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Thursday, October 1, 2009

    [ TM ]  Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Michael Arden, Leslie Kritzer Set for Broadway's Sondheim on Sondheim

    [ P ]  Cook, Williams, Sondheim and Lapine Will Return to Broadway with Sondheim on Sondheim

    [ P ]  Michael Arden Will Get Blue in Los Angeles

    [ TM ]  The Toxic Avenger To Launch National Tour in 2010

    [ P ]  Toxic Avenger Stars Head to Chatterbox As Show Hits 200 Perfs.; Tour to Launch in 2010

    [ B ]  The Toxic Avenger Celebrates 200 Performances with National Tour Announcement

    [ TM ]  Billy Elliot's Stephen Hanna to Return to New York City Ballet

    [ TM ]  Susan Louise O'Connor Set for Jordan Seavey's Children at Play

    [ P ]  Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven Extends Off-Broadway Run

    [ P ]  Rattlestick Extends Killers and Other Family Run Off-Broadway

    [ B ]  Rock 'n' Roll Gold: Rock of Ages Announces the First Annual Golden Mullet Awards

    Features:

    [ TM ]  Wore Stories By: Carey Purcell

    Nora and Delia Ephron discuss the creation of the Off-Broadway play Love, Loss and What I Wore.

    [ TDF ]  Pulled in Two Directions By MARK BLANKENSHIP

    Doug Hughes directs two Broadway plays at the same time

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Matthew Modine

    Matthew Modine talks about his recent stage projects, including the showbiz satire Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas, now playing in L.A.

    [ B ]  Fresh Face: Kelli Barrett Rolls from Rocker to Classic Ingenue in The Royal Family

    [ B ]  Videos: Susan Blackwell Takes In the Sights, Sounds & Smells of the Broadway Flea Market

    [ B ]  Watch It: Is Doing Broadway Like Doing Blow? Race's James Spader Visits Craig Ferguson

    [ B ]  Watch It: Jude Law Goes Gaga on Late Night with Poetry & Swordplay

    [ B ]  Watch It: Brit Elle Woods Makes Legally Blonde Music Vid Debut

    [ CFR ]  5 Questions I've Never Been Asked: Crystal Skillman

    With her musical "That's Andy" being read at the York, playwright/librettist/lyricist Skillman says people still ask her, "So, you read all the parts yourself, right?"

    [ CFR ]  John McCann: Arts-Service Groups Should Think About the Arts, Not Themselves

    A strategist asks "Why do we have so many free-standing, poorly funded national 501c3 service organizations in the arts field?" and seems poised to provoke debate.

    [ INQ ]  The play's the things By Dianna Marder

    The audience gets really involved in this show about stuff: An hour before they go to a tag sale.

    [ PW ]  Background Check By J. Cooper Robb

    A new report highlights the diversity of Philly theatergoers.

    [ HC ]  From the Archives: David Sedaris on Line One By Frank Rizzo

    [ B ]  Photo Op: Gimme a Caricature at Sardi's! Hair Stars Will Swenson and Gavin Creel Join the Wall of Fame

    [ TM ]  Hair Stars Gavin Creel and Will Swenson Receive Sardi's Portraits

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Annette Bening Is Medea in Los Angeles

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Serves Superior Donuts

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Twyla Tharp's Come Fly With Me in Atlanta

    [ B ]  Past Favorites & New Teens Make Up Season Four Broadway.com Word of Mouth Panel

    "Glee":

    [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat
    'Glee' Watch: Upstaged by Kristin Chenoweth By Mike Hale

    Poor Lea Michele.

    [ B ]  Glee-Cap: Glee-Cap: Ep. 5: She Knows About Popular

    [ B ]  Watch It: Lea Michele Serenades The View Ladies (Plus, a Jonathan Groff Sighting!)

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway's Kristin Chenoweth Guest Stars on "Glee"

    [ P ]  PlayBlog: "Glee" Ratings: Week 4

    "Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet":

    [ THR ]  Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet -- Theater Review By David Sheward

    David Mamet forsakes profanity to mine laughs in ancient Rome and twist words at a modern school. The results are hilarious.

    [ CU ]  Two Unrelated plays by David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon and School

    An amusing featherweight double bill.

    [ TONY ]  Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon and School - Review by David Cote

    Mamet amuses with a twofer.

    [ TM ]  Keep Your Pantheon and School
    Reviewed by: Andy Propst

    David Mamet's slight one-acts are endowed with a handsome physical production and well-crafted performances.

    [ TB ]  Two Unrelated Plays
    Review by Matthew Murray

    Just the title of the new double bill at the Atlantic Theater Company strains credibility practically to the snapping point.

    [ V ]  Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon and School
    Review By DAVID ROONEY

    Prior to the David Mamet main course being prepared on Broadway in the coming weeks with the revival of "Oleanna" and world premiere of "Race," the Atlantic serves up an amuse-bouche that goes down easily enough but leaves little aftertaste in the double bill "Keep Your Pantheon" and "School."

    [ AP ]  Wordplay and humour unite playwright David Mamet's 'Two Unrelated Plays' By Michael Kuchwara

    The double bill, now on view at off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company, are slight but funny comedies by the man who has given us much more weighty works such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Speed-the-Plow."

    [ NYT ]  Playing With Fire and Farce: It's Mamet By BEN BRANTLEY

    "School" finds David Mamet speaking his own comic language with flying fluency; "Keep Your Pantheon" feels oddly ersatz.

    [ NYP ]  2 scoops of Mamet fails to fulfill By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI (* 1/2)

    IF these flimsy one-act plays weren't by David Mamet, they probably wouldn't have been produced by the Atlantic Theater Company. Both works amount to the kind of flimflam the author used to write about.

    "A Steady Rain":

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: A Steady Rain - Two Cops Bonding

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Steady Rain, with Craig and Jackman, Opens on Broadway

    [ V ]  Thesps reign in on Broadway gala By GORDON COX

    Craig, Jackman attend opening of 'Rain'

    [ LAT ]  Culture Monster
    A starry evening with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig by Lisa Fung

    [ DN ]  Gatecrasher: Liev Schrieber and Naomi Watts miss Hugh Jackman's 'A Steady Rain' premiere with late arrival

    [ NY ]  Good Cop, Bad Cop By Scott Brown

    An arresting Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig make the most of a standard TV police drama.

    [ BR ]  Review: "A Steady Rain" with Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman BY ROBERT FELDBERG

    "A Steady Rain" is likely to command your rapt attention. But when you leave the theater, you'll probably leave it behind.

    [ B ]  Word of Mouth Review: Regular Theatergoers Rate Regular Joe Show A Steady Rain

    [ NY ]  Jackman Versus Craig: Who Is Better?

    Other Reviews:

    [ TM ]  Vigil
    Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

    Morris Panych's black comedy about an elderly woman and her callous nephew gets an uneven production.

    [ TB ]  Vigil
    Review by Matthew Murray

    What's intended as comic just comes across as cruel.

    [ V ]  Imelda
    Review By MARILYN STASIO

    For all its limitations, the show is a fascinating attempt on the part of Filipino and other Asian artists to look back in ambivalent anger and sorrow on a national icon.

    [ TM ]  Imelda
    Reviewed by: Adam R. Perlman

    This musical about former Philippine first lady is all surface and no substance.

    [ V ]  An Evening Without Monty Python
    Review by Bob Verini

    From the co-creators of "Spamalot," it hardly seems a worthy tribute to offer up "Spamalittle."

    [ V ]  Animal Crackers
    Review By STEVEN OXMAN

    Goodman Theater's well-executed revival admirably showcases the old-fashioned entertainment style and pays tribute to the Marx Brothers, even if it never quite makes a complete case for itself.

    [ V ]  Breakfast at Tiffany's
    Review By DAVID BENEDICT

    Aside from the lure of a much-loved title, by the end of this flatly paced evening it's still hard to see what anyone thought could be gained by this staging.

    [ TNO ]  NOT- SO WILD BIRD by RHODA KOENIG

    This adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's manages to mangle nearly everything that was appealing about the novella.

    [ TB ]  SOUND ADVICE: SCORE BY PARTON, MORE BY BARTON and KARAOKE OZ by Rob Lester

    News:

    [ P ]  PlayBlog: Tony'd Tonya Sings on TV

    [ P ]  Glenn Close to Host The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later Pre-Show

    [ TM ]  Glenn Close to Host NYC Reading of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later

    [ TM ]  Ann Reinking to Choreograph Pittsburgh Playhouse's Time After Time

    [ P ]  Ann Reinking Will Choreograph Time After Time Musical Premiere in PA

    [ TM ]  Brian Murray, Katharine Houghton, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Tyler Maynard, et al. Set for Project Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Part Two

    [ P ]  Keenan-Bolger, Maynard, Murray, Wolpe to Be Part of Project Shaw's Methuselah

    [ TM ]  Sebastian LaCause, Addi McDaniel, Timothy Ware, et al. Set for Arena Stage's The Fantasticks

    [ P ]  LaCause Is El Gallo in Dehnert'sFresh Twist on Fantasticks in DC

    [ TM ]  Tituss Burgess, Jenn Colella, Daphne Rubin-Vega, et. al. Set for Cutting Edge Composers Concert

    [ P ]  Cutting Edge Composers II Concert to Feature Astin, Blaemire, Burgess, Colella, Rubin-Vega

    [ TM ]  Boy George To Bring Up Close and Personal Concert to Leceister Square Theatre

    [ P ]  Boy George Will Return to Leicester Square Theatre for Up Close and Personal Concert

    [ TM ]  Temporary Distortion to Present Americana Kamikaze at P.S. 122

    [ TM ]  Brian Blessed to Narrate New Victory's Peter and the Wolf

    [ P ]  Broadway Boys CD Will Get Late 2009 Release From PS Classics

    [ P ]  "All My Children" Star Willey Cast in Surflight's Odd Couple

    [ CFR ]  Clyde Fitch Report Editor Leonard Jacobs to Appear on 'Oleanna' Talkback Panel on B'way, Oct. 1

    [ HC ]  LeBow Back In Hartford For 'Mistakes'
    Frank Rizzo | TICKER

    [ TM ]  Jonathan Groff, Kacie Sheik, et. al. to Judge Final Installment of NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation

    [ TM ]  Bill Irwin, John Kelly, et. al. Set for Celebrating Ellen Fundraiser

    [ TM ]  Lauren Ambrose, Sandra Bernhad, Rachel Dratch, Ute Lemper, et al. Set for Joe's Pub

    [ TM ]  Tommy Tune, Barbara Cook, Michael Feinstein, et. al. Added to Kravis Center's 2009-2010 Season

    [ TM ]  Lynn Nottage's Ruined Published by TCG

    [ TM ]  Colman Domingo, Sherie Rene Scott, Nicky Silver, Charlayne Woodard, et al. Set for Vineyard Voices Series

    [ TM ]  David Hyde Pierce, Debra Monk, Chita Rivera, Karen Ziemba, et al. Set for Broadway Close Up: John Kander

    [ B ]  Kristin Chenoweth Duets With Former Flame Joshua Bell on His New CD

    [ P ]  Works by Kushner, Bogosian, Henderson and Engle Set for Yale Cabaret Season

    [ P ]  Casting Announced for Squier and Lodin's Brooklyn-Set Tuner Top of the Heap

    [ P ]  Farrington's The Passion Project Will Make Limited NYC Return

    [ P ]  Dede and Vinovich to Join Asner and Silverman in LATW's Once in a Lifetime

    [ P ]  Sher to Discuss Opera and Theatre Direction at "LIVE from the NYPL" Oct. 8

    [ P ]  Naughton and Barrow Set for Embraceable Me Off-Broadway

    [ P ]  Stranger to the Muse Readings to Feature Tam, Binion, Haefner, Cantwell

    [ P ]  Chess Star Judy Kuhn to Return to the Classroom Oct. 19

    [ P ]  Swordplay Reading to Feature Brannon, Lee, Smith, Watson

    [ P ]  LaChiusa's Little Fish to Make European Premiere at London's Finborough

    [ P ]  Free Reading of Fraternity to Feature Driver, Gilpin, Segal and More

    [ P ]  Mee's Full Circle Will Get Unique Staging that Roves Woolly Mammoth Building

    [ P ]  Spring Awakening and Broadway-Bound Enron Nominated for U.K.'s TMA Awards

    [ P ]  Sheldon Patinkin's New Version of Chekhov's Ivanov Opens in Chicago Oct. 1

    [ TM ]  Martin Sheen and Alfred Molina to Star in New Film The Way

    [ TM ]  Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays To Be Centerpiece of Kravis Center Gala

    [ TM ]  Jeff Blumenkrantz, Malcolm Gets, Shuler Hensley, et al. Set for Skylight Opera Theatre Benefit

    [ TM ]  Kathy Najimy to Guest Star on Desperate Housewives

    [ P ]  Tickets for Brits Off-Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theaters Go On Sale Oct. 1

    [ P ]  Limited Engagement of O'Neill's Hughie Checks in to NYC Oct. 1

    [ P ]  Fantasy Football: The Musical?, with Spangler and Pedi, Kicks Off NYMF Run Oct. 1

    [ P ]  42nd Street, Staged by Tony Nominee Skinner, Opens in Westchester Oct. 1

    [ P ]  Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, With McKean and Hill, Opens on Broadway

    [ P ]  Jersey Boys Makes DC Premiere Oct. 1 with Bailey, Bwarie, Franklin and Gouveia

    [ P ]  Love, Loss, and What I Wore, with Rotating Cast, Opens Off-Broadway Oct. 1

    [ LAT ]  Culture Monster
    NT Live presents 'All's Well That Ends Well' on the silver screen by David Ng

    With video of the trailer.

    [ P ]  NT Live Screenings of All's Well That Ends Well Begin Oct. 1

    [ P ]  Fabrique Is Ella in Pittsburgh, Starting Oct. 1

    [ P ]  Grim Workplace Comedy, Below the Belt, Returns to NYC Oct. 1

    [ P ]  Savannah Disputation, Smith's Comedy About Absolute Religion, Opens at Old Globe Oct. 1

    [ P ]  That Perfect Moment, About California Dreamers, Premieres in L.A. Oct. 1

    [ P ]  Inherit the Wind, with Spacey and Troughton, Opens in London Oct. 1

    [ P ]  Chicago Dramatists Reveals What's Under Lucinda's Bed in Oct. 1 World Premiere

    [ P ]  Staunton, Palmer, Hornsby, Scott, Warfield Reconstitute Hansberry's Raisin in Denver

    [ P ]  Dellger, Blum, Ludwig, Ojeda, Foldesi and More Will Tour in 101 Dalmatians With York

    [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: New Cast Unwrapped for 'White Christmas'
    Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

    [ TONY ]  Cast forecast: White Christmas by Adam Feldman

    [ LAT ]  Culture Monster
    Pasadena Playhouse latest venue to issue an emergency fundraising call by Mike Boehm

    [ P ]  Signature's Revised Show Boat to Feature Burrell, Gartshore, Waters and More

    [ P ]  Is Cheyenne Jackson "30 Rock"-Bound?

    [ DN ]  News Broadway critic, composer Douglas Watt dead at 95 BY Owen Moritz

    [ TM ]  Drama Critic Douglas Watt Dies at 95

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 3:39 PM | Item Link


      • [ CNY ]  Roundabout deal with American Airlines may end By Lisa Fickenscher

      Ten-year old sponsorship with theater company that includes the naming of the American Airlines Theater in Times Square is up for renewal in six months.

      [ CNY ]  Major arts groups upbeat on year ahead By Lisa Fickenscher and Miriam Kreinin Souccar

      Attendance holds even as budgets cut.

      Thanks to AnObserver on All That Chat for the link.

      [ P ]  West Side Story Revival Recoups Investment

      [ TM ]  West Side Story Recoups Investment

      [ TM ]  Kelli O'Hara to Now Return to Broadway's South Pacific on October 13

      [ E! ]  Broadway Star to Join 30 Rock? by Ted Casablanca and Becky Bain

      Thanks to WaymanWong on All That Chat for the link.

      [ B ]  Scarlett Johansson Not Broadway-Bound, Says Her Rep

      [ V ]  Hugh Jackman boxed in for Levy

      Actor in talks to star in 'Steel' for DreamWorks

      [ P ]  Shrek the Musical Adds "I'm a Believer" to Broadway Score

      [ TM ]  Shrek Adds "I'm a Believer" Into Broadway Production

      [ TM ]  Broadway's Lion King Welcomes New Young Simbas and Young Nalas

      [ P ]  Broadway's Lion King Welcomes Jones, Rodriguez, Pimentel and Tavarez

      [ TM ]  Paul Alexander to Stage Dracula at Off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre

      [ P ]  Dracula to Stalk Off-Broadway's Little Shubert Beginning in December

      [ TM ]  Green Day Musical American Idiot Extends at Berkeley Rep Through November 15

      [ P ]  American Idiot, a Bay Area Smash, Will Play to Nov. 15

      [ LAT ]  Culture Monster
      The economy's slow, but Actors' Gang says show will go on by Reed Johnson

      [ NYT ]  Donor Gives Lincoln Center $10 Million By ROBIN POGREBIN

      David M. Rubenstein has given $10 million to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for its $1.2 billion redevelopment project.

      [ V ]  Doug Watt dies at 95

      Longtime drama critic worked for Daily News

    • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 9:19 AM | Item Link


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