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Thursday, July 3, 2008

    [ NY ]  'The Village Voice' Goes Through Harvey Weinstein's Garbage

    "Promises, Promises," "Bullets Over Broadway" and more.

    [ P ]  Opening of Some Americans Abroad Delayed One Week

    [ WP ]  Signature Receives $300,000 Grant for 'Next Generation' of Musicals By Peter Marks

    [ HC ]  Stamford Center For The Arts In Fiscal Trouble
    Frank Rizzo | TICKER

    [ P ]  Leaders of Stamford Center for the Arts Resign

    Features:

    [ NYP ]  GABRIEL BYRNE'S 'TREATMENT' TALE By LINDA STASI
    DID CHILDHOOD SEX ABUSE PLAY PART IN ROLE?

    [ P ]  ASK PLAYBILL.COM: Ticket Scanning

    [ BS ]  Second Act By Simi Horwitz

    Trezana Beverley on her post-Tony career and her role in 'Marko the Prince'

    [ BS ]  ANMT Gives Crash Course in Creating, Selling Musicals By Les Spindle

    [ WSJ ]  Benjamin's Ragtime Band Captures the Real Cohan By BARRYMORE LAURENCE SCHERER

    Rick Benjamin's Paragon Ragtime Orchestra brings out the exceptional tunefulness of George M. Cohan's music.

    [ B ]  FRESH FACE: Jennifer Ferrin Is a Quick-Change Artist in The 39 Steps

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Hunter Foster

    The year 2008 will see theatre artist Hunter Foster in all his various modes.

    [ HC ]  'Altar Boyz' A Gentle Spoof Of Boy Bands, Christian Rock By FRANK RIZZO

    [ JN ]  Bossa nova and Sinatra on tap as Pizzarelli goes Fourth By Peter D. Kramer

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Lands in SC

    Reviews:

    [ NYT ]  London Theater Journal: You scream, they jump higher at "Into the Hoods" By Ben Brantley

    [ NYT ]  London Theater Journal: Frankie Valli in New Joisy, D.H. Lawrence in Cornwall By Ben Brantley

    [ V ]  On the Rocks
    Review By KAREN FRICKER

    Post "The Hours," a depiction of early 20th century Brit writers that takes such a straight-down-the-line biographical approach seems irretrievably retro.

    [ NYT ]  As Saloon Swinger, Wopat Tries a Little Tenderness By STEPHEN HOLDEN

    In a fundamental way Tom Wopat, who is performing Thursdays through July 31 at the Metropolitan Room, is a keeper of the flame of the Sinatra saloon tradition.

    [ TB ]  THE SIEGEL COLUMN By Barbara & Scott Siegel

    Cirque gets bashed and Bash'd is quite a cirque! Palace of the End and Reasons to be Pretty provide much to think about as well as some of the young season's greatest performances ...

    [ BE ]  Williamstown Theatre Festival: 'Atheist' tracks journalist who is his own story By Jeffrey Borak

    [ BE ]  Shakespeare & Company: All's not so well at Founders' By Jeffrey Borak

    [ BG ]  Finding a perfect marriage in 'Candida' By Louise Kennedy

    [ TNO ]  KEEP THOSE TOE SHOES WARM by MATT WINDMAN

    A Chorus Line still packs a mean theatrical punch. As for Mario Lopez as Zach, he turns in a surprisingly impressive performance.

    [ ND ]  Review: 'Man of La Mancha' at Engeman Theater BY STEVE PARKS

    Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

    [ MCP ]  Final Act By Quinton Skinner

    Jeune Lune's artistic director discusses the renowned theater company's demise

    [ G ]  A legend lightens up

    She has played a concentration camp survivor and a working-class whistleblower, but in Mamma Mia! Meryl Streep sings, dances - and does the splits. Stuart Jeffries hears about women in Hollywood and why Abba are more important than we think

    [ TIMES ]  Julie Walters: why I'm such a super trouper by Hugo Rifkind

    The Mamma Mia star reveals how a nurse and a nun inspired her to defy her Irish family and take to the stage

    [ TIMES ]  Mamma Mia! Björn to run (and run, and run, and run...) by Clive Davis

    As the movie version of the stage smash hit is released, we look at the enduring appeal of the show and the Abba music that inspired it

    News:

    [ BR ]  Englewood's BergenPac gets help from public

    Englewood's bergenPAC, which called on the public for help in raising $650,000 million last month, has raised that and more - close to $800,000, according to bergenPAC chairman and president Frank Huttle III.

    [ TM ]  Jonathan Hadary to Join Spamalot Tour in September

    [ P ]  Hadary to Join Tour of Spamalot in September

    [ NJ ]  'Shakespeare' extends run by Peter Filichia

    [ P ]  Chenoweth's Autobiography, "A Little Bit Wicked," Due in April 2009

    [ TM ]  Absinthe, Bond, Désir, Lemper, Wainwright, et al. Set for Spiegelworld 2008

    [ P ]  Spiegelworld to Return Aug. 6 with Désir, Bond, Lemper and Wainwright

    [ B ]  Spiegelworld 2008 Brings Desir and Absinthe to Wall Street

    [ TM ]  Armbruster, Calvert, Craig, Lysy, et al. to Appear at Barrington Stage

    [ P ]  Casting Announced for Barrington's Violet Hour and My Scary Girl

    [ TNO ]  AIR OF MYSTERY by JOHN NATHAN

    Perrin and Betts to join cast of The 39 Steps at the Criterion.

    [ CT ]  The Hypocrites to produce its first musical..and reprise "Our Town" by Chris Jones

    [ INQ ]  Inqlings: Anchor stages run as king By Michael Klein

    Action News anchor Rick Williams is channeling his inner Yul Brynner as curtain time nears for Moorestown Theater Company's production of The King and I.

    [ P ]  All Aboard! Ebersole, McArdle, White, Easton and Rudetsky to Perform on July "Rosie" Cruise

    [ P ]  Becker, Price, McDonald, Adams to Join Lewis for Music Circus Gypsy; Season Casting Updated

    [ P ]  Lindsay-Abaire, Haidle and Flahive Commissioned to Pen New Works for MTC

    [ TM ]  Off-Broadway Shows to Participate in Summer in the Square on July 10

    [ P ]  Raisin's Harts Will Be Obama in Political Idol, Beginning July 23

    [ P ]  King and Brown to Face Doubts at TheatreWorks Beginning July 16

    [ P ]  Tony Winner Peters to Guest on "Live with Regis and Kelly" July 8

    [ P ]  Songs from New Musical Alyss Featured on Michaels' "Wonderful at Last" CD

    [ P ]  Spiner and Maggart Featured on New Concept Album, "Dreamland"

    [ P ]  Summer and Smoke to Billow Off-Broadway Aug. 20-31

    [ P ]  Headley, Lippa, White and More Set for Aug. 16 "Johnny Mercer Celebration Concert"

    [ P ]  "Mamma Mia!" Film Launches New Website

    [ TM ]  Full Casting Announced for Dance With Me

    [ TM ]  Michael Imperioli Joins ABC's Life on Mars

    [ TM ]  Jennifer Holliday to Apppear With Seattle Men's Chorus

    [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 3

    [ NYT ]  Broadways Lights Will Stay On By MOTOKO RICH; Compiled by PATRICIA COHEN

    After two and a half months of talks Actors' Equity Association reached a tentative agreement with the Broadway League, averting a strike.

    [ NYT ]  The Show May Go On
    Compiled by PATRICIA COHEN

    The Wilmette Theater hopes to come to the rescue of a beleaguered production of "Ragtime."

    [ P ]  Collective: Unconscious Will Vanish July 31

    [ TM ]  Arden, Cavanagh, Gemignani, Hoff, Rapp, Ripley, Rylance Set for Variations on Shakespeare

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 3:51 PM | Item Link


      • This morning's news:

      [ P ]  Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera Hits 8,500 Performances July 3 at the Majestic

      [ P ]  Intiman's Streetcar Named Desire Pulls Into Seattle July 3

      [ P ]  Afternoon Delight: Catered Affair Begins New Performance Schedule July 3

      [ P ]  O'Neill Center's National Playwrights Conference Begins July 3

      [ P ]  Wedekind's Spring's Awakening, with Baily, McDow and Van Hest, Begins L.A. Run July 3

      [ P ]  Gypsy Tony Winner to Head to the Chatterbox July 3

      [ P ]  Mexican-American World War II Vets Get Voice in Heart's Desire in CA

      This morning's reviews:

      [ TONY ]  Dublin Your Fun, by Gwen Orel

      Sam Shepard gallops back to the Public—by way of Ireland.

      This morning's reviews:

      [ NYT ]  Balkan Tale: Blood Ties, and Ties to Home, by Andy Webster

      Marko the Prince is an ambitious portrait of a fictional shell-shocked village on the border of Bosnia and Serbia in the summer of 1992.

      [ TONY ]  Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy reviewed by Adam Feldman

      Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy is a collection of animal acts performed by human beings. Talented acrobats, gymnasts and contortionists are obliged to exercise their skills in a jungle-themed environment whose sheer tackiness is more breathtaking than the athleticism.

      [ TONY ]  Stitching, reviewed by David Cote

      This bleak, torturous work grimly looks at the ways lovers slice into each other's flesh—literally and metaphorically.

      [ TONY ]  Explicit Vows, reviewed by Rob Kendt

      John Jiler's one-man play is a trite, mildly irritating riff on male-female relations, as reflected through his own unremarkable love life.

      [ TONY ]  A Brush with Georgia O'Keefe, reviewed by Diane Snyder

      Although playwright and star Natalie Mosco paints a lively and knowledgeable picture of a tenacious artist, A Brush with Georgia O'Keeffe is rudimentary biography.

    • Posted by Matthew Murray at 8:22 AM | Item Link


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