Monday, May 20, 2013
The Essentials, Part II[We pestered our contributors to offer one essential theatre book and explain why it is essential. Here are two more essays.]A Life by Elia Kazanby Caitlin Murphy…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 07:21AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
After the first couple of scenes, it is obvious that you are about to settle into nearly two and a half hours of a predominantly dialogue-driven performance. For some, that might seem tediou…
Linked From AussieTheatre at 04:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
If you’re an Arthur Miller devotee, you’ll probably have mixed feelings about The Price. But if you’ve yet to see Death of a Salesman or The Crucible or All My Sons or any of Miller’…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Those legendary salesmen of the American theater — Willy Loman of “Death of a Salesman,” Ricky Roma and Shelly Levene of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Harold Hill of “The Music Man” …
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 04:06PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Terry Teachout reflects on the latest TCG list of Top Ten Plays Produced in American nonprofit theatres:
it's easy to forget that the latter-day dominance of the small-cast
play is a fair…
Linked From The Playgoer at 11:55AMMonday, April 1, 2013
The Lyric Stage Company's 40th anniversary season of New England premieres and musical favorites will include the great American play Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller's 1940s-set play abou…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:02PMThursday, March 28, 2013
According to the Daily Mail, Rafe Spall is in final talks to join Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig in Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL, directed by Mike Nichols Death of a Salesman, for a limited run o…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:21PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Rumors have been swirling that Oscar winner Rachel Weisz could make her Broadway debut alongside her Bond star husband Daniel Craig in a Broadway production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:32AMThursday, February 14, 2013
MR. BROADWAY FEBRUARY 2013SANTINO FONTANAWHY HE'S MR. BROADWAY: It was a matter of time before this guy joined the ranks of Mr. Broadways, really. He's appeared on and off Broadw…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 10:41AMSunday, February 10, 2013
John Glover (Death of a Salesman), Michael Cerveris (Evita), Alvin Epstein (The Threepenny Opera), Betsy Aidem (Nurse Jackie, The West Wing), Blair Brown (Copenhagen), Anthony Cochrane (War …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:10PMFriday, February 8, 2013
If the rumors are true, married couple Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz could find themselves as entangled lovers in a new revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal. The production would come in the …
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 12:33PMDaniel Craig and his Oscar-winning wife Rachel Weisz are in "guarded" talks to star in a Broadway production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:41AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
Last week I asked you to pick the play you thought was the BEST among all the Pulitzer Prize winners (click here to read the list of winners). Well, there was some fierce competition, but…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:03AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
January 22, 2013by Mark LamosArtistic DirectorLong after our 2013 Season of plays came together I began to realize a theme throughout. Though each play is vastly an…
Linked From Westport Country Playhouse at 03:03PMSunday, January 20, 2013
Kevin Dennis (photo credit: Bruce Monk)The American Psyche Sungby Edgar GovernoIn theory, the American Dream is one of limitless possibility—no matter what your background is, you can achi…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 08:28PMThursday, January 17, 2013
I've blogged before about my joy in finding something I never knew existed in the richly varied archival holdings of the New York Public Library, but while processing the James Barton Papers…
Linked From The New York Public Library at 04:36PMThursday, January 10, 2013
(photo via Twitter; credit: Maria Vartanova)Beast of Warby Jim MurchisonChristmas is over. It is time to get back to reality. There are few playwrights that expose reality and lift the veil …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:12PMOscar winner Olympia Dukakis, Louise Lasser, Louis Zorich, Jessica Stone and Michael Citriniti will star in an invitation-only reading of Rich Orloff’s Advanced Chemistry, a collection…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:31AMMonday, January 7, 2013
Casting is complete for the New Group's world premiere production of Clive, starring previously announced actors Brooks Ashmanskas, Vincent D’Onofrio, Zoe Kazan and Ethan Hawke in …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:20PMMegan Follows (photo by Robert Popkin)One of the plays that got Arthur Miller targeted as a Red was, for all intents and purposes, a family drama. But within that drama, Miller also discusse…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:33AMFriday, December 28, 2012
Broadway.com just named our top picks for the best shows of 2012, and now we want our dedicated readers have to their say. This year offered a wide span of shows from cheery family musi…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:45AMBefore the year concludes and the final "Best of 2012" lists have been announced, a few additional acknowledgments must be made. Sure, we have a list of Best Shows, Best Performanc…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:45AMSaturday, December 22, 2012
It's time to kick off the annual Theater Year in Review at Theater in the Now! Here are the top shows suggested by the readers and the amazing Spotlight interviewees! What do you think? Did …
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 12:35PMMonday, December 3, 2012
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Linked From New York Magazine at 02:16AMThursday, November 22, 2012
The University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) is proud to announce that Professor Brian MacDevitt has been honored with the prestigious 2012 Henry Hewes…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Ron HirsenHometown: Chicago Current town: Chicago Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm preparing to self-produce a play of mine in Chicago next year. The play, Elegy, has …
Linked From ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:20AMMonday, November 12, 2012
Fran Kranz will star opposite Odette Annable in the new film The Truth About Lies, according to Deadline.com. No production timeline has been announced yet for the film, which will be direct…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:09PMTuesday, October 30, 2012
The Broadway productions of Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, and Once were among the winners at the Casting Society of America's 28th Annual Artios Awards, which were held on Monday, Octob…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:40AMOnce, Death of a Salesman and more are among the winners for the Casting Society of America's Artios Awards. The accolades honor outstanding achievement in casting. The New York ceremony…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:21AMMonday, October 29, 2012
Does Willy Loman Need Protecting? Terry Teachout, writing on WSJ.com: Simon Stone, the resident director of Belvoir St. Theatre, an Australian company, jumped head first into a pail of boili…
Linked From direct address at 12:59PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
David Mamet’s Tony, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross is back on Broadway for the third time in an all-star revival led by Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale…
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