MID-DAY ADDITIONS
TheaterMania
* Will Chase, Jason Danieley, Marin Mazzie, Jill Paice, Kerry O’Malley, et al. Set for Come to My Garden
* Kristen Bracken, Christina DeCicco, Lindsay Mendez Join Misty Cotton in The Marvelous Wonderettes
* Alfred Uhry to Pen Stage Adaptation of Marie Brenner’s Apples & Oranges for MTC
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* Buckley and McArdle Join Starry Nothing Like a Dame Line-Up
* CHART TOPPERS: First Week of June
* Chicago’s Harris Theatre to Present Evenings with Sondheim and Ebersole in 2010
* Mary Howard de Liagre, Broadway Actress, Dies at 94
* Hair Seeks Additional Tribe Members for “GMA” Central Park Performance
Creative Loafing Culture Surfing (Atlanta)
Air Loaf: PinterFest
The workshop theater takes on the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
Playwrights meeting in Miami
After a successful gathering during City Theatre’s Summer Shorts last year, the Dramatists Guild is sponsoring a workshop and panel discussion before this Saturday’s Shorts performances.
Just Shows To Go You
Quick Q&A: Euan Morton
I talked very briefly with Euan Morton about his upcoming gigs at The Metropolitan Room and Castle On The Hudson.
Parabasis
TCG Conference Blogging: One Big Takeaway
I am hoping to write a longer piece about my big takeaways from the conference, preferably for American Theater if at all possible, but I did just want to throw this one out there, because every conversation I had with my peer artists eventually landed on this point:
Steve On Broadway
Tony Recap Redux
And the award for funniest laugh-out-loud and spot-on recap of Sunday’s Tony Awards goes to Gil Varod at Broadway Abridged.
MID-MORNING ADDITIONS
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* Tony Winner Olivo, Cavenaugh, Scaglione Will Sing at June 11 West Side Story Signing
* Friends Will Celebrate Life of Garland-Minnelli Historian Schechter June 13
TheaterMania
* Stephanie J. Block, Matt Cavenaugh, Aaron Lazar, et al. Set for Red Fern Benefit
Variety
Karlovy Vary to honor Malkovich
The Czech Republic’s headliner fest, Karlovy Vary, has amped up its glitz with the confirmation that John Malkovich will be taking the stage to receive a Crystal Globe for contribution to world cinema.
The Guardian
Is 60 seconds too short for a play? Nick Ahad
The Gi60 theatre festival is back with its bite-size performances – but is a one-minute play really worth watching?
Antonia Frasier to tell Harold Pinter ‘love story’
Historical biographer will publish her ‘portrait of a marriage’ to the Nobel laureate in January 2010
Why should theatregoers just shut up and listen in the theatre? Lyn Gardner
Audiences usually keep quiet for fear of disrupting the spectacle, but breaking out of this passive state can be invigorating
The Stage UK
RSC opens doors to ITV’s The South Bank Show
ITV’s The South Bank show is to go behind the scenes of the Royal Shakespeare Company for one of the last ever shows in the long-running series.
British East Asian artists lambast ‘racist’ British theatre for lack of acting roles
British East Asian artists have decried the lack of acting roles and creative opportunities available to them through mainstream arts organisations.
Royal Court unveils autumn season with homegrown emphasis
London’s Royal Court Theatre has unveiled an autumn season with a focus on British playwriting talent, with new plays from Mike Bartlett, Tim Crouch, Lucy Prebble and Michael Wynne, and a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the venue’s upstairs studio space.
Whatsonstage.com
Gossip: Stephen King’s Shawshank Redeemed at Novello???
The stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption may be heading to the West End. The play, based on Stephen King’s 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption which also inspired the 1994 Hollywood film, premiered last month at Dublin’s Ga…
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THE DAY’S FIRST TOP STORIES
Associated Press
Lincoln Center Names Real Estate Exec as New Chair
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has named a new chair, who’ll help guide its ambitious redevelopment project.
Financially struggling Ala. Shakespeare Festival has a hit with play about coach Bear Bryant
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Theater: ‘Dirty Dancing’ won’t tour; Minneapolis stop won’t be replaced
Nobody puts Baby in the corner, but somebody pulled “Dirty Dancing” off the road.
New York Post Theater Blog
Don’t call them soundtracks
….Interestingly, cast albums still sell by the truckloads … in France…..
New York Magazine Vulture Blog
The Tony Awards: A Behind-the-Scenes Timeline
Sure, Bret Michaels was beheaded and Prince found love, but that was just the beginning. What else did the cameras miss at yesterday’s Tony awards? New York’s Jada Yuan, Kyle Landman, Tali Yahalom, and Yelena Shuster were there. Below, a timeline.
TheaterMania
Gee Wiz!
Ashanti, Orlando Jones, Dawnn Lewis, LaChanze and the cast of The Wiz provide a sneak peek of the City Center Encores! production.
FringeNYC Blog
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Gyllenhaal, Hathaway back together for “Love”
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, who played a doomed husband and wife in “Brokeback Mountain,” are in negotiations to reunite for “Love and Other Drugs.”
Variety
Liam Neeson in talks for ‘A-Team’
Actor negotiating for ‘Hannibal’ role in Fox film — Liam Neeson is in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to star in its long-gestating bigscreen adaptation of “The A-Team” as Col. John “Hannibal” Smith.
TicketNews
‘Wicked’ is number one in the Top Event Rankings for second straight week
Christian Science Monitor
People making a difference: Sheema Kermani
In Pakistan, this women’s rights activist stages plays that stir controversy – and thought.
Raleigh News & Observer
The scoop on ‘HSM’ sequel
Fifty performers, from New York to Raleigh, comprise the cast of “High School Musical 2.”
Chicago Sun-Times
‘Evita,’ ‘Our Town’ top winners at Jeff Awards
Time Out Chicago Theater Blog
Printers Row Lit Fest: Tracy Letts and Mary Zimmerman talk shop
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The intelligent homosexual speaks out
Theater and politics dominated a Guthrie talk by playwright Tony Kushner, who also touched on “American Idol,” Ayn Rand and the oboe.
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster
Bono and the Edge talk about ‘Spider-Man’ musical on Broadway
Our friends over at the Hero Complex blog have alerted us to a new online video of Bono and the Edge (of the rock band U2) discussing their collaboration on “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” a new musical coming to Broadway in early 2010.
Whatsonstage.com
Carousel Posts Closing Notices at Savoy, 20 Jun
Lindsay Posner’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Broadway musical Carousel has posted closing notices at the West End’s Savoy Theatre. Following a regional tour, the production, starring Lesley Garrett, opened on 2 Dece…
Gossip: West End Ready for a Flash of Naked Boys???
Naked Boys Singing is eyeing a West End transfer after its current stint at the King’s Head Theatre in Islington. The musical comedy revue, “a plot-free, gay-centric paean to the male physique”, is conceived by Robert Schrock and …
The Guardian
Laura Barnett interviews playwright Bryony Lavery
The Independent
The Ayckbourn conquest
It was June 1973 and the young playwright, Alan Ayckbourn, watched the audience stream into the opening night of his new comic trilogy at the Library Theatre in Scarborough with a heavy heart.
David Lister: The chronicler of suburbia’s dark underbelly
The Americans have never really “got” Ayckbourn. For all that he is the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, he hasn’t been seen overmuch on Broadway.
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