From Salon: You've seen the TV movie, now read the . . . oh, wait, no, you haven't seen the TV movie, have you? That's because CBS decided not to broadcast The Reagans. Oh well. Read the script anyway.

 

From The Sidney (Ohio) Daily News: Twenty-five years ago, he was represented on Broadway with Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Now Ed Graczyk helps out at the local community theatre in Sidney, Ohio.

 

From The New Orleans Times-Picayune: Talk about happy holidays. Once a humble spec script, David Berenbaum's Elf is now a Christmas classic-in-the-making starring Will Ferrell. Not only that, he's also penned Eddie Murphy's latest vehicle, The Haunted Mansion.

Sunday, November 02, 2003

 

From Playbill.com: After a stormy couple of months, James Houghton resigns as Artistic Director of The O'Neill Theatre Centre, seedbed of new American plays. He says it's because his board wasn't being straight with him, but, frankly, if every artistic director whose board didn't tell him everything were to resign, there'd be a lot of directorless theatres out there. We suspect it has more to do with the negative reaction to his revamp of the O'Neill's submission policy.