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Friday, December 11, 2009

    Features:

    [ NYT ]  Getting to 'Nine' by the Italian Route By RACHEL DONADIO

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway-Bound Stage Take on Enron

    [ B ]  Photo Op: Missy Elliott and Jane Fonda Flock to Broadway's Race

    [ P ]  Playblog: A Peek at Laguna Playhouse's Winter Wonderettes

    News:

    [ TM ]  Lisa Kron's New Play The Wake to Play Kirk Douglas Theatre

    [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat
    Irish Arts Showcase Planned for January By PATRICK HEALY

    [ P ]  Lansbury Will Accept Signature's Sondheim Award April 12, 2010, in DC

    [ TM ]  Signature to Now Present Angela Lansbury with Stephen Sondheim Award on April 12

    [ TM ]  Christopher Shinn's Four to Be Made Into Film

    [ TM ]  Faith Prince to Guest Star on December 11 Ugly Betty

    [ P ]  Tony Winner Prince Guests on "Ugly Betty" Dec. 11

    [ TM ]  Jane Leeves to Guest Star on Desperate Housewives

    [ TM ]  John Barrowman to Star in Glasgow's Aladdin Christmas Panto in 2010

    [ TM ]  Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein to Perform New Year's Shows at Loews Regency

    [ TM ]  Sonny Valicenti and Laura Esposito to Star in Guthrie & Acting Company's Romeo & Juliet Tour

    [ TM ]  Natalie Portman to Star in and Produce Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Movie

    [ P ]  "The Princess and the Frog," With Rose, Winfrey, Lewis and More, Gets Wide Release Dec. 11

    [ P ]  Ragtime to Host Talkback Series Beginning Dec. 15

    [ P ]  NAMT Awarded $60,000 Grant by National Endowment for the Arts

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Dec. 5-11: Addams Family and the Critics

    [ P ]  Friedman, Van Outen and Shaw Among Guests for Toksvig's Christmas Cracker in London

    [ P ]  League Announces Broadway Demographics for 2008-09 Season

    [ TM ]  A Little Night Music, with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, to Get New Broadway Cast Recording

    [ B ]  Broadway Revival of A Little Night Music to Get Cast Recording

    [ TM ]  Godspell Revival Aiming for Broadway in 2010-2011

    [ B ]  Godspell Revival Eyes 2010-2011 Broadway Season

    Reviews:

    [ CU ]  The Great Recession

    While the 6 playwrights commissioned to write about the recession's impact were limited by the length, a full contingent of the Flea's interns were ready to serve. So you're in for a mighty impressive curtain call!

    [ TB ]  Shakespearian Celebration of the Twelfth Night of Christmas by Bob Rendell

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      • [ NYP ]  Flaws run in the 'Family' by Michael Riedel

      'Addams' writers get busy on fixes

      Scroll down for more on "The Addams Family."

      [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Stewart F. Lane Knows How to Put on a Show

      [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat
      So Who's Going to the Theater These Days? By PATRICK HEALY

      [ LAT ]  Gene Barry dies at 90; star of 'Bat Masterson' and co-star of 'La Cage aux Folles' By Dennis McLellan

      [ NYT ]  Gene Barry, Actor of TV, Film and Stage, Dies at 90 By MICHAEL POLLAK

      [ P ]  Gene Barry, Original Georges in La Cage Aux Folles, Dies

      [ TM ]  Actor Gene Barry Dies at 90

      [ IBDB ]  Gene Barry's Broadway Credits

      [ CT ]  Saints mourn the loss of their president, B. J. Nelson by Chris Jones

      [ P ]  Bullets Fly Over Broadway as CD Scammer Is Fatally Wounded

      [ TM ]  ENRON to Begin Performances at Broadhurst Theatre on April 8

      [ B ]  New Play Enron Books Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre

      [ P ]  Enron, Acclaimed in London, Will Play Broadway's Broadhurst

      [ P ]  Godspell Revival Aiming for 2010-11 Broadway Season

      [ TM ]  Megan Mullally to Make West End Debut at Vaudeville Theatre February 16-21

      [ TM ]  Iain Glen, Lesley Sharp, Harry Treadway, et al. Set for West End Production of Ghosts

      [ P ]  West End's New Production of Ghosts Completes Casting

      [ P ]  Jodhi May and Richard Coyle Will Star in Donmar's Premiere of Polar Bears

      [ B ]  Tony Admin Committee Makes First Eligibility Decisions for 2009-2010 Season

      [ TM ]  Tony Awards Administration Committee Announces Initial 2010 Eligibility Rulings

      [ P ]  McKean, Law, Glover, Kimball, Maxwell Are Eligible as Leads in Tony Race; Oleanna Is a Revival

      [ TM ]  Memphis Original Cast Recording to Be Available at Shubert Theatre Beginning December 11

      [ P ]  Broadway's Memphis Lives on CD Beginning Dec. 11

      [ B ]  Photo Op: Memphis Cast Rocks and Rolls in Recording Studio; CD Available 12/11

      [ P ]  A Little Night Music Revival Will Get a Cast Album

      [ TM ]  Benedict Campbell, Kelli Fox, Steven Sutcliffe, et al. Set for 2010 Shaw Festival

      [ TM ]  Nancy Anderson, David Burnham, et al. Set for Ordinary Days at South Coast Rep

      Features:

      [ P ]  DIVA TALK: Chatting with Finian's Rainbow's Kate Baldwin

      [ WP ]  A capital visit of dramatic import By Peter Marks

      Theaters across the pond consider making a bigger splash in D.C.

      [ WSJ ]  Understudies to the Stars By ELLEN GAMERMAN

      The actors tapped to stand by for stars like Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman on Broadway rarely get a chance to fill in.

      [ WSJ ]  The Death of Method Acting By DAVID THOMSON

      The acting methodology developed by Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky and epitomized by Marlon Brando has been replaced by an acting style more like that of Cary Grant or Bob Hope.

      [ USA ]  Zeta-Jones moves to 'A Little Night Music' on Broadway By Elysa Gardner

      [ P ]  Playblog: Zeta-Jones Sings "Send in the Clowns"

      [ DCTS ]  Podcast: Hugh Panaro gets into Fagin makeup by Joel Markowitz

      Hugh Panaro transforms into FAGIN at OLIVER at Walnut Street Theatre, and walks us through the process. The funny Rob McClure joins in. It's funny and interesting stuff, and you'll learn how to blacken and turn your teeth really dark yellow.

      [ WSJ ]  A Playwright's Other Job By ELLEN GAMERMAN

      Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer-winning playwright of "August: Osage County" and "Superior Donuts," has a lesser-known role: actor.

      [ CST ]  'Icarus' prepares to take flight at Lookingglass BY MARY HOULIHAN

      [ NYT ]  Come on, Santa, Put Your Clothes Back On By NEIL GENZLINGER

      Beloved sacred and secular holiday stories are being bisected, dissected and disrespected all over town.

      [ NYT ]  Slide Show: Christmas Roasts

      Photos of alternative holiday shows in New York.

      [ WSJ ]  The Best-Selling Record of All By ROY J. HARRIS JR.

      A mere 54 words, expressing the simple yearning for happier times. Roy J. Harris Jr. explains why Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" endures.

      [ CST ]  Young playwright turns to real life for inspiration BY HEDY WEISS

      For "In the Heights," Lin-Manuel Miranda found inspiration in his boyhood neighborhood.

      [ P ]  Playblog: After 80 Years, So Help Me God! Makes Manhattan Bow

      [ B ]  Who Is the Broadway.com Star of the Year for 2009? Vote Here!

      [ WSJ ]  Fifty Years of Second City By JOANNE KAUFMAN

      A roll call of Second City alumni reads like a who's who of comedy. Joanne Kaufman looks at how the Chicago improv company produced such a stellar cast of comedians.

      [ CST ]  Back for seconds: 'SCTV' alums reprise madcap show BY DAREL JEVENS

      [ B ]  Photo Op: Hair Goes Old-School with Vinyl Release of Grammy-Nominated Cast Album

      [ TONY ]  Cheap Seat of the Day: Young Jean Lee's Lear at Soho Rep by David Cote

      [ NYT ]  Spare Times: For Children By LAUREL GRAEBER

      [ NYP ]  DVD Extra: Pre-code musicals at Warner Archive by Lou Lumenick

      [ TM ]  Single Them Out! By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

      Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, and Tom Ford discuss the making of the new film A Single Man.

      "The Addams Family":

      [ B ]  Photo Op: Broadway-Bound Addams Family Lights Up Chicago on Opening Night

      [ DC ]  13 top one-liners from 'The Addams Family' musical By Leah A. Zeldes

      [ V ]  The Addams Family
      Review By STEVEN OXMAN

      Slickly and grandly designed, completely accessible, consistently amusing and in its own way a genuine tribute to old-fashioned Broadway musical entertainment, this tuner loves the use of a spotlight, shining it generously on gifted stars Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth.

      [ TOC ]  The Addams Family - Review By Kris Vire

      The largely admirable new musical based on cartoonist Charles Addams's creations has a lot going for it, most notably director-designers McDermott and Crouch's intimate understanding of Addams's aesthetic and a cast to die for.

      [ CDH ]  'Addams Family' snappy but not flawless By Barbara Vitello

      [ NWI ]  'The Addams Family: A New Musical' casts a spell on audiences of all ages by Philip Potempa

      [ CP ]  'The Addams Family' Is Happy/Sad by Michael J. Roberts

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

      Other Reviews:

      [ NYT ]  Pledge Week at That Elizabethan Animal House By BEN BRANTLEY

      The Shakespeare's Globe production of "Love's Labour's Lost" reveals that this word-infatuated frolic may well be the first and best example of a college comedy.

      [ SFC ]  'Love's Labour's Lost' is joyous entertainment By JENNIFER FARRAR, Associated Press

      [ BS ]  Love's Labour's Lost - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

      One of Shakespeare's most entertaining comedies is given a laugh-a-minute styling, though nearly at the risk of overwhelming the play's not-so-funny message.

      [ NYP ]  It's 'Lost' in translation By FRANK SCHECK (** 1/2)

      [ TM ]  Love's Labour's Lost
      Reviewed by: Andy Propst

      Dominic Dromgoole's production of Shakespeare's comedy is bewilderingly tedious.

      [ V ]  Love's Labour's Lost
      Review By MARILYN STASIO

      As an exhibition of low comedy, the show is notable for the cunning design and exhilarating execution of double entendres and vulgar sight gags. But it's thin gruel for more refined theatrical palates.

      [ BS ]  The Great Recession - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

      The Flea Theater offers plenty of volume with six plays and a cast of more than 50. But the biggest bargain is seeing the young cast of Bats.

      [ TM ]  The Great Recession
      Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

      Six of theater's hippest playwrights pen thematically linked plays in this hit-or-miss evening.

      [ V ]  The Great Recession
      Review By SAM THIELMAN

      Short play collections are always a mixed bag, but rarely are they as mixed as the Flea Theater's "The Great Recession."

      [ BS ]  Red Noir - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

      Judith Malina and poet-playwright Anne Waldman fail to ignite the anarchist revolution, but they sure give audiences a good time.

      [ TM ]  Red Noir
      Reviewed by: Adam R. Perlman

      The Living Theatre's production of Anne Waldman's play is primarily an exercise in audience participation.

      [ BS ]  The Judgment of Paris - Reviewed by LISA JO SAGOLLA

      Austin McCormick's "The Judgment of Paris" is the perfect antidote to all that stark minimalism too often equated with aesthetic sophistication on Manhattan's downtown arts scene.

      [ NYT ]  Dylan Thomas, Rediscovered Within His Own Words By KEN JAWOROWSKI

      Almost every line of "Do Not Go Gentle" is so lovely that when the whole proves to be less than the sum of its parts, the result doesn't feel as disappointing as it otherwise might.

      [ NYT ]  A Duet of Schubert and Beckett By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

      "One Evening" is an ominous and imaginative, if not entirely effective, musical drama that explores the impact of Schubert's work on the writings of Samuel Beckett.

      [ DN ]  'God of Carnage': replacement cast no 'God' almighty, but pretty good by Joe Dziemianowicz (***)

      [ BN ]  Gandolfini Departs Puke-Spewing 'Carnage,' Enter Smits: Review by John Simon (***)

      [ NYP ]  New cast, less carnage by Elisabeth Vincentelli (** 1/2)

      [ NYP ]  A minor deity of blunted fisticuffs by Elisabeth Vincentelli

      I was rather underwhelmed by the new cast of "God of Carnage," as you can see in today's review.

      [ WSJ ]  'Oleanna' Meets 'The Verdict' By TERRY TEACHOUT

      David Mamet's new play, "Race," features a stellar cast portraying characters charged with manic energy and caught in a struggle for power. It's all a bit too familiar.

      Plus "Brief Encounter."

      [ BN ]  Rothko's a Monster in New Play, Bully Baron Pursues Ingenue
      Review by Warwick Thompson

      [ HC ]  Riz's Blog Review: Athol Fugard's "Have You See Us?" at Long Wharf theatre By Frank Rizzo

      [ CU ]  Orpheus X

      An original, beautifully staged take on a much told tale

      [ NYT ]  'A Christmas Carol' By LAUREL GRAEBER

      It's especially fitting that Literally Alive Children's Theater, which adapts its material from literary sources, has filled its "Christmas Carol" with young faces.

      [ TS ]  Eight singular sensations

      You may not find them on the bestseller lists of most music stores, but these eight discs of show tunes make ideal gifts for the theatre lover in your life, writes Richard Ouzounian

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        • "Tea at Five":

        [ LAT ]  Culture Monster
        Theater review: 'Tea at Five' at Alhecama Theatre by Phillip Brandes

        In director Jenny Sullivan's impeccably staged revival for Santa Barbara's Ensemble Theatre Company, Zimbalist is at the top of her game, spanning 45 years to convincingly depict Hepburn engaging us over afternoon tea at two turning points in her life.

        [ SBI ]  Stephanie Zimbalist in Fine Form as Katharine Hepburn By Charles Donelan

        [ SBI ]  Tea at Five Tells Hepburn Story By Charles Donelan

        Interview.

        News:

        [ TS ]  Shaw Festival 2010 season's stars announced by Bruce DeMara

        [ P ]  Playblog: Hair Collects Food for the Hungry

        [ HC ]  Connecticut Arts Groups Get NEA Funding-- Real Art Wats Tops the List By Frank Rizzo

        [ TM ]  Michael Jackson, Loretta Lynn, André Previn, et al. to Recieve Special Grammy Awards

        [ P ]  Musical See Rock City, Usually Cast With Seven, Gets a Troupe of 32 in UM Studio Run

        [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: DECEMBER 11

        [ P ]  Summer of the Soda Fountain Girls Concerts Begin Dec. 11

        [ P ]  We Are Lights Concerts, With Moore, Groenendaal and Robbins, Begin in White Plains Dec. 11

        [ P ]  Dear Edwina Returns to Off-Broadway's DR2 Kids Theatre Dec. 11

        [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: New Play About Tennessee Williams By JULIE BLOOM; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

        [ P ]  Stage and Screen Star Plimpton Among Obie Awards Judges

        [ B ]  Fran Drescher, Janeane Garofalo & More to Join Love, Loss and What I Wore

        [ P ]  Conn, Drescher, Kane and More to Join Love, Loss and What I Wore; Show Recoups

        [ P ]  Yazbeck, Lewis, Cavenaugh and More Set for Engeman Broadway Concerts

        [ P ]  Goldie Semple, Canadian Stage Great, Dies at 56

        [ NYP ]  Weekend Guide: Theater

        [ NYT ]  Theater Listings: Dec. 11 - 17

        Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

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