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New York Times

One Singular (Choreographed) Sensation
Choreography gets important again in three Tony-nominated musicals.

New York Post

Vinyl treasure in 'yukky' trash
Scounger strikes gold in lost '40s comedy

TheaterMania

Go Ask Alice
Tony Award nominee Alice Ripley reflects on the most difficult and rewarding role of her career: Next to Normal's Diana Goodman

Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog

Solo "Nunsense" Show Set for Bridgeport
Dan Goggin, creator and composer of the "Nunsense" stage shows, will direct Deborah Del Masto in "Sister Robert Anne's Cabaret Class" July 10 to 17 at the Playhouse on the Green in Bridgeport.

Associated Press

First Couple's NY Date: A Campaign Promise Kept
President Barack Obama made good on a campaign promise to his most important supporter Saturday night -- his wife, Michelle.

Chicago Tribune

2009 TONY AWARDS: What will win, and what are Broadway's coulda shoulda's

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Handelman: Will this fall be funny?

Chicagoist

A Script at Second City?
Script is not the first word that comes to mind when you think about improv, but Second City’s training center likes to try new things. Hence the brand-new scripted musical, The Timeless Tale of New Portsmouth. Set in 1876, the show explores the life of New Englanders ...

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Papatola: Minneapolis Musical Theatre finds happiness with gay theater selections
Minneapolis Musical Theatre is not a gay theater company, per se, but it has never been a company to hide its lavender streak, either

Denver Post

Civic landlord demands $100,000 by Monday
The operators of the New Denver Civic Theatre are more than eight months and $100,000 behind on rent, taxes and other fees, and have until Monday to pay up.

Los Angeles Times

Center stage: middle-class African Americans
As Colson Whitehead's and Lydia Diamond's new dramas show, the way black artists...

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster

Rocker Donovan Leitch has a new 'Gypsy Glam' musical
Donovan Leitch has done Hedwig. Now he's the co-creator and star of a heady new musical in which he gets to go Wilde and cry over Woolf.

San Diego Union-Tribune

Theater to the right of me, theater to the left ...
It's rare that a week goes by without a theater production (or three) opening somewhere in San Diego, but this week's deluge of debuts may set a local record for sheer volume of drama.

Seattle Times

Village Theatre vet Brian Yorkey gets to Broadway
Theater writer Brian Yorkey, an Issaquah native who grew up professionally at Village Theatre, recently was nominated for a Tony Award for "Next to Normal," a critical-hit musical now playing on Broadway.

The Times UK

Sir Peter Hall's A-list daughter Rebecca Hall
Actress in Hollywood spotlight after work with Woody Allen and Frost/Nixon is back in theatre for Chekov and Shakespeare

The Independent

Lucinda Coxon: Return of the prodigal woman
One minute I am sitting drinking tea in Lucinda Coxon's north-west London kitchen, the next it feels as though I'm in the famous black leather chair on the set of Mastermind. I'd brought up the scarcity of successful women playwrights in British theatre at present

Daily Telegraph

Alas only a synthetic costar for Jude Law in his Hamlet
One of Jude Law's costars in Hamlet which opens this week in London is likely to prove an anticlimax.

The Guardian

Emma John interviews Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the actor playing Ophelia in the Donmar's production of Hamlet
Starring as Ophelia opposite Jude Law in the Donmar's West End Hamlet, the talented Gugu Mbatha-Raw is taking the fast route up, Emma John

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