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Miami Herald - Drama Queen Blog

A different writers' room
Writers! Theater doesn't have an equivalent of the cutthroat writers' room in Bill Wrubel's On Story, one of the 16 lively plays in this year's Signature Shorts...

Orlando Sentinel - Attention Must Be Paid Blog

'Panther and Crane' on the road

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

`Brokeback’ sings, `Fair Lady’ redux, `Nine’ lives on

The Envelope - Los Angeles Times

Sneak peek: What you'll see on the Tony Awards telecast this Sunday

Chicago Tribune - Theater Loop Blog

Estelle Parsons to replace Deanna Dunagan in 'August: Osage County'

New York Magazine - Vulture Blog

‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera Not Necessarily the Campiest Thing Ever

Playbill

* ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Aziza, Breaker, Russell and Strouse
* Broadway's Kevin Spirtas to Join ABC's "One Life to Live"
* Catered Affair Adds Thursday Matinees to Performance Schedule
* Catered, Frankenstein and Mermaid Casts to Perform on 2008 Tonys
* Oscar-Winning "Brokeback Mountain" to Hit the Stage
* Passing Strange Tony Nominee Daniel Breaker Gets a Boost from the Audience
* Parsons and Regan to Join August: Osage County Cast June 17
* Foldesi, Phelan, Maitner and Brightman Set for Ghosts: The Musical Reading
* November to End Broadway Run in July
* Rehearsals for Shrek the Musical Begin June 9
* Hoty, Barrett, McCarthy, Anderson and Beirne Sign for Cape Playhouse Season
* Desai, Lenox, Mann, Moran and More to Be Part of Second Stage Theatre New Works Festival
* New York Times Company Foundation Fund Awards Grants to 25 Theatres
* Mormon Boy to Play Tides Playhouse in July
* Talk Show Watch: Xanadu on "The Early Show" and "Regis"; Lion King on "Today"

TheaterMania

Double Exposure
Brian Kerwin does daily double duty as August:Osage County's bad guy Steve Heidebrecht and One Life to Live's good guy Charlie Banks.

* Thirteen Broadway Musicals to Perform at 62nd Annual Tony Awards
* A Catered Affair to Add Thursday Matinees in July
* Estelle Parsons, Molly Regan to Join August: Osage County on June 17
* Foldesi, Maitner, Phelan, et al. Set for Ghosts: The Musical Reading
* November to Close on July 13
* American Idol Champ Taylor Hicks Begins Grease Run
* RSC's Hamlet with Stewart and Tennant to Play West End

Broadway.com

* A Catered Affair to Add Fourth Matinee
* Estelle Parsons, Molly Regan Headed to the Cast of August: Osage County
* November, Starring Nathan Lane, to Close on 7/13

The Times UK

Black Watch marches into London
Gregory Burke's smash hit for the National Theatre of Scotland gives authentic voice to the ordinary squaddie in Iraq

The winner of discontent
Penelope Wilton has made a career of “playing disappointed women”, but it is not her own life that she draws upon

The Six Wives of Timothy Leary, at the Riverside Studios
Timothy Leary and Henry VIII both had six wives - but they had more than that in common

IPH ... at Mercury Theatre, Colchester
A Greek tragedy that is full of modern parallels, but not enough emotion to touch the heart or to make you think

The Guardian - Performing Arts Blog

Lyn Gardner: Should Shakespeare be barred?
The plays of Shakespeare don't need to be 'translated' they just need to be made relevant - and if theatre-makers can't do that, maybe it's time to give him a rest

Michael Billington: Celebrity casting attacked (again)
Jonathan Miller complains his plays don't transfer for their lack of stars. Is he right?

David Ward: Keswick diary: My programme's premiere

Whatsonstage.com

Tennant Hamlet Leads RSC London Season in Dec

London Theatre Guide

RSC brings Hamlet, Dream and Shrew to London
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced it will return to the Novello later this year to play a winter season, transferring productions of Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming Of The Shrew.