AmericanTheaterWeb
ATW Digest – Waiting for Godot opens – read the reviews
* Review: Finding Beckett’s Merrier Side
TheaterMania
* Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty All Considered in Tony’s Leading Actress Category; Final 2009 Eligibility Rulings Announced
* Dreamgirls National Tour to Hold Open Auditions in NYC and Atlanta on May 9
* Las Vegas Headliner Danny Gans Dies at 52
ATW Digest – Musical 9 to 5 opens – read the reviews
MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
Playbill
* Tony Rulings: Three Parts of Norman Conquests to Be Considered One Play
* Bada Bing! Bada Boom!, New Musical About a Pop Trio, Gets Extra Week in Western NY
* Inishmore, Now Extended, Is a Bloody Hit at Berkeley Rep
Browse all of the mid-afternoon clippings
LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Let’s Get This [title of show] on the Road
“[title of show]“, the little comedy about theater geeks and the women who get their obscure references, is having its first production outside of New York, in Cleveland.
‘Black Watch’ Playwright Declines Honor Over Past Assault
An act of violence committed years ago by Gregory Burke, the author of the Iraq War play “Black Watch,” has compelled the playwright to refuse an honor he was to be presented by his former university.
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
Tribeca Film Festival Winners Announced
Is it over already? The Tribeca Film Festival announced its list of festival winners at a ceremony last night. About Elly captured the prize for Best Narrative Feature, while Racing Dreams was named best doc. And on the acting front, Ciarán Hinds won Best Actor for his work in The Eclipse, while recent Vulture profilee Zoe Kazan took home Best Actress honors for her outstanding performance in The Exploding Girl. [NYT]
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM’S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, April 25-May 1: Working 8 to 11
* Praed Will Join Fisher in U.K. Tour of Sound of Music
* Minnelli and Zaks Will Be Presenters at Touring Broadway Awards
TheaterMania
* Vicki Lawrence and Mama to Play La Mirada Theatre
* Danny Mastrogiorgio, Cristin Milioti, Charlayne Woodard Head Cast of LCT3′s Stunning
* Jessica Blank, Doug Hughes, Erik Jensen, et al. Set for NYTW’s 2009-2010 Season
* Spike Lee’s Passing Strange Documentary to Be Shown on PBS
* Works by Sholem Aleichem, Howard Zinn, and More Set for Festival of Jewish Theatre and Ideas
* Aaron Monaghan to Star in Druid’s The Playboy of the Western World
About Last Night
TT: Time was…
Time has just published its annual list of the one hundred “world’s most influential people.” I don’t know which says more about the state of print-media journalism: the people on the list, or the people whom Time picked to write about the one hundred people on the list. (Four words: Michael Bloomberg on The View.) Either way, you can sift through the 2009 Time 100 here. I commend it to your attention.
Theatre is Territory
What’s your origin story?
What’s the origin story behind your theatre company – or the story about how you started your career in theatre? In a nutshell? And what affect does that origin story have on your ability to sell your work?
Travalanche
Stars of Vaudeville #5: Kate Smith
Some people choose to celebrate the contribution of the workers on May 1; I choose to acknowledge the birthday of Kate Smith.
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Andy Field: It’s time to leap over theatre’s fourth wall
Vanishing Point and Prototype’s simple tweaks in perspective shatter the audience’s neutrality in thrilling ways
The Stage UK
Report reveals theatre worth £13.3 million to Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland’s theatres sold more than half of all tickets purchased for arts events in the region in 2008.
Browse all of the day’s clippings
THE DAY’S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Post
Riedel: Hard picks in Tony pack
Geoffrey Rush, who’s dying in “Exit the King,” has ad mired Angela Lans bury, who talks to the dead in “Blithe Spirit,” for many years. “I danced and leapt around my living room in my early teens lip-syncing to Angela Lansbury’s ‘Mame,’ ” he says. Rush will get to take his favorite Broadway icon…
Associated Press
Playwright Conor McPherson Wins Praise at Tribeca
Conor McPherson has made the leap from stage to screen, ghosts in tow.
Wall Street Journal
Roll Over, Rodgers and Hammerstein
U2, Green Day, Bob Dylan and other rockers are churning out new Broadway musicals.
Wilde in the Stacks
Thomas Wright’s “Built of Books” explores the life of Oscar Wilde, as defined by the library he kept — and lost.
W Magazine
The Private Life of Oscar Wilde
Before gifting a long-lost batch of Oscar Wilde’s intimate letters and manuscripts to the Morgan Library, the late Lucia Moreira Salles, a Brazilian philanthropist, had them painstakingly re-created for her dearest friends.
Trenton Times
McCarter launches ‘Brother/Sister’ trilogy
In an unprecedented vote of confidence, McCarter Theatre Center launches tonight a two-month season devoted to “The Brother/Sister Plays,” a trilogy by young American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney.
DC Theatre Scene
Glory Days to open in Tokyo
Glory Days, the coming-of-age musical which got its start at Signature Theatre, is about to be rocked Japanese-style, when the show opens June 9th in Tokyo. Composers James Gardiner and Nick Blaemire will fly to Japan to catch opening night of the musical’s first international production. In an exclusive interview in today’s Theatre Schmooze, James Gardiner [...]
Playbill
* DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Little Mermaid‘s Faith Prince Plus More Kander/Ebb Memories
* Tony Administration Committee Assembles May 1
TheaterMania
* Gutenberg! The Musical Gets Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
Theatre Ideas
The REAL NEA Announcement
Back on April 1st, I posted that I had received an NEA grant for my Less Than 100k Project. At the time, several of my readers suspected an April Fool’s prank, and they were likely strengthened in this opinion from the post disappearing from my blog a few days later. Actually, what I had discovered was that I was not supposed to announce anything until there was an official press release by the NEA on April 30th — today. Here is the official NEA release and the list of theatre awards.
diacritical
More Valuable – The Ticket Buyer Or The Donor?
Give an arts organization $1000 and they’ll put your name in the program. Buy $1000 worth of tickets and they’ll tell you that the cost of your ticket only covered 55 percent (or 40 percent or 30 percent) of the cost of you being there. Then a few months later, long after the performance, they try to hit you up for more money. Gee thanks
Washington Post
Creator of ‘The Clean Up Woman’ Uses Acting to Counter His Speech Disorder
In “The Clean Up Woman,” a touring musical dramedy coming to the Warner Theatre on Tuesday, actor JD Lawrence takes on seven characters, including a 72-year-old white man. That’s no easy feat, considering he’s a 35-year-old African American. Oh, and three of his characters appear onstage in a sin…
‘Wonderboy’ Comes to Life
At just about 3 1/2 feet tall, with a head made of porcelain-like clay and a body fashioned out of wood and wire, Wonderboy is the antithesis of the modern-day superhero.
Time Out Chicago Theater Blog
Jeff’s rules of order: The Christmas Schooner
Last year, when the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers announced nominations for their Lucille Lortel Awards, they included a directing nod for Daniel Fish’s work on Paradise Park. The next day, the league revoked Fish’s nomination, saying it had really been meant for Passing Strange’s Annie Dorsen.
Storefront Rebellion
More on the Jeff noms
For those who were wondering about The Christmas Schooner’s eligibility, I followed up on the TOC blog. Nothing against Mary Beidler Gearen, Laura McClain, Jim Sherman, Jeremy Ramey or anyone else involved with this year’s production, but it is a good question—and I didn’t get a very satisfactory answer.
Mineapolis Star-Tribune
Theater’s Bain Boehlke gets a gold star
The actor, director and designer who founded the Jungle Theater is now the 2009 McKnight Distinguished Artist.
Cleveland Plain Dealer On Stage Blog
* Beck Center for the Arts clears its $150k goal, will stay open
Los Angeles Times
Wooster Group, REDCAT to team up for four-year partnership
Fans of experimental theater can look forward to more Brechtian multimedia madness and robotic androgyny in the next few years.
Orange County Register
Lucas Grabeel discovers life after high school
Former ‘High School Musical’ star takes on theater in “The Fantasticks.”
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: Anna Friel in Line for Breakfast at Haymarket ???
Further details have emerged regarding the long-rumoured forthcoming West End production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. According to today’s Daily Mail, playwright Samuel Adamson (Southwark Fair, All About My M…
Druid’s Anniversary Playboy Tours Before London
Leading Irish theatre company Druid is back on British shores from next week with its renowned revival of JM Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. Timed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Synge’s death, the production opens on 7 May 2009 …
Whatsonstage.com – Blogs
Michael Coveney: Just the ticket in Southwark
I’m all for entering into the mood of a show, but things went a bit too far when I turned up at the Menier Chocolate Factory for Terry Johnson’s spirited production of Rookery Nook, the priceless Ben Travers farce.
[this one is very, very funny]
The Independent
Observations: Whitechapel gallery plays host to drama
Think of the Whitechapel Gallery in London’s East End and your first thought is not likely to be theatre. But just a month after its grand reopening, between 8 May and 16 June, the gallery, in association with the National Theatre, will be hosting Tim Crouch’s award-winning play England.
Browse all of the day’s clippings
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
Post a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.