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Thursday, June 26, 2008

    Features:

    [ B ]  VIDEO: Behind the Scenes: Backstage at Broadway Bares 18 with Jennifer Cody of Shrek

    [ B ]  FRESH FACE: Kyle Riabko's Broadway Awakening

    [ P ]  ASK PLAYBILL.COM: Casting Leads

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Spamalot's Royal Welcome (and Welcome Back) to Collins, Lachey and Mazzie

    Reviews:

    [ TB ]  SOUND ADVICE: GAY PRIDE by Rob Lester

    News:

    [ P ]  Adriane Lenox to Star in World Premiere of Nottage's Ruined in Chicago and NYC

    [ B ]  Adriane Lenox to Star in Lynn Nottage's Ruined at MTC

    [ TM ]  Adriane Lenox to Star in Lynn Nottage's Ruined

    [ P ]  Burns, Champlin, Fraser, Walsh and More Set for Voices From the Great White Way Series

    [ TM ]  Andreas, Burns, Champlin, Gemignani, Testa, Walsh, et al. Set for Voices From the Great White Way

    [ B ]  Have Your Say, Theater Teens! Broadway.com's Word of Mouth Panel Wants You

    [ P ]  Track List Announced for "Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far"; Sondheim Accepting Questions

    [ P ]  Men Are Real...Women R2 to Arrive Off-Broadway June 27

    [ TM ]  Juilliard School Announces 2008-2009 Season

    [ TM ]  Knox, Norman, Wainwright Set for Watermill Concert 2008

    [ P ]  Domingo to Host The Heat Is On! Benefit for Visual AIDS

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 8:14 PM | Item Link


      • [ INQ ]  Curtain closes for puppets By Wendy Rosenfield

      In the end, it took less than a month for Mum Puppettheatre to fold after the sudden departure last month of founder and artistic director Robert Smythe.

      [ P ]  Keeling and Spencer Will Be Danny and Sandy in Grease in July

      [ B ]  Ashley Spencer and Derek Keeling Will be Grease's Next Sandy and Danny

      [ TM ]  Derek Keeling and Ashley Spencer to Take Over Grease Leads on July 22

      [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
      Compiled by Patricia Cohen

      Features:

      [ NYP ]  TONY DIGS By MICKI SIEGEL

      It's not easy to get into actors Laura Benanti and Steve Pasquale's Upper West Side apartment.

      [ CT ]  You're off the hook and on the doughnuts, Tracy by Chris Jones

      [ BG ]  Flavin got the best 'Tip' with Howard By Rich Fahey

      He's finally able to bring play to stage

      [ TM ]  Train Spotting By: Joseph Marzullo, Tristan Fuge, & Brian Scott Lipton

      Bobby Cannavale, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bernadette Peters, Alison Pill, John Patrick Shanley, and Daniel Sunjata come out for a reading of Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train. Plus: Stephen Collins, Andy Karl, Drew Lachey, Orfeh, and Kate Rockwell!

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Spring's Bashoff and Riabko

      Reviews:

      [ NYT ]  London Theater Journal: Take That, a New Twist on Jukebox Musicals By Ben Brantley

      [ BS ]  Stitching - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

      Despite the abrasive nonsense that clings to Anthony Neilson's tritely titled "Stitching," I have been unable to altogether shake the play. Mainly I remain fixed by the fiercely felt presence of its leading lady, the superb Israeli actor Meital Dohan.

      [ V ]  Stitching
      Review by Sam Thielman

      Everything is going fine in Anthony Neilson's "Stitching" until it becomes clear that the title refers to something so repellent it's hard to even care about the play anymore.

      [ TM ]  Stitching
      Reviewed by: David Finkle

      This well-acted two-hander about an unhappy couple facing an unplanned pregnancy settles for shock value.

      [ NJ ]  Serious fun from Shakespeare's fools by Peter Filichia

      [ TE ]  PICTURE INCOMPLETE by OSCAR E MOORE

      On the road to Broadway

      [ LAT ]  REVIEW: 'It's Only Life' By Philip Brandes

      [ BR ]  Drama presents three faces of war BY JENNIFER FARRAR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

      "Palace of the End" is a powerful contemporary political drama by Judith Thompson that will haunt the audience long afterward.

      [ TNO ]  VACANT, NOT OCCUPIED by MARK N. GRANT

      With Edward Albee's Occupant, you come away feeling that the cult of celebrity has been saluted somewhat more than the religion of art.

      [ TNO ]  STAND AND DELIVER by PATRICK LEE

      Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera is an exhilarating and contemporary musical that successfully exploits the unique ferocity of rap for the stage to deliver an affecting gay love story.

      [ V ]  Tierney Sutton Band
      Review By ROBERT L. DANIELS

      Generously tapping the works of Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, among others, Tierney embraced the Great American Songbook with varying degrees of romantic fervor, a dancing sense of swing and that elusive quality defining what the art of jazz singing is all about.

      News:

      [ NYP ]  LIZA WON'T GO STRAIGHT TO VIDEO By REUVEN FENTON

      A judge yesterday denied a request that Liza Minnelli give a videotaped deposition in a sex-harassment suit brought by her former driver, saying "it was just a way to embarrass" the singer.

      [ V ]  Disney's theater unit ups Schrader

      Promoted to exec VP of strategic planning

      [ P ]  Woodward, Keefe and Walken to Read Arsenic and Old Lace at Westport July 14

      [ TM ]  Joanne Woodward and Christopher Walken to Star in Westport's Arsenic and Old Lace

      [ P ]  "Frost/Nixon" Film Will Make Its World Premiere in London

      [ TM ]  Frost/Nixon Film to Get World Premiere in London

      [ P ]  Mitchell to Sign "Broadway Bares Backstage Pass" at Barnes and Noble June 27

      [ TM ]  Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Announces Line-Up

      [ TM ]  Davis, Keach, LuPone, Patinkin, Topol, Studdard Set for DuPont Theatre Season

      [ TM ]  D'Amour, Keranen, Lefkowitz, O'Connor, et al. Set for What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends

      [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Engeman's Man of La Mancha

      [ TM ]  York Theatre to Present 7 Year B*tch on June 30

      [ P ]  Peters to Sign "Broadway Barks" in DC June 27-28

      [ P ]  Never Neverland: The Music of Scott Alan to Play London's Duchess Theatre in September

      [ P ]  Blood, Rayson, Scarborough and Sessions Cast in Love, Incorporated

      [ P ]  Galati's Kafka on the Shore to Feature Guinan, Hill, de la Cruz, Larkin, Tejero at Steppenwolf

      [ P ]  Route 66 Theatre Co. Will Introduce Itself With Chicago Premiere, On an Average Day

      [ P ]  "Young Frankenstein: Alive on Broadway" Broadcast on NY's FOX 5 June 29

      [ TM ]  Lea Salonga to Appear at L.A. Music Center

      [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JUNE 26

      [ P ]  The Mamas and The Papas Sing Again in Dream a Little Dream June 26-Aug. 31

      [ P ]  Night Job, with Brown, DeLaria, Evans, Gemignani and O'Hara, Presented June 26

      [ P ]  New Kid in Town: DiVita Is Rizzo in Broadway's Grease Beginning June 26

      [ P ]  Little Shop, With Jamie LaVerdiere, Kicks Off Theatre Aspen Season June 26

      [ P ]  Airaldi, Derrah, LeBow and MacDonald Demonstrate When It's Hot, It's Cole Beginning June 26

      [ P ]  East 14th Begins Previews Off-Broadway June 26

      [ P ]  Braly's Life in a Marital Institution Returns Off-Broadway June 26

      [ P ]  Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh Revealed Off-Broadway June 26

      [ TM ]  Ebersole, Jenkins, MacLaine, Strouse, et al. to Appear at Barnes & Noble

      [ HC ]  New musical 'Myth' at O'Neill stars John Lloyd Young
      Frank Rizzo | TICKER

      [ TM ]  Kyle Riabko and Blake Bashoff to Star in Spring Awakening National Tour

      [ P ]  Bashoff and Riabko to Rock Tour of Spring Awakening

      [ B ]  Kate Mulgrew Joins Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths in Equus

      [ TM ]  Kate Mulgrew to Join Richard Griffiths, Daniel Radcliffe in Broadway's Equus

      [ P ]  McArdle, Murney and Brier to Sing Broadway for Musikids at the Zipper

      [ P ]  August Tony Winner Reed to Return to Chicago's Wicked

    • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 2:37 PM | Item Link


        • This morning's news:

        [ P ]  Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, an Acrobatic Eyeful, Opens on Broadway June 26

        [ P ]  Bashoff and Riabko to Rock Tour of Spring Awakening

        [ P ]  22nd Annual Broadway Flea Market Sets September Date

        [ P ]  Rapp, Bergl, Cavanagh and Feiffer Are Some Americans Abroad Beginning June 26

        [ P ]  Mulgrew Will Join Radcliffe and Griffiths for Broadway's Equus

        [ P ]  Peters to Sign Broadway Barks in DC June 27-28

        [ P ]  Crawford, George, Seiden and Taylor to Star in Respect: The Girl Em-Powered Musical

        [ P ]  Ayers, Donegan, Perlman and Young Will Sing Songs of Acquisto and Buck June 30

      • Posted by Matthew Murray at 10:17 AM | Item Link


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