Monday, May 21, 2012 at 5am (Broadway Time)
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Review: Abigail’s Party (West End) ***

Lindsay Posner’s revival of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, which has moved uptown from the Menier Chocolate Factory like a 1970s kitsch epidemic, is a riot of beige and brow…

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Monday, May 21, 2012 at 4am (Broadway Time)
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Blog: Highjinks in 'appy 'Ackney

There was a festival atmosphere along Mare Street and around the Hackney Empire on Saturday as the Isango Ensemble from Cape Town performed all three of their new productions in one day, sta…

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Monday, May 21, 2012 at 3am (Broadway Time)
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Globe to Globe: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Globe by Fisun Güner

The Globe to Globe season has enjoyed tremendous goodwill from audiences and critics alike. And this has been largely repaid, for it’s been a joy and a wonder to learn just how much contem…

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Monday, May 21, 2012 at 1am (Broadway Time)
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ArtsBeat: Next Wave Festival Plans Announced by Adam W. Kepler

The Brooklyn Academy of Music festival starts in September and continues until mid-January. It will provide an opportunity for BAM to showcase its new 250-seat black-box theater.

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TT: Almanac

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library." Samuel Johnson, The...

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TT: Honors for a colleague

I rejoice to report that Paul Moravec, my old friend and operatic collaborator, received an Arts and Letters Award in...

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TT: Just because (in honor of Gil Evans' centenary)

Miles Davis plays with Gil Evans' orchestra on a 1959 CBS telecast: (This is the latest in a series of...

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TT: The caravan pauses

Mrs. T and I are in the process of making our way down California's Highway 1 from San Francisco to...

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2nd Annual JKTS Awards: Final Nominations: Tech/Social Media + Fun Awards by JK

For the second year in a row, JK's TheatreScene is celebrating the end of the season with its own awards, recognizing those Broadway people and productions that were overlooked by …

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Openings We're Tracking This Week, May 21-27, 2012 by The Charlebois Post

Marla McLean in A Man and Some Women (photo credit: David Cooper)Circle Mirror Transformation, at GCTC this week, sounds terrifying. It's an acting class (just that gives us the willies), an…

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Monday, May 21, 2012 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Dixon Place Presents BD Wong in HERRINGBONE, Directed by Roger Rees, 5/21-22 by BroadwayWorld

Dixon Place presenst BD Wong in the one-man musical Herringbone. Wong, best known for his Tony Award winning performance in M. Butterfly and his role in the long running hit series Law amp O…

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Olympia Dukakis Leads HERO Theatre's KING LEAR Benefit Tonight, 5/21 by BroadwayWorld

HERO Theatre presents a benefit staged reading of William Shakespeares KING LEAR tonight, May 21st at 730PM to be held at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for TheatreLaura Pels Theatre…

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Julie White & Tony Goldwyn Host BORN FOR BROADWAY Benefit Tonight, 5/21 by BroadwayWorld

The Christopher amp Dana Reeve Foundation previously announced that theater and film stars Julie White Transformers, Little Dog Laughed and Tony Goldwyn Ghost, ABCs new hit series Scandal wo…

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ONCE's David Patrick Kelly and NO PLACE TO GO Perform at 2012 Obie Awards Today, 5/21 by BroadwayWorld

Brian Parks, Obie Chairman and Village Voice arts and cultural editor, previously announced that two of this season's most critically acclaimed and popular shows would be part of the 57th An…

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Matt Doyle, Betsy Wolfe and More Set for 8th Annual NEO Concert Tonight, 5/21 by BroadwayWorld

York Theatre Company presents the 8th Annual NEO 8 tonight, May 21 at The York Theatre at Saint Peters Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue. Festivi…

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Taye Diggs Co-Hosts LIVE! WITH KELLY Today, 5/21 by BroadwayWorld

Nationally syndicated morning show LIVE with Kelly previously announced the lineup of guest co-hosts who will join Kelly Ripa this week, May 21-25, 2012. Today, Monday, May 21, Private Pract…

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BC Beat at Cielo Features Works by Choreographers Richard J. Hinds, Camille A. Brown and More, 5/21 by BroadwayWorld

Tonight, May 21, 2012 marks the third production of BC Beat at Cielo 18 Little West 12thStreet. Produced by Jennifer Jancuska and The BringAbout Productions, BC Beat offers the Broadway and …

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Kate Shindle, Nicholas Rodriguez, et al. Set for 'Little Theatre, Big Dreams' Benefit Cabaret Tonight, 5/21 by BroadwayWorld

The West Side YMCAs Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater presents its 2nd annual benefit cabaret, Little Theater, Big Dreams tonight, May 21st. The Off-Broadway gem, located inside the historic …

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James Barbour Leads SERRANO Workshop, 5/21-22 by BroadwayWorld

After the success of previous readings in New York and Los Angeles, Mark Wolper, David Geha, Steve Sunshine, Spencer Proffer and Phillipa Sledge are proud to host a workshop production of th…

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Kind of like Seinfeld in hell by Elisabeth Vincentelli

It’s tempting to think of “Title and Deed” as an elaborate prank played on a helpless audience. This new piece by Will Eno — the critically acclaimed author of “Thom Pain (based o…

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Just not spieling it by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The new revue “Old Jews Telling Jokes” is inspired by the Web site of the same name — which consists of a parade of elderly cut-ups delivering jokes. But unlike the Web, which you can…

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Elliot Norton Awards Presented May 21; Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, Stephen Karam Are Nominees by Adam Hetrick

The Boston premieres of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, as well as resident productions of Next to Normal and The Brother/Sister Plays are amon…

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The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies Return to U.S. Cinemas May 21 by Adam Hetrick

The recent live films of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies make a return to U.S. cinemas May 21 and 23, respectively, for an encore presentation.

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Jeremy Morse, Jason "SweetTooth" Williams, Molly Hager Are Part of Free Broadway's Future Concert May 21 by Andrew Gans

The free Broadway's Future concert series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul — continues May 21 at 6 PM in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New York Public Library…

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James Barbour, Michael Nouri, Eddie Korbich, Jessica Rush Star in May 21-22 Workshop of New Musical Serrano by Andrew Gans

Mark Wolper, David Geha, Steve Sunshine, Spencer Proffer and Phillipa Sledge present an industry workshop production of the new musical comedy Serrano – Poet, Lover…Hitman!…

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Cady Huffman, Daniel Jenkins, Christine Pedi, Maryann Plunkett Explore Golden Days May 21 by Andrew Gans

The Project Shaw series continues May 21 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's In Good King Charles's Golden Days.

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NEO 8 Concert, With Whitney Bashor, Ben Crawford, Matt Doyle, Theresa McCarthy, Betsy Wolfe, Presented May 21 by Andrew Gans

York Theatre Company presents NEO 8, a benefit concert celebrating new, emerging and outstanding musical theatre writers, May 21 at The York Theatre at the Theatre at Saint Peter's.

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Olympia Dukakis, Louis Cancelmi, Lynn Cohen, Dashiell Eaves Star in Benefit Reading of King Lear May 21 by Andrew Gans

Hero Theatre presents a benefit staged reading of William Shakespeare’s King Lear May 21 at 7:30 PM at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre.

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Herringbone, With Tony Winner BD Wong, Plays NYC May 21-22; Performances Will Be Recorded by Andrew Gans

The one-man musical Herringbone, starring Tony winner BD Wong and directed by stage and screen star and 2012 Tony nominee Roger Rees, plays Dixon Place May 21-22 at 7 PM.

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57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards Presented May 21 by Andrew Gans

The 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, which honor the best of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, are presented May 21 at Webster Hall.

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Star-Studded Born for Broadway Benefit, Hosted by Julie White and Tony Goldwyn, Offered May 21 by Michael Gioia

Tony Award winner Julie White (The Little Dog Laughed) and Tony Goldwyn (Promises, Promises) host the third annual Born for Broadway benefit May 21, which was declared "Born for Broadwa…

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Plays by Lila Feinberg, Andrew Dolan, Seth Bockley and Others Get Aired in NYC AracaWorks Series Starting May 21 by Kenneth Jones

The Araca Group's AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings, runs May 21-25 in Manhattan. New plays by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Dorothy Fortenberry, Lila Feinberg, Andrew Dolan …

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Gregg Edelman, Melissa Errico, Randy Graff, Ann Harada Take Part in Prospect's Spring Soirée Gala May 21 by Michael Gioia

Prospect Theater Company presents its annual gala, Spring Soirée, which benefits the company's mission to develop and produce new works, May 21 in the Harbor View Room at Battery …

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Susan Egan and Georgia Stitt Offer Glamour and Goop May 21 at Birdland by Michael Gioia

Tony Award nominee Susan Egan and composer-lyricist Georgia Stitt present their "gal-pal show," Glamour and Goop, as part of Jim Caruso's Broadway at Birdland concert series Ma…

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THE LEADING MEN: Philip Boykin, the Tony-Nominated Force of Nature of Porgy and Bess by Harry Haun

Meet 2012 Tony Award nominee Phillip Boykin, now making his Broadway debut as the rapacious Crown in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.

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Saviana Stanescu by League of Professional Theatre Women

Playwright / Professor New York, New York USA Inspiration, perspiration, persuasion (with an accent) Inspiration? In newspapers, magazines, TV/radio shows (yes, even reality shows), books, b…

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