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Atlanta Journal-Constitution - ATLArts Blog

'Song of the Living Dead' @ Dad's Garage

San Jose Mercury News - Karen D'Souza Blog

Disney’s High School Musical: online chat today!

The Envelope - Los Angeles Times

Will it be the phony Tonys again this year?

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Coming Sunday: Backstage blogging from the Tony Awards
Stick your laptop on your knee Sunday night as you watch the Tony Awards and what's projected to be a memorable night for the Chicago theater. Even as the ceremony unfolds, The Theater Loop will bring you all the news...

Village Voice Blog

Michael Musto: Laughter and Reflection with Carol Burnett

NY1

Review: "Reasons To Be Pretty"

MSNBC

Video: 'Lion King' on the TODAY Show

WCBS

Video: 'Touring Green'
WCBS News segment on newly launched industry green initiatives. “Touring Green” will aim to reduce carbon emissions when Broadway shows hit the road.

New York Press

Ensemble Studio Theatre’s marathon of one-act plays end with a critic and cream puffs

‘Jollyship the Whiz-Bang,’ the pirate puppet rock opera, is musical theater with a mosh pit

Back Stage West

Review: Baggage Claim
To call this venture by playwright Michael Foley a soap opera would be to praise it too highly.

Review: Peter Quill's Shenanigans
One hardly knows how this 15th-century farce originally played, but here, adapted by Oscar Mandel, it is an utterly confused, low-rent, and poorly defined production that borders on hyperbolic children's theatre for adults.

Back Stage

Take Five NYC: Riding High in April, Shot Down in May
Some Take Five actors discover that things slow down in late spring, especially in May.

Reuters

Rocker and rapper up for top Broadway honors
He is called Stew and describes himself as a rocker, not a playwright, so he finds it surreal to be up for four Tony Awards, more than anyone else

Playbill

* Broadway's Spamalot to Welcome Dunn and Return of Mazzie June 17
* "At the Tonys," Featuring Interviews with LuPone, Miranda and Fishburne, Will Air June 15
* Berry, Cooper, Von Essen, Graae and More Join Broadway Musicals of 1979 Line-Up
* Sondheim, Guare, Lucas, Sher, Wolfe and Durang Set for Public Theater 2008-2009 Season
* Heights Director Thomas Kail Passionate About New Work
* NYU Continuum Company Will Stage Tempest Tossed at Off-Broadway's CSC
* PHOTO CALL: "Mamma Mia!" — the Movie

TheaterMania

* Collins, Dunn, Lachey, Mazzie to Join Broadway Spamalot
* Berry, Egan, Graae, Klausner, Skinner, von Essen, et al. Set for Broadway Musicals of 1979
* Winther, Grigsby, Wilfert Set for New Love Songs
* Degrassi Stars to Headline Toronto Cinderella
* Def, Durang, Hoch, Sondheim, Wolfe, Wright, et al. Set for Public Theater 2008-2009 Season

Broadway.com

FRESH FACE: Sam Buntrock (Sunday in the Park with George)

Public to Present Sondheim's Bounce, Plus Plays by Guare, Durang, Lucas & More

nytheatre.com

Review: East Village Chronicles
Review: A Doll's House

Playgoer Blog

What Happened to "Previews"

NEA Steps Up!

Financial Times

Blooms from a neglected plot
Michael Grandage’s secret is to take this curio of high comedy and improbable mystery and reveal its emotional life, while his cast revels in the suspense, writes Sarah Hemming

The Times UK

The Likely Lads, Gala, Durhrm
This is a play with exceptional dialogue rather than an exceptional play, there won’t be a comedy this year with sharper lines

Whatsonstage.com - Off West-End and Fringe

Hassan Abdulrazzak Wins George Devine Award
Author Hassan Abdulrazzak has been awarded the George Devine award for new writing for his play Baghdad Wedding. The award is given out annually and is accompanied...