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Saturday, October 4, 2008

    "13" - and other shows about teens:

    [ ND ]  Linda Winer: 'Spring Awakening,' 'Equus,' '13' spotlight teens

    Coming-of-age stories have long been a favorite in books and Hollywood. On Broadway these days, however, the casting of real teens spills the drama of pubescence beyond the illusory edges of the stage.
    I'm not talking about "Annie and Simba Get School Spirit."

    [ V ]  Hollywood in tune with teen musicals By TATIANA SIEGEL

    It's beginning to look a lot like the 1930s.
    The economy is in the toilet, and Hollywood studios are filling their pipelines with upbeat dance films, particularly teen hoofers.

    [ V ]  Broadway discovers teen appeal By GORDON COX

    Teens aren't just hot in Hollywood. Broadway, too, has discovered the Jonas Brothers demo, as producers plot to lure tween auds, and depictions of adolescent angst gain artistic cred, thanks in part to 2007 Tony winner "Spring Awakening."

    [ V ]  Teens, kids discover Broadway By SAM THIELMAN

    Family-friendly fare continues to blossom

    [ LAT ]  Culture Monster Blog
    Has Jason Robert Brown's musical '13' come of age? by Charles McNulty

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Teens Take Broadway Stage in Brown's New Musical 13

    [ LAT ]  'Speech & Debate' playwright Stephen Karam remains youthful By Rob Kendt

    Stephen Karam sees himself writing about other topics. But mining the teen terrain, as in 'Speech & Debate,' has brought him a long way.

    Features:

    [ LAT ]  The ageless audience By Diane Haithman

    Popular conception says the arts' supporters are graying and shriveling. But it may be that as the crowd's individuals change, its age doesn't.

    [ NYT ]  The Grinch Meets Sir Thomas More By STUART MILLER

    Patrick Page has been known mostly for cartoonish roles. But in regional theater he is known as a Shakespearean leading man.

    [ NYT ]  War and Sex: Who's Afraid of Sarah Kane? By MARK BLANKENSHIP

    Soho Rep is facing the challenge of staging Sarah Kane's "Blasted," a play bursting with audacious violence and wriggling with metaphor.

    [ NYT ]  Slide Show: Staging the Audacious

    A look at the work of the playwright Sarah Kane, who died in 1999.

    [ NYT ]  WEEKEND IN NEW YORK
    Seeing the Show Without Breaking the Bank By SETH KUGEL

    There are plenty of ways to go to the theater -- and even get great seats to Tony Award-winning Broadway shows -- for under $50.

    [ V ]  West End setting table for Sundays By DAVID BENEDICT

    Society of London Theater prepares shows

    [ NYT ]  A Day of Living History to Celebrate Democracy By KARIN LIPSON

    Historic figures portrayed in a series of dramatic vignettes by Hofstra students and others will be featured in a free program spotlighting moments in the country's past.

    [ NYT ]  The Classics Performed Before Folding Chairs By CARLA BARANAUCKAS

    Mile Square Theater company in Hoboken, which formerly performed on the waterfront, is adjusting to its new indoor space.

    [ NYT ]  Talk Show by Dick Cavett
    'Tis but a Man Gone ... but What a Man

    I hate having to say goodbye to Paul Newman.

    [ NYT ]  What Mattered Most to Paul Newman By BOB TEDESCHI

    To his neighbors, Mr. Newman was known as a friend, a benefactor and a man for whom fame was a currency to be spent on behalf of others.

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP : Grease's Ace Young Spends His Night Off at Legally Blonde

    "The Seagull":

    [ NPR ]  Writer Hampton Transforms 'The Seagull' On Stage

    [ NY1 ]  Review: "The Seagull" By: Roma Torre

    [ B ]  VIDEO FEATURES : Opening Night: The Seagull

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP : The Seagull Lands on Broadway for a Classy Opening Night

    Other Reviews:

    [ NYT ]  The Exquisite Agony of Love, With a Movie Star and a Choreographer By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

    The most notable thing about "in-i," a dance piece in repertory through Oct. 20 at London's National Theater, is the celebrity of its performers, Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan.

    [ V ]  Zed
    Review by Richard Ouzounian

    It's no surprise that "Zed," Cirque du Soleil's first permanent Japanese show only bears fleeting resemblances to the Tarot-card work first put on the agenda.

    [ NYT ]  A 'Venus' That Takes an 18th-Century Orbit By STEPHEN WELLS

    "Transit of Venus," at the Bickford Theater in Morristown, revives a stereotype of women as subjugated objects of desire, making it difficult to believe that a woman actually wrote it.

    [ NYT ]  More Than a Museum Piece By ANITA GATES

    Not everyone can write a comedy sketch about slavery and get away with it. George C. Wolfe did in 1986. "The Colored Museum" has come home to the Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick, where it debuted.

    [ NYT ]  Time Traveling With a 'Passion' By SYLVIANE GOLD

    Sarah Ruhl's "Passion Play" is an examination of the ways in which faith intersects with politics.

    [ TNO ]  BLACK THOUGHTS by ANDY BUCK

    Small Craft Warnings is not top shelf Tennessee Williams , but it's probably his best after 1961's The Night of the Iguana. To succeed, it needs actors who bring the capacity to surprise. For the most part, that's sorely lacking here.

    News:

    [ V ]  Good news for 'Dirty,' 'Blonde'

    Road Grosses

    [ P ]  Dramatists Guild to Present DuoLogues with Playwrights Shaffer and Guare Oct. 14

    [ TM ]  Guare and Shaffer to Participate in Dramatists Guild "DuoLogues" Series

    [ P ]  Storch/Cariou Reprise Vancouver Roles of Frost/Nixon for Toronto Run Oct. 13-Nov. 8

    [ P ]  Diggs and Palermo to Premiere the people in Tribeca Oct. 9

    [ P ]  Krivit, MacLean, May, Waxman and Hollands to DJ Special Performances of Fuerza Bruta

    [ P ]  Canadian Playwright Appears in Premiere of Her Own Story, Scratch, Oct. 4-Nov. 2

    [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 4

    [ P ]  Peters Headlines Spotlight Gala at NJPAC Oct. 4

    [ P ]  Brel's Gay Marshall Sings Piaf at the Metropolitan Room Oct. 4

    [ P ]  Lemper Sings Weill's Seven Deadly Sins at Carnegie Hall Oct. 4

    [ P ]  Little Shop of Horrors Opens for Business at the Engeman Oct. 4

    [ P ]  Wartime Drama, The Language of Trees, With Hayden, Begins Roundabout Run Oct. 4

    [ P ]  Wild Dogs Gets World Premiere in Toronto Starting Oct. 4

    [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: 'Hairspray' to Close
    Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

    [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Writers File Complaint Against Tyler Perry By EDWARD WYATT; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

    [ SJ ]  The Public Theatre shines spotlight on multitasking moms, a man seeking love, a famous writer and a family saying a unique goodbye By David A. Sargent

    The three soccer moms in this rejuvenating comedy by Kathleen Clark are Heather Dilly as Alison, Maura O'Brien as Lynn and Mitchko as Nancy. The show runs through Nov. 9.

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