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Thursday, November 26, 2009

    [ P ]  Broadway Stars Will Celebrate Thanksgiving in TV Parade Coverage Nov. 26

    [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat
    Producers Say They Won't Close Their Play to Let 'Emperor Jones' In By DAVE ITZKOFF

    [ B ]  Speaking in Tongues Star Ian Hart Reportedly Attacks Audience Member

    [ B ]  Finian's Rainbow Revival to Go on the Record with New Cast Album

    [ TM ]  Finian's Rainbow Broadway Revival to Get Original Cast Recording

    [ TM ]  Signature Theatre Announces New Schedule for Horton Foote's Orphans' Home Cycle

    [ P ]  Off-Broadway's Orphans' Home Cycle Sets New Opening Night Schedule

    [ TM ]  Micky Dolenz To Join West End Hairspray in February

    Features:

    [ NYT ]  So Many Dark Sides By PATRICK HEALY

    With his Broadway debut in David Mamet's "Race," James Spader sticks to his favorite role: the snake.

    [ NYT ]  Slide Show: The Creepy Id

    Images of some of James Spader's film and TV performances.

    [ NYT ]  Holiday Gift Guide - Ben Brantley's Picks

    [ NYT ]  Holiday Gift Guide - Charles Isherwood's Picks

    [ B ]  Videos: Learning This 'n' That about Melissa James Gibson's New Play This

    [ B ]  Photo Op: They Love Rock 'n' Roll! Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldrige Hit Up Rock of Ages

    [ B ]  Photo Op: Movie Goddess Cate Blanchett Enters Broadway's Race

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway's God of Carnage Welcomes New Cast

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Girl Crazy Party at Encores!

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Cirque du Soleil's Wintuk at Madison Square Garden

    [ TM ]  PHOTOFLASH: Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey at Paley Center's Liza's at the Palace Screening

    "Fela!":

    [ B ]  Videos: A Powerful Opening Night for Innovative New Musical Fela!

    [ B ]  Photo Op: New Musical Fela! Turns Broadway Upside Down at Starry Opening Night

    [ TNO ]  AFROBEAT by MATT WINDMAN

    While this musical succeeds in creating an exciting, explosive environment lush with African music and dance, the story leaves much to be desired.

    Other Reviews:

    [ NYT ]  Theater Review | 'Circumcise Me'
    A True Repeat Customer: Becoming Jewish 3 Times By DANIEL M. GOLD

    Yisrael Campbell's solo show is Jewish theater of the ecumenical, no-gentile-left-behind sort.

    [ V ]  Nation
    Review By DAVID BENEDICT

    Director/designer Melly Still marshals 27 doubling actors, five musicians, inventive puppets and enough impressive special effects to give James Cameron pause, but "Nation" proffers more effort than enjoyment.

    [ NYT ]  Not Shy in the Way She Works a Lyric By STEPHEN HOLDEN

    Baby Jane Dexter's new show at the Metropolitan Room is aptly named "All About Love" because it covers so many aspects.

    [ NYT ]  Ever a Huckleberry Friend, Come Rain or Come Shine By STEPHEN HOLDEN

    Andrea Marcovicci's new show at the Oak Room, a tribute to the songwriter Johnny Mercer, should perpetuate her reign as the queen of high-class cabaret nostalgia.

    [ TNO ]  COMING HOME TO ROOST by BILL STEVENSON

    Moya Angela's voice seems at times to shake the rafters of the Apollo.

    [ TNO ]  PLUCKED FROM THE GRAVE by ROBERT CASHILL

    After 77 years in obscurity, Christopher Bean comes back to life.

    [ TE ]  NIGHTINGALE - Review by OSCAR E. MOORE

    A triumph of understatement. A fascinating look into the life of Lynn Redgrave and her relatives. Bursting with compassion and humor.

    [ TB ]  As You Like It
    Washington, D.C. Review by Susan Berlin

    [ PW ]  Recreating an Italian honeymoon forges an unexpected love story in "The Light in the Piazza". By J. Cooper Robb

    [ TNO ]  A CULT CLASSIC by EDWIN WILSON

    As often happens with a cult production, you feel like you're not just watching a performance, but are part of an experience.

    [ TNO ]  A MASTERLY TOUCH by CLIVE HIRSCHHORN

    Alan Bennett, at age 75, is still delivering the goods just as well as ever.

    News:

    [ TM ]  Pasadena Playhouse's Baby It's You! Extends Through December 20

    [ TM ]  Hannah Waterman To Join West End Calendar Girls in December

    [ TM ]  Susan Lucci, Nicholas Rodriguez, Sherri Shepherd, et al. Set for ABC Daytime Benefit for Broadway Cares

    [ P ]  Lucci, Rodriguez, Shepherd, Tam and More Set for ABC & SOAPnet Salute Broadway Cares Benefit

    [ P ]  Globe Production of Love's Labour's Lost to Play NYC; Casting Announced

    [ P ]  Upcoming Cast Recordings

    [ P ]  Ebersole and Stritch Will Present A Town & Country Christmas at Birdland

    [ P ]  A Christmas Story, with Gurner, Talbott, Savage and Young, to Play St. Louis Rep

    [ P ]  CHART TOPPERS, Third Week of November

    [ P ]  London to Host First City-Wide Fringe Arts Festival in August 2010

    [ TM ]  GrooveLily To Offer Sleeping Beauty Wakes Concert at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto

    [ TM ]  Elizabeth Marvel, Daniel Gerroll, Jane Alexander to Star in PBS' Louisa May Alcott Film Biography

    [ TM ]  Grammy Hall of Fame Recordings Are Announced

    [ TM ]  Doris Roberts to Appear at Borders Columbus Circle on December 4

    [ TM ]  Susan Blackwell, Annie Golden, Mary Testa, et.al. To Appear in The Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular

    [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 26

    [ P ]  Wolfgang Weinberger to Reprise Ludwig's Guide to Sexual Misery at the West End's Duchess Theatre

    [ P ]  Architect Turns Playwright in New Film "Multiple Sarcasms," With Channing, Hutton and Robins

    [ P ]  U.K Tour of When Harry Met Sally to Star Dunn and Hill

    [ P ]  Naughton, Eaves and More Set for Our Time Theatre's One-Act Evenings

    [ P ]  Director Hynes and Choreographer Clarke Are SDC's Callaway Award Winners

    [ P ]  Reel Good Productions Acquires Film Rights to Love Autobiography

    [ P ]  Broadway Stars Celebrate Thanksgiving in TV Parade Coverage Nov. 26

    [ P ]  Red Bull's The Pretenders Will Feature Abraham, Waterston and More

    [ P ]  Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz to Play Chicago in March 2010

    [ TM ]  Anissa Gathers Set for Chicago Production of Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz

    [ P ]  How to Be a Good Italian Daughter to Close in December; Star Heads to Broadway

    [ P ]  Starry Chicago Christmas Carol Canceled

    [ TM ]  Julie Andrews To Return to Stage with Concert at London's O2 Arena in May

    [ P ]  Julie Andrews to Return to London Stage for An Evening in May 2010

    [ P ]  Will Kelsey Grammer Star in La Cage Revival?

    [ B ]  Kelsey Grammer Eyes Return to Broadway in La Cage Revival

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