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New York Times

Antsy Adolescents Romp at Edinburgh Festivals
Significant shows at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festival Fringe considered the anxieties and preoccupations of contemporary youth.

‘A Puzzling Obsession’
NYTimes.com Exclusive: Hunter Bell, who co-stars in the musical "[title of show],” in a home video production of a short play he wrote as a child.

New York Sun

A Theatrical Tribute to Fela Kuti
Halfway through previews of his rousing, dance-filled musical, "Fela!" which opens September 4 for a two-and-a-half-week run, the choreographer Bill T. Jones, 56, was still fine-tuning sequences every afternoon. He has won every possible accolade as a…

New York Journal News

Purchase's new music man
Wiley Hausam comes to Purchase PAC with a background in opera, theater, education, programming and artist representation. But it's the fact that his dad was a traveling salesman that might help him most in his new post.

Variety

'Jump' show returns to Union Square
'Break Out' to open on Sept. 23

TheaterMania

Peter Filichia's Diary: We're Giggin'
I got off the plane from the 27th Edmonton International Fringe Festival, and headed right to Barnes & Noble – to moderate a panel celebrating the release of the York Theatre Company cast album of The Gig. ...

Jeff Nominations in Chicago

* 'Miz,' '80 Days' and 'Requiem' top Jeff nominations (Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog)
* Jeff Award nominations keep large and midsize theaters separate (Chicago Sun-Times)
* They wuz robbed: Our (affectionate) rebuttal to the 2008 Jeff nominations (Time Out Chicago)

'Vanities' sets B'way Date

* 'Vanities' sets Broadway opening date (Los Angeles Times)
* Arts Briefly, Footnotes (New York Times)
* 'Vanities' sets February date (Variety)

Casting on Second Stage's 'Boys' Life'

* Trio set for Second Stage's 'Boys' (Variety)
* Biggs, Coiro and Scanavino to Star in Second Stage's Boys' Life Revival (Playbill)
* Biggs, Coiro, Federer, March, Scanavino, et al. Set for Second Stage's Boys' Life (TheaterMania)

'Grey Gardens' opens in CA - initial reviews are out

* 'Grey Gardens' can't add much color as musical (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Musical `Gardens' could use some pruning (San Francisco Examiner)
* `Gardens’ at TheatreWorks is solid production of crumbling musical (Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog)

The Times UK

David Hare: how the BBC killed the TV play
The BBC's abandonment of the single television play is a spineless betrayal of the playwright, the art and the public

The Guardian

And the tiniest venue award goes to ...
Who were the Edinburgh festival's winners and losers? Brian Logan doles out his gongs for 2008