Archives for: March 2009, 09
3/9/09 [updated 8:56PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Mar 9, 2009 | In Days Top News
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Associated Press
Theater Companies Will Highlight Lincoln Center 09
Theater companies from France, Russia, Poland, Hungary and Italy will highlight Lincoln Center 09, the city's major summer arts festival.
TDF Back Stage
Senses of Humor
How to interpret the fast, funny “Shrek” for deaf and blind audiences? It’s all about set-up and punchline.
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
Cote: Broadway Box Office: Ouch
Broadway box office had a rough week.
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New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Brooklyn Troupe Wins Spalding Gray Award
The 3rd annual Spalding Gray Award has been given to Radiohole, the experimental theater troupe from Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Associated Press
Bernstein Heirs Give Studio Items to Indiana U
The family of Leonard Bernstein has donated items from the late composer's Connecticut studio -- including a conducting stool believed to have been used by Johannes Brahms -- to Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
Playbill
* Broadway Grosses: March 2-8
* DC's Woolly Mammoth to Feature Works By Gurira, Mee, Daisey and Norris in New Season
* A.R.T.'s Endgame Extends Through March 21
* Phantom Star Nease Releases "Behind the Mask… No More" Tome
TheaterMania
* Asolo Repertory Theatre Announces 2009-2010 Season
* BC/EFA's Easter Bonnet Competition Set for April 27 and 28>
* Downtown Urban Theater Festival to Return to HERE Arts Center in May
The Globe and Mail - Theatre
Twitstruck
Yeah, I caved. I'm on Twitter now.At first, like you, I was skeptical. But now I see how it can be useful for throwing up quick hits that aren't worth a whole blog post. At the moment, I hoard little tidbits and interesting links for long blog entries that never get written.I promise to never to twitter ...
The Clyde Fitch Report
* Nosedive Productions Gets Nasty -- A Fundraiser
The Hub Review
Still more chronicle of a death foretold: the Globe is losing $1 million a week
Or at least so says Time Magazine in a story called "The 10 Major Newspapers That Will Either Fold or Go Digital Next." Our paper of record is No. 5 on the list. Time doesn't actually say the organization will fold, but predicts that within eighteen months ...
Theatre Ideas
Thoughts on SETC and Birmingham
I arrived home from SETC in Birmingham Saturday night at 11:30, then promptly lost another hour in the time change, so it is not until today that I've had an opportunity to write about Tom Loughlin's and my big adventure in Birmingham.
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
amNY New York City Theater
Can You Guess Paper Mill Playhouse's 2009-10 Season?
The 2009-10 Paper Mill Playhouse season will be officially announced on Friday morning. But until then, Paper Mill has released five clues as to the four musicals and single play that will make up the new season. I spent much of opening ...
Playbill
* Crudup, Plimpton, Marvel and Wilkof to Be Part of 52nd Street's Can Do! at the Public
* August's True-Frost to Stage Ladybird for A.R.T. Institute
TheaterMania
* Radiohole Receives 2009 Spalding Gray Award
* Woody Allen, Conor McPherson to Be Represented at Tribeca Film Festival
* Works by Lee Blessing, Steven Dietz, Tracy Letts, and More Named Finalists for Steinberg/ATCA Award
The Playgoer
Jane Alexander Represents
Illustrious stage actress and former NEA chair Jane Alexander gives an interview to CNN.com (hmm, why not on the air, CNN?) on the state of arts funding in the Obama age.
Theatre Ideas
Wow! Theresa Larkin on the NEA
The Stage UK
Johnson to direct Rookery Nook at Menier Chocolate Factory
Terry Johnson is to return to London's Menier Chocolate Factory to direct a new production of Ben Travers' farce Rookery Nook.
Tributes paid to Irish theatre actress Manahan
Anna Manahan, who has died at the age of 84 after a lengthy illness, has been celebrated as one of the most influential actors in Irish theatre.
Whatsonstage.com
Opening: Stovepipe, Hanover, Deep Cut, Invasion
Amongst the major openings in London this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 9 March 2009 (previews from 3 March), High Tide, in collaboration with the National Theatre and the Bush Theatre, presents Stovepipe by former journalist Adam Brace, ...
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Hartford Courant
Fugard Reworking New U.S. Play
Athol Fugard is busy at work working on a rewrite for his latest play, "Have You Seen Us," which is his first play set in the U.,S.: at a coffee shop in a small shopping mall in Southern California. (Fugard lives mostly now in San Diego.)
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
Cote: Caryl Churchill’s playlet gets a New York reading
Theaters Against War gives a reading of the new Caryl Churchill play.
Playbill
* Human Race Season Will Feature Vertical Hour, Ordinary Days and Lend Me a Tenor
* London's Lost Musicals Series to Feature Porter's New Yorkers and Weill's Johnny Johnson
TheaterMania
* Julian Fleisher, David Greenspan, Jayne Houdyshell, Francis Jue, et al. to Star in MCC's Coraline
* First Folio Announces Cast, Creative Team for A Moon for the Misbegotten
The Producer's Perspective
The Age of the Audience.
I had a flashback while I was standing in line at the Madrid McDonalds this weekend (I know, I know, I should have been eating Tapas instead of McNuggets de Pollo, but see, I have this thing where I like to compare the different tastes of McDonalds in countries around el mundo).
Reflections in the Light
So, You Want to Be A Producer
The Commercial Theater Institute offers its three-day intensive program for prospective producers, general managers and investors in New York City May 15-17. A special discounted rate is available until March 27.
Storefront Rebellion
Honest Engine
There's a little back-and-forth going on at the TOC blog, where I questioned a fundraising tactic employed by Chicago Dramatists in a post on About Face's current emergency campaign. (My feature on About Face's situation is here.)
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Lyn Gardner: Do the women on Harper's Bazaar's list actually wield any power?
It's good to see Harper's Bazaar celebrating women in theatre. It's just a pity that they mistake visibility for real power
The Stage UK
Bonham Carter to play Blyton in BBC4 biopic
Helena Bonham Carter is to play Enid Blyton in a new BBC4 biopic on the children's author
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: Kathryn Hunter On ... Monkey Business
English actress and theatre director Kathryn Hunter won an Olivier award in 1990 for playing the millionairess in Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit. She's most well known for her physical theatre work and was the first British actress to play King Lear in ...
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