Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Matthew Murray discuss A Behanding in Spokane, The Miracle Worker, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers—A Radio Play, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, Anything Goes at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, the appeal of Ethel Merman, and more!
Linked From BroadwayStars at 12:00AMNeil Sean: Long-Awaited "Phantom" Sequel's Premier Pleases London Audience, That's Enough for Lord Webber
Linked From CBS at 12:00AMPhantom "phans" and bloggers who have been bitterly pronouncing their rights in the original should instead be counting their lucky stars we have one genius at least in the British musical t…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:00AM'Phans' of the original are outraged that Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a sequel to the most successful musical of all time. But Love Never Dies - which opens in London tonight - is phabul…
Linked From The Independent at 12:00AMLove Never dies is Andrew Lloyd Webber's finest show since the original Phantom of the Opera.
Linked From Telegraph at 12:00AMThe design, direction and performances are good, but Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom sequel lacks narrative tension, writes Michael Billington
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMI suspect Love Never Dies will undergo several changes over the next few months and it will probably make these before it opens on Broadway later this year, where the show's American setting…
Linked From The Stage at 12:00AMSets and special effects cannot be faulted, the singing is terrific. Director Jack O'Brien cranks up the melodramatic tension to a stunning ending. But phantastic? Afraid not.
Linked From www.thesun.co.uk at 12:00AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's belated sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera" feels as eager to be walloped as a clown in a carnival dunking booth.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMThis muddled sequel to The Phantom of the Opera is unlikely to please that musical's fans or attract new audiences.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMTemperatures rise in "Ghosts" and irony betrays "Sweet Nothings," as Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies" opens.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMDo institutional theaters, asks one prominent arts marketer, "expect audiences to disconnect and remain in a dome of silence"?
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMThe stars of Promises, Promises on drinking, American Idol and tweeting on Ambien.
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMPlaying Marchbanks opposite Melissa Errico in "Candida" at Irish Rep
Linked From justshowstogoyou.com at 12:00AMTwo of theatre's biggest stars have rarely shared a stage, which is why they're so delighted to be starring together at the National.
Linked From Telegraph at 12:00AMSome actors merely learn a role; Simon Russell Beale lets it engulf him completely - which can be painful. But he wouldn't have it any other way, he tells Aida Edemariam
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMTerrence McNally has been writing plays for 45 years. So the only surprising thing about the current festival of his work at the Kennedy Center is that it's taken this long for one to happen.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMAbigail Breslin, currently starring as Helen Keller in Broadway's The Miracle Worker, gives Playbill.com a peek at the hours leading up to her first preview.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMIf the community cannot get its act together, who will it blame if Bloomberg guts culture funding? Itself.
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMSays the "Glee Club" playwright, ""We just know that you're either on the team, or you're not, you're either for the team, or you're on your own."
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMLiza Minnelli, Kristin Chenoweth, David Hyde Pierce, Chita Rivera, Karen Ziemba, Debra Monk, John Cullum, Mario Cantone, Norm Lewis, and more stars come out for the Vineyard Theatre's benefi…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMGeoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons' crackling drama about the publication of the controversial documents receives a brilliantly acted production at New York Theatre Workshop.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMBy wisely devising "Top Secret" as a radio play with the actors seemingly reading from scripts, the authors and director create a distancing effect that gives both fluidity and credence to t…
Linked From New Jersey Newsroom at 12:00AMThe "write what you know" maxim couldn't be more apropos in this case, evidenced by Cowan and Aarons' clear presentation of the facts and splendidly nuanced dialogue, which consistently ring…
Linked From news.yahoo.com at 12:00AMNixon-era radio drama has a lot going for it.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMTo add show biz muscle to this docu-drama, director John Rubinstein has assembled close to a dozen well-credentialed thespians to inhabit the real life role models.
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMWhile "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers" offers a cogent, informative peek into a historic chapter in 20th-century journalism, as an evening of theater it is static.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AMThe undeniably dramatic true story of a great struggle for American freedom of the press seems awfully dry, coming across as theater that's good for you rather than good theater.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMIf you find your eyelids drooping during this new production at New York Theatre Workshop, don't blame any turkey you might have eaten at your pre-show repast - the culprit is undoubtedly tr…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMToday on ArtsBeat three New York Times critics - Anthony Tommasini, chief classical music critic; Roberta Smith, art critic; and Dwight Garner, book critic - are discussing the music, the ar…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AM"Neighbors" is a simultaneously overheated and undercooked new play that sacrifices cogency and meaning for pure sensation.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AMA top-notch ensemble enlivens Vern Thiessen's mostly merry fantasy about life in the early days of the USSR.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMPlaywright Vern Thiessen cleverly plays with history in this entertaining tale of the two Soviet scientists who in 1924 successfully embalmed the body of Lenin-forever.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMJohn Webster and Martin McDonagh seek some revenge
Linked From Village Voice at 12:00AMThe Arden Theatre Company continues their season with director Matt Pfeiffer's exhilarating production of Romeo and Juliet.
Linked From Philadelphia Weekly at 12:00AMMatt Pfeiffer's direction of the Arden's Romeo and Juliet bathes us in emotional intensity. He also strips the young lovers' tragedy of any romance in order to cast a disapproving glare on Shakespeare's text itself.
Linked From Broad Street Review at 12:00AMThe struggling New York City Opera, operating with a slender financial cushion, announced plans on Tuesday for another stripped down, five-production season.
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