Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Village Voice Blog

Michael Musto: Hollywood's Lost Its Mind Again With My Fair Lady Remake

Back Stage

Still on Top - Actors Fund Honors Tommy Tune's 50-Year Career by Les Spindle
Surveying Tune's career as an actor, producer, director, and choreographer is like reading a capsule summary of American musical theatre from the golden age of the 1960s to the current era.

Show Boat (In Concert) reviewed by Marc Miller
One thing Show Boat must never, never be is two hours and fifteen minutes. But once one got used to this breakneck pacing, there was much to enjoy, most of it vocal.

Associated Press

Longtime friend: Paul Newman has cancer
A longtime neighbor and business partner of Paul Newman has told The Associated Press the 83-year-old actor is battling cancer.

Marlee Matlin is working on her memoir

Playbill

* Tony Nominee Rob Ashford Gives Cry-Baby Signature Moves
* Andreas, Gemignani, Graae, Kudisch and More Set for Summer Broadway Festival
* Pre-Broadway Tryout of Ever After and Tour of August to Be Part of San Fran Season
* National Tour of August: Osage County Launches in Summer 2009
* Fonzie and Friends Will Tour in Happy Days; Cast Album Now in Stores
* Arden Will Join Spring's Michele at Feinstein's June 16
* Shhh!: "Never Say Macbeth" to Arrive on DVD in August
* Altar Boyz Star Calvert to Make a Splash June 23
* Abdulrazzak Wins Devine Award for Baghdad Wedding
* Q. Smith Will Be Effie in West Virginia Public Theatre's Dreamgirls; Season Announced
* Boyd, Greenspan, Shannon, Waterston and More Cast in Rapp's Metal Children
* Weiss, Wolfson and Calvert Will Be Part of I Sing Benefit
* Tix for World Premiere of Shrek the Musical to Go On Sale June 13

TheaterMania

A Whole New World
Ben Daniels, Paulo Szot, Loretta Ables Sayre, Deanna Dunagan, Daniel Breaker, Alli Mauzey, and Mark Rylance are among the newest recipients of the coveted Theatre World Awards.

* Michael Arden to Join Lea Michele at Feinstein's on June 16
* August: Osage County to Launch National Tour in San Francisco in 2009
* Bowers, Holland, McRae to Star in Tempest Tossed at CSC

Broadway.com

John Simon, etceta: Adding Machine - World Premiere Recording
Back in 1923, Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine was a powerful play, the only effective American contribution to the then-flourishing European dramatic movement, expressionism, with its various literary and pictorial-sculptural counterparts. It is the story of Mr. Zero, an average, blinkered nonentity of a man whose mind is so ...

August: Osage County Announces National Tour

TheaterTimes (CA)

Review: ‘Someday’ by Julie Marie Myatt (Cornerstone)
Review: ‘Imagine’ by Doug Cooney and David (South Coast Repertory)

The Guardian

Curve theatre launches with a Cinderella twist
A new musical called Simply Cinderella, due to open in December is the first production at Leicester's new £60m Curve theatre

The Guardian - Performing Arts Blog

Matt Wolf: Edward Albee's Occupant sees one artist salute another
Michael Billington : Drama schools are serving up the most vibrant theatre

Whatsonstage.com

Gareth Gates Joins Stiles & Drewe Concert Line-up

London Theatre Guide

Interview: Jo Stone-Fewings
“It’s pretty idyllic at the moment.” This is how actor Jo Stone-Fewings describes his life, and it is hard to disagree with him, writes Matthew Amer.

First Night Feature: Afterlife
At the National Theatre, Michael Frayn has reunited the team behind Democracy – long-time Frayn director Michael Blakemore and leading actor Roger Allam – for a new historical play, Afterlife.

Gates tastes Spoonful of West End
Former Pop Idol finalist and chart-topping singer Gareth Gates is to make his West End debut in gala show A Spoonful Of Stiles & Drewe.

Baghdad playwright wins George Devine Award
Iraqi writer Hassan Abdulrazzak has won the 2008 George Devine Award for new writing for his debut play, Baghdad Wedding, the Royal Court has announced.

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