http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:25:53 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.24/content/springwidget/theater.xml http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19053232 There is much to lament during this time of war and recession and Republican corruption, but the news isn’t ALL bad. The day a racist bigot who had a major influence on American policy finally kicks it is always good for thinking, reasonable folk. And for those who maintain he wasn’t a Playwright Joshua James Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:42:47 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19053232 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19050296 Perhaps it’s an easy thing to say, but The Bacchae has always been my favorite of those old Greek plays everyone’s been talking about (I do a left-field second choice: The Eumenides). So when I saw the three Scot powerhouses (Alan Cumming, David Greig, and John Tiffany) were behind the opening Obscene Jester Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:36:55 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19050296 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19033636 American radio and television personality Joe Franklin will be the recipient of The Theatre Museum's Career Achievement Award; film director and author Rick McKay will receive the Award of Excellence for Theatre History Preservation to an Individual; The TheaterMania Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:01:42 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19033636 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19029507 Flamenco Flamen’ka, a dance show directed by Strictly Come Dancing judge and choreographer Craig Revel Horwood, comes to the Lyric theatre for an eight-week run from 18 September (press night 22 September). Based on an original story by dancer Karen London Theatre Guide Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:38:52 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19029507 http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/theater/reviews/03mark.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss It concludes at the Barrow Group Theater with “Marko the Prince,” an ambitious portrait of Sabor, a fictional shell-shocked village on the border of Bosnia and Serbia in the summer of 1992 during the bitter conflict between Bosnian Muslims and NYTimes: Theater Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:06:55 GMT http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/theater/reviews/03mark.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18993023 Rather, this "Magica Lanterna" proved a vague and wispy piece, with two girls catching fireflies in a jar and enjoying fantasy adventures with four otherworldly, and distinctly uninteresting, creatures - who, of course, turned somersaults. If, after NY Post: Theater Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:12:40 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18993023 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19022855 The answer, of course, is that some of it isn't, a fact of which I was recently reminded by Melville House's nifty little Art of the Novella paperback series, whose fourteen well-chosen titles include Henry James' The Lesson of the Master, Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, and Edith ArtsJournal.com: About Last Night Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:53:27 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19022855 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18979557 Opening in London this summer. With Josh Hartnett! Is this the worst screen to stage adaptation idea ever? Perhaps it will be redeemed by British director David Grindley, of the fine Journey's End and the pretty good Roundabout Pygmalian. And Adam Godley, who I hear is a very good actor, takes on The Playgoer Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:07:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18979557 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18987579 It was announced today that Collective:Unconscious would be closing it's doors for good at the end of July when it's current lease expires. As noted below, Charlie Victor Romeo, C:U's most famous alumni show was being restaged as part of the undergroundzero festival and will fittingly be it's final Off-Off Blogway Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:19:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18987579 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19031039 In-I, a new contemporary dance theatre piece co-created, performed, and directed by actress Juliette Binoche and dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, will play the National Theatre, September 6-October 9, ahead of an international tour. The two-character TheaterMania Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:47:43 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19031039 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19027744 Steven Hevey’s In My Name, which is currently playing at the Trafalgar Studios, puts this right. Set in the aftermath of the tube and bus explosions, all the action takes place in the basement flat of Grim, a dressing gown-clad 20-something bachelor wallowing in the depression of a London Theatre Guide Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:12:50 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19027744 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19041815 Everyone, and let’s hope we can somehow, in the coming year, wrest back our freedom and civil liberties that the Bush Empire has unlawfully stolen from us. This entry was posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pm and is filed under Baby Blogging. You can follow any responses to this entry Playwright Joshua James Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:41:39 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19041815 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19007146 It's a great novel -- well-paced, thought-provoking, beautifully written -- the kind of novel you finish and immediately want to make all your friends read. Because like Handmaid's Tale, Hall's novel is set in a dystopian future where, among other bad things, ArtsJournal.com: About Last Night Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:47:11 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19007146 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19021394 Two-time Oscar nominee Spike Lee is set to film three performances of the award-winning musical Passing Strange during July, according to EW.com. The show has a book by Stew, for which he won the Tony Award, music and lyrics by Stew,and Heidi Rodewald, and TheaterMania Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:02:13 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19021394 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19002157 Sanjeev Bhaskar’s nerves were rattled last night, not because of the press gathered for his official first night in Monty Python’s Spamalot, but because of the presence of former Python Terry Jones. “We’re speaking out some of the London Theatre Guide Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:20:24 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19002157 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18982563 Lee Golberg has a great post up called What a Difference Acting Ability Makes and essentially it’s about a pilot Micheal Mann wrote called LA TAKEDOWN that didn’t get picked up. But Mann liked the idea and in particular one scene, which would later end up in his film HEAT . In fairness Playwright Joshua James Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:52:56 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18982563 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19009353 So she waited three nights till the moon came full and the round circle shone brightly down on the world, and then she went out of the house in flowing robes and barefoot, hair streaming over her shoulders; all alone into the midnight stillness, while the birds and beasts and men reposed in deepest ArtsJournal.com: About Last Night Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:53:27 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19009353 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19005764 Some Founding Fathers/Presidential/Americana by way of the Broadway Musical. (By way of recent Tony broadcast excerpts.) First, the beloved 1776. Then, for the flip side, here's a little Assassins.... See you Monday The Playgoer Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19005764 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19021395 Real-life husband and wife Christopher Kale Jones and Jenna Coker-Jones will star in Stages St. Louis' production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at The Robert G. Reim Theater in Kirkwood, July 18 TheaterMania Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:48:02 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/19021395 http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18995208 Michael Gambon is to return to the West End stage in the Gate theatre Dublin’s production of Harold Pinter’s play No Man’s Land, which transfers to the Duke of York’s on 27 September (press night 7 October). Gambon is joined in the London Theatre Guide Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:52:03 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/theater/item/18995208