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Friday, August 22, 2008

    News:

    [ P ]  Tony Winner Chenoweth to Release Christmas CD in October

    [ TM ]  Cate Blanchett to Tour Australia and U.S. in A Streetcar Named Desire in 2009

    [ P ]  A Streetcar Named Desire, with Cate Blanchett, to Play Kennedy Center and BAM

    [ B ]  Dexter Star Erik King Joins the Cast of the Vineyard's Wig Out!

    [ P ]  "Dexter" Star King Replaces Williams in Vineyard's Wig Out!

    [ TM ]  Erik King Joins Cast of Vineyard's Wig Out

    [ P ]  Casting Complete for Culture Project's In Conflict

    [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Culture Project's In Conflict

    [ P ]  MacLeod, Borden and Tatar to Star in Los Angeles Kiss of the Spider Woman

    [ TM ]  Borden, Macleod, Tatar, et al. Set for L.A. Kiss of the Spider Woman

    [ P ]  DeLaria and Ripley Will Sing Horne Songs Sept. 9 at the Ars Nova

    [ TM ]  DeLaria, Gold, Horne, Mudge, Ripley, et al. to Appear at Ars Nova

    [ TM ]  Judith Malina to Be Honored at 4th Annual IT Awards

    [ P ]  Malina, Boomerang and New York Theatre Experience to Be Honored at IT Awards

    [ TM ]  Burgess, Espinosa, Gonzalez, Lewis, Murney, Porter, et al. Set for Broadway in South Africa

    [ TM ]  Neil Patrick Harris to Co-Host Creative Arts Emmy Awards

    [ TM ]  Cast, Creative Team Set for No Applause, Just Throw Money

    [ TM ]  Seana McKenna to Star in A.C.T. and Stratford Co-Production of Phèdre

    [ TM ]  Psycho Clan's Nightmare to Return in September

    [ P ]  Ross, Marcovicci, Andreas, Brussell, Bruce Will Play Philly's Prince Cabaret

    [ P ]  Hardy to Be Sole Architect for Theatre for a New Audience's Brooklyn Hub

    [ P ]  IL Marriott Will Welcome Spelling Bee, Piazza, My Fair Lady and More in 2009

    [ P ]  Gold, Mudge and Greene Set for Free Reading of Bombs in Your Mouth

    [ P ]  Boston Director Lombardo Named San Jose Rep's Artistic Director

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Aug. 16-22: Where the Buffalo Roam

    [ P ]  Joe Cassidy Directs NYC john & jen Concert to Benefit Kids Abroad

    [ P ]  Jake Wilson, Gypsy Recording, Maury Yeston Tribute Featured on Playbill Radio Aug. 26-Sept. 2

    [ P ]  Bernhard Will Ring in the New Year at Joe's Pub

    [ P ]  Espinoza, Ephraim, Selman and Rosenberg Off to College: The Musical for NYMF

    [ P ]  Stiching's Haskell to Direct Nightmares: Bad Dreams Come True

    [ P ]  Davis Named Deputy Executive Director of Actors Fund of America

    [ P ]  Brightman, Snow, Johnson, Hernandez, Walsh, Fraser and More to Play the Beechman

    [ P ]  We Will Rock You to Kick Off U.K. National Tour in 2009

    [ P ]  Masque of the Red Death Will Play St. Luke's Theatre Beginning Aug. 27

    [ P ]  Kushner, Streep, Rose and More Will Celebrate Sendak at the 92nd Street Y

    [ P ]  Stage Premiere of Last Tango in Paris Sidelined Due to Rights Issue

    [ TM ]  Hurt, Kurtz, Nixon, O'Hare to Star in An Englishman in New York

    [ TM ]  Cahoon, Davis, Ephraim, Huffman, O'Connor, Wooten et al. Cast in 2008 NYMF shows

    Reviews:

    [ DCTS ]  Buffalo Gal

    Richard Seff's take on all things Gurney and Sullivan, plus a summer read of Great Producers: Visionaries of American Theater

    Features:

    [ TM ]  Photo File By: Joseph Marzullo, Ben Strothmann, et al.

    Daniel Radcliffe, Paige Davis, Celeste Holm, Star Jones, Andrea McArdle, Kate Mulgrew, Patrick Page, Leslie Uggams, Lynn Whitfield, and Karen Ziemba are some of the stars caught by our cameras.

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The First Breeze of Summer Opens Off-Broadway

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP: First Breeze of Summer Blows into Signature Theatre

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray at Sacramento's Music Circus

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      • [ JRB ]  "13" for 13 BUCKS!

      Who says Broadway is too expensive...

    • Posted by James Marino at 10:12 AM | Item Link


        • [ NYP ]  B'WAY SMELLS FRESH 'HAIR' By MICHAEL RIEDEL
        'GODSPELL' IS DEAD, PARK HIT HAS NEW LIFE

        [ NYT ]  2 'Hair' Tickets, No Waiting (for You, Anyway) By SUSAN DOMINUS

        A professional line-sitter gets the boot at the Delacorte Theatre.

        [ NYT ]  Gehry Out as Architect of Theater in Brooklyn By ROBIN POGREBIN

        Thursday's announcement that Frank Gehry will no longer be a part of the project to rebuild the Theater for a New Audience came as a surprise to the architect.

        [ GS ]  Dancing with the Stars Exclusive: Cast Revealed

        Four Broadway vets are among the rumored names.

        [ G ]  Sex and the City's Miranda to star in ITV1 Quentin Crisp drama by Tara Conlan

        Also joining the cast of An Englishman in New York are a number of other American actors, including Denis O'Hare, who plays Rob Lowe's manager in US drama Brothers and Sisters.

        [ TM ]  Dale, Kushner, Rose, Streep, et al. to Read at 92nd Street Y

        [ MSNBC ]  Broadway fans still not warming up to Holmes By Courtney Hazlett, The Scoop

        This Morning's Peter Filichia:

        [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: 19 Plays in 74 Hours

        [ NJ ]  'Bartholomew Fair, NJ,' hits home

        Features:

        [ P ]  DIVA TALK: Chatting with Ace's Jill Paice Plus News of Ripley, Dandridge and Bundy

        [ AMNY ]  Talking to 'Blonde's Bailey Hanks By Matt Windman

        [ PEOPLE ]  Daniel Radcliffe Talks about His Broadway Debut - and His Nude Scene By David Chiu

        "The First Breeze of Summer":

        [ B ]  FRESH FACE: The First Breeze of Summer's Next Top Ingenue, Yaya DaCosta

        [ NYT ]  Family's Future in Grandma's Flashbacks By BEN BRANTLEY

        The Signature Theater Company offers a smooth revival of "The First Breeze of Summer," Leslie Lee's less-than-smooth drama of a denial-plagued family in close quarters.

        [ NYP ]  GET WIND OF 'FIRST BREEZE' By FRANK SCHECK (*** 1/2)

        [ DN ]  'First Breeze of Summer' has strife by Joe Dziemianowicz (*** 1/2)

        [ SUN ]  'A First Breeze' Blows Through Again By ERIC GRODE

        "First Breeze" is the sort of sprawling, loose-limbed ensemble piece that has all but vanished from the stage today. Its reappearance, lumps and all, is as welcome a gift to parched theatergoers as the cool gust that gives the play its name.

        [ ND ]  Review: 'The First Breeze of Summer' BY LINDA WINER

        Lee's multigeneration family drama, which kicked off the company's yearlong tribute to the historic Negro Ensemble Company last night, is an engrossing, delicately structured, loving and clear-eyed look at a middle-class black family in the '70s.

        [ TB ]  The First Breeze of Summer
        Review by Matthew Murray

        In Ruben Santiago-Hudson's arresting production, it's a powerful, balanced examination of the wounds that time causes rather than heals.

        [ BS ]  The First Breeze of Summer - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

        Signature Theatre Company couldn't have chosen a finer play, cast finer actors, or more strongly begun its season-long salute to the Negro Ensemble Company than with director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's spiritually uplifting, emotionally resonant revival of Leslie Lee's "The First Breeze of Summer."

        [ TM ]  The First Breeze of Summer
        Reviewed by: David Finkle

        The Signature Theatre Company starts its season with a superlatively acted and directed production of Leslie Lee's vital 1975 family drama.

        [ YN ]  Past echoes in the present in 'First Breeze' By JENNIFER FARRAR, Associated Press

        "The First Breeze of Summer," a powerful drama written in 1975 by Leslie Lee, is nearly as relevant today as it was three decades ago.

        [ V ]  The First Breeze of Summer
        Review By DAVID ROONEY

        Actor-turned-director Ruben Santiago-Hudson is a skilled and sensitive guide of a large cast; his efforts help counter a certain long-windedness and locate the universal themes in this overstuffed but affecting play, about three generations of a black family in small-town Pennsylvania.

        [ CU ]  The First Breeze of Summer

        This unwieldy but intriguing family drama seems at times to be as purposefully disjointed as it is meandering meaningful but under the splendid direction of Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the disparate sections are fused together with seamless simplicity.

        [ AMNY ]  'Summer Breeze' By Matt Windman (** 1/2)

        Lee Blessing's 1975 classic becomes tangled in clichés

        [ NJ ]  Revival's anything but a 'Breeze' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

        "The First Breeze of Summer" appears awfully patchy today, but assessing its merits is difficult because director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's revival is so poorly done in so many respects.

        Other Reviews:

        [ BS ]  Victory at the Dirt Palace - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

        Directed with crisp intensity by Whit MacLaughlin, "Victory at the Dirt Palace" whips through a tumultuous 24 hours in the lives of a veteran news anchor and his ambitious daughter.

        [ V ]  Victory at the Dirt Palace
        Review By SAM THIELMAN

        It's a startling contrast -- mostly, it illustrates how trivial the play's pompous windbags actually are -- but Shaplin and director Whit MacLaughlin make the gonzo satire work in its own weird way.

        [ TM ]  Born Yesterday
        Reviewed by: Sandy MacDonald

        Leslie Kritzer and Michael McGrath give crackerjack performances in the Cape Playhouse's snappy production of Garson Kanin's political satire.

        [ CCT ]  'Born Yesterday' still feels current today By KATHI SCRIZZI DRISCOLL

        [ BP ]  Born Yesterday still fresh and funny by John Watters

        [ JN ]  Red tape in the green barn By Peter D. Kramer

        Not everything is as it seems in "Molly Snyder," a brisk, well-acted and laugh-out-loud comedy directed by Thomas Caruso.

        [ CU ]  8th Fringe Update

        [ CU ]  A look back at Berkshire 2008 summer theater season season

        [ BE ]  Coward in minor 'Keys' By Jeffrey Borak

        If there was meant to be a playful, mischievous Champagne twinkle in Coward's eye, it is hard to find on the BTF stage.

        [ BE ]  Musical travels familiar roads By Jeffrey Borak

        In "Greetings From Niagara," the last of the six mini-musicals that make up "See Rock City and Other Destinations," a new, generally unchallenging, musical at Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab, a runaway bride-to-be named Kate (Jill Abramovitz) is offered an opportunity to jump over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

        "Hamlet 2":

        [ LAT ]  Shakespeare 2.0: The bard on the big (and small) screen By Susan King

        [ CST ]  Hamlet and Jesus return in rockin' musical sequel By Roger Ebert (***)

        [ TM ]  Hamlet 2
        Reviewed by: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

        If you like snarky, frat-boy humor, as well a naked butt or two and a splashy musical finish, then you might love this satiric film about a desperate drama teacher.

        [ NYT ]  The Rest Was Silence, but Then Came the Sequel By STEPHEN HOLDEN

        "Hamlet 2" belongs to the school of free-for-all satiric farce whose creators ball up wads of ideas, apply chewing gum and hurl them against the wall to see what sticks.

        [ P ]  High School Drama Teacher Creates Musical Theatre Sensation in "Hamlet 2"

        News:

        [ V ]  'Today' producer takes BMG gig

        Beisler to work on film, TV and theater projects

        [ P ]  Stratford's 2009 Phèdre Is a Co-Pro With A.C.T.; McKenna Will Star

        [ P ]  Vanities, a "Cheer"-ful New Musical, Begins Pre-Broadway Run in CA Aug. 22

        [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 22

        [ P ]  Three Changes, Silver's New Play About Disrupted Family, Begins in NYC Aug. 22

        [ P ]  Chicago's Wopat Returns to the Metropolitan Room Aug. 22-23

        [ P ]  Historie of the Barber-Surgeons, with Louryk, Landon, Bay and More, Presented Aug. 22

        [ NYP ]  IT'S A NEW $TAGE FOR HARLEM By DAVID SEIFMAN

        Many of his musicals were set in exotic locales, but Richard Rodgers never forgot his Harlem roots.

        [ DN ]  Hot Seats: Theater and comedy picks for this weekend

        [ NYT ]  Theater Listings

        [ ND ]  NYC PICKS: Walk on the bio side by LINDA WINER

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