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LATE DAY ADDITIONS
New York Times
'Fela!', Musical About Afrobeat King, Ascends to Broadway
The acclaimed Off Broadway production of "Fela!" will transfer to the Eugene O'Neill Theater, with the first preview scheduled for Oct. 19 and an opening night of Nov. 23.
New Broadway Season Expected to Include 'Ragtime' Revival
Now that the 2009 Tony Awards are over, will the 2009-10 season will see a continuation of strong new plays and play revivals, or will the balance will tip toward musicals?
Send in the 'Night Music' Revival
The anticipated Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" is expected to go into a Jujamcyn theater this fall.
Variety
What is the fate of 'Sister Act'?
Critics chime in on the tuner -- Is the musical adaptation of 1992 Buena Vista hit “Sister Act” one step closer to Broadway heaven or still lingering in commercial purgatory?
Playbill
* Demas to Direct Palmieri's Levittown Off-Broadway in July
* Barker's Europeans Will Play in Rep With Therese Raquin in NYC
TheaterMania
* Keith Randolph Smith to Join Buck Henry, Holland Taylor, et al. in Mother
* Jason Graae, Sally Mayes, Lillias White, et al. Set for Cy Coleman Revue at Rubicon
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
BackStage - BlogStage
Geoffrey Rush: King of the Season, Plus Theatre Award Wrap-up
Star-Ledger
Pelphrey moves from 'Guiding Light' to stage production 'My Italy Story'
TheaterMania
* Mamma Mia! to Become 15th Longest Running Show in Broadway History
* John Stamos Set for X Repertory Theatre Panel
Playbill
* Bahorek, Craig, Doyle, Kazee and More Will Sing Songs by Adam Gwon June 16
* New Dorian Gray Play, Set in 1980s, Will Premiere at MD's Round House
BroadwayWorld.com
* THE TOXIC AVENGER Tickets Now On Sale Through 2/21/2010
DC Theatre Scene
Toxic Avenger’s John Rando
It’s a brand new day for New Jersey, thanks to Broadway director John Rando’s latest hit The Toxic Avenger. John Rando will always be remembered for his Tony winning staging of one of my favorite musicals - Urinetown. Other Broadway directing credits include The Wedding Singer, four productions for Encores!, the musical classics series at [...]
Baltimore Sun
Springing ahead
'Spring Awakening' director takes an unconventional path to success
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Family boredom buster
Though the kids are barely out of school for the summer, we're betting that more than a few parents have already heard that familiar yelp: "I'm bored!"
Culturebot
NFF and MetLife Partner to help Arts Orgs
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) and MetLife Foundation have launched a new initiative to strengthen the nation’s leading arts and culture organizations. Through a $380,000 grant from MetLife Foundation, NFF will provide Dance/USA, Theatre Communications Group, League of American Orchestras, and their members nationwide with financial tools and training to address the financial challenges precipitated by the current recession.
lies like truth
Don't Begrudge His Budget
It's easy to begrudge Robert Lepage's big budgets. After last night's performance of the Canadian theatrical auteur's production The Blue Dragon, staged at Zellerbach Playhouse under the auspices of Berkeley University's Cal Performances, I overheard a few audience members grumbling about Lepage's expensive-looking hydraulic scenery and stage gadgetry.
Live Design Online
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The Producer's Perspective
Why shopping online for theater is different than shopping online for other entertainment.
iTunes revolutionized how music is consumed by satisfying our culture's increasing demand for instant gratification. Want a song? Click. Bam. Boom. It's on your iPod and you're rocking out to your favorite Carpenters tune in no time.
Beyondabsurdity
FIGHT GIRL BATTLE WORLD: Tix now on sale for the remount!
Here we go, here we go, you sexy Beyondabsurdity reading muhfuckahs! Tickets for the much anticipated remount of “Fight Girl Battle World” is now officially on sale! Get them now cause they’re gonna go fast. I’ve clearly written alotta geeky shows before, but this one is clearly my single most crowd- ...
The Stage UK
Controversial Georgian play makes professional debut 200 years late
The Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds is to stage the professional premiere of a play written more than two centuries ago, which was suppressed at the time due to its "politically inflammable content".
Lloyd's The Show Girls set for Arts Theatre run
Thriller Live director Gary Lloyd is bringing his burlesque troupe The Show Girls to the Arts Theatre in London, for a series of late night shows intended to boost the group's profile ahead of a planned international launch.
Londonist
Review: The Ghost Bus Tours
...The Ghost Bus Tour is a full-on theatrical production with sinister characters, a dubious back story and a creepy soundtrack.
Whatsonstage.com
Interview: Michael Pennington On ... Doing a West End Double
Michael Pennington is an actor, director and author who, in addition to numerous seasons at the RSC, has played leading Shakespearean roles around the world with the English Shakespeare Company, which he co-founded in 1986 with director Michael B...
MIDDAY ADDITIONS
New York Times
On the London Stage: A Bracing ‘Arcadia’ and a Fierce ‘Hamlet’
In London, Tom Stoppard’s classic shines and Jude Law takes on Elsinore.
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
St. Ann's Warehouse Is Looking for a New Home
The innovative theater's space in Dumbo is being turned into an apartment complex and school.
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
"Divided" Attention
Though "Dividing the Estate" did not win the Tony Award for best play of the year on Sunday night the Hartford Stage's presentation of the Horton Foote play benefited from a "Tony bump."
New Haven Advocate
TheaterMania
* Melvin Van Peebles to Perform His Unmitigated Truth at Algonquin
* Trazana Beverley, Marie Thomas, et al. Set for Reading of Derek Walcott's Marie Laveau, with Music by Galt MacDermot
* J.D. Goldblatt, Cristin Milioti, Samantha Soule, et al. Set for Lucy Thurber's Monstrosity
* John Campion, Sean Patrick Thomas, Elisabeth Waterston Set for Othello at Intiman; Additional Season Casting Announced
Playbill
* Ramey, Noonan, Ford, Buonopane, Innvar, Ralston Cast in Barrington's Carousel
* La Red Music Theatre Season to Feature B.R.A.T.T. Camp, 9/11 Report and More
* Feldshuh and Feldman Will Square Off on "Theater Talk"
BroadwayWorld.com
* Firehouse Theatre Announces Upcoming 09/10 Season
* STAGE TUBE: Broadway Bound 'BURN THE FLOOR' Trailer
The Guardian
The Woman in Black and other West End haunts Chris Wiegand
Glossy new productions are all very well, but I spent the scariest night with the theatreland veteran The Woman in Black
Whatsonstage.com
New Secret Garden, Beaton Does Brecht in Leeds
Alistair Beaton, Brecht and a new musical version of The Secret Garden are amongst the highlights of the newly announced autumn season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. In fact, all four new in-house productions are re-imaginings of establish...
THE DAY'S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
House Subcommittee Approves Bill With Budgets for Arts and Humanities Groups
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior approved a bill that sets the annual budgets for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities at $170 million each for fiscal year 2010.
Jonny Lee Miller Joins Broadway's 'After Miss Julie'
The British invasion of Broadway presaged by the results of Sunday's Tony Awards continues apace in the coming theater season.
Newsday
Ashanti sings in 'Wiz'
Ashanti's yellow brick road leads to Broadway and "The Wiz."
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Casting for O'Neill New Musicals, Plays
Candy Buckley, (TheaterWorks' "The Little Dog Laughed"), Mary Birdsong, Jeffrey Carlson, Christopher J. Hanke are featured in the cast of the new musical "Tales of the City," which will be in development at the National Music Theater Conference at the theater center.
Future Life for Long Wharf's "Menagerie?"
Word is that the show -- starring Judith Ivey as Amanda Wingfield (and Josh Charles, Patch Darragh and Keira Keeley) could surface again in Los Angeles and New York. More as we hear.
Bloomberg.com
Stanford White Newport Theater Will Get $4.5 Million Makeover: Commentary
Oscar Wilde and Orson Welles performed at the Casino Theatre in Newport, Rhode Island. One of the few remaining examples of Stanford White’s theater architecture, it is getting a much-needed makeover.
BackStage - BlogStage
'Ragtime' Revival Headed for Broadway
The revival of Ragtime which played the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from April 18 to May 17 is evidently headed for Broadway. We just received Equity casting notices for a Broadway/Production ...
TheaterMania
Patrick Page Knows Cyrano
The popular theater star heads west to San Diego's Old Globe to tackle the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac
* 9 to 5 Original Broadway Cast Recording Set for July 14 Release
* Vanities Musical to Now Begin July 2 at Second Stage
* PTP/NYC to Present Howard Barker's The Europeans and Neal Bell's...
DC Theatre Scene
Actor David Marks dead at 49
Veteran comic actor David Marks, a Helen Hayes laureate for his performance as an uncanny handyman in Arena’s Briar Patch, died in his Washington home last Wednesday following a heart attack. He was 49.Marks was nominated for Hayes Awards four times, including for Studio’s The Cripple of Inishmaan in 2005, The Rivals at Olney [...]
Philadelphia City Paper
Interview: Art: The Lepage Project
Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog
Right Now
If you haven't been paying attention to Hidden City yet, now's the time. Taking contemporary performance and installation work into historical spaces citywide, the project is staking a claim for understanding the significance of Philadelphia history through the art of today.
Portland Phoenix
More Bard, please
Lots of Shakespeare for summertime
Essential Theatre (Atlanta) Blog
11th Annual Essential Theatre Play Festival Opens Soon
Chicagoist
Roundtable with the Cast of The Crowd You're In With
Marital disputes make great theater, and Rebecca Gilman’s latest play, The Crowd You’re In With, is no exception. However, while the play, making its Chicago premiere at the Goodman, opens with talk of periods and baby showers, it evolves into a complex look at how our friends, and others around us, can dictate the course of our lives.
Time Out Chicago
Theater on the Lake
The summer remount slate calls for careful calibration.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Culture Club Blog
Release date set for SLSO’s “Dr. Atomic” Symphony CD
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has had some real success recently with its online music downloads; now, the SLSO has a new CD that will sit on actual physical shelves - and it’s distributed by a national company.
Edge Dallas
New play expores Adam and Eve (with a gay twist)
NBS Productions’ Artistic Director Mark-Brian Sonna stages the world premiere of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Delights, or Love, playwright Alejandro de la Costa’s revisionist take on the Biblical story. EDGE spoke to Sonna about the ingenious comedy, which puts a decidedly gay twist on the familiar story.
Denver Post
Arvada Center leads Henry Awards with 25 noms
The Arvada Center leads all companies with 25 nominations, thanks to 18 nods to "Les Miserables." In a shocker, little Vintage Theatre scored the most nominations for a single play: "A Streetcar Named Desire," with six.
Seattlest
Neighborhood News and Local Blog Round-Up
No call-backs for the students enrolled in Washington State University's theater and dance programs. The school's budget guillotine cut both arts programs for the upcoming school year.
The Times UK
Edinburgh Fringe biggest despite recession
The credit crunch has not stopped there being a huge programme including a zombie musical and Denise van Outen
Whatsonstage.com
New Play Investigates De Menezes Tube Shooting
The shooting of innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes by London Metropolitan police provides the inspiration for a new political drama, Oh Well Never Mind Bye, which premieres this month at the fringe Union Theatre in Southwark, sout...
Jones Has Blithe Debut at Manchester Exchange
The new autumn/winter season at the Royal Exchange Theatre (RET) in Manchester will include the world premiere of Simon Stephens’ latest play Punk Rock as well as classic revivals of John Osborne’s The Entertainer, starring David Schofiel...
The Guardian
Obituary: Michael N Harbour
A familiar face on TV and West End stage
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