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Saturday, September 25, 2004 [ NYT ] Playwright Created a Psychiatrist by Plagiarizing One, Accusers Say By JESSE McKINLEY A criminal psychiatrist and a writer for The New Yorker have accused playwright Bryony Lavery of plagiarizing their work in her play "Frozen." [ B ] Donna Murphy Won't Return to Wonderful Town Donna Murphy, who has been out of Wonderful Town on "vocal rest" since August 29, has officially left the revival. Reviews: [ LADN ] A 'Dirty Rotten' journey to the Great White Way By Evan Henerson From these people, you expect belly laughs or serious enchantment. What they've delivered is B to B-plus entertaining. [ LADN ] 'Brooklyn Boy' burrows into cliches By Evan Henerson Apparently, Donald Margulies - like many a talented playwright before him - was due for a stinker. And what an unqualified mess his latest, "Brooklyn Boy," is. [ LADN ] All about Baseball and American values By Evan Henerson "Take Me Out," receiving a bang-up and hugely satisfying West Coast premiere at the Brentwood Theatre, purports to be a story of a baseball player and a baseball team. [ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'FINER NOBLE GASES' The Metaphysics of Being a Hipster By JASON ZINOMAN In his latest dark drama, playwright Adam Rapp aims for something much more grand than just another mundane tale of arrested development and spilled bodily fluids. [ CU ] Farm Boys Features: [ NYT ] THIS WEEK Broadway Bares the Human Voice By STEPHEN HOLDEN "Broadway Unplugged," an all-star concert at Town Hall, features 20 Broadway performers singing their favorite show tunes, without the help of amplification. [ NYT ] PERFORMANCE Stepping Into a Battle for Survival By ADA CALHOUN As Agnes White in "Bug," Kate Buddeke faces one of the toughest theatrical challenges: making a role her own after another actor has created a defining performance. [ NYT ] The Show That Tanks Every Night By LIESL SCHILLINGER Basil Twist's puppet show, "Symphonie Fantastique," seems to proceed in serene, psychedelic slo-mo. Backstage, however, the proceedings are far from lyrical. [ TM ] Loose Lips By: Brian Scott Lipton David Drake goes farming while Kevin Anderson and Cleavant Derricks take a trip to Brooklyn. [ R ] Q&A: Barry Manilow By Melinda Newman [ LAT ] Bidding adieu to Neverland By Lynne Heffley Cathy Rigby launches a "Peter Pan" farewell tour. [ LAT ] Healing apartheid's wounds By Don Shirley A new South Africa presents subtler yet still complex issues for examination by playwrights and friends Athol Fugard and John Kani. [ LAT ] 'Alma' is a muse in motion By Mike Boehm While researching Gustav Mahler for a play, Joshua Sobol became fascinated with the composer's wife. [ BS ] Curtain Call Gordon Davidson's 37-year theatrical career is worthy of a standing ovation. [ BS ] Tharp's Attack Performers' self-awareness and self-reliance catch the eye of choreographer Twyla Tharp. [ TS ] The Rat Pack revival by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN With Ocean's Twelve, nostalgic crooners and a touring show, the Rat Pack spirit has returned [ NYO ] A Midlife Crisis? No, Just Having Fun! by Jane Whitney I have played the part of a screaming fan girl only twice in my 54 years. [ B ] Photo Op: People Be Heard's Opening Night Bash Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features! [ PPG ] Energetic director revives a long-forgotten comedy to open Public's season 'Broadway' to open Pittsburgh Public Theater's 30th season By Christopher Rawson In the past few weeks, magnetism counters have registered a spike in Pittsburgh's ambient energy level -- clear evidence that John Scherer is in town. [ C ] Becoming Billy Flynn by JACKIE DEMALINE TV's Gregory Harrison enjoys singing, dancing and ... News: [ P ] Broadway's Bebe Neuwirth To Star with Jerry Orbach on New "Law & Order" Spinoff [ Y ] Blue Man Group Getting New Vegas Home The show's new home will be a custom-built, 1,750-seat theater at The Venetian hotel-casino, officials announced Thursday. [ NYT ] Arts Briefing By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER [ P ] Today in Theatre History: SEPTEMBER 25 [ P ] Woman in White to Offer Special Performances for Visually Impaired [ P ] Kerry Butler, Karen Ziemba and Jeff McCarthy Begin The Opposite of Sex Musical, Sept. 25 [ P ] Real-Life Couple Play Married Writers in Steven Dietz's Fiction at The Old Globe, Sept. 25 [ B ] Peter and Jerry Will Not Play Off-B'way in Fall posted at 9/25/2004 01:44:32 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link Friday, September 24, 2004 Features: [ P ] A Life in the Theatre: Emanuel Azenberg Stage professionals look back at decades of devotion to their craft [ P ] PHOTO CALL: Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson Visit Broadway's Rent [ P ] PHOTO CALL: The People Are Heard at Opening Night of New Off-Bway Show [ P ] PHOTO CALL: The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Begin Their Trek to Broadway in San Diego News: [ B ] Tony Committee Doubles Design Awards [ B ] 2004 Tony Honors for Excellence Announced [ P ] New Albee Work Peter and Jerry Not to Play Off-Broadway This Fall [ P ] PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Sept. 18-24: It Begins [ P ] Manhattan Ensemble Theater Launces New Season with Nine Parts of Desire Sept. 24 [ P ] Allan Katz's Partners Gets Extra Performances at Delaware Theatre Co. [ P ] Forbidden Broadway SVU � with Avenue Q, Wicked, Assassins and Dracula Spoofs � Begins Previews in October [ P ] 16th Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition Sets Dates [ P ] Cy Coleman and His Jazz Trio Added to Feinstein's Season; New Tunes Premiered [ P ] Bernadette Peters Launches New Concert Tour in 2005 [ P ] All-Star Cast to Be Part of Actors' Fund Wonderful Life Musical [ P ] Tony Randall Memorial To Be Held Oct. 5 at Broadway's Majestic Theatre [ TM ] Tony Randall Memorial to be Held at Majestic Theatre Reviews: [ TB ] And the Earth Moved Review by Warren Hoffman [ CU ] The Bald Soprano & The Lesson posted at 9/24/2004 03:53:37 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels": [ B ] San Diego Critics Meet B'way-Bound Scoundrels [ Y ] Review: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by Joel Hirschhorn, Variety [ B ] Photo Op: Scoundrels Bows at the Old Globe Other Reviews: [ TB ] The Blue Flower Review by Matthew Murray [ TM ] NYMF Roundup 1 Reviewed By: David Finkle [ SUN ] One Stripper, One Vote by JEREMY McCARTER Stephen Jay Gould, meet Gypsy Rose Lee. posted at 9/24/2004 01:23:29 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" - Reviews: [ SD ] 'Rotten' is ripe, ready By Anne Marie Welsh Broadway-bound 'Scoundrels' may need a few tweaks, but it's loaded with laughs [ LAT ] Yes, it's dirty, and nearly rotten too By James C. Taylor A stage version of the 1988 movie 'Scoundrels' stumbles in a bid at a 'Producers'-like leap. [ NCT ] Globe's 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a witty, wonderful smash By: PAM KRAGEN Features: [ P ] DIVA TALK: A Chat with Stage and Screen Star Dixie Carter Plus the Hair-Raising Benefit Concert [ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary Filichia's friend from San Antonio happens to like New York. Guess why. [ BG ] The story behind this play is a gem By Catherine Foster The back story of the Huntington Theatre Company's production of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean," the first preview of which is tonight, is as compelling as the action onstage. [ BG ] Callaway speeds ahead with her 'Slow' songs By Bill Beuttler Ann Hampton Callaway is finally singing her own tunes. [ DN ] Generating creative 'Friction' by Robert Dominguez For the college chums behind the drama "Friction," the key to successfully staging their first full production was having no friction at all. Eastcheap Rep is a rarity among theater companies. [ NYT ] The Politics of Funny, or Vice Versa By JESSE McKINLEY Work-a-day comedians in shows all across New York City are making hay with political jibes. Jackie Mason. [ CST ] 'Dressing' for success BY HEDY WEISS Tracy Letts returns to acting in "The Dresser." [ CT ] Wind machine sails in 'Dresser' by Nancy Maes [ CT ] Playing Gershwin by Chris Jones Performer Hershey Felder goes it alone [ CST ] Actor rhapsodizes about Gershwin with his one-man musical tribute BY HEDY WEISS [ HC ] Women And Girls Connect With 'Crowns' By JEFF RIVERS [ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: Twelve Angry Men at the American Airlines [ P ] PHOTO CALL: Tragedy and Darkness Surround NAATCO's Eyes of the Heart Premiere [ LAW ] An Hour with Moses Interview with Val Kilmer. [ ST ] "Hairspray" and heels: kicking back at spa with mama Edna By Nicole Brodeur Thanks to American Theater Web for the two last links above. "People Be Heard" - Reviews: [ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'PEOPLE BE HEARD' Darwin Gets a Cheerleader: A Stripper on the School Board By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Despite its strikingly fresh premise, this "comedy with songs" rambles desperately, at times downright bizarrely, for more than two hours. [ ND ] We hear you, people, but we don't understand BY GORDON COX [ NJ ] Not quite a musical BY MICHAEL SOMMERS 'People Be Heard' cast saddled with forgettable story and songs [ ATW ] People Be Heard: Brutishness Fuels This Evolution Debate Review by Andy Propst [ TB ] People Be Heard Review by Matthew Murray [ TM ] People Be Heard Reviewed By: David Finkle [ B ] People Be Heard Review by William Stevenson Other Reviews: [ B ] Farm Boys Review by William Stevenson [ ATW ] Farm Boys: Doing Battle with One's Past Review by Andy Propst [ B ] DVDs: Broadway Drama from '50s Hollywood by Ken Mandelbaum COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (Paramount Home Video) THE COUNTRY GIRL (Paramount Home Video) DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (Paramount Home Video) [ TB ] A View from the Bridge Pittsburgh Review by Ann Miner [ LAT ] Team delivers in clutch By Don Shirley A crackerjack cast brings out the best in 'Take Me Out,' a layered drama about the fallout from a gay superstar's coming out. [ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'PUGILIST SPECIALIST' Exposing the Military Mind-Set By NEIL GENZLINGER The Riot Group's engrossing, inventive dissection of the American military mind is being performed with stark precision at the 59E59 Theaters. [ NJ ] Heartfelt salute to 9/11 victims BY PETER FILICHIA Writer bases 'The Guys' on talks with fire captain who lost 8 men [ NYT ] MUSIC REVIEW | PHILLIP OFFICER Singer Matches Van Morrison to Irving Berlin By STEPHEN HOLDEN Mr. Officer used his musicality and connoisseurship of songs to create unconventional medleys in his performance on Sunday at Danny's Skylight Room. [ DN ] Dixie's just ducky in cabaret act by Howard Kissel News: [ B ] Tracy Miller to Be Hairspray's Next Penny [ B ] Jo Bonney to Helm Neil LaBute's Fat Pig at MCC [ B ] IT Girl Aims for Winter Bow at Dodger Stages [ Z ] Baranski, Bostwick 'Spellbound' with FOX [ NYP ] LIZ SMITH A MEMORIAL for the late actor/ producer/New Yorker deluxe, Tony Randall, takes place Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. at the Majestic Theatre. Last item. [ NJ ] Theater Notes by Peter Filichia [ TM ] Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Perform in Guant�namo [ P ] Nobel Prize Winner Tutu Performs in Off-Broadway's Guantánamo, Oct. 2 [ ATW-XM ] Broadway and Beyond: Theatergoing Options in D.C. - Shakespeare, Wilder, New Musicals and More [ P ] Today in Theatre History: SEPTEMBER 24 [ P ] Andrea Martin Is Dolly, Jonathan Hadary is Horace in Matchmaker at Ford's Theatre Sept. 24-Oct. 24 [ P ] August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean Sails Into Boston Sept. 24 [ P ] Cathy Rigby Begins Her Farewell Flight as Peter Pan Sept. 24 in California [ P ] New Book "On Broadway, Men Still Wear Hats" to Get Oct. 7 Reading at Brooklyn's Book Court [ P ] Big River Cast Among Tony Honorees; Design Awards to Double for 2005 [ P ] Broadway Theatres and Other Venues Chosen for First Design Times Square Contest [ P ] More Stars to Sing Opposite of Sex, Little Princess, Spelling Bee Songs at "Composers" Concert, Oct. 4 [ P ] Toronto Musical Favorite Drowsy Chaperone Hopes for a Wider Future; Starry Cast Will Sing for NAMT Crowd [ P ] Golda's Balcony Becomes Longest-Running One-Woman Show in Bway History Oct. 3 [ P ] Chashama Honors Gural and Cahan at Nov. 15 Benefit [ P ] 2005 Summer Play Festival Asks for Play Submissions [ P ] A.C.T.'s The Voysey Inheritance to Be Adapted by Mamet for San Francisco Debut [ P ] Hairspray's Hoffman and Forbidden Broadway's Zbornik Team for Together Again for the First Time [ P ] Almeida�s Festen Transfers to West End � with Cast Changes � Sept. 23 [ P ] Mirren, Colman and Triplett Featured in London Masterclass Season [ P ] Simon Russell Beale, Linda Emond and James Barbour Cast in PBS'"John and Abigail Adams" [ P ] Shepherd�s Cybill Disobedience to Play London�s Soho, Sept. 27 [ P ] Frankenstein...do you dream, a New Musical, Opens Its Eyes at NY Musical Theatre Fest Sept. 23-Oct. 2 [ P ] West Side Story Staging in China Inspires Solo Show, The Soup Comes Last, Making NYC Premiere Sept. 29 [ P ] Toxic Audio Announces Off-Broadway Closing for Oct. 31 [ P ] Are Dixie Carter and Hal Holbrook Broadway-Bound? [ P ] Betty Comden to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award Sept. 27 [ P ] Liz Callaway and Norm Lewis Sing 100 Years of Broadway Oct. 9 [ P ] Laura Benanti Is "Starved" for TV Sitcom [ P ] Ruhl Rules as World Premiere Comedy Clean House Opens at Yale Rep, Sept. 23 posted at 9/24/2004 08:20:14 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link Thursday, September 23, 2004 News: [ Y ] Benanti 'Starved' for pilot Broadway thesp Laura Benanti is making her first foray into TV series toplining the FX comedy pilot "Starved," which finished production last week. Thank you, FX - after all these years, I finally have a reason to get cable... [ NYT ] Nothing to Sing About: A Lull in Fall Musicals By JESSE McKINLEY Between now and New Year's Day there is exactly is one new musical scheduled to open on Broadway. Next spring, however, at least eight new musicals are confirmed. [ NYT ] Law Will Help Entertainers Pay for Their Health Plans By JESSE McKINLEY Gov. George E. Pataki has signed a bill that will use state money to help entertainment industry members maintain their health insurance during bouts of unemployment. [ B ] Off-B'way's Toxic Audio to Close October 31 [ HC ] Get on the bus: 'Shoot the Messenger' by Frank Rizzo It's not your typical theatrical experience [ ATW-XM ] Broadway and Beyond: A N.Y. News Roundup - 'The Rivals'; 'Triptych'; V. Williams.... [ P ] Today in Theatre History: SEPTEMBER 23 [ P ] "Creating Once Upon a Time": Brooklyn Begins Manhattan Previews Sept. 23 [ P ] Mary-Louise Parker Escapes Through a Window in Broadway's Reckless Sept. 23 [ P ] Ruhl Rules as World Premiere Comedy Clean House Opens at Yale Rep, Sept. 23 [ P ] School Board in Uproar in People Be Heard, a Comedy With Songs, Opening Sept. 23 at Playwrights Horizons [ P ] Glitter and Be Gray: Walton Brothers' Revue, Eyes Are the First Thing to Go, Gets NYC Run Sept. 22-Oct. 3 [ P ] Chekhov's Olga, Irina and Masha Are Reinvented in Vietnam-Era Three Sistahs Musical in NY Musical Fest, to Oct. 1 [ P ] Canada's Shaw Festival Has You Never Can Tell, Lillian Hellman, Brecht & Weill and Gypsy in 2005 [ P ] Former Taboo Star Heads to the Chatterbox Sept. 23 [ P ] Frances Delays Stritch's Florida Engagement [ WP ] Leslie Uggams, A 'Golden' Sub By Peter Marks She Replaces Ailing Carroll in Play Reviews: [ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'GEORGE AND MARTHA' He's From the White House, She's From a Clean House By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Karen Finley freely vents her ire in her new show, which is inspired by the notion that President Bush and Martha Stewart have long been conducting a secret affair. [ NJ ] Smutty sketch lacks humor or insight BY MICHAEL SOMMERS [ ATW ] Politics - The Art of the Possible, Absurd, Frightening The Democracy Project; George & Martha; The Pugilist Specialist Review by Andy Propst [ CU ] Push Up 1-3 [ ATW ] Push Up 1-3: Boss or Employee - At Heart We're All the Same Review by Andy Propst [ TB ] Far From the Madding Crowd Review by Warren Hoffman [ TB ] When It Rains Review by Lindsey Wilson [ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'THE LEPERS OF BAILE BASTE' Troubled Souls Gather in the Local Pub By ANITA GATES [ CT ] Harold Gould warms up 'The Family Gold' at Victory Gardens By Michael Phillips Rhoda Morgenstern's dad to so many of us, thanks to the miracle of 1970s television, Harold Gould is 80-year-old proof that doing a lot of TV needn't mess up an actor's best theatrical instincts, let alone a superb head of hair. [ CST ] Reiner's 'Family' recipe leaves you hungry BY HEDY WEISS [ NJ ] This 'Hedda' isn't for theater purists BY MICHAEL SOMMERS [ NYT ] CABARET REVIEW | MADELEINE PEYROUX Ghosts From Paris and Georgia, With Echos of Billie Holiday By STEPHEN HOLDEN As you watch the gifted folk-jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux on the stage of Le Jazz au Bar, she emits a heady aura of places lived and music absorbed. [ NYT ] CABARET REVIEW | KITTY CARLISLE HART Favorite Melodies, Spiced With Memories By STEPHEN HOLDEN Kitty Carlisle Hart's one-woman show at Feinstein's at the Regency is a seamless weave of popular standards strung with gentle anecdotes. [ LAT ] Bored of 'The Rings' By Adam Baer A two-hour symphony adapted from the movie trilogy's score demands a wizard's patience. With Susan Egan. [ BG ] BOOK REVIEW Gershwin lover's tale is a rhapsody in blue By Judith Maas Features: [ NYP ] MOMS THE WORD By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN "Jewtopia." [ NYO ] Farewell, Hugh and Caroline: Closing-Night Hysteria and Tears by John Heilpern If you want to understand the nature of public hysteria, go to the last performance of a successful Broadway show. [ CST ] Striking Gold? BY KEVIN NANCE The reporter is fumbling. He's itching to ask playwright Annie Reiner whether the troubled father-daughter relationship in her new drama -- "The Family Gold," which opens Monday at Victory Gardens Theater -- is based on her real-life relationship with her famous father, Carl Reiner, but the words are freezing in his throat. [ BS ] Days of Book Staged readings help the playwrights but also give actors chances to break out of habits and boundaries. [ HC ] Get Out Of The House, And Go See A Live Show By DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA, Knight Ridder Newspapers Would you believe me if I told you that our hope and future lies in the theaters and concert halls and dance studios? [ NYT ] Death at the Opera, and the Fog of Memory By DAVID W. DUNLAP It was a long-ago city room story that several New York Herald Tribune veterans shared last month with a reporter from their old rival, The New York Times: the night 44 years ago when Leonard Warren died onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House and their colleague Sanche de Gramont rushed from a bar stool into an assignment that earned him a Pulitzer Prize. [ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: Reckless at the Biltmore [ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: 700 Sundays at the Broadhurst [ P ] PHOTO CALL: Martindale, Tartaglia, Noni Rose, and Aldredge Get Honors from Equity [ LADN ] Fielder's choice By Evan Henerson 'Six Feet Under's' Jeremy Sisto digs deep for complex 'Take Me Out' role [ PTR ] Ode to Oscar By Alice T. Carter Brian Bedford. Thanks to American Theater Web for the last two links above. posted at 9/23/2004 08:49:19 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Features: [ B ] Q & A: 9/22/04 by Ken Mandelbaum [ B ] Q & A: Mandy Patinkin by Kathy Henderson [ P ] PHOTO CALL: Drew Lachey Turns Up the Heat in Rent [ P ] PHOTO CALL: Kitty Carlisle Hart Celebrates 94 Years with a Cabaret Show at Feinstein's Reviews: [ TM ] Tunes, Tomes, & Videos John Barrowman scores with his excellent new CD of Cole Porter songs on the First Night label. News: [ P ] Café Puttanesca, The Great Ostrovsky, Permanent Collection Among 2004 Barrymore Nominees in Philly [ P ] "Ballyhoo of Broadway" Exhibit, Through Sept. 24, Spotlights 100 Years of Theatre Fanfare [ P ] Royal Shakespeare Company Announces £100 Million Stratford Refurbishment [ P ] Cast Set to Sing Shanley's Sailor's Song Off-Broadway for LAByrinth Theatre Co., Oct. 26-Nov. 21 [ P ] Kevin Spacey Speaks Out Against Rude Theatregoers [ B ] Uggams Replaces Carroll in Golden Pond [ TM ] Uggams to Replace Carroll in On Golden Pond at Kennedy Center posted at 9/22/2004 03:48:15 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link News: [ P ] Leslie Uggams Steps Into Golden Pond in D.C. After Diahann Carroll Takes Medical Leave [ P ] Full Cast of La Cage Announced; Mulheren and Balgord Want Laurels for Their Morals [ B ] Complete Cast Set for La Cage aux Folles [ P ] PS Classics Will Record Sondheim's The Frogs [ P ] Starry, Starry Night: Full Cast of LaChiusa & Strand's Highest Yellow, a Tale of van Gogh, Announced [ P ] John Hammond, NYC Theatre Writer and Editor Passionate About Off-Broadway, Dead at 67 [ P ] Sirius Satellite Radio: Brooklyn Creators Tell Their Tale on "Radio [ P ] Piazza's Victoria Clark to Sing Works of Jeff Blumenkrantz Sept. 26 [ P ] Chad Kimball and Jessica-Snow Wilson Part of Ducks and Lovers Musical Reading [ P ] Adam Pascal's "Civilian" Now Available for Pre-Order; Track List Announced [ P ] Kushner, Miller and Brando Honored Nov. 8; LuPone, McDonald and Reinking Perform Reviews: [ SUN ] Tigers by the Tale A director hasn't knocked around a blond actress this much since Hitchcock. [ TB ] The Man Who Would Be King Review by Warren Hoffman Features: [ B ] Rent's Welcome Bash for Drew Lachey [ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: The Good Body at the Booth [ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: La Cage aux Folles at the Marquis posted at 9/22/2004 01:50:43 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link [ NYP ] RIVETING 'STUFF' By MICHAEL RIEDEL Not a day goes by without an article about "Stuff Happens" appearing in the British papers. [ NYer ] COLLATERAL DAMAGE by JOHN LAHR David Hare on the march to war in Iraq. Features: [ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary Does knowing who this woman is make you a "theater dork?" [ BH ] Phylicia Rashad adds facets to 'Gem' of a role in play By Terry Byrne [ DN ] Taye digs role as new TV dad By MARISA GUTHRIE Why film star wanted to get his hands on 'Kevin Hill' [ HC ] Style And Truth By FRANK RIZZO Ability, Dedication, Luck Have Had Parts In Alvin Epstein's Life As An Actor, The Role For Which He Was Made [ NY ] Bullets Off B�way By Alicia Zuckerman In her new cabaret act, singer Rena Strober talks about life after the Rao�s shooting. [ PPG ] Stage Preview: Brian Bedford finally gets to go Wilde By Christopher Rawson Thanks to American Theater Web for the last two links above. "Hedda Gabler" - Reviews: [ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'HEDDA GABLER' A Hedda for Self-Absorbed Modern Times By CHARLES ISHERWOOD The arrival of Ivo van Hove's strange and strangely enthralling new production of Henrik Ibsen's drama instantly slips the fall theater season into a higher gear. [ ND ] Ibsen's 'Hedda,' undergoing renovation BY LINDA WINER [ TB ] Hedda Gabler Review by Matthew Murray [ TM ] Hedda Gabler Reviewed By: David Finkle Other Reviews: [ TM ] George & Martha Reviewed By: Adam Klasfeld [ CU ] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - London [ LAT ] 'Favorite Year' a little comedy of outsize roles By Rob Kendt With David Engel. [ NYT ] MUSIC REVIEW | DIXIE CARTER AND JOHN WALLOWITCH A Duo Conjures Up Nostalgia By STEPHEN HOLDEN [ DN ] UPN finds a new star in 'Mars' by David Bianculli "Veronica Mars," with Kristen Bell. News: [ NYP ] PAGE SIX PEOPLE either love Adam Rapp's plays or walk out before Act III, as some did on opening night of Rapp's "Finer Noble Gases" � nice title � at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater on Waverly Place in the Village. [ BBC ] Spacey attacks rude theatregoers Actor Kevin Spacey has attacked audiences who allow their mobile phones to ring during a theatre performance, saying visitors should learn to behave. [ ATW ] Broadway and Beyond: Florida Stage has Sternhagen, Lowe's String of Pearls and More in '05 XM Satellite Radio [ P ] Today in Theatre History: SEPTEMBER 22 [ P ] Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the Musical, Opens in San Diego Sept. 22 [ P ] Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Announces Open Script Submission Guidelines [ P ] Michael Berresse Wears New Hat as Director of a New Musical About Writing a New Musical, Sept. 22-Oct. 1 in NY Musical Fest posted at 9/22/2004 08:04:01 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Features: [ TM ] Hair Today By: Michael Portantiere The Actors' Fund presents a star-studded concert version of the seminal rock musical Hair at the New Amsterdam Theatre. [ P ] PHOTO CALL: "Long As God Can Grow It": Stars Let Down Their Hair at Actor's Fund Concert [ B ] Photo Op: Stars Let Down Their Hair for The Actors' Fund [ B ] Photo Op: A New Fragrance is Cumming [ B ] Photo Op: Kiki and Herb Die at Carnegie Hall [ B ] Photo Op: What's Judge Judy's Verdict on Avenue Q? News: [ P ] The Glass Menagerie with Lange and Hawke Aims to Open on Broadway in March 2005 [ B ] Lancaster Joins Tonight's the Night in London [ P ] Foreigner Star Broderick Featured with Baldwin, Collette in Film "The Last Shot" [ P ] Stars Set for Off-Broadway Revival of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Second Stage Reviews: [ TM ] The Siegel Column Barbara & Scott find themselves whistling Dixie (Carter) but pursing their lips over David Vernon. [ B ] Hedda Gabler Review by Eric Grode [ VV ] Their Majesties' Butchers Edward Hall's gutsy staging of Henry VI ratchets up the gore by Alisa Solomon Rose Rage [ CU ] Rose Rage [ TM ] Finer Noble Gases Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo [ TM ] Masquerade Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo [ VV ] Finley Toons Up What George Bush truly deserves: Karen Finley's vision of his sex life with Martha Stewart by Michael Feingold George and Martha [ VV ] Tangling in Tongues Ionesco's one-acts: Language flying on a dangerous high by Michael Feingold The Bald Soprano & The Lesson [ VV ] Sightlines by Michael Feingold Symphonie Fantastique [ VV ] Cabaret Hell Old myth of love and loss transforms in musical underworld by Charlotte Stoudt Orpheus posted at 9/21/2004 07:49:25 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link Features: [ TM ] Broadway Unplugged By: Matthew Murray; illustration by Jess George Scott Siegel presents a concert of stellar performers singing some of Broadway's greatest songs -- with no sound amplification. [ TM ] The Ballyhoo of Broadway By: David Finkle An exhibit at Grand Central Terminal focuses on the advertising of Broadway shows through the years. [ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary The Drowsy Chaperone, first seen in the Toronto Fringe Festival, is about to be showcased in NYC courtesy of the NAMT. [ B ] Stage Notes: 09/17/04 by Paul Wontorek [ P ] PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Eden Espinosa Fresh from her work as the potent standby for Idina Menzel in Wicked, Eden Espinosa will again be in a Broadway theatre this fall. Now, she's creating a role rather than covering one. [ NYP ] CINDY ADAMS BRADY GOT TO B'WAY THE LONG WAY ROUND [ ND ] Good at being a bad boy BY GORDON COX Radical director Ivo van Hove brings iconoclastic passion to 'Hedda Gabler' [ B ] Photo Op: 2004 BC/EFA Flea Market [ P ] PHOTO CALL: Howe and Atlantic Go Absurd with Ionesco Classics [ P ] PHOTO CALL: Broadway Turns Out for Annual Flea Market in Shubert Alley [ P ] PHOTO CALL: Tony Winner Cullum and Son Celebrate 50 Years of Theatre at University of Tennessee [ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: 'night, Mother at the Royale [ BS ] It Takes Two Working with a scene partner requires self- reliance and flexibility [ BS ] Training Time Back Stage West asks agents and casting directors the tough question-- will your training get you in the door? "Rose Rage" - Reviews: [ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'ROSE RAGE' A Shakespearean Blood Bath of Cabbages and Kings By CHARLES ISHERWOOD A freshly sharpened cleaver is the weapon of choice in Edward Hall's flashy, eminently accessible production of all three parts of Shakespeare's "Henry VI." [ NJ ] 'Rose' players gutting it out BY MICHAEL SOMMERS [ ATW ] Rose Rage: Shakespeare's Bloody Bad Boys (and One Woman) at Their Compelling Best Review by Andy Propst [ JN ] Henry VI, 5 1/2 hours By JACQUES LE SOURD [ ND ] However you slice it, it's a red 'Rose' BY LINDA WINER [ Y ] 'Rose Rage' Filled With Murder By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic [ DN ] Compact 'Henry' all the rage by Howard Kissel [ TM ] Rose Rage Reviewed By: David Finkle "The Bald Soprano" & "The Lesson" - Reviews: [ NJ ] Double bill requires taste for the absurd BY MICHAEL SOMMERS [ ATW ] Ionesco Double-Bill Retains Humor, if Not Bite Review by Andy Propst [ TM ] The Bald Soprano & The Lesson Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo [ B ] The Bald Soprano & The Lesson Other Reviews: [ B ] Did Atlanta Critics Praise The Color Purple? [ B ] CDs: Harmony at the Copacabana by Ken Mandelbaum MANILOW SCORES (Concord) THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1960 (Bayview) 100 YEARS OF PETER PAN (Sepia) [ P ] ON THE RECORD: Lerner and Loewe's "The Little Prince" and Belle [ ND ] Dubya and Martha: It's just wrong by GORDON COX [ NJ ] Revisiting the conflict of an earlier war BY PETER FILICHIA Season's Greetings from the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. [ TB ] Last of the Boys: Haunted by Ghosts of the War in Vietnam New Jersey Review by Bob Rendell [ TB ] Finer Noble Gases Review by Matthew Murray [ ATW ] Rapp's Finer Noble Gases: A Painful Glimpse at Squandered Potential Review by Andy Propst [ CU ] Finer Noble Gases [ TB ] Tusk: A Musical Review by Matthew Murray Can't get enough elephant cruelty musicals? Then run, don't walk, to see Tusk at the 47th Street Theatre as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. [ TB ] Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance! and The Secret in the Wings San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema [ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'MEET THE REAL ERNEST SHACKLETON' An Explorer Both Musical and Jealous By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER The Marx brothers being currently unavailable, it has fallen to a cast of lesser lights to try to leach lunacy from this slight, silly trifle about the Antarctic explorer. [ TB ] The Claiming Race Review by Warren Hoffman [ TB ] A Hundred Years into the Heart Review by Warren Hoffman [ TB ] Joe Starts Again Review by Warren Hoffman [ TM ] Pugilist Specialist Reviewed By: David Finkle News: [ B ] Acevedo & DeWitt Set for Shanley's Deep Blue Sea [ TM ] Veteran Theater Journalist John Hammond Dies [ P ] Hair Brings in Half a Million for Actors' Fund; Fifth Concert Set for 2005 [ B ] Flea Market Raises $419,464 for BC/EFA [ TM ] 18th Annual Flea Market & Grand Auction Raises $419,464 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS [ P ] Broadway Flea Market Raises Over $400,000 for Broadway Cares [ P ] Deadline Nearing for Lortel Grant Applications to Benefit NYC Theatre Companies [ P ] Donna Murphy's Final Week in Wonderful Town Starts Sept. 21; Brooke Shields Is Ruth Starting Sept. 28 [ P ] Brooklyn's Oct. 1 Performance to Benefit Homeless Organization [ TM ] Discovered Treasures Concert Set for 9/28 at Donnell Library [ P ] Rachel York and Barrett Foa Part of Free Discovered Treasures 2 Concert [ P ] Watching the Musical Meter: Taxi Cabaret Charts Lives of Newcomers to Big Apple in NY Musical Fest Sept. 21-Oct. 3 [ P ] Mini-Musicals and Story Songs by BMI Workshop Writers Heard in NY Musical Fest's Shorts; Marx & Lopez Sing [ P ] Stephen Schwartz Saluted in One Wicked Night Nov. 1 [ P ] Wicked's Cilento to Direct Showstoppers Concert [ P ] Richard Maltby, Jr. to Direct Broadway-Bound Johnny Cash Musical [ P ] Krakowski, Ricci and London Star Hootkins Slated for Hitchcock Blonde on Broadway [ B ] Broadway Grosses: Golda's Holiday Dip [ P ] Broadway Grosses: September 13-19 [ P ] Today in Theatre History: SEPTEMBER 21 [ P ] Feinstein's Kicks Off Season with Kitty Carlisle Hart Birthday Party Sept. 21-23 [ P ] Everett Bradley Is Set to Swing! at the North Shore Beginning Sept. 21 [ P ] Lord of the Rings Concert - with Susan Egan - Presented Sept. 21 [ P ] Fiddler, Heartbeats, The Life, The Goat and Take Me Out Among Florida's 2004 Carbonell Nominees [ P ] Val Kilmer Scales Mount Sinai in Ten Commandments Musical, Starting Sept. 21 in L.A. [ P ] Blue Flower, a Musical Stage Collage Conjuringthe Passion and Confusion of Post-Weimar Germany, Gets NYC Run Sept. 21-Oct. 1 [ P ] The Last Starfighter, the Musical, Beams Down Into World Premiere in NYC [ P ] Forever Tango to Return to Shubert Sept. 28 [ P ] The Best Things Happen When You're Dancing: Stars of White Christmas Set for Nov. 3 Start in San Francisco [ P ] Dan Rather Attack Controversy Plays Out on Stage in Kenneth - What is the Frequency? [ P ] Matt & Ben Team Developing "Mindy and Brenda" Sitcom with Steve Martin for WB [ P ] Ed Dixon's Naughty, Gaudy, Bawdy Fanny Hill Musical Gets October Reading Directed by Roger Rees [ P ] Abraham, Molina, Ripley and White Featured in Monday-Night Standup Shakespeare [ P ] Megastar Edna Heads to San Francisco's Virgin Megastore Oct. 5 [ P ] Brooklyn Creators Tell Their Tale on "Radio Playbill" Sept. 20-Oct. 3, on Sirius Satellite Radio [ P ] Free Out Loud Reading Series Announces Fall Line-Up [ P ] Coleman to Receive Mercer Foundation Award; Orbach, Rivera and Close to Perform [ TM ] Cy Coleman to be Honored at Johnny Mercer Foundation Awards Gala [ P ] NAMT Musicals to Feature Ebersole, Eder, Porter, DeLaria, Nouri, Moses, Molaskey and More [ P ] Hairspray to Bow in London in Fall 2005 [ B ] Hairspray Readies for Fall 2005 London Bow [ ATW-XM ] Broadway and Beyond: Musicals Tonight! Celebrates a 'Jubilee', Journeys to 'St. Louis; and More in '05 [ ATW-XM ] Broadway and Beyond: International City in Long Beach Fills '05 with 'Island', 'Tea', Mann's 'Judgment' and More [ B ] Angels in America & Stritch Win Emmy Awards [ TM ] Angels in America Wins 11 Emmy Awards posted at 9/21/2004 02:09:56 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link Monday, September 20, 2004 [ V ] Legitimate investors by Richard Ouzounian Canucks shift coin from films to B'way ventures [ V ] 'Scoundrels' speeds to B'way Heavy hitters prep $11 mil tuner in San Diego The transition -- from concept to readings to regional production to Broadway -- for "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is moving smoother than a con man's pitch. [ V ] Biz booming at National Theater Attendance rose to 91% during fiscal year [ V ] West End primps for 'Hairspray' arrival British cast sought for tuner [ V ] Signature gets gov't assistance New facility being constructed for January 2006 [ B ] Chisolm Replaces Lindo in B'way-Bound Gem [ B ] Grant and Johnston to Star in Baltimore Waltz [ B ] Lennon Books Broadhurst; Sets Tryout Dates [ P ] "Angels in America" Soars to New Emmy Record with 11 Wins; Stritch, Parker, Nixon Also Honored [ P ] Press Agent Rothenberg Brings Back One-Man Show Namedropping, Sept. 20 [ P ] McGillis, Baranski, Keitel Salute Kahn at Shakespeare Society Event Sept. 20 [ P ] Mandy Patinkin Off-Broadway Show to Begin Sept. 20 [ P ] John Ashcroft Goes to Urinetown in Kotis' Eat the Taste, Sept. 20 [ P ] Ellen McLaughlin Kicks Off New Reading Series at Jean Cocteau Sept. 20 [ P ] "Let the Sunshine In": All-Star Hair Concert Plays the New Amsterdam Sept. 20 [ P ] Good and Evil Clash � and Sing! � in World Premiere of Night of the Hunter, the Musical [ P ] 700 Sundays Performance on Nov. 18 Will Help Habitat for Humanity [ NYT ] Goodbye (Again), Norma Jean by DEBORAH SOLOMON At 88, Arthur Miller returns to a theme he first dramatized 40 years ago: his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. [ NYT ] Arthur Miller: A Retrospective [ NYT ] Words, Words Everywhere, but Only Absurdity to Drink by CHARLES ISHERWOOD THEATER REVIEW | 'THE BALD SOPRANO AND THE LESSON' Both of Eug�ne Ionesco's comedies as seen at the Atlantic Theater Company can be seen by the politically minded as a grim cautionary tale for today. [ NYT ] Brother, Can You Spare a Musical? In comic form, Harvey Pekar describes how Mark Schoenfeld brought "Brooklyn the Musical" to Broadway. posted at 9/20/2004 08:59:00 AM by James Marino | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News] |
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