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Monday, August 25, 2008

    [ CT ]  'Miz,' '80 Days' and 'Requiem' top Jeff nominations

    [ CST ]  Jeff Award nominations keep large and midsize theaters separate BY HEDY WEISS

    [ NYT ]  Casting Notes
    Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

    Second Stage Theater has found the three main dudes for its production of "Boys' Life."

    [ TM ]  Biggs, Coiro, Federer, March, Scanavino, et al. Set for Second Stage's Boys' Life

    [ B ]  Jason Biggs, Rhys Coiro and Peter Scanavino Headline Boys' Life at Second Stage

    [ P ]  Biggs, Coiro and Scanavino to Star in Second Stage's Boys' Life Revival

    [ LAT ]  Obituary: Kathryn Skatula, 54, Actress

    [ NYT ]  Footnotes
    Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

    The New York-bound production of "Vanities - A New Musical" announced Feb. 2 as the date of its first preview.

    Features:

    [ LAT ]  'Vanities' the musical is a friendship revisited By Jan Breslauer

    Jack Heifner's story of three women coming of age in the 1960s and '70s gets another look, a fourth scene and some fresh perspective at the Pasadena Playhouse.

    [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: We're Giggin'

    [ NYT ]  A Night Out With | Hunter Parrish
    Bowling for Broadway By LESLEY SAVAGE

    Hanging out with Hunter Parrish, the newest cast member of "Spring Awakening" on Broadway.

    [ P ]  STAGE TO SCREENS: Chats with Maura Tierney, "Hamlet 2" Creator Fleming & Actors Astin, Strole

    [ AP ]  'Hamlet 2' rocks with racy musical numbers By SANDY COHEN

    [ JN ]  Purchase's new music man By Peter D. Kramer

    As the new executive director of the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Wiley Hausam has four venues to fill with music, opera, dance and theater, a task he began contemplating soon after his appointment last month.

    [ LAT ]  THE PERSONAL FILE
    'Dirty Sexy Money's' Craig Wright

    [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX

    CHRISTOPHER Plummer will never forget the one-night stand he picked up in a bar before he was to perform "Henry V" in 1956 - because it helped make William Shatner a star.

    [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX

    IT'S a classic battle of old vs. new feminism over Joanna Murray-Smith's play "The Female of the Species."

    [ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH

    Michael Feinstein and Tony Martin.

    [ SUN ]  A Theatrical Tribute to Fela Kuti By VALERIE GLADSTONE

    [ BG ]  First lady, second take By Terry Byrne

    With director's help, playwright reworks 'Eleanor'

    New York Magazine's Fall Preview Section:

    [ NY ]  This Could Drive a Person Crazy By Jeremy McCarter

    After a decade's gestation and four titles, Stephen Sondheim's Road Show finally rolls into town.

    [ NY ]  Raúl Esparza, Always Grateful By Jeremy McCarter

    [ NY ]  Sexed-Up Chekhov By Boris Kachka

    When they wanted virile, they called in Peter Sarsgaard.

    [ NY ]  Top Girl By Boris Kachka

    Elizabeth Marvel on rats in the theater (human and otherwise).

    [ NY ]  'Billy Elliot': The Musical: The Primer By Katherine Ward

    [ NY ]  The Equines of 'Equus' By Rebecca Milzoff

    A chat with Daniel Radcliffe's six onstage companions.

    [ NY ]  TomKat Takes Manhattan By Lane Brown

    Tom Cruise recalls the fall he and Katie Holmes spent in New York.

    [ NY ]  Vulture's Fall Recommend-o-Matic: Theater

    Scientology or Sondheim?

    [ NY ]  The Season in Theater

    A Tale of Two Cities, Mandy Patinkin in The Tempest, and more.

    Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

    [ PP ]  In the context of big-city theater, he isn't much more than Little Mouth on the Prairie By Dominic P. Papatola

    The woman on the phone simply wanted to know why I couldn't be nicer.

    [ I ]  Exit, the king: Is Alan Ayckbourn set for one glorious final act? By Lucy Powell

    He has fallen out of fashion in the West End, suffered a stroke and entered his last season in charge at Scarborough theatre. But could Britain's most prolific playwright, Alan Ayckbourn, enjoy a last hurrah?

    [ T ]  David Beckham musical set for West End stage By Henry Winter

    Such is old 'Goldenballs'' phenomenal appeal to the public that a librettist is talking to West End producers this week about staging a musical entitled David Beckham - The Theatre of Dreams.

    [ TIMES ]  Josh Hartnett cruises onto stage in Rain Man by Lesley White

    [ TIMES ]  The doctor will see you now by Allan Brown

    A mix of Shakespeare fans and Doctor Who fanatics are queueing around the block to see David Tennant in Hamlet, but at the stage door the teenagers rule

    [ SD ]  Shake, rattle and roll! By James Hebert

    Playhouse's 'Memphis' uses story of rock's beginnings - 'when all the rules were changing' - to examine race, and more, in America

    Reviews:

    [ NEXT ]  REVIEWS BY DAVID HURST

    Donna Lynne Champlin; Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano; Summer Shorts 2 Series B

    [ V ]  Bury the Dead
    Review By BOB VERINI

    Shaw's message -- men should fight and die for what matters to them, not for someone else's trumped-up cause -- comes through forcefully, even in this very inconsistent Actors' Gang revival.

    [ NYT ]  The Plot's a Tangle; Its Setting, Not at All By BEN BRANTLEY

    Nature takes its course in high style in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's inspiriting production of "Cymbeline."

    [ NYT ]  Antsy Adolescents Romp at Edinburgh Festivals By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

    Significant shows at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festival Fringe considered the anxieties and preoccupations of contemporary youth.

    [ NYP ]  'ELIZABETH': OFF WITH ITS HEAD By FRANK SCHECK (**)

    [ V ]  As U2 Like It

    The Troubies' latest production, "As U2 Like It," continues their artistic winning streak, succeeding in conveying the gist of the Shakespeare source material amid a constant flurry of songs, quips and physical comedy in a highly entertaining show.

    [ CU ]  Abigail's Party

    The first of Mike Leigh's plays focusing on the desperately funny tragedies of working class life at the Odyssey.

    [ NYer ]  Three's Company by Hilton Als

    A family's secrets are revealed in "The First Breeze of Summer."

    [ EW ]  Review: Buffalo Gal By Jason Clark (B)

    [ EW ]  Review: Animals Out of Paper By Jason Clark (B+)

    [ SUN ]  From the Mouths of Ex-Cons: 'The Castle' By TOM TEODORCZUK

    [ NYT ]  'Mother on Fire' By SANDRA TSING LOH
    Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL

    A year in the life of a mom -- the performance artist Sandra Tsing Loh.

    News:

    [ V ]  'Jump' show returns to Union Square

    'Break Out' to open on Sept. 23

    [ TM ]  Andrea McArdle to Star in Ogunquit Playhouse's Les Miserables

    [ V ]  'Lion King' strong as road slips

    Road Grosses

    [ P ]  Armon, Rayson, Thompson and Mahler Will Sing in Chicago Premiere of Tomorrow Morning

    [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 25

    [ P ]  Radcliffe Chats About Equus Revival on Aug. 25 "Conan O'Brien"

    [ P ]  Seagull Box Office Opens for Business Aug. 25

    [ P ]  13 Producers Offer $13 Tickets at Aug. 25 Box Office Opening

    [ P ]  Woodward Directs Tomei and Latessa in Golden Boy at Westport Aug. 25

    [ P ]  Broadway's Phantom Shuts Down Aug. 24-27 for Installation of New Sound System

    [ P ]  Maria/Stuart, Grote's Supernatural Schiller-Inspired Tale, Opens Aug. 24 in DC

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