Martin Sherman's Bent and Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy are back on stage in NYC. Plus: Here's to the real Cole Porter, not the mock!
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe show will now begin performances at the Belasco Theatre on July 28 (there will be no matinee that day) to allow extra time for technical rehearsals.
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMTony Award winner George Hearn will become the Wizard of Oz in the hit musical Wicked beginning July 20. A spokesperson for the musical confirmed that Hearn will replace Joel Grey.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe mesmerizing Mystery Plays, a new Miss Julie, a dim bulb of a play about tulips, and three worthy cabaret acts.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMReviewed By: Adam Klasfeld
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMWord from the Gershwin is that George Hearn is assuming the role of the Wizard in Wicked.
CD: MAMMA MIA!-German Cast Recording (Polydor)
CD: AIDA-German Cast Recording (BMG)
DVD: AUTANT EN EMPORTE LE VENT-2004 French Cast (Warner Vision)
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe life of Tennessee Williams is mirrored in the three great works that the Kennedy Center presents as part of Tennessee Williams Explored, a four-month-long festival that began in April
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMSwoosie Kurtz stars as a grief-stricken woman confronting the loss of her child in Bryony Laverys powerful and compassionate play, Frozen
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMWhile the offerings themselves range from the ridiculous to the sublime and back again, the volume of small theater festivals in July is impressive.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMEven show tunes are represented on Time-Warner Cable via Music Choice's Channel 636.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMIn Noel Coward's comedy "Hay Fever," Judith Bliss states, "Everything that happens is fate."
Jill Gascoine, who's playing the role at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison, certainly thinks that Judith has a point.
Linked From NJ.com at 12:00AMSeussical in Kansas City, Mama From China in Los Angeles, the Un-Conventional Comedy Convention in Boston, and 4 Edges in Fort Worth
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMYoung Victorian's 'Pirates of Penzance' reunites actor Kevin Kilner and two Hopkins lacrosse pals for a good cause.
Linked From www.baltimoresun.com at 12:00AMWaiting tables at topless bars provided Toni Kasper with more than just the occasional big tip.
Her experiences were the inspiration for "Stripped," a comedy - from a woman's point of view - about the pitfalls of working in a strip club.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMPeople say age matters in our youth-obsessed culture. But doesn't older mean wiser? We talked with some older performers who feel they're only getting better.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMWhy do any show for more than one run? The answer seems obvious: money, as well as exposure that may lead to that elusive golden role in a major play, movie, or TV series.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMFollies has run for 14 seasons, grossing $75 million
Paramount has set up a feature project based on the early days of the Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, the long-running vaudeville review starring showbiz veterans, with producer Nelson Woss through his Endymion Films shingle.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMA Tulip Craze, Dutch Ghosts and Geneticists, All in a Tangle By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
Two genetic engineers are themselves engineered in a play "loosely based" on an 1850 Alexandre Dumas novel about a 17th-century Dutch financial bubble swelled by a tulip craze.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AM"Heaven Help Us," with Eddie Korbich, at Florida Stage.
Thanks to Jim for the link!
Linked From www.palmbeachpost.com at 12:00AM"Children's Letters to God" turns out to be a whimsical and charming family-oriented production about the innocent joys and sometimes simple sorrows of growing up.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMThese productions and actors stood out in an average theater season.
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