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Monday, December 1, 2008

    [ STARS ]  American Musical Theater of San Jose Ceases Operations, Effective Immediately

  • Posted by James Marino at 9:38 PM | Item Link


      • Features:

      [ P ]  ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: The Variety of Life By Seth Rudetsky

      [ B ]  Q&A : Brian d'Arcy James

      [ B ]  VIDEO FEATURES : Behind the Scenes: Shoshana Bean's 'Superhero' CD

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP : Hannah Montana at Rydell High! Superstar Miley Cyrus Visits Grease

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Craig Lucas Offers a Prayer for My Enemy Off-Broadway

      [ P ]  MARQUEE VALUE: Slava's Snowshow at the Helen Hayes Theatre

      News:

      [ P ]  Broadway Grosses: Nov. 24-30

      [ TM ]  Bartlett Sher to Direct Broadway Revival of Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

      [ B ]  Sher to Direct Broadway Revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

      [ P ]  Tony Winner Sher to Direct Broadway Revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone

      [ P ]  Will LuPone Gypsy Revival Be Filmed?

      [ G ]  Obituary: Mike Terry by Richard Williams

      Baritone saxophonist on Motown's greatest hits of the 1960s

      [ IBDB ]  Mike Terry's Broadway Credits

      [ P ]  Johnston, McElroy, Lawson and More Will Join Pascal and Rapp on Rent Tour

      [ B ]  Johnston, McElroy, Hart and Stewart join Rent Tour

      [ TM ]  Hart, McElroy, Pascal, Rapp, Stewart, et al. Set for National Tour of Rent

      [ P ]  Capture Now to End Off-Broadway Run Dec. 6

      [ P ]  Murphy, Creel, Kudisch, Llana and Dilly Set for Making It On Broadway Intensives

      [ P ]  You Can't Stop the Beat: "Hairspray" Film Sequel Seeking Screenwriters

      [ TM ]  ABC & SoapNet Salute Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Set for March 9

      [ P ]  Mathison to Host "ABC & SOAPnet Salute Broadway Cares"; Tix Now On Sale

      [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Guthrie's A Delicate Balance

      [ P ]  Daly, Tammi, Jones, Yoakam and Buckley Will Find a Delicate Balance at the Guthrie

      [ TM ]  Huff, McCabe, Miller, Rooks, Wilner Set for Heart of the City Reading

      [ TM ]  Il Divo to Launch North American Tour in April

      [ TM ]  Caldwell, Seldes, Sternhagen Set for Tennesee Williams Festival

      [ P ]  Guettel's Myths and Hymns Will Make Canadian Debut in 2009

      [ P ]  Cook Reschedules Barnes and Noble Appearance for January 2009

      [ P ]  Spring Awakening eBay Package, Including Walk-On Role, to Benefit BC/EFA

      [ P ]  Tony Winner Peters Schedules Book Signings in NY and WA; TV Appearance, Too

      [ P ]  Finborough Season to Feature McAuliffe, Ryecart and Oscar Nominee Craig

      [ P ]  Linton, Derocker, Mitchell and Williams Will Explore The Thing About Joe Dec. 2

      [ P ]  Tale of Two Cities' Lazar Guest Stars on Upcoming "Ugly Betty" Episode

      [ P ]  WCBS to Broadcast "Holiday in Bryant Park" with Jackson, Feinstein and Ledisi

      [ P ]  Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre Company Buys New Home; 99-Seat House Will Open

      [ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Kristin Chenoweth on "The View," Shrek on "Today"

      [ P ]  "Complete Lyrics" of Hammerstein, in Stores Now, Required Climbing Ev'ry Mountain

      [ P ]  Broadway's Kelso, Donnell, Hurlbert, Violett, Halling Sing in NYC Cabaret Benefit Dec. 1

      [ P ]  Shubert Organization to Name Schoenfeld's Successor Dec. 2

      [ B ]  MTC to Present Lorenzo Pisoni's Humor Abuse; Casting Added for Two Shows

      [ B ]  Graham Norton to Star in La Cage aux Folles in London

      [ P ]  Allen, Dutton, Grammer, Mullally and Neuwirth Cast in "Fame" Remake

      [ B ]  Debbie Allen, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally & More Join Fame Film Remake

      [ TM ]  Allen, Dutton, Grammer, Mullally, Neuwirth Set for Fame Remake

      [ P ]  "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon" Among 13th Annual Satellite Award Nominees

      [ P ]  Zadan and Meron to Produce Musical Version of "The Idolmaker"

      Reviews:

      [ TNO ]  FAMILY FRACAS by CLIVE HIRSCHHORN

      You don't have to be born in the U.S.A. to get the power of Tracy Letts's August: Osage County. Dysfunctional families can be found across the universe.

      [ TNO ]  HEAVY ON THE SCHMALTZ by SANDY MACDONALD

      'Tis the season to try and feel jolly. But did we really need a stage adaptation of Irving Berlin's White Christmas ?

      [ TNO ]  PLAYING WITH MR. SCRATCH by ROBERT L. DANIELS

      Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, recently seen on Broadway, is given an excellent revival at the George Street Playhouse.

      [ TB ]  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
      Florida Review by John Lariviere

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        • [ BN ]  Broadway's Shubert Organization Gets Ready to Appoint Successor By Philip Boroff

        The Shubert Organization's board of directors is scheduled to meet tomorrow to select a new leader, who will oversee its 17 Broadway houses and $300 million foundation.

        [ V ]  Bargains begin on Broadway

        Broadway is gearing up for winter months that may turn out to be colder than usual.

        [ V ]  Cast set for 'Fame' remake

        Allen, Mullally, Neuwirth set for pic

        [ TM ]  Four Christmases Tops Holiday Box Office

        [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Clown's Son Has Show Added to Season
        Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

        Amid the many show-closing notices comes news of something new from the Manhattan Theater Club. "Humor Abuse," a world premiere solo show, has been added to the company's spring schedule.

        [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: In the Wings
        Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

        [ P ]  MTC Adds Humor Abuse to Season, Announces Casting for Ruined, Accent on Youth

        [ TM ]  MTC Announces Additional Casting for Accent on Youth; World Premiere of Pisoni's Humor Abuse

        [ CT ]  Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined' turns into an unexpected box-office smash by Chris Jones

        [ TM ]  Shrek Breaks Theater's Single-Day Box Office Record

        Features:

        [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: November Leftovers

        [ LAT ]  Culture Monster: Post-Thanksgiving tales of turkeys in the audience

        [ NYT ]  Rosenbergs Seen as Puppets, Literally This Time By SAM ROBERTS

        The Julius and Ethel Rosenberg atomic bomb spy case is the subject of a "musical tragedy" staged by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater.

        [ NY ]  Mayor Bloomberg Presides Over Even Crappier Than Usual Broadway Spectacle

        [ NY ]  Liza Must Go On By Emily Nussbaum

        For showbiz's ultimate survivor, life has been one hell of a cabaret. But it's marvelous all the same.

        [ NJ ]  Liza tributes the late Kay Thompson by Jay Lustig

        [ NY ]  Conversation: The Pals of 'Pal Joey' By Jesse Oxfeld

        The emphasis is on the female leads in this revival of the Rodgers and Hart classic. Never mind that neither has sung onstage in 25 years.

        [ BR ]  Channing on the prowl in 'Pal Joey' BY AMY LONGSDORF

        [ BS ]  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly By Jenelle Riley

        Hugh Jackman is ready to show he's more than just a pretty face.

        [ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
        FABULOUS LADY STANDS BEHIND SEXIEST MAN

        [ P ]  Shrek: Finding the "Funny" in Fairyland

        An ogre with heart, a belching princess, a vertically challenged ruler and a wisecracking donkey make fairy tales come true in Shrek the Musical.

        [ P ]  A Life in the Theatre: Ira Weitzman

        Meet Lincoln Center Theater's associate producer of musicals Ira Weitzman.

        [ LAT ]  'Spring Awakening's' Kyle Riabko has a road-tested talent By Amy Kaufman

        A star of the musical's touring production now in L.A. has leaped from touring with a band.

        [ LAT ]  Culture Monster: REDCAT--a theater at age 5

        Is REDCAT still a cool addition to the city's cultural scene?

        [ WP ]  Stars Align for 'Swan' By Ellen McCarthy

        [ WP ]  That Certain Savoir- Air By Daniel LeDuc

        Jazz and cabaret performers John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey perform and impromptu medley, host a radio show, and discuss their craft.

        Includes video.

        [ CT ]  Celebrity traveler: Joyce Piven By Anne Stein

        [ HC ]  A Christmas Musical For Jim Henson Fans By FRANK RIZZO

        Jim Henson's Gift at Goodspeed Opera House

        [ CST ]  Company finds laughs in 'lost' Bowie special BY MARY HOULILHAN

        [ JN ]  Cirque du Soleil performers stretch 'Wintuk' with live music By Linda Lombroso

        [ BG ]  Born in a trunk By Megan Tench

        She grew up in a famous family of traveling performers. Now Aurelia Thierree brings her own circus-inspired show to the ART.

        [ BG ]  Grinch by inch By Geoff Edgers

        Iceland's Stefan Karl took the long road from 'LazyTown' to center stage as everyone's favorite meanie

        [ PW ]  Run Through by Michael Persico & Anastasia Kotsosavas

        Kala Moses Baxter as Nella in Gee's Bend

        "August: Osage County":

        [ CT ]  London finally discovers the Chicago theater by Chris Jones

        [ CT ]  Steppenwolf's 'August: Osage County' kicks London in the gut by Chris Jones

        [ CU ]  August: Osage County. . .takes top honors in London

        [ P ]  Estelle Parsons Goes Weston(28 Nov

        As the drugged-out mother of August: Osage County, Estelle Parsons is giving the fiercest performance of her career.

        "Frost/Nixon":

        [ PTR ]  'Frost/Nixon' reveals a tragedy By Alice T. Carter

        For Stacy Keach, the journey into Richard Nixon's soul has been an interesting one.

        [ NW ]  I Fell for Tricky Dick By Peter Morgan

        Why a Brit was inspired to write 'Frost/Nixon.'

        [ R ]  Small things "Frost/Nixon" could do without By Michelle Nichols

        Sir David Frost says a new film about his historical interview with former U.S. President Richard Nixon is better than the stage play it is based on, but "there are one or two small bits it could do without."

        [ NJ ]  From heroes to villains, Frank Langella finds the heart in them all by Stephen Whitty

        [ JN ]  'Frost/Nixon' enters the ring By John Horn • Los Angeles Times

        Ron Howard may already have made a big fisticuffs film - 2005's "Cinderella Man" - but the boxing metaphors abound in "Frost/Nixon," the director's adaptation of Peter Morgan's play about the 1977 conversations between the British talk-show host and the exiled president.

        [ NY ]  Unholy Alliance By David Edelstein

        Frost/Nixon's iconic TV moment seems quaint after Couric/Palin. Plus: Cadillac Records hits its groove.

        [ NYer ]  History in the Making by David Denby

        "Frost/Nixon" and "Australia."

        "Southern Comforts":

        [ BR ]  Jersey playwright straddles Mason-Dixon line By JIM BECKERMAN

        The Republicans have their Southern strategy. Kathleen Clark has hers.

        [ NJ ]  Prime Morris location is too close for 'Comforts' by Peter Filichia

        What would help an audience to enjoy Kathleen Clark's dim-witted comedy "Southern Comforts"? Even a fifth of Southern Comfort wouldn't be nearly enough.

        Other Reviews:

        [ ND ]  'Back, Back, Back,' 'Taking Over' light Off-Broadway
        Linda Winer | Critical Mass

        With all the chatter about Broadway - the openings, the closings, the economy - it is too easy to let the best of Off-Broadway fall between the cracks.

        [ NYT ]  The Beggars and Strugglers Have a Music-Hall Opera By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

        "London Cries," an Old Vic Theater commission, gets its Dickensian flair from its source material, Henry Mayhew's classic survey "London Labour and the London Poor."

        [ V ]  London Cries
        Review By MARILYN STASIO

        Sentimental to a fault, this superficial treatment pretty much ignores its grim source, finding more inspiration in the formulaic characters and maudlin sentiments of vintage music hall songs.

        [ CT ]  'Don't Dress for Dinner': Recession-busting laughs on the menu by Chris Jones (*** 1/2)

        [ CST ]  Farce's able cast never fumbles the bumbles BY HEDY WEISS

        Complicated mishaps executed with ease

        [ WP ]  Moss Hart's 'Act One' Deserves a Standing O

        An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.

        [ CU ]  Catch 22

        Peter Meineck's Aquila Theatre has risen to the challenge of dramatizing Joseph Heller's novel, with mixed result

        [ NYP ]  DOESN'T CATCH THE LUNACY OF HELLER CLASSIC By FRANK SCHECK (**)

        [ V ]  Xanadu
        Review By BOB VERINI

        Disco-era jukebox of Jeff Lynne/John Farrar/Electric Light Orchestra hits, kicking off its national tour at La Jolla Playhouse, sparkles in the hands of librettist Douglas Carter Beane, choreographer Dan Knechtges and helmer Christopher Ashley. You have to believe they are magic.

        [ TE ]  My Vaudeville Man! - Review by Oscar E Moore

        As Shonn Wiley stops the show with his dancing and magnetic personality, Karen Murphy does so with her heartfelt singing of "So the Old Dog Has Come Home".

        [ TE ]  Oliver! Lionel Bart musical a must see by Oscar E Moore

        The White Plains Performing Arts Center has a big fat red hot hit for the holidays, perfect for kids of all ages and it's called Oliver! And the secret is out. WPPAC produces first rate Broadway caliber musicals with first rate talented actors.

        [ DCTS ]  Forbidden Broadway and The Seagull

        New York columnist Richard Seff names Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab among its top 5 best shows and mostly likes The Seagull.

        [ CU ]  Taking Over

        Danny Hoch's being a Williamsburg native gives his rant against gentrification an added autobiographical depth

        [ AMNY ]  Review of Taking Over by Matt Windman (2.5 out of 4 Stars)

        [ TT ]  Review of The Little Dog Laughed at CTG in Los Angeles by Willard Manus

        [ CU ]  Imagine This

        It's hard to imagine a more unlikely setting for a musical than the Warsaw Ghetto in the 1940s but this is indeed the scenario for this new musical.

        [ TNO ]  A GRIEF TOO GREAT by CLIVE HIRSCHHORN

        The desire was great, the determination high, but some events are not meant to be made into West End musicals-the Holocaust being one of them.

        [ NY ]  Clash of the Steel Magnolias By Stephanie Zacharek

        In Dividing the Estate, Horton Foote takes the southern family drama out for one more spin.

        [ NY ]  Review: Blasted By Dan Kois

        [ CU ]  Geometry Of Fire

        Stephen Belber's new play is sad and gloomy but it deals quite absorbingly with an all too real situation.

        [ CU ]  Anna Christie

        Metropolitan Playhouse's a simple, low-cost production actually benefits from the small stage as it effectively illustrates the confined world in which Anna Christie lives

        [ CU ]  Gethsemane

        A cynical but witty look at the lack of idealism in British politics today. It's worth seeing for the ensemble performances and bon mots.

        [ PW ]  Primp and Circumstance by J. Cooper Robb

        Hairspray is a joyous escape from the real world.

        [ CP ]  Tangled Web by Mark Cofta

        Dark Play or Stories for Boys at Theatre Exile

        News:

        [ P ]  Martin, Groff, Kudisch, Slezak, Seldes and More Set for Project Shaw's Saint Joan

        [ TM ]  Epstein, Groff, Kudisch, Martin, Seldes, et al. Set for Project Shaw's Saint Joan

        [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Prince's It's A Wonderful Life

        [ P ]  Brennan, McCarthy, McLenigan, Page and Pryor Create Wonderful Life Radio Play in Philly

        [ HC ]  "Dividing The Estate" Has Become A Broadway Darling
        Frank Rizzo | TICKER

        [ TM ]  Hathaway, Hoffman, Langella, Penn, Ruffalo, Streep, et al. Receive Satellite Award Nominations

        [ V ]  Yoshimoto, theater group pact

        Shanghai troupe will supply talent

        [ TM ]  Bernadette Peters to Appear at NYC's Lord & Taylor on December 2

        [ P ]  Broadway's Kelso, Donnell, Hurlbert, Violett, Halling Sing in NYC Cabaret Benefit Dec. 1

        [ P ]  "Complete Lyrics" of Hammerstein, in Stores Now, Required Climbing Ev'ry Mountain

        [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: DECEMBER 1

        [ P ]  Wintry Musical Snow Queen, by Galati and Smith, Opens Dec. 1 in Chicago

        [ P ]  Pedi Offers a Holly Jolly Christmas Folly! at the Beechman Beginning Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Deven May Joins Las Vegas Cast of Tony-Winning Jersey Boys Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Murney and Hicks Join Broadway Boys for Not So Silent Night Concert Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Composer-Lyricist Gwon Receives Fourth Annual Fred Ebb Award Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Ashanti's Basic Training Ends Off-Broadway Run Dec. 1

        [ P ]  "Finding Billy," Documentary About the Casting of Billy Elliot, Debuts Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Bacharach to the Future, with Butler, Kennedy, Roberts, Callaway, Presented Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Cutrell Is Feelin' Frosty at Feinstein's Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Symphony Space Offers Dancing for Jerry: Memories of Jerome Robbins, with D'Amboise Family, Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Jennifer Holliday and Piper Laurie Join San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus for Dec. 1 Holiday Concert

        [ P ]  Bean, Burgess, Murney, Hoffman and More Help Alan Celebrate "Keys" CD Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Joe's Pub Welcomes Norm Lewis and LaChanze Dec. 1

        [ P ]  Patricia Marand, Tony-Nominated Star of It's a Bird..., Dies at 74

        [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: That's All, She Wrote
        Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

        Rosie O'Donnell's homage to television variety shows of the 1970s, "Rosie Live," seems destined to be a one-night-only event.

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          • [ YN ]  A nervous Broadway looks forward to spring By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Writer

          Still, there is an underlying nervousness among some producers about early 2009, especially if the economic situation remains stagnant and tourists, both homegrown and foreign, stay away from New York.

          [ TM ]  Actress Patricia Marand Dies at 74

          [ IBDB ]  Patricia Marand's Broadway Credits

          [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
          WE HEAR . . .

          THAT Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the producers behind "Chicago" and "Hairspray," have optioned "The Idolmaker" and plan to turn the 1980 Taylor Hackford film about the producer who made stars of Frankie Avalon and Fabian into a Broadway musical.

          Rosie O'Donnell:

          [ TIME ]  Rosie Live: Words Fail Me by James Poniewozik

          Rosie is just too Broadway for America. And Broadway people in the entertainment business-people like Rosie who literally appear on Broadway, or simply old-fashioned showbiz types who love a big gala stage show-often fail to understand that Broadway is no longer mainstream American entertainment.

          [ B ]  PHOTO OP : Broadway Stars Shine at Rosie O'Donnell's Benefit Gala

          [ TM ]  Dreams Come True By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

          Clay Aiken, Linda Dano, Fran Drescher, Jane Fonda, Carlos Gomez, Tom Hulce, Michael Mayer, Terrence McNally, and Chita Rivera help make Rosie O'Donnell's Building Dreams For Kids gala a smashing success.

          Features:

          [ NYO ]  Five Card Studs: Harvey Fierstein's Poker Game by Spencer Morgan

          Every week these beaux of Broadway deal and dish for high stakes

          Thanks to ElizMB on All That Chat for the link.

          [ TM ]  Behind Enemy Lines By: Brian Scott Lipton

          Jonathan Groff leaves musical theater behind to star in the new play Prayer for My Enemy and the film Taking Woodstock.

          [ TM ]  Video Feature
          Meeting Christopher Gattelli By: Valerie Smaldone and Joe Tavano

          The noted choreographer and director talks about his experiences as a childhood actor, working with Rosie O'Donnell, picking the kids for the Broadway musical 13, and realizing his dream of staging Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.

          [ TM ]  On the Milk Train By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

          Sean Penn, Alison Pill, James Franco, Josh Brolin, and Gus Van Sant discuss the making of the film Milk.

          [ TM ]  Back to Normal By: Dan Bacalzo

          Tom Kitt talks about the development of the rock musical Next to Normal, now receiving a Washington D.C. premiere at Arena Stage in revised form.

          [ B ]  Q&A : Campbell Scott

          [ B ]  FRESH FACE : Claybourne Elder

          [ NYP ]  TREASURED ISLAND By JENNIFER CEASER
          CHRISTOPHER SIEBER'S LAKESIDE CABIN IS FIT FOR A FAIRYTALE

          [ DN ]  Comeback queens Tina Turner, Liza Minelli and Stockard Channing to play NYC shows BY PATRICK HUGUENIN

          [ B ]  FEATURE : Memories of Gerald Schoenfeld from Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Elizabeth Ashley & More

          [ B ]  FEATURE : 10 Broadway Reasons To Be Thankful

          [ WP ]  Chenoweth Has Christmas Covered By Ellen McCarthy

          It will be, we predict, a Kristin Chenoweth Christmas.

          [ CPD ]  Reese Witherspoon, Kristin Chenoweth forging family ties in 'Four Christmases' movie by John M. Urbancich

          [ NYT ]  Hollywood's Bull Market in Ego By DAVID CARR

          Blanchett, DiCaprio, Hathaway, Hoffman, Langella, Penn, Pitt, Streep, Winslet: The Carpetbagger asks who will walk the red carpet with a statue at stake?

          [ WSJ ]  From Dracula to Nixon

          Frank Langella has an affinity for playing outsiders and flawed individuals, he says. His latest cinematic outlier is President Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."

          [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX

          DANIEL Radcliffe, whose character in "Equus" is hung up on horses, went with the whole cast and crew of the Broadway show to see real ones at Lionshare Farm in Greenwich, Conn., owned by Peter Leone, an Olympic silver medalist in show jumping.

          [ TB ]  ON THE SCENE: "ROAD SHOW" OPENING NIGHT

          [ NYT ]  Letter
          From Page to Stage: Re-imagining Literature

          [ B ]  PHOTO OP : A Big Helping of Grease on Thanksgiving

          "White Christmas":

          [ B ]  FEATURE : Broadway.com Opening Night Special: White Christmas

          [ B ]  PHOTO OP : White Christmas's Broadway Debut Warms Up a Frigid Night

          [ TM ]  Getting It White By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

          Danny Burstein, Brian d'Arcy James, Blythe Danner, Christine Ebersole, Sutton Foster, Ana Gasteyer, Beth Leavel, Joan Rivers, Vanessa Williams, and more stars come out for the opening of Irving Berlin's White Christmas.

          [ WSJ ]  A Smooth Snow Job By TERRY TEACHOUT

          Broadway's "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" is a genuinely old-fashioned musical, knowing but not condescending.

          Plus "Back Back Back."

          Other Reviews:

          [ TM ]  Cape Disappointment
          Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

          The Debate Society's latest offering is more notable for its design and its acting than its storylines.

          [ TM ]  Xanadu
          Reviewed by: Rob Stevens

          The national tour of the Broadway musical adaptation of the notorious 1980 film flop is a sublimely cast funfest.

          [ NYT ]  In a Poker Game With the Devil, Count Luck Out By Sylviane Gold

          "The Seafarer," by Conor McPherson, is at TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl St., Hartford, through Dec. 21.

          [ NYT ]  A Christmas Eve Turning Grimmer With Each Hand By ANITA GATES

          "The Seafarer," by Conor McPherson, is at the George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, through Dec. 14.

          [ TB ]  Southern Comforts, The Seafarer an Mauritius by Bob Rendell

          [ NY ]  I Hear America Singing By Eric Grode & Dan Kois

          Road Show almost gets its motor running this time. Plus: Cedric the Entertainer plays Mamet cool.

          [ NYT ]  Music Review | Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch
          A Fat Box of Money Joins the List of Seasonal Treats By STEPHEN HOLDEN

          When Christine Ebersole liberates her inner nightingale in "Winter Wonderland," the amiable new holiday show at Birdland, she instantly transforms into a musical comedy whirlwind.

          [ NYT ]  Show Tunes in Zany, Chatty, Romantic and Distinctly New York Hues By STEPHEN HOLDEN

          "Together Again," a revue of the songs of the theater composer Rusty Magee, is part memorial, part living room musicale.

          [ V ]  Broadway Unplugged
          Review By ROBERT L. DANIELS

          In the treasured tradition of such lusty baritones as Alfred Drake and John Raitt, among others, performers and gypsies sang with Merman-esque grandeur in the fifth annual edition of Broadway Unplugged, the only microphone in sight positioned above to record the concert.

          [ TB ]  THE TWO OF CLUBS By Barbara & Scott Siegel

          Just some of the recent acts playing the Big Rooms: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Chita Rivera, and Steve Tyrell

          [ TM ]  Australia
          Reviewed by: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

          Hugh Jackman's considerable sex appeal can't save Baz Luhrmann's bloated film about an unlikely Down Under romance.

          William Gibson, 1924-2008:

          [ BE ]  Editorial: William Gibson

          The writer, who died Tuesday at the age of 94, leaves behind a great body of work and a theater, the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, that will long bear his stamp.

          [ BE ]  Theater playwright Gibson dies at 94

          "We don't ever speak about the BTF and the history of the BTF without mentioning Bill Gibson's name," said Kate Maguire, current artistic director at the BTF, in an interview on Friday.

          [ TM ]  Tony Award Winner William Gibson Dies at 94

          [ B ]  Tony-Winning Miracle Worker Playwright William Gibson Dead at 95

          News:

          [ V ]  Despite decline, 'Wicked' still strong

          Road Grosses

          [ V ]  'Beauty' bows in Russia By GORDON COX

          Mellon Foundation hands out grants

          [ R ]  Zimbabwe Playwright And Mugabe Critic Wins Award

          [ NYT ]  Corrections

          [ B ]  Legend Meryl Streep Hints at Return to Broadway

          [ B ]  Have You Seen This Theatergoer? Actor Seeks Out Good Samaritan

          [ B ]  Hugh Jackman Rumored to Star as Houdini in 2010

          [ TM ]  Dennehy, Gugino, Hunt, Izzard, Schreiber to Star in Every Day Film

          [ TM ]  Toby Jones to Star in National Theatre's Revival of Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

          [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Announced for Atlantic's Cripple of Inishmaan

          [ TM ]  James Barbour to Star in The Holiday Concert at Sardi's

          [ TM ]  Bates, Black, Close, Eustis, Goldberg, et al. Set for Arts & Leisure Weekend

          [ TM ]  Public Theater Postpones Guare's A Free Man of Color

          [ TM ]  Beaver, Chalfant, McLaughlin, et al. Set for Arena Stage's A Delicate Balance

          [ B ]  Gypsy Alums Tyne Daly and Jonathan Hadary to Reunite at Gypsy of the Year

          [ TM ]  Cody, Daly, Hadary, Rudetsky, et al. Set for Gypsy of the Year

          [ TM ]  Adam Gwon Receives Fred Ebb Award

          [ TM ]  Rogelio Douglas, Jr. Will Be Little Mermaid's New Sebastian

          [ TM ]  Broadway Goes Green Is Officially Launched

          [ TM ]  Brill, Cates, Gurland, Maitner, Wilfert, et al. Set for Artists Rising Showcase

          [ TM ]  Deven May to Join Las Vegas Jersey Boys on December 1

          [ B ]  Deven May Joins Las Vegas Company of Jersey Boys

          [ TM ]  Julia Murney, Marva Hicks to Join Broadway Boys at Birdland

          [ TM ]  Hallie Foote and Penny Fuller Set for December 4 LCT Platform Series

          [ B ]  Shrek the Musical Cancels December 2 Performance

          [ TM ]  Graham Norton and Steven Pacey to Join London's La Cage in January

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