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New York Magazine Vulture Blog

French Critics, Even Snootier Than Expected, Pan Cronenberg Opera

Spike Lee Is Feeling ‘Strange’

Back Stage

Still Unsinkable
During the 1950s heyday of Debbie Reynolds' film career, the radiant actor-singer-dancer earned the nickname "America's sweetheart."

New York Times

The ‘Mamma Mia!’ Factor, Times Three

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

London Theater Journal: Just How Many Prozorov Sisters Are There, Anyway?
Ben Brantley’s weekend included visits to an improvisational version of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” called, simply, “…Sisters,” and a bare-bones revival of Noel Coward’s rarely seen musical “Sail Away.”

Playbill

* Phillips, Easterbrook, Torres and Blakely Will Join Rodriguez in Dance With Me
* Blasted, Sixty Miles to Silver Lake and Rambo Solo Set for Soho Rep Season
* Robinson Will Be Ali in Broadway's Mamma Mia!
* Tony Winner Holliday Will Perform with Seattle Men's Chorus in December
* Williamstown to Present Free Family-Friendly Musical Trouble Tales (for boys and girls)
* Dothée, Hanson, Aspiras, Cao, Shaw and Sheridan Set for West Virginia West Side Story
* Ivey to Star in Long Wharf's Glass Menagerie
* Rubin-Vega, Cerveris, Sunjata, Creel, Rapp and More to Stand Up for Freedom! July 21
* Caffey's 3 Mo' Divas! Filmed for PBS
* "Weeds" Star Parrish to Join Broadway's Spring Awakening

TheaterMania

Review: The Bacchae
Alan Cumming is adorable in the National Theatre of Scotland's grandly entertaining take on Euripides' tragedy.

* Birney, Ireland, Kauffman, Liska, et al. Set for Soho Rep's 2008-2009 Season
* Hunter Parrish to Join Broadway's Spring Awakening

Broadway.com

* Jonathan Hadary to Join National Tour of Spamalot
* Spike Lee to Helm Film Version of Passing Strange
* Some Americans Abroad Delays Opening Night
* Weeds Star Hunter Parrish Set to Star in Spring Awakening

Talkin' Broadway

Review: The Ladies Man at Shakespeare & Company

The Playgoer Blog

"Ragtime" & "Urinetown" dispute updates

Superfluities Blog

Claude Vivier
Claude Vivier's 1979/1980 opera for seven vocalists and seven musicians, Kopernikus, subtitled a Rituel de Mort, takes place at that Kantian point where the phenomenal and noumenal spheres impinge upon each other. A woman, Agni, finds herself in a metaphysical Wonderland...

The Guardian

High School Musical Live on Stage / Hammersmith Apollo, London
An artful attempt to separate you from your cash, writes Lyn Gardner

Obituary: Elizabeth Spriggs
Versatile character actor who played a host of matronly roles on stage and screen

The Guardian - Performing Arts Blog

Lyn Gardner: Keep an eye out for the Edinburgh gems
Mark Shenton: Now every night is amateurs' night

Whatsonstage.com

1st Night Photos: Stars & Their Kids Attend School

Rolan Bell On ... His Reggae Education

High School Musical’s London Term Time

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Eastern Promise
In the second of our explorations into theatre beyond the West End, we go East to take a look at some of the delights on offer.

Review: Unstated: Stories of Refuge
I struggle down a rubble strewn alley, pass through a gate topped with spikes and am accosted by an officious woman in uniform who insists I fill in a form stating who I am. I am then unceremoniously ushered forward into a queue where I wait to be searched for weapons then photographed and issued with an identity card. At this point I am temporarily released from custody to collect my tickets to Unstated.

London Theatre Guide

Soho premieres Moss’s topical Night
This Wide Night, the new play by Chloë Moss tackling the effects of imprisonment on women, debuts at the Soho theatre in late July before embarking on a tour.