® Cara Joy at Full Force Theatre Musings boldly lays out her Tony predictions for next season.

® Theatre for a New Audience’s upcoming season will include performances by Christine Baranski and Lisa Gay Hamilton. Ms. Hamilton will star in Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders, and Ms. Baranski will play the tragic Egyptian Queen in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. 

® What’s next? America picks Hedda Gabler? The people’s Blanche DuBoise? Matt Wolf of Bloomberg.com ponders how far reality casting might go. 

® Towleroad via Broadwayworld.com tells us that Mike Nichols may direct Jake Gyllenhaall in Farragut North on Broadway.   

® Everything I Know I Learned from Musical Theatre weighs in on the “lucrative but artistically bankrupt” Dirty Dancing musical. 

® Did you know Joan Rivers had a Tony Nomination??? 

® From the Toronto Star, six new CD’s to get your musical theatre juices flowing.

® More info on the [title of show] show. Please remember, you saw it here first!! 

® Moni Ovadia, director of The “Mittelfest“, a theatre festival in Cividale del Friuli, a small Italian town on the Slovenian border, gives an inspiring interview on the role of theatre and social change: “We who have grown up on the stage know what a strong impact an idea given expression on the stage can have on the audience. Not only the intellect, but also the stomach, the heart and all the sensory organs participate in this process. I’m convinced that in Europe and in other places human rights will only be properly respected once they get into people’s blood… You may call me naïve, but I firmly believe that theatre is one of the few effective ways to accomplish this.” 

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