Archives for: March 2009, 12
3/12/09 [updated 5:50PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Mar 12, 2009 | In Days Top News
LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
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* Casting Announced for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in St. Louis
* Theatre for a New Audience Delays Start of Hamlet Off-Broadway
* Hamish Linklater Is Lobby Lingerer in The Projectionist, at Kirk Douglas Theatre in L.A.
* Richard Rodgers Awards Honor Cheer Wars and Rosa Parks Musicals
* PHOTO CALL: A New Working Takes the Old Globe Stage
TheaterMania
* Rinde Eckert's Slide to Debut at Ojai Music Festival
* Matthew Arkin, Marin Hinkle, and More Set for Our Mother's Brief Affair at South Coast Rep
EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Star-Ledger
Musical theater actress Veanne Cox plays with the poetic rhythm of the Bard
Playbill
* Hamlisch to Play Brooklyn Performing Arts Center April 25
TheaterMania
* Eisa Davis and Linda Powell to Star in Angela's Mixtape
* Orlando Shakespeare Theater Announces 2009-2010 Season
Live Design Online
Tsubasa Kamei Is Winner Of First Annual Eve Adamson Excellence In Lighting Design Award
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble announces that Tsubasa Kamei from New York's Brooklyn College is the winner of the first annual Eve Adamson Excellence in Lighting Design Award
NOONTIME ADDITIONS
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* U-M Grads Reichard, Keenan-Bolger, Foa, Gemignani and More Will Flock to Alumni Concert in MI
* Golden, Jibson, Spratt and Wyatt to Perform Extraordinary! at Joe's Pub
TheaterMania
* Playwright Milan Stitt Dies at 68
* Kevin Spacey to Receive 2009 Pell Award
* Lifeline Theatre Announces 2009-2010 Season
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
Twilight: The Musical Will Make You Forget Lonelygirl15
Is the lack of new vampire-related material in your otherwise empty life dragging you down? Fear not, as tomorrow marks the launch of Twilight: The Musical, a multipart web series that sets out to parody the movie that revolutionized life as we know it
DC Theatre Scene
A special One Red Flower and a young man you should know
The Playgoer
Will Theatre Outlive The Newspaper?
NY Times today wonders, "which will be the first big city without a large newspaper, but there are candidates across the U.S." (Cuz obviously we're just fine, ha!)
The Wicked Stage
Flashback, 1999
Evie Peck and John C. Reilly in Exit the King at the Actors' Gang.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
David Jays: Theatre's landscape of the mind
Plays make world travellers of us all – and help us understand our own nation – thanks to the power of imagination
Daily Telegraph
Brilliant, bolshie – and back
Actor Corin Redgrave talks about his remarkable return from a heart attack to tread the boards in Trumbo at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
TheaterMania
* Clay Aiken, Van Hansis, Cherry Jones, T.R. Knight, Michael Urie, Vanessa Williams, et al. Set for NYC GLAAD Awards Ceremony
* Philadelphia's Kimmel Center Announces 2009-2010 Season
BroadwayWorld.com
* Toxic Avenger Blog: TECH DAY 2: I'VE NAMED YOU!
Forty Days to Forty Plays
FINAL SUBMISSIONS COUNT!
On behalf of the 2009 Samuel French, Inc. OOB Short Play Festival Staff, I am proud to announce this year's final total of submissions: 713.
The Clyde Fitch Report
From Off-Stage Right
Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, who is (formerly?) the managing director of the Westport Country Playhouse and has previously had stints as general manager of Signature Theatre Company, the Vineyard and MCC Theater, has a blog that is ...
Whatsonstage.com
New Barbican Season Places Focus on East End
Announcing the Barbican Centre’s 2009-10 season highlights yesterday (11 March 2009), managing director Sir Nicholas Kenyon and artistic director Graham Sheffield emphasised the new policy of looking towards the East End of London in anticipati...
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Paterson Eliminates Proposed Tax on Theater Tickets
Among the tax ideas that New York Gov. David Paterson eliminated on Wednesday from his 2009-2010 state budget proposal was an 8 percent levy on theater tickets that Broadway industry leaders had fought fiercely. Representatives for theater owners, producers, actors and union members testified against the tax proposal in Albany last month, arguing that the...
Reuters / Hollwyood Reporter
Musical "Heathers" headed to stage
Get ready for "Heathers: The Musical."
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, 'Animal Crackers' and Dennehy all on Goodman slate next year
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Geffen Playhouse drops a musical, gains a play
Some good news-bad news comes our way from the Geffen Playhouse.
New York Daily News
This medium has a message for Broadway
I'm sitting in the bar at Sardi's with a woman who just might know all my secrets. That woman is Paula Roberts, also known as the English Psychic, who has
amNY New York City Theater
* Trailer of Every Little Step: The Chorus Line Documentary
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* Stitt & Heisler's "Alphabet City Cycle," With Baldwin, to Get Digital Release by PS Classics
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Cherry Lane Turns Bank Street Theatre Into the Cherry Pit
Cherry Lane Theatre is opening their third and newest venue, the 90-seat Cherry Pit (formerly the Bank Street Theatre) in the West Village. The Cherry Pit, at 155 Bank Street, joins the Cherry Lane Theatre's existing spaces at its historical location on 38 Commerce Street...
Huffington Post
Rob Warmowski: A Year In David Mamet's Marketplace
One year ago today, playwright David Mamet wrote of his personal transformation from a "brain-dead liberal" to one more person who sees the country mainly as a "marketplace". The author of Glengarry, Glen Ross -- the penultimate drama of visionless American capitalism -- announced one year ago "a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism."
Culturebot
bottom-up, not top-down
Last week I went to a presentation by Jack Ukeles which was pretty amazing. It was called ““Doing More With Less: Turning Crisis Into Opportunity” and I really loved it. I’m kind of a process nerd - I love workflow analysis and management systems innovation ...
DC Theatre Scene
Don Pippin Gets Ready to Conduct Jerry Herman
He’s just past seventy-seven now: an icon, a Broadway fixture since his debut at the Imperial in 1962 in Oliver. He’s known for his music, of course (Mame, 110 in the Shade, A Chorus Line, La Cage aux Folles, among others), but his career is full of delightful odds and ends - two plays, The ...
Edge Boston
Edward Herrmann Dons Pope’s Garb in New Play
Edward Herrmann may be one of the most familiar actors working in his profession. He’s equally adept at television, movies and the theater -- the latter the discipline where he currently can be found in the new play "Two Men of Florence," ...
Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Shakespeare to start season with new(ish) musical
Back Stage - Blog Stage
S.T.A.G.E. -- Still Glowing at 25
One of L.A.'s most star-studded annual musical evenings--and a terrifically worthy cause--turns a golden 25 this month. The Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.), the longest continuosly running AIDS benefit in the world, offers The Brothers Gershwin--George & Ira on March 21 (8 p.m.) and 22 (2 p.m.) at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Seattle Times
"Dolly!" star prepares to step into big shoes ... and hats
The classic musical "Hello, Dolly!" is at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre March 7-29, starring stage, TV and film actress Jenifer Lewis.
The Guardian
The ride of his life
As War Horse comes to the West End, its writer Michael Morpurgo tells Mark Lawson about abandoning the army, his absent father - and making his acting debut
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Carrie Dunn: West End girl: Theatreland hears Ghost's unchained melody
The Swayze tearjerker gets a musical makeover in London, while Sleepless in Seattle is bound for Broadway. Plus, Avenue Q finds a new location
Daily Telegraph
Julia Roberts says: I'm stage struck
No self-respecting Hollywood star could countenance a CV without at least one West End stint on it and Julia Roberts is no exception.
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: Brief Encounter With … Nicholas Hoult
Best known for his role as Tony in E4’s teen drama Skins and from films such as About a Boy, Wah-Wah and Kidulthood, Nicholas Hoult is about to make his West End debut in New Boy, adapted from William Sutcliffe’s best-selling coming-of-age novel.
theatre notes
STC does Churchill
The Sydney Theatre Company is presenting a reading of Caryl Churchill's controversial short play Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza. Approximately ten minutes in length, ...
What's that you hear in the background?
By Andy Propst on Mar 12, 2009 | In ATW News, Days Top News
It's me hacking away at code to make the server run better. Also, it's my tweets - which I'm using to indicate on the TopNews page when new clips have been posted. Go on look over on the left side of the screen, you'll see 'em. Hope they come in handy. OR, you can just follow me: http://twitter.com/apropst
Hope you have a swell Thursday.
Andy
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