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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

    [ TDF ]  A "Jungle" In Here

    The circus makes a theatrical entrance in "Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy."

    [ B ]  ETCETERA: John Simon Studies the Script of August: Osage County

    News:

    [ P ]  Brent Barrett Will Sing Leonard Bernstein at the Kennedy Center June 28

    [ P ]  Jesus Hickey, Engagement Rules and More to Be Featured in Phoenix New Works Festival

    [ P ]  Shirley Jones Will Sing From "Then & Now" On New Recording

    [ P ]  Trevor Project to Honor Tony Winner Cumming at June 30 New York Gala; Menzel Performs

    [ P ]  Chorus Line Begins New Schedule; Isenegger Is Cassie Friday and Sunday Eves

    [ P ]  Johnson's The Two and Only Begins London Run June 25

    [ P ]  Klausner, McCarthy, Steggert and Stram to Join Pen for Polly's Night Out

    [ P ]  Hicks, Mitchell and More to Perform on PBS' "A Capitol Fourth"; Smits Hosts

    [ P ]  Strouse, MacLaine, Ebersole and Adding Machine Folk to Appear at Barnes and Noble in July

    [ P ]  Brown, DeLaria, Gemignani, O'Hara and More Set for June 26 Night Job

    [ P ]  The Who's Tommy, with Ripley, Hendryx and Pevec, Extends Hollywood Run

    [ TM ]  La Cause, Mitchell, Schworer, et al. Set for June 27 Backstage Pass Signing

    [ TM ]  Enchanted, Sweeney Todd, et al. Win Saturn Awards

    [ TM ]  Catered Affair Cast to Appear at Time Warner Center on June 27

    [ TM ]  Carol Channing Honored for Arts Education Work

    [ P ]  Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane to Star in Reading of Addams Family Musical

    [ B ]  John Lloyd Young Set for New Musical at O'Neill Center

    [ B ]  White Christmas May Be Headed for Holiday Run on Broadway

    [ P ]  Merry and Bright? Producers Hope White Christmas Will Play Broadway This Year

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 3:23 PM | Item Link


      • [ NYP ]  EVENING UP 'ADDAMS' By MICHAEL RIEDEL
      PLAY NETS NEUWIRTH AND TEMPTS LANE

      [ V ]  'White Christmas' on Broadway? By DAVID ROONEY

      Producers eye Marquis for seasonal production

      [ BN ]  'Rent' Producer Seeks Break to Give Broadway 'White Christmas' By Philip Boroff

      [ PARADE ]  The star being hailed as the new Mary Martin says, 'If You Think You Can Do It-You Can!' By Kevin Sessums

      O'Hara has said previously that she wants to be a mother. But the buzz is that producers are competing to put together a full-fledged production of My Fair Lady centered around her recreating yet another iconic role: Eliza Doolittle.

      Features:

      [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: His First Romans

      [ HC ]  Edward Albee, Kathleen Turner, Alternately At-Odds, In-Synch By FRANK RIZZO

      [ HC ]  He Said, She Said: Albee and Turner In Their Own Words By FRANK RIZZO

      [ B ]  FIRST PERSON: Bernadette Peters: How Broadway Barks Became a Book for Kids

      [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Anna D. Shapiro

      Anna D. Shapiro made theatre history on June 15 by becoming only the fifth woman to win a Tony Award for Directing, for her work on Tracy Letts' August: Osage County.

      [ TM ]  Finding the Right Role By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

      Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow, David Strathairn, and Josh Lucas hit the big screen this week.

      [ VV ]  True East: American Icon Sam Shepard Returns to New York by Alexis Soloski

      [ VV ]  Chatting With John Tiffany by Alexis Soloski

      [ AA ]  Are You Now--Or Have You Ever Been? by Army Archerd

      The flag-waving, name-calling season is reaching a crescendo, and the release of "Trumbo" couldn't come at a better time to man the mind-clearing battlefronts.

      [ WP ]  Backstage: 'Neverending' Creativity By Jane Horwitz

      At Imagination Stage, a New, Puppet-Centered Adaptation of Michael Ende's Novel Favors the Fantastical Over the Familiar

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: More from "Mamma Mia!" - the Movie

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Supermodel Heidi Klum Goes Under the Sea at Mermaid

      Broadway Bares:

      [ P ]  Broadway Bares 18: Wonderland Sets New Fundraising Record

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Broadway Bares 2008's Wondrous Wonderland

      "BASH'd":

      [ DN ]  'Bash'd' is a rap show from unlikely creators BY PATRICK HUGUENIN

      [ NYT ]  Two Romeos in a Modern Tragedy By ANDY WEBSTER

      Those familiar with Manhattan gay culture may not find a lot of new ground in "Bash'd!" But such an audience should be impressed by the passion of the show's convictions.

      Other Reviews:

      [ NYT ]  London Theater Journal: Time for a Ganja Break at 'The Harder They Come' By Ben Brantley

      [ V ]  Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
      Review By JULIO MARTINEZ

      Helmer Paul Mazursky displays a keen understanding of the producer vs. writer dynamic, solidly underscoring Goldfarb's distillation of the Jewish experience in America through the mano a mano confrontations between doggedly assimilated studio honcho Samuel Baum (Richard Kind) and ultra-liberal screenwriter Garfield Hampson Jr. (Hamish Linklater).

      [ BS ]  The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go? - Reviewed by A.J. MELL

      At times the highly expressive Annie Lanzilotto's performance piece can seem like a series of digressions with no discernible center, but by the end you realize that there may be no better way to evoke the city's kaleidoscopic, sometimes disorienting shifts in character.

      [ VV ]  Michael Stuhlbarg's Hamlet: Jangled Out of Tune by Michael Feingold

      [ TB ]  THE SIEGEL COLUMN By Barbara & Scott Siegel

      Our columnists take a look at the current productions of Hamlet, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, and Arias with a Twist.

      [ ND ]  Review: 'Forbidden Broadway' at Gateway Playhouse BY STEVE PARKS

      [ WF ]  Nifty Cole Porter revue: 'It's the Top' by Fran Sikorski

      [ TB ]  Mary Martin, Broadway Legend by Ronald L. Davis
      Book Review by Bob Gutowski

      [ PW ]  Stage by J. Cooper Robb

      The Color Purple at the Academy of Music and Q: The Songs of Martin and Biello at the Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival.

      News:

      [ P ]  Regional Hit Musical Marvelous Wonderettes Will Bring Prom Dreams to Off-Broadway

      [ NYT ]  Kermit Love, Costume Creator, Dies at 91 By DENNIS HEVESI

      [ IBDB ]  Kermit Love's Broadway Credits

      [ CT ]  Madame Morrible, replete with Tony by Chris Jones

      Rondi Reed, who won the Tony Award for best featured actress for her Broadway work in Steppenwolf's "August: Osage County," returns to the Oriental Theatre in time for Friday night's performance.

      [ FOX ]  FOX411 by Roger Friedman
      No Vienna for Mel

      [ TM ]  Theater Oobleck's The Strangerer to Play Barrow Street in July

      [ TM ]  Brier, McArdle, Murney, Pazakis, et al. Set for BROADWAY FOR MUSIKIDS Benefit

      [ TM ]  Atkinson, Douglas, Huffman, Llana, Pedi, et al. Set for theAtrainplays

      [ TM ]  Colman Domingo to Host The Heat Is On Benefit at La Mama

      [ V ]  Ingmar Bergman's plays available

      Foundation hires Josef Wienberger to license

      [ V ]  Ovation TV pacts with StageVision

      Company to provide content for network

      [ P ]  Alley Company Members Populate Christie's Unexpected Guest

      [ P ]  Move Over, George and Martha - Stitching's Stu and Abby Get U.S. Premiere

      [ P ]  Don Reed's East 14th Set for New World Stages Bow June 26

      [ P ]  Playwright EM Lewis Wins Primus Prize for Her Play Heads

      [ TM ]  EM Lewis Wins Francesca Primus Prize

      [ TM ]  Cole, Elling, Sloane, Stewart, et al. Set for 92nd Street Y's Jazz in July

      [ TM ]  Laurie Metcalf to Star in CW's Easy Money

      [ TM ]  Klausner, McCarthy, Steggert, Stram to Join Pen for Polly's Night Out

      [ TM ]  Elizabeth Peña to Star in Chicago Shakespeare Reading of Romeo y Julieta

      [ P ]  "The Lovely Russell" Churney Will Be Remembered in London Charity Gala

      [ P ]  Golden, Shear, Stew, Tam and Ikeda Among Summer Play Festival Participants

      [ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Cirque du Soleil and Bette Midler on "The View"

      [ P ]  Everybody Rise: Stritch Is At Liberty in Hartford June 24

      [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JUNE 25

      [ P ]  Joan Rivers Plays the Cutting Room in Manhattan June 25-27

      [ P ]  Alvin, Sapp, Zagnit and Taylor Are Breaking Up at the Ogunquit Beginning June 25

      [ P ]  Atrainplays, with Huffman, Mendoza and Pedi, Offered June 25

      [ P ]  Margulies' Survivor Tale, Shipwrecked!, Told Anew at Geffen Playhouse

      [ P ]  U.S. Premiere of Shepard's Kicking a Dead Horse Rides Into Town June 25

      [ P ]  Young, Bogardus, Myers, Dizzia, Day and Shannon Set for Musicals and Plays of O'Neill Conference

      [ B ]  Foote's Dividing the Estate Set for Broadway's Booth Theatre

      [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
      Compiled by PATRICIA COHEN

      [ NYT ]  Revival of '70s Play
      Compiled by PATRICIA COHEN

      A new version of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf" is coming to Circle in the Square Theater.

    • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 7:49 AM | Item Link


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