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Arts, Briefly
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

R. Kelly holds on to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart, "Monty Python's Spamalot" will hit the road next year and more culture news.

Chicago a Holy Grail for 'Spamalot' productions by Hedy Weiss

Meanwhile, there is still no word about the replacement for Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman in White," which was to have been the inaugural event at the rehabbed LaSalle Bank (formerly Shub…

All For One: Monty Python's Spamalot Tour Will Launch in Boston in 2006; Chicago, D.C. Next

Dee-Lovely By Dennis Brown

Dee Hoty brings New York style to the Muny's Mame

Wearing it well By STEVE BARNES

Playwright J.T. Rogers loves to create parts for what he calls "silver foxes": older, elegant, articulate actresses.
Mary Beth Peil is glad to be one of them.

Sedaka musical hits all the right notes By MICHAEL ECK

Singin' in the Rain
Review By Judith Newmark

At the Muny, director Lee Roy Reams lets the mercury rise to the top of the tube.

Music Man runs into trouble with a capital 'T' By EVERETT EVANS

Ask a Star: William Finn

A French Annus Horribilis: Now, English in Molière By JOHN TAGLIABUE

The Comédie-Française is for the first time offering productions of the French classics in Paris with English surtitles.

Arena Stage director makes move to O'Neill conference by J. Wynn Rousuck

Finding the right moves at camp By Linell Smith

'Lion King' pros help theater students

VIDEO: Let's Do Lunch: Talking Up Bright Lights, Big City

A likable Suzanne Somers doesn't translate to the stage. By Howard Shapiro

It's a 90-minute contradiction. The star is sincere to a fault, yet the entire enterprise seems artificial.

Suzanne Somers' Blonde to Go Dark on July 23

Suzanne Somers' The Blonde in the Thunderbird to Close on July 23

Somers' Blonde in the Thunderbird to Close July 23

CDs: A Real Slow Drag by Ken Mandelbaum

SWEET CHARITY (DRG)
TREEMONISHA (Deutsche Grammophon)

NYC Summer Festivals Continue
Observations on SPF; Review of The Position; Two at Dixon Places 'HOT!' Fest
Reviews by Andy Propst

In the Berkshires, three productions explore life and love with passion By Ed Siegel

THEATER REVIEW | 'THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND'
Once Again, Hound Bites Theater Critics By PHOEBE HOBAN

The Performers Access Studio, a troupe of professional actors with disabilities, gives a sprightly rendition of this early Tom Stoppard confection.

THEATER REVIEW | 'THE GUT GIRLS'
Liberated by the Slaughterhouse By ANDREA STEVENS

Fiction and fact meet in this angry tale about women who scraped entrails from slaughtered animals in late-Victorian London.

Merrily We Roll Along

Guthrie's His Girl Friday sprays bullet-fast comedy
Minneapolis Review by Elizabeth Weir

An epic spectacle of refugees' odyssey BY LINDA WINER

People drown without water and run for their lives without touching the ground in the latest head-morphing epic by French visionary Ariane Mnouchkine and her multicultural, polylingual, omni…

Other Parts of the Forest by Michael Feingold

As You Like It

Sightlines: by Catherine Rampell

James Galsworthy's The Skin Game

Rediscovered Children's Opera by Michael Feingold

La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco

Robert Wilson Stages an Ancient Indonesian Epic by Una Chaudhuri

I La Galigo

JAZZ REVIEW | JAZZ IN JULY
Gershwin Is Played, and a Torch Is Passed By NATE CHINEN

Bill Charlap faced unusually high expectations on Tuesday night in his first appearance as artistic director of the Jazz in July concert series.

Colonial director fired By Jack Dew

PITTSFIELD -- Susan Sperber was fired yesterday as executive director of the Colonial Theatre, less than six weeks after it was revealed that she and the former president of the board were r…

Some shows to go on as Music Theatre rebuilds By Wendy Killeen

Jefferies Returns To Hartford Stage For 'Ladies' by Frank Rizzo

Stephen Sondheim attended the final performance of "Follies" at the Barrington Stage Company.

Tomei, Redgrave, and Cohen Set for Women Center Stage 2005 Festival

Lynn Redgrave and Marisa Tomei Headline "Women Center Stage 2005," July 29-Aug. 31

New York IT Award Nominees Announced

Broadway and Beyond: 'Moonlight' Shines on Very Busy Season at Old Globe
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Rupert and Creek Star in Workshop of New Charlie Chaplin Musical Limelight, July 21-24

DeCesare's Poetry Is Set to Music in Dreamhouse, Exploring Womanhood in Song, July 21-Aug. 5 in NYC

PS Classics' Chaffin and Krasker Perform Songs from "Warm Spring Night" at Tower Lincoln Center July 27

NYC's Prospect Season Will Offer Three New Musicals, Including Lauded Tutor and World Premiere Iron Curtain

Davis, Dinklage and Streep Star in Charlie Kaufman Sound Play Hope Leaves the Theater in LA

Charity's O'Hare and Rent's Davis and More Perform at "Broadway in Bryant Park," July 21

Roundabout's American Airlines Box Office Opens for A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, July 21

David Hare's Stuff Happens Debuts in Sydney; Sights Set On Broadway

Spelling Bee Originators Appear at The Drama Bookshop, July 31

HERE's Living Room Series of New Plays Begins in Downtown Manhattan June 20

Wisconsin's Peninsula Players Meet Theatre Restoration Challenge Grant

New Musicals by Brown, Spencer, Spangler, Friedman, Kellogg, Warrender Heard in Seattle-Area Festival Aug. 4-7

Cabaret Convention to Play Lincoln Center; Stritch, Akers, Marcovicci, Ebersole and More Set to Sing

Kelly to Replace Moriber in Off-Broadway's Joy

John Barrowman Is Prince Charming in London Cinderella

Mary Stuart Opens at London's Donmar July 20

Casts Set for New Musicals In the Heights and Willy & Rupert at O'Neill Center

Thrill Me Schedules BC/EFA Benefit Performance and Extends Talkback Series

Wicked's Menzel Adds Boston and Vineyard Dates to Summer Concert Schedule

Piazza Star Heads to the Chatterbox July 21

The Roundabout's Constant Wife Extends Through August 21