ATW NewsClips - National, Industry Pubs - The Week's Links

From the previous week. I've tried to be as thorough as possible.

Associated Press

Dody Goodman, 93; stage and TV comedian

'Bash'd' deftly champions gay civil rights _ in rap

India.Arie is set to make her Broadway debut

Drama presents three faces of war

Bloomberg.com

Contortionists, Acrobats and Muscle Men Star in Dreamy `Cirque': Review
You might skip a musical called ``Southern Pacific'' or ``Sunday in the Park with Joe.'' So be warned that ``Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy,'' which opened last night at New York's Broadway Theatre, isn't affiliated with the acclaimed, overexposed Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil.

Brutal Monologues Bring Iraq War Home; Growing Up `Perfect': John Simon
``Palace of the End'' by the Canadian playwright Judith Thompson may be somberly hortative, but it lights up Theatre Row in Manhattan. It thrills as much as it disturbs, leaving the viewer, if not a better, surely a wiser person.

Alan Cumming Plays God, Armory Plays Hell for Festival: Preview

Saggy `Candide' Limps, Comic Albert Thrives: Warwick Thompson

`Rent' Producer Seeks Break to Give Broadway `White Christmas'

German Stage Director Klaus Michael Grueber Dies, Aged 67

Variety

Review: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
...to make readers create their own stories out of pictures of familiarity and wonder. Writer-director Joe Calarco, lyricist Nathan Tysen and composer Chris Miller have gone even further, not only finding a narrative connection for the pictures but a musical whole that celebrates the joys of imagination and the healing power of art.

Review: Candide
No matter who's at the helm, the line on Leonard Bernstein's Broadway operetta remains the same: Great score, shame about the show. ...

Review: Tuna Does Vegas
Gidget went to Rome, Ernest to prison, "Friday the 13th's" Jason to hell -- and it is in the tradition of such flagging-franchise entries that "Tuna Does Vegas." While it's pleasant to see beloved characters back in action....

Review: Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
It almost makes you nostalgic for the bad old days when carnies were carnies -- the sawdust-smelling, animal-exploiting, itinerant tent trash who'd never dream of signing up for mime school or an interpretive dance class. The circus as high-tech, new age musical spectacular is now so ubiquitous ....

Review: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Incest is the gentlest sin exhibited in ACT's "'Tis Pity She's a Whore." John Ford's lurid Jacobean tragedy offers mixed aesthetic and emotional rewards in artistic director Carey Perloff's splashy new staging ....

Review: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself)
With the cast, helmer and designers of its 2007 South Coast Rep premiere still aboard, Donald Margulies' "Shipwrecked!" offers Geffen Playhouse audiences more of just about everything -- more lights, more spectacle, more audacity -- at no sacrifice...

Review: Stitching
Everything is going fine in Anthony Neilson's "Stitching" until it becomes clear that the title refers to something so repellent it's hard to even care about the play anymore. The performances are fine....

Review: The Pride of Parnell Street
A low-life, hardscrabble Dublin marriage receives a heartbreaking dissection in Irish writer Sebastian Barry's tough-going but ultimately moving two-hander "The Pride of Parnell Street," having its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Intl. Festival of Arts & Ideas. ....

Review: Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
...Helmer Paul Mazursky displays a keen understanding of the producer vs. writer dynamic, solidly underscoring Goldfarb's distillation of the Jewish experience in America through the mano a mano confrontations between doggedly assimilated ....

Review: It's Only Life
...As emotionally focused and musically diverse as Bucchino's repertoire is, his artistic inquiry's relatively narrow scope explains why this world premiere event at Ventura's Rubicon Theater, helmed by Daisy Prince, arouses more admiration than excitement....

Review: Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera
Canada is not an obvious breeding ground for great white rappers -- remember Snow? -- but the Caucasian Canucks behind "Bash'd!: A Gay Rap Opera" have skills. Their 65-minute concert-cum-musical, transferring to Off Broadway's Zipper after berths in Canada and the New York Fringe Festival, not only puts a smart spin on gay rights but also delivers some radio-worthy hip-hop

Review: Palace of the End
...While the final monologue is arresting enough to make the play worth watching, the biggest stumbling block to the evening's forward motion is the only still-breathing character, who delivers the first and weakest third of the show.....

'Cirque' looks hot to globe-trot
Company bets $500 million on multi-city bows

Goldberg's 'Cirque' comes to town
Broadway Theater welcomes 'Jungle' show

N.Y. producers plan new tax attack
Broadway League eyes major tax break

Adriane Lenox gets 'Ruined' role
Actress to star in Goodman production this fall

'Spring Awakening' leads hit the road
Kyle Riabko, Blake Bashoff join national tour

'Wonderettes' set for Off Broadway
Preview begin on Aug. 26

New World stays with 'Castle'
Drama extended through Aug. 30

Lane, Neuwirth are 'Addams Family'
Duo to play Gomez, Morticia in closed reading

Reality runners-up join 'Grease'
Keeling, Spencer take over lead roles

Kate Mulgrew joins 'Equus' cast
Actress joins Daniel Radcliff Broadway revival

Disney's theater unit ups Schrader
Promoted to exec VP of strategic planning

'White Christmas' on Broadway?
Producers eye Marquis for seasonal production

Young tops 'Myth' at O'Neill
'Jersey Boy' star to head cast of musical

Ingmar Bergman's plays available
Foundation hires Josef Wienberger to license

Ovation TV pacts with StageVision
Company to provide content for network

'Colored' revival set for Sept. 8
Drama produced by Whoopi Goldberg

Broadway keeps Tony boost
Shows make most of Award exposure

'East 14th' to play New World Stages
Don Reed's one-man show opens July 10

'Grenadine' wins Yale Drama award
Yale Rep will hold a reading on Sept. 15

Leavel joins 'Young Frankenstein'
Michele Ragusa, Kelly Sullivan added to cast

McDermott, Tierney make 'Changes'
Wilson Milam to direct Nicky Silver play

Theatre de la Jeune set to close
Minneapolis theater won Tony Award in 2005

Broadway Bares fights AIDS
Burlesque show raises $874,372

Back Stage

Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
Cirque Dreams is suited to the light entertainment requirements of gambling casinos, with its colorful costumes and sets, impressive acts of skill and balance, and lack of story line.

Stitching
Despite the abrasive nonsense that clings to Anthony Neilson's tritely titled Stitching, I have been unable to altogether shake the play.

Bash'd
First California finally allows gays to marry, and now an offbeat Canadian duo has come up with a rap opera demonstrating that gays can be as violent and vulgar as any mainstream hip-hop performers.

Palace of the End
Torture. It's on the mind and in the hearts of each of the three characters in Palace of the End, the 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Award-winning play about the Iraq war by Canadian playwright Judith Thompson.

Macbeth: 2008
Situated in a breathtaking open-air space in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood, the audience can't help but glance at the downtown Manhattan skyline or the two magnificent bridges that frame the space on either side.

The Bobs
The song titles alone give a good idea of what the Bobs — formed in 1981 as an a cappella quartet — are going to be like.

Marko the Prince
Director Marcy Arlin pulls maximum drama from each startling reversal, and Art Rotch's set perfectly expresses village intimacy.

Trevor Exter
Trevor Exter is a rock cellist, and if there's another one anywhere around, he or she has eluded this cabaret scavenger.

The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?
Performance artist Annie Lanzillotto begins her wide-ranging meditation on the changing face of New York by going way back, riffing on the geological structure of Manhattan Island.