Archives for: March 2009, 14
3/14/09
By Andy Propst on Mar 14, 2009 | In Days Top News
New York Times
For ‘Dreamgirls,’ Pacific Overtures
An American producer has gone to South Korea to develop and stage a new version of “Dreamgirls,” which will run in New York this fall.
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Something 'New' From Mark Twain
The March 2009 issue of The Strand Magazine includes a previously unpublished short story by Mark Twain.
Newsday
Josefina Scaglione stars in "West Side Story"
Argentina's Josefina Scaglione comes to America to star in a new interpretation of 'West Side Story'
Variety
'Hair' transplant on Broadway
The question hanging over the Broadway transfer of "Hair" isn't whether the 1967 flower-power tuner can still speak to contempo auds. The uncertainty hinges in part on whether the $5.8 million transfer about anti-war hippies retains the same urgency in the age of Obama as it had in the waning days of the Bush administration.
'Back to Bacharach' cast set
Mary Birdsong, Diana DeGarmo to star
Storyteller kept close to home
Playwright Horton Foote remembered
Playbill
* World Premiere Late Night Catechism Sequel, 'Til Death, Targets Marriage
TheaterMania
* Brian Krause and Kate Hollinshead to Star in Desperate Writers: The Final Draft
* Cast Set for Marlon Brando Bio-Play, A Love Lost Life, at the Colony
BroadwayWorld.com
* Oregon Shakespeare Festival Unveils 2010 75th Anniversary Season
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
City Theatre artistic director up for Bay area honor
Tracy Brigden has received a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination for her direction of the musical "Long Story Short," which was a co-production between Theatreworks in Palo Alto, Calif., in December and City Theatre in the South Side.
Baltimore Sun
Rep Stage cancels production, cutting season to five shows
Howard County's Rep Stage, faced with a $100,000 shortfall in its budget, has canceled its sixth production of the season.
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
'Mary Poppins' in Chicago: Which Poppins will land in the Loop?
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Dallas Morning News Arts Blog
Del Shores to do one-man show
Del Shores, the popular playwright-screenwriter whose Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Houseweife has been a hit for Uptown Players, is doing new his one-man show Del Shores the Storyteller at KD Studio Theatre on March 27.
San Francisco Chronicle
Little Man, Big Clout
The stars have nothing on Little Man. Probably the best-known ratings icon in the country, Little Man has had a more personal relationship with readers than the more abstract figures used elsewhere.
The Hub Review
More on the new Shakespeare
A very thoughtful take from Britain's Channel 4 on the new Shakespeare portrait. The gist: the physiognomy of the "new" portrait lines up quite well with that of the First Folio engraving, and there's an inscription, ...
Daily Telegraph
A torrent of white-hot lava - in French
Cheek by Jowl's blistering touring production of Andromaque could change the disparaging English view of Racine.
The Independent
Lorca was censored to hide his sexuality, biographer reveals
Decades of silence by family and Spanish literary establishment broken
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