Tuesday, June 17, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Late Day Links - All


Atlanta Journal Constitution ATLArts Blog

Performing arts program for Cobb Energy Centre

As You Like It At George Shakes

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

Tony ratings up!(sort of)

Orange County Register Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog

Dolly Parton’s musical “9 to 5″ makes its world premiere at the Ahmanson this fall

Bill Rauch moves from O.C. to Oregon and shakes up its most famous theater

Katie Holmes to make her Broadway debut in “All My Sons”

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

House Theatre adds company members, including first Equity actor
The House Theatre of Chicago has added six new company members, including costume designer Debbie Baer, actor Cliff Chamberlain, lighting designer Lee Keenan, production manager Chad Kenward, actress Kat McDonnell and actor Joey Steakley. Chamberlain is the Equity member, suggesting...

Back Stage

Everyone Expects Me to Write Another "Streetcar" reviewed by Robert Windeler
Jeremy Lawrence has "arranged and performed" this 70-minute piece about Tennessee Williams in the years following his last big critical and box-office success.

Oph3lia reviewed by Jerry Portwood
Imagine sitting in the classroom of a liberal arts college with a young, newly minted professor prepared to impart all her precious analysis of Shakespeare's women to her students.

Playbill

* TONY AWARDS PHOTO CALL: More of the Winners Circle
* MARQUEE VALUE: Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy at the Broadway Theatre
* Broadway's Spring Awakening Offers Online Rush Tickets
* John Davidson Will Star in Surflight's Chicago and Will Rogers Follies
* Overbey, Ambudkar and Shamos to Star in Joseph's Animals Out of Paper
* PHOTO CALL: Alice Ripley and the L.A. Cast of Tommy
* Hurt Reunites with Close for Second Season of "Damages"
* Spring Awakening Cast Will Join Taste of Chicago's Broadway Concert June 30

TheaterMania

Let's Hear It for the Boys!
Malcolm Gets, Norm Lewis, Barrett Foa, and David Greenspan help Mart Crowley celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The Boys in the Band. Plus: Liza Minnelli, LaLa Brooks, Kirk Douglas, Adriane Lenox Lillias White, and many more stars!

* John Davidson to Star in Surflight's Chicago and Will Rogers Follies
* Ambudkar, Overbey, and Shamos to Star in Second Stage's Animals Out of Paper
* Anderson, Bernstein, Castle, Ollman, Wright, et al. Set for Gettysburg Festival

Financial Times

Relocated, Royal Court, London
An air of unreality and horror pervades as this play tests notions of past, present and future, writes Ian Shuttleworth

Jamaica, Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia
A conventional conceit – small-town girl dreaming of the big city – hides political undertones and a send-up of American commercialism, writes Brendan Lemon

The Times UK

High School Musical the stage is set
The most successful made-for-TV-movie of all time is coming to the West End. Will its magic translate on to the stage?

Review: 2,000 Feet Away, Bush, London
Joseph Fiennes displays an apt mix of mounting rage and confoundment as his compassion is pushed to its limits

Review: De Profundis, National, London
As Wilde, Redgrave acts the hell out of every line. Desperate, disbelieving, distraught but disingenuous

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