LATE DAY ADDITIONS
New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Postcard From London: Animal Lovers
And on Thursday I bore witness to man’s inhumanity to animals. I mean, I think that was what I was doing.
New York Post Theater Blog
New York Observer Daily Transom
Twelfth Night Premieres in Park; Theater Crowd Kvells for Its Summer Darling
Time Out New York
Girl-on-girl inaction: Ladies don’t let ladies write plays
How to keep a good woman down
American Theater Web slingin’ its last post June 30
ATW shuts its virtual doors
Phèdre up: NT Live has an auspicious launch
Helen Mirren triumphs in the debut of the NT Live series
Will Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” make it to Broadway?
What’s happens to Jackson’s Broadway “Thriller”?
Hartford Courant Behind the Curtain Blog
Long Wharf’s “Glass Menagerie” Heading to New York
We hear that Long Wharf Theater’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” starring two-time Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey is heading to New York. The production ended its run at the New Haven theater earlier this month.
TheaterMania
* Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming to Star in Broadway’s Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark; First Preview Moved to February 25
* Chad Begeulin, Randy Blair, Michaer Holland, Peter Melnick, Bill Russell, Matthew Sklar, et al. Set for 2009 NYMF
* Chautauqua!, Heather Headley, Christopher Wheeldon, et al. Set for Summer CityParks Events
Playbill
* PLAYBILL.COM’S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, June 20-26: Oh, What a Night!
* “Because of Winn-Dixie,” Tale of a Smiling Dog, Being Developed as a Musical; Berloni Is Trainer
* Judith Ivey Will Play Amanda in Glass Menagerie Off-Broadway
* Goodman Scraps Plans for Joan D’Arc, Books Orlandersmith’s Stoop Stories
* DRG to Release “The Garland Touch”
* Bogart, Colella, Karl, Powers, Thoms and Orfeh Take Part in Reading of Hall and Oates Musical June 26
BroadwayWorld.com
* STAGE TUBE: HAIR Performs On Good Morning America
DC Performing Arts Examiner
The Source Festival information
The Source Festival will feature One Act Plays and 10-minute plays. It will also feature mash-ups, which are randomly paired artists that get together and invent performance pieces. Also featured are Pro…
Berkshire Eagle
Williamstown Theatre Festival at 55
Williamstown Theatre Festival artistic director Nicholas Martin is not one to take things slow.
Miami Herald Drama Queen Blog
A musical with bite
Never a company to let a little thing like a recession stand in its way, Davie’s resourceful The Promethean Theatre is trekking ahead with its plans to end summer on a light note with Cannibal! The Musical — Live on Stage
Palm Beach ArtsPaper
ArtsBuzz: Hoffman makes last-ditch appeal to save New Vista Theatre
The ghoulish among us — yeah, you know who you are — insist that deaths come in threes. So there was Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and, while it’s not exactly parallel, maybe the third is New Vista Theatre Company.
the CLog – Arts
Cosper’s Comet
Thanks to Matt Cosper’s predisposition toward forming guerilla groups, we get to see the absurdist works of Eugène Ionesco in Charlotte with more regularity than named comets. Cosper dropped the last dose on us back in the days of the Children’s Theatre Black Box when, as co-founder of The Farm, he brought The Lesson to the Morehead Street fantasy palace in 2004.
Los Angeles Times Culture Monster
Are female artistic directors really holding back female playwrights?
The important thing about the recent study by a Princeton University economics student concerning the ongoing discrimination against women playwrights in the American theater is that it will throw more light on an exasperatingly stubborn problem.
Evan Rachel Wood, Alan Cumming confirmed for ‘Spider-Man’ musical
Culture Monster has learned that Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming have been cast in the upcoming Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” The production, which features music by Bono and The Edge and will be directed by Tony-winner Julie Taymor (“The Lion King”), is set to begin previews Feb. 25, 2010, at the Hilton Theatre.
Daily Telegraph
Nina Bawden misses the applause at Carrie’s War first night
Mandrake was sorry not to see the 84yearold Nina Bawden at the first night of the stage adaptation of her bestseller Carrie’s War at the Apollo Theatre in the West End.
The Guardian
Vaclav Havel to make film directing debut at 72
Former Czech president and dissident playwright plans film starring wife Dagmar Havlová
The Stage UK
Don’t rely on a cunning stunt
Using shock tactics at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is less likely to garner publicity in this desensitised media age, argues PR guru Mark Borkowski
Spiro’s inspired roles
Currently starring as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing in Regent’s Park, Samantha Spiro talks to Nick Smurthwaite about the varied roles she has performed over her career, from impersonating Barbara Windsor to playing Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl
West End’s Rain Man takes to the road
The stage version of Rain Man, based on the Oscar-winning film, is to tour the UK from August, starring Men Behaving Badly actor Neil Morrissey.
Whatsonstage.com
Feature: Best of This Week’s Theatre Blogs – 26 Jun 2009
Welcome to another new regular feature on Whatsonstage.com. Every week our theatregoer reporter Corinne Furness trawls the web to find some of the best gems from the myriad theatre-related blogs and condense them into one easy-to-read “Best…
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THE DAY’S FIRST TOP STORIES
New York Times
‘West Side Story’ Amid the Laundry
For three decades, Patty Heffley used her fourth-floor fire escape as a clothesline. Since the opening of the High Line, it doubles as a stage for live performances.
New York Journal-News
Finding ‘Wonder’ in the familiar
Comedian Pat Hazell has found more than comfort in the familiar pieces of his childhood – Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots and Velveeta. He’s found a slice-of-life theatrical event: “The Wonder Bread Years” opens at Penguin Rep tonight
The Villager
Vocal coach valued by the talented, profane, slightly insane
On a recent Sunday afternoon, at an hour of the day when most nightclubs are shuttered and silent, Joe’s Pub was the setting for an amazing alternative cabaret show. The sun was blazing outside; but inside, it may as well have been one o’clock in the morning.
Albany Times-Union
Shakespeare redux
Troupe’s new artistic director pragmatic about economy
Associated Press
Dolly Parton Writes Her First Children’s Book
Dolly Parton created a charity 13 years ago to provide books to children and encourage literacy.
Variety
Broadway slate falling into place
With the announcement that the Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ “Superior Donuts” will play the Music Box Theater this autumn, details of the imminent Rialto season continue to fall into place.
‘Dreamgirls’ announces cast
Musical revival to embark on national tour
Steppenwolf breeds big name devotion
Central Europe / Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Theater family includes Sinise, Malkovich — When the Steppenwolf Theater Company opened its hit production of “August: Osage County,” New Yorkers marveled at how the Chicago troupe had somehow managed to keep together such a versatile group.
Malkovich finds perfect production fit
Central Europe / Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Actor’s Mr. Mudd grows, builds on ‘Juno’ success — For John Malkovich, the decision to move into producing was not so much desirable as necessary
Playbill
* DIVA TALK: Chatting with Hair’s Caissie Levy Plus News of Peters and Streisand
Broadway.com
* Casting Announced for Annual Summer Play Festival at the Public
Broadway.tv
Broadway Bares Best Yet Video
“I think, speaking objectively, I always knew I was good-looking. But, I said to myself, ‘I really want to be hot.’ And I am. Look at me!” says comedian Mo Rocca backstage and bare-chested at the …
Washington Post
Rorschach Theatre’s ‘Brainpeople’
When Catherine Tripp saw Rorschach Theatre’s haunting and surreal production of José Rivera’s “References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot” in 2007, she didn’t soon forget it. And when the opportunity arose for her to direct another Rivera play for the ambitious young troupe, she jumped at the chance
Adventure Theatre’s Book Club: Stories Such as ‘Charlie Brown’ Come to Life
For parents trying to make sure that young minds stay as active this summer as young bodies, Adventure Theatre at Glen Echo Park has just the ticket.
Edge Washington
New play explores growing up gay in Wales
Studio Theatre partners with Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival to offer Welsh play readings, which includes openly gay Welsh writer Peter Gill and his play Cardiff East.
Providence Journal
Westerly troupe back with Shakespeare
Westerly’s Colonial Theatre, the troupe that brings live Shakespeare to Wilcox Park each summer, will be staging The Two Gentlemen of Verona next month. Performances are slated from July 15 through Aug. 2, weather permitting.
Chicago Tribune
Outdoor dramas focus on surviving changing times
Chicago Sun-Times
Playwright recalls parents for scenes from a marriage
Playwright Jose Rivera is known for creating plays filled with events that can’t quite be explained in a rational manner. Works such as “Marisol” and “Cloud Tectonics” lean heavily in the direction of magic realism. But with his new play, “Boleros for the Disenchanted,” the Los Angeles-based Rivera has gone in a new direction
Songs of Burt and Barry get cabaret show
Burt Bacharach and Barry Manilow each gets his own act when 3Girls3 bring their celebration of these two stellar songwriters to Drury Lane Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut
Edge Chicago
La Dulce Palabra share experiences with audiences
The success of La Dulce Palabra, a self-described collective of queer and allied Latina performers, seems to be the universality of their experiences in the stories they tell. They’ll do so again on June 26 and 27.
Decider Chicago
Vanilla Ice and Neo-Futurists’ Dina Connolly on Cool As Ice
The Neo-Futurists perform Vanilla Ice’s feature-film debut days before the rapper plays a show in town—so Decider got them together.
Daily Herald
Showing off his ‘Spirit’
Naperville director’s dream reaches new heights with ‘Cirque Shanghai’
Theater revives ‘Snoopy! The Musical’
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The flowering of Theater Mu
The Ordway’s new “Flower Drum Song” features a homegrown cast of Asian American stars.
Encore Michigan
* The rocking ’60s soap opera Suds to open June 26 at the Knickerbocker
Louisville Courier-Journal
Combs takes on demanding role of Mame
Music Theatre Louisville’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Mame” opens Friday, June 26, in the Kentucky Center’s Bomhard Theatre with local singer-actress Melissa Combs in the title role originated by Angela Lansbury.
The Guardian
Play streamed live from London draws a crowd in Harrogate
National Theatre performance of Phedre, starring Helen Mirren, plays to cinema audiences around the country
In praise of … live relays Editorial
“We open in Venice, we next play Verona, then on to Cremona,” sing the travelling players in Kiss Me Kate, and today they could do all this and more without leaving Broadway. Last night the National Theatre’s production of Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren (“not so much a victim of the…
Obituary: Doris Barry
Doris Barry, who has died aged 96, was one of the four talented Marks sisters born to Jewish parents in north London – the others being Alicia (the ballerina Dame Alicia Markova), Vivienne and Bunny. Their father, Arthur, a mining engineer, always encouraged his children, coaching them to play short scenes from Shakespeare.
Theatre is about more than comfy seats Matt Trueman
If a play is good enough, then the incidental details don’t matter. Who cares if the G&Ts are over-priced?
The Stage UK
Edinburgh Festival City Theatres Trust to stage first in-house show
Edinburgh’s Festival City Theatres Trust is to create its first ever completely in-house production this winter, with the staging of The Corstorphine Road Nativity by Tim Firth, and directed by Joanna Read, at the Festival Theatre.
Mark Shenton: It’s very nearly holiday time…
It’s very nearly time for me to check out of here for a week – and for once, I am intending to go fully cold turkey. Not only am I once again deliberately going to a destination — Gran…
Whatsonstage.com
Thriller – Live Producers Dim Lights for Jackson
The producers of Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller – Live, currently showing at the West End’s Lyric theatre, have released a statement in response to yesterday’s news of the death of the pop singer. As a mark of respect, the lights outside the L…
The Independent
Carlos Acosta: ‘I hammer my body every day’
Carlos Acosta stretches out on the sofa and yawns. Not the most promising start to an interview, perhaps – or indeed the most flattering response from the man sometimes called the Cuban Sex Missile – but I can see why he’s tired. He’s been up with the lark, or at least with Carol Kirkwood from BBC Breakfast, talking about his new show at the London Coliseum, and then he’s been …
First Night: Phedre, Ritzy Cinema, Brixton
Dame Helen Mirren playing Phedre, the classical theatre’s most ardent lover, pulsating with incestuous desire for her stepson, Hippolytus, played by the Mamma Mia! heart-throb Dominic Cooper, is the definition of a hot ticket. Naturally, the National Theatre production sold …
London Theatre Guide
Lloyd leads Arcola Ghosts
Harry Lloyd, best known for playing Will Scarlett in the BBC Saturday family drama Robin Hood, is to lead the cast of the Arcola’s summer production of Ibsen’s Ghosts, which opens in July.
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