Sunday, July 6, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Tri-State, National, Industry Pubs


New York Times

Dysfunctional Since Before It Was Cool
The playwright Christopher Durang talks about being ahead of the “dysfunctional” curve, tangling with Catholicism and missing Wendy Wasserstein.
* Audio Slide Show

Selling His Soul for the Part
Sean Hayes is making his New York stage debut in the Encores! revival of “Damn Yankees.”

Theaters See a Lifeline Above as Developers Pursue Midtown Opportunities

The ‘Mamma Mia!’ Factor, Times Three
“Mamma Mia!” comes to loud and flashy life on the big screen.
* Clip & Trailers: 'Mamma Mia!'

Daniella Liben, Adam Pally
...The bridegroom, 26, is an actor in television commercials and also at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York...

Robert Leone, Edward Decker
...Mr. Decker, 52, is the artistic and executive director of the New Conservatory Theater Center, a performance and education organization he founded in San Francisco...

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

London Theater Journal: A Bloody, Yet Heartless “Revenger’s Tragedy”
Melly Still, the director who brough London and Broadway “Coram Boy” a couple seasons ago, offers up a very bloody, but somewhat heartless, “Revenger’s Tragedy” at the National Theater.

New York Daily News

'Damn Yankees' had some great runs
What does it take to put "Damn Yankees" together? You've gotta have heart. The latest production of the 1955 musical appears to have just that.

From the Daily News Archives: 'Damn Yankees'
Here's a look at the New York Daily News reviews of the original "Damn Yankees" Broadway show, the 1958 movie, and the 1994 revival.

Albany Times-Union

ATF's new director gets audience in the act

Variety

Spike Lee to film 'Strange' musical
Director shooting Broadway show for cable

Judith Ivey cast in 'Menagerie'
Actress/director to play Amanda at Wharf Theater

Review: The Bacchae
...For all the pyrotechnics of Tiffany's sound-and-light show, it's the pure language of Euripides' poetry and the raw pain of Dionisotti's electrifying performance that reveal the true power of this ancient tragedy -- and its curiously modern message.

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