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Voice Choice: Summer Play Festival

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

London Theater Journal: Yet Another “Pygmalion,” This Time at the Old Vic, and Delicious
Ben Brantley, with some trepidation, takes on yet another revival of “Pygmalion,” this time at the Old Vic, and finds it to be a delicious surprise.

Playbill

* First Performance of Zorro—The Musical Delayed in London
* Ain't Extends: "Honeysuckle Rose" to Bloom an Extra Week at Goodman
* Mamma Mia! Star Anderson to Join Avenue Q July 8
* Palace of the End, Drowsy Chaperone, Arthouse Cabaret Are 2008 Dora Winners in Toronto
* Smile, Baby: World Premiere Pageant Play Begins Berkshire Festival Run July 1
* R&H Acquires [title of show] Stock and Amateur Rights; Sheet Music to Be Published
* Gypsy Cast Recording Sets August Release Date
* Little House on the Prairie Musical Breaks Guthrie Box Office Record
* LuPone and Patinkin Will Bring An Evening to Tucson, Cleveland, More in 2009
Little Will Tour in 50 Ways Before Arriving in London
* Warsaw Ghetto-Set Imagine This to Open in London's West End in the Fall

TheaterMania

* Judith Thompson, Fire, et al. Win Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Awards
* Carey Anderson to Join Cast of Avenue Q July 8
* Arcade, Bond, Harry, McKay, Pendleton, et al. to Honor Malina in Revolutionary Acts

Broadway.com

FIRST PERSON: Neil Goldberg: A Broadway Fantasy Comes True

Carey Anderson Headed for Broadway's Avenue Q

The Playgoer Blog

Jeune Lune postmortem

Superfluities Redux

Spectral
As deadly as literality may seem, literality is in a sense theatre itself: the body as body, language as language, and theatrical presentation is a crude metaphor for consciousness, much more crude than film or television which has a wider technological and perceptual palette ...

The Guardian

The prisoner's dilemma
Emine Saner talks to the actor Ben Whishaw about Brideshead Revisited, Dostoevsky's The Idiot and playing an inmate in BBC1's Criminal Justice

Salsa and the city
Video: Daniel Nasaw talks with Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda about his latin music and hip-hop inspired Broadway show, In the Heights

Whatsonstage.com

* Josh Hartnett Makes Stage Debut in Rain Man Play
* Ghetto Musical Imagine This Opens at New London
* Gipsy Kings’ Musical Zorro Cancels Two Previews

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

How We … Started A Theatre Company
Vicky Graham and Tom Platten are the Artistic Directors of Gilt & Grime. Having founded the company in December 2007, they are now resident at the Cobden Club in West London. Their current production of Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill runs from Wednesday 2nd – Saturday 26th July 2008.

Review: All Nudity Shall Be Punished
The latest offering underneath the sometimes dank and chilly arches at the Union theatre is a Stonecrabs Theatre production of All Nudity Shall Be Punished by Brazilian writer Nelson Rodrigues, who is described in publicity material as that country’s foremost playwright.

London Theatre Guide

Hartnett opens Rain Man in London
Josh Hartnett is the latest Hollywood actor to tread the boards in the West End as he teams up with British actor Adam Godley for a new stage adaptation of the hit film Rain Man, which opens at the Apollo on 9 September (previews from 28 August).

Fiennes’s 2,000 Feet extends
2,000 Feet Away, the debut drama by Anthony Weigh, which stars Joseph Fiennes, Ian Hart and Phyllis Logan, has extended its run at the Bush until 19 July.

Imagine This at New London
Imagine This, a new musical set in Poland during the Second World War, is to have its West End premiere at the New London theatre on 19 November, after previews from 4 November.