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Thursday, November 5, 2009 at midnight (Broadway Time)

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

Arts, Briefly: Footnote
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

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

Tennessee Williams Inducted Into Cathedral's Poets' Corner in NYC

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

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

Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 5

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

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

Diaz and Morton to Headline Signature Theatre's November Cabarets

Annette Bening to Co-Star in Hemingway and Fuentes Film

Epic's Shakespeare Remix honored

Program receives Coming Up Taller Award

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

Justin Bond Set for Christmas Spells at Abrons Arts Center

Stew and Hem score points off Shakespeare by David Cote

'Rainbow' lights up B-way by ELIZABETH ZIMMER

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

Curtain Call by Mark Cofta

"The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity."

Good Grief by David Anthony Fox

"Rabbit Hole."

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

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

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.

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.

Idiot Savant
Reviewedby:Dan Bacalzo

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

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.

Willem Dafoe stars in an absurdist comedy By JENNIFER FARRAR

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.

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.

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.

Idiot Savant
Review By MARILYN STASIO

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

Dafoe navigates offbeat path By FRANK SCHECK (***)

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.

Slide Show: 'Idiot Savant'

Apartments: 2BR loft, Soho By Lisa Freedman

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

PHOTO CALL: Broadway's New White Christmas Stars

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

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

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

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.

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

Mourning Has Broken by Mark Cofta

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

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.

Maggie Siff By Rob Weinert-Kendt

From Mad Men to 18th-century England.

At the Artios Awards with Patrick Wilson by Daniel Lehman

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

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?

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

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

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

Dancers gather to honor Patrick Swayze

Grace Gummer to Star in NickTeens' Gigantic Series

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

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

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

A New Emmet Otter In Goodspeed Show
Frank Rizzo | TICKER

Temperamentals Will Return to Off-Broadway in 2010

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

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

Dancing with the Stars Champ Cheryl Burke Eyes Chicago

Michael Feinstein Sets Broadway Opening Date for All About Me

Feinstein to Make 2010 Broadway Return in All About Me

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

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

Key Brand Entertainment files lawsuit in bid to block Live Nation sale by Alistair Smith

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

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

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

Quartett
Reviewedby:Andy Buck

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

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

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

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.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7am (Broadway Time)

In case you hadn’t seen the full text – Rocco Landesman’s speech to Grantmakers in the Arts – WE KNOW ARTS WORK

by Jodisc

  Rocco’s address last month at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference got a lot of attention.  Here is the entire text.  Good read. Thanks for reading! Jodi Post from: off-stage rightIn case y…

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at midnight (Broadway Time)

Gleason, Anderson, Powers, Stevens, Dykstra and More Set for TRU Love Benefit

Arts, Briefly: President's Arts Group Names 25 Members
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Arts, Briefly: Harlem Theater Founders to Resign
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Dorothy Parker Evening, Wished on the Moon, Plays Don't Tell Mama Nov. 4

New York City Christmas, a Popular 2008 Benefit, Gets Album and Reunion Concert; Maroulis, Orfeh Are Special Guests

Public Theater Celebrates Contribution of Merle Debuskey, Its Founding Press Rep, Nov. 4

Mamet's A Life in the Theatre Opens at the Alliance Nov. 4

Dafoe Is Foreman's Idiot Savant, Opening Off-Broadway at the Public Theater Nov. 4

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