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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

    Features:

    [ B ]  FIRST PERSON: Jill Santoriello: A Tale of Two Cities' Long Journey (or Why I Love Lucy)

    [ DCTS ]  Podcast: Synetic Forges a Message of Love from a Tragedy by Joel Markowitz

    With a breaking heart, Synetic Theater answered the tragedy in the Republic of Georgia with a change of play. Paata Tsikurishvili responded to the devastation of his homeland by reviving Host and Guest, last seen in DC as a response to the 9/11 attacks. An emotional interview.

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Pittu and Bartlett Rehearse for Atlantic's What's That Smell

    News:

    [ P ]  Craig Bierko Withdraws from To Be or Not to Be

    [ B ]  Craig Bierko Withdraws from Broadway Comedy To Be or Not to Be

    [ TM ]  Craig Bierko Exits MTC's To Be Or Not To Be

    [ B ]  The First Breeze of Summer Extends Off-Broadway Run

    [ P ]  Signature's First Breeze Will Waft a Week Longer

    [ P ]  York, Daniels, Orbach, de Benedet, Spangler, Racey Work with Tommy Tune on Turn of the Century

    [ P ]  Mirvish Productions Buys Toronto's Canon and Panasonic Theatres

    [ B ]  Heather Laws Cast as Kathie Lee Gifford in NYMF Musical

    [ P ]  Laws Is Kathie Lee Gifford in NYMF's She Can't Believe She Said That!

    [ P ]  Butler, Lee, Burgess and Murney to Be Part of Westport's Footlights and Film Gala

    [ TM ]  Burgess, Butler, Lee, Murney to Join Lansbury, Peters, Roberts, et al. for Westport Gala

    [ TM ]  Colman Domingo to Star in A Boy and His Soul

    [ TM ]  Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson to Star in ABC-TV's Cupid

    [ TM ]  Foster, Huffman, Jackson, Rocca, et al. Set for Broadway Loves the '80s

    [ TM ]  Ayesa, LaChanze, Spencer to Join Boston Pops for Handel's Messiah Rocks

    [ P ]  A Cast of 51, Including Burke Moses as Von Trapp, Featured in Toronto Sound of Music

    [ P ]  A Troupe Is Threatened by a Diva in New NYC Musical Caprice

    [ P ]  Manning Will Succeed Esbjornson as Interim Artistic Director of Seattle Rep

    [ P ]  Edinburgh Sensation La Clique Heads to London's Hippodrome

    [ P ]  Desert Bloom: Las Vegas Phantom Plays 1,000 Performances

    [ P ]  O'Neill Foundation to Honor Paul Robeson

    [ P ]  South Pacific to Offer Special Actors Fund Performance in September

    [ P ]  Chicago Porchlight Season Will Begin With Candide, Blending Actors, Musicians and Theatregoers

    [ P ]  Lake, Dekker and Hood Cast in New Musical It's the Housewives!

    [ P ]  Paulson Joins Cannavale for ABC-TV Series "Cupid"

    [ P ]  Hayon, Blanchard, Freedman, O'Connor and More to Star in Kidstuff

    [ P ]  Leguizamo to Receive Rita Moreno Award at the Ninth Annual HOLA Awards

    [ P ]  Twilight in Manchego's Porter and Gould to Make a Splash Sept. 8

    [ P ]  Romeo and Juliet, with "Heroes" Star Cabrera and Rylance, Opens at Middle Temple Hall Aug. 26

    [ P ]  Polycarpou, Benn-Harris and Gleeson to Star in New West End Musical Imagine This

    [ P ]  Von Essen, Foster, Golden, Huffman, Jackson and More Will Sing Eighties Tunes at Joe's Pub

    [ P ]  Casting Complete for Attic's Staging of Charles Busch's Red Scare on Sunset

    [ B ]  American Idol Alum Ace Young to Join Broadway Cast of Grease

    [ TM ]  American Idol's Ace Young to Join Broadway's Grease

    [ TM ]  Pulitzer Prize Winner Tad Mosel Dies at 86

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 4:12 PM | Item Link


      • [ P ]  Broadway Grosses: Aug. 18-24

      [ V ]  Broadway sales slow down

      Late-August slowdown causes tumble

      [ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Numbers Steady; Tale Begins Previews

      [ P ]  Spamalot's Lachey to Host "Broadway on Broadway" Concert

      [ B ]  Drew Lachey to Host 2008 Broadway on Broadway Concert

      [ TM ]  Drew Lachey to Host Broadway on Broadway

      [ TM ]  John Turturro Named Artist In Residence at The New School for Drama

      [ P ]  Turturro Named New School's Artist-in-Residence

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

      [ P ]  "Idol" Finalist Ace Young to Join Broadway's Grease

      [ B ]  Dan Butler Replaces Ailing Larry Pine in NYTW's Beast

      [ P ]  Butler Replaces Pine in NYTW's Beast

      [ TM ]  Dan Butler to Replace Larry Pine in Beast at NYTW

      [ P ]  FringeNYC Encore Series to Feature Blanche, Boy, Kane Sisters and More

      [ TM ]  FringeNYC Announces Excellence Award Winners, Encores Series

      [ P ]  Fringe Festival Announces Overall Excellence Award Winners

      [ TM ]  Bass, Braxton, Leachman, Lucci, et al. Set for ABC's Dancing with the Stars

      [ P ]  Leachman, Bass, Braxton and More Will Be "Dancing with the Stars"

      [ NYT ]  Tad Mosel, TV Dramatist, Dies at 86 By BRUCE WEBER

      Mr. Mosel's dramatic scripts for live television were regularly featured in prime-time programming in the 1950s, and his play "All the Way Home" won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1961.

      [ IBDB ]  Tad Mosel's Broadway Credits

      [ NYT ]  Ralph Young, Sandler & Young Singer, Is Dead at 90 By FRANK PRIAL

      [ IBDB ]  Ralph Young's Broadway Credits

      [ NY ]  Nastia Liukin and Mario Cantone to Star in Worst Movie Ever

      Features:

      [ P ]  ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: A Bloody Good Week By Seth Rudetsky

      [ BS ]  Commercial Off-Broadway's Pulse Looks Like a Flat Line

      [ TIMES ]  David Hare on how the BBC killed the TV play

      The BBC's abandonment of the single television play is a spineless betrayal of the playwright, the art and the public

      Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

      [ TM ]  Now and Forever By: Ann Lieber

      Daniel Reichard joins original cast members Larry Raben, Stan Chandler, and David Engel for the upcoming film version of the musical Forever Plaid.

      [ BS ]  Nick Spangler on 'The Amazing Race' and 'The Fantasticks' by Daniel Lehman

      [ B ]  Q&A: Chicago's Tom Wopat on His Busy Broadway Year

      [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Kelly Sullivan

      Kelly Sullivan - who recently joined the cast of Broadway's Young Frankenstein - fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.

      [ NY ]  Dave Hill Accosts Martha Plimpton in 'New York' Elevator

      [ V ]  Pizzarelli finds niche with 'Song' By PHIL GALLO

      Musician straddles line between jazz, cabaret

      [ BS ]  Capital Report: Legit Scene Gaining Ground by Sherry Eaker

      [ WP ]  Basking in 'Theories of the Sun' By Nelson Pressley

      Williams and Stoppard Check In to Liven It Up

      [ JN ]  Living Shakespeare on the Hudson By Peter D. Kramer

      [ NYT ]  White as a Snowfall, Gritty as Sand

      An image from the dance-theater work "Salt Lake."

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Hitting the Road with Gary Beach and Spamalot

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Introducing Phantom's Newest Christine: Marni Raab!

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL:A First Look at The Marvelous Wonderettes

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Grey Gardens at California's TheatreWorks

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Marriage Proposal at Spring Awakening

      Reviews:

      [ NYT ]  'Hamlet' Outdoors: The Setting's the Thing By ANDY WEBSTER

      Gorilla Rep's production was presented on a gently sloping stretch of grass in Fort Tryon Park, and the ingenuity of its staging was impressive.

      [ BN ]  Coward's Social Scene, Writer's Secret Converge in Berkshires
      Review by John Simon

      [ V ]  The Bones of Lesser Men
      Review By JULIO MARTINEZ

      Port Au Prince-born scripter Yves Lola St. Vil has culled her Brooklyn upbringing, fashioning an unwieldy, but often compelling glimpse into the challenged lives of locals whose main refuge is their neighborhood diner.

      [ TM ]  Hattie...What I Need You To Know!
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

      Playwright/performer Vickilyn Reynolds is a vocal powerhouse in this clunky bio-musical about Hattie McDaniel.

      [ CU ]  A whirlwind tour of the Shaw Festival

      [ V ]  365
      Review By MARK FISHER

      Perhaps no show could live up to the weight of expectations. The prospect of a National Theater of Scotland collaboration with David Harrower was impossibly tantalizing.

      [ V ]  Dorian Gray
      Review By MARK FISHER

      It might not be as Oscar Wilde imagined it, not least because no words are spoken, but Matthew Bourne's choreographed adaptation of the famous gothic story seems even more appropriate to our self-regarding society than to the dandyish days of 1891.

      [ CU ]  Hamlet

      This production will be coming to London in November and it will be fascinating to see how David Tennant's Hamlet matures. He already speaks the verse beautifully and clearly, and the depth of emotional content will increase as he settles into the role.

      [ TB ]  THE SIEGEL COLUMN By Barbara & Scott Siegel

      The Siegels try on Summer Shorts 2, give Dog Day Afternoon a pet, and give hell to Give 'Em Hell, Harry!.

      [ AMNY ]  'Bash'd' takes on anti-gay violence By Matt Windman (***)

      [ BE ]  Chester Theatre Company: This new 'House' barely stands By Jeffrey Borak

      News:

      [ P ]  Lilli Marlene, Featuring WWII Hits, to Play Off-Broadway's Havoc Theatre

      [ TM ]  Linn Maxwell to Star in Lilli Marlene at the Abingdon

      [ CST ]  'Chat' with the Jersey Boys

      [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Partial Comfort's Kidstuff Premiere

      [ P ]  Irons, Lehrer, Norris, Roeder, Stoltenberg and Walker Set for Second City at Alliance

      [ P ]  Toronto Engagement of Jersey Boys Extended

      [ P ]  Broadway Cares Auctions "Project Runway" Drag Designs

      [ P ]  Martin, Brady, Torres and Greaves Cast in NYMF's Bubble

      [ P ]  Halston, Benjamin, Korbich, Ziemba and More Will Help Raise Funds for NYMF's About Face

      [ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Kristin Chenoweth on "Jimmy Kimmel," Daniel Radcliffe on "Conan O'Brien"

      [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 26

      [ P ]  Clear the Tracks!: LuPone Gypsy Arrives on CD Aug. 26

      [ P ]  "Grapes of Wrath" CD Event, with Tony Winner Clark, Presented at Barnes & Noble Aug. 26

      [ P ]  "I'd Do Anything" Winner Prenger Joins Cast of London's Les Miz Aug. 26

      [ P ]  Norment Begins a Secret Journey at Berkshire Theatre Festival Aug. 26

      [ P ]  Tix for Broadway Shows Will Soon Be Available on New York-Bound Flights

      [ P ]  Allen to Set Sail in World Premiere of Sea Change in Los Angeles

      [ P ]  Harris and Chalke to Host Creative Arts Emmy Awards Sept. 20

      [ P ]  Gasteyer, Griffin, Ivey, Letts and Smith Among 2008 Jefferson Award Nominees

      [ P ]  Break Out, from Jump Creators, to Play Off-Broadway's Union Square

      [ B ]  Break Out, from Creators of Jump, Headed Off-Broadway

      [ TM ]  Break Out to Play Union Square Theatre

      [ B ]  Cate Blanchett Coming to BAM and Kennedy Center in A Streetcar Named Desire

      [ TM ]  Butler, Foote, Gasteyer, Ivey, Smith, Sun, Voytko, et al. Recieve Jeff Award Nominations

      [ TM ]  Vanities to Begin Broadway Previews on February 2

      [ B ]  Vanities Musical Headed to Broadway in February 2009

      [ P ]  Vanities Will Arrive on Broadway in Winter 2009

    • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 7:59 AM | Item Link


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