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New York Times

Morton Gottlieb, a Broadway Producer, Dies at 88
Mr. Gottlieb was a Broadway stalwart who produced four plays that were nominated for best-play Tony Awards, one of which, “Sleuth,” was the winner in 1971

New York Daily News

Off Broadway's troubled glory
As Gay Pride events peak on Sunday, two fine Off-Broadway plays place boy-meets-boy center stage in 'The Temperamentals' and 'Next Fall.'

Newsday

Lincoln Center Festival is a foreign affair

New York Journal-News

Three off-Broadway treats
"The Wiz," "Coraline" and "Next Fall" find very different ways to entertain.

Edge New York

Broadway Bares 19 :: June 21, 2009
It’s always our hottest album of the year: Created in 1992 by Jerry Mitchell, Broadway Bares features the sexiest male and female dancers on the Great White Way and has become one of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS’ signature events. Of course EDGE was there - you asked us to go back. Here are the pics! [Rated R]

The Disney Diaries
Gay Pride Week is being celebrated over at the Laurie Beechman Theater in midtown this week, which is premiering Phil Geoffrey Bond’s new one-man play The Disney Diaries.

Bloomberg.com

Bard Stars Esparza, White Help Gala Raise $1.3 Million for Public Theater The stars of “Twelfth Night” came out at Shakespeare in the Park’s opening last night happy to get a break from the rain that has soaked New York City for weeks.

Variety

Judith Ivey refills 'Glass Menagerie'
Tony-winning actress to reprise role in play -- Two-time Tony winner Judith Ivey will reprise her much-praised perf in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" next spring in Gotham.

Cabarets change menu
N.Y. niteries add shows, stars to grow audiences -- The place: Feinstein's at the Regency, the largest of New York's three jacket-and-tie niteries.

Wandering wonder of stage
Unique rights deal allows musical to travel -- Seems like you can't walk into a regional theater these days without tripping over a Wonderette.

'Ella' enchants regional theaters
Biomusical has grossed $3 million across U.S. -- It's never played New York, and has neither a celebrity star nor high-profile creators, but "Ella" has become the little show that could, racking up big numbers across the country.

Auction of Bergman belongings looms
Push being made to preserve filmmakers estate -- Some 400 of the late Ingmar Bergman's belongings will be auctioned off Sept. 28 by the Bukowskis auction house in Stockholm.

Playbill

* Scott Nevins Offers One Night Stand at New World Stages June 27
* Outdoor Tempest, With Cummings, De La Fuente, Mewbron and More, Opens in NJ June 27
* Sealed With a Kiss, Dixie's Tupperware Party Makes NYC Return June 27
* O'Neill Musical Theater Conference Kicks Off June 27

Broadway.com

Ashanti, Gavin Creel and more pay tribute to Michael Jackson

Fresh Face: Our Town star James McMenamin lights up Grover's Corners

BroadwayWorld.com

* TWELFTH NIGHT's Esparza Talks Hathaway, Career And The Internet To The AP

Berkshire Eagle

Oldcastle Theatre Company Molnar farce slates U.S. premiere
Oldcastle Theatre Company opens its 38th season tonight evening at 8 with the United States premiere of "One Two Three," adapted

BTF: ‘Broadway by the Year: 1930/1964’ White Way without luster

St. Petersburg Times

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center lays off 20 employees

artscriticatl.com

Georgia Tech's Ferst Center names new executive director
Georgia Tech's Robert Ferst Center for the Arts has a lackluster reputation among metro Atlanta's performing arts series, both inside and outside university settings. The Ferst hall itself -- a visually chilly, fan-shaped cinderblock room -- renders most acoustic performances inaudible. In terms of programming, the main Ferst series has wandered all over the map in recent years, searching for a niche.

Chicago Tribune

Miranda, fellow stars take us to school at annual Mercer concert

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Stratford Festival musicals top the Bard in a topsy-turvy year

Chicago Sun-Times

Goodman needs more time with 'Orleans'
The Goodman Theatre announced Friday that it has canceled "Joan D'Arc," the world-premiere adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's "Die Jungfrau Von Orleans" ("The Maid of Orleans") originally slated for Sept. 11 through Oct. 11 in the Owen Theater. In a statement, Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls said, "This highly complex adaptation ... needed additional time for artistic development." There are no immediate plans to reschedule the production.

'Tony n' Tina' gets 17-year itch, folds tent
"Tony n' Tina's Wedding" is calling it quits after a 17-year-run at the Pipers Alley Theatre. The interactive dinner-show production will be replaced by Route 66 Theatre Company's production of "High Fidelity -- The Musical." Previews begin Aug. 7; the show opens Aug. 17 and will run through Oct. 4 at the theater, 1608 N. Wells.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Latte Da rolls out season lineup
"Full Monty" and Jeanine Tesori's first musical, "Violet," are scheduled.

Austin American-Statesman

Behind the scenes
Take a peek backstage with the cast of Broadway Across America's 'Mamma Mia!,' performing at Bass Concert Hall.

Los Angeles Times Culture Monster

U.S. House hikes arts and humanities budgets
The House of Representatives today approved $170-million budgets for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2010: a 9.7% increase for each over their current $155 million. The vote was 254 to 173 for the Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies budget bill, which includes the two cultural grant-making agencies.

Uncertainty surrounds planned 'Thriller' musical
A planned stage adaptation of Michael Jackson's 1983 "Thriller" music video is in limbo after the pop star's untimely death at age 50.

L.A. Weekly

Stage Raw: Spirits of Michael Jackson and Jerzy Grotowski

The Times UK

Forbidden Broadway UK: third time lucky
Forbidden Broadway, the satirical New York hit show, is coming to London to mock our West End musicals one last time

Kureishi puts The Black Album on stage
The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi’s 1995 novel about the rise of radical Islam, is going on stage. The author tells of the likeable young...

Financial Times

Real-life bingo fuses with theatre
Sarah Hemming talks to Neil Bartlett about 'Everybody Loves a Winner', his new play about hope and the randomness of life and why someone will feel richer after watching

London Theatre Guide

Jackson tributes paid at Lyric theatre
Fans of Michael Jackson having been paying tribute to the entertainment superstar at London’s Lyric theatre, home of Thriller Live, the show inspired by the King of Pop’s music.

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