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'Never the Sinner' Will Play Philly's Gay Theatre in August (Playbill)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Playbill - Mauckingbird Theatre Company, Philadelphia's only professional theatre company devoted to gay-themed work, will present John Logan's Never the Sinner: The Leopold and Loeb Story Aug. 8-30.

New Second City Show, 'Studs Terkel's Not Working,' to Begin in Chicago (Playbill)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Playbill - The Second City e.t.c. in Chicago will open its 33rd revue, Studs Terkel's Not Working, on July 19. The title refers to the classic oral history book, "Working," by late Chicago-based historian Terkel.

Musical 'Respect' Gets 24 Additional Performances at Act II in Suburban Philly (Playbill)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Playbill - Act II Playhouse in Ambler, PA, has a hit on its hands with the musical revue Respect: A Musical Journey of Women, which has been extended for a second time - now to Aug. 2.

Harve Presnell, Enduring Daddy Warbucks in 'Annie', Dies at 75 (Playbill)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Playbill - Harve Presnell, who starred in the Broadway and film versions of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and was known as an imposing, full-voiced Daddy Warbucks to generations of Annie fans, died June 30 in Santa Monica, CA. He was 75 and lived in Livingston, MT.

Bobrick's 'The Psychic' Will Premiere in Falcon's New Season in CA (Playbill)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Playbill - Falcon Theatre, the Burbank, CA, company founded by Garry Marshall, will present five productions in 2009-10, including the world premiere comedy, The Psychic, by Sam Bobrick.

'Glory Days' Boys Record Cast Album ; Script and Score Available for Production (Playbill)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Playbill - The Broadway cast of Glory Days, the pop musical about a reunion of four high school buddies, will be in a recording studio July 2-3 to create a cast album more than a year after the show's one-performance run.

Housewife first up for 100-day "live sculpture" (Reuters)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:03:38 GMT

Reuters - A housewife from Sleaford in Lincolnshire will be the first of thousands of people to stand for one hour on top of a plinth in London's Trafalgar Square as part of a 100-day "live sculpture" exercise.

'Twelfth Night', With Page, MacNichol, Green, Vandermeer, Opens at Old Globe (Playbill)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:31:17 GMT

Playbill - The Tony Award-winning Old Globe in San Diego opens Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - one of three shows in the 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festival - on July 1, after previews from June 17. Patrick Page is Malvolio.

Devanand Janki Directs 'Aladdin' for Chicago Shakes (Playbill)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:31:17 GMT

Playbill - Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) launches Disney's Aladdin, an adaptation of the 1992 animated film, July 1 in its kid-friendly summer slot.

'Some Kind of Wonderful,' a Pop Revue, Premieres in Florida (Playbill)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:31:17 GMT

Playbill - Florida Stage's world-premiere summer production of a new theatrical concert, Some Kind Of Wonderful!, featuring pop music of the early 1960s, begins July 1.

Short stories offer portraits from Mugabe's Zimbabwe (Reuters)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:31:21 GMT

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/stage_nm/us_books_gappah"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r2732467122.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=cIiKK1mtsuAvTdosUgAIzg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah poses for a portrait in New York May 7, 2009. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0" /></a>Reuters - With her debut collection of short stories, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah has been heralded as a major new literary voice, but she said it was a struggle to write about her homeland without being didactic.</p><br clear="all"/>

Book Talk: Author Adichie doesn't mind her own business (Reuters)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:31:57 GMT

Reuters - Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a professional eavesdropper: she admits a lot of what she writes is based on what she's overheard.

Judge rules for J.D. Salinger in copyright case (Reuters)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:29:55 GMT

Reuters - The publication of a book that novelist J.D. Salinger said ripped off his classic "The Catcher in the Rye" was halted by a U.S. federal judge on Wednesday.

Avant-garde German choreographer Pina Bausch dies (Reuters)

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:57:34 GMT

Reuters - German choreographer Pina Bausch, whose work is credited with revolutionizing the language of modern dance, died Tuesday after being diagnosed with cancer only days earlier. She was 68 years old.

Koons, with eye for pop, brings Popeye show to UK (Reuters)

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:11:04 GMT

Reuters - Artist Jeff Koons has presented a series of Popeye paintings in London, saying the cartoon hero born of the 1929 Depression was a symbol of self confidence, before adding enigmatically: "May be art is the spinach."

Opera diva to film star, Fleming hits big screens (Reuters)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:25:56 GMT

Reuters - U.S. soprano Renee Fleming will have more than the Royal Opera House audience to worry about on Tuesday night.

McDowell As 'Tynan' and Kron World Premiere Featured in 2009-10 Kirk Douglas Season (Playbill)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:31:17 GMT

Playbill - The new 2009-10 season of work by Center Theatre Group at its Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles will feature a world premiere by Lisa Kron, Malcolm McDowell as drama critic Kenneth Tynan and a new play by In the Continuum writer Danai Gurira.

Hungary's hot "Ring" lures Wagnerites (Reuters)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:19:46 GMT

Reuters - Life is full of choices, few starker than this: On a sunny June day would you rather stroll along the Danube River or sit for five hours in a darkened hall listening to a very large soprano belt out Wagner?

Houston, Kim, Ridarelli, Rosa and More Will Sing Hollmann and Kotis' 'Yeast Nation' in Chicago (Playbill)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:31:17 GMT

Playbill - Casting has been announced for the Chicago premiere of Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life), the musical from the Tony Award-winning authors of Urinetown.

German violinist enjoys fame second time around (Reuters)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:23:21 GMT

Reuters - David Garrett has a No. 1 album on his hands. The classical violinist's self-titled U.S. debut has been No. 1 on Billboard's Top Classical Crossover Albums chart for three weeks. But this isn't Garrett's first brush with stardom.