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San Jose Mercury News D'Souza Blog

MAMMA MIA! It’s Meryl Streep breaking into song

Ashland: a mini-theater review of “Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter”

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Idina Menzel flying into SF

Review: `Tuna Does Vegas’

Orange County Register Theater By Paul Hodgins Blog

Prepare to be “Shipwrecked” again

Tommy, can you hear me?

“High School Musical” is a hit, if a little undisciplined

Cleveland Plain Dealer Onstage Blog

Photo gallery: Update on Great Lakes Theater Festival's $14.7 million renovation of Playhouse Square's storied, 1921 Hanna Theatre

Time Out Chicago Blog

Start spreadin’ the news: The Strangerer’s headed to New York

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Get your kicks from Chicago's newest theater company: Route 66
Chicago has a new Equity-affiliated theater troupe: The Route 66 Theatre Company. The mission is to connect the folks who live along the 2,448 miles of the old Mother Road. It's the baby of Chicago actor Stef Tovar. And its...

Back Stage

Breaking the Mold
Men and women have been swooning over Cheyenne Jackson in Broadway's Xanadu, so it's no surprise Back Stage wanted to talk to the leading man for our Gay Pride edition.

This Instant
In your search for the right acting classes, you've probably noticed that many schools offer "intensive" learning experiences. Back Stage takes an intensive look at what they're like.

Variety

2,000 Feet Away, Bush, London
... a thoroughly unsettling collection of portraits of people compromised by doubt and prejudice. If the play doesn't ultimately land, Weigh's continually unexpected angles make this an impressive debut.

Trio tune up for 'Pal Joey'
Channing, Hoff, Plimpton set for revival

David Hyde Pierce set for revival
Actor to star in 'Accent on Youth'

Org funds new musicals
Shen Foundation gives hand to new works

Classic Stage adds to new season
'Vanya,' 'An Oresteia' added to the bill

Playbill

* Hoff Is Broadway's New Pal Joey, With Stockard Channing and Martha Plimpton, at Studio 54
* Hyde Pierce to Star in MTC's Accent on Youth; Itamar Moses Added to Slate
* ASK PLAYBILL.COM: Crew Hiring
* Rule Change Announced for Academy Awards Original Song Category
* Tickets for West Coast Premiere of Spring Awakening, in San Diego, Will Go on Sale June 22
* O'Hare, Brecht, Pendleton, Othello, Proust Will Punctuate CSC Season
* North Carolina Theatre Named for Broadway Actors Campbell and Kennedy
* Mary Tyler Moore to Join NBC's "Lipstick Jungle" in September
* Baranski, Clark, Close, Gaines, Jackson and More Will Be Part of Broadway Barks 10
* McDonald, Ruiz and Brown to Star in Man of La Mancha at the Engeman
* Cry-Baby Stars Head to the Chatterbox June 19
* Split Britches Founders Set for Coffee House Chronicles at LaMaMa June 21

TheaterMania

* Channing, Hoff, Plimpton to Star in Broadway Pal Joey
*David Hyde Pierce to Star in MTC's Accent on Youth, Additional Details Announced for MTC 2008-2009 Season
* Denis O'Hare to Star in CSC Uncle Vanya
* Bogardus, Harada, et al. Set for St. Louis MUNY's High School Musical
* Baranski, Clark, Close, Lopez, et al. to Join Moore and Peters for Broadway Barks 10
* Hicks, Jelks, et al. to Join Uggams in Signature's The First Breeze of Summer
* Mike Daisey's If You See Something Say Something to Play National Tour

Broadway.com

FRESH FACE: Piper Perabo, currently appearing in reasons to be pretty

PHOTO OP: The Play's the Thing! Hamlet Opens in Central Park

* David Hyde Pierce Set for MTC's Broadway Revival of Accent on Youth
* Christian Hoff, Stockard Channing & Martha Plimpton to Star in Pal Joey

nytheatre.com

Review: Arias with a Twist

CurtainUp

Review: Vincent River

The Times UK

Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Oxford Castle
It must be good fun on sunny evenings, but this being neither Sicily nor Spain but England, the director deserves pity

Review: Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's Globe, London
Director Christopher Luscombe's sitcom-like frolic makes these wives merrier than ever on stage of Shakespeare's Globe

London Theatre Guide

Osage County comes to National
The National Theatre has confirmed that August: Osage County, the Oklahoma-set drama which won five Tony Awards last weekend, will come to the South Bank in late November.