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Friday, March 6, 2009

    News:

    [ TM ]  Broadway's Impressionism Delays Opening Until March 24, Cancels March 9 Performance

    [ P ]  Impressionism Opening Date Moved to March 24

    [ B ]  Impressionism Delays Broadway Opening to March 24

    [ P ]  Warchus to Direct Ghost Musical, with Dave Stewart-Glen Ballard Score, in London

    [ B ]  Musical Version of Ghost by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard Headed for London

    [ TM ]  Ghost Musical to Open in London in 2010

    [ TNO ]  GIGI GROWS UP

    Leslie Caron into a rare Parisian production of A Little Night Music .

    [ P ]  Rattlestick Extends Run of Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play

    [ P ]  Stage Version of Carrie's War to Play West End's Apollo Theatre

    [ TM ]  Kelly Bishop, Susie Essman, Sarah Jones, Kristen Wiig, and More Set for March 9 Love, Loss and What I Wore

    [ P ]  Bishop, Essman, Wiig, Jones and Raphael Set for March 9 Reading of Love, Loss, and What I Wore

    [ TM ]  Jarrod Emick, Kingsley Leggs, and More Set for Ford's Theatre's The Civil War

    [ P ]  Emmick, Leggs, Lanning, Gamble, Shew Among Wildhorn's Civil War Re-Enactors at Ford's Theatre

    [ TM ]  Jim True-Frost to Direct Ladybird for American Repertory Theatre

    [ TM ]  E. Faye Butler, Marva Hicks, NaTasha Yvette Williams et al. Set for Arena Stage's Crowns

    [ TM ]  Lindsay Crouse, Karen MacDonald, Paula Plum, and More Set for Gloucester Stage's 2009-2010 Season

    [ TM ]  Live from Lincoln Center to Broadcast Wynton Marsalis Concert

    [ P ]  Mary Stuart Box Office to Open for Business March 9

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 28-March 6: Guys and Dolls, Reinvented

    [ P ]  Mayes, Rice and Langham Set for March Is Cabaret Month Celebration; Cutrell Hosts

    [ P ]  Cubby Bernstein DVD to Benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

    [ P ]  Pennsylvania Ballet Launches YouTube Channel

    [ P ]  Blithe Spirit Opening-Night Package to Benefit BC/EFA

    [ P ]  King David to Play New York's Promise Theater in April

    [ P ]  Brian Dennehy Joins Goodman Theatre's "Artistic Collective"

    [ P ]  Sydney Chaplin, Tony-Honored Actor of Bells Are Ringing and Funny Girl, Dead at 82

    [ P ]  Najimy to Direct L.A. Premiere of Back to Bacharach and David

    [ P ]  Cantone, Clayburgh, Scott and Webb to Read The Minotaur for The Fire Dept

    [ P ]  Darragh and Keeley Complete Glass Menagerie Cast at Long Wharf

    [ P ]  New Wildhorn Musical Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure to Premiere in Tampa

    [ P ]  Barbour to Welcome Cuccioli for March 21 Love Songs

    [ P ]  Xanadu to End Chicago Run in March Prior to Tokyo Premiere

    [ TM ]  Xanadu to Close in Chicago on March 29

    [ TM ]  Shakespeare & Company Announces 2009-2010 Season

    [ TM ]  Kathy Najimy to Direct L.A. Run of Back to Bachrach and David

    [ B ]  Robin Williams Postpones Broadway Destruction Due to Heart Surgery

    Reviews:

    [ TE ]  Blood Type: Raguby Oscar E Moore

    "Molto bene ma troppo lungo."("Very good but too long.")

    Features:

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Master Class, with Barbara Walsh, at Paper Mill Playhouse

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Off-Broadway's Blood Type: Ragu Opens at Actors' Playhouse

    [ P ]  MARQUEE VALUE: Guys and Dolls at the Nederlander Theatre

    Horton Foote, 1916-2009:

    [ P ]  Hartford Stage and Signature Committed to Foote's Orphans' Home Cycle

    [ P ]  "Working in the Theater" Series to Rebroadcast "Horton Foote's America" March 6-7

    [ NPR ]  Horton Foote, Scripting Across The Decades

    This interview was originally broadcast July 8, 1988.

    [ PBS ]  Horton Foote's Work Illuminated Struggles of American Life

    [ LAT ]  Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil
    Horton Foote died just months before he could finally win that elusive Tony Award

    [ HC ]  Editorial: Playwright Horton Foote Found Home In Hartford

    [ CSM ]  Horton Foote, an appreciation By Gregory M. Lamb

    A playwright for the common man.

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 3:59 PM | Item Link


      • [ NYP ]  HER 'HEDDA' EXAMINED By MICHAEL RIEDEL
      PARKER POLITELY DISPUTES DIVA LABEL

      [ TM ]  Robin Williams Postpones Broadway Engagement Due to Heart Surgery

      [ P ]  Robin Williams' Spring Broadway Bow Postponed Due to Heart Surgery

      [ DN ]  Robin Williams undergoes emergency heart surgery, postpones rest of tour BY Helen Kennedy

      [ TM ]  Phylicia Rashad to Join Broadway's August: Osage County on May 26

      [ B ]  Phylicia Rashad Back as Another Big Mama: Violet in August: Osage County

      [ P ]  Rashad to Step Into Dysfunctional Family of August: Osage County

      [ NYT ]  Rashad to Replace Parsons in 'August'
      Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

      [ CT ]  'Xanadu' closing in Chicago by Chris Jones

      [ CST ]  'Xanadu' to vanish March 29 at Drury Lane by Hedy Weiss

      Musical to land in Japan before U.S. tour

      [ TM ]  Fantasia to Join Color Purple Tour for Kennedy Center Engagement

      [ B ]  Fantasia Barrino to Star in The Color Purple at the Kennedy Center

      [ P ]  Barrino Will Return for Kennedy Center Run of The Color Purple

      [ B ]  The Story of My Life to Get Original Cast Recording

      [ TM ]  PS Classics to Record The Story of My Life March 13

      [ P ]  Cast Album Planned for The Story of My Life

      [ P ]  Ephraim, Friedman, O'Connell, DeHaan and Tolson to Face End Days Off-Broadway

      [ TM ]  Molly Ephraim, Peter Friedman, Deidre O'Connell and More Set for End Days

      [ TM ]  Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland to Premiere in Tampa

      [ P ]  Tommy Reunion Concert Raises $30,000 for Charity

      [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX

      AT least one Broadway diva is up in arms about Mayor Bloomberg's plan to turn the Great White Way into the Great Walkway.

      Horton Foote, 1916-2009:

      [ HC ]  A Theatrical Farewell By Frank Rizzo

      It was an emotional night at Hartford Stage Wednesday night for the production of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

      [ NYT ]  An Appraisal
      A Dramatist Who Cozied Up to the Chill Within the Hearth By BEN BRANTLEY

      Horton Foote's plays have always felt like home to me. You don't have to have grown up Southern, as I did, to respond this way to the soft-spoken tales of small-town Texas.

      [ LAT ]  The Daily Mirror Blog: Voices -- Horton Foote, 1916 - 2009

      A Times interview with Foote from 2002.

      Features:

      [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Wilder! Cromer! Wilder!

      [ P ]  DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Rooms' Leslie Kritzer Plus Sutton Foster's "Wish"

      [ LAT ]  'Hijabi Monologues': the women under the head scarves By Raja Abdulrahim

      The play examines a simple piece of clothing and the complex reactions to it in the U.S.

      [ TM ]  Michael Shulman Finds a Way By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

      After starring in Off-Broadway's White People, the young actor-producer hits the road in the new film Sherman's Way.

      [ B ]  FRESH FACE : Josh Stamberg

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP : An Inside Look as Hair's Tribe Lets Loose in Rehearsal

      [ B ]  VIDEO FEATURES : On the Scene: Fonda & Kaufman Talk 33 Variations

      [ CST ]  Palminteri takes audience to mean streets with his 'Bronx Tale' BY MARY HOULIHAN

      [ NYT ]  Tenants of a Vanishing World By JULIE SCELFO

      An apartment at the Apthorp is a lone outpost of the kind of bohemian family life that renters could once have there.

      Thanks to kieran on All That Chat for the link.

      "Distracted":

      [ TM ]  Distracted, Starring Cynthia Nixon, Extends Through May 17

      [ B ]  Distracted, with Cynthia Nixon, Announces Second Extension

      [ P ]  Another Week Added to Loomer's Off-Broadway Distracted, Starring Nixon

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Cynthia Nixon Opens in Distracted Off-Broadway

      [ B ]  VIDEO FEATURES : Beyond Broadway: Distracted

      [ BN ]  Cynthia Nixon Unravels as Stressed Mom of Wild Boy: John Simon

      "Distracted" may not be great dramaturgy, but it does provide two hours of highly animated distraction.

      [ WSJ ]  Dull Guys and Hot Dolls on Broadway By TERRY TEACHOUT

      Plus "Distracted."

      Other Reviews:

      [ DN ]  Modest memoir simmers on stage in 'Blood Type: Ragu' by Joe Dziemianowicz (**)

      [ BS ]  Blood Type: Ragu - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

      In Frank Ingrasciotta's one-man show at the newly refurbished Actors' Playhouse, the actor-author embodies multiple characters from his life as the son of Sicilian immigrants to Brooklyn, and technically he does it very well.

      [ TM ]  Blood Type: RAGU
      Reviewed by: Andy Propst

      Frank Ingrasciotta's solo show about growing up Sicilian is very well performed but tonally unbalanced.

      [ TB ]  Blood Type: Ragu

      Theatre Review by Matthew Murray

      Blood Type: Ragu feels as hastily assembled as half-cooked spaghetti dressed with partially frozen tomato sauce.

      [ BS ]  The Black Jew Dialogues - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

      Fans of sophomoric humor will have a blast at "The Black Jew Dialogues," but anyone looking for a witty, subversive take on race in America will be disappointed.

      [ TE ]  GUYS AND DOLLS - Reviled or Revered B'way Revival? by OSCAR E MOORE

      The delightful surprise is Lauren Graham - of "Gilmore Girls". Who would have ever imagined that she would make such a memorable Adelaide - the long suffering fiancée, engaged to Nathan Detroit for fourteen years, who works at singing and stripping while waiting for the ring to be placed on her lonely finger.

      [ TB ]  THE TWO OF CLUBS By Barbara & Scott Siegel

      Michel Legrand pulls our string(s) at Birdland while Comstock and Fasano charm at The Metropolitan Room.

      [ NYP ]  THEIR JOINT VENTURE IS A CAPITAL IDEA By FRANK SCHECK

      HUSBAND-and-wife team Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano have been called the "Nick and Nora" of cabaret, but I think the better comparison is to Fred and Ginger. Like that immortal pairing, she brings him sex, he brings her class, and the combination works magic.

      [ NYT ]  Yours Ever, Sam
      'The Letters of Samuel Beckett'
      Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER

      Samuel Beckett, that most taciturn and private of 20th-century writers, turns out to have been one of the century's great correspondents.

      News:

      [ BG ]  Shakespeare & Co. mixes old and new By Megan Tench

      For their 2009-10 season, the company's expanded lineup has works ranging from "Hamlet" and "Othello" to "Shirley Valentine," Golda's Balcony," and more.

      [ V ]  'Back to Bacharach' to make LA debut

      Kathy Najimy headlines musical review

      [ BN ]  Debbie Allen, Face Pillows, Fill 'Arabesque' at Kennedy Center By Kate Andersen

      [ TM ]  Judith Ivey, Josh Charles, Patch Darragh, Keira Keeley to Star in Long Wharf's The Glass Menagerie

      [ P ]  SCR's Pacific Playwrights Fest Will Feature Greenberg's Latest

      [ TM ]  Julia Cho, Richard Greenberg, Howard Korder, and More Set for Pacific Playwrights Festival

      [ LAT ]  Culture Monster: SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival lineup set by Mike Boehm

      [ P ]  Akhavan, Saba, Chrysan Cast in San Jose Rep's The Kite Runner, a World Premiere Adaptation

      [ TM ]  Cast Set for World Premiere Adaptation of The Kite Runner

      [ P ]  Matthew Morrison TV Series "Glee" Will Preview in May, Launch in Fall

      [ P ]  Red Bull Adds Old Debts, With René Auberjonois, Jovial Crew and Volpone to Revelation Series

      [ TM ]  René Auberjonois to Star in Red Bull Reading of A New Way to Pay Old Debts

      [ P ]  HBO Announces April Premiere for "Grey Gardens" Film

      [ TM ]  HBO's Grey Gardens to Debut on April 18

      [ TM ]  Kerry O'Malley, Robert Cuccioli to Guest at James Barbour's Love Songs Concerts

      [ TM ]  Eric Bogosian, David Cale, Larry Pine, and More Set for New Group's Dracula Reading

      [ TM ]  Mario Cantone, Jill Clayburgh, Campbell Scott, Jeremy Webb Set for Minotaur Reading

      [ TM ]  Brian Dennehy Joins Goodman Theatre's Artistic Collective

      [ TM ]  Craig Carnelia, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lari White Set for Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project

      [ TM ]  Kate Clinton, Van Hansis, Cherry Jones, T.R. Knight, S. Epatha Merkerson, et al. Set for NYC GLAAD Awards Ceremony

      [ P ]  In the Heights' de Jesus Added to MCC's Miscast 2009 Performers

      [ P ]  Sibling Revelry: Brothers Travel the World in Karma Cookie,Premiering in Philly

      [ P ]  Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare, with Bosco, Easton and Chalfant, Rescheduled for March 18

      [ P ]  Lefkowitz, Anderson, Klein, Rohn, Strain Cast in Rise and Fall of Annie Hall in DC

      [ P ]  London Oliver! Star Jodie Prenger Takes Vocal Rest

      [ P ]  Intiman Casts Essandoh, Boston, Robinson and Moore in 2009 Season

      [ P ]  Broadway Hair Producers Announce Lottery Ticket Offer

      [ P ]  White Plains Night Music, with Fuller, Jacoby, Davie and More, Begins March 5

      [ NYT ]  Theater Listings: March 6-12

      Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

      [ ND ]  NYC PICKS: Museums get musical by GABRIELLE KORN, KEVIN AMORIM, RAFER GUZMAN, LINDA WINER

      [ DN ]  Hot Seats: Theater and comedy picks this weekend

      [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 6

      [ P ]  My Man Godfrey Reading, with Danieley, Johnson, Maxwell, Oscar, Paice, Presented March 6

      [ P ]  Kirk Douglas Performs One-Man Show at the Kirk Douglas Theatre Beginning March 6

      [ P ]  Cotton Joins Cast of Off-Broadway's Marvelous Wonderettes March 6

      [ P ]  Mike Nichols Chats at Riverspace March 6

      [ P ]  Huntington's Two Men of Florence, with Herrmann, Sanders and Crowley, Begins March 6

      [ P ]  Abingdon Takes A Greek Holiday Off-Broadway March 6

      [ P ]  Hair, with Swenson, Creel, Allen, Levy, Case and Sheik, Returns to Broadway March 6

      [ P ]  Depression Era Revue "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" Begins Off-Broadway Run March 6

      [ P ]  God of Carnage and Salutes to Sondheim and Pinter on Playbill Radio March 10-17

      [ P ]  Cartoon-Inspired Class of 3000 LIVE! Makes World Premiere in Atlanta March 6-29

      [ P ]  Alive Mind Will Release Streep-Kline Mother Courage Documentary

      [ P ]  Tom Cole, Medal of Honor Rag Playwright, Dead at 75

      [ LAT ]  Sydney Chaplin dies at 82; stage actor and son of Charlie Chaplin By Valerie J. Nelson

      [ TNO ]  THE PARTY'S OVER by ROGER B. HARRIS

      Stage actor Sydney Chaplin dead at 82

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