The Independent
The Revenger's Tragedy: The bloody classic is given a modern twist
Joe Orton used two lines from The Revenger's Tragedy as the epigraph to What the Butler Saw – "Surely we are all mad people, and they/ Whom we think are, are not". It's easy to see why he liked the horror-comic Jacobean vision of moral anarchy....
Review: The Revenger's Tragedy, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Bloody return for anti-hero Tompkinson
Review: 'The Common Pursuit', Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Excellent! Theatres forced to withdraw misleading reviews
Financial Times
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: The Common Pursuit, Menier Chocolate Factory, London
A darkly comic tale of compromise and lost ideals in a revival of a 1984 play about a group of Cambridge undergraduates
Restorers avoid Shakespearean curse
Workmen undertaking renovation of Bard's tombstone endeavour not to fall foul of threat in verse
The Guardian
Hidden charges add 30% to cost of seat for music and theatre fans
Which? magazine calls for more transparency as report highlights 'sneaky extra' fees on ticket prices
Review: The Sound of My Voice, Citizens, Glasgow
Mark Fisher enjoys a good-looking production about a family man's alcohol-fuelled midlife crisis
Review: Breaking the Silence, Playhouse, Nottingham
Alfred Hickling likes Stephen Poliakoff's tale of his grandfather's life in post-revolutionary Russia
Daily Telegraph
Fat Pig: LaBute fails to tackle the big issues in tale about obesity
Charles Spencer reviews Fat Pig at Trafalgar Studios.
Whatsonstage.com
X-Factor’s Ray Quinn Headlines Grease from 16 Jun
Thursday, May 29, 2008
AmericanTheaterWeb.com - why the changes
I've had a number of people write and ask why there have been changes to the layout of AmericanTheaterWeb.com. The answer is that someone decided it might be fun to hack into the site and use it to spread a virus. Basically, any time a search was performed on the site, or I attempted to put in news or new information, the hack would try to replicate itself, not only across the 'net, but through the database. At this juncture, we've tried cleaning the database twice, and brought the site back, only to find that it's still not uninfiected. What this means for AmericanTheaterWeb.com as a whole, I don't know. There could be a lot of reprogramming and redesign involved in bringing it back as it was, and I am not sure that I will have the resources necessary to do that.
While we continue to work on the problem, I have wanted to make sure one section of the site - its most timely - the daily comprehensive newsclippings - have continued. Thus, I'm using the blog for the time being.
I will use the blog to keep you posted as to what's going on with AmericanTheaterWeb.com as a whole. If you have questions, suggestions, or moral support to send, please feel free.
Thanks a million for understanding and support.
Andy Propst
While we continue to work on the problem, I have wanted to make sure one section of the site - its most timely - the daily comprehensive newsclippings - have continued. Thus, I'm using the blog for the time being.
I will use the blog to keep you posted as to what's going on with AmericanTheaterWeb.com as a whole. If you have questions, suggestions, or moral support to send, please feel free.
Thanks a million for understanding and support.
Andy Propst
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
ATW NewsClips - Late Day - All
Miami Herald - Drama Queen Blog
Winning new plays
Actors' Playhouse, partnering with the Funding Arts Network, has found two winners in its "From Page to Stage" play-writing competition.
San Jose Mercury News - Karen D'Souza Blog
”No Child” busts box office records at Berkeley Rep
Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog
Bay Area’s best theater bets
The Envelope - Los Angeles Times
'Cry-Baby' nominee shamelessly sucks up to Tony voters
Chicago Tribune - Theater Loop Blog
Wait! What happened to the Chicago Improv Festival?
Monologist Mike Daisey headed to Chicago
Cash for Court
The Court Theatre has snagged some major new funding. Hyde Park Bank is coughing up $150,000 in a three-year sponsorship deal. That will make the locally based bank the theater's largest corporate supporter and the sole sponsor of one show in each of the next three seasons.
Variety
Review: Little Otik, Citizens', Glasgow
As arguments over the baby go, "When was the last time you varnished him?" is one of the less common accusations made by a wife to her husband. But when your child has been fashioned from a tree stump and you have to keep him hidden in case the neighbors notice his stick-like fingers, it's the kind of thing that matters. Thus it is, in Vanishing Point's visually striking adaptation of Jan Svankmajer's surreal 2000 movie, "Little Otik," that an infertile couple have their wishes fulfilled, only to be propelled into a nightmarish fairy tale of gothic dimensions.
Review: Rosmersholm, Almeida, London
Even the grave can't stop characters from the past exerting control over prisoners of the present in Ibsen's "Rosmersholm." With its plethora of guilty secrets threatening to strangle everyone's future, the rarely staged drama is further testament to the playwright's prevailing theme. Anthony Page's production for the Almeida cannot solve all the play's problems, but his cast mounts an intermittently strong case for the defense.
Back Stage
Artefacts reviewed by Jerry Portwood
Mike Bartlett's Artefacts begins with 16-year-old Kelly discovering her father, who abandoned her before she was born, is Iraqi.
Playbill
Ensemble Studio Theatre Announces Final Casting for Marathon 2008
Jason Robert Brown's 13 Sets Broadway Preview Date
Schneider Replaces Singh in The Euthanasiast at PS 122
In the Heights Troupers Will Perform and Sign Cast Recording in NYC June 5
Thespis, Lost G&S Operetta, Gets New Score by Thomas Z. Shepard
Pierce and Roberts to Star in Streetcar, Bledsoe and Corbett to Be Part of Little Dog at the Intiman
TheaterMania
Black, Davis, Gilroy, Grifasi, Rivera, Zarish, et al. Set for EST Marathon Series C
Evans, Rodriguez, Williamson, et al. Set for Theater of the Stars' Oklahoma!
Broadway.com
Robert Foxworth Headed to Broadway's August: Osage County
Talkin' Broadway
S.F. Reviews: 'No Child...', 'The Ladies of the Camellias', 'Peddling Rainbows'
The Times UK
Review: F***ing Men, Finborough, London
The bombastic title doesn’t match the tone of the play, which is more wordy and thoughtful than violent and shocking
Review: Lead us into Temptation, Old Red Lion, London
Some freestyle punk poeticism. Sincerely meant musings on faith and hope end up the wrong kind of anguish for the audience
Winning new plays
Actors' Playhouse, partnering with the Funding Arts Network, has found two winners in its "From Page to Stage" play-writing competition.
San Jose Mercury News - Karen D'Souza Blog
”No Child” busts box office records at Berkeley Rep
Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog
Bay Area’s best theater bets
The Envelope - Los Angeles Times
'Cry-Baby' nominee shamelessly sucks up to Tony voters
Chicago Tribune - Theater Loop Blog
Wait! What happened to the Chicago Improv Festival?
Monologist Mike Daisey headed to Chicago
Cash for Court
The Court Theatre has snagged some major new funding. Hyde Park Bank is coughing up $150,000 in a three-year sponsorship deal. That will make the locally based bank the theater's largest corporate supporter and the sole sponsor of one show in each of the next three seasons.
Variety
Review: Little Otik, Citizens', Glasgow
As arguments over the baby go, "When was the last time you varnished him?" is one of the less common accusations made by a wife to her husband. But when your child has been fashioned from a tree stump and you have to keep him hidden in case the neighbors notice his stick-like fingers, it's the kind of thing that matters. Thus it is, in Vanishing Point's visually striking adaptation of Jan Svankmajer's surreal 2000 movie, "Little Otik," that an infertile couple have their wishes fulfilled, only to be propelled into a nightmarish fairy tale of gothic dimensions.
Review: Rosmersholm, Almeida, London
Even the grave can't stop characters from the past exerting control over prisoners of the present in Ibsen's "Rosmersholm." With its plethora of guilty secrets threatening to strangle everyone's future, the rarely staged drama is further testament to the playwright's prevailing theme. Anthony Page's production for the Almeida cannot solve all the play's problems, but his cast mounts an intermittently strong case for the defense.
Back Stage
Artefacts reviewed by Jerry Portwood
Mike Bartlett's Artefacts begins with 16-year-old Kelly discovering her father, who abandoned her before she was born, is Iraqi.
Playbill
Ensemble Studio Theatre Announces Final Casting for Marathon 2008
Jason Robert Brown's 13 Sets Broadway Preview Date
Schneider Replaces Singh in The Euthanasiast at PS 122
In the Heights Troupers Will Perform and Sign Cast Recording in NYC June 5
Thespis, Lost G&S Operetta, Gets New Score by Thomas Z. Shepard
Pierce and Roberts to Star in Streetcar, Bledsoe and Corbett to Be Part of Little Dog at the Intiman
TheaterMania
Black, Davis, Gilroy, Grifasi, Rivera, Zarish, et al. Set for EST Marathon Series C
Evans, Rodriguez, Williamson, et al. Set for Theater of the Stars' Oklahoma!
Broadway.com
Robert Foxworth Headed to Broadway's August: Osage County
Talkin' Broadway
S.F. Reviews: 'No Child...', 'The Ladies of the Camellias', 'Peddling Rainbows'
The Times UK
Review: F***ing Men, Finborough, London
The bombastic title doesn’t match the tone of the play, which is more wordy and thoughtful than violent and shocking
Review: Lead us into Temptation, Old Red Lion, London
Some freestyle punk poeticism. Sincerely meant musings on faith and hope end up the wrong kind of anguish for the audience
ATW NewsClips - Mid-day Collection - All
Playbill
Goldberg, Mitchell and Rhea Set for July Fire Island Dance Festival
Barrett Doss Is Savannah in Rare Revival of Arlen & Harburg's Jamaica, May 31-June 22
Broadway Grossed Nearly $1 Billion During 2007-2008 Season
Cry-Baby's Songwriters Find Their Inner John Waters
Cry-Baby Cast Will Be Dancing at the Crossroads June 8
Tony Award Winners Bart and Butz Set for TV Pilot
Errico and Gets Will Be Together Again in June 7 Concert
Walton Replaces Blum in Cast of York Theatre Company's Minnie's Boys
National Arts Club to Honor Heights' Lin-Manuel Miranda June 2
Foxworth to Join August: Osage County Cast in June
Kritzer, Von Essen, Cody and O'Keefe Featured in "The Battery's Down" Web Series June 1
Felciano, Foa, Gets, Greenspan, Lewis and More Will Be The Boys in the Band
Mazzie, Danieley, Lewis and Blackwell Will Sing Gershwin July 18-19
Butler Signs "Faith, Trust & Pixie Dust" CD at Times Square Virgin Megastore May 28
Herrera to Offer Songs for Fathers, Sons and Daughters June 15
Last 5 Years to Play One Night in the West End
Jones, Stott and Jeffcoate Will Be Oliver in London Revival of Lionel Bart Musical
TheaterMania
Virgin Megastore to Host In the Heights CD Event on June 5
Carrie Manolakos to Join Broadway's Mamma Mia! on June 4
Broadway Attendance, Grosses Down Slightly Due to Fall Strike
Easton, McLanahan, Sternhagen Set for Recipe for Life Benefit
Walton to Join Duncan, Liberman, Myers, et al. for York's Minnie's Boys
Robert Foxworth, Jim True-Frost to Join August: Osage County Cast
Foa, Gets, Greenspan, Lewis, et al. to Celebrate Boys in the Band 40th Anniversary
Broadway.com
John Simon, etcetera: Bebe Neuwirth - Stories with Piano
Carrie Manolakos to Play Sophie in Broadway Company of Mamma Mia!
Potomac Stages
Review: Closing Time: A Slice Of A Disappearing Aspect Of Irish Life
Review: The Internationalist: An Amusing Contemporary Comedy Of The Global Community Studio Theatre
Review: David: In Shadow and Light: Premiere Of A Biblical Bio-Musical That Provides Insufficient Entertainment
Goldberg, Mitchell and Rhea Set for July Fire Island Dance Festival
Barrett Doss Is Savannah in Rare Revival of Arlen & Harburg's Jamaica, May 31-June 22
Broadway Grossed Nearly $1 Billion During 2007-2008 Season
Cry-Baby's Songwriters Find Their Inner John Waters
Cry-Baby Cast Will Be Dancing at the Crossroads June 8
Tony Award Winners Bart and Butz Set for TV Pilot
Errico and Gets Will Be Together Again in June 7 Concert
Walton Replaces Blum in Cast of York Theatre Company's Minnie's Boys
National Arts Club to Honor Heights' Lin-Manuel Miranda June 2
Foxworth to Join August: Osage County Cast in June
Kritzer, Von Essen, Cody and O'Keefe Featured in "The Battery's Down" Web Series June 1
Felciano, Foa, Gets, Greenspan, Lewis and More Will Be The Boys in the Band
Mazzie, Danieley, Lewis and Blackwell Will Sing Gershwin July 18-19
Butler Signs "Faith, Trust & Pixie Dust" CD at Times Square Virgin Megastore May 28
Herrera to Offer Songs for Fathers, Sons and Daughters June 15
Last 5 Years to Play One Night in the West End
Jones, Stott and Jeffcoate Will Be Oliver in London Revival of Lionel Bart Musical
TheaterMania
Virgin Megastore to Host In the Heights CD Event on June 5
Carrie Manolakos to Join Broadway's Mamma Mia! on June 4
Broadway Attendance, Grosses Down Slightly Due to Fall Strike
Easton, McLanahan, Sternhagen Set for Recipe for Life Benefit
Walton to Join Duncan, Liberman, Myers, et al. for York's Minnie's Boys
Robert Foxworth, Jim True-Frost to Join August: Osage County Cast
Foa, Gets, Greenspan, Lewis, et al. to Celebrate Boys in the Band 40th Anniversary
Broadway.com
John Simon, etcetera: Bebe Neuwirth - Stories with Piano
Carrie Manolakos to Play Sophie in Broadway Company of Mamma Mia!
Potomac Stages
Review: Closing Time: A Slice Of A Disappearing Aspect Of Irish Life
Review: The Internationalist: An Amusing Contemporary Comedy Of The Global Community Studio Theatre
Review: David: In Shadow and Light: Premiere Of A Biblical Bio-Musical That Provides Insufficient Entertainment
The Guardian - Performing Arts Blog
Brian Logan: Making it up as you go along is a victory in itself
London Theatre Guide
The Big Interview: The Big Interview: Shaun Escoffery
Shaun Escoffery is the happiest corpse I have ever met,....
The First Night Feature: Fat Pig
From the opening chords of the White Stripes’ songs that punctuate the scene changes of Neil LaBute’s supersized comedy, it is clear this is a hip, trendy production with youth on its mind.
Quinn swings into Grease
Crooning X-Factor finalist Ray Quinn will join the cast of Grease this summer, playing T-Bird Doody between 16 June and 15 November.
Notes celebrates Last 5 Years
Notes From New York, the popular series of performances showcasing new musical theatre, will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a gala performance of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last 5 Years.
ATW NewsClips - Southern Print
Sun-Sentinel
Get tickets to the Hispanic Theatre Festival
St. Petersburg Times
'Betrayal' begins its American Stage run
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
SPOLETO FESTIVAL: 2 musical risks that don't pay off
Get tickets to the Hispanic Theatre Festival
St. Petersburg Times
'Betrayal' begins its American Stage run
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
SPOLETO FESTIVAL: 2 musical risks that don't pay off
ATW NewsClips - California Print
Los Angeles Times
Review: 'Taking Steps' at SCR
The 1979 Alan Ayckbourn work gets a stylish if sluggish revival.
High schoolers take 'The Laramie Project' to Burbank stage
The word 'no' didn't stop these Burroughs High students from their determination...
Review: 'March On, Dream Normal'
The play delves into the war in Iraq and how it affects everyday life in blue-collar America.
Center Theatre Group announces 2008-09 season
Julie White's reprise of her Tony Award-winning performance in "The Little Dog Laughed," the latest...
$250 seats in the cards for Ricky Jay's show
The price for VIP tickets is a high for the Geffen Playhouse and is unusual...
Orange County Register - Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog
Kirk Douglas’ 2008-09 season includes ‘The Little Dog Laughed’ and a new solo work by Danny Hoch
Theater critic commits suicide
Chris Page, 29, who until recently wrote theater criticism for the Register’s sister paper, the East Valley Tribune in Arizona, has committed suicide. Page was laid off three weeks ago.
They’re digging a longer ‘Rabbit Hole’ at the Chance Theater
Contra Costa Times
Twists, surprises make Town Hall Theatre's `Baby Be Mine ' sing
"Baby Be Mine" melodious swan song for Town Hall Theatre's artistic director Kevin Morales
Review: 'Taking Steps' at SCR
The 1979 Alan Ayckbourn work gets a stylish if sluggish revival.
High schoolers take 'The Laramie Project' to Burbank stage
The word 'no' didn't stop these Burroughs High students from their determination...
Review: 'March On, Dream Normal'
The play delves into the war in Iraq and how it affects everyday life in blue-collar America.
Center Theatre Group announces 2008-09 season
Julie White's reprise of her Tony Award-winning performance in "The Little Dog Laughed," the latest...
$250 seats in the cards for Ricky Jay's show
The price for VIP tickets is a high for the Geffen Playhouse and is unusual...
Orange County Register - Theater by Paul Hodgins Blog
Kirk Douglas’ 2008-09 season includes ‘The Little Dog Laughed’ and a new solo work by Danny Hoch
Theater critic commits suicide
Chris Page, 29, who until recently wrote theater criticism for the Register’s sister paper, the East Valley Tribune in Arizona, has committed suicide. Page was laid off three weeks ago.
They’re digging a longer ‘Rabbit Hole’ at the Chance Theater
Contra Costa Times
Twists, surprises make Town Hall Theatre's `Baby Be Mine ' sing
"Baby Be Mine" melodious swan song for Town Hall Theatre's artistic director Kevin Morales
ATW NewsClips - Mid-West and Mountain Print
Chicago Sun-Times
Triviality is getting to be a habit with even best 'Nunsense' shows
Hedy Weiss: As far as I know, "Nunsense," Dan Goggin's knowingly silly little interactive musical hit, has not yet been performed at the Vatican. But since its debut in 1985, the show (an offshoot of a popular greeting card line) has had many thousands of productions ...
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Guthrie designer soars to new heights in Paris
Award-winning French architect Jean Nouvel -- who designed the Guthrie Theater -- has been chosen to build a Paris skyscraper that officials said will be the city's most important architectural landmark since the Eiffel Tower.
'Bulrusher' both magical and touching
Eisa Davis' imaginative play about a foundling girl with strange powers gets an evocative staging by director Marion McClinton.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Review: Complacency of Silence: Darfur
Drama about Darfur drowns in lectures
Review: The Tragedy of King Richard III
Fine performers heat up Shakespeare's 'Richard III.'
Stages St. Louis schedules first holiday production
Denver Post
Teenage "Cats" fans lap it up like cream
[Note - no news articles found in the papers from the southwest this AM]
Triviality is getting to be a habit with even best 'Nunsense' shows
Hedy Weiss: As far as I know, "Nunsense," Dan Goggin's knowingly silly little interactive musical hit, has not yet been performed at the Vatican. But since its debut in 1985, the show (an offshoot of a popular greeting card line) has had many thousands of productions ...
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Guthrie designer soars to new heights in Paris
Award-winning French architect Jean Nouvel -- who designed the Guthrie Theater -- has been chosen to build a Paris skyscraper that officials said will be the city's most important architectural landmark since the Eiffel Tower.
'Bulrusher' both magical and touching
Eisa Davis' imaginative play about a foundling girl with strange powers gets an evocative staging by director Marion McClinton.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Review: Complacency of Silence: Darfur
Drama about Darfur drowns in lectures
Review: The Tragedy of King Richard III
Fine performers heat up Shakespeare's 'Richard III.'
Stages St. Louis schedules first holiday production
Denver Post
Teenage "Cats" fans lap it up like cream
[Note - no news articles found in the papers from the southwest this AM]
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