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Sunday, August 23, 2009

    [ TB ]  Never the Sinner
    Philadelphia Review by Tim Dunleavy

    [ V ]  Kennedy Center answers nonprofits By PAUL HARRIS, GORDON COX

    Legit orgs try to avoid closing

    [ V ]  'Ben Hur' to play at 02 Arena By DAVID BENEDICT

    50 years after the movie, a stage version arises

    [ TM ]  Stewart Copeland to Star in London's Ben-Hur Live

    [ TM ]  The Glass Menagerie with Judith Ivey Part of 2010 Season at Mark Taper Forum

    [ NYT ]  Weddings & Celebrations: Jenny Powers and Matt Cavenaugh

    Shakespeare:

    [ LAT ]  Oregon Shakespeare Festival offers much to build upon By CHARLES McNULTY

    Critic's Notebook: Under artistic director Bill Rauch, the event has a renewed purpose and savvy viewers. Now let's talk overhaul.

    [ NYT ]  Stratford Struggles With Its House of Shakespeare By JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL

    A theater with a proud past, a troubled present and a dubious future is beset by competing political and cultural agendas and the forces of nature.

    [ NYT ]  Slide Show: Stratford's House of Shakespeare

    [ HC ]  Fate Of Shakespeare Theater Site In Question By FRANK RIZZO

    Now the state's longest-running theatrical tragedy continues with another struggle for its future, pitting the mayor, town attorney and the Stratford arts commission against the town council and its designated developer for the project.

    [ B ]  After A Steady Rain, Hugh Jackman Looks to Shakespeare on Stage

    Features:

    [ HP ]  Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese by Dori Berinstein

    Attention all disenfranchised Hollywood writers, actors, producers: Broadway needs you. Broadway, in fact, wants you!

    [ BS ]  'Improvising' in Scripted Comedy By Arnie Burton

    I'm often asked by people who have seen "The 39 Steps"-in which I'm performing on Broadway, along with Jill Paice, Jeffery Kuhn, and Sean Mahon-how much of the show is improvised.

    [ V ]  Henry Miller's Theater takes centerstage By DAVID S. COHEN

    1919 venue gets a makeover

    [ DN ]  Spike Lee brings Broadway's 'Passing Strange' to the big screen By Mark Ellwood

    [ V ]  Nine-titled fare invades biz By TIMOTHY M. GRAY

    'District 9,' 'Nine' fill out confusing class of '09

    [ P ]  STAGE TO SCREENS: Making "Taking Woodstock"; Chats with Groff and Schreiber

    [ NYT ]  Send In the Skinny, German, Juggling, Lederhosen-Wearing Clown By DEBORAH SONTAG

    Michael Hilbig is one of hundreds of variety entertainers who travel the fair circuit, bringing, to borrow a German term, echt performance art to the land.

    [ NYT ]  Broadway Banks on West End Pedigree By PATRICK HEALY

    Transferring productions, especially plays, from London to New York is becoming more common.

    [ NYT ]  Letter
    Astaire and Rogers: Equal Partners

    [ NYT ]  Letter
    Lifting Our Spirits

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hair Cast and Creators Sing, Chat and Sign in NYC

    The Fringe Festival:

    [ TB ]  Eat, Drink, & Be Merry and Camp Super Friend
    Review by Matthew Murray

    [ TB ]  Damon and Debra and Gutter Star: The Paperback Musical
    Review by Matthew Murray

    [ TE ]  Victoria & Frederick for President - Review by OSCAR E. MOORE

    1872's political odd couple.

    [ P ]  Union Squared, Comedy About a Wife, a Mother and a Mistress, Begins FringeNYC Run

    Other Reviews:

    [ NYT ]  Theater Review | Long Island
    A Joyous Sendup Bursting With Can-Do Spirit By AILEEN JACOBSON

    In the backstage musical "Dames at Sea," the plucky actors move their show to a nearby battleship after their Broadway theater is demolished.

    [ HC ]  Riz' Blog review: Cirque du Soleil's "Alegria" By Frank Rizzo

    [ TB ]  The Dreamer Examines His Pillow at Shakespeare & Company
    Review by Fred Sokol

    [ TB ]  The 39 Steps
    San Diego Review by Bill Eadie

    [ NYT ]  'The Confessions of Edward Day' By VALERIE MARTIN
    Reviewed by LAURIE WINER

    Valerie Martin's new novel is a thriller of sorts that explores the actor's psyche.

    News:

    [ V ]  Road grosses drop 12.3% in Week 12

    San Diego's 'Wicked' is week's biggest earner

    [ CFR ]  MTI Showspace to Sponsor Aug. 27 Theater Blogger Social

    [ P ]  Sing Out, Sister: Vanities Will Get a Cast Album

    [ B ]  Joe DiPietro's F*cking Men to Play Hollywood's Celebration Theatre

    [ TM ]  Joe DiPietro's F**king Men To Play Hollywood's Celebration Theatre

    [ TM ]  Rosanne Cash, Stew, Tiger Lillies, et al. Set for St. Ann's Warehouse's 2009-2010 Season

    [ P ]  Rosanne Cash to Open St. Ann's Season with The List Oct. 9

    [ P ]  Freud's Last Session, a Barrington Hit, Extends to Sept. 6

    [ P ]  More Performers Join We Are the Song: After the Storm at Joe's Pub

    [ P ]  Kritzer and Cooper to Read Memory Is the Mother of All Wisdom at Barrington

    [ P ]  Plays by Foote, McDonagh, Dietz, Rambo and Murray-Smith on ACT 2010 Bill

    [ P ]  Casting Announced for Gay Bride of Frankenstein at NYMF

    [ P ]  An Evening with Liza Minnelli to Play the Hollywood Bowl

    [ TM ]  Tim Crouch, Classical Theatre of Harlem, et al. to Appear at Boston's ICA

    [ TM ]  Metropolitan Opera to Present Free Summer HD Festival at Lincoln Center

    [ TM ]  Mitchell Jarvis, Eric McCormack, Rosie Perez, Stephen Rea. et al. to Guest Star on Law & Order: SVU

    [ TM ]  America Ferrara and Ana Ortiz of Ugly Betty Win Imagen Awards

    [ TM ]  David Rockwell to Be Honored at Pratt's Legends 2009 Gala

    [ TM ]  Dick Capri, Amanda Green, Sal Richards, et al. to Play Lorenzo's

    [ TM ]  Eli Wallach to Participate in A Baroque Holiday Concert

    [ TM ]  Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons Georgia O'Keefe Telefilm to Bow on September 19

    [ TM ]  Amy Madigan to Star in Theatricum Botanicum Benefit

    [ TM ]  Robert Redford, Juliette Binoche to Appear As Part of September BAMcinématek

    [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 23

    [ P ]  Magic to Do: Starry Stephen Schwartz: Making Good Concert Plays L.A.

    [ P ]  Cronin's Reach the Sky Concert Plays the Duplex Aug. 23

    [ P ]  Sammy, the New Musical, Now on Sale at Old Globe

    [ P ]  Opera Star Has Family Woes in NYC Musical Comedy Dancing With Abandon

    [ P ]  Brooksher, Emery and Gill Are Sick, Opening at Berkshire Theatre Fest Aug. 22

    [ P ]  McKenna, Maxwell Star in Wertenbaker's New Phèdre at Stratford Festival

    [ P ]  White People Heard From at Shakespeare & Co. in Massachusetts

    [ P ]  Rice Boy, a Play About "Cultural Inheritance," Opens at Stratford Festival

    [ P ]  Toronto Run of Lloyd Webber's Boys in the Photograph Now On Sale

    [ P ]  Creel Sidelined from Hair Due to Injury; Remillard Will Cover

    [ B ]  White Christmas to Spread Holiday Cheer to Seven Cities this Winter

    [ B ]  Oscar Winner Catherine Zeta-Jones Eyes Broadway Bow in A Little Night Music

    [ P ]  Will Zeta-Jones and Lansbury Be Daughter and Mother of A Little Night Music?

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