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CHASING
AFTER YOUTH: As arts groups chase after the youth audience,
Theatre Communications Group director Ben Cameron suggests theater
needs to reinvent the linear narrative. Chicago
Tribune 10/31/99
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THE
FUTURE OF AMERICAN THEATER: Earlier this month playwrights
John Guare, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Paula Vogel, Jon
Robin Baitz, Wendy Kesselman, August Wilson, A.R Gurney and
Christopher Durang got together to talk about the biz. New
York Times 10/31/99 (registration
required for access)
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SHUFFLING
THEATERS: "Ragtime," "Pimpernel" (maybe)
to close on Broadway. Theater notes. New
York Times 10/29/99 (registration
required for access)
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END
OF AN ERA: After ten years, "Phantom" closes in
Toronto. Lavish musical signaled the boom in Toronto theater
- now the waning interest in mega-musicals and in Toronto's
theater scene. Toronto
Globe and Mail. 10/28/99
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NOT
JUST ANOTHER MURDER: An artist lies face down in a pool
of blood in a store window in downtown San Antonio. Passers
by on the street can talk to the attending detective, reporter,
prosecutor or defense attorney - all part of this sordid theater
performance. San
Antonio Express News 10/28/99
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INNOVATION
AND DRAMA in England's new £30 million Milton Keynes theater.
"It's a stunner."
London Times 10/27/99
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TICKET
SALES FOR BROADWAY'S "RAGTIME" have dived in recent
weeks. Owners contemplate closing the show. Toronto
Globe and Mail 10/26/99
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TATTOOED
LADIES TO PUPPETS: British Festival of Visual Theatre celebrates
ten years. London Times
10/26/99
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"IMPROBABLE"
international theater festival gets under way in San Antonio.
San Antonio Express
News 10/25/99
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MOST
PERFORMED: A list of the most-performed plays in America
in the 1999/2000 season. Chicago
Tribune 10/17/99
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"LION
KING" opens in London to raves. BBC
10/21/99
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BROADWAY
AS NFL? Credit card company Visa signs a deal to market
Broadway theater across the US. The theater industry is looking
to broaden its audience. We'll promote it just as we do our
sports portfolio, says a Visa exec. Backstage
10/21/99
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PRAIRIE
THEATRE EXCHANGE: Minnesota's Twin Cities have seen an explosion
of theater in the past few years. Collaboration is the key,
says one director. Christian
Science Monitor 10/18/99
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NO
ROOM AT THE INN: Even after spending $1 billion on new arts
facilities in the past decade, Seattle still has a theater housing
crisis. Theaters are clamoring for performing space.
Seattle Times 10/13/99
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EVERYONE
KNOWS DIRECTORS can screw up great plays. Or make them better.
The London Times talks to five great writer/director teams and
asks what makes them work. London
Times 10/13/99
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MORE
POPULAR THAN SHAKESPEARE?: Alan Ayckbourn's 53rd play opens
in the West End next week, his 55th goes to the National next
year and his 56th is underway. Only Shakespeare is performed
more often. London
Telegraph 10/8/99
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COLOR
BIND: Why is there no black-run theater company in the nation's
capital? Washington
Post 10/3/99
