Thursday, May 29, 2008

ATW Newsclips - Late Day Links - All

Miami Herald - Drama Queen Blog

Funny Jewish girls and a moving Jewish woman
A frenetic summer theater season begins this weekend with a pair of festivals: City Theatre's popular Summer Shorts Festival at the Carnival Studio Theater in Miami's Arsht Center for the Performing Arts....

Orlando Sentinel - Attention Must Be Paid Blog

Visual Fringe scores big

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Review: `Octopus’
Yockey’s Octopus explores inky waters of commitment

The Envelope - Los Angeles Times



Associated Press

Melissa Gilbert cast in `Little House' musical

Playbill

* Brendon, Broderick, Clapp, Pine, Sweeney, Thiessen, et al. Set for Blank's Young Playwrights Festival
* Hoffman Directs Original Cast of Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train for June 22 Reading
* Verina, Pees and Vega to Dish Five Course Love at Human Race
* PHOTO CALL: LaBute Gives Off-Broadway reasons to be pretty
* Public's Hair Cast Set for Be-In! Concerts at Joe's Pub

TheaterMania

* Brendon, Broderick, Clapp, Pine, Sweeney, Thiessen, et al. Set for Blank's Young Playwrights Festival
* Fishburne, Lopez, Martin, Metcalf, Stewart, Wopat, et al. Set for Visa Tony Preview
* Jackson, Massey, Michele, Rocca, Simard, et al. Set for Broadway Loves Country
* Grays, Mitchell, Portia, Stockard Set for Hartford TheaterWorks 'No Child
* Jennifer Dundas to Discuss Taming of the Shrew on June 2

Financial Times

The bitter fruits of idealism
Simon Gray’s comedy of Cambridge undergraduates who found a literary magazine starts in 1968, but then skips forward to show their idealism eroding until, by 1986, they are left depleted, writes Lorna Dolan

Troilus and Cressida, Barbican Theatre, London
For much of the evening, it feels not unlike watching a tennis match, but one in which the players are only allowed to stand at the baseline or the net, writes Ian Shuttleworth

The Cherry Orchard, Chichester Festival Theatre, West Sussex
With a star-studded casting, it hardly matters that Philip Franks offers what would otherwise be a solid but unexceptional version of Chekhov’s piece, writes Ian Shuttleworth


The Times UK

Review: Troilus and Cressida, Barbican, London
Declan Donnellan’s production begins arrestingly, but goes on to suffer from uneven acting and iffy directorial choices

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