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Thursday, December 10, 2009

    [ P ]  Don Mayo, Stage Actor of Chicago and New York, Dies at 49

    [ IBDB ]  Don Mayo's Broadway Credits

    [ TM ]  Valerie Harper to Play Broadway's Lyceum in Looped Beginning February 19

    [ P ]  Looped, Starring Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead, Will Play Broadway's Lyceum

    [ B ]  Valerie Harper to Get Looped as Tallulah Bankhead on Broadway

    [ TM ]  Fran Drescher, Janeane Garofalo, Carol Kane, et al. to Join Cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore

    [ TM ]  Wes Bentley, Nina Arianda to Star in Classic Stage Company's Venus in Fur

    [ P ]  Bentley and Arianda Cast in Ives' Venus in Fur, a Tale of Sex and Power

    [ TM ]  Obie Awards Set for May 17; Martha Plimpton, Ralph B. Pena Among Judges

    [ TM ]  Broadway League Survey Finds Online Ticket Sales on the Rise

    Features:

    [ CNY ]  More foreign tourists sprechen sie Broadway by Miriam Kreinin Souccar

    International visitors now account for more than a fifth of Broadway admissions-the highest number ever.

    [ CPD ]  'Wicked' witch wins battle of nerves over screaming woman in the crowd By Tony Brown

    Merideth Kaye Clark went out there an understudy. She came back a tough cookie.

    [ B ]  Fresh Face: Scottish Sensation Ken Stott Dives into Broadway's Carnage

    [ B ]  Photo Op: A (Busy!) Day in the Life of White Christmas Star Melissa Errico

    [ B ]  Photo Op: Billy Elliot's Will Chase Gets Bald and Bold for TV's Rescue Me

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Garber, Harris, Ashmanskas and Co. Rehearse Present Laughter

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Schreiber and Johansson Ready A View from the Bridge

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Songs of Our Lives at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School

    News:

    [ TM ]  Richard Kind, John Tartaglia to Join Marc Kudisch and Jeffry Denman in The Holiday Guys

    [ P ]  Final Two Shows of The Holiday Guys to Feature Kind and Tartaglia

    [ TM ]  Donkey Show Extends at A.R.T. Through Summer 2010

    [ P ]  A.R.T. Extends The Donkey Show Into 2010

    [ TM ]  ABC's The Deep End, Starring Norbert Leo Butz, to Premiere January 21

    [ P ]  Murphy and Menken Set for Disney's "Rapunzel" Film

    [ TM ]  Donna Murphy Joins Cast of Disney's Animated Rapunzel

    [ TM ]  Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty to Kick Off Ragtime Monthly Talkback Series

    [ TM ]  Toxic Avenger Cast to Perform at The Pond at Bryant Park December 22

    [ TM ]  Sandra Bernhard, Tovah Feldshuh, et al. Set for Circumcise Me Talkbacks

    [ TM ]  Robert Cuccioli, Meredith Patterson, et al. to Join James Barbour for Holiday Concerts

    [ TM ]  Matt Cavenaugh, Norm Lewis, Tony Yazbeck, et al. Set for Engeman Theater Concerts

    [ TM ]  Lewis Black to Bring In God We Rust to City Center

    [ TM ]  Meryl Streep, Michael Douglas, et al. Set for History Channel's America The Story of Us

    [ P ]  Moran to Test Rehearsing Consciousness at the Emelin

    [ P ]  Tennessee Williams-Inspired The Really Big Once Set for Target Margin's 2010 Season

    [ TM ]  Target Margin to Focus on Tennessee Williams in 2010

    [ TM ]  Mare Winningham, David Poe, Holly Brook, et al. Set for Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow's Whisper House at Old Globe

    [ B ]  Mare Winningham Set for New Duncan Sheik Musical Whisper House

    Reviews:

    [ TM ]  REVIEW ROUNDUP: Red, with Alfred Molina, at Donmar Warehouse

    [ TM ]  REVIEW ROUNDUP: The Addams Family at Chicago's Oriental Theatre

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      • [ TM ]  Tom Wopat, Norm Lewis, Euan Morton, Matthew Scott Join Broadway's Sondheim on Sondheim

      [ P ]  Sondheim on Sondheim Will Star Cook, Kritzer, Lewis, Morton, Scott, Williams and Wopat

      [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: More Stars for 'Sondheim' By PATRICK HEALY; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

      [ B ]  Laurie Metcalf and Keith Carradine Complete Cast of the New Group's A Lie of the Mind

      [ P ]  Carradine, Metcalf and Young Join Cast of Shepard's A Lie of the Mind Off-Broadway

      [ TM ]  Keith Carradine, Josh Hamilton, Laurie Metcalf, et al. Set for New Group's A Lie of the Mind

      [ TS ]  Obituary: Goldie Semple, 56: Veteran of Shaw and Stratford festivals By Richard Ouzounian

      [ P ]  Jay Barnhill, Longtime Public Theater Employee, Dies at 62

      [ V ]  'Love, Loss' recoups costs

      Off B'way play earns back its $500,000 in a quick 11 weeks

      [ NJ ]  N.J. arts groups fret as state freezes $10M in grants By Peggy McGlone

      [ LAT ]  Culture Monster
      NEA report shows declining attendance in arts events nationwide by David Ng

      [ CNY ]  Actors Fund in housing play by Miriam Kreinin Souccar

      Starts ambitious low-income projects to aid its own in downturn.

      [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat
      Target Margin Theater Focuses on Williams for 2009-2010 Season By JULIE BLOOM

      [ TM ]  Burt Reynolds to Star in Barrymore for Newly Established Under-the-Bridge Players

      [ TM ]  Gale Harold, Denise Crosby, Claudia Mason to Star in Orpheus Descending at Theatre/Theater

      [ TIMES ]  Sound of Music debut confirms Paris as rival to London's West End by Adam Sage

      The hugely popular musical will be performed for the first time in France as theatregoers swap Sartre for singalongs

      [ WOS ]  Ben Hur Live Cancels Tour Dates, Including O2

      [ B ]  Tony Winner Idina Menzel In 'Advanced Talks' to Join Glee

      [ P ]  Wicked's Menzel in Talks to Guest on "Glee"

      [ P ]  Sheik & Jarrow's Haunted Whisper House Musical Will Star Mare Winningham at Old Globe

      [ P ]  David Pittu Wins Bayfield Award

      [ TM ]  David Pittu, Kate Forbes, John Douglas Thompson Win Equity Awards

      [ P ]  Forbes and Thompson Win Callaway Awards

      [ V ]  Alfre Woodard's daughter is Miss Golden Globe

      Mavis Spencer tapped for trophy post

      [ DN ]  Tyler Perry's mother Willie Maxine Perry, who inspired producer's Madea character, dies

      [ NYP ]  Liza Minnelli secretly settling $ex harass suit By DAREH GREGORIAN

      [ MAIL ]  Jackie O 'had affair with comic genius Peter Cook'

      She married a President and a Greek tycoon, but Jackie Kennedy also found time for a fling with British comedian Peter Cook, according to playwright Alan Bennett.

      Features:

      [ NYT ]  The Cotton Blossom Is Dry-Docked, but Ol' Man River Keeps Rollin' Along By DAVID BELCHER

      The newest scaled-down incarnation of the musical "Show Boat," at the Signature Theater in Virginia, is more pedal boat then paddle wheel.

      [ B ]  What's Up, J. Smith-Cameron? The Starry Star on Life, Art and Why She Loves Ben Brantley

      [ LASB ]  Alan Cumming: A Cheeky Chap Brings Cabaret Back to The Geffen by Deborah Behrens

      Alan Cumming discusses how I Bought A Blue Car Today helped him overcome terror, why Shakespeare is like homophobia and the reason he's miffed with a certain candy coated chocolate.

      [ T ]  The Misanthrope - Keira Knightley's West End debut

      The Misanthrope has sparked a box-office frenzy - thanks to Keira Knightley making her West-End debut. Dominic Cavendish finds out how director Thea Sharrock pulled off this casting coup.

      [ TIMES ]  Fiona Shaw: 'I have enormous sadness in me' by Tim Teeman

      Outwardly cheerful, inwardly conflicted, Fiona Shaw's life goes into her acting, from Mother Courage to The Waste Land

      [ B ]  Melanie C on Spicing Up London's Blood Brothers

      [ I ]  Solved: The mystery of forgotten Christie play By Andrew Johnson

      The queen of detective fiction turned her uneasy relationship with her daughter into a ' brutal' drama - and now it's on the West End

      [ B ]  Videos: An Intimate Chat with Chicago Razzle-Dazzler Ashlee Simpson-Wentz

      [ B ]  Videos: 'Did You Say Bonerable?' Liev & Scarlett Open Up About A View from the Bridge

      [ B ]  Photo Op: A Great View of the Talents Ready to Cross Miller's Bridge

      [ TM ]  PHOTO FLASH: A View From the Bridge's Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber Meet the Press

      [ B ]  Video Premiere! Hear the Night Music of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury Here!

      [ B ]  Photo Op: Night Music's 'Glamorous Life' Continues With a Visit from Kirk Douglas

      [ B ]  Watch It: A Heavenly New Finian's Rainbow Commercial

      [ HC ]  Why "Band Geeks" Is a Big Deal for Hartt School By Frank Rizzo

      [ CP ]  The Lizard Kings by A.D. Amorosi

      Tweaked and polished, Pig Iron's Obie-winner comes home to roost.

      [ B ]  Photo Op: Victor Garber Gets Ready to Bring Laughter Back to Broadway

      [ TM ]  PHOTOFLASH: Victor Garber and Present Laughter Cast Meet the Press

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: 21st Annual Gypsy of the Year

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Aurélia's Oratorio at Berkeley Rep

      "The Addams Family":

      [ CST ]  Lunatic 'Addams Family' is fabulously functional on stage BY HEDY WEISS

      Would a few nips and tucks in each act make the show even stronger? Yes. Things can get a bit repetitious at moments. Yet there is rarely a dull moment as each grand shock of the new, each adjustment to change, each recognition of aging and each surprising rebirth wraps its arms itself around the characters of "The Addams Family."

      [ TB ]  The Addams Family
      Review by John Olson

      The brassiness of Broadway may not mix perfectly with the understated humor of Charles Addams, but the showmanship of this production should be enough to satisfy most audiences.

      [ CT ]  'The Addams Family' at Oriental Theatre: In need of more 'Family' time by Chris Jones (** 1/2)

      Before Charles Addams' justly beloved macabre characters make their Broadway debuts, someone needs to stick a sharp pair of fireplace tongs into all the Gothic clutter that surrounds them in their overly weighty new musical.

      [ NBNW ]  An Interview with Addams Family composer Andrew Lippa By Jennifer Schaefer

      [ CT ]  Garlin comes for 'Addams Family,' stays for the freak show by Luis Arroyave

      [ WGN ]  Video: Addams Family musical opens in Chicago

      [ TONY ]  Photos of the Day: The Addams Family by David Cote

      "God of Carnage":

      [ TM ]  God of Carnage
      Reviewed by: David Finkle

      Christine Lahti, Annie Potts, Jimmy Smits, and Ken Stott are hilariously effective in Yazmina Reza's Tony Award-winning dramedy.

      [ NYT ]  Undercard of Jabbers Replaces Punchers By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

      The generally excellent new cast of "God of Carnage" brings a slightly blunter edge to the play.

      [ V ]  God of Carnage
      Review By DAVID ROONEY

      Snarling comedy about social graces devolving into the more primal state of belligerent self-interest.

      [ BR ]  "God of Carnage" still one of the smartest, most amusing evenings on Broadway. BY ROBERT FELDBERG

      [ ND ]  'God of Carnage' still amuses but less brutally By LINDA WINER

      Completely recast, the solid four-actor play now seems more amusing than brutally entertaining. Despite eight months of rising ticket prices (a top $121.50, compared with $116.50 at opening), however, this can no longer be considered a big Broadway event.

      "Red":

      [ I ]  First Night: Red, Donmar Warehouse, London By Paul Taylor (****)

      [ WOS ]  Red - Review by Michael Coveney (****)

      [ TIMES ]  Red at the Donmar, WC2 by Benedict Nightingale

      Alfred Molina's blunt, bitter portrayal of Rothko communicates a ferocious pessimism in this powerful vision of the artist

      [ MAIL ]  Red: A brilliant show which melds high-minded debate with splashes of humanity By Quentin Letts

      [ V ]  Red
      Review By DAVID BENEDICT

      Audiences expecting neat life lessons about artists or a simple-minded attack upon/salute to abstract art will be disappointed. "Red" is far more ambitious, which makes its success all the more satisfying. That its central character is such a key figure in American culture can only hasten the play's arrival in the U.S.

      [ T ]  Red at the Donmar Warehouse, review By Charles Spencer (**)

      Alfred Molina often transcends Red's corny script but the play diminishes its subject, abstract expressionist Mark Rothko.

      [ STAGE ]  Art isn't easy (and sometimes neither is life).... By Mark Shenton

      Watching the world premiere of John Logan's play Red last night at the Donmar Warehouse about the artist Mark Rothko, I was put in mind frequently of Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical about Georges Seurat, and not just because Philip Quast - who had played Seurat in that show's London premiere at the National Theatre in 1990 - was sitting on the front row.

      Other Reviews:

      [ TM ]  REVIEW ROUNDUP: Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland Opens in Tampa

      [ TM ]  NEWSical the Musical
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

      This gently satiric topical musical revue could use a bit more bite.

      [ BS ]  Newsical the Musical - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

      "Newsical" is as lame and tired as "Forbidden Broadway" was cheeky and inspired.

      [ NYT ]  Theater Review | 'Crime or Emergency'
      Baby, They Were Born to Run (Faster!) By ANDY WEBSTER

      The performance artist Sibyl Kempson has a great deal to say, and it sure is fun watching her say it.

      [ TM ]  The Lost Lounge
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

      Split Britches' charming performance art cabaret examines nostalgia and a changing New York landscape.

      [ AP ]  An exuberant 'Groovaloo Freestyle' celebrates hip-hop off-Broadway By Jennifer Farrar

      This spectacular group performs at the Union Square Theatre until Jan. 3.

      [ ND ]  'So Help Me God!' and 'This' By LINDA WINER

      It appears that "Chicago" was no fluke. This is fun.

      [ DCTS ]  Hamlet, Bye Bye Birdie and Girl Crazy

      Richard Seff caught the end of the run of Hamlet, loved Encores! Girl Crazy, and compares Bye Bye Birdie to the original.

      [ CU ]  Race

      Leave it to David Mamet to be the Scrooge to insist that our electing a black president notwithstanding, that the idea of harmonious race relations is just another humbug.

      [ TM ]  The 12 CDs of Christmas By: Andy Propst

      A dozen theater-related holiday recordings featuring Sting, Brent Barrett, LaChanze, Mary McBride, Constatine Maroulis, Brian Stokes Mitchell, J. Robert Spencer, Patrick Wilson, and more.

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        • News:

        [ TM ]  Julia Murney to Star in York's Concert Readings of The Times

        [ P ]  Murney Set for The Times Concerts at the York

        [ TM ]  Nick Adams, Marc Kudisch, J. Robert Spencer, Karen Ziemba, et al. to Guest Star at Daniel Reichard's Gettin' on the Good List Benefit Concerts

        [ P ]  Ziemba, Spencer, Bean, Kudisch and More Will Join Reichard for Good List Concerts

        [ P ]  Wicked Tour Gets New Wizard and Boq

        [ TM ]  Jonathan Goad, Sean McKenna, Roberta Maxwell et al. Set for A.C.T.'s Phedre

        [ TM ]  Elaine Paige's Live in Australia DVD To Be Released January 2010

        [ TM ]  West Side Story Cast to Kick Off W Hotels' Broadway Mondays Series

        [ HC ]  The Many Colors Of 'Christmas'
        Frank Rizzo | TICKER

        [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Susan Boyle Remains on Top
        Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

        [ P ]  Ruined Tops Time Magazine's Best "10 Plays and Musicals" List

        [ P ]  Hwang, Fuller and Lucas to Mentor New Writers at Cherry Lane

        [ P ]  Producer Zev Buffman Wins Raven Award from Mystery Writers of America

        [ P ]  Ferguson, Ruff and Silcott Will Be Coming Home at Berkeley Rep

        [ P ]  High Society Returns to London, at Highgate's Upstairs at the Gatehouse

        [ P ]  "Office" Star Hardin Releases Christmas Single; New Album Due in 2010

        [ P ]  David Martin Stars in Great American Seasonal Songbook at London's New End Theatre

        [ P ]  Drama Book Shop Welcomes Albee, Hwang and Jue Dec. 10

        [ P ]  Ute Lemper Returns to Joe's Pub Dec. 10

        [ P ]  Globe's Love's Labour's Lost Opens in NYC Dec. 10

        [ P ]  Westport Offers This Wonderful Life Dec. 10

        [ P ]  Primary Stages Sets Cast and Creatives for Off-Broadway's Happy Now?

        [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: More Roles, More Actors By DAVE ITZKOFF; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

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