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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

    News:

    [ P ]  My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy! to Close Aug. 24

    [ B ]  My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy! Sets Closing Date

    [ TM ]  Des McAnuff to Direct Broadway Revival of Guys and Dolls in Spring 2009

    [ P ]  Guys and Dolls Revival, Directed by McAnuff, to Open on Broadway in 2009

    [ B ]  Guys and Dolls, Directed by Des McAnuff, Headed for Broadway

    [ B ]  Leslie Kritzer and Michael McGrath to Star in Born Yesterday at Cape Playhouse

    [ P ]  Kritzer and McGrath to Star in Born Yesterday at Cape Playhouse

    [ TM ]  Kritzer and McGrath to Star in Born Yesterday at Cape Playhouse

    [ P ]  LAST CHANCE: Playbill.com's Reminder of NYC Shows Closing Aug. 3

    [ P ]  Elicia MacKenzie Will Star in Canada's Sound of Music

    [ P ]  Stadlen, Denniston, Manning, Sapp and More to Star in Muny's Fiddler

    The St. Louis Muny, the nation's oldest and largest outdoor theatre, will dedicate its upcoming production of Fiddler on the Roof to Bruce Adler, the Tony-nominated actor who died July 25 of liver cancer.

    [ P ]  Fourth Edition of Playbill Broadway Yearbook Available for Pre-Order

    [ P ]  One Man Star Wars Trilogy Will Return to San Francisco

    [ P ]  Wall to Wall Broadway Set for March 2009

    [ P ]  Rapp and Pascal Will Join Rent Cast for "Good Morning America" Performance

    [ TM ]  Ann Liv Young, Less The Band, Radiohole, et al. to Be Part of Kitchen Fall 2008 Season

    [ TM ]  Boggess, Burgess, Toro, et al. Set for July 31 Broadway in Bryant Park

    [ P ]  Judy Kuhn Will Return to Joe's Pub in the Fall

    [ P ]  Ebersole, Carmello, McArdle and Rubin-Vega to Appear in "The Battery's Down"

    [ P ]  Vietnam War Memory Play The Boys of Winter Will Premiere in Boston

    [ P ]  WVPT's Producers, with Jones, Evans, Colgan and Doyle, Begins July 29

    [ P ]  Wonderful Town's Wills to Star in New Comedy Kaboom!

    [ P ]  Reiber, Case, Gallagher and Brummel Will Join Cronin at the Duplex

    [ P ]  Stockley, Stinton, Daish and Blackwood Will Join Hartnett and Godley in Rain Man

    [ P ]  MacCorkindale Will Be Captain Von Trapp in London's Sound of Music in August

    [ P ]  Lenox, Larson, Gruffudd, Shaud, Makkena, Puzzo to Take Part in Free Powerhouse Reading Series

    [ TM ]  Twyla Tharp, SF Ballet, New York City Center to Be Honored by Jerome Robbins Foundation

    [ B ]  Disney's Peter and the Starcatchers to Get Showcase at La Jolla

    [ P ]  A Chorus Line's Lopez Will Be Sole Host of TV's "Extra"

    [ P ]  Township of Millburn Now Owns Paper Mill Playhouse

    [ P ]  Rosemary Ingham, Costume Designer and Author, Dies at 71

    Features:

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Little House Musical Sings on the Prairie

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hair Grows at Central Park's Delacorte Theater

    [ TB ]  ON THE SCENE: OPENING NIGHT AT "DAMN YANKEES"

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        • [ NY1 ]  Electrical Fire Burns In Broadway Theater

        An elevator motor caught on fire around 9:15 p.m. in the Helen Hayes Theater, where the Broadway play "Xanadu" is performed.

        Thanks to blfan on All That Chat for the link.

        [ V ]  Broadway sales steady

        A half-dozen tuners top million-dollar mark

        [ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Movie Sparks Mamma Mia!; Bye-Bye Catered Affair

        [ P ]  Broadway Grosses: July 21-27

        [ B ]  Mario Lopez Named Host of TV's Extra

        [ CST ]  'Jersey Boys' must stay smoke-free -- for now BY FRAN SPIELMAN
        CITY COUNCIL | Exemption for live theater on hold

        [ P ]  Billy Elliot Named Best Musical at Australia's Helpmann Awards

        [ P ]  Can He Fly? Disney and La Jolla Will Test Wings of Starcatchers -a Peter Pan Prequel

        [ TM ]  La Jolla Playhouse to Present Peter and the Starcatchers

        [ AJC ]  Cobb Centre naming high school musical awards for Broadway star Shuler Hensley By Wendell Brock

        Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

        Features:

        [ NYT ]  For Champion of Black Theater, a Salute in Harlem's Streets By GLENN COLLINS

        The memorial send-off on Monday to celebrate Barbara Ann Teer, the founder of the National Black Theater, became a theatrical neighborhoodwide parade.

        [ BN ]  Quirky Second Stage Bets $35 Million on Broadway: Jeremy Gerard

        Second Stage Theatre wants to spend $35 million for the chance to hawk its wares on Broadway. This is a little nuts.

        [ G ]  Has the tough guy had his day on Broadway? by MATT WOLF

        Some might say there has been a steady downturn in Broadway machismo ever since Marlon Brando left the theatre for the cinema.

        [ P ]  ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Autumn . . . and Bailey . . . and [title of show] in New York by Seth Rudetsky

        [ NYT ]  The Role Is a Workout, but She's Fit By DAVID BELCHER

        For the next several months, Estelle Parsons, the 80-year-old actress, will inhabit the physically demanding role of Violet Weston in the Broadway production of "August: Osage County."

        [ NYT ]  Estelle Parsons talks about performing in 'August: Osage County' (mp3)

        [ NYT ]  Slide Show: Estelle Parsons on Stage

        A look at some of the actress's theatrical performances.

        [ NYT ]  Connections
        Behold in the Mirror the Brutal Face of War and Militarism By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

        The problem with "Homeland" and "Die Soldaten," two productions at this year's Lincoln Center Festival, is that they mistake the struggle for the threat itself.

        [ NYT ]  Exploring the Bozo Mystique, and Defining Funny on Their Own Feminine Terms By APRIL DEMBOSKY

        The troupe Clowns Ex Machina depends on an all-female environment to transform the taboo into the funny, the sexual into the silly.

        [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Cheyenne Jackson

        [ B ]  Q&A: A Candid Chat with 39 Steps Star Sam Robards

        [ NY ]  John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman: Two Paths Diverged in a Forest

        [ NJ ]  NJPAC is $200,000 richer after a board member climbs Kilimanjaro by Peggy McGlone

        [ AA ]  He Doesn't Fly, So-- by Army Archerd

        Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels.

        [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Broadway Says Farewell to A Catered Affair

        [ TM ]  Photo File By: Joseph Marzullo, Tristan Fuge, & Brian Scott Lipton

        Mario Lopez, Bailey Hanks, Faith Prince, Harvey Fierstein, Matt Cavanagh, B.D. Wong, Nick Adams, Karen Black, James Van Der Beek, and the cast of Billy Elliot catch up with our cameras.

        [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Full Cast of Billy Elliot - The Musical Meets the Press

        Reviews:

        [ LAT ]  ARCHITECTURE REVIEW: The renovated Mark Taper Forum By Christopher Hawthorne

        The $30-million renovation reaffirms -- and complicates -- its landmark stature.

        [ TB ]  Hillary and Monica: The Winter of Her Discontent; A Thousand Variations on a Lie Told Once; Gerald's Method
        Midtown International Theatre Festival Reviews by Matthew Murray

        [ SFC ]  Review: Roger Rees' Shakespeare show by Robert Hurwitt

        It isn't just the offbeat insights into performing Shakespeare that make Roger Rees' "What You Will" an absolute delight.

        [ MN ]  "What You Will" a colorful tribute to the Bard By Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times

        [ BN ]  Will and Me: Roger Rees Takes One-Man Shakespeare Show on Road
        Review by Stephen West

        His stories are funny, but the plays -- even just the fragments -- are the thing.

        [ V ]  What You Will
        Review By DENNIS HARVEY

        Roger Rees' "What You Will," however, is a throwback to an older brand of solo evening -- the kind in which a thesp of note regales us with a hors d'ouevres tray of anecdotes, theatrical trivia, bigger-name dropping, and a soliloquy -- or six -- delivered in requisite plummy tones. These days, though, such theatrical snacking registers less as tasty than as empty calories.

        [ BG ]  'The Understudy' combines comedy and Kafka in Williamstown By Louise Kennedy

        Theresa Rebeck's play, zippily directed and sharply acted in its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, turns out to be: funny, funny, funny.

        [ V ]  12 Ophelias
        Review By SAM THIELMAN

        There's not a lot to be said for Caridad Svich's "12 Ophelias," a very small meditation on Hamlet set in an Appalachian backwater, but if you pass up the chance to schlep out to Williamsburg for the free production, you'll miss one wonderful thing...

        [ DCTS ]  You Must Remember These

        New York columnist Richard Seff bravo's Bette and Boo and Damn Yankees, unzips Bash'd, and finds new Rising Stars.

        [ CU ]  A Man for All Seasons at Berkshire Theatre Festival

        [ TM ]  Give Em Hell Harry!
        Reviewed by: David Finkle

        Bix Barnaba gives a cheerful and persuasive performance as former U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

        [ LAT ]  'Brady's' Alice finds 'Looking Glass' By David C. Nichols

        The housekeeper's quintessential 1970s experiences come in handy in a sendup by Troubadour Theater.

        [ WP ]  Singing and Zinging By Peter Marks

        'Jerry Springer' as Satire Is Wickedly Entertaining

        News:

        [ B ]  Bobby Cannavale to Star Off-Broadway in The Talk for Naked Angels

        [ P ]  Cannavale, MacVittie and Welliver to Star in The Talk for Naked Angels

        [ TM ]  Cannavale, MacVittie, Welliver Set for Pugliese's The Talk

        [ B ]  Campbell Scott to Star in The Atheist for Culture Project

        [ P ]  Culture Project Will Present In Conflict and The Atheist at the Barrow Street Theatre

        [ TM ]  Culture Project to Present In Conflict and The Atheist

        [ TM ]  Ruth Wiliamson Joins Michele, Mitchell, Young, et al in Hollywood Bowl Les Miz

        [ P ]  O'Donnell Bows Out of Hollywood Bowl Les Miz Due to Family Emergency; Williamson Steps In

        [ P ]  Charlotte d'Amboise to Exit A Chorus Line Aug. 10

        [ B ]  P.J. Benjamin Will Be Broadway's Wizard in Wicked

        [ P ]  Benjamin Will Be Wicked's New Wizard Beginning July 29

        [ P ]  Teens Pen Plays for MCC's FreshPlay Festival

        [ TM ]  MCC to Present Fresh Play Festival, Fifty Words, et al.

        [ P ]  Astin, Pritchard, Foa and Tam Set for NYMF Hoedown Aug. 10

        [ TM ]  Astin, Blaemire, Foa, Pritchard, Rodriguez, Tam Set for NYMF Hoedown

        [ CT ]  Uptown Theatre goes on the block by Chris Jones

        [ TM ]  Xanadu to Debut in Chicago on January 16

        [ P ]  Xanadu to Play Chicago's Drury Lane in January 2009

        [ TM ]  Symphony Space Announces 2008-2009 Season

        [ NYT ]  'Sound of Music' Villa Opens for Business
        Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

        The von Trapp family's villa opened to the public for the first time, as a hotel and museum, over the weekend in Salzburg, Austria.

        [ P ]  Run of Girls Only in Denver Is Strictly for the Ladies, Sept. 18-Dec. 21

        [ P ]  O'Neill Cabaret Conference to Feature Fuller, Green, Epperson, Maltby and Shire

        [ P ]  Dillon and U.K. Chart Topper Hawkes to Star in Manilow's Can't Smile without You

        [ P ]  Hall, Gardner, Lutvak, Myers, Mayes and McKnight to Perform at Yale

        [ P ]  Berkeley Rep's Premiere of Ruhl's In the Next Room Wins Edgerton Award

        [ P ]  Barbara Cook to Record New CD, "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," for DRG; Song List Announced

        [ P ]  Babel Theatre Project to Offer World Premieres By Lasca and Moss

        [ P ]  Act II in PA to Produce Magnetic North, Iron Kisses, Musical Respect

        [ P ]  John Wilson Orchestra Offers That's Entertainment, Celebration of MGM Musicals

        [ P ]  Balderrama, Miller, Keenan-Bolger, Curtis and More Set for Street Lights Benefit Concert

        [ P ]  Pinkalicious, the Musical to Return to New World Stages in August

        [ P ]  Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre to Offer Vaclav Havel Season

        [ P ]  Casting Announced for Girlfriend Experience, Exploring Life in a Brothel

        [ P ]  "I'd Do Anything" Finalist Samantha Barks Will Be Sally Bowles in Cabaret Tour

        [ P ]  A New "View" for Xanadu: Whoopi Goldberg Returns to Broadway July 29

        [ P ]  Chicago Welcomes Return of 2008 Tony Nominee Tom Wopat

        [ P ]  Do Not Disturb Begins Performances Off-Broadway July 29

        [ P ]  Robbins Foundation Awards Go to Tharp, San Francisco Ballet; City Center Gets Lasky Prize

        [ TM ]  Paper Mill Playhouse Officially Purchased by Township of Millburn

        [ B ]  Jason Robert Brown's 13 Sets Dates at Broadway's Jacobs Theatre

        [ TM ]  Gruffudd, Larson, Lenox, Lucas, Radnor, Shaud, Westfledt, et al. Join Powerhouse Season

        [ P ]  "Mamma Mia!" Is Third Highest-Grossing Film of Weekend

        [ P ]  Will Rosie O'Donnell Revive the TV Variety Show?

        [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
        Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

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