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Thursday, November 5, 2009

    Features:

    [ NYP ]  Rainbow rooms
    Theater pair's colorful pad By MICKI SIEGEL

    Theater actors Kate Baldwin (starring in Broadway's "Finian's Rainbow") and Graham Rowat (on the road in "Is He Dead?") love to tease their out-of-town friends about New York real estate.

    Thanks to JAllenC3 on All That Chat for the link.

    [ TB ]  Interview with Christopher Fitzgerald of Finian's Rainbow By Beth Herstein

    [ DCTS ]  Joseph Leo Bwarie and Matt Bailey interview

    Joseph Leo Bwarie and Matt Bailey interview are on the road playing Jersey Boys Frankie Valli and Tommy DeVito. How great is it? They talk to Joel Markowitz

    Reviews:

    [ TM ]  Quartett
    Reviewed by: Andy Buck

    Isabelle Huppert gives a bravura performance in Robert Wilson's visually stunning if somewhat predictable staging of Heiner Müller's play.

    [ LAT ]  Culture Monster
    'Once and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen' at Freud Playhouse by Charles McNulty

    [ LAT ]  Culture Monster
    Theater review: 'Saturn Returns' at South Coast Repertory by Charles McNulty

    [ TB ]  SOUND ADVICE: 2 LEADING LADIES (SEPARATELY) and 2 MAJOR MEN (TOGETHER) by Rob Lester

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      • [ STAGE ]  Key Brand Entertainment files lawsuit in bid to block Live Nation sale by Alistair Smith

      [ G ]  Ben Bradshaw: the Tories wouldn't fund the Royal Court's Enron by Charlotte Higgins

      The culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has gone on the attack against the Conservatives' culture policy - and their attempted 'crony appointment' in London

      [ TM ]  Michael Feinstein's All About Me to Open on Broadway March 30

      [ P ]  Feinstein to Make 2010 Broadway Return in All About Me

      [ B ]  Michael Feinstein Sets Broadway Opening Date for All About Me

      [ B ]  Dancing with the Stars Champ Cheryl Burke Eyes Chicago

      [ B ]  Off-Broadway's The Temperamentals, Starring Michael Urie, Transfers to New World Stages

      [ TM ]  Michael Urie, Thomas Jay Ryan to Reprise Temperamentals Roles at New World Stages

      [ P ]  Temperamentals Will Return to Off-Broadway in 2010

      [ HC ]  A New Emmet Otter In Goodspeed Show
      Frank Rizzo | TICKER

      [ P ]  Justin Bohon, Kathy Fitzgerald to Star in Goodspeed's Emmet Otter, With Howard, Bahorek, Barnhart

      [ TM ]  Christine Pedi's Holly Jolly Christmas Folly to Play Laurie Beechman Theatre

      [ P ]  Arlington's Signature Will Give Its 2010 Sondheim Award to Lansbury

      [ TM ]  Grace Gummer to Star in NickTeens' Gigantic Series

      [ AP ]  Dancers gather to honor Patrick Swayze

      [ HC ]  Craig Wright's "Touched By an Angel" Meets "Moonlighting" Project By Frank Rizzo

      [ B ]  In the Heights Tony Winner Lin-Manuel Miranda Gets Engaged to His Longtime Leading Lady

      Features:

      [ G ]  Evening Standard awards: Why don't musicals get the credit they deserve? by Carrie Dunn

      It's been a fine year for musical theatre - but yet again the Standard's judges have failed to notice

      [ G ]  How the fall of the Berlin Wall shook British theatre by Andrew Haydon

      The collapse of communism 20 years ago offered rich pickings for British playwrights. Are the tremors afflicting capitalism about to do the same?

      [ P ]  THE LEADING MEN: Chad Kimball, Brian Childers and Abe Vigoda

      [ BS ]  At the Artios Awards with Patrick Wilson by Daniel Lehman

      [ TONY ]  Maggie Siff By Rob Weinert-Kendt

      From Mad Men to 18th-century England.

      [ LASB ]  Alan Mandell and Lawrence Pressman's Odyssey into No Man's Land by Deborah Behrens

      Alan Mandell, Lawrence Pressman and director Michael Peretzian take on Gielgud & Richardson's ghosts for No Man's Land at LA's Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, swap personal Pinter tales and justify those damned pauses.

      [ CP ]  Mourning Has Broken by Mark Cofta

      Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, EgoPo lets Beckett be their guide to Philly greatness.

      [ HC ]  The Boys of 'R&J': 4 Young Actors Talk About Shaping Their Careers By FRANK RIZZO

      "Shakespeare's R&J" runs Nov. 12-Dec. 20 at Hartford's TheaterWorks

      [ TM ]  Joshua Bell Makes Friends By: Andy Propst

      The virtuoso violinist discusses his new CD, his musical influences, and working with Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Botti and Regina Spektor.

      [ TONY ]  Songs of Bernadette: What will Peters sing? by Adam Feldman

      [ B ]  Exclusive Video! Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty on the Creation of Ragtime

      [ B ]  Watch It: Dreamgirls Do Their Thing on The Wendy Williams Show

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway's New White Christmas Stars

      "Idiot Savant":

      [ TONY ]  Apartments: 2BR loft, Soho By Lisa Freedman

      Theatrical director Richard Foreman raises the curtain and gives a backstage tour of his librarylike pad.

      [ NYT ]  Slide Show: 'Idiot Savant'

      [ NYT ]  Still Bouncing Off the Fun House Walls By BEN BRANTLEY

      Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant," with Willem Dafoe in the title role, is some kind of wonderful.

      [ NYP ]  Dafoe navigates offbeat path By FRANK SCHECK (***)

      [ V ]  Idiot Savant
      Review By MARILYN STASIO

      Since when has Richard Foreman been so grand -- and ever so elegantly French?

      [ CU ]  Les Gutman reviews Idiot Savant

      Richard Foreman has said (though not for the first time) that this is his final play. Do yourself a favor and get some of that apparent babble in your noggin.

      [ TB ]  Idiot Savant
      Review by Matthew Murray

      Foreman is a master of ruling over his worlds with an authoritative hand, so there's no shortage of cohesion even if you may not always be sure what specific brand of adhesive is holding everything together.

      [ OOB ]  Idiot Savant - Review by Matt Windman

      Think of it a distinctive, intense, offbeat avant-garde experience. If you're lucky, maybe you'll find some meaning hidden somewhere in this 80-minute circus.

      [ AP ]  Willem Dafoe stars in an absurdist comedy By JENNIFER FARRAR

      [ BS ]  Idiot Savant - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

      Richard Foreman is at it again. His latest work is just as obscure and bizarre as his 50-odd others, and despite a vital performance from Willem Dafoe, it fails to do more than confuse.

      [ TM ]  Idiot Savant
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

      Willem Dafoe delivers a stellar performance in Richard Foreman's often frustrating new show.

      Other Reviews:

      [ BS ]  Silk Stockings (in Concert) - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

      This musical version of "Ninotchka" was a disappointing Broadway swansong for Cole Porter, and Musicals Tonight!'s inelegant concert presentation fails to mitigate history's verdict.

      [ BS ]  Love Child - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

      You can't quite explain why a good match on paper may inspire little passion in real life; even if you locate the crucial elements, the calculus of combining them is impossibly reductive.

      [ CT ]  'Young Frankenstein' in Chicago: Puttin' on the low comedy by Chris Jones (**)

      [ WP ]  '26 Miles': A mother & child with a ways to go By Nelson Pressley

      [ CP ]  Good Grief by David Anthony Fox

      "Rabbit Hole."

      [ CP ]  Curtain Call by Mark Cofta

      "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity."

      [ EW ]  Nightingale: Off-Broadway (2009)
      Reviewed by Tanner Stransky (C)

      [ METRO ]  'Rainbow' lights up B-way by ELIZABETH ZIMMER

      [ TONY ]  Stew and Hem score points off Shakespeare by David Cote

      News:

      [ TM ]  Justin Bond Set for Christmas Spells at Abrons Arts Center

      [ TM ]  Charles Busch, Penny Fuller, Julie Halston, Marian Seldes, et al. Set for Primary Stages Benefit

      [ V ]  Epic's Shakespeare Remix honored

      Program receives Coming Up Taller Award

      [ TM ]  Annette Bening to Co-Star in Hemingway and Fuentes Film

      [ P ]  Diaz and Morton to Headline Signature Theatre's November Cabarets

      [ P ]  "Turning Points" Play Fest to Feature Chalfant, Sternhagen, Graff, Plunkett and More

      [ P ]  Murney, Keenan-Bolger, Burgess and Colella Join Sonnet Sings the Bard at 92YTribeca

      [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 5

      [ P ]  The Understudy, Rebeck's Backstage Tale Starring Tony Winner White, Opens Off-Broadway

      [ P ]  Foote's Final Work, The Orphans' Home Cycle, Premieres Off-Broadway Nov. 5

      [ P ]  Tennessee Williams Inducted Into Cathedral's Poets' Corner in NYC

      [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Not All Is Rotten in Denmark: 'Hamlet' Recoups
      Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

      [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Footnote
      Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

      [ LAT ]  Carl Ballantine dies at 92; comedy magician was in 'McHale's Navy' cast By Dennis McLellan

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