My StumbleUpon Page

Gavin Creel Will Star in Broadway's 'Hair' Revival; Espinosa Bows Out (Playbill)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Playbill - Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will star as Claude in the upcoming Broadway revival of the tribal love rock musical Hair, which is scheduled to begin performances March 6 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
[More]
Mary-Louise Parker Is a Hipper Hedda (Playbill)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Playbill - Actress Mary-Louise Parker puts a contemporary spin on Ibsen's tragic heroine, Hedda Gabler, in a new Broadway production.
[More]
'In the Heights' Is in the "Hits" Category; Producers Recoup Investment (Playbill)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Playbill - Lights up - on a hit. Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman, the lead producers of the 2008 Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the Heights, announced on Jan. 8 that they recouped the show's $10 million investment after only 10 months and 337 performances.
[More]
'Old Glory', Neveu's Play About Fallout of Iraq War, Premieres in IL; Cast Announced (Playbill)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Playbill - Brett Neveu's Old Glory, one of a series of plays about how the Iraq War affects six interconnected people, will gets its world premiere production Feb. 3-March 29 from Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, IL.
[More]
Playwright Heidi Schreck Is 2009 Page 73 Fellow in NYC (Playbill)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Playbill - Heidi Schreck is the recipient of the 2009 P73 Playwriting Fellowship from Page 73, the New York City company devoted to developing new works and writers.
[More]
Heather Woodbury's 'Stripper's History' to Play Steppenwolf (Playbill)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Playbill - Award-winning playwright and solo performer Heather Woodbury returns to the Steppenwolf stage for a one-night-only performance of The Last Days of Desmond "Nani" Reese: A Stripper's History of the World 7:30 PM March 3 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre in Chicago.
[More]
Andrew Long Is 'Richard III' at Denver Center; Jesse Berger Directs (Playbill)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Playbill - Jesse Berger, artistic director of New York City's Red Bull Theater, a troupe not afraid of bloody tragedies, makes his Denver Center Theatre Company directing debut with a new production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
[More]
Philly's Arden Premieres 'My Name Is Asher Lev' (Playbill)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Playbill - Arden Theatre Company's world premiere of My Name Is Asher Lev, directed and adapted by Aaron Posner, drawing on the novel by Chaim Potok, begins Jan. 8 at the Philadelphia theatre's Arcadia Stage.
[More]
Mummy thought to be Queen Seshestet found in Egypt (Reuters)
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:21:19 GMT - (Reuters)

Reuters - Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday.

[More]
'Po Boy Tango', a Tale of Cooking and Culture Clash, Makes World Premiere in IL (Playbill)
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:33:01 GMT
Playbill - Northlight Theatre's world-premiere production of Kenneth Lin's cross-cultural relationship play, Po Boy Tango, begins Jan. 7 in suburban Chicago.
[More]
Degas sculpture expected to fetch up to $17.5 million (Reuters)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:45:56 GMT
Reuters - Sotheby's expects a rare sculpture of a young ballet dancer by French impressionist Edgar Degas to fetch up to 12 million pounds ($17.5 million) when it goes under the hammer in London next month.
[More]
Crime writer Mofina juggles work and murders (Reuters)
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:41:25 GMT
Reuters - Mofina said his latest book, "Six Seconds," released in the United States and Canada this week, was written the same way as his other eight books -- plotted on the bus on the way to work then typed out in his suburban basement in Ottawa.
[More]
UK morris dancers urge young to strap on the bells (Reuters)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:37:11 GMT
Reuters - Britain's morris dancers, renowned for bells on knees, colored rags and flower-bedecked hats, are launching a recruitment drive to convince young people that their stick-slapping art form is not a thing of the past.
[More]
Cuba opens Hemingway archives to scholars (Reuters)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:40:38 GMT - (Reuters)

Reuters - Cuba on Monday made the first of thousands of digitized documents, photographs and books that belonged to writer Ernest Hemingway available to scholars after the items languished for decades in the basement of his home outside of Havana.

[More]
Laura Bush agrees to publish memoir with Scribner (Reuters)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:54:17 GMT - (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. first lady Laura Bush has agreed to publish her memoirs with Scribner, the publisher said on Monday, giving the normally soft-spoken former librarian a chance to offer her views on the Bush presidency.

[More]
Leona Lewis signs deal for autobiography (Reuters)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:02:25 GMT - (Reuters)

Reuters - Leona Lewis, who won British talent TV show The X Factor in 2006 and topped charts around the world with her debut album "Spirit," has signed a deal to pen her autobiography with publishing house Hodder & Stoughton.

[More]
Gandhi works to go public 60 years after his death (Reuters)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:43:01 GMT
Reuters - The thought-provoking literary works of Mahatma Gandhi, India's iconic freedom fighter, are set to go public after the copyright on his writings and speeches lapses this month.
[More]
Unsworth novel looks at earlier rivalry over Iraq (Reuters)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:11:57 GMT
Reuters - Imperial ambition, imminent war and the rush to secure resources are the main themes of a new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth set in the pre-World War One region of the Ottoman empire that is now Iraq.
[More]
'Ragtime''s Sutcliffe Will Play Seurat in Shaw Festival's 'Sunday in the Park' (Playbill)
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:33:01 GMT
Playbill - Steven Sutcliffe, a 1998 Drama Desk Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner for Ragtime, will return to the Shaw Festival, where he acted in his formative years, to play George in Sunday in the Park With George.
[More]
Iran Nobel laureate accused of Israeli bias: activist (Reuters)
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:26:54 GMT - (Reuters)

Reuters - Some 150 protesters stood outside the home and office of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi on Thursday accusing her of sympathy for Israel, the Islamic state's foe, a member of her human rights group said.

[More]