EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Arts & Leisure Preview: Eminem, Sam Raimi, Women of Broadway and More
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
Playwrights: Go with the flowchart
How to write for American theater
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Bargain Alert: $10 tix for “The Glass Menagerie”
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM’S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, May 16-22: Here, There & Everywhere
* Will Broadway Productions Be Seen as 3-D Movies?
TheaterMania
* Rock of Ages Cast to Perform on The Today Show May 25
* Robert Dennison to Star in Redtwist’s Ride Down Mount Morgan
Creative Loafing the CLog – Arts
Today’s Top 5: Friday
• The Trial at ImaginOn’s Wachovia Playhouse
Theatre in Chicago
The Hypocrites close season with Sean Graney’s new adaptation of Oedipus
Artistic Director Sean Graney’s original adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus will close The Hypocrites’ spectacular 12th season. In reference to his passion for adapting and directing Oedipus, Graney explains: “By highlighting commonly overlooked aspects of the original, this new adaptation tells the story of a compassionate, albeit arrogant, leader whose zealous desire to heal his people brings about his own demise.”
lies like truth
Exit Strategy
These days, when gloom and doom is all about and arts organizations are coping with shrinking budgets, layoffs and reduced seasons, it’s always heartening to hear news of growth. A few months ago, Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre started to build a new space adjacent to its current auditorium. Now, San Francisco’s Fringe performance bastion …
The Mirror up to Nature
Join the Conversation!? – New Age of Critical Warfare
I noted last night that the Globe review Pirates had about 19 comments as of midnight.
The Producer’s Perspective
Do Tony Nominators and Voters really forget the fall?
No one denies that this has been an extraordinary season on Broadway, considering the economic shite-storm the world has been walking through for the past six months.
The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show
It’s DVD Friday!
I give up. What on earth was the appeal of Elizabeth Taylor? As evidenced by her performance in John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye, I’d say she couldn’t act. Now, mind you, my experience with Ms. Taylor’s work is extremely limited. For one reason or
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LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
Playbill
* The Secretaries Returns to New York Stage May 22
* Davie and Roland to Star in Pennsylvania Centre Stage’s The Apple Tree
* Chess in Concert Recording, with Menzel, Pascal, Groban, Now Available for Pre-Order
* Getting to Be a Hobbit: Fellowship!, a Musical Parody, Returns June 4 in L.A.
* West End Revival of Little Night Music Extends; Eyes Broadway Opening
TheaterMania
* David Chernault, Kevin Kelly, Kate O’Neal, Angela Sapolis to Star in Mad Cow’s Forbidden Broadway
* Nick Blaemire, Orville Mendoza, Barbara Walsh, et al. Set for Barrington Stage Reading of Poolside at the Hotel Bel Air
* Ian Barford, Martha Lavey, and More Set for Steppenwolf’s Up
Essential Theatre
Best Local Playwrights: Sunday Paper recognizes a few of Atlanta’s talented playwrights.
The Essential Theatre wants to congratulate Lauren Gunderson for being named Best Local Playwright in the Sunday Paper’s Reader’s Poll — and Valetta Anderson for being named runner-up!
Scrappy Jack’s World-Wide Theatricals and Dime Museum
good news from soho
I heard last night that the Ohio Theater’s new landlord has given them the green light to book shows for the fall.
Travalanche
Stars of Vaudeville #12 & 13: Nazimova and the Ritz Brothers
Two vaudeville birthdays today: Alla Nazimova and Harry Ritz.
The Stage UK
Equity’s Payne warns of “serious threats” to actors’ work
Equity Annual Representative Conference: General secretary Christine Payne has highlighted the future of public service broadcasting, the decline of variety and falling theatre subsidy as three of the most “serious threats” to actors’ work in the future.
Performers to launch campaign to make on-screen credits more legible
Equity Annual Representative Conference: Actors are to launch a “high profile campaign” in a bid to make performers’ credits more clearly legible after TV shows and on internet broadcasts and computer games.
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THE DAY’S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Times
Opposing a Tax, Broadway Added a Fee
Since November, the trade association of owners and producers has been charging a $1 “league fee” on most tickets bought at the TKTS discount booths.
New York Post
Riedel: The Afrobeat goes on
A-listers investing to reignite hit ‘Fela’
Time Out New York Upstaged Blog
Ask a Tony nominee: Karen Olivo
West Side Story’s Karen Olivo talks of dancing and sorrow
BackStage
Gavin Creel Tunes In to the ’60s
Funny how things happen. Gavin Creel moves to New York a decade ago as a kid out college, toils for a few years, and then boom: a lead role in ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ and a Tony nomination for best actor.
Playbill
* DIVA TALK: Chatting with 9 to 5′s Stephanie J. Block Plus News of Cook and O’Malley
* Casting Announced for Public LAB Premiere of Parks’ Father Comes Home from the Wars
* Kane, Cox, McGillin and More to Star in Mufti High Spirits
TheaterMania
Peter Filichia’s Diary: Lovin’ Bloom
Before you make plans for Monday night May 25, let me make them for you
* Christian Borle, Ann Harada, Mary Testa, Sally Wilfert, Chip Zien, et al. Set for An Evening With…William Finn
* Lorenzo Pisoni’s Humor Abuse, Terrence McNally’s Golden Age, Second City’s City of Nutterly Love, et al. Set for Philadelphia Theatre Company
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
McCraney’s still soaring
Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose grittily poetic plays are being produced on both sides of the Atlantic (though still not in his hometown of Miami), will receive yet another honor next week, adding to the many he has received since graduating from the Yale School of Drama in 2007.
Superfluities Redux
Update: Grasses of a Thousand Colors
Regarding a future New York production of Wallace Shawn’s Grasses of a Thousand Colors, the London premiere of which I wrote about yesterday, a source tells me that The New Group does plan to produce the New York premiere as part of the co-production with the Royal Court, though no opening date has yet been set. So there you are.
NEA New Play Development Program
Paradigm Busting and Innovation: Play Trailers from The Playwrights’ Center
The Playwrights’ Center, MN is boldly blazing a new path with this initiative – trying to elevate new plays and making them matter to the American Theater through the form of video trailers destined for producers. The first set of 3 trailers is now live on their website. Before you go there, watch the quick video interview of Producing Artistic Director Polly Carl describing the origins and purpose of this strategy. Way to go
Washington Post
Citing Lack of Funds, Summer Opera Theatre Company Cancels ‘The Merry Widow’
The Summer Opera Theatre Company, which has been staging opera for 30 years, announced yesterday that it is canceling this summer’s sole production, “The Merry Widow,” which was to have played at the Harman Center in August.
Edge Philadelphia
Director puts new spin on Arden’s “The Seafarer”
In Conor McPherson’s “The Seafarer,” a long, drunken Christmas Eve poker game gets a supernatural spin. Director David O’Connor discusses the new production he helms at the Arden Theatre Company.
Boston Globe
Stages: Professors bring anime to life
“Live Action Anime 2009: Madness at Mokuba” takes the Japanese animated form to a new medium: the stage.
Raleigh News & Observer
‘Flapper’ hobbled by pitfalls
One-person shows are difficult to pull off, but that hasn’t daunted “Theater of the American South,” Wilson’s annual Southern culture festival.
Chicago Sun-Times
Griffin Theatre’s ‘Letters Home’ being posted nationwide
With the Memorial Day weekend at hand, this is an ideal moment to catch up with the remarkable odyssey of “Letters Home,” the Griffin Theatre production that was produced initially at the Chicago Cultural Center Studio in February 2007, and has continued to flourish as a formidable national touring project ever since.
Daily Herald
Drury Lane to present ‘Pump Boys’
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Curtain rises on Kushner fest, a gutsy gamble for the Guthrie
In case you didn’t get the point, the folks at the Guthrie Theater think their Tony Kushner celebration is pretty darn important.
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster Blog
Helen Mirren’s Phèdre: Not appearing at a Southland theater near you
While I’ve never been a fan of filmed stage performances (theater isn’t really theater when served under a pane of glass or as a million points of light), it strikes me as odd that no Los Angeles theater has signed up yet for the June 25 worldwide broadcast of the National Theatre of London’s production of “Phèdre,” directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring Helen Mirren, Dominic Cooper and Margaret Tyzack.
Orange County Weekly
Can Female Leads Do Sh*t With ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’?
At STAGEStheatre’s production of Glengarry Glen Ross, we’ll find out if a group of actresses can close the leads they’re given
The Independent
Is Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia the greatest play of our age?
What will endure from the plays of the late 20th century? Already, the theatre that caused the greatest fuss at the time – the in-yer-face shockers by Mark Ravenhill, Martin McDonagh and friends – look …
The Guardian Performing Arts Blog
Imogen Russell Williams laments the Donmar’s star-crossed West End season
Branagh was great in the awful Ivanov, but Jacobi’s Twelfth Night was played too safe and I pitied Madame de Sade’s cast. Now I’m condemned to Jude Law’s Hamlet
Robert Butler: How theatre is getting eco-conscious
Plays about the environment might sound preachy and dull, but three new eco-conscious shows in London are engaging dramas
Whatsonstage.com
Musicals Extend: Night Music, Priscilla & WWRY
Trevor Nunn’s acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1973 Broadway classic A Little Night Music::E8821228384935 has extended its West End season by six weeks at the Garrick Theatre, where it will now have its final perfor…
Spike Milligan’s Hitler Memoir Gets Stage Premiere
Comedian Spike Milligan’s famous Second World War memoirs Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall will hit the stage this summer. The adaptation has its world premiere at Bristol Old Vic, where it runs from 9 to 18 July 2009 (previews from 4 July) a…
Whatsonstage.com – Blogs
Michael Coveney: Festival frenzy in Battersea and Belgrade
If you’re down Lavender Hill way over the Bank Holiday weekend you could do worse than pop into the BAC and take a sampling of the wild and wacky Burst festival that is in full flow in every nook and cranny of the place.
The Stage UK – Blogs
Mark Shenton: The (La Cage aux) foll(i)es of star ratings….
I’ve written before about the onward proliferation of star ratings here , and the fact that every national paper now offers them, except The Observer and Independent on Sunday (who offer confusing pictorial representations instead of an audience member…
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