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Atlanta Creative-Loafing Blog

Dragon King rules at Center for Puppetry Arts

Miami Herald

A Tony winner does her own thing
Idina Menzel won a Tony Award for creating the role of Elphaba -- the not-so-scary green witch who soars as she sings Defying Gravity -- in Wicked on Broadway...

Chad Jones Theater Dogs' Blog

`Spring Awakening’ tour news

Dallas Morning News Over the Top Blog

High School Musical stars at Exposition Park Cafe

High School Musical stars at the Rangers game

Cleveland Plain Dealer OnStage Blog

Video: 'Dog Sees God' at Fourth Wall Productions

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Chicago 'Jersey Boys' goes smoke-free
The Chicago production of "Jersey Boys" has gone smoke-free in the last few days. It is as if the Four Seasons never took so much as a drag. But in New York and London, Frankie and the boys still puff...

Star-Ledger

Listen In: Kate Jennings Grant
'The Marriage of Bette & Boo'

ny1

Japanese Production Hopes To Make Waves On Broadway
NY1's Frank DiLella traveled to Osaka, Japan and filed the following report on one Broadway-bound production that is looking to that city -- a city hoping to boost its own status in the arts world -- for its very far out-of-town try-out.

Variety

Review: Pageant Play
The surreal world of child- beauty pageants is an endless supply of source material for deft comedies ("Little Miss Sunshine") and TV reality shows ("Little Beauties"). But co-writers (and cast members) Mark Setlock and Matthew Wilkas' shrill and confused four-hander, "Pageant Play," receiving its premiere in the Massachusetts Berkshires, hits all the wrong notes in story, tone and performance.

Associated Press

Benny and Bjorn: no ABBA reunion
Despite the astonishing success of the stage musical ''Mamma Mia!,'' ABBA has ruled out any reunion tour.

Playbill

* Cry-Baby's Snyder to Go it Solo in August
* Broadway Folk Will Sing Eighties Tunes at Joe's Pub in August
* ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: [title of column]
* PHOTO CALL: The Barricades Arise at Philly's Les Miz
* Lear, Reed, Shelton and Maxwell to Star in Body Politic
* Yeston Pens Several New Tunes for "Nine" Film
* Garnye Will Make a Splash July 21
* Leavel Will Join Young Frankenstein a Week Early
* Italian Sojourn Replaces Wright's Mistakes Were Made on O'Neill Calendar

TheaterMania

* Bell, Collins, Lachey, Lemenager, Nadler, et al. Set for July 10 Broadway in Bryant Park
* Free Presentation of Hair Songs Set for July 9
* Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver to Star in Love Letters Benefit
* Banes, Elbrick, Harding, Setlock, et al. to Participate in 2008 FringeNYC
* Crosby, Davie, Jue, Patterson, Reams, Rowat, et al. Set for 90 Years of Muny Magic
* LOGO's Sordid Lives to Have Two Benefit Premieres
* Leavel, Ragusa, Sullivan to Join Broadway's Young Frankenstein

Broadway.com

Q & A: Mary McCormack

*Beth Leavel Moves Up Debut Date in Young Frankenstein

CurtainUp

Review: Blackbird

Clyde Fitch Report Blog

The Coming Mike Daisey-Teresa Eyring Smackdown?
I kind of figured it might happen -- someone in a public way would take on Mike Daisey and his belief (and monologue) How Theater Failed America....

The Trickle of Marx Brothers Place Endorsements (and Related Ideas) Continues to Grow

The Wicked Stage

Theatre Art File
For a stage adaptation of the Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean graphic novel, at the Bootleg Theatre in L.A.

Financial Times

New blood at the National
Mark Ravenhill has written regularly for the New Connections mini-festival at the National Theatre, producing some of the finest, funniest plays, but his contribution this year is an oddity, writes Sarah Hemming

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Opening: Outgoing, Hangover, Ansty, Magnolias
Amongst the major openings in London’s Off-West End & Fringe venues this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 7 July 2008 (previews from 2 July), Anupama...

London Theatre Guide

BBC celebrates Theatreland centenary
BBC News is marking 100 years since the creation of London’s West End theatre industry with a series of television and radio reports broadcast throughout Tuesday 8 July.

Talented character actress Spriggs dies, aged 78
Elizabeth Spriggs, the skilled character actress who forged a long and successful career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, died last week at the age of 78.