LATE AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
New York Post Theater Blog
This year’s Ibsen Award
The Ibsen Award, worth about $500,000, has just been given to director Ariane Mnouchkine. The prize was created in 2007, and the first one went to Peter Brook. The selection committee was chaired by Liv Ullmann.
AmericanTheaterWeb
Mr. Prince – Documentary About Broadway’s Legendary Director/Producer – Debuts June 6 on Ovation TV
Playbill
* Steven Pasquale Will Sign New CD, “Somethin’ Like Love,” in NYC May 28
TheaterMania
* Vanessa Williams to Host Listening Party for New CD to Benefit LIFEbeat
* Rupert Everett, Lauren Graham, Allison Janney, Angela Lansbury, John Tartaglia, et al. Set for Broadway Barks!
* Melissa James Gibson, Cusi Cram, and Kate Robin Plays Set for WET’s INKubator
* Joseph Adams, Molly Ephraim, et al. Set for Dance of the Seven-Headed Mule
Stage Banter: The Arena Stage Blog
Valerie Harper invites you to Looped
Recently Valerie Harper sat down to talk about her upcoming production of Looped here at Arena. Check out the video below to get your own special invitation.
ARTSBLOG
The Future of Arts Education
One of the session proposals that Americans for the Arts sent to Grantmakers in the Arts for their annual conference this October in Brooklyn, NY was about the future of Arts Education. Here’s a brief bit:
Cambiare Productions
HB 2649 ACTION ITEM
Step one achieved. Representative Wayne Smith rejected the Senate substitute bill.
diacritical
Arts Education Cuts at Dallas Independent School District
Okay, here is a links to give you a sense of cuts to arts positions being proposed at the Dallas Independent School District.
Dog Days
Survey Says…
I missed my weekly Thursday entry last week to devote the night before to prepping the CA Arts Advocates Action Alert calling for support of Assembly Bill 700, The Creative Industries Economic Revitalization Act.
Fractured Atlas Blog
Arlene Goldbard’s Advice to Rocco Landesman
I don’t always agree with Arlene Goldbard, but she’s always a good, thought-provoking read. Her latest blog post addresses Rocco Landesman, the presumptive nominee to chair the National Endowment for the Arts.
Huffington Post
Susan Braudy: DAVID HYDE PIERCE SLEPT HERE
I recently traded a sunny day in Central Park to witness David Hyde Pierce’s tour de force performance in the Manhattan theater club revival “Accent On Youth” The only downside–this dazzling old gem whizzed by too fast in the dark theater. “Accent On Youth’s the story of successful,sophisticated playwright in his fifties who “smells sixty” and who lives to write. Suddenly his life is unsettled when his twenty-something secretary declares she loves him madly.
Just Shows To Go You
Independent Theater Bloggers Association Awards
The Mirror up to Nature
Playwright Jeff Key , Speaks Up
The Gay Marine, whose solo show is playing in Boston right now, sits down with Bay Windows:
Moxie the Maven
Meet Eugene Jerome
Here’s an utterly adorable video of Noah Robbins, who will star in Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway this fall. How cute is he?!?
The Guardian
Angry young men, monsterists and the art of labelling playwrights
There are all sorts of official and unofficial bands of theatre-makers, but who decides what they have in common?
The Stage UK
Pryce and Imrie to guest star in Cranford
Jonathan Pryce, Celia Imrie and Rory Kinnear are lined up to make guest appearances in BBC1′s Christmas special of Cranford.
Young artists to benefit from £50,000 funding pot
Old Vic artistic director Kevin Spacey and online site IdeasTap are calling on creative talent aged 16 to 25 to bid for grants of up to £5,000.
Waiting for Godot extends run by two weeks
Sean Mathias’ West End production of Waiting for Godot, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, has extended its run by two weeks.
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: Johnson & Cartwright Hunt for New Little Voice???
It looks like Jim Cartwright’s Olivier Award-winning comedy The Rise and Fall of Little Voice could be set for a West End revival later this year. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre back in 1992 starring Jane Horrocks before tr…
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EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
So It’s Come to This: Another Tony Award for Sale
Another Broadway veteran is putting her Tony on the auction block – along with much, much more.
Groff, De Shields Join ‘Bacchae’ in the Park
Replenish your collection of bug sprays: Jonathan Groff and Andre De Shields are headed to Central Park’s Delacorte Theater in a coming revival of “The Bacchae.”
AmericanTheaterWeb
Review – Vieux Carré
Well Acted, Rarely Staged Tennesee Williams
Playbill
* Streisand Penning “Passion for Design”; Eyes Normal Heart Film
* Prokop, Boyer, Marsco and Minshew Cast in New Musical Booth!
* Actors’ Gang Our Town Extends Los Angeles Run Into July
* Broadway Talent Will Brighten Theatre Aspen Season of Spelling Bee and Chapter Two
TheaterMania
* Sarah Benson, Mark Brokaw, David Esbjornson, et al. Set to Direct at O’Neill Theater Center
* Judy Gold’s Mommy Queerest to Play City Winery on June 25
* Rock of Ages Original Broadway Cast Recording Set for Digital Release June 2, In Stores July 7
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Theater feature: Actor McConnell moves into director’s chair
Carbonell Award-winning actor Gordon McConnell of Lake Worth likes a juicy role to sink his teeth into, but — as the cliché goes — “what he really wants to do is direct.”
Interchanging Idioms
Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Celebrate Legendary Composer Richard Rodgers
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LATE MORNING ADDITIONS
Playbill
* David Catlin Will Shed Role of Artistic Director at Lookingglass
* Bard SummerScape’s 2009 Season to Include Aeschylus’ Oresteia
* Casts of Billy Elliot, Guys and Dolls, Hair, Next to Normal, Shrek and More to Perform on Tonys
* Ernst, Faber, Keefe, Phelps and More to Star in Opening Doors’ I Love My Wife
TheaterMania
* Cirque du Soleil’s Wintuk to Return to Madison Square Garden in November
* Ann Harada, Anika Larsen, Robert McClure, Danielle K. Thomas to Join Broadway’s Avenue Q July 6
* Danny Gurwin, Peter Paige, et al. to Star in Musical Theatre West’s Little Shop of Horrors
* Joanne Bogart, Matt Castle, Brent Schindele, Kristin Maloney Set for Musical of Musicals Benefit
* Kristin Chenoweth, Tovah Feldshuh, Nellie McKay, Geoffrey Rush, et al. Set for Theatre World Awards
BackStage – BlogStage
MITF’s Launch Party: The Sky’s the Limit
The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) will hold its Tenth Anniversary Season Launch Party: The Sky’s the Limit on June 28th.
* Will Ferrell’s Opening Monologue on Saturday Night Live
* PRTT’s Night of Comedy
<100k Project
The Mission Paradox
Start at No
Seriously, make that the starting point anytime you or the people you work for are considering the use of social media to promote your art.
smArts & Culture
6 quick fixes for your arts blog
Launching and maintaining a successful arts blog takes planning, there’s no doubt about that. But here are some quick fixes you can do right this minute to improve your organization’s blog.
The Stage UK
Berkoff in talks to direct for Westminster Theatre’s launch season
London Aloft, the team behind the new Westminster Theatre, has exclusively revealed to The Stage its programming plans for the Off-West End venue, which opens late next year.
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New York Times
Broadway Receipts Increase Slightly
Broadway musicals and plays had total gross receipts of about $943.3 million this season, a slight increase from the previous season and a record for total grosses, according to a new report
ny1
Inside The Tony Awards’ Secret Ballots
With the Broadway season officially over, the theater community is preparing for the 63rd annual Tony Awards, and NY1 recently went behind the scenes to find out how the nominating and voting work. NY1′s Theater critic Roma Torre filed the following report.
Associated Press
How Geoffrey Rush Wooed Susan Sarandon to Broadway
Geoffrey Rush has a soft spot for Susan Sarandon. It’s understandable, seeing how they first met.
Streisand Writing About House, Pondering Memoir
Barbra Streisand has finished building her dream house and started to think about her life.
Bloomberg.com
Tony Awards Should Honor Horton Foote, `Hair,’ Billy Elliots: John Simon
This year, a richer-than-usual field (in some, but not all categories) confronts those of us who vote for the Tony Awards. Herewith, my choices, along with a few ruminations.
Playbill
* Tony-Nominated Director Paulus Believes Hair Speaks to All Generations
TheaterMania
LaTanya Richardson Jackson Comes Back
The veteran actress talks about returning to the stage in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and life with actor Samuel L. Jackson
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Cast Slots Fill Up at Williamstown Theater Festival
The names are flying — and several flying away — in the casting news from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the summer theater in the Massachusetts Berkshires.
Cambiare Productions
Deep in the Heart of Texas
….The Texas Senate stapled an accidental paradigm shift to a one-pager House Bill written by Rep. Wayne Smith that was attempting to clean up a couple of spots in the Occupations code. The accidental paradigm shift did nothing more than require that:…
DC Theatre Scene
Interview: Karen Zacarias and Lindsey Kyler
We recently had the opportunity to interview two women from Legacy of Light, now onstage at Arena Stage Crystal City: its creator, the award winning Washington playwright Karen Zacarías and Lindsey Kyler, the young actress making her debut here playing Millie and Pauline. Karen Zacarías We see that this project began 3 years ago as a commission from…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rob Zellers’ ‘Harry’s Friendly Service’ a portrait of industrial boom in ’70s
Rob Zellers has been working here but the far reaches of his mind have been stretched just over the state line as he brings his new work, the Youngstown-set “Harry’s Friendly Service,” to Pittsburgh Public Theater.
Decider Chicago
Michael McKean takes on the songs of This Is Spinal Tap—unwigged
“‘You’re too young and I’m too well-hung’ is my wife’s favorite line.”
Encore Michigan
* Hope Summer Repertory Theatre announces 2009 season
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lipkin play in festival
“The Meeting,” a play by Joan Lipkin, will be presented at Girl Play, the first lesbian play-reading festival presented by the Women’s Theatre Project of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The readings will be June 27 and 28.
Dallas Morning News Arts Blog
That’s Broadway: Pleasure to meet y’all
Hello, Dallas from New York City! This is going to be the home of all things Broadway, written with Dallasites in mind.
Theater Jones
Q&A: Yussef El Guindi
Things are looking up for the winner of Kitchen Dog Theater’s new play contest.
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster
Eric Idle, Hank Azaria join forces for ‘An Evening Without Monty Python’
L.A. Weekly
Stage Raw: 4 X 4
Highways Performance Space presents 4X4 – performances by Adelina Anthony, Reina Alejandro Pradio, Yosimar Reyes and R. Ernie Silva.
Between Productions
Stanley Kauffmann: 50 Years at TNR
In 1959, film classics like Anatomy of a Murder and North by Northwest were in release, and Eisenhower was in the White House. And at The New Republic, Stanley Kauffmann assumed the position of film critic. And stayed. And stayed. Kauffmann, now 92, …
Daily Telegraph
Hamlet with Jude Law at Wyndham’s Theatre: Gugu MbathaRaw is mad for it
Gearing up to play Ophelia opposite Jude Law’s Hamlet in Michael Grandage’s production at Wyndham’s Theatre Gugu MbathaRaw discussed trauma with a psychiatrist – and took in some toddler tantrums .
The Guardian
Obituary: Jenny Heap
My mother Jenny Heap, who has died aged 71 from cancer, was well known throughout the London theatre scene in the 1970s and 80s and nurtured many who went on to successful theatrical careers. During her own varied career, she taught prop and mask-making at Rada..
Whatsonstage.com
Cast: Nardini Desires, Wrath & Harewood’s King
Whatsonstage.com – Blogs
Michael Coveney: Filmed extras boost the RSC crowd
There’s no stopping designer William Dudley on his lone crusade to turn theatres into senssurround cinemas with video projections doing the job of scenery. Next up is Peter Pan flying round a virtual Neverland in Kensington Gardens, following on his filmic, non-stop vistas in The Coast of Utopia and The Woman in White.
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