Saturday, May 25, 2002

[ V ]  Rees goes Wilde for musicalized 'Man'
Tuner reunites 'Ragtime' team
Roger Rees will star in the musical version of "A Man of No Importance," based on the 1994 Albert Finney feature about a gay bus conductor who is an avid reader of Oscar Wilde. The title refers to Wilde's play "A Woman of No Importance."

[ V ]  'Elephant' packs trunks for upcoming closure
Revival run to end June 9

[ V ]  Tony finishing touch
Except for opening number most details done

[ V ]  Rux wins arts prize
Playwright-performer also selected for NYFA fellowship

[ NYT ]  Charges of Payola Over Radio Music
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
A coalition charges that payola is back in a form involving middlemen promoters who skirt the law and operate legally.

"Clear Channel Communications, retaliated against Britney Spears and other artists who declined to use its concert promotion service, by refusing to play their songs and burying their ads."How else does Clear Channel "play to win" in the Broadway touring markets?

[ TM ]  Oscar Winner
Brad Oscar settles into his new role as full-time star of The Producers by Michael Portantiere

[ TM ]  Lineup of Stars Announced for Tony Awards Ceremony by Brooke Pierce

[ TM ]  Sam Robards and Anne Hathaway Receive Clarence Derwent Awards by Brooke Pierce

[ TM ]  One Shot, One Kill
Reviewed by David Finkle

[ CE ]  Review: Come up and see 'Blonde' some time
By Jackie Demaline, The Cincinnati Enquirer

[ P ]  Marian Seldes to Star in Craig Lucas-Helmed Play Yourself in NYC, June 19 Aug. 4

[ P ]  It's a 'Rosie' Future for Multi-Talented John McDaniel

[ P ]  Royal Shakespeare Company Announces Youngest King Lear Ever
posted at 5/25/2002 08:43:35 AM by James Marino | Item Link

[ ATW ]  TV Appearances by Cullum, Parks and Miller this Weekend; Into the Woods on Tuesday

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | '...IN THE ABSENCE OF SPRING...'
Fleeing a Disaster While Waiting for One by D. J. R. BRUCKNER
Nine characters in Joe Calarco's ". . . In the Absence of Spring . . ." are haunted by premonitions of a catastrophe.

[ P ]  Crucible's Abigail, Angela Bettis, Cast in "Carrie" Movie

[ P ]  New York Theatre Workshop's Vienna: Lusthaus Extends to Aug. 11

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Daddy's Dearest: Ron Howard Toasts Bryce's Off-Bway Debut at MTC

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: There's a Countryman in House and Garden

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Tillinger Helms House and Garden

[ P ]  Clive Barker's Horror Comedy Crazyface Gets West Coast Premiere May 30-June 29

[ P ]  Bye, Bye Henrik: Off-Broadway's Ibsen Series Reaches Its Conclusion, June 4

[ P ]  Off-Broadway's Ohio Hears Silence June 1-23

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 25

[ B ]  Guthrie Artistic Director Reacts to Ventura's Veto

[ B ]  Vienna Lusthaus Extends at NYTW

[ B ]  Oï¿½Neill Theater Center Annouces New Works

[ B ]  Guare's Stout Individuals Extends at Signature

[ TM ]  Tunes and Tomes
Harbinger Records gives us recorded gems from two Legendary Performers, Mabel Mercer and Susan Johnson.

[ TB ]  E.S.T. MARATHON 2002, Series B Review by Matthew Murray

[ TS ]  Gimme Mamma over Millie any day by Richard Ouzounian
Did you ever meet someone at a party who was so intent on winning you over that after five minutes in their company you were looking wistfully toward the door?
Well, despite an overabundance of high spirits and an eagerness to please that borders on the needy, the new musical version of Thoroughly Modern Millie now playing at the Marquis Theatre is likely to make you feel exactly the same way.

[ NHR ]  The accidental actor by Laura Collins-Hughes
Hamden native William Biff McGuire and the career he didn't intend
Great profile. Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ BH ]  `Unknowns' has substance by Terry Byrne
Watching Ron Rifkin move across the stage is comfortably compelling.

[ LAT ]  Reporting on His Times by BARBARA ISENBERG
With "Pentecost," playwright David Edgar packs his big ideas about world politics into a 99-seat theater.

[ MG ]  Notre-Dame de Paris turns heads in Moscow by ALAN HUSTAK
Thanks to Jennifer on All That Chat for the link!
posted at 5/25/2002 08:34:52 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Friday, May 24, 2002

[ P ]  Playwright Arthur Miller Featured on CBS' "Sunday Morning" May 26

[ P ]  Roundabout's The Women Premieres on PBS June 18

[ P ]  Marian Seldes to Star in Craig Lucas-Helmed Play Yourself in NYC, June 19 Aug. 4

[ P ]  Tony Nominee John Cullum Guests on 'Weekend Today' May 25

[ P ]  It's a "Rosie" Future for Multi-Talented John McDaniel
posted at 5/24/2002 03:54:24 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ P ]  Long-Running Contact to Close on Sept. 1

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Buckley's Master Class, Akers at the Algonquin

[ P ]  "Rosie" Has Season-High Ratings for Final Show

[ P ]  Roger Rees Cast in Ahrens-Flaherty-McNally Musical, Man of No Importance

[ P ]  He's a Very Nice Prince: Into the Woods' Gregg Edelman Victim of Smear Campaign

[ B ]  Tony Champ Contact to Close September 1

[ B ]  Roger Rees Set for Man of No Importance

[ B ]  Sweet Charity Revival Planned for Spring

[ B ]  Madonna's London Play Up for Review

[ B ]  Minnie Driver to Star in The Miracle Worker on B'way

[ TM ]  Room Reviewed By: Ben Winters
posted at 5/24/2002 02:38:25 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ B ]  2002 Broadway.com Audience Awards Announced

[ TM ]  Oscar Winner by: Michael Portantiere
Brad Oscar settles into his new role as full-time star of The Producers.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia leads a symposium on the creation of Rent with members of the show's creative team and original cast.

[ TM ]  Cabaret Notes
The Siegels sample the cabaret smorgasbord on Restaurant Row.
Best show title of the year: ï¿½Jirque du Soleil.ï¿½
posted at 5/24/2002 11:00:23 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ B ]  Rosie O'Donnell & John McDaniel Plan B'way Show

[ B ]  DVDs: Tin Pan Alley, Just Before the Crash by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Room Review by Adam Feldman

[ B ]  In the Absence of Spring Review by Ron Lasko

[ NYP ]  ROSIE WALKS
ROSIE O'Donnell's live farewell on Wednesday scored huge numbers here in New York and around the country.

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Interview with director Michael Mayer.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
Elaine Stritch item (seventh item).

[ LAT ]  Shades of Black and White by SEAN MITCHELL
Playwright Athol Fugard's "Sorrows and Rejoicings" tells how the shapes of peoples' lives were forever altered by apartheid

[ YN ]  Rejoice at Fugard's 'Sorrows' by Steven Oxman
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - There's a lot more sorrow than rejoicing to be found in Athol Fugard's "Sorrows and Rejoicings," a play that is saturated with sadness.

[ LAT ]  Turning History Into Chilling Drama by PHILIP BRANDES, DAVID C. NICHOLS, DARYL H. MILLER
Reviews of "Worse Than Murder, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg" at Studio City's Ventura Court Theatre, starring Linda Hamilton; "Three True One" at the Electric Lodge in Venice, directed by Don Cheadle; and "Perfect Wedding" at West Valley Playhouse.

[ ND ]  It's Thin Material, Girl by Matt Wolf
Madonna's all work, but there's no play in 'Grabs'

[ YN ]  Madonna Gets Ovation in London by MATT WOLF
LONDON - Madonna got a standing ovation Thursday following her London theater debut in the satiric comedy "Up For Grabs," even if the critics' verdict on Australian dramatist David Williamson's play was still out.

[ YN ]  UK Critics Lukewarm Over 'Mechanical Girl' Madonna by Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - British theater critics decided on Friday that pop superstar Madonna was more Mechanical Girl than Material Girl in her much hyped London stage debut.

[ YN ]  'Urinetown' Is Unlikely Broadway Cinderella Story by Larry Fine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fractured political fairy tale inspired by the pay toilets of Paris, "Urinetown The Musical," has conquered great odds and an unsavory title to make its mark as a Broadway Cinderella success story.

[ YN ]  Rees Goes Wilde for 'Man' Musical By Robert Hofler
NEW YORK (Variety) - Roger Rees will star in the musical version of "A Man of No Importance," based on the 1994 Albert Finney feature about a gay bus conductor who is an avid reader of Oscar Wilde.

[ NJ ]  'Tradition' suffers as 'Fiddler' races to the end of the line BY PETER FILICHIA
"Fiddler on the Roof" is one of Broadway's greatest musical dramas. So why is it getting the Saturday-morning-cartoon treatment from the cast at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark?

[ INQ ]  No homer, but a solid base hit by Desmond Ryan
This Damn Yankees, directed by Malcolm Black, doesn't register the home run scored by the Walnut's highly successful My Fair Lady. The staging, choreography and familiar songs are all solidly executed, but the flair and brio the piece needs between its signature big numbers are too often missing.

[ P ]  Shaw Festival Opens Merrily We Roll Along, With Tyley Ross as That Frank, May 24
Tyley Ross, celebrated for his title-role performance in The Who's Tommy in Toronto, plays composer Franklin Shepard in the Shaw Festival's summer 2002 staging of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along.

[ P ]  Amateur Whorehouse Production in TX, Scuttled Due to Censorship, Resurfaces June 20

[ P ]  La Jolla Workshops Laramie Writer's I Think I Like Girls Sept. 3-22

[ P ]  Alley Theatre Sues Insurer Over Tropical Storm Allison Damage

[ P ]  James Sherman's Old Man's Friend Gets Preem at Chi's Victory Gardens May 24

[ P ]  Pumpkin Pie Show Goes Under Big Top May 24-June 29

[ P ]  Bates, Langella and Hensley Guest on May 24 'Theatre Talk'

[ P ]  Egan, Graae Don High Button Shoes in L.A. Concerts May 24-June 2

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 24

[ TB ]  Lysistrata Review by Suzanne Bixby

[ TB ]  Christmas Babies Review by Sharon Perlmutter
posted at 5/24/2002 09:19:56 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ NYT ]  Guthrie Theater Plans Are Imperiled by Veto By STEPHEN KINZER
Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater is the latest victim of a wave of state and local budget cuts reducing arts programs across the United States.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'CAPITOL STEPS: WHEN BUSH COMES TO SHOVE': Laughs to the Left, Laughs to the Right By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF: Theater Parties in a Tony Chase By JESSE MCKINLEY

[ NYP ]  POISON PEN By MICHAEL RIEDEL
THE fierce competition for Tony Awards this year has apparently spawned some dirty pool tactics worthy of Tricky Dick Nixon.Gregg Edelman, a fine actor who's up for a Tony for his portrayal of Prince Charming in "Into the Woods," is the victim of a smear campaign that seems designed to derail his chances of winning the award.

[ NYP ]  WOOLF IN CREEP'S CLOTHING By DONALD LYONS
ELAINE Stritch's life is one thing to put on stage - a writer's life is another.

[ NYP ]  CONFUSED? TELL THE MARINES
IMAGINE a play about a young Marine sergeant and an older Marine major.

[ NYP ]  THE RIDICULOUS & THE SUBLIME By DONALD LYONS
IN a bizarrely wonderful new play, John Guare, author of "Six Degrees of Separation," mingles the mundane and the magical.

[ DN ]  Say it Ain't Sophie: Revue Tuckers Out by Howard Kissel
Sophie Tucker's life might make a wonderful musical. "Red Hot Mama" isn't it.

[ DN ]  Madonna, the Actress, Draws a Crowd By ELLEN TUMPOSKY
Madonna-mania hit the West End last night as the pop superstar opened in the play "Up for Grabs" ï¿½ her first stage appearance in 14 years.

[ P ]  Weisslers Sending Sweet Charity to Broadway in 2003

[ P ]  Tesori and Scanlan Will Work Together Again

[ P ]  Thou Shall Receive Tony Noms.: Connick and Butz Look Back on Thou Shalt Not
It's definitely a show some of us will never forget!
posted at 5/24/2002 08:42:10 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Thursday, May 23, 2002

[ B ]  The Elephant Man Takes Final Bow June 9

[ P ]  The Producers Cast Will Shift in Coming Weeks

[ P ]  The Elephant Man to Close on Broadway June 9

[ P ]  Baseball Player Holds Press Conference and Comes Out of Closet at Public Theater
Misleading headline of the day.

[ YN ]  B'way Stars Among "Alley" Cats
First announcement of this year's "Stars In The Alley."

[ BS ]  The Power of the Casting Director by Simi Horwitz
Just how much power does the casting director have?

[ BS ]  Theatre's 'Last Frontier' by Catherine Stadem
Edward Albee's decade long mentoring of the Alaska Theatre Conference

[ TM ]  One Shot, One Kill
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ BH ]  Versatile Rifkin fashions remarkable acting career by Robert Nesti

[ BS ]  Nude Models Form Labor Union
"The Philadelphia Models Guild"? Hmm, I guess the name SAG was already taken...
posted at 5/23/2002 06:18:23 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

And we hear that ELEPHANT MAN will be posting notice on Tuesday and might close on Tony Sunday. They can always take the notice down if things change though...
posted at 5/23/2002 04:19:32 PM by James Marino | Item Link

[ B ]  Q&A: Harriet Harris by Beth Stevens

[ B ]  Aquila Takes on Comedy of Errors

[ B ]  Details of 2002 Tony Telecast Firm Up

[ B ]  Hathaway & Robards Win Clarence Derwent Awards

[ P ]  Jessie Ventura Vetoes $24 Million Allocation to Guthrie; Artistic Director Dowling Responds
Thatï¿½s Jesse, not Jessieï¿½

[ P ]  Elaine Paige Stars on New Andrew Lloyd Webber VHS/DVD "Masterpiece"

[ P ]  Guare's Stout Individuals Extended to June 17 by NYC's Signature
posted at 5/23/2002 04:11:02 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ P ]  Tony News: Musical Numbers and Likely Presenters for the June 2 Broadcast

[ P ]  TheatreWorks of Palo Alto Opens Season With Smokey Joe's Cafe June 19-July 14

[ P ]  Urinetown's Greg Kotis Working on New Play

[ P ]  Actress Zypora Spaisman, Passionate Yiddish Theatre Advocate, Dead

[ P ]  Betty Buckley to Offer Two Master Classes This Summer in NYC

[ B ]  Fame to Live On in the West End

[ B ]  Celeb Presenters Announced for Tony Telecast
posted at 5/23/2002 01:22:15 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ ND ]  PLAY BY PLAY: Dare Tony Speak the 'Urinetown' Name? by Patrick Pacheco

[ ND ]  'Letter' Delivers Her to Stage Roots
Out of the '70s, through the '80s and into the '90s, Joanna Gleason was very much a New York theater fixture - and with a Tony Award to prove it: She was the original Baker's Wife in "Into the Woods." But she went west for the pilot season, was cast as a regular on the 1992-'95 CBS sitcom "Love and War" and has lived in Los Angeles ever since.

[ LAT ]  Chasing Success' Scent BY MIKE BOEHM
With a Tony-nominated play and new lots of opportunities, Marvin Hamlisch may be making another run at the prominence he enjoyed in the '70s.

[ DN ]  There Glows Rosie by DAVID BIANCULLI
Her Niceness gives up talk throne with grace

[ USA ]  'House' and 'Garden' erect dull-witted humor by Elysa Gardner

[ USA ]  This 'Rat' smells very, very funny by Elysa Gardner

[ NYT ]  Jack Kruschen, 80, Veteran TV and Movie Actor, Dies by STUART LAVIETES
Jack Kruschen, a versatile character actor whose six decades in movies and television included an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for his 1960 role in "The Apartment," died on April 2. He was 80.
The Times omits his only Broadway role: as Maurice Pulvermacher in the 1962 musical I Can Get It For You Wholesale.

[ B ]  CDs: The Prince of Humbug by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  First Person: Through the Eyes of a Sniper by Robert Montano

[ P ]  Field's Down South Goes South to San Diego May 23-June 9

[ P ]  McCarter Import, Albee's All Over, Begin Previews Off-Broadway June 7

[ P ]  George Street's Season Features Laurents Premiere and New Musical Let Me Sing

[ P ]  Classic Stage Company Opens Bogart's Room Off-Broadway May 23

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 23

[ P ]  Anne Hathaway and Sam Robards Named 2002 Clarence Derwent Recipients

[ P ]  Pasadena Playhouse Premieres Busch's Adaptation of House of Flowers in 2003

[ P ]  Mamma Mia! Goes to the Palace June 3 for Queen's Jubilee

[ INQ ]  At Obie Awards, a Philadelphia winner by Miriam Seidel
When the 47th annual Obie Award winners were announced in New York on Monday night, Philadelphia theater director Whit MacLaughlin was among them.

[ TB ]  Honk! by the Diablo Light Opera Company
Review by Richard Connema

[ TB ]  "Heroes, Monsters and Madmen" in Harrisburg
Review by Pati Buehler
posted at 5/23/2002 10:56:44 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ TB ]  First Garbo Talks, Now Fierstein Sings! An Interview with Harvey Fierstein by David-Edward Hughes
posted at 5/23/2002 07:40:20 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

[ P ]  Drama Dept. Is Free to Be You and Me, Starting May 23
I did this show in the third grade. I sang "When We Grow Up" - I think that was the last time I sang in public, and rightly so.

[ P ]  Poetical John Lithgow Sets Season in Verse
There once was a show called "Success"
Whose critics all said, "What a mess!"
They sent out some notes
Just to beg Tony votes
The results? Well I'll tell you... guess.

[ P ]  Fifth Time the Charm for John McMartin?: Into the Woods Star Talks Sondheim

[ P ]  Outer Critics Circle Awards Ceremony May 23 Features Huffman, Oscar and Luckinbill

[ P ]  Two-Step: John Carrafa Had Plenty of Work and Fun

[ P ]  Musical Prince and the Pauper Gets Off-Bway Staging at Lamb's Beginning June 7
Wait, WHO'S producing it?

[ B ]  Clarke, Leo & Phillips Set for Monologues
Hope Clarke, Melissa Leo and Mackenzie Phillips will be the next performers to star in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. The trio will perform in the off-Broadway hit from May 28 through July 7

[ NYP ]  NICE FINISH, ROSIE By LINDA STASI
I LAUGHED! I cried! I loved it! Yes, the last live "Rosie O'Donnell Show" aired yesterday and it was as good as daytime TV talk gets/got. And it reminded us all that Rosie was/is perhaps the only good thing left about daytime TV talk shows.

[ VV ]  La Dolce Musto: Who Will Win the Best Musical Tony? by Michael Musto

[ VV ]  THE 47TH ANNUAL VILLAGE VOICE OBIE AWARDS

Guthrie's Dowling blasts Ventura for veto
Gov. Jesse Ventura is "destroying the infrastructure of the arts," said Guthrie artistic director Joe Dowling, reacting to the governor's veto of $24 million in state bonding for the theater and $5 million earmarked for the Children's Theatre Company.
Thanks to lyra on TalkinBroadway for the link.

Yes, I missed you all, too.
posted at 5/23/2002 01:59:16 AM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

[ P ]  'Hello, People; Final Show, People': Lyrics to Rosie O'Donnell's Farewell Opening Number
On All That Chat, Seth Rudetsky reports that he did the musical direction for Rosie's opening number and Alan Katz wrote the parody lyrics. Great job, guys!

[ P ]  Laughter and Tears: Rosie's Final Live Broadcast Bids Broadway Farewell
"This is the biggest, gayest celebration since Liza's wedding." ï¿½Nathan Lane

[ YN ]  Cruise Gives O'Donnell Sly Sendoff by DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) - Rosie O'Donnell made a brassy, sentimental farewell to daytime television on Wednesday, capped by a winking message from her not-so-secret crush, Tom Cruise.

[ P ]  Audra McDonald Sings Composers of Today and Future at Joe's Pub

[ P ]  Lots of Liza!: Minnelli To Guest on Larry King and "The View"

[ P ]  The House and Garden of House and Garden
If you're sitting in a New York theatre, chances are you're looking at sets designed by the prolific and gifted John Lee Beatty, whose latest project - Alan Ayckbourn's House and Garden at the Manhattan Theatre Club - presented some unique challenges.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia isn't cowed by having seen two different productions of Into the Woods within two weeks.

[ B ]  Clarke, Leo & Phillips Set for Monologues

[ B ]  Busch's Flowers to Bloom in Pasadena

[ B ]  Unlikely Screen-to-Stage Musicals by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  House and Garden Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TB ]  Arms and the Man Seattle Review by David-Edward Hughes
posted at 5/22/2002 02:59:47 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl
Tears, laughter, catharsis, disgust, outrage. All of these responses could be part of the energy coming off the audience at Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Tony Award winner and 2002 nominee for Best Actress Mercedes Ruehl says responses are so intense that weekly "talkbacks" were created for actors and audience. The trick of a Q&A with an audience is not giving all the secrets away.

[ CST ]  Raitt puts gala in joyous state BY HEDY WEISS
John Raitt is 85 years old, and the next best thing to ageless.

[ YN ]  Archerd: Hopper Helps Out Fellow Artist Andy Warhol by Army Archerd
Richard Benjamin and Steve Martin as Oscar and Felix in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple?" Well, they played the roles in readings to cast the two femmes in Simon's "Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple," which bows June 11 at the Geffen.

[ TM ]  Cabaret Notes
At Don't Tell Mama, Gregg Rodeheffer and David Maiocco chart a young man's journey toward maturity.

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
It's like, all Liza, all the time

[ ND ]  One Cast, Two Plays, Lots of Running by Linda Winer

[ B ]  House and Garden Review by William Stevenson

[ TB ]  House and Garden Review by Matthew Murray

[ B ]  Pudd'nhead Wilson Review by Adam Feldman

[ B ]  Smelling a Rat Review by Adam Feldman

[ YN ]  Backstage: Bistro Bits

[ TB ]  Grease Cincinnati Review by Scott Cain

[ TB ]  Company Washington Review by Tracy Lyon
posted at 5/22/2002 09:47:18 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ NYP ]  38 REASONS H'WOOD HATES NEW YORK
By DON KAPLAN
OUT of 38 new TV shows slated to debut this fall, for the first time in recent memory, none of them will be filmed in New York.

[ NYP ]  'SMELL' SAYS PRESS STINKS
By MICHAEL RIEDEL
THE producers of "Sweet Smell of Success" - a musical about the power of the press - have had it up to here with the power of the press.

[ NYP ]  TIPTOE THROUGH 'GARDEN' BEFORE 'HOUSE'
By DONALD LYONS
ALAN Ayckbourn's 1999 "House" and "Garden" are two interlocking plays, staged in adjacent theaters at once.

[ NYP ]  ONE SHOT TOO MANY
By DONALD LYONS
IMAGINE a play about a young Marine sergeant and an older Marine major.The major likes the sergeant - he sees himself as a young man.But the sergeant has gone too far: in what sounds like Central America he has shot not only his target, an enemy general, but also the general's family.

[ V ]  Playhouse picks Busch's 'Flowers'
Adaptation to highlight 2003 season in Pasadena
Charles Busch's new adaptation of the 1954 Broadway musical "House of Flowers" highlights the 2003 season at the Pasadena Playhouse.

[ V ]  Playwright to helm pic.
Marsden, Speedman set to topline adaptation

[ V ]  Inside Move: 'Sweet' producers plead for success
Letters goes out to Tony voters

[ V ]  Kushner, Gibson win Obies
Scribes feted while Wolfe, Zimmerman nab helming kudos

[ NYT ]  How Broadway Bounced Back After 9/11
By ROBIN POGREBIN
These are healthy days for Broadway. But it hasn't always been this way. After Sept. 11, there was a real question about how many shows would survive.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'HOUSE' AND 'GARDEN'
Indoor-Outdoor Living for the Fleet of Foot
By BRUCE WEBER
Alan Ayckbourn's "House" and "Garden," two plays that add up to one comedy of manners, together constitute as ingeniously constructed a work as the contemporary theater offers.

[ DN ]  A Doubly Funny Farce
Once upon a time, the phrase "There'll always be an England" implied something solid and unshakable. For a long time, of course, it has been uttered only ironically.

[ DN ]  Number 1 With a Bullet, Now He Has the Shakes

[ B ]  Aida is Tops with National Broadway Awards
The winners of the 2nd Annual National Broadway Theatre Awards, which honor touring productions, were announced at a gala event last night. Fans voted on the winners during the month of April via the...[Read More]
At least the basis of the voters decisions were made with "art" in mind rather than $$$. Of course.

[ P ]  Mary Zimmerman's Latest, Galileo, Galilei, to Bow at Goodman June 14

[ P ]  Smash Midwest Musical, Guys on Ice, Gets East Coast Premiere, June 19-30

[ P ]  NBC's 'West Wing' Features Scenes Shot at Broadway and L.A. Theatres, May 22

[ P ]  Cumming, DeLaria and Wopat Reprise Billie Holiday Tribute in L.A. July 17

[ P ]  Weber, Stamos Host Broadway Bares' A Comic Strip June 16

[ P ]  Bates, Langella and Hensley Guest on May 24 "Theatre Talk"

[ P ]  'So Long, Farewell': Broadway-Loving Rosie O'Donnell Hosts Final Live Show

[ P ]  Seth Rudetsky Stars in Rhapsody in Seth in June

[ P ]  Tony Nominee Barbara Cook Has Summer of Sondheim in NY & D.C.

[ P ]  The Secret to Sutton Foster's Success? Millie Star Has Peanut Butter, Tea and Water Handy

[ P ]  The Secret to Sutton Foster's Success? Millie Star Has Peanut Butter, Tea and Water Handy

[ P ]  'Gloria' Hallelujah! Laura Branigan to Join Love, Janis May 22

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 22
posted at 5/22/2002 09:20:56 AM by James Marino | Item Link

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

[ P ]  A New 'Do: Capacity of Neil Simon Theatre Will Increase for Hairspray

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Musical Actors Foster and Lithgow

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Featured Actors Harris and Hensley

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play Actors Bates, Lindsay, Langella

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Drama Desk Awards: Winner Katie Finneran With Sarah Jessica Parker

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Drama Desk Awards: Drama Desk Couples

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: May 13-19

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Flaunting It

[ B ]  Boston's Elliot Norton Awards Announced

[ VV ]  2002 OBIES Pictures

[ VV ]  Monster Talk by Jessica Winter
The 47th Annual Obie Awards

[ VV ]  The Happy Awkward Moment by Mark Russell
Performance Theaterï¿½s Intimate Surprise

[ VV ]  Edward Albeeï¿½s Domestic Animals by Charles McNulty
After a Flurry of Productions, A Critical Look at an an American Master

[ VV ]  Seasonï¿½s Treatings by Alexis Soloski
New York Theater Folks Gaze Back at the Off-Broadway Year

[ VV ]  A Dull's House by Michael Feingold
House and Garden, two plays by Alan Ayckbourn; A Letter From Ethel Kennedy by Christopher Gorman

[ YN ]  Sundance Theatre Lab to be Dedicated to Memory of Carrie Hamilton
posted at 5/21/2002 06:13:45 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ TM ]  Ever Lovin' Lavin by: Jim Caruso
Linda Lavin, star of the Broadway bound Hollywood Arms, chats with old friend Jim Caruso.

[ P ]  Bway-Bound Imaginary Friends Nabs Cherry and Creative Team

[ P ]  Chicago's Steppenwolf Closes Season with Norris and Metcalf

[ P ]  Better Than a Dream: Dean Martin and Judy Holliday Movie, "Bells Are Ringing," on CD May 21

[ P ]  Levering, Blum Cast in Berkshire Festival's Saint She Ain't

[ B ]  Full Cast Announced for NYSF's Twelfth Night

[ TB ]  La Cage aux Folles
Seattle Review by David-Edward Hughes
posted at 5/21/2002 03:14:05 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ NYP ]  ROSIE WAVES GOODBYE AND DOES IT HER B'WAY by MICHAEL STARR
The casts of Broadway's "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Chicago," "Beauty and the Best," "The Producers," "Phantom of the Opera" and "42nd Street" will all participate in an elaborate production paying homage to O'Donnell - in what's expected to be a retrospective hour of laughter and tears.
John Lithgow ("Sweet Smell of Success"), Brad Oscar ("The Producers"), Vanessa Williams ("Into the Woods") and Sutton Foster ("Millie") will also be featured in the song-and-dance routine.

[ NYP ]  NEAL TRAVIS
The Tony committee had to cast a very wide net before naming Bernadette Peters as the presenter for next month's awards show - one that desperately needs some star power to goose it in the TV ratings.

[ WP ]  Rollicking Good 'Company' by Nelson Pressley
Sondheim's Grown-Up Look at Marriage

[ BSUN ]  Actor heads the 'Company' he keeps by J. Wynn Rousuck
Kennedy Center production matches musical's edge

[ YN ]  'Company': Essential Sondheim Salute by MICHAEL KUCHWARA
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bobby baby, for more than 30 years you have been looking for the right relationship, someone to convince you that two together beats one alone.
Bobby, of course, is the perpetual bachelor and central character in ``Company,'' the second offering in the Kennedy Center's ambitious salute to Stephen Sondheim, and it provides further proof that this celebration is essential viewing for anyone who cares about the American musical theater.

[ TM ]  Company
Reviewed By: Michael Toscano

[ TM ]  Follow Spot
Anita Gillette returns to the New York stage in the MCC Theater production of A Letter from Ethel Kennedy.

[ WP ]  Pat Carroll: At 75, She's Back in 'Town' by Jane Horwitz

[ BSUN ]  What's in a name? Drake will tell you by J. Wynn Rousuck
David Drake is coming out of the closet. Not about his homosexuality. He's been open about that for years and dealt with it frankly onstage in his acclaimed 1992 one-man show, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me.

[ ATW ]  A Drama Desk Photo Album

[ B ]  Photo Op: 2002 Drama Desk Awards - Photos by Bruce Glikas

[ B ]  CDs: The Colors of Paradise by Ken Mandelbaum
Expected to join Anne Heche in the next cast of the Broadway Proof: Neil Patrick Harris (who was to have been on Broadway last season in Assassins) as Hal and Kate Jennings Grant (in last season's off-Broadway Summer of '42) as Claire.

[ B ]  2002 Obie Awards Honor Off-Broadway

[ B ]  125th Street to Open at the Shaftesbury Theatre

[ B ]  George Hamilton Returns to Cast of Chicago

[ B ]  Imaginary Friends Aims for December Broadway Bow

[ B ]  Anne Heche Confirmed for B'way's Proof

[ P ]  Lion King Honors Rosie O'Donnell

[ P ]  Andrea Martin and Simon Russell Beale Take Boston's Elliot Norton Awards

[ P ]  Bryant Park Becomes Broadway's Summer Home in NYC, June 10

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: It's Superman! No, It's Spider-Man! No, It's Broadway Bares!

[ P ]  Poetical John Lithgow Sets Season to Verse
Wonderful! He's the Roger Angell of Broadway!

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Play Ball!: Broadway Show League Opening Day

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Nice Form: Chris and Colleen at Bat

[ P ]  Weddings Abound for NYC I Love My Wife, Beginning May 28

[ P ]  Molaskey and de Haas Discs Get May 21 Web Release; Street Date June 4

[ P ]  John Barrowman Performs in Concert at Kennedy Center June 11

[ P ]  Philadelphia Cabaret Convention Features Mason, Andreas, Reams & Crosby

[ P ]  "Gloria" Hallelujah! Laura Branigan to Join Love, Janis May 21

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 21

[ P ]  2002 Aida Tops the 2002 National Broadway Theatre Awards

[ P ]  Where Do We Live To Return to U.K. in Oct. 2002

[ P ]  Les Miz Aims for Young Performers in U.K.

[ P ]  London's National Theatre Presents The Stones

[ P ]  New London Cast Triumphs in My Fair Lady

[ TS ]  Frasier's Daphne not just staying home in her room by Richard Ouzounian
Jane Leeves comes to the Cabaret with talent as well as star power

[ LAT ]  One Century's Biting Social Satire Is Another's Sitcom by TONY PERRY
Director Des McAnuff has delivered Moliï¿½re's comedy whipped to a comedic frenzy, unchallenging perhaps, but a crowd-pleaser.

[ TNY ]  WHATEVER by JOHN LAHR
Neil LaBute turns psychology into behavior.

[ TB ]  San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema
Richard reviews For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again at the American Conservatory Theatre through June 9 starring Olympia Dukakis; the Willows Theatre production of Joyful Noise, running through May 26; and John Leguizamo's Sexaholix ... a Love Story which recently completed its run at the Orpheum.

[ TB ]  Awake and Sing!
Review by Ann Miner

[ VV ]  La Dolce Musto by Michael Musto
I love the theater and worship the Tonys, and to prove it, I attended the nominees' brunch at the Marriott Marquis, taking notes with the hand that wasn't shoving in the food.
Thanks to Kafritz on All That Chat for the link!

[ YN ]  Divine Inspiration for Tony Nominee Parks by Larry Fine

[ YN ]  Censorship or Comedy of Errors in Italy? by Shasta Darlington
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi declared Monday that a charge his government had tried to censor a Greek play was simply a comedy of errors.
posted at 5/21/2002 12:59:04 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'SMELLING A RAT': Turning a Farce on Its Head Despite Proper Ingredients By BEN BRANTLEY
With Mike Leigh at the helm, "Smelling a Rat" is one of the brightest and most stimulating shows to be seen in Manhattan in many a month.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'PUDD'NHEAD WILSON': Babes Switched at Birth in Twain's World of Bigotry By BRUCE WEBER
Like a lot of Mark Twain's work, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is almost sneakily serious, a potent and layered narrative with the sheen of a story for young people.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'A LETTER FROM ETHEL KENNEDY': A Reminder That AIDS Still Causes Remorse By ANITA GATES

[ DN ]  Brit Farce Too Cheesy by Robert Dominguez
Strong performances and a sly sense of humor buoy "Smelling a Rat," a bizarre British farce that ultimately doesn't amount to a hill of rat-poison pellets.

[ P ]  House and Garden, Ayckbourn's Conjoined Plays, Open May 21 at MTC

[ P ]  Plays Are Signed in Ink, Not Set in Stone; Millie Writer Scanlan Imagines "Tweaks" for Road
For Thoroughly Modern Millie, I'm not sure this is a surprise... or a bad thing.

[ P ]  Stritch, Plimpton, Wright, Parks, Wolfe, Esparza Win 2002 Obie Awards
posted at 5/21/2002 06:37:52 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Monday, May 20, 2002

[ P ]  Cast Complete for Central Park Twelfth Night

[ P ]  Elizabeth Ashley Is Regina in DC Little Foxes; Hadary and Dullea Co-Star, June 4-July 28

[ P ]  Fate of Guthrie Theater's New Arts Center in Jesse Ventura's Hands

[ P ]  George Hamilton to Return to Chicago June 4

[ P ]  Josh Radnor Confirmed for Bway Graduate June 11-Aug. 18

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Joe Papp Fund Honors Jon Voigt With Byrne

[ P ]  The Powerbook Arrives at National Theatre

[ TM ]  Smelling a Rat
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ TM ]  Moving at the Speed of Life
Reviewed By: Meredith Lee

[ BS ]  The Ultimate Role
For actresses who juggle motherhood and career, the challenges are great. The rewards are even greater.
posted at 5/20/2002 04:20:26 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ B ]  Legrand on Stage by Ken Mandelbaum

[ P ]  Steppenwolf's The Royal Family Extends to June 22

[ P ]  Anne Heche Is Troubled Catherine in Bway's Proof, Beginning July 2

[ P ]  Cher, Dion & Broadway Stars to Perform at Macy's July 4 Fireworks Spectacular

[ P ]  Janie Dee Announced for Divas at the Donmar; Series Now Complete

[ BG ]  Pops offer something for everybody by Richard Dyer
Thanks to John_C on All That Chat for the link.
posted at 5/20/2002 12:45:39 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ TM ]  Sweet Smell Producers Deplore Journalistic "Attacks" in Letter to Tony Voters by Michael Portantiere
In a letter dated May 17, 2002 that was sent to Tony Award voters, the producers of the musical Sweet Smell of Success charge journalists at three major publications with undermining the production through continued written attacks.
Oh my.
posted at 5/20/2002 12:22:48 PM by James Marino | Item Link

[ TM ]  Catching Up With Mandy by Peter Filichia
Filichia's f%$&*-ing fascinating conversation with Mandy Patinkin.
posted at 5/20/2002 10:20:04 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
I MISUNDERSTOOD Mary Tyler Moore in the din of the St. Regis dinner we were attending. She and Dick Van Dyke will do "The Gin Game," but not onstage, as I thought. It's being taped in L.A. for broadcast on PBS.
Oops...
posted at 5/20/2002 09:30:51 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ BS ]  Anyone Can Whistle--Or Can They? by Mark Dundas Wood
What Does It Take to Be a Sondheim Performer?

[ ND ]  A 'Rat' Pack Gets Trapped in a Farce by Gordon Cox
In the film and theater work of Mike Leigh, the payoff - inasmuch as there is a payoff - comes in his unsentimental portraits of human loneliness.

[ TS ]  The Producers swell without original leads by Richard Ouzounian

[ P ]  Audra McDonald Returns to Joe's Pub, May 20-26

[ P ]  Tucci, Tenney, Kennedy Cast in NY Stage & Film Season

[ P ]  Urinetown Spills Over to London in 2003

[ P ]  Annie Golden Returns to Joe's Pub, May 20 and June 10

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 20
posted at 5/20/2002 09:03:43 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ NYT ]  'Modern Millie' Leads Drama Desk Awards By JESSE McKINLEY

[ NYP ]  OVID TIES ALBEE FOR BEST PLAY By MICHAEL RIEDEL
EDWARD Albee's "The Goat" and Ovid's "Metamorphoses" tied for the Drama Desk Award for best play last night - a surprising result that underscores how tight the race for the Tony is between these two shows.

[ DN ]  Dramatic Tie
For Best Play By PATRICIA O'HAIRE
Edward Albee's drama "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" and Mary Zimmerman's "Metamorphoses" tied for Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards, handed out last night in the auditorium of LaGuardia High School in Manhattan.

[ P ]  Drama Desk Awards Announced; Goat, Metamorphoses Tie for Best Play, Millie Scores

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'LYSISTRATA': There Once Was a Lady From Athens By BRUCE WEBER

[ NYP ]  THREE COUPLES, A CLOSET & A 'DAWSON'S CREEK' CUTIE By DONALD LYONS
FROM all appearances, Mike Leigh's 1988 play "Smelling a Rat" would seem to be a farce.

[ DN ]  Where There's a Will: A class for speaking ï¿½ and understanding ï¿½ Shakespeare by Howard Kissel
Keeping in shape physically is a good thing, but Barrie Ingham conducts calisthenics for those exercising their jaws ï¿½ and their brains ï¿½ reciting Shakespeare.

[ P ]  The 2002 Obie Awards, Honoring Off-Bway, Presented May 20

[ P ]  Urinetown Spills Over to London in 2003

[ P ]  Tony Nominee Kate Burton Hears It From a Child

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Thoroughly Modern Millie....

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: ...And Friends Sing for MTC

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Cy Coleman and Donna Murphy Spring Into MTC Gala

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Linney and Silverstone Celebrate With MTC

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: MTC Is Urinetown for Gala

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Prince-ly Salute to Barbara Cook

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Movie Man, A Music Man

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Tomlin, Laurence, Ivey Salute Barbara Cook
posted at 5/20/2002 07:11:57 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Sunday, May 19, 2002

[ P ]  Drama Desk Awards Announced; Mayer, Stroman Among Winners
The association of theatre writers, critics and editors picked Elaine Stritch, John Lahr, Katie Finneran and Mary Zimmerman as some of the best artists of the past theatre season.

[ B ]  2002 Drama Desk Winners Announced

[ TB ]  The Doctor of Rome
Review by Matthew Murray

[ CSM ]  From baseball to ballet to ... Broadway by Tony Vellela
An interview with Shuler Hensley, now on Broadway playing Jud Fry in 'Oklahoma!'

[ CSM ]  'Urinetown,' 'Woods,' and 'Millie' eye Tonys by Iris Fanger
posted at 5/19/2002 11:37:49 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ ND ]  From an Anglo Nubian goat to pigeon-size swastika armbands, a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to set the stage by Blake Green

[ DN ]  Where There's a Will by Howard Kissel
A class for speaking ï¿½ and understanding ï¿½ Shakespeare

[ DN ]  The Pet Shop Boys Discover Guitar by JIM FARBER
Lately, the group extended its language to the world of musical theater.

[ BG ]  From the 'Balcony,' a new view of Golda Meir by Sally Cragin
Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller, and now Golda Meir. For playwright William Gibson, such ''tough cookies'' exert an irresistible allure: ''Someone once asked me, `Why do you write about such strong women?' And I said, `Is there any other kind?'''

[ CST ]  Broadway for two BY CHRIS LEDBETTER
On the surface, Anjali Bhimani and Louise Lamson appear to have little in common. Bhimani, who grew up in Orange County, Calif., is small, vigorous and dark while Lamson, originally from Iowa, is tall, lithe and light.
But Bhimani and Lamson, making their Broadway debut together in the Tony-nominated "Metamorphoses," have known each other since high school.

[ LAT ]  Reborn on Stage by JAN BRESLAUER
After years of avoiding the theater, Judith Light recharged with roles that force her to look deep within

[ LAT ]  The Man of a Thousand Hats by MIKE BOEHM
Jefferson Mays has transformed himself into a cross-dressing Berliner and a French priest. His new challenge: a classic con man.

[ INQ ]  For Tom Stoppard, the reviews from academe are good by Carlin Romano

[ NJ ]  Actors shuttle between sets to keep plays in sync BY STUART MILLER

[ WP ]  Letters: Hayes Awards Critique Inaccurate, Misleading
Thanks to AmericanTheaterWeb for the link!

[ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Liam Neeson on 'Today', Liza Minnelli on 'Conan'
posted at 5/19/2002 10:12:06 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ NYP ]   Bï¿½way Songbird Tunes Out Charity Gig
Audra McDonald

The Wrong Sort of Sellout by Newsday's Linda Winer

Drama Desk Awards telecast on NY1 at 9pm tonight.
Drama Desk Awards, Survivor....hmmm

This week's NY1 OnStage reports that they will have a one hour Tony Pre-show with interviews on the red carpet. Can we look forward to Joan and Melissa asking, "Who made your dress?"
posted at 5/19/2002 09:09:45 AM by the other James | Item Link

The Times' Annual Tony Awards Special Section is here...

[ NYT ]  As Giants in Suits Descend on Broadway by PETER MARKS
Entertainment conglomerates have settled into Broadway, altering the landscape and displacing independent theater producers.

[ NYT ]  Raging, Softly, Against the Fame Machine by NINA DARNTON
"I love acting," says Liam Neeson, happy to be back on Broadway. Being a star, though, is a whole other issue.

[ NYT ]  Plucked From the Chorus: It's Corny but True by DON SHEWEY
The story of Sutton Foster's emergence on Broadway is the plot of "42nd Street": an unknown is plucked from the chorus, takes over the lead and becomes a star.

[ NYT ]  The Distinguished Career of Old What's-His-Name by NEIL GENZLINGER
Good at many things but a star at none, Buck Henry is used to going unnoticed.

[ NYT ]  John Lithgow: Going From Mr. Nice Guy to Mr. Noir by CHARLES STRUM
John Lithgow explains why he loves playing a character he wants people to hate.

[ NYT ]  The Price of a Ticket: And the Stub is All Yours by JESSE McKINLEY
It is an age-old question for Broadway ticket buyers: Where, oh where, does all that money go?
Great, informative article. Now, let's see a comparison to where the ticket money went twenty years ago...

[ NYT ]  Aren't They Special? by ANDREA STEVENS
In the print edition, this brief article accompanies an Al Hirschfeld sketch of the four nominees in the Special Theatrical Event category. Online, however, the Times has omitted the drawing.

[ NYT ]  Who Really Needs a Golden Thingy? by BRIAN COX

[ NYT ]  Fracturing the Tale by ROBIN POGREBIN
ANYONE who doubts that "Into the Woods" debunks fairy tales even as it revels in them has only to experience the final scene between Cinderella and the Prince.
Laura Benanti chooses the Sunday Times to advertise the fact that she has no boyfriend. Is this a smart move? Especially when you look like, well, Laura Benanti?

[ NYT ]  Behind the Scenes: What's in an Award? He'll Tell You

[ NYT ]  Behind the Scenes: Keeping Fans Logged On and Tuned In

[ NYT ]  Behind the Scenes: Every Year, an Incredible Simulation

[ NYT ]  Behind the Scenes: Knowing How to Put People in Their Place

[ NYT ]  Acting Together: Doing That Sibling Hustle

[ NYT ]  Acting Together: Having Fun Being Sisters

[ NYT ]  Acting Together: Face to Face With Ugliness

[ NYT ]  Top Theater Moments: Courtship, Friendship, Booze by BRUCE WEBER

[ NYT ]  Top Theater Moments: Lincoln, Abba and a Ghost by BEN BRANTLEY

[ NYT ]  Top Theater Moments: At Sea, in the Woods, Alone by MARGO JEFFERSON

[ NYP ]  THEY STRIP AWAY PRETENSE OF WORDS by CLIVE BARNES
Some people are unwilling to try theater that isn't either a standard play or musical.

[ P ]  Whitehead-Clurman Tribute Draws Many Veterans' Memories

[ P ]  What's That Smell? New Group's Rat Opens at Beckett May 19

[ P ]  Jane Alexander's Mourning Ends in Seattle May 19, Travels to CT in Fall

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Prince-ly Salute to Barbara Cook

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Movie Man, A Music Man

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Tomlin, Laurence, Ivey Salute Barbara Cook

[ P ]  Mario Cantone Performs Solo-Show Evening With Mario Cantone, May 19-20

[ P ]  Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: Juno - Finally! - and Tovarich

[ P ]  Drama Desk Awards Announced May 19; Millie, Sweet Smell Most-Nommed

[ P ]  Bernadette Peters To Receive Honorary Doctorate May 19

[ P ]  San Diego's Globe Feels Schulner's Infinite Ache May 19-June 30

[ P ]  Broadway's Hairspray Phone Sales Begin May 19; Box Office Opens May 20

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: MAY 19

[ P ]  Liam Neeson Drew on Childhood and Gym for Crucible Part

[ N&O ]  Cheever for our times by ORLA SWIFT
CHAPEL HILL - Like the ambitious title figure at the center of "The Swimmer," writer John Cheever moved as adeptly through life's shallow waters as he did through its deep end of hopes, regrets and mortality. It's ideal fare for dramatization, and Wordshed Productions mines it well in "Shady Hills: The Short Stories of John Cheever."
Thanks to AmericanTheaterWeb for the link!
posted at 5/19/2002 01:20:49 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro!

[Past News]

BROADWAYSTAR'S FIVE DAY FORECAST

2007-08
Broadway Season

June 28 - Old Acquaintance (AA)

July 10 - Xanadu (Hayes) [Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel and Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith]

Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)

Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]

Oct 11 - The Ritz (54)

Oct 18 - Pygmalion (AA)

Oct 25 - A Bronx Tale (Kerr)

Nov 1 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rodgers)

Nov 4 - Rock 'N' Roll (Jacobs)

Nov 8 - Young Frankenstein (Hilton)

Nov 9 - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (St. James)

Nov 10: Local One Strike Begins

Nov 28: Local One Strike Ends

Dec 2 - Cymbeline (Beaumont)

Dec 3 - The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box) [Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group]

Dec 4 - August: Osage County (Imperial) [Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Steppenwolf]

Dec 6 - The Seafarer (Booth)

Dec 9 - Is He Dead? (Lyceum)

Dec 16 - The Homecoming (Cort) [Richards, Frankel]

Jan 10 - The Little Mermaid (Lunt)

Jan 15 - The 39 Steps (AA)

Jan 17 - November (Barrymore)

Jan 24 - Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore)

Feb 21 - Sunday In The Park With George (54)

Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)

Mar 6 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadhurst) [Stephen C. Byrd]

Mar 9 - In The Heights (Rodgers)

Mar 27 - Gypsy (St. James)

Mar 29 - Macbeth (Lyceum)

Apr 3 - South Pacific (Beaumont)

Apr 17 - A Catered Affair (Kerr) [Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan Roth, Harvey Entertainment / Ron Fierstein, Richie Jackson and Daryl Roth]

Apr 24 - Cry Baby (Marquis)

Apr 27 - The Country Girl (Jacobs)

Apr 30 - Thurgood (Booth)

May 1 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (AA)

May 4 - Boeing-Boeing (Longacre)

May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)

TBA - Godspell

2008-09
Broadway Season

Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)

Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)

Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]

Talked About
Not Scheduled Yet

TBA - 50 Words

TBA - Addams Family (Elephant Eye)

TBA - American Buffalo

TBA - An American Vaudeville [Farrell, Perloff]

TBA - The Beard of Avon [NYTW]

TBA - Being There [Permut]

TBA - Benny & Joon [MGM]

TBA - Billy Elliot

TBA - Brave New World [Rachunow]

TBA - Breath of Life [Fox]

TBA - Busker Alley [Margot Astrachan, Robert Blume, Kristine Lewis, Jamie Fox, Joanna Kerry & Heather Duke]

TBA - Broomhilda

TBA - Bye Bye Birdie [Niko]

TBA - Camille Claudel [Wildhorn]

TBA - Camelot

TBA - Carmen [Robin DeLevita and The Firm]

TBA - Catch Me If You Can

TBA - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Bob and Harvey Weinstein]

TBA - Cry Baby [Grazer, Gordon, McAllister, Epstein]

TBA - Designing Women [Alexis]

TBA - Don Juan DeMarco [New Line]

TBA - Dreamgirls [Creative Battery]

TBA - Duet

TBA - Equus

TBA - Ever After [Adam Epstein]

TBA - Fallen Angels (Shubert) [Kenwright]

TBA - Farragut North [Richards]

TBA - Father of the Bride

TBA - The Female Of The Species (TBA)

TBA - Fool For Love (AA) [Roundabout]

TBA - Girl Group Time Travelers

TBA - Golden Boy

TBA - Harmony [Guiles, Karslake, Smith, Fishman]

TBA - Hitchcock Blonde

TBA - The Importance Of Being Earnest

TBA - Jerry Springer: The Opera! [Thoday, McKeown]

TBA - Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train (Circle)

TBA - Josephine [Waissman]

TBA - Leap of Faith

TBA - A Little Princess [Ettinger, Dodger]

TBA - Midnight Cowboy [MGM]

TBA - The Minstrel Show - Kander and Ebb and Stroman

TBA - Moonstruck [Pittelman, Azenberg]

TBA - Mourning Becomes Electra [Haber, Boyett]

TBA - Monsoon Wedding

TBA - The Night of the Hunter

TBA - The Opposite of Sex [Namco]

TBA - Orphans

TBA - Pal Joey [Platt]

TBA - Paper Doll

TBA - The Paris Letter

TBA - The Philadelphia Story

TBA - Peter Pan

TBA - Porgy and Bess [Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh, Panter, Tulchin/Bartner]

TBA - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert

TBA - The Princess Bride

TBA - Princesses [Lane, Comley]

TBA - Poe the Musical

TBA - Rain Man [MGM]

TBA - Robin Hood

TBA - Secondhand Lions

TBA - South Pacific

TBA - Speed-the-Plow

TBA - Stalag 17

TBA - Starry Messenger

TBA - Syncopation

TBA - A Tale Of Two Cities

TBA - Torch Song Trilogy

TBA - Turn of the Century

TBA - West Side Story

TBA - The Wall [Weinstein, Mottola, Waters]

TBA - Will Rogers Follies [Cossette]

TBA - The Wiz [Dodger]

TBA - Zanna [Dalgleish]

This list is compiled from various sources. If you have corrections to the Broadway Season, please contact us.

(none) | 172.71.254.102

NEW!

TICKETS

CHAT

BROADWAY NEWS

NYC AREA NEWS

WEST END

CHICAGO

LA/SF

COLUMNS

PODCAST

MUSIC

RADIO

TV

AWARDS

DATABASE

ROAD HOUSES

REVIEWS

FESTIVALS

SPECIAL

EDUCATION

UNIONS/TRADE

NYC NON-PROFITS

REGIONAL

KEWL

2007-08Broadway Season

2008-09Broadway Season

Talked AboutNot Scheduled Yet

2007-08
Broadway Season

2008-09
Broadway Season

Talked About
Not Scheduled Yet