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Bloomberg.com
Jessye Norman at $400,000 Gala Says Obama Needs ‘Arts Advocate’ in Cabinet
At a New York gala last night, soprano Jessye Norman accepted one of the top honors given by the American Academy in Rome. She wants a bigger prize.
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Al Pacino To Accept Benedict Honor
Al Pacino and Paul Benedict go back a long time
Playbill
* Tony Winner Jackman Pledges $100,000 for Charity on Twitter
TheaterMania
* John Waters to Bring This Filthy World to Ridgefield Playhouse May 15
* Joe Iconis’ Things to Ruin to Play Second Stage in May
Star-Ledger
Actor plucks a plum ’1776′ role
Orange County Register The Arts Blog
SCR announces directors, casting for new-play fest
South Coast Repertory has announced the actors and directors for its 12th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, which runs from May 1-3.
Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Despite bumps in the road, Victory Gardens moves ahead
Victory Gardens Theater has a $3.1 million annual budget, a 35-year history of producing world premieres of American plays, and a Tony Award…
DCist
South Asian Performing Arts Network Introduces Itself to D.C.
Orlando Sentinel Attention Must Be Paid Blog
Broadway Series beckons to hipper, younger crowd
Here’s the news about Broadway in Orlando’s 2009-2010 season, from Friday’s Calendar: By Elizabeth Maupin Sentinel Theater Critic If diversity is the key to theater’s future, then the 2009-2010 season for Broadway Across America — Orlando is taking a giant…
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Mosaic travels into “Darfur”
Playwright Winter Miller worked as the assistant to New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, traveling with him to the border of Sudan where the two interviewed survivors of the genocide in Darfur. Kristof won a Pulitzer Prize for his commentary about the horrors of war in the region. Miller turned her experiences into the intense play In Darfur, which begins performances at 8 tonight (April 16) at Plantation’s Mosaic Theatre.
Austinist
Preview and Giveaway: Queenie Pie at the Butler Opera Center
diacritical
Creative Destruction And The Critics
A shameless plug for a piece on All Things Considered by Laura Sydell on what’s happening with arts journalism as newspapers drop arts coverage. As I say in the piece, IMHO what’s happening is not the destruction of arts journalism, but the reinvention of it.
Huffington Post
Brad Balfour: Q & A: Actors Sienna Miller And Peter Sarsgaard Explore The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
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Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Annalee Jefferies Eying Her Own Solo Show
Annalee Jefferies is starring in “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Joan Didion’s stage adaptation of the author’s memoir at Hartford’s TheaterWorks. She previously starred in the solo shows ” Bad Dates” and “The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead.”
Playbill
* In the Heights Tour Will Launch in Tampa, FL, in October
* Laughing Matters, a Musical by “Beaches” Novelist and Smokey Joe‘s Songwriter, to Premiere in CA
TheaterMania
* Hedy Burress, PJ Griffiths, Andrew Leeds to Star in Blank Theatre’s Setup & Punch
* Jenn Colella, Paige Davis, Malcolm Gets, Gregory Jbara, Marc Kudisch, et al. Set for When You’re Good to Mama
* Alvin Epstein and Matthew Floyd Miller to Star in Hysteria at the Wilma
* Ed Dixon and Cady Huffman to Star in Huntington’s Pirates!
Chicagoist
Watch at Your Own Risk: Storefront Theater Musical
While we don’t think it’s funny that many theaters are suffering in the recession, it certainly provides prime comedic material. Because when things don’t get better, all you can do is laugh. That’s what Corn Productions is choosing to do with Storefront Theater Musical, a charming and borderline offensive parody of the omnipresent High School Musical.
The Guardian
What to say about … Calendar Girls
Is the stage version better than the film? Get up to speed with what the top reviewers think so you too can critique with confidence
Shockingly brilliant – 25 years of theatre company Forced Entertainment
Gallery: Crazy costumes, seven-hour videos, gibberish scripts – look back on a quarter-century of experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Michael Simkins: Was Patrick Stewart right to berate a disruptive theatregoer?
It may seem precious, but I sympathise with Patrick Stewart’s outburst against nightmare theatre audiences
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Back Stage – Blog Stage
Rogue Machine Gears Up for Second Season
John Perrin Flynn and Matthew Elkins’ Rogue Machine Theatre Company, which made an impressive bow last year with acclaimed productions of The Compleat Female Stage Beauty, American Dead, and Razorback, has announced the bill of fare for its 2009 season. Performing at Theatre/Theater …
Playbill
* My Way to Launch Theatre By the Sea’s 2009 Summer Season
* VH1 to Air Reality Series Focusing on Color Purple Star Fantasia Barrino
* Chess in Concert, with Menzel, Pascal and Groban, to Air on PBS in June
* Tony Winner Marc Shaiman to Be Part of Newport Beach Film Festival
TheaterMania
* Alan Alda, Rosemary Harris, Judy Kaye, et al. Set for Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years
* Steven Culp. Greg Germann, Matt Letscher, et al. Set for SCR’s Pacific Playwrights Festival
BroadwayWorld.com
* STAGE TUBE: ‘Boyle Wows LuPone!’ – CBS Early Show
* STAGE TUBE: SETH’S ’30 Deconstructions in 30 Days!’ Day 15 – ‘HAPPY FELLA’ Star Susan Johnson
Economic Revitalization for Performing Arts
Oh Canada!
Our neighbors up north are stimulating the arts economy because they know it’s worth it.
The Mirror up to Nature
North Shore Music Theater Turns to Co-Productions
The Playgoer
That’s TheatER to you, pal
Among new A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus’ first moves? Getting rid of that “re” in “theatre.”
Londonist
Preview: Love & Understanding @ Courtyard Theatre
Last seen being strangled at the Blue Elephant we’re tracking down Natalie Lesser again, this time in a contemporary play but again grappling the vicissitudes of love and life. Joe Penhall’s darkly comic play, Love and Understanding, dissects a modern medical romance that’s flailing fast, by imposing a vicious blast from the past upon the
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THE DAY’S FIRST TOP STORIES
AmericanTheaterWeb
Digest: Next to Normal opens – read the reviews
* Review: Impressive New Musical Tackles Difficult Subject
Bloomberg.com
David Hyde Pierce Acts His Age (50) in Depression-Era Comedy: Interview
David Hyde Pierce returns to Broadway in “Accent on Youth,” starring as an aging playwright who, after 19 hit comedies, has just written his first tragedy, “Old Love.”
Variety
2009 Tony season highlights
The legit year in review, from Ferrell to Laurents
Broadway’s financial recovery
Original plays stage comeback in 2008-09
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: Love Never Dies Announced Worldwide on 7 May???
Set your stopwatches, musical fans. Word is that Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, will be officially announced in just over three weeks – on Thursday 7 May 2009, shortly after which tickets wi…
Back Stage – Blog Stage
Humana Playwrights: Allison Moore
While covering the 33rd Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville (which just concluded on April 11), I spoke with some of the playwrights whose works were …
TheaterMania
Loose Lips
Ashley Brown keeps Poppins up; Mitzi Gaynor shares some Pacific memories; Pablo Schreiber is Under the influence; and Lauren Kennedy plays around in 1776.
Broadway.com
Six pack: Introducing the cast of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests
Broadway.tv
Mary Stuart: Speaking Of Schiller
In forming an estimate of Schiller’s merits as a dramatic writer, when we compare one of his pieces with another, and balance the beauties with the defects, …
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Pasadena Playhouse caps 2009 season with ‘Laughing Matters’
A world-premiere musical comedy about three generations of Jewish women living together in 1970s New York City will close out the Pasadena Playhouse’s 2009 season.
Chad Jones’ Theater Dogs
New `Pompeii’ musical erupts in San Francisco
Ask a group of San Francisco theater enthusiasts what they think about a show and you’ll get more than an earful.
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
A musical mystery as Hall leaves the Caldwell
Michael Hall’s final show in his 33-year run as artistic director of Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre Company is, however it turns out, another example of the sort of theater he’s staged so well through the years.
The Stage UK
Playwright Royce Ryton dies aged 84
West End playwright Royce Ryton, best known for his work Crown Matrimonial, has died this week at the age of 84.
Panto dame Robbins dies aged 56
Leading pantomime dame Peter Robbins has died suddenly at the age of 56.
The Stage UK – Blogs
Mark Shenton: The cult of the amateur…
The reality TV castings of West End musicals, from The Sound of Music that started it to Joseph, Grease and Oliver! that followed it, have in fact all been won by aspiring, professionally-trained actors – so that the TV…
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