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Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere discuss Into The Woods, Love Quirks, Richard III @ Shakespeare in the Park, Scott Siegel’s Almost On Broadway @ The Town Hall, and more! This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest running read more

The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Guest: Brian Watkins, Playwright of “Epiphany” Brian Watkins: LCT debut. Plays include Wyoming, Evergreens, Into The Earth With You, My Daughter Keeps Our read more

‘Funny Girl’ Producers Not Blindsided, Rudin to Be Deposed, ‘Magic Mike’ to Go on Tour “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day. Any and all feedback is appreciated: Ashley Steves ashley@broadwayradio.com | @NoThisIsAshleyGrace Aki grace@broadwayradio.com | @ItsGraceAkiJames Marino james@broadwayradio.com read more

Inside The “Paradise Square” Lawsuits, “The Piano Lesson” Rumored To Jump Theatres, “Some Like It Hot” First Listen “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day. Any and all feedback is appreciated: Ashley Steves ashley@broadwayradio.com | @NoThisIsAshleyGrace Aki grace@broadwayradio.com | read more

Jackson Goes “Into The Woods,” “Death of a Salesman” Revival Completes Casting, This Week’s Grosses “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day. Any and all feedback is appreciated: Ashley Steves ashley@broadwayradio.com | @NoThisIsAshleyGrace Aki grace@broadwayradio.com | @ItsGraceAkiJames Marino james@broadwayradio.com read more

Lea Michele to Be Broadway’s New Funny Girl, ‘Paradise Square’ to End this Week, Rockwell & Foster to Lead ‘Broadway Vacation’ “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day. Any and all feedback is appreciated: Ashley Steves ashley@broadwayradio.com | @NoThisIsAshleyGrace read more

Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk with Jeff Bowen about Now. Here. This. and his other projects.   Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review   Notes and links for the podcast. Guest: Jeff Bowen Jeff on Twitter Jeff on Facebook Now. Here. This. CD at Sh-K-Boom [title of show] [show website] Now. Here. This. [show website] Now. Here. This. Kickstarter Campaign Now. Here. This. [Vineyard website]   Reviews: The Film Society of Lincoln Center  – 70 mm film festival– Sound of Music– West Side Story– My Fair Lady Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol (1962) Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Bob Merrill   Maureen McGovern @ 54 Below   News: The Phantom of the Opera to celebrate 25 years on Broadway by Matt Trueman Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical opened at New York’s Majestic theatre in January 1988, two years after West End debutThe Phantom of the Opera will become the first show to celebrate its 25th a… LINKED FROM THE GUARDIAN Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor to Star in Revival of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at Second Stage by Lindsay Champion The Mystery of Edwin Drood star Betsy Wolfe and Rent alum Adam Kantor will bring Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years back to life at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. In a … LINKED FROM BROADWAY.COM ‘Big Fish’ Musical Splashes Down for Pre-Broadway Tryout in Chicago by David Rooney Directed and choreographed by five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman, the stage adaptation of the 2003 Tim Burton film will premiere in the Windy City in April.read more LINKED FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Recoups on Broadway by David Rooney The revival of David Mamet’s play, starring Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale, is the first of this season’s Broadway productions to recoup its investment.read more LINKED FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ArtsBeat: ‘Newsies’ Recoups Initial Investment by Patrick Healy The Broadway musical “Newsies” has recouped its $5 million capitalization, becoming the fastest of any Disney musical on Broadway to turn a profit, the show’s producers said. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION This Is 40 Director Judd Apatow Is Writing a Broadway Play and Thinks It May Be ‘The Best Idea I’ve Ever Had’ by Marc Snetiker Did Judd Apatow catch the Broadway bug from his This Is 40 star Paul Rudd? The filmmaking funnyman is hard at work on a new Broadway play, and it’s unlike anything he’s ever… LINKED FROM BROADWAY.COM Theater News: Robert Sean Leonard, Charlotte Parry to Star in Old Globe’s Pygmalion by Andy Propst It’s once again time for poor cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to learn some proper English, as George Bernard Shaw’s classic Pygmalion reaches the 100th anniversary of its premiere. In … LINKED FROM THEATERMANIA Happy Hugh year! by Michael Riedel Ever since he starred on Broadway in “The Boy From Oz,” Hugh Jackman has been the musical theater’s most sought-after leading man. Now he’s taken his act to the big screen, starring … LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK POST SUBSCRIPTION   Post Script:   Explicit: No   Music:  [title of show] #2 Two Nobodies In New York Now. Hear. This. #1 What Are the Odds? Now. Hear. This. #16 Finale: Now. Here. This.   Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-855-987-8277 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: [...]

Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Glengarry Glen Ross, Bare, The Anarchist, A Civil War Christmas, Working, and Golden Boy.   Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review —- Life After 50 Mitzi Gaynor by Michael Portantiere   Notes and links for the podcast. Reviews: MP: Glengarry Glen Ross @ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre through January 20, 2013 —- Saturday Night Live: You’re a Rat Bastard, Charlie Brown (Glengarry / Al Pacino satire) MP + PF: Bare @ New World Stages MP + PF: The Anarchist @ The Golden Theatre (Closed) MP: A Civil War Christmas @ NYTW PF + MP: Working @ 59e59 (Prospect Theater Company) through Dec 30 MP: Golden Boy @ LCT News: Tony-Winning Creative Team Announced for Woody Allen Musical Bullets Over Broadway by Adam Hetrick The creative team has been announced for the Susan Stroman-helmed Broadway musical adaptation of Woody Allen’s Academy Award-nominated film Bullets Over Broadway, which is aiming for a B… LINKED FROM PLAYBILL ArtsBeat: A Dark and Stormy Fall Season for Broadway by Patrick Healy Out of 19 plays and musicals that opened in the second half of this year, only 2 are hits with ticket buyers. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION Bo Bice to Join ‘Pump Boys’ on Broadway by David Rooney The “American Idol” season four runner-up will star in the spring revival of the heartland rock musical, directed by Tony winner John Doyle.read more LINKED FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ArtsBeat: Rather Than Recasting, ‘Evita’ Will Close on Jan. 26 by Patrick Healy Producers reverse their decision to keep the show open after Ricky Martin and his costars leave. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION Broadway union members authorize strike | Crain’s New York Business by Theresa Agovino The contract covering porters, cleaners, elevator operators and matrons at the majority of Broadway theaters expires on Dec. 30. They want better health care options. LINKED FROM CRAIN’S The Phantom of the Opera to celebrate 25 years on Broadway by Matt Trueman Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical opened at New York’s Majestic theatre in January 1988, two years after West End debut The Phantom of the Opera will become the first show to celebrate its 25th a… LINKED FROM THE GUARDIAN   Post Script: Don’t forget Free Concert on Friday: Come Home for Christmas at Mark Hellinger Theatre   Explicit: Yes     Music:  “Just a Housewife” from WORKING “Night Song” from GOLDEN BOY   Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-855-987-8277 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact james@broadwayradio.com.

Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk with Maureen McGovern. We also review Dead Accounts, Starting Here, Starting Now, Broadway Close Up and Glengarry Glen Ross.   Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review   Notes and links for the podcast. Guest: Maureen McGovern http://www.maureenmcgovern.com/ “A Long and Winding Road” from PS Classics “Christmas with Maureen McGovern” from Sony (out of print) Home For The Holidays @ 54 Below on Dec 18-23, 2012 IBDB IMDB Wikipedia Peter: The Morning After from BMI Lehman Engel Workshop A performance with Maureen McGovern from the 2010 MDA Telethon live from the South Point Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas.   Reviews: MP + PF: Dead Accounts @ The Music Box PF: Starting Here, Starting Now @ The York, one night only, extended 2 performances 12/9 and 12/16 MP: Broadway Close Up @ Merkin Concert Hall PF: Glengarry Glen Ross @ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre through January 20, 2013 ArtsBeat: Postponed Opening for ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Keeps Critics Quiet by Charles Isherwood By the time it closes, “Glengarry Glen Ross” will have played a full half of its run without having to face any official critical scrutiny. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION   News: Facebook tells us that yesterday (12/8) was John Rubinstein‘s birthday! ArtsBeat: Veteran Broadway Producers Back ‘Pippin’ by Patrick Healy and Scott Heller Barry Weissler, the Tony Award-winning producer of the Broadway revival of “Chicago” and many other musicals, said on Thursday that he and his wife, Fran, along with producers Howard and Jan… LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION January comes early: three sudden closings. Chaplin to Go Silent on Broadway; Closing Date Set for Musical by Broadway.com Chaplin, the Broadway bio-musical starring Rob McClure and featuring direction and choreography by Warren Carlyle, will go silent on January 6, 2013. At the time of its closin… LINKED FROM BROADWAY.COM Scandalous, the Pop Musical About a Religious Superstar, Will Fold Dec. 9 by Kenneth Jones Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, a musical passion project by writer Kathie Lee Gifford, will close on Broadway Dec. 9, its producers announced on Dec. 4. The biogr… LINKED FROM PLAYBILL Breaking News: THE ANARCHIST Starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger to Close on Broadway December 16 by BroadwayWorld Producers have announced that THE ANARCHIST, the new play written and directed by DAVID MAMET, which began previews at the newly refurbished Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street on Tuesday, N… LINKED FROM BROADWAYWORLD ‘Iris’ joins list of recent duds for Cirque du Soleil by David Ng Has Cirque du Soleil flown a little too close to the sun? LINKED FROM LOS ANGELES TIMES BC/EFA Salutes Fred Ebb and Other Show People by Michael Portantiere The 24th annual Gypsy of the Year competition, held at the New Amsterdam Theatre, raised $3,902,608 to support the good works of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. This year’s event culminat… LINKED FROM BROADWAYSTARS Exclusive: Kristin Chenoweth on World Tour Plans, Confirms Broadway Return in 20th Century, Soapdish & More! by Caryn Robbins Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth reveals plans for World Tour, her Broadway return in On the 20th Century and Soapdish, dating ‘The Bachelor’ LINKED FROM BROADWAYWORLD Will Spider-Man Have [...]

Michael Portantiere, Aileen McKenna and James Marino talk with Marc Kudisch about The Holiday Guys Hanu-Mas Concert. We also discuss The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and the week’s news.   Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Aileen McKenna | the.tacular@gmail.com | Twitter | Facebook The Craptacular BackStage.com James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review   Notes and links for the podcast. Guest: Marc Kudisch http://www.marckudisch.net/ The Holiday Guys 2012 Hanu-Mas Concert Itinerary: Nov 29 – Dec 2 Monmouth University, Monmouth, NJ Dec 6 – 9 (Second year!) MusicalFare Theatre, Buffalo NY Dec 11-16 Signature Theatre, Arlington VA (Wash. DC area) Dec 18-31 (yes, that’s right…New Year’s Eve!) The York Theatre Company, New York City ASSASSINS: One Night Only – December 3, 2012 @ Studio 54 The 2004 Tony Award–winning cast of Assassins returns for a Benefit Concert Reading of the show that gives new meaning to the phrase “killer musical.” With a stylish Stephen Sondheim score and a provocative book by John Weidman, Assassins brings to the stage some of history’s most notorious players—the men and women who attempted to kill American presidents. Reviews: The Mystery of Edwin Drood @ 54 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike @ LCT   News: ArtsBeat: ‘Miss Firecracker’ to Open on Broadway by Patrick Healy Beth Henley’s play “The Miss Firecracker Contest” will be mounted on Broadway this spring and star the Emmy-nominated actress Amber Tamblyn. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Samuel French Selects Bruce Lazarus for New Executive Director by Adam Hetrick Bruce Lazarus has been named the new executive director of Samuel French Inc., overseeing company strategy, marketing and business affairs, the play publishing and live performance rights or… LINKED FROM PLAYBILL ArtsBeat: Mike Tyson, ‘Chaplin’ Announce National Tours by Jennifer Schuessler The boxer’s one-man show will begin a 36-city tour in Indianapolis in February. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Merrily We Roll Along – review by Michael Billington Menier Chocolate Factory, London Although it famously flopped on Broadway in 1981, this Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical has been re-evaluated in fine British revivals at Leicester Hayma… LINKED FROM THE GUARDIAN ArtsBeat: ‘King Kong’ Producer Eyeing Spider-Man’s Broadway Lair by Patrick Healy The new musical, based on the famed movie about a rampaging ape, is first scheduled to open in Melbourne, but a New York run could come later. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION MP correction: Saigon – Chandelier analogy ArtsBeat: ‘Scandalous’ Producers Keep Faith in a Struggling Show by Patrick Healy The show’s creator, Kathie Lee Gifford, and two of the lead producers, Dick and Betsy DeVos, have kept the show running in hopes that it will find a larger audience at the box office. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Gangnam (Broadway) Style video? BCEFA Gypsy of the Year Vive ‘Les Miz’: B’way abuzz over film version by Michael Riedel At last Broadway has a hit! The only trouble is, you won’t find it on the stage. The theater world’s buzzing about Cameron Mackintosh’s “Les Misérables” movie. Not since “Chicag… LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK POST Post Script: Dead Accounts Working @ 59e59 Bare   Explicit: Yes Music: The Holiday Guys in Happy Merry Hanu-Mas produced by Mike Croiter, Yellow Sound Label God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Peace On Earth by I. Fraser, L. Grossman & A. Kohan   Contact I[...]

Peter Filichia, Jan Simpson, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk with Brian Stokes Mitchell about his new CD, concert tour and Broadway career. Also discussed is the Broadway opening of Scandalous, Giant at The Public and The Outgoing Tide at 59e59. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review Jan Simpson | Facebook | Twitter Broadway & Me Co-director of the Arts and Culture Journalism program at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism and a writer for TDF Stages Notes and links for the podcast. Guest: Brian Stokes Mitchell BrianStokes.com IBDB.com The Actors Fund Charity Navigator Reviews: PF + MP: Nov 15: Scandalous @ Neil Simon Theatre JS + MP + PF: Giant @ The Public JS + PF: Nov 19: A Christmas Story @ Lunt-Fontanne Theatre MP: The Outgoing Tide @ 59e59   News: Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Tony Kushner and Doris Kearns Goodwin, movie with stage actors Marty Richards, Tony-Winning Broadway and Film Producer, Dies at 80 by Robert Simonson   Post Script: PF: The Golden Land @ Baruch MP: Broadway Cares Gypsy of the Year Dec 3-4 JS: Paula Vogel’s “A Civil War Christmas” at New York Theatre Workshop MP: Go see Virginia Woolf! Don’t wait. PF: Come Home for Christmas at Mark Hellinger Theatre   Explicit: No Music:  Brian Stokes Mitchell: “Simply Broadway” If I Were a Rich Man The Impossible Dream   Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-855-987-8277 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact james@broadwayradio.com.

Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about the Broadway openings of Elf and A Christmas Story. We also discuss a few new CD releases and the news from in and around the Broadway community. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review Notes and links for the podcast. Reviews: PF: Nov 09: Elf – AL HIRSCHFELD THEATRE MP + PF: Nov 19: A Christmas Story – LUNT-FONTANNE THEATRE   CDs: A Christmas Story Carols for a Cure 2012 (benefits Broadway Cares) Brian Stokes Mitchell’s Simply Broadway Cabaret (1968 London Cast) That Controversial Cabaret Lyric Change by Peter Filichia Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking Seventeen Book: Performance of the Century: 100 Years of Actors Equity Association and the Rise of Professional American Theater by Robert Simonson Encores Gala Opera Tempest @ The Met   News: Yankees play (from the people who brought Lombardi and Magic/Bird to Broadway) Steve Jobs movie written by Aaron Sorkin to be in three acts 30 minutes each The Musical! Disney – Lucas Studios – Star Wars musical to happen? Variety changes hands again will remove the paywall   Next Week: Nov 15: Scandalous – NEIL SIMON THEATRE   Explicit: No Music:        Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-855-987-8277 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact james@broadwayradio.com.

Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino return from the Hurricane Sandy hiatus. Discussions include: The Heiress, Annie, and The Performers. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review Notes and links for the podcast. Reviews: MP: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? MP + PF: Nov 01 – The Heiress – WALTER KERR THEATRE MP + PF: Nov 08 – Annie – PALACE THEATRE PF: Nov 14 – The Performers – LONGACRE THEATRE   News: No news this show.   Explicit: Yes Music:        Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-855-987-8277 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact james@broadwayradio.com.

Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, The Other Josh Cohen, Barbara Cook, 85th Birthday Concert @ Carnegie Hall plus other events and news from around the Broadway community. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review   Notes and links for the podcast. Reviews: PF + MP: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at The Booth Theatre • 222 West 45th Street • Between Broadway and 8th Avenue   Steppenwolf Theatre Company   MP + PF: Cyrano de Bergerac     MP: King Lear American Bard Theater Company at the St. Mary’s, Times Square, Third Floor Theatre, 143 W. 46th St., NYC. Oct. 18–Nov. 4. (212) 352-3101 PF: The Other Josh Cohen SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam Street, New York, NY Through November 11   MP: Barbara Cook, 85th Birthday Concert @ Carnegie Hall MP: Broadway Originals Ryan Silverman & Jill Paice perform at Broadway Originals (photo by Michael Portantiere) Rebecca performers Jill Paice & Ryan Silverman MP: Alan Menken tribute at National Arts Club w/Angela Lansbury Julia Murney, David Zippel, Lindsay Mendez and Tituss Burgess Honor Alan Menken at National Arts Club Oct. 21 By Adam Hetrick News: Feds Arrest Middle Man Financier for Rebecca Show by William K. Rashbaum In recent weeks, officials had begun scrutinizingMark C. Hotton his role in the deal and the show’s collapse. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION ‘Rebecca’ producers to file $100 million lawsuit against LI businessman by Mitchel Maddux “Rebecca the Musical’’ had to cancel its Broadway opening — but the behind-the-scenes drama is booked in two Manhattan courtrooms. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK POST SUBSCRIPTION Theatre Communications Group Releases 32nd Annual Report; Not-For-Profit Theaters Add $1.94 Billion to Economy by BroadwayWorld Not-for-profit theatres contributed nearly 1.94 billion to the U.S. economy and attracted 34 million attendees, according to Theatre Facts 2011. Released by Theatre Communications Group TCG,… LINKED FROM BROADWAYWORLD Horizon Theatre Rep Cancels The Balcony After Bedbugs Discovered Backstage By Adam Hetrick 19 Oct 2012 Horizon Theatre Rep’s production of The Balcony, which was slated to run Oct. 11-Nov. 4, has been indefinitely postponed due to a bedbug infestation backstage at the ArcLight Theatre on the Upper West Side, producers announced Oct. 19. Theater News: Barry Edelstein Named Artistic Director of Old Globe by Brian Scott Lipton Barry Edelstein has been named Artistic Director of San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, and will assume the position on November 1. He will work together with Managing Director Michael G. Murphy … LINKED FROM THEATERMANIA Theater News: Follies, The Iceman Cometh Take Top Honors at Chicago’s Jeff Awards by David Gordon The Goodman Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s musical Follies took the top honors a… LINKED FROM THEATERMANIA Philadelphia Barrymore Awards gone? Broadway’s Bring It On Cuts Extension Short; Sets New Closing Date by Beth Stevens Bring it On: The Musical has set a new closing date at the St. James Theatre. The musical will now play its final performance on December 30, 2012 instead of the previously announced January… LINKED FROM BROADWAY.COM How is Chaplin Doing? Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber calls on Go[...]

Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about An Enemy of the People, Grace and Heresy, as well as this week’s Broadway and related news. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review   Notes and links for the podcast. Reviews: PF + MP: An Enemy of the People MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th Street Now through November 11 ENEMY VIDEO   PF + MP: Grace Cort Theatre, 138 West 48th Steet Now through January 6 GRACE VIDEO   PF + MP: Heresy The Flea Theater, 41 White Street (Tribeca) September 30 – November 4 HERESY VIDEO   Michael roundup of shows seen How To Be a New Yorker New York Pops Concert Othello (@ The Met) Chorus Line at The Paper Mill Playhouse   Peter roundup of shows seen 1931 – (regroup theater company) Detroit   News: Samuel French starts a Samphony of Their Own Partnership with ROCS Gives Theatres Digital Musical Accompaniment Laurents, the ungrateful dead by Michael Riedel You gotta love that Arthur Laurents. Broadway’s King Cobra is still spewing venom — from the grave!His posthumous memoir, “The Rest of the Story,” has just been published by Applause… LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK POST SUBSCRIPTION Fortune in My Eyes: A Memoir of Broadway Glamour, Social Justice, and Political Passion by David Rothenberg Collision: When Reality And Illusion Collide by Ron Bruguiere Phantom Star Sarah Brightman Drops $51 Million for Space Vacation by Marc Snetiker Christine Daae is now a space tourist. Sarah Brightman, renowned global singer and the original star of The Phantom of the Opera, has purchased a seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft… LINKED FROM BROADWAY.COM ArtsBeat: ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ Headed to Broadway by Patrick Healy “Truman Capote’s ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’” a new stage adaptation by Richard Greenberg, will begin performances on Broadway in February. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION A.R.T.’s Pippin to Star Matthew James Thomas, Patina Miller, Andrea Martin, Terrence Mann and More by Adam Hetrick Spider-Man cast member Matthew James Thomas will star in the title role of Diane Paulus’ re-conceived revival of Pippin, which will premiere at the American Repertory Theater in December… LINKED FROM PLAYBILL What Do You Say When the Plane Crashes? by Raven Snook How “Charlie Victor Romeo” stages the transcripts of airline emergencies While most documentary theatre (The Laramie Project, The Exonerated, etc.) is based on after-the-fact int… LINKED FROM THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND The Exonerated Broadway Records Will Release Live Recordings at 54 Below By Patti LuPone, Andrea McArdle, Norbert Leo Butz by Andrew Gans Broadway Records and the new Manhattan nightspot 54 BELOW announced Oct. 11 that they have joined in partnership to create a series of albums recorded live at the brand-new venue. LINKED FROM PLAYBILL Explicit: No Music:  Moon River – Breakfast at Tiffanys   Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-855-987-8277 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact james@broadwayradio.com.