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 It's Curtains for
 Rent After 12 Years

Hugely popular musical takes a break from Broadway

Sep 7, 08 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twelve years and 5,124 performances later, Broadway bids adieu today to Rent, the New York Daily News reports. The beloved musical, which follows a group of bohemians and street folk through AIDS-ravaged, early-1990s East Village, “speaks to people's hearts," an original cast members tells the AP. It... More »

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theater • Broadway • musical theater • Rent

(AP) - Archeologists think they have found the theater where Romeo and Juliet debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards. The possible foundations of what is known as simply "the Theatre" were unearthed by builders excavating the London site—a vacant garage—for another structure. Museum archaeologists... More »

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theater • London • archeology • William Shakespeare

 Is Something
 Rotten in
 the Bard's
 Works? 

Debate over who really wrote Shakespeare's plays rages on

Jul 6, 08 12:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Did William Shakespeare really write the plays attributed to him? The question remains the subject of an intense academic debate, NPR reports. Those who doubt the “man from Stratford” penned his plays point to a lame rhyming epitaph on the supposed bard’s headstone, and to lack of documents... More »

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theater • literature • play • William Shakespeare • skeptics • academics

Holmes' Sept. Broadway Debut Already a Bust?

Tickets aren't selling, and producers fear
the worst

Jul 2, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Katie Holmes is not drawing the tickets sales for her Broadway debut producers had hoped for, the New York Post reports. "I bought 1,000 tickets to the show," one broker says of the September revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. "I still have them."... More »

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theater • Nicole Kidman • Tom Cruise • Broadway • Julia Roberts • Katie Holmes • ticket sales • All My Sons

 In the Heights Tops Tonys 

August: Osage County wins best play

Jun 16, 08 5:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last night’s Tony Awards featured an eclectic mix of new shows and revivals, an acceptance-speech rap from a first-time writer, and performances from a variety of musicals young and old. The winners:
  • Best Musical: In the Heights
  • Best Play: August: Osage County
  • Best Revival of a Musical: South
... More »

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theater • New York City • Tony Awards • Broadway

Appreciation

 Paul Sills,
 'Orson Welles
 of Improv' 

Second City co-founder, dead at 80, saw movement reach SNL heights

Jun 3, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - For a performer, Paul Sills kept a pretty low profile. But make no mistake: The Second City co-founder was a massive influence not just on improvisational comedy, but on comedy and theater in general. Without Sills, who died yesterday at 80, there would be no Chicago improv scene, no Saturday ... More »

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Saturday Night Live • theater • Chicago • obituary • comedy • 30 Rock • Paul Sills • Second City

 150 Animals to
 Star in Massive
 'Ark' Musical 

Where? Where but Branson, Missouri?

May 24, 08 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hold on to your camels, folks: A full-blown Biblical gala is opening tonight in Branson, Mo., in the form of Noah—the Musical. The show will feature more than 40 actors and 150 animals, half live, half animatronic, the Economist reports. More »

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theater • Christianity • Noah's Ark • Missouri • musical theater • Christians • musical • Branson, Missouri

 Katie Cruises to Broadway 

Will make stage debut in All My Sons

May 20, 08 7:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Actress Katie Holmes is headed for Broadway, where she'll make her theatrical debut in the fall in Arthur Miller's Tony-winning play All My Sons, reports the Los Angeles Times. It's a risky step for Mrs. Tom Cruise, who hasn't appeared onstage since high school. She'll star alongside two-time Tony winner... More »

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theater • Tom Cruise • Broadway • Katie Holmes • Arthur Miller • John Lithgow • Dianne Wiest • Suri Cruise • All My Sons

 Verdi, Naked and Anti-American 

Austrian Marxist uses opera to slam US capitalism

Apr 12, 08 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A German staging of Verdi’s “A Masked Ball” leaves Uncle Sam wearing little but a mask, Der Spiegel reports. In a rebuke of US capitalism, the production parades naked retirees on a set of the World Trade Center's ruins, and offers a female singer with a Hitler mustache... More »

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theater • Germany • Marxism • opera • East Germany • anti-Americanism • Erfurt • Johann Kresnik • Giuseppe Verdi

 'Potter' Star to
 Bare All on
 Broadway 

Equus starts 22-week run in New York
in September

Apr 9, 08 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will strip down for American audiences on Broadway in a challenging dramatic role that has already wowed Brits. In a major departure from his famous boy wizard role, the 18-year-old stars in the dark psychosexual drama Equus as a troubled adolescent accused of blinding horses.... More »

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Harry Potter • theater • nudity • Broadway • Daniel Radcliffe • Equus • West End theater

THEATER REVIEW

 Critics Agog Over South Pacific 

Show's first Broadway revival draws unanimous praise

Apr 4, 08 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first Broadway revival of South Pacific opened last night, and the critics agree: It's outstanding. "Its brilliance hasn’t faded," Richard Zoglin writes in Time, calling the new production of perhaps the best Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration “surprisingly fresh, astringent, meaty and convention-defying." Writes Ben... More »

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theater • Broadway • World War II • Rodgers and Hammerstein • revival

Troop Crams 118 Years of Shakespeare Into 2 Months

RSC mounts all 8 history plays with one cast in London

Apr 4, 08 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shakespeare's eight history plays cover 118 years of English royal succession, but one troop of actors is going to present the entire span in just two months. The Royal Shakespeare Company has decamped from Stratford-upon-Avon to London, where they are mounting all the plays in repertory on a single set.... More »

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theater • London • United Kingdom • William Shakespeare • Royal Shakespeare Company

Katie May Be Heading to Broadway

Holmes in talks to make her stage debut later this year

Mar 29, 08 10:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Katie Holmes may make a run for the door later this year—the stage door, that is. The actress known to some as Mrs. Tom Cruise is in serious talks to star in a revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons when it opens on Broadway later this year,... More »

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theater • Tom Cruise • Broadway • Katie Holmes • play • Broadway producers • Arthur Miller • John Lithgow • Dianne Wiest

 Actor Paul Scofield Dead at 86 

British star of stage and screen won Oscar for A Man for All Seasons

Mar 20, 08 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paul Scofield, the British actor who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons, has died at the age of 86. His agent told Reuters that the actor, who eschewed Hollywood stardom for smaller film roles and a robust theater career, had been... More »

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theater • obituary • leukemia • Royal Shakespeare Company • actor • Paul Scofield • A Man for All Seasons • Oscar winner

THEATER REVIEW

Allies. Warmongers. Lovers?

New satire depicts US-Britain alliance
as a gay love affair

Mar 17, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - What if the "special relationship" were a sexual relationship? In Caryl Churchill's 45-minute play, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, a codependent love affair between a reticent, adoring older Englishman and a young, brash, dominating American (called Sam, as in Uncle) stands in for a certain US-British alliance... More »

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torture • theater • Iraq war • Caryl Churchill • Public Theater • Salvador Allende • Pinteresque • Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? • cultural supremacy

Putin's Newest Gig: Savage Theater Critic

Russian prez
mocks cast, upbraids
director after play

Mar 12, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila caused a stir in Moscow last weekend when they paid an unannounced visit to the theater. After the audience gave him a standing ovation, Putin made a foray into theater criticism that stunned the cast. "Why did you show him crying?" asked the... More »

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Russia • theater • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • play • film director • Lyudmila Putin • Woe From Wit

'Actors' Beat Smoking Ban
in Minn. Bars

Owners exploit
loophole that lets thespians light up

Mar 6, 08 8:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Stage performers are the only exception to the new smoking ban in Minnesota bars, so patrons are turning temporarily thespian and lighting up. The only props required at some of the 30 bars working the loophole are cigarettes and ashtrays—though some get more creative. "They're playing themselves before... More »

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theater • smoking • cigarettes • Minnesota • smoking ban • bars • actor

Ferrell to Stump This Fall, But Only Onstage

Comedian plans candidate character for upcoming solo show

Jan 19, 08 10:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Will Ferrell is working on a one-man show that could hit Broadway this fall, and he may focus the routine on an interactive bit starring a mock presidential candidate, Politico reports. The onetime "Saturday Night Live" George Bush doppelganger plans to incorporate a stump speech, question-and-answer session, and political... More »

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theater • satire • Broadway • fringe candidates • Will Ferrell • solo show

Rent's Lease Up After 12 Years

7th-longest-running Broadway show closing June 1

Jan 16, 08 11:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Rent is preparing to close up shop and move out of the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, its home since 1996. The cutting-edge rock adaptation of La Bohème was written by Jonathan Larson, who died at the age of 35 of an aneurysm the night of the final dress rehearsal.... More »

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theater • AIDS • New York • Broadway • Warner Music • Rent • Jonathan Larson • Nederlander Theatre • East Village

Curtain Rising on
Anne Frank, the Musical

Creator compares teen's life to tragic opera

Jan 7, 08 10:25 AM CST
(Newser) - A first-of-its-kind musical adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank will take the stage in Madrid next month, the Guardian reports. The Spanish-language play gained the approval of the Anne Frank Foundation, which closely guards the rights to the story of the doomed Jewish teenager; a spokesman says the work... More »

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theater • Spain • Holocaust • history • Madrid • musical • Anne Frank • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Anne Frank Foundation

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