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Linked From Variety at 09:00PMSher unveils unusual, multiyear succession plan
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMHugh Hudson to direct Orwell adaptation
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMThe Hollywood Reporter said on Monday that it had hired Mr. Friedman as a senior correspondent and that his ShowBiz 411 blog (showbiz411.com) would become part of the publication's roster of…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMAs an actor, Sugg - tall, lanky, with a mop of at-times wild, dark hair - tends to play roles at the extreme.
Linked From Philly.com at 09:00PMBrian D'Arcy James, Geoffrey Rush, Janet McTeer, Allison Janney, Carson Kressley, Pablo Schreiber, Haydn Gwynne, Gregory Jbara, Lorenzo Pisoni, Stephen Daldry, Peter Darling, and Diane Paulu…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMJessica Hynes - a 2009 Tony Award nominee for her work in The Norman Conquests - fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.
Linked From Playbill at 09:00PMThe classic "West Side Story" is enjoying its Broadway revival. Now comes the remix, "Worst Slide Story."
Linked From weblogs.newsday.com at 09:00PMEight years after conquering Broadway and much of the rest of the world, Mel Brooks's musical "The Producers" opened in Berlin.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMAndre Holland is making his Broadway debut in "Joe Turner's Come And Gone" by August Wilson, the playwright who inspired him to become an actor.
Linked From justshowstogoyou.com at 09:00PMWe spoke with the show's creator, Chris Voltaire, to get the lowdown on what could be the lowbrow hit of the season.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMNell Benjamin had the gall to adapt the lyrics and text of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan musical operetta "The Pirates of Penzance" into a musical comedy called "Pirates! (Or, Gilbert and…
Linked From Boston Globe at 09:00PMI'm tempted to call it the most original drama written so far about the Iraq war, but why sell the work short? The imagination behind it is way too thrillingly genre-busting to be confined w…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMRajiv Joseph's mind-bending new play about the consequences of war gets an extraordinary production.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMDespite considerable incident and bloodspilling, play's predisposition to philosophize at the drop of a helmet inspires more intellectual curiosity than emotional involvement.
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMThe quiet self-confidence of Shawn's singular dramatic voice allows him literally to tell a story that keeps the beguiled audience hanging on his words.
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMIan Bruce's admirable new play, set in modern-day South Africa, is a call for self-examination.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMThe lives of three disappointed men intersect with volatile consequences in this engrossing South African play by Ian Bruce.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 09:00PMDoes a white businessman owe a poor black laborer an actual sum of money? Can a racially charged murder ever really be forgiven? With adroit direction from New Group a.d. Scott Elliot, Bruce…
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMBruce's play is not complicated or deeply original writing, but it's uncomfortable in the best of ways when the warring souls at its center hash out a century's worth of strife during one st…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:00PMThe issues raised are not limited to Africa where it takes place. Even with an African-American president, our own country is still not without its groundswell of problems to disturb the sur…
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:00PMIan Bruce's play presented by The New Group is a tense look at post-apartheid South Africa.
Linked From Backstage at 09:00PMThings start out promisingly under the taut direction of Scott Elliott, with the play taking the form of a socially aware thriller. But everything collapses toward the end of the one-hour-40…
Linked From NorthJersey.com at 09:00PMBenjamin Walker gives a striking performance in the title role of Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman's brilliantly inventive musical about America's seventh president.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMPolitical satire goes down better with loud music and vulgar lyrics. It also helps to have the bitter political truths delivered by manic clowns in funny costumes, taking spills on a 19th ce…
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMBecause of its intelligence, its wit, and the undercurrent of maturity that buoys its childishness, this is in no way the pandering, least-common-denominator evening it mocks every chance it…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:00PMMaking its New York debut, this newest bit of pop playfulness from Les Freres Corbusier is a silly-smart entertainment that feels like a fifth-grade pageant hatched under the tutelage of The…
Linked From Backstage at 09:00PMLloyd Suh's poignant and amusing comedy about a bittersweet Korean birthday celebration gets a first-rate production.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMLloyd Suh's American Hwangap offers a sensitive, thought-provoking glimpse into family relationships and coming-of-age angst.
Linked From Backstage at 09:00PMLloyd Suh's terrific new play is a symbolic reminder of the seismic forces that pull family members back together from their disparate lives
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:00PMThe playwright Yasmina Reza would not only recognize but probably salute A Play on Words, Brian Dykstra's corrosively funny two-hander.
Linked From Backstage at 09:00PMBrian Dykstra's witty play about a pair of argumentative sticklers is fierce and funny.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMAs his two characters quibble endlessly about definitions and word choices, Dykstra sneaks in some incisive political commentary and arrives at conclusions both commonly held and rarely spok…
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMThe Negro Ensemble Company presents a problematic production of Leslie Lee's worthy if flawed play about the everyday effects of racism.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMVern Thiessen throws a batch of plot ideas into a stew pot, but forgets to turn on the gas in his well-meaning one-act.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 09:00PMThis cosmetic-alteration creation tale is an effort in pure, conventional entertainment.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 09:00PMTHEY'RE a little like Mutt and Jeff -- one's tall, the other's short; one shoots her mouth off while the other suffers in silence. But there's one thing Mel and El have in common: potty mout…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 09:00PMIn the age of Twitterhow civilized it is to revisit a well-made play
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:00PMDirector Rupert Goold has a serious go at this revival of Priestley's Time and the Conways. Let's just say, he's better than the play itself.
Linked From Theater News Online at 09:00PMIt's hard to imagine a swanker staging of the Beckett classic-or a more stellar cast. It adds up to an exceptionally entertaining production.
Linked From Theater News Online at 09:00PMAs the Old Globe's timely revival of "The Price" makes clear, the difference between this play and Miller's earlier masterworks is one of dramatic scale rather than intensity...
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMThe overhyped media question of the moment is whether the country is ready to hand the crown to an androgynous, seemingly gay 27-year-old fireball from San Diego.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMBefore "American Idol" took over Adam Lambert's life, there was " Wicked," not to mention "The Ten Commandments" - yes, a musical version of the sand-and-sandals biblical epic.
Linked From news.yahoo.com at 09:00PM"Glee," a new high school musical comedy on Fox, is blissfully unoriginal in a witty, imaginative way.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMThe musical set at a high school has its dark side, but these students with a song in their hearts are fun to watch.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMFox's hysterical new comedy captures the countless absurdities of high school show choir -- and so much more.
Linked From Salon at 09:00PMThe Broadway revival of the musical "Guys and Dolls" has been struggling at the box office in recent weeks and is now promoting a new ticket discount.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMThe York Theater Company will kick off its 2009-10 season with "Blind Lemon Blues," and more theater news.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PM"Hair" seems to have gotten the biggest spritz from the Tony noms, with the revival seeing sales jump last week by 15% to land in the No. 6 spot in the top 10.
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