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Thursday, July 22, 2010


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  • Posted by James Marino at 3:29 PM | Item Link


      • Peter Filichia:

      [ NJ ]  After winning two Tonys for 'Memphis' it's back to work for Joe DiPietro

      [ MWB ]  Victorious Regina

      [ MWB ]  Glad It's Still Here

      Features:

      [ NYT ]  Letter: Credit for 'West Side Story' By Stephen Sondheim

      [ NYT ]  Ancient Grudges, Anew By MAUREEN DOWD

      A merchant for modern times: Shylock, still nettlesome after all these years.

      [ NYT ]  On Ellis Island, a Kinship With the Huddled Masses By ABBY ELLIN

      Eddie Izzard feels a bond with immigrants who endured Ellis Island to become Americans.

      [ P ]  CELEB PlayBlogger Race's Afton C. Williamson: July 19

      [ P ]  CELEB PlayBlogger Race's Afton C. Williamson: July 20

      [ P ]  Kristin Chenoweth Confirms "Glee" Return, Talks Charities on "Reality Cares" (Audio)

      [ TM ]  Donna McKechnie's Brand New Life By: Brian Scott Lipton

      The Tony Award-winning star previews her new cabaret show My Musical Comedy Life and future career plans.

      [ NYT ]  At the White House, Elaine Stritch Is at Liberty (to Forget Her Lyrics) By DAVE ITZKOFF

      [ P ]  President Obama Hails Broadway at the White House (Video)

      [ WE ]  Dandy 'Annie' By BOB CURTRIGHT

      Musical comes to Music Theatre of Wichita with a cast that includes kids, a dog and a Rooster

      [ NYT ]  Next Big Thing for the Last Big Thing By MATTHEW HEALEY

      Once regarded as Hollywood's Next Big Thing, the actress Julia Stiles has steered her career toward a "second phase."

      [ P ]  George Lee Andrews Talks More Phantom (Video)

      [ MWB ]  Sean Hayes in the Video Spotlight

      Check out today's Video Spotlight to hear Sean Hayes talk about his experience working on the Promises, Promises New Broadway Cast Album.

      [ MWB ]  Tony Goldwyn in the Video Spotlight

      [ MWB ]  Dick Latessa in the Video Spotlight

      [ B ]  Q&A: John O'Hurley Jazzes on Chicago, Seinfeld, TV Dancing & More

      [ B ]  Weekend Poll: Fans Name Will & Grace's Leo as Favorite Harry Connick Jr. Role

      [ P ]  Next to Normal's New Door Pics (Photos)

      [ P ]  Alec Baldwin Reads Kennedy Brothers' Words; Tanglewood Chorus Sings Lynn Ahrens' Lyrics (Video)

      [ B ]  First Look! Get Criminal With Robin and the Seven Hoods

      [ B ]  Behind the Scenes: Broadway Prepares to Light Up the White House

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Off-Broadway's Viagara Falls at the Little Shubert Theatre

      Reviews:

      [ TM ]  Midtown International Theatre Festival 2010 Roundup #1
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo and Andy Propst

      Reports on Never Norman Rockwell, Ten Reasons I Won't Go Home With You, and The Gospel According to Josh.

      [ TB ]  Conspiracy: A Love Story - part of The Midtown International Theatre Festival
      Review by Matthew Murray

      With an opening and a cast like this production has, there's every reason to think Conspiracy: A Love Story could morph into a full evening as rich as its initial minutes. But first the creators have to believe in it more strongly.

      [ TB ]  Ten Reasons I Won't Go Home With You - part of The Midtown International Theatre Festival
      Review by Matthew Murray

      [ BSR ]  Word feast at Canada's Shaw Festival by Toby Zinman

      The treat of Canada's Shaw Festival, held annually in the charming, flower-filled town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, is that it offers productions of plays you rarely get to see- not only by George Bernard Shaw, but by his contemporaries like Chekhov, Wilde and Barrie.

      [ BO ]  Seductive Six Degrees of Separation at Williamstown Theatre Festival by Larry Murray

      [ BG ]  A stylish, superficial 'Six Degrees of Separation' By Louise Kennedy

      It's hard to see how the idea that everyone in the world is separated by only six people ever seemed fresh - or how the play ever became a hit.

      [ ATU ]  Berkshire Theatre's 'Guardsman' is fun By MICHAEL JANAIRO

      [ TM ]  The Guardsman
      Reviewed by: Sandy MacDonald

      A top-notch cast and John Rando's vigorous direction can't overcome the flimsiness of Ferenc Molnar's farce.

      [ BG ]  John Douglas Thompson embraces role of Richard III By Louise Kennedy

      Thompson's Richard commands the stage as powerfully as did his Othello, but in an utterly different way.

      [ TB ]  Women of Will
      Review by Fred Sokol

      [ TM ]  In God's Hat
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

      Tom Pelphrey delivers a riveting performance in Richard Taylor's darkly comic new drama.

      [ V ]  Gary the Thief; Plevna: Meditations on Hatred
      Review by Marilyn Stasio

      [ TM ]  Six Degrees of Separation
      Reviewed by: Sandy MacDonald

      Margaret Colin and Ato Essandoh shine in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's near-perfect revival of John Guare's play about a con artist who infiltrates Manhattan high society.

      [ TB ]  Emotions Run High in NJ Rep's Sunlight by Bob Rendell

      [ V ]  Auctioning the Ainsleys
      Review by Dennis Harvey

      Belabors a gimmicky premise that contracts as the play strains to become more emotionally expansive.

      [ INQ ]  Second City brings 50th anniversary tour to Philadelphia. By Toby Zinman

      [ V ]  Fabric
      Review by Bob Verini

      Docudrama ecapitulates in shocking detail the 1995 liberation of 72 Thai garment workers.

      [ V ]  [title of show]
      Review by Bob Verini

      Like a threadbare garment or the plot of "Aspects of Love," "[title of show]" tends to fall apart the more you inspect it.

      [ V ]  Aspects of Love
      Review by David Benedict

      [ CU ]  La Bete

      Warchus' production transfers to Broadway in September and it will be most interesting to see how it is received there after the American chilly critical response in the 1990s.

      [ TE ]  Falling For Eve - Reviewed by Oscar E. Moore

      Trouble in Paradise: Adam & Eve Revisited at The York. With the exception of the biting edge, unexpected and off beat humor of Mr. DiPietro "Falling For Eve" falls a bit flat.

      [ TB ]  Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers (Fourth Edition) by Steven Suskin
      Review by Bob Gutowski

      [ VV ]  A Disappearing Number Displays Effects That Don't Add Up to Much By Michael Feingold

      [ VV ]  Ivo Van Hove Stages Pasolini on Governors Island By Tom Sellar

      Teorema at Lincoln Center Festival

      [ VV ]  Sweet, Sweet Motherhood and Lovesong of the Electric Bear Bring Some Science to the Stage By Alexis Soloski

      But the empirical method thwarts theatermakers again

      [ TB ]  The Lieutenant of Inishmore
      Los Angeles Review by Sharon Perlmutter

      News:

      [ NYT ]  Jim Neu, Creator of Wry Plays, Is Dead at 66 By BRUCE WEBER

      Mr. Neu, a playwright, took as his topic the effect of pop culture on the individual American psyche.

      [ OS ]  James Gammon: Ed Harris, Sam Shepard celebrate their friend by Hal Boedeker

      [ NYT ]  James Gammon, Character Actor, Dies at 70 By BRUCE WEBER

      [ TM ]  Tony Award Nominee James Gammon Dies at 70

      [ NYT ]  Julianne Moore's New Musical Is All Right for the Kids By DAVE ITZKOFF

      [ TM ]  Most Happy Fella London Cast Recording, Millicent Martin Sings and More Set for September Release by Sepia Records

      [ P ]  Ariel's Prince Has a Castle on the Yale Campus in the Fall

      [ P ]  "Damages" to Move to DirecTV Next Year

      [ P ]  Blue Man Group to Debut New Performance Piece on "Regis and Kelly"

      [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX: Gawking at Mamie Gummer

      [ P ]  Spider-Man Begins Rehearsals, According to Reeve Carney

      [ NYT ]  Corrections

      [ NYT ]  Corrections

      [ TM ]  John Tartaglia and Imaginocean Cast to Appear at Central Park, Coney Island, and Barnes & Noble

      [ TM ]  Joel Grey to Direct Normal Heart Reading at Walter Kerr Theatre

      [ B ]  Larry Keith, Broadway Musical Actor and Original All My Children Star, Dies at 79

    • Posted by James Marino at 3:14 PM | Item Link


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