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Monday, May 12, 2008

    [ P ]  South Pacific Is Big Winner in Outer Critics Circle Awards

    Winners of the 58th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced May 12. Top prizes went to August: Osage County, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, Dividing the Estate, Adding Machine, South Pacific and The Homecoming.

    [ B ]  South Pacific and August: Osage County Top Outer Critics Awards

    [ TM ]  Outer Critics Circle Winners Announced

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 10:56 AM | Item Link


      • [ STARS ]  Ticky Ticky Tock... Please Make it Stop! by Matthew Murray

      [ NYP ]  'MERMAID' ACTOR HAS OPERATION By AUSTIN FENNER, BRIAN HAMACHER AND DAN MANGAN

      The "Little Mermaid" actor who broke both wrists in a 20-foot fall onto a Broadway stage underwent surgery yesterday, as a friend revealed the veteran performer also suffered compressed vertebrae in the plunge.

      [ NYT ]  'Little Mermaid' Actor Has Surgery on Wrists By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

      [ DN ]  Hurt 'Little Mermaid' Broadway actor on mend after surgery By Joe Dziemianowicz, Elaine Ramirez and Jane H. Furse

      [ B ]  Cast Member Adrian Bailey Injured Onstage at The Little Mermaid

      [ P ]  Little Mermaid's Bailey Injured Prior to May 10 Performance

      [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly
      Encores! For Bernstein By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

      [ V ]  'Strange' soundtrack on iTunes

      "Passing Strange" will be the first Broadway tuner to release its original cast recording exclusively on iTunes, more than a month before the CD arrives in stores.

      [ FOX ]  FOX411 By Roger Friedman
      BROADWAY RIDDLE

      Final item.

      This Morning's Peter Filichia:

      [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Once Was Enough!

      [ NJ ]  Actor keeps 'Seagull' from earning its wings

      The Tony Awards:

      [ JN ]  Dreaming of Tonys By Jacques le Sourd

      Here's a personal little wish list for tomorrow's Tony Awards nominations - 10 things I'd like to see on the nominees' roster this year.

      [ BR ]  A strong Tony field in play, musical revivals By ROBERT FELDBERG

      [ DN ]  Broadway is poised to nominate its best and brightest by Joe Dziemianowica

      [ NJ ]  Stage awards make an entrance by Michael Sommers

      [ SD ]  Pipeline to Broadway By James Hebert

      Playhouse, Globe shows are likely Tony contenders, again - it's 'terrific and important' but there's a bigger picture

      Features:

      [ NYT ]  PBS Revives a Show That Shines a Light on Reading By MICHAEL DAVIS

      In keeping with the original show's ties to theater (many in the cast, like Morgan Freeman, had stage backgrounds), the new head writer is a Tony-Award-nominated playwright and lyricist, Willie Reale, with experience in children's theater ("A Year With Frog and Toad").

      [ WP ]  If It's Sunday, Then I Must Be . . . By Nelson Pressley

      Repertory Actors On the Challenges & Joys of Double Duty

      [ BSUN ]  Marshall's complex relationship with Baltimore
      Critical Eye By Mary Carole McCauley

      [ L-B ]  Q & A: Glenn Carter by Matt Wolf

      Glenn Carter is arguably the best known of the quartet of Britons who make up the Four Seasons in the U.K. premiere of Jersey Boys.

      [ NYP ]  GINA GERSHON By LARRY GETLEN

      The multi-talented performer finds musical inspiration in Snoopy and thinks TV brings in creepy fans

      [ NYT ]  Musical Goes Silent, Its Star Felled by Illness By ANITA GATES

      The world premiere run of "Pure Heaven" was postponed after the lead lost her voice.

      [ HC ]  A Show For Teen In Us All By FRANK RIZZO

      Tony-Winner Brown Puts Angst, Trauma Of '13' On Chester Stage

      [ NYer ]  THE TALK OF THE TOWN: INK
      Mamet Talk by Lillian Ross

      David Mamet on David Mamet.

      [ BG ]  Dramatic license By Sam Allis

      With no script to follow, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt learned to improvise: He co-wrote a comedy inspired by the Bard's notorious lost play, 'Cardenio'

      [ CST ]  Eddie Izzard's moment BY MARY HOULIHAN

      [ BS ]  Fight Club by Brooke O'Neill

      Ever want to parry like Charlie Sheen in The Three Musketeers?

      [ NYT ]  Comings and Goings
      Shakespeare in England, in Luxury By HILARY HOWARD

      Watch the English countryside roll by while having brunch on the Orient Express.

      Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

      [ G ]  'Mayor of London? That'd be fun' By Maddy Costa

      His Billy Elliot musical has gone global, Kate Winslet's in his next film, and he's plotting a return to theatre. So why does Stephen Daldry need more challenges?

      [ AJC ]  'It's alive!' By Wendell Brock
      MARIETTA-BORN SHULER HENSLEY IS A SCREAM IN HIS OWN MANSION --- AND IN HIS BROADWAY ONE --- WHERE HIS MONSTER WINS AWARDS

      [ MH ]  Puppet passion: 'Avenue Q' has gone from wild idea to theatrical triumph BY CHRISTINE DOLEN

      "No, No, Nanette":

      [ NYP ]  PERFECTLY CAST 'NO, NO' A FEAST FOR THE AYES By CLIVE BARNES

      Anyone for Broadway?

      [ CU ]  No, No, Nanette

      [ TNO ]  TAP YOUR TROUBLES AWAY by MERVYN ROTHSTEIN

      No, No, Nanette the last production of this year's City Center Encores! season is perfectly okay. But did Nanette really need another encore? Shouldn't Encores! be willing to take more chances?

      [ NJ ]  Sandy Duncan's eye-opening revelation by Vicki Hyman

      Other Reviews:

      [ LAT ]  REVIEW: 'Of Mice and Men' By Charles McNulty

      It's still George and Lennie, but in this Pasadena Playhouse production, they're Mexican farmworkers.

      [ V ]  Of Mice and Men
      Review By BOB VERINI

      The Pasadena Playhouse has transposed "Of Mice and Men" to reflect the vast wartime influx of Mexican migrant workers freeing whites for factory duty, and there's one sure measure of its success: You never want to see the play done any other way again.

      [ NYT ]  In a Fantasy Realm With Joys and Disappointments By SYLVIANE GOLD

      In José Rivera's new play, "Boleros for the Disenchanted," the dreams of lovers and emigrants commingle in the story of Flora and Eusebio.

      [ TB ]  Boleros for the Disenchanted
      Connecticut Review by Fred Sokol

      [ TM ]  Old Comedy After Aristophanes' Frogs
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

      David Greenspan's adaptation of the classic Greek comedy is given a labored production by Target Margin Theater.

      [ CU ]  A Seagull in the Hamptons

      Given that Chekhov is Chekhov, now and forever, let me conclude that meeting Chekhov either halfway or completely reconsidered with a virtually new text is probably better than not meeting Chekhov at all.

      [ CU ]  The Lady From the Sea

      This is a classic production of a classic play, with excellent writing and a strong cast.

      [ V ]  Beethoven, As I Knew Him
      Review By BOB VERINI

      "Beethoven" is stimulating as a visually-embellished lecture-demo at the Old Globe, though as a play it leaves one wanting more character and depth.

      [ NYT ]  There's a New Thane in Town, a New Lady, Too By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

      Adrian Noble's production of Verdi's "Macbeth" returned to the Met with new singers in the four main roles.

      [ NYP ]  CONSUMMATE COMEDY By FRANK SCHECK (***)

      "Rafta, Rafta . . . ," a major hit at the National Theatre and the winner of this year's Olivier Award for best new comedy, has made a smooth transition to off-Broadway.

      [ NYT ]  Back From the '80s, Eyeing Other People's Money By AILEEN JACOBSON

      Would Larry the Liquidator have been able to take over Yahoo?

      [ NYT ]  Doubling Up for Shakespeare's Twin-Laden 'Comedy of Errors' By NAOMI SIEGEL

      [ NYer ]  Diehards by John Lahr

      Caryl Churchill and Samuel Beckett on separation and suffering.

      [ V ]  Michael Feinstein: 50 Years of Alan & Marilyn Bergman
      Review By STEVEN SUSKIN

      Feinstein makes a good case for the team.

      [ P ]  ON THE RECORD: Sondheim's "Evening Primrose" and Kelli O'Hara's "Wonder of the World"

      [ NYT ]  Focused Food, Center Stage By DAVID CORCORAN

      Theater Square Grill and Bistro in Newark is impressive on many counts. But the most impressive may be its theatrical sense of pace.

      News:

      [ NYT ]  Vows
      Jill Furman and Richard Willis By DEVAN SIPHER

      Jill Furman, a producer of the Broadway musical "In the Heights," believes in big dreams and bright lights. So when it came to love she refused to settle for less.

      [ NYT ]  Weddings & Celebrations: Abigail Herron, Donald Fried

      [ NYT ]  Footnotes
      Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

      Alan Alda writes a play for the World Science Festival, "The Sound and the Fury" extends and more theater news.

      [ V ]  East 4th district gets makeover

      Area to receive $16 million facelift

      [ NJ ]  Premieres highlight State Theatre season BY PEGGY McGLONE

      [ TM ]  Theresa Rebeck to Give Free Lecture on May 28

      [ P ]  Aristophanes' Frogs Leaps Into NYC in World Premiere, Old Comedy

      [ P ]  Mamet's Duck Variations and Pantheon Begin L.A. Run May 11

      [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 12

      [ P ]  Clark, Walsh and Damiano Explore Inner Voices at the Zipper Beginning May 12

      [ P ]  Reprise Presents Carol Burnett in Conversation May 12; Vicki Lewis Guests

      [ P ]  Two Nights in London: Starry Chess Concerts Play Royal Albert Hall

      [ P ]  James, Edelman, Kudisch and Murney Sing the Broadway Musicals of 1965 May 12

      [ P ]  Preview of Room 16, with Abramovitz, Hawks, Pariseau and Routman, Offered May 12

      [ P ]  Tony Winner McKechnie Makes a Splash May 12

      [ P ]  26th Annual Elliot Norton Awards Held May 12

      [ TM ]  Kyle Riabko and Alexandra Socha to Be New Spring Awakening Stars

      [ B ]  Newcomers Kyle Riabko and Alexandra Socha Land Leading Roles in Spring Awakening

    • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 8:42 AM | Item Link


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