's still a place for them: Broadway. On March 19, the fourth revival of "West Side Story" opens at the...
The son also rises
Colin Hanks makes Broadway debut, gets 'Buck' wild for film
The Observer
In Godot we trust
As his masterpiece opens on broadway, David Smith argues that Samuel Beckett's genius lies in his ability to speak to troubled times
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Great Podcasts for Theater Junkies
Have I told you how much I love The American Theatre Wing's "Working in the Theater" series?
Washington Times
VAULTS: A glimpse at 'Studio One
The recent DVD set "Studio One Anthology" opens a door commendably, if also inconclusively, on a large body of programming that was never systematically documented ...
Denver Post
Publicity, diversity of views lost as daily criticism is reduced
Chicago Tribune
'Our Town': A cynical Chicago production in New York and a needy one on Michigan Avenue
Curtain call for Madison Repertory Theatre
The Madison Repertory Theatre is officially out of business. The Madison's professional theater group acting artistic director Trevin Gay told WISC-TV that the organization's board of directors voted to "dissolve" the...
Live Design Online
Who’s Doing What: Chicago
A brief look at current and upcoming shows and their designers in The Windy City
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Kids know how to enjoy the Bard — imagination first, everything else second
Sheila Livingston thinks children can understand Shakespeare just as well as adults — if not better.
Minnesota Playlist
MPR wants you
Minnesota Public Radio is trying to build a database of performing artists to use as sources for a new segment called "Art Hounds."
Los Angeles Times
Stephen Eich, former managing director of the Geffen Playhouse
He hasn't wandered far from the theater, helping to produce the new 'Rantoul and...
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
New play 'Rantoul and Die': A little slice of Central Illinois
What's a Rantoul? ... That's the question raised by the title of Mark Roberts' new play "Rantoul and Die," slated to have its world premiere in mid-May at Hollywood's Lillian Theater.
Seattle Times
Pacific Operaworks: A new chamber company debuts in Seattle
A new chamber opera company, Pacific Operaworks, may fill a niche in Seattle's classical-music scene. Artistic director Stephen Stubbs talks about its March 11 debut, a reworking of Monteverdi's "Return of Ulysses," with the Hanspring Puppet Company.
Whatsonstage.com
Derren Brown Enigma Follows Joseph at Adelphi
Television magician and mind control expert Derren Brown will return to the West End this summer, with his new live show Derren Brown: Enigma. Following a 41-date regional tour, the production will play for 30 dates only, from 17 June to 28 July 2009...
The Independent
End of the road for old-school drag queens
The misogynistic, wig-wearing female impersonator is being replaced by a sassier, more sophisticated act.
Alan Ayckbourn stole my sex-swap play, writer claims
Comedy written by an unknown in the mid-1990s bears strong similarities to a production by one of the giants of British theatre. Simon Tait reports
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