Have I been on a gentle hiatus? Perhaps. I was quite industrious while I was working.
Anyways, some bits and bobs that caught my eye while I was out:
Forming a community, whoever we are:
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SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:43PMPrevious installments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, an update, VII, and VIII
A frequent series I've been running here has been a look at the rules of engag…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:29PM(I steered clear of the obvious The Agony And The Ecstacy of Mike Daisey...)
Here's the situation:
A highly popular episode of This American Life in which monologuist Mike Daisey tells …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:29PMBy Byrne Harrison
After a night (or possibly a day and night) of green beer-fueled excess, do your conscience some good and attend the Occupy the Empty Space 10-minute play festival tomorro…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:19PMThe Skivvies perform Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend". Lauren Molina (Rock of Ages, Sweeney Todd, Candide), Nick Cearley (All Shook Up, And Then I Wrote a Song About It) featuring NBC's Smash …
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:13PM
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Merchants, No Nude Men.
By Sam Hurwitt
Cyndi Lauper sang that “money changes everything,” but Susan Sobeloff’s debut play Merchants seems to indicate that…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:25PMCottesloe; Lyttelton; Southwark Playhouse; all LondonIn 1957 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, by Errol John, a young Trinidadian, won an Observer drama contest. The task was to write a play set afte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMThe actor who made his name in The Office talks about Jerusalem, playing against type in The Recruiting Officer, and his debut as a children's authorHaving risen to fame in The Office, Crook…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMRoyal Opera House, London; Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen she was 16, Melissa Hamilton was turned down by the Royal Ballet School. A late starter, she had grown up in Northern Ireland, where goo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMThough as funny as ever, Alan Bennett never quite breaks out of his trademark cosiness with these talesAlan Bennett recently attributed the sexual content of this book to the urge to "outfla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMThe Curve, LeicesterAs the brass and percussion strike the opening bars, period posters, their colours bleached to shades of grey, descend from the flies. The most prominent pictures a happy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMSt Leonard's Church, LondonDavid Edgar's award-winning 1994 play tries to fit a lot under one roof. It's not merely an art-historical detective story: Pentecost is also a hostage thriller an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMWhat are we talking about? A triple bill from The Royal Ballet, comprising two new works and a revival of Polyphonia.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:00PMTalk about going in at the deep end. "Raise your hand," demands the man on the stage of a packed auditorium of people who think they've come to see some kind of dance, "if you think you're m…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:00PMDon't miss this: revivals of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl are rare and Errol John's seminal Caribbean drama deserves to be recognised as a 20th-century classic. First staged in 1958 and now enjoy…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:00PM
NEWSIES is now in previews at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre. It will play a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse in fall 2011. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMStephen Bogardus, Jim Brochu, Nicolas King, Myles Savage, and Kevin Spirtas will star in Showstopper Divos - A Swell Evening, to be held at Feinstein's at Loews Regency at 6:30pm on Sun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:38PMJerome Robbins' "In the Night" among the works presented.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:17PMShe's worked with a who's who of American playwrights.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:11PMA prize-winning story of two unlikely friends comes to Children's Theatre.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:10PMBroadwayWorld.com has confirmed the sad news that actor John Bisom took his own life last night in California. The actor had been suffering from health issues recently and many in the theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05PM
Gary Kirkham's *Falling: A Wake* is a powerful day-in-the-life of a couple, and it takes a crash to help the spouses feel. Director Victoria Deiorio does such a wonderful job turning a trag…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:39PMAccording to TMZ, boxer Mike Tyson is planning to bring his one man Las Vegas show Mike Tyson UNDISPUTED TRUTH to Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:38PMOr rather, afternoon, although Thursday evening was in some ways similarly unenchanting. We’ll get to that in a minute. Today, I’m afraid, was just one of those days. I had a ticket this…
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 05:26PMI have heard from a couple people involved with the Counting New Beans book that was just released with information that pertains to my previous post. Clayton Lord, the director of comm…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 05:26PMBroadway veteran Brian d'Arcy James stopped by NBC's New York Live to discuss SMASH. Find out what he has to say about what's to come this season and about his upcoming films in the intervie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PM
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:59PMShowtime will host a series of panel discussions about its returning television series at the 92nd Street Y. Caryn James will moderate the panels.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:47PMThe Gala 30th Anniversary Midtown Jazz at Midday concert will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, May 9 at the Church at St. Peter's.
Performers will include Barbara Carroll, Eric Comstock…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMThe Harbor Stage company has announced its selections for its inaugural season in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, to begin in June 2012.
The company will present Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMMeet the Newsies: Davey
Meet Ben Fankhauser, playing Davey in Disney's newest Broadway production, NEWSIES. Disney's NEWSIES is now on Broadway!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:04PMBOULDER, Colo.—If you haven't seen what Glenn Grassi—the Erie man whose tiny house on wheels made national headlines last year—has been up to lately, you'll find out soon e…
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Docu...DramaRahul Varma confronts the big issues againby Chris LaneDenial comes in many forms, and can effectively erase the memories of the oppressed victims of atrocities untold. Local pla…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 01:58PMNothing says big bucks like a beloved French revolution.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:49PMMike is an artist, not a journalist. Nevertheless, we wish he had been more precisewith us and our audiences about what was and wasnt his personal experience in thepiece.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PM(photo credit: Vincent Champoux)Ecstasy, fantasy, eroticism, desires, fidelity, infidelity, one word: Turmoil A very unique adaptation of Yukio Mishima.By Isabelle-Ann CharleboisMadame …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 01:33PMIn 1975, Antonia Fraser, biographer of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives, and Harold Pinter, renowned playwright, fell madly in love, pretty much at first sight. Over the next…
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:15PMDon't worry. The kids are all right in this tale of youth limping along by themselves. Those of us who are watching are doing the suffering.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:12PMGROUNDLINGS ZERO The best part about cleaning up my DVR last weekend was catching up on Raising Hope, the hilarious FOX comedy. It’s funny, surprising, naughty, sometimes dirty, and wholly…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:02PMGHOST THE MUSICAL began previews on Thursday, March 15th at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. GHOST THE MUSICAL is directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus and choreographed by Ashley Wallen. …
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Sacred to ProfaneAgainst The Grain tempts the devilby Axel Van CheeOne thing I love about small companies is that they need to be innovative and constantly explore all the possibilities in t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:55PMAMERICAN NIGHT SUCKS, BUT IT SWALLOWS Juan José, a Mexican cop sick of being on-the-take, has crossed the border in search of citizenship, leaving his pregnant wife behind. Panicking over f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:48PMOn the surface, David Michael Sirois’ Off Center of Nowhere is what would result if the Neil Simon of the 1970s wrote a rollicking comedy about teen pregnancy, abortion and racism, laced w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:39PMMike Daisey's THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS, which has celebrated sold-out and extended runs across the country and twice in New York, has been admittedly 'embellished.' Mike Daise…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMDancers Travis Walker, Ashley Werhun, and John Michael Schert.Trey McIntyre has found - or rather created - an intriguing choreographic niche. Working with his eponymous Trey McIn…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:03PMToday in 2005, Spamalot opened at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for 1575 performances. Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy lovingly ripped off from the 1975 film Monty Python and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
On Twitter Watch, Rosie O'Donnell wrote KChenoweth - but thats show biz - and i am happy to have had the chance and now to be back home in ny ------ maybe broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMThe fracas Friday involving monologuist Mike Daisey and the public radio show "This American Life" is not just the latest scandal of a purported truth teller caught in at least an act of emb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:56AMThe Navigator Puts the WorkShop Theater Company on the Map: This “Twilight Zone”/ “Outer Limit” type play takes a look at Dave (Joseph Franchini), who is driving on the highway, as h…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:28AMLike many of you, I looked forward to the work that Molotov Theatre Group – Washington’s Grand Guignol theater – would be doing on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar because of the exquisit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AM“The Comedy of Errors” includes all the elements that say “Shakespeare comedy” today: separated identical twins (two sets), mixed-up couples, and language that scans so beautifully w…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:08AM“The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Mike Daisey’s well-reviewed monologue currently at the Public Theater, is the subject of an expose in This American Life, the radio program t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:02AM
Mike Daisey is absolutely right. As he tells Ira Glass on This American Life today: Everything I have done in making this monologue for the theater has been toward that end — to make p…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 10:53AMThe Maria Project: Home Grown Does Not Mean Theatre: “The Maria Project” playing at 59E59 is more of a High School project than a piece of theatre.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:32AMI haven’t been a great fan of Carole Fréchette’s plays; they’ve seemed to me like tiny surfaces, obsessively polished. Her latest is small too, at least physically — its very title …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:30AMA different kind of Lin-sanity is happening in Manila Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator, original leading man, and Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer of the critically-acclaimed Broadway music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMNew York theater goers can currently see two plays permeated with steamy sado-masochistic games. One made new again by its star an…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:08AMEulogyA Love StoryChapter one. There is a bird a love bird singing in the peach tree.My grandfather a skinny man always dress shoes and a buttoned-d…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 10:02AMMore than anything, when I see something I think could or should be a show, I love to speculate about who would play what roles. I love the way casting works and I love sticking my favorite,…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMAs Shakespeare would say, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But the naming rights might cost you. Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced Friday that after a $4.5-million dona…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThis delightful musical at the New Victory Theater will please both children and adults.
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Jean Genet was the enfant terrible of French writers. And, as a convicted thief and a defiantly openly gay man, he reveled in his status as an outsider. So it was perfectly in characte…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AMNumerous stage veterans have been added to the cast of upcoming TV pilots, according to Deadline.com and TVLine.com
Scott Bakula will star in NBC's comedy Table For Three, as Robert, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:36AMLantern Theater's Romeo and Juliet is one wild ride ... Cyrano is a streamlined version of Rostand's story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04AMMelva Niles Barborka, a Broadway leading lady, passed away on March 12 in South Jordan, Utah. She succumbed to chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a neurological disease, at a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM
Old Gershwin musicals never die, they just get revised into new Gershwin musicals.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMBell, Book, and Candle, directed by Darko Tresnjak, plays Long Wharf Theatre until April 1st and then journeys up Interstate 91 before opening at Hartford Stage on April 5th.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AMSince their birthdays are unknown, I’ve saved this post for St. Patrick’s Day. The Russell Brothers, John (1856-1925) and James (1859-1914), were a pair of Irish-American brother…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:42AMThe show "turns out to be a strange musical tragedy that offers only a smidgen of hope."
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMAna Reeder and Jeanine Serralles discuss their roles in Red Bull's chilling revival of Jean Genet's play.
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An actress I’ve recently been working with has been regaling me with some wonderful tales of a lifetime in theatre. Hers is an illustrious career which has provided her with a surfeit of a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:58AMGingold Theatrical Groups GOLDEN SHAMROCK GALA will be held in the evening on Saturday, March 17 at the Players Club 16 Gramercy Park South, honoring the prodigious talents of playwright, Te…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMManhattan Theatre Club has announced that WIT, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow will extend at MTCs Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The limited engagem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMMichael Healey resigned from Tarragon Theatre when it shelved his play about a prime minister. Was the problem politics, or art?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMA first look at Michael Healeys Proud, a satirical play about a fictional Conservative leader - the "Prime Minister." Here, the PM talks tactics with a backbencher from Quebec …
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Mike Daisey, a writer and performer who used Seattle as a launching pad in the 1990s, is now in the middle of a controversy regarding the radio show "This American Life." Excerpts from Daise…
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, kids — remember that fairy tale by Hans Christian somebody, “Ugly Duckling,” about a duck that turns into a beautiful swan? Now you can see it live! It has music and dancing and …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMAs part of a festival celebrating The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is hosting a Hungarian theatre’s production of Gypsies. In i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13AMPlaywright, Novelist, Editor New York, New York USA Where do I look for inspiration? Deep, emotional life experiences. What is closest to me, whether personal or situations I observe that to…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMREQUIEM FOR A PLAYHOUSEjoel fishbaneTheatre, Vancouver Playhouse (1963 – 2012). Passed away suddenly on Saturday, March 10 surrounded by friends, family and protestors who insisted that th…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMPlaybill.com's series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via e-mail, we he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMNeal B. of NealB.tv presents Broadway Sings for Pride, which brings together the Broadway and New York community to share stories and songs about pride, March 17-18 at the Jacob K. Javi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIt's not as though Steve Kazee never played a principal role on Broadway, so why does it feel like only now, with the Broadway musical Once, that he's making his Big Breakthrough?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony nominee Gavin Creel returns to the stage of Joe's Pub for two special sold-out concerts on March 19, which will be live streamed online.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony winner Barbara Cook, a recent Kennedy Center Honoree, will offer a new program this spring at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that a Guy and a Girl meet cute in an Irish pub that serves as multiple locations — and they make beautiful music together — in Once…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRock legends Glen Ballard and Dave Stewart flesh out the emotions and characters of the hit film "Ghost" for its musical incarnation, now on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGingold Theatrical Group presents the Golden Shamrock Gala, honoring playwright Terrence McNally and actor Brian Murray, March 17 at the Players Club.
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SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMNEW YORK | First things first: This won't be your typical theater review. This will be an occasion to look back at where we've been and how far we've come. And by "we" I mean professional t…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 12:00AMSurf Reality's new show 64, now playing at HERE as part of their HEREstay program, is described as a "vaudeville of the mind." That billing came back to me over and over again as I…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM