3/27/09 [updated 2:35PM EST]
By Andy Propst on Mar 27, 2009 | In Days Top News
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest - Rush, Sarandon Open Exit the King on B'way - read the reviews
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
TDF Backstage
Rock of All Ages
These days rock musicals are practically the norm--or at least, "Next to Normal." Composer Tom Kitt explains.
Playbill
* Burton to Head Cast of Lane's Caterer at Whitefire Theatre
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Arisco honored with the Abbott Award
Soul singer James Brown was long known as "the hardest-working man in show business," and anyone who watched him work a stage -- singing, dancing, howling, working up a monumental sweat -- would have said amen to that description. But the truth is that, in the arts, there are lots of passionate folks ...
Culturebot
eclectique telescope
was tag surfing and came across this post about some performance video thingie at Green Hours in Bucharest. ...
off-stage right
The New Statesman: On the Arts by Kevin Spacey
While googling for a study from last month (that I thought I printed) on the economic arguments for the arts, I ran into this....
what's good / what blows in new york theatre
ADVENTURES IN SMART MARKETING
Some non-profits could learn a lesson from MCC, who had someone handing out fliers for their upcoming Stephin Merritt musical COROLINE outside the PJ Harvey concert last night.
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
Is This Guy Broadway’s Spider-Man?
Playbill
* "Every Little Step," Chorus Line Documentary, Screens in NYC March 27
* Saito, Barall, Kim, Lee and Katigbak Cast in Off-Broadway's American Hwangap
* Mike Daisey to Open 6th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival
TheaterMania
* Tony Bennett, Christine Ebersole,Johnny Mathis, Kelli O'Hara, Paolo Szot, et al. Set for OCPAC's 2009-2010 Season
* Sandy Duncan to Star in Casa Manana's Driving Miss Daisy
* South Coast Rep Announces Cast for Emilie
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
Saving newspapers: The musical
This guy is good.
off-stage right
NY Times Article on Kareem Dale from Wednesday, March 25
For those that missed this in last Wednesday's NY TIMES. I know a lot of folks out in the blogosphere and arts community are very pestimistic about the Kareem Dale "appointment," and more importantly the position he is creating even if temporary, but I for one am going to remain cautious but optimistic.
Blog: Jane Fonda
Whatsonstage.com
Lloyd Webber Readies Love for Adelphi & Beyond
While no official announcement has yet been made, according to today’s Daily Mail, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, will open in London in late October/early November at the West End’s...
LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
TIME Magazine
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, March 21-27: And the Stars Came Out
* "Broadway Backstage: Spring Preview" to Air on WABC
* Corwin's The Rivalry, About Lincoln and Douglas, Will Play Ford's Theatre; Season Announced
TheaterMania
* Daniel Beaty, Pat Hazell, Avi Hoffman and More Set for Penguin Rep's 2009 Season
* Jack Noseworthy, Kevin Symons, and More Set for No Way to Treat a Lady at Colony
Talkin' Broadway
Review: Finian's Rainbow
Take note, musical theatre lovers: Spring has now sprung. You can’t tell from the weather or the temperature, but one trip to City Center, at least until Sunday, and you’ll see that green is indeed busting out all over - with a fare dose of red, orange, yellow, blue, purple and, perhaps most importantly, black and white. The reason for the hue and cry is the solid-gold presentation of Finian’s Rainbow as part of the City Center Encores! concert series. . . .
BroadwayWorld.com
* BWW TV Show Preview: Impressionism
* Women Who Run the Show: Frances Hill of Urban Stages
Culturebot
EmcArts RFP for Innovation Lab
Designed and managed by EmcArts, with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts is a nine- to twelve-month program designed to help performing arts organizations in the fields of presenting, theater, dance, and jazz incubate and test innovative strategies to address major challenges.
lies like truth
Handel Man
I always find it interesting to see how particular performers jibe with particular playwrights, composers or directors. Think Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner. Think Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht. Equally intimate relationships sometimes exist between two artists even when they are divided by hundreds of years and thousands of miles in time and space.
Live Design Online
33 Variations Brings A Regional Design Into New York
We often talk (and write) about Broadway designs being adapted to go on the road to tour—but the opposite happens as well. 33 Variations, the new show at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on West 49th Street in Manhattan features a design developed in regional theatres that transferred to Broadway
off-stage right
HAPPY WORLD THEATRE DAY
Augusto Boal's 2009 Address:
Parabasis
Jeffrey Goldberg and Ari Roth on "Seven Jewish Children"
Jeffrey Goldberg debates his friend Ari Roth's decision to do "Seven Jewish Children" at Theatre J. Here's the interview between the two. I personally want to know Goldberg's list of the eight playwrights living today who are better than Caryl Churchill.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Kelly Nestruck: Who cares about World Theatre Day?
Try as I might, I can't get excited about this depressing little event. Its existence implies that theatre is in crisis
Whatsonstage.com
Eccleston & Stephens Join Anderson's Doll House
Former Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston (pictured) will return to the London stage for the first time in nearly a decade to star opposite Gillian Anderson in the Donmar Warehouse’s much-anticipated production of Ibsen's A Doll's House, which ru...
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
Sorry for the delay this morning - ah gotta love computers.
New York Post
Riedel: 'Spidey' senses tingling
What do you call a $40 million theatrical extravaganza that features gigantic...
Reuters / Billboard
Dolly Parton takes "9 to 5" to Broadway
The jitters are starting to hit Dolly Parton a bit as she prepares "9 to 5: The Musical" for its Broadway debut.
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Manhattan Theater Club Tightens Plan for 2009-10 Season
The Manhattan Theater Club announced three productions for the 2009-10 season, including "The Royal Family" starring Rosemary Harris, while also disclosing that it was cutting the total number of shows next season from seven to six because of economic concerns.
New York Daily News
'Mary Stuart' and her royal rain on Broadway
When Elizabeth I and her rival, Mary, Queen of Scots, meet about midway into Friedrich Schillers play Mary Stuart, the air all but chokes with bitterness and verbal thunder....
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
Accomplice: New York returns this weekend
The interactive mystery game Accomplice: New York takes lower Manhattan
Playbill
* DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Shoshana Bean Plus News of Neuwirth and Ripley
* Frank Marino, Broadway Stage Manager, Dies at 70
TheaterMania
Viva Las Vegas!
From Cher to Peepshow, Phantom, Jersey Boys, and LOVE, Las Vegas truly is a world of entertainment.
Peter Filichia's Diary: Your Favorite Wordplay in Lyrics
Nice responses from so many of you! You sent them after I wrote an article on how I like a lyricist’s using a word early in a song, and later employing it in a completely different context.
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Memorial Event Planned for Horton Foote
Plans are under way for a public event to celebrate the life of playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theatre in early to mid May.
New York Times
Ronald Tavel, Proudly Ridiculous Writer, Dies at 72
Mr. Tavel was a playwright and screenwriter who brought a bawdy sense of the outrageous to some of Andy Warhol’s early films and helped mold the Off Off Broadway movement in the 1960s.
Washington Post
Theater J's 'Seven Jewish Children' Provokes Thought, Feedback
The post-show "talkback" has become a staple of theater around these parts, a way for serious-minded companies to offer a bit of extra value -- and explanation for their work -- to audiences. Now, however, the after-performance discussion has been elevated to something on the order of performance...
Chicago Sun-Times
23 ensemble members depart American Theater Company
Louisville Courier-Journal
Adam Rapp loves Louisville
"I've always believed that what people can experience at a really great rock show — where they're being transported and having a visceral experience with the music — should be part of the theater," said David Rapp, who'll confront Louisville in several different ways at next week's Motherlodge...
Creative Loafing Culture Surfing Blog (Atlanta)
NBAF executive producer Stephanie Hughley steps down
Hughley will remain on board through the 2009 festival.
San Francisco Chronicle
Thought-Provoking Lineup
ACT unveils a season of "essential" theater.
Seattle Times
On stage, backstage, Seattle Repertory Theatre cuts back
Seattle Repertory Theatre, the state's largest nonprofit regional playhouse, will cut its 2009-10 budget by about one-third, operate with a four-day workweek and cut a day from its performance week, due to the financial crisis and a decline in season-ticket subscriptions.
* Seattle Rep's 2009-10 season announced
MinnesotaPlaylist
World Theatre Day message by Augusto Boal
All human societies are “spectacular*” in their daily life and produce “spectacles” at special moments. They are “spectacular” as a form of social organization and produce “spectacles” like the one you have come to see.
diacritical
A Culture of Failure
One thing you hear about the current economic mess is that some banks and companies are "too big to fail." This is the idea that if a mega-corporation like AIG goes down, the repercussions are so enormous that other companies will fall in its wake and the whole financial system might fall apart. Thus an argument for tax-payer bailouts.
The Playgoer
If the Arts are Dessert, Do They Make you Fat?
"Actor Tim Daly, co-president of The Creative Coalition, said it was his mission 'to make America understand that the arts are part of our cultural and economic main course, they are not dessert.'"
The Stage UK
Stephens and Ecclestone join Anderson in A Doll's House
Toby Stephens, Tara Fitzgerald and Christopher Eccleston are to join Gillian Anderson in the Donmar Warehouse's forthcoming production of Ibsen's A Doll's House.
Whatsonstage.com
Gray's Last Cigarette Transfers to Trafalgar, 28 Apr
As previously tipped, the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Simon Gray's The Last Cigarette - which stars Felicity Kendal, Nicholas Le Prevost and Jasper Britton - has confirmed its West End transf...
Feature: Helena Blackman On … Sondheim & Saturday Night
Helena Blackman became familiar to millions as the runner-up on BBC casting show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? in 2006. Since then, she's starred in productions of Gypsy, The Wizard of Oz and South Pacific (for which she was nominated for a TMA Award), as well as appearing in galas...
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