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New York Magazine Vulture Blog

Get Ready For Sing-Along ‘Xanadu’

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

London Theater Journal: You Scream, They Jump Higher at “Into the Hoods”
Ben Brantley joins a screaming audience made up largely of young people at “Into the Hoods,” a hip-hop variation on “Into the Woods” set in a housing project.

Bloomberg.com

`The Fly' Gets Musical Makeover With Domingo, Cronenberg, Shore in Paris
Paris has reason to be afraid, be very afraid: David Cronenberg's horror movie ``The Fly'' has been transformed into an opera. In the same way Jeff Goldblum is fused with an insect in the 1986 film, Cronenberg combines his own talents with those of composer Howard Shore and Placido Domingo.

Playbill

* "Mamma Mia!" Film Launches New Website
* Collective: Unconscious Will Vanish July 31
* Spiegelworld to Return Aug. 6 with Désir, Bond, Lemper and Wainwright
* Casting Announced for Barrington's Violet Hour and My Scary Girl
* Chenoweth's Autobiography, "A Little Bit Wicked," Due in April 2009
* All Aboard! Ebersole, McArdle, White, Easton and Rudetsky to Perform on July "Rosie" Cruise
* Becker, Price, McDonald, Adams to Join Lewis for Music Circus Gypsy; Season Casting Updated

TheaterMania

* Off-Broadway Shows to Participate in Summer in the Square on July 10
* Absinthe, Bond, Désir, Lemper, Wainwright, et al. Set for Spiegelworld 2008
* Full Casting Announced for Dance With Me
* Michael Imperioli Joins ABC's Life on Mars
* Jennifer Holliday to Apppear With Seattle Men's Chorus
* MTC Commissions Flahive, Haidle, Lindsay-Abaire to Write New Plays

Talkin' Broadway

The Siegel Column
'Cirque Dreams', 'Bash'd', 'Palace at the End', 'reasons to be pretty'

Superfluities Redux Blog

Organum
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (I am human; nothing human is alien to me). The ameliorist theatre, a fully-paid subsidiary of the culture industry, would prefer to think otherwise: that so many things human are alien to its audiences, ....

The Times UK

On the Rocks, Hampstead Theatre, London
Fine performances from scrawny and intense Ed Stoppard as D. H. Lawrence and Tracy-Ann Oberman as a gloriously sensual Frieda

The Guardian

The Fly lands on stage
David Cronenberg makes his theatre director's debut in an operatic version of his cult film

Reivew: Spamalot, Palace, London
Brian Logan wonders how new King Arthur Sanjeev Bhaskar ever managed to pull the sword from the stone

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Natasha Tripney: Should the Globe be staging new plays?

Daily Telegraph

The Fly - the opera - debuts in Paris
Peter Allen reviews The Fly - the opera - in Paris

Whatsonstage.com

Review: Jay Johnson: The Two & Only

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Review: Look Back in Anger, Jermyn Street, London
The fanfare surrounding the 50th anniversary of Look Back in Anger in 2006 also prompted a serious re-examination. While there was no doubting the place John Osborne’s kitchen sink drama, a riposte to the middle-class fare that then dominated the West End, holds in theatrical and social history, whether or not the play still retains any significant impact was another matter...

Review: Frozen, Riverside Studios, London
Bryony Lavery’s Frozen is a dark re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, in which a serial killer snatches 10 year old Rhona on the way to her grandmother’s house. The play also tells three other stories: the mother’s, the killer’s and the psychologist’s...

Review: Vinegar Tom, Cobden Club, London
Written during the second major feminist movement, Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom first strikes the viewer as a somewhat spiced up Brechtian version of The Crucible. The play centres around the young, unmarried and sexually provocative mother Alice and her mother Joan, as they and two other women are accused of witchcraft through no wrong doing, but rather through their neighbours trying to justify their own misfortune.

London Theatre Guide

Bhaskar’s nervous night with Python
Sanjeev Bhaskar’s nerves were rattled last night, not because of the press gathered for his official first night in Monty Python’s Spamalot, but because of the presence of former Python Terry Jones.

Gambon leads quartet into No Man’s Land
Michael Gambon is to return to the West End stage in the Gate theatre Dublin’s production of Harold Pinter’s play No Man’s Land, which transfers to the Duke of York’s on 27 September (press night 7 October).