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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

    [ P ]  Laurie Metcalf to Star in Revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound

    [ TM ]  Laurie Metcalf to Star in Brighton Beach Memoirs / Broadway Bound Revivals

    "Rock of Ages":

    [ NY ]  Rock of Ages' Constantine Maroulis on Groupies and Performing for Drinking Audiences

    [ TM ]  One for the Ages By Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

    Nikki Blonsky, Katrina Bowden, Jane Krakowski, Ilene Kristen, Dee Snider, Elizabeth Stanley, Michael Urie, Max Von Essen, and Darnell Williams join Constantine Maroulis and the cast of Rock of Ages for their big Broadway opening.

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT:Rock of Ages - The Night of Drunken Fireflies

    [ YN ]  The team behind the musical 'Rock of Ages' celebrates the 1980s By Kristen A. Lee, The Associated Press

    [ ND ]  'Rock of Ages': a salute to '80s hair-metal BY RAFER GUZMÃN

    It's breezy, silly fun, but a genuine musical set against this colorful, chaotic era - the "Rent" of hair-metal - has yet to be written.

    [ BS ]  Rock of Ages - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

    Like the cash cows "Mamma Mia!" and "Jersey Boys," "Rock of Ages" will appeal mainly to undiscriminating theatregoers who are more interested in hearing the tunes of their youth than in a credible story and characters with more than two dimensions.

    [ LAT ]  Culture Monster: 'Rock of Ages' on Broadway: What did the critics think?

    Features:

    [ GOTHAMIST ]  Christopher Durang, Playwright

    [ B ]  VIDEO FEATURES : Beyond Broadway: Happiness

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP : Meet the Steamy Triangle in Broadway's Desire Under the Elms

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The New York Pops Celebrate Strouse

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP : Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Get Down at Hair

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Toxic Avenger Opens Off-Broadway

    [ PW ]  Devon Theater Reopens in Mayfair By J. Cooper Robb

    A Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood gets an obscenity-free theater.

    News:

    [ TM ]  Broadway Bares 19.0 "Click It!" Set for Roseland Ballroom June 21

    [ P ]  Jersey Boys' Gregus Will Direct Broadway Bares 19.0

    [ TM ]  Jenn Colella, Debbie Gravitte, Euan Morton, Nellie McKay, Kate Shindle, and More Set for NYMF's Best of the Fest Gala

    [ P ]  Morton, Gravitte, Larsen, Davis and McKay Join Line-Up for Starry NYMF Gala

    [ TM ]  Titus Burgess, Norm Lewis, Melba Moore, Lillias White, et al. Set for "Just a Piano" Series

    [ P ]  Just a Piano Concert Series to Feature Lewis-Evans, Moore, Burgess and White

    [ TM ]  Lauren Flanigan to Star in Stephen Schwartz's Séance on a Wet Afternoon

    [ TM ]  McCarter Theatre Announces Cast for Tarrell Alvin McCraney's Brother/Sister Plays

    [ TM ]  Cast Set for Latin Hip Hop Rock Musical Kingdom in Asbury Park

    [ TM ]  DisinHAIRited, Threepenny Opera and More Receive Digital Releases from Masterworks Broadway

    [ TM ]  Mary Poppins to Celebrate 1000th Broadway Performance April 9

    [ TM ]  Sting, Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr., Tevin Campbell, et al. Set for Let the Sunshine In

    [ TM ]  Jessica Lange, David Wilson Barnes, Kate Valk, and More Set for Catalan Days Festival

    [ P ]  Jim Bailey to Mark 40th Anniversary of Garland's Death with West End Return

    [ P ]  Cleveland Play House Will Get New PlayhouseSquare Home in 2011

    [ P ]  Cleveland Nabs Tours of August, Heights and Xanadu for 2009-2010

    [ P ]  Public's Good Negro to Host Post-Show Discussion April 11

    [ TM ]  Fred Applegate, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, and More Set for Reading of Panophobia

    [ P ]  D'Abruzzo, Applegate, Mizer and More Set for Free Reading of Shemin's Panophobia

    [ P ]  National Corporate Theatre Fund to Honor Fonda, Breglio and USA Today

    [ P ]  McKechnie, Barrett, Fellner and Robertson Set for Musicals of Lerner & Loewe

    [ P ]  Minkus, Rodd, Schell, Rossi Cast in Off-Broadway Revue, Don't Leave It All to Your Children!

    [ P ]  Cast Set for Toronto Run of Garfinkel's House of Many Tongues, a North American Premiere

    [ P ]  Cast Set for Chicago-Area Engagement of Altar Boyz

    [ P ]  Sounds of Early '60s to Converge in Some Kind of Wonderful!, at Florida Stage

    [ P ]  Egolf, Sella and Story Are Madcap Menage a Trois of DC Design for Living

    [ P ]  Adelaide Cabaret Festival to Feature Peters, White and Wilson

    [ P ]  LuPone and Patinkin Will Bring an Evening Down Under in July

    [ P ]  Casting Announced for U.S. Premiere of 2009 Blackburn Award Winner, Christmas Is Miles Away

    [ P ]  Les Miz's Ewoldt to Star in McKneely-Directed International West Side Story Tour

    [ P ]  Will "Pushing Daisies" Air Final Episodes on ABC in May?

    [ P ]  Tony Nominee Wilson and McBride Will Duet at Joe's Pub April 13

    [ P ]  U.K. Hit Girls Night to Play Downstairs Cabaret Theatre in Manhattan

    [ B ]  Cast Set for NYC Production of Girls Night: The Musical

    [ TM ]  Cast Set for Off-Broadway's Girls Night: The Musical

    [ B ]  Tony Nominee Daniel Evans Named Artistic Director of the U.K.'s Sheffield Theatres

    [ TM ]  Daniel Evans Named Artistic Director for Sheffield Theaters

    [ B ]  Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy Headed for Second Stage

    [ TM ]  Anna Deavere Smith to Present Let Me Down Easy at Second Stage

    [ P ]  Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy to Play Off-Broadway's Second Stage

    A Review:

    [ TB ]  The Civil War and Antebellum
    Washington, D.C. Review by Susan Berlin

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 4:41 PM | Item Link


      • [ NYP ]  HONEST TO 'GOD' SUCCESS By MICHAEL RIEDEL
      'CARNAGE' A RARE HIT: NO MUSIC, HOT TICKET

      [ NYT ]  Playwright Finds a New Stage Home in New York By PATRICK HEALY

      Anna Deavere Smith will return to the New York stage this fall for the first time in nine years with a new production at Second Stage Theater.

      [ P ]  Daniel Evans Appointed New Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres

      [ V ]  Disney discount boosts box office By GORDON COX

      $1.4 mil for theater ticket sales in two days

      [ V ]  'Girls' show heads to New York By GORDON COX

      'Night' to open June 4 at Downstairs Cabaret

      [ NY ]  Final Episodes of Pushing Daisies Finally Get Airdates

      [ V ]  Dialect coach K.C. Ligon dies at 60

      Actors coached include James Earl Jones

      [ IBDB ]  K.C. Ligon's Broadway Credits

      [ VV ]  Jack Wrangler (1946 - 2009) By Michael Musto

      [ IBDB ]  Jack Wrangler's Broadway Credits

      [ BN ]  New York's Bloomberg Expands Loans to Aid Struggling Nonprofits By Henry Goldman

      [ NYT ]  History of Street Gangs Lives in Musicals, Books and Memories By AL BAKER and JOEL STONINGTON

      [ TM ]  The Marc of Greatness By: Ellis Nassour

      Marc Kudisch happily returns to Broadway as the chauvinistic boss Franklin Hart Jr. in 9 to 5.

      "Rock of Ages":

      [ NYT ]  Slide Show: Big Hair and Denim Dreams

      [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Three Quasi-Rock Musicals

      [ NYT ]  Big-Hair Rockers Return in a New Arena: Broadway By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

      "Rock of Ages" is a seriously silly, absurdly enjoyable arena-rock musical.

      [ TM ]  Rock of Ages
      Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

      This jukebox material using the hairband songs of the 1980s is deliriously entertaining.

      [ DN ]  'Rock of Ages' delivers '80s sprinkled with cheese by Joe Dziemianowicz (*** 1/2)

      [ AMNY ]  Review of Rock of Ages by Matt Windman (3 out of 4 Stars)

      [ TB ]  Rock of Ages
      Review by Matthew Murray

      Rock of Ages isn't trying to be theatre the way Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys are. It's just trying to be a good time.

      [ NY1 ]  Review: "Rock Of Ages" By: Roma Torre

      "Rock of Ages" is not for everyone, but I bet a lot of people who wouldn't expect to like this goofy musical will be smitten. Count me in that group.

      [ V ]  Rock of Ages
      Review By DAVID ROONEY

      It's safe to say nostalgists won't feel cheated by "Rock of Ages," and that it won't be stealing audiences from "South Pacific." But by the time the ensemble unites on Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," even nonbelievers may start inhaling the Aqua Net and embracing their inner rocker.

      [ R ]  "Rock" gives '80s hair-band songs their day By Frank Scheck (Hollywood Reporter)

      This cheesy exercise in rock nostalgia has already been a hit in Los Angeles and Off Broadway, and this transfer to the rialto should prove an equally critic-proof success.

      [ NYP ]  HIT PARADE'S NOT ROCK-SOLID By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI (** 1/2)

      [ BR ]  'Rock' sinks like a stone BY ROBERT FELDBERG

      [ USA ]  'Rock of Ages' makes it hard to hold on to the feeling By Elysa Gardner (*1/2 out of four)

      [ AP ]  'Rock of Ages' tours the music of the '80s By PETER SANTILLI

      "Rock of Ages" should satisfy nostalgists with a penchant for '80s kitsch, but its lack of depth makes it unlikely to impress a wider audience.

      "Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them":

      [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat Blog
      Laura Benanti of 'Why Torture Is Wrong': The Not-Crazy Person in a Crazy World By Erik Piepenburg

      [ NYT ]  Audio Slide Show: Politics and Laughs

      Laura Benanti talks about performing in the play "Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them."

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Durang's Why Torture Is Wrong... Opens Off-Broadway

      [ TONY ]  Openin-night party: Why Torture Is Wrong by David Cote

      [ BN ]  Psycho Dad, Porno Priest Rant for Laughs in 'Torture': Review by John Simon

      Happy news from Christopher Durang, whose "Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them" at New York's Public Theater is his funniest play in years. Along with other good things, it establishes Laura Benanti, already known in musicals ("Gypsy"), as an absolute star with this nonsinging role.

      [ FT ]  Why Torture Is Wrong, Public Theatre, New York By Brendan Lemon (****)

      Souls parched for humour find refreshment here.

      [ TONY ]  Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
      Review by Adam Feldman

      Many of the satirical darts in Christopher Durang's Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them hit their targets, but even when they don't, the show has a backup arsenal: the low-comic darting of Kristine Nielsen's eyes.

      Other Reviews:

      [ NYT ]  A Chance for Some Theatrical Gems to Shine By MATT WOLF, International Herald Tribune

      Worthy productions like "Parlous Song" and "Saturday Night" can be lost in the maze of theater offerings in London, but shouldn't be.

      [ NYT ]  Slide Show: Small, but Mighty

      [ AMNY ]  The Wizard of Oz at Madison Square Garden by Matt Windman

      [ LAT ]  Culture Monster: Review: 'Late Nite Catechism 3' at Laguna Playhouse by Charles McNulty

      Though I chuckled a fair amount in the show's first half (believe it or not, this loosey-goosey cabaret comedy has two acts), in the cool glare of the weekday morning sun, I couldn't help feeling guilty and impure.

      [ TE ]  A HAIR-raising revival by OSCAR E MOORE

      The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical has got to be the best revival of a Broadway musical this season.Or any season.Period.

      [ VV ]  Too Briefly, Finian's Rainbow Brought Back Old Joys; Hair and West Side Story Still Offer Some By Michael Feingold

      [ VV ]  CSC Tries to Pull Off An Oresteia By Alexis Soloski

      [ VV ]  Jailbait Evokes a More Human Neil LaBute By Rob Weinert-Kendt

      [ VV ]  Chinese Government-Condemned The Bus Stop at Sanford Meisner Theatre By Alexis Soloski

      [ VV ]  Stoppardian Banter Meets William Gibson Mindfuck in A New Theory of Vision By Garrett Eisler

      Features:

      [ AMNY ]  Seth Rudetsky's 30 Deconstructions in 30 Days: Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner

      [ DCTS ]  Curtain Call - Meet the Helen Hayes Nominees

      It's just days before for the curtain rises on the Helen Hayes Awards -Washington's Tony Awards - on April 13th, andmany of its nominees are featured in these mini-interviews:. Broadway's Christianne Noll, Scott Schwartz, Teller, Natascia Diaz, Doug Kreeger, and 60+ more performers, producers and designers talk about how their shows came together.

      [ DCTS ]  Chicago's Charlotte D'Amboise

      In an interview with Joel Markowitz, Charlotte d'Amboise, star of the touring Chicago, talks about the show, A Chorus Line and her children.

      [ R ]  Sienna Miller excited, scared over Broadway debut By Michelle Nichols

      [ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS

      Why Michael Caine won't do Broadway.

      [ NY ]  Steven Weber Is Annoyed by New York's 'Stupid-Looking' Glass Towers

      The theme of Roundabout Theatre Company's 2009 Spring Gala was "Take Me Back to Manhattan."

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Roundabout 2009 Spring Gala at Roseland

      [ WP ]  BACKSTAGE: An Actor-Director's Busy Second Act By Jane Horwitz

      Jerry Whiddon the director just staged "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which opened Monday at Round House Theatre.

      [ NJ ]  Young artists on the rise by Lisa Rose

      Persistence is a quality shared by all three recipients of this year's Star-Ledger Scholarship for the Performing Arts.

      News:

      [ TM ]  Patrick Wilson to Join Mary McBride at Joe's Pub April 13

      [ WP ]  FOLGER THEATRE'S 2009-10 SEASON

      [ HC ]  "Lil's 90th" To Be Celebrated at Long Wharf By Frank Rizzo

      [ HC ]  Long Wharf Eyes More Titles By Frank Rizzo

      [ HC ]  Three Named to Carlotta Festival at Yale By Frank Rizzo

      [ HC ]  "Billie Holiday" to Hartford Stage By Frank Rizzo

      [ P ]  De Guzman, Belcher, Heflin and Plachy to Rock 'n' Roll at the Alley Theatre

      [ P ]  Riabko to Return to Spring Awakening Tour April 14

      [ P ]  LAST CHANCE: Vichy, Heroes, Hamlet and Belles

      [ P ]  Beyond the Yellow Brick Road Concert Series to Feature Bean, Espinosa and Schwartz

      [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 8

      [ P ]  Benko Stars in April 8 Evening Performance of Irena's Vow

      [ P ]  World Premiere of Old Man and the Sea Opens at Long Wharf April 8

      [ P ]  Irish Rep Stages Eight Plays by W.B. Yeats in Two Cycles Starting April 8

      [ BG ]  McGovern's 'Road' to premiere at Huntington By Megan Tench

    • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 9:24 AM | Item Link


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