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New York Times

Same City, New Story
Since the Jets and Sharks first rumbled in “West Side Story” more than 50 years ago, New York has changed. So has their musical.

Coleridge Comes to SoHo, on a Budget
The First Light Theater Group is mounting an adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Gothic poem “Christabel” using a typical mix of Off Off Broadway resources

Bergen Record

Feldberg: Noel Coward's tonic for hard times

Playbill

* ON THE RECORD: Jerome Kern's "The Cabaret Girl" and Sutton Foster's "Wish"

TheaterMania

The Good Humor Man
Lorenzo Pisoni isn't just clowning around in his acclaimed autobiographical solo show Humor Abuse.

BroadwayWorld.com

* Toxic Avenger Blog: TECH DAY 3,827

Washington Post

At 50, Hansberry's 'Raisin' Has Ripened With a New Relevance
I can't quite believe that it has been 50 years since "A Raisin in the Sun" opened on Broadway. Like many people, my first encounter with Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play was through the 1961 film, acted by the original Broadway cast. Because I first saw the film during the black-power era,...

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Papatola: These days, you need a playbill just to find the theater -- and that's a good thing
By collaborating, local theaters are gently coercing audiences to do what they wouldn't do on their own: break their habits, go to new places, try new things.

Louisville Courier-Journal

Naomi Wallace play to premiere
"The Hard Weather Boating Party," a provocative new work by Kentucky native Naomi Wallace, previews Sunday, March 15, and opens at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, at Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the 33rd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays

Denver Post

Moore: With theater in decline, is Boulder really an "arts town"?

Los Angeles Times

Taylor Hackford is 'obsessed' with 'Louis & Keely'
Not only is the filmmaker tackling his first stage project, he's bankrolling the Louis Prima/Keely Smith musical.

San Diego Union-Tribune

Staging a digital revolution
Theater groups are meshing cyberspace with live action in ventures both high-tech and low-tech

Createquity.

What Do I Mean By An Artistic Marketplace?
In a recent post here, I threw around this idea of an artistic marketplace, as distinct from the market itself. I had thought I came up with the idea in one of my Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy posts from last year, but perhaps not surprisingly, I discovered that Adam Forest Huttler had articulated it much more clearly than me in a response to that post: ...

The Times UK

War Horse gallops hits West End
Handspring Puppet Company and author Michael Morpurgo reveal secrets of the equine 'star' of drama about 1914-1918 conflict

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Charlotte Higgins: Should the Government continue to raise arts funding during the recession?
Fears are growing in the British cultural world that the recession could mean disaster as funding sources are hit by a "perfect storm"

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