Read more theater stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/446/theater.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:04:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74626/the-vibrator-play-the-doctor-will-please-you-now.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play ? Why, yes, it is about exactly that—but playwright Sarah Ruhl says that “a lot of it happens under a sheet,” making the comedy “very discreet.” The play, about a 19th-century doctor who treats female patients using a newfangled electrical device...http://www.newser.com/story/74626/the-vibrator-play-the-doctor-will-please-you-now.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 9:25:23 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72435/sienna-miller-on-broadway-legs-10-acting-0.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCritics agree on one thing when it comes to Sienna Miller’s Broadway debut: She looks hot. Her performance in After Miss Julie , however, wowed exactly no one: Ben Brantley was rooting for Miller from the start, but ultimately she “registers as a healthy, sane young woman with good diction, good...http://www.newser.com/story/72435/sienna-miller-on-broadway-legs-10-acting-0.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71766/2-new-theaters-make-dallas-a-hotspot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDallas has several museums and concert halls that would be the envy of any city, but until now they've seemed more like standalone monuments than elements of a city center. Two new venues opening this Sunday have transformed downtown, "giving the area the cultural stature Dallas has long been craving,...http://www.newser.com/story/71766/2-new-theaters-make-dallas-a-hotspot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 9:13:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70510/get-the-freaking-phone-jackman-stops-play-for-fans-cell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDon't mess with the wolverine. Miffed Hugh Jackman stopped his Broadway play in its tracks to tell an audience member to turn off his cell phone. Jackman suddenly pulled out of character and asked the errant cell-phone user: "Do you want to get that?" while the the gadget rang. "Just...http://www.newser.com/story/70510/get-the-freaking-phone-jackman-stops-play-for-fans-cell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 1:51:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70458/just-being-carrie-fisher-is-super-weird.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCarrie Fisher’s shrink told her, “If you worked in a supermarket they would’ve institutionalized you at 20,” she recalls. Not so in Hollywood, where the erstwhile Princess Leia suffered through drug addiction, manic depression, and failed relationships—her own and her parents’. But electroshock therapy helped her deal with all...http://www.newser.com/story/70458/just-being-carrie-fisher-is-super-weird.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 16:08:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68454/blanchett-bloodied-in-stage-accident.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCate Blanchett left the stage of a Sydney performance of A Streetcar Named Desire with a bloodied head after a prop mishap, the Telegraph reports. A co-star charged with throwing a radio out of window during a fight “sort of slipped and hit her in the head,” an audience member...http://www.newser.com/story/68454/blanchett-bloodied-in-stage-accident.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 14:37:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68378/green-days-rock-opera-hits-the-stage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGreen Day’s multiplatinum album American Idiot is taking the stage as a 75-minute rock opera that will “challenge the very definitions of punk, theater, and musical,” writes David Downs in the East Bay Express . A 19-member cast will showcase a “ Fight Club -esque story of self-discovery through death and destruction,...http://www.newser.com/story/68378/green-days-rock-opera-hits-the-stage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 11:18:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67967/fishy-tale-gets-piven-off-the-hook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJeremy Piven was on the level when he blamed mercury poisoning for his decision to bail on a Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow last December, an arbitrator has ruled. "While we respect the decision, we strongly disagree with it," the producers of the David Mamet play said in a statement. Said...http://www.newser.com/story/67967/fishy-tale-gets-piven-off-the-hook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 16:48:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67888/stewart-spotted-ghost-in-godot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagActor Patrick Stewart reported seeing a "ghost" in the wings while performing Waiting for Godot in London, reports the Telegraph . The former Star Ship Enterprise captain was apparently not up to snuff during one scene. When co-star Ian McKelllan asked him what happened, Stewart replied: "I just saw a ghost....http://www.newser.com/story/67888/stewart-spotted-ghost-in-godot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 4:38:27 CDT