AmericanTheaterWeb
ATW Digest – Mary Stuart opens on B’way – read the reviews
* Review: Political Maneuvering, Human Frailties Deftly Delivered
MIDDAY ADDITIONS
AmericanTheaterWeb
* Outer Critics Circle Nominations Announced – Complete List
Playbill
* Billy Elliot and Shrek Top Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations
* Baker, Stanek, Milligan Will Explore Night Sky, a Play About Aphasia, Off-Broadway
* Saltzman’s Comedy with Music, Set Up & Punch, to Premiere in Hollywood
* Members of Meatpackers Book Club, a Philly World Premiere, Hack Away at Classics
* New Ute Lemper CD Due in May; New York Concert in June
TheaterMania
* Walnut Street Theatre Announces Cast and Creative Team for Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits
* Jordan Baker and Jim Stanek to Headline Off-Broadway’s Night Sky
BroadwayWorld.com
* 1918: A HOUSE DIVIDED Original Cast Recording Gets CD Release
Dog Days
Art as Policy Proposal
I am an everyday advocate for the arts to be part of the public and government policy conversation. But I don’t have any idea how many artists are directly engaging elected officials. I know many are making art that includes…
LiveBlog/Live Design Online
Tharon Musser and A Chorus Line
By now you have all probably heard about the passing of lighting legend Tharon Musser. We’ll be posting lots of tributes to her in the coming days and weeks, but wanted to get the ball rolling with a look back at a roundtable we conducted several years ago with many members of the original design team of A Chorus Line. Held during the Broadway Lighting Master Classes back in 1999,
The Playgoer
Deep Thought
Every time I see the warning, “Limited Seating” in an ad for a play, I wonder: what would unlimited seating look like?
The Producer’s Perspective
Rebranding intermission.
Here’s my kooky thought of the day:….
Scrappy Jack’s World-Wide Theatricals and Dime Museum
good news, true words and the MMMQ
Last week, Community Board 5 unanimously passed a resolution drafted byits Arts Task Force, under the leadership of David Diamond, calling forCity and State Agencies to recognize the value that Small to Mid-SizedTheaters add to the financial and community stability of New York Cityneighborhoods.
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MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
Backstage
Rapper Jim Jones Talks Theatrical Venture
The 32-year-old recently starred in “Hip-Hop Monologues: Inside the Life and Mind of Jim Jones,” an off-Broadway play which chronicles the rapper’s life on the road and on the streets.
Playbill
* London’s Union Theatre to Revive Sondheim’s Company
* Will Elaine Paige Duet with YouTube Sensation Susan Boyle?
TheaterMania
* Brothers & Sisters, Milk, Secrets of the Trade Among Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards
* David Leveaux to Direct West End Revival of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
* Full Cast Announced for Kensington Gardens Peter Pan
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: Neil Stuke On…Staying Farcical
Neil Stuke is perhaps best known for his portrayal of über-lad Matthew in 90s sitcom Game On. His other TV credits include Drop the Dead Donkey, Office Gossip, Monday Monday and the forthcoming BBC revival of the Reginald Perrin series
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THE DAY’S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Times
How to Sell a Nanny, a Mermaid and a Lion
Disney Theatrical Productions is preparing a new marketing plan to attract families and others during this economic climate, in which the three Disney musicals risk vying with one another.
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
The Big Apple Circus has renewed its agreement with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for a third long-term lease on Damrosch Park, extending through 2019,…“Night Sky,” a new play by Susan Yankowitz about a brilliant astronomer who loses her ability to speak, will be presented Off Broadway this spring with previews beginning May 22, prior to its official opening June 2 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. …
New York Magazine
Dolly Parton, Backwoods Gershwin
To understand Broadway’s newest composer, you have to start in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. But that’s not where you’ll really find her.
The New Yorker
Video: John Lahr talks with the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theatre, André Bishop.
TheaterMania
Peter Filichia’s Diary: Suskin Between Shows
Theatergoing has got in the way of my reading Steve Suskin’s magnificent new book The Sound of Broadway Music – about orchestrators, musical directors and conductors.
Culturebot
Five Questions for Cynthia Hedstrom
Producer, The Wooster Group
Just Shows To Go You
Quick Q&A: Sara Chase
I had the pleasure of talking with the hugely talented and altogether delightful Sara Chase, whose star is most definitely on the rise thanks to her hilarious performance in Off-Broadway’s The Toxic Avenger Musical.
Live Design Online
Tharon Musser Passes Away At Age 84
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette On Stage Blog
The August Wilson theatrical family celebrates again on Broadway
It was too big to take it all in — I mean last Thursday’s opening night party.
Orlando Sentinel Attention Must Be Paid Blog
Annie Russell Theatre announces 2009-2010 season
Here’s the new season for Annie Russell Theatre at Rollins College: Antigone by Sophocles, directed by Eric Zivot, Oct. 1-3. Cabaret, by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff, directed by Kevin Gray, musical direction by David Patrick, Nov. 13-21….
Chicago Sun-Times
Tweets in Collaboractions’ Sketchbook fun to follow
Collaboraction, the multidisciplinary creative collaborative, produced its first Sketchbook project nine years ago — long before the advent of Twitter. But in a way it anticipated the phenomenon, creating a sort of Twitter theater. This year, for example, the two different Sketchbook programs that will run in rotating repertory
Da Bard: ‘Talk Like Shakespeare Day’ coming to Chicago
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Acting Out Blog
Ten Chimneys’ special musical weekend
…an annual weekend — this was the fourth — of cabaret performances in the drawing room. The usual furniture is removed and replaced by about 40 folding chairs. Tickets are sold to the public and intimate performances are back in the room.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Kushner musical opens at the Guthrie
“Angels in America” playwright Tony Kushner talks about “Caroline, or Change,” opening this week
L.A. Weekly
The Times UK
Pete Townshend on Quadrophenia
The presiding genius of The Who explains why, after 36 years, he is putting his masterpiece Quadrophenia on to the stage
The Guardian
Outrage over Israeli It Ain’t Half Hot Mum-style show
Critics condemn London show featuring Israeli Defence Force dance troupe as ‘ghoulish and retrograde’
Mark Ravenhill: the joy of slow theatre
Our job as writers is to provide a sort of espresso shot. Grab them quickly, grab them hard
Gregory Burke on his Black Watch follow-up
Gregory Burke’s play Black Watch won awards all over the world. Now he is following it up with a black comedy about the recession. Mark Fisher meets him
The Stage UK
West End producer and Noel Coward’s business manager Russell dies
Charles Russell, the West End producer and theatrical costumier, who was also Noel Coward’s New York business manager, has died from emphysema at the age of 93.
The Stage UK – Blogs
Mark Shenton: ,Reacting to critics (and other quotable quotes)….
Today I’m sharing some recent quotes, particularly about critics, that I’ve been collecting…. Flatulence and personal reviews…. Martin Clunes, interviewed in The Guardian on April 14, 2009, was asked if he suffers for his art, and replied: “I get…
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