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Friday, September 5, 2008

    [ G ]  Rodgers and Hammerstein sale: why we should step in by Matt Wolf

    The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organisation, so closely linked to British theatre, may be taken over. Shouldn't one of our West End magnates step in so it will never walk alone?

    [ DCTS ]  Podcast: Director Oz Scott by Joel Markowitz

    Daniel Beaty's Resurrection, premiering at DC's Arena Stage, is in the hands of director Oz Scott, the original director of Shange's for colored girls.. who speaks here about both shows and the message Beaty has for the black community.

    [ B ]  MY NEW YORK: Tony Winner Cady Huffman Shares Her Top City Picks

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Celebrating Broadway History: Mamma Mia! Passes Hello, Dolly!

    [ CU ]  A Preview of the 2008-09 New Jersey Theater Season

    [ CU ]  Review: Fela

    Whether you arrive knowing Fela through his music, his politics or (as with most of the audience) not at all, you will leave infused with everything Fela; the sensory experience is that complete. And you will be better for it.

    News:

    [ P ]  Pacific's Morrison and Spring's Michele Cast in Fox's "Glee"

    [ P ]  Buntrock to Return to Grease and Hoffman to Xanadu Sept. 9

    [ TM ]  Stephen R. Buntrock to Return to Grease on September 9

    [ P ]  First Wives Club Musical Will Premiere in San Diego in 2009; Zambello Directs

    [ TM ]  Old Globe to Present World Premiere of First Wives Club

    [ P ]  Miranda, Reichard, Finley, Jackson, Davi, O'Malley and More Set for Obama Fundraiser

    [ TM ]  Davi, Finley, Jackson, Reichard, et al. Set for Broadway United for Barack

    [ P ]  Blumberg, Whitlock, Thirlby Join Atlantic's Farragut North

    [ TM ]  Deborah Gibson and Daniel Guzman to Star in Cabrillo's The King and I

    [ TM ]  Broadway's 13 to Hold Teens-Only Dress Rehearsal on September 13

    [ TM ]  Alhadeff, Harris, Keith, et al. Set for TACT's Bedroom Farce

    [ TM ]  Living Theatre to Open Season wtih Eureka!

    [ TM ]  Prospect Theatre Company to Remount Illyria During 2008-2009 Season

    [ TM ]  Chapman, Dohrn, Grody, Gummer, Healy, et al. Set for Electric Pear Season

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Aug. 30-Sept. 5: A Little Help

    [ P ]  Playbill Club Members Participate in Sept. 4 [title of show] Event

    [ P ]  Gypsy Recording Debuts at Top of Billboard Cast Album Chart

    [ P ]  "The After Party" Welcomes Company's Walsh Sept. 5

    [ P ]  Foley, Matthews, Dexter, Hack and More to Star in FreeFall's The Wild Party

    [ P ]  Wonderettes Star Alvin to Go It Solo Sept. 24

    [ P ]  McArdle, Rutherford, Landry, Young and Kalehoff Set for Ogunquit Les Misérables

    [ P ]  Osmond to Join London's Grease in January 2009

    [ B ]  Broadway-Bound 9 to 5 Delays Previews Again in Los Angeles

    [ P ]  Chenoweth, Fishburne, Harris and Williams to Present Primetime Emmys

    [ P ]  Urie, Scheie, Carr and Bartow to Read Restoration Comedy for Red Bull

    [ P ]  The Garden of Earthly Delights to Spring Anew Off-Broadway

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 3:20 PM | Item Link


      • [ NYP ]  PARTON AND A FRESH TUNE By MICHAEL RIEDEL
      NEW, OLD FRIENDS ON B'WAY THIS FALL

      [ BS ]  Woe I$ Broadway? by Halley Bondy

      As investors retreat in a shaky economy, funding worries grow.

      [ STARS ]  Broadway Unites For Barack!

      The Stars Come Out For Obama at New York's Metropolitan Room

      [ TM ]  Christy Carlson Romano to Join Avenue Q on September 29

      [ P ]  Avenue Q Will Welcome Beauty's Romano Sept. 29

      This Morning's Peter Filichia:

      [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Something Wonderful from Oscar Hammerstein

      [ NJ ]  Wong-man show

      [ NJ ]  Delaria Hosts Jersey City AIDS Benefit

      Features:

      [ DN ]  Howard Kissel: The Cultural Tourist
      The Fabulous Invalid

      [ P ]  DIVA TALK: Chatting with Rent's Renée Elise Goldsberry Plus News of Egan and Ripley

      [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Allan S. Larson

      Meet Allan Larson, the father - and one of the keepers of the flame - of late Rent writer Jonathan Larson.

      [ NYT ]  Photographer's Journal: As 'Rent' Closes, a Look Back

      Sara Krulwich, a staff photographer for The Times, narrates a look at her early photos of the musical "Rent."

      [ NYT ]  Slide Show: An Ogre's Tale

      Photos of "Shrek the Musical," which is set to open on Broadway in December.

      [ TM ]  All Over the Map By: Dan Bacalzo, Tristan Fuge, Brian Scott Lipton, and Zachary Stewart

      It's the Housewives! in Sherman Oaks, Yellowjackets in Berkeley, Romeo and Juliet in Washington D.C., and Poetic License in Long Branch, NJ.

      [ AMNY ]  Alice Ripley talks about 'Little Fish' By Matt Windman

      [ DCTS ]  Podcast: Natascia Diaz and Doug Kreeger by Joel Markowitz

      Broadway performers Natascia Diaz and Doug Kreeger talk about the Paul Scott Goodman musical Rooms: A Rock Romance, which opened to raves at MetroStage in Arlington, VA and which NY producers are flocking to see.

      [ B ]  FRESH FACE: Adorable Janet Dacal Scales the Heights

      [ BS ]  5, 6, 7, 8 -- Rehearse! By Adam R. Perlman

      A selective guide to rehearsal spaces all over Manhattan.

      [ ND ]  Director Michael Disher brings Sondheim to Southampton BY STEVE PARKS

      [ GPT ]  Pendergrass' triumph over heartbreak recounted in stirring musical By BOB KOSTANCZUK

      [ B ]  VIDEO SPECIAL: Meet a New Spring Awakening Star Every Day. Get to Know: Amanda Castaños

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Frost/Nixon at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

      "Equus":

      [ BN ]  Naked Camp Wishes for Potter's Invisible Cloak in 'Equus' Role
      Interview by Philip Boroff

      [ DN ]  Daniel Radcliffe joins Broadway's barest by Joe Dziemianowicz

      [ NJ ]  See 'Equus' up close and personal by Michael Sommers

      [ P ]  And They're Off: Equus Revival Begins Broadway Previews Sept. 5

      Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

      [ WP ]  After the Curtain Falls, the Web Gets Into the Act By Nelson Pressley

      Theater is the ephemeral art -- except, that is, when it's bootlegged on YouTube.

      [ G ]  Is theatre going down the YouTube? by Andrew Haydon

      There are all sorts of clips from plays and musicals online, but the internet is a help not a hindrance to the stage. Isn't it?

      [ RFT ]  He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: The perils of reading too much into a theater review By Dennis Brown

      [ SW ]  Shrek Attack By John Longenbaugh

      What's the point of not letting critics in during the first 3/4 of a show's run?

      [ SFE ]  After Broadway's 'Strange,' Domingo rediscovers his 'Soul' by Chad Jones

      [ G ]  'She made us raise our game'

      Playwright Caryl Churchill turns 70 this week, and still has new things to say about women, war and the world. Mark Ravenhill talks to fellow writers about her powerful influence

      "Fela!":

      [ NYT ]  Slide Show: The King of Afrobeat

      [ NYT ]  Afrobeat's King, Recrowned By BEN BRANTLEY

      "Fela!" is the pulse-racing new show about the Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

      [ DN ]  The infectious revel of 'Fela!' by Joe Dziemianowicz (****)

      [ NYP ]  'TIS THE MOST SNAPPY 'FELA!' By FRANK SCHECK (*** 1/2)

      [ BN ]  Jones's Rousing 'Fela!' Brings Nigerian Singer, Gadfly to Life
      Review by John Simon

      [ NJ ]  A most energetic 'Fela!' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

      Dance-driven musical presents bold portrait of Nigerian activist

      [ AP ]  Music and dancing lift an exuberant 'Fela!' By JENNIFER FARRAR

      [ SUN ]  Shaking Hips and Raising Fists: 'Fela!' By ERIC GRODE

      If any musician were to warrant a jukebox musical right now, it would be the one with the moxie to release an album called "Black President" and the chops to back it up.

      [ TM ]  Fela!
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

      Bill T. Jones' exuberant choreography is the main reason to see this bio-musical about Afrobeat founder Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

      [ V ]  Fela!
      Review By DAVID ROONEY

      What it lacks in structure and concision "Fela!" makes up for in heat, energy and sensuality.

      [ TB ]  Fela!
      Review by Matthew Murray

      ... one of the most energetic, thrilling, and exciting musicals that never delivers either thrills or excitement.
      But, oh, that energy.

      [ AMNY ]  Not a Happy 'Fela' By Matt Windman (** 1/2)

      "Memphis":

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Memphis at the La Jolla Playhouse

      [ TM ]  Memphis
      San Diego Review by: Rob Stevens

      Chad Kimball and Montego Glover give passionate performances in this exuberant musical about the early days of rock 'n' roll.

      [ SD ]  'Memphis' moves with its rock 'n' roll energy By James Hebert

      And if a few moments go splat, at its best this peppy and eminently likable show still brings Memphis' Beale Street scene to life in all its rough-and-ready luster. (Graceland it ain't.)

      Other Reviews:

      [ LAT ]  REVIEW: 'Once on This Island' at UCLA's Freud Playhouse By David Ng

      A Reprise Theatre Company revival featuring pop singer Ledisi brings out the musical's strengths.

      [ V ]  Once On This Island
      Review By TERRY MORGAN

      The first production staged by the Reprise Theater Company with Jason Alexander and Susan Dietz at the helm of the troupe is generally successful, an entertaining evening with moments of undeniable power.

      [ V ]  Ace
      Review By PAUL HARRIS

      The second sortie for "Ace" has hit the target.

      [ NYT ]  Theater Review | 'Masque of the Red Death'
      Digging Deeply Into Depths of Poe By ANDY WEBSTER

      Toss Weimar cabaret, David Lynch, Bob Fosse and the Cure into a cauldron, and you have the flavor of this show.

      [ CU ]  A Perfect Ganesh

      McNally's insistence that humankind's only hope lies in compassion and confession is certainly moving, but he makes his point too many times.

      Fall Preview:

      [ NYP ]  CELEBS BREATHE LIFE INTO REVIVALS By BARBARA HOFFMAN

      [ NYP ]  BILLY'S THE BEST By BARBARA HOFFMAN

      [ NYP ]  'ROAD' WORK IS UNDER 'WAY By FRANK SCHECK
      THE BEST BETS OFF THE BEATEN PATH

      [ NYP ]  LIVIN' LA VIDA LENNY & LUCIANO By BARBARA HOFFMAN

      [ ND ]  LI says 'I do' to 'Wedding Singer' and 8 other shows BY STEVE PARKS

      News:

      [ P ]  Gay Dads Face a Choice in NYC Premiere, Two Spoons, Beginning Sept. 5

      [ P ]  Strand & McCarthy's Italian Straw Hat Musical Premieres in CA Sept. 5

      [ P ]  Tix Now On Sale for Wicked Benefit, Yellow Brick Road Not Taken

      [ P ]  The Music Man Parades Into St. Louis Sept. 5

      [ P ]  U.S. Regional Debut of Frost/Nixon Opens in St. Louis Sept. 5

      [ P ]  West Side Story Begins Dallas Lyric Stage Run Sept. 5

      [ P ]  Herringbone Kicks Off McCarter Theatre Center Season Sept. 5

      [ P ]  Hartford's A Midsummer Night's Dream Opens Sept. 5

      [ P ]  Lying in State, a Political Farce With Coffin Humor, Gets South Florida Run Sept. 5-21

      [ NYT ]  'Shrek' Gets Help By JULIE BOSMAN; Compiled by Julie Bloom

      [ ND ]  NYC Picks: Theater by LINDA WINER

      [ NYT ]  Theater Listings

      Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

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

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