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MONSTER SALARY CUTS By MICHAEL RIEDEL

LIKE CEOs in the troubled airline industry, "Young Frankenstein" creator Mel Brooks and producer Robert F. X. Sillerman have embarked on a cost-cutting rampage in a desperate effort to keep …

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CINDY ADAMS

TERRENCE Howard's gorgeous, talented bones, familiar from "Iron Man," "Hustle & Flow," "Crash," are now dazzling B'way in the all-black production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"...

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Galway to Broadway? by Army Archerd

After "Better Late" bowed at the Northlight Theater outside Chicago in April, Larry Gelbart, who co-wrote the play with Craig Wright, said he wasn't thinking about Broadway -- not yet, anyho…

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Mark Rylance breathes new life into 'Boeing-Boeing' By Patrick Pacheco

The revival of the sex farce has revealed a deadpan performance related to Stan Laurel.

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Flying High

Boeing-Boeing, Marc Camoletti's 1960s farce, comes in for a return landing on Broadway with political incorrectness and slamming doors intact.

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Back to the Future By Cathleen McGuigan

The year's top Broadway musicals may be hip, but they're old-fashioned, too.

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Hot Seat: Lin-Manuel Miranda By Allison Williams

Broadway's newest It boy is no stranger to gold lamé.

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'Passing' Along His Favorites

Stew, the Tony-Nominated Star of 'Passing Strange,' On Albums He Loves

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Daniel Breaker's big year By Patrick Pacheco

Highlights include marriage, impending fatherhood and a nomination for 'Passing Strange.'

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Suddenly, Seymour BY PETER FILICHIA

Starring role in 'Little Shop of Horrors' is good fit for diminutive actor

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Strouse-ical

From "Birdie" and "Annie" to "Marty" and "Minsky's," composer Charles Strouse writes the songs that put on a happy face.

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Podcast: Brad Oscar

Broadway vet Brad Oscar and DC fave J. Fred Shiffman talk about teaming up for Arena Stage's The Mystery of Irma Vep

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Live from Williamstown By Terry Byrne

'SNL' veteran Darrell Hammond to star in 'Beyond Therapy'

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Oh, Danny boy! BY MISHA DAVENPORT

Kaye musical taps into the many layers of multifaceted performer

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Leaving Las Vegas By Adam Feldman

After years in the desert, downtown legend Joey Arias comes home.

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A summer with the bard By Peter D. Kramer

The first season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival started inauspiciously, under showery skies that, as the run continued, delivered deluges and forced performances indoors.

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Photo File By: Joseph Marzullo, Tristan Fuge, & Brian Scott Lipton

Alec Baldwin, Timothy Busfield, Bobby Cannavale, Kathie Lee Gifford, Priscilla Lopez, Andrea McArdle, Mercedes Ruehl, Denzel Washington, JoBeth Williams and other stars make the scene.

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Pictures of an exhibitionist By David Cote

Edward Albee shapes a portrait of sculptor friend Louise Nevelson in Occupant.

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Resurrecting an Artist's Greatest Creation: Herself By BEN BRANTLEY

Mercedes Ruehl performs with unimpeachable conviction in Edward Albee's touchingly modest tribute to the sculptor Louise Nevelson.

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A portrait of an art-world legend shines By Jacques le Sourd

It's riveting. Put it on your must-see list immediately.

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Edward Albee looks for the real Louise Nevelson By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

Ruehl and company have given Albee's vision of Nevelson a marvellous second chance.

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Albee crafts portrait of sculptor by MICHAEL SOMMERS

A quirky study of a distinctive artist, Edward Albee's "Occupant" is a delightful biography of the great American sculptor Louise Nevelson.

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Review: 'Occupant' BY ROBERT FELDBERG

Overriding mundane biographical details, it brings a piercing clarity to Nevelson's life and ambition and shows us who she was as an artist.

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Mercedes Rules By MALCOLM JOHNSON

'Occupant' Portrays Louise Nevelson With Humor, Gusto

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Occupant
Review by Matthew Murray

"You got somebody in you right from the start, and if you're lucky you figure out who it is and you become it." She unquestionably did. Albee may never provide in Occupant a succinct series of steps detailing how she managed it, but after two hours with this irrepressible, irreplaceable individual, you'll understand the process - and her - as intimately as you do your own secret stories.

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Playwright Edward Albee 'sculpts' Louise Nevelson BY LINDA WINER

It is a one-note play, loose and inconclusive. But the note is warm and rich and shimmering with the vibrance of Albee's meticulous writing.

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In 'Albee's Occupant,' a sculptor's life takes shape by Joe Dziemianowicz

It's not lively (though there's an eye-popping late surprise), but a real-life biography marks an interesting departure for the absurdist Albee.

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Occupant
Review By DAVID ROONEY

"Occupant" is less complex than the majority of Albee's plays and does not attempt to build dramatic conflict in conventional ways. But it's a fascinating and entirely coherent addition to t…

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Occupant

Mercedes Ruehl is as close as you can get to having the real Louise Nevelson come back from the grave. She looks the part. She sounds the part. She conveys the full flavor of Nevelson's flam…

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Mercedes Ruehl Gives Albee's 'Occupant' a Second Chance: Review by John Simon

There is enough interplay for two plays, but not enough play for one, no matter how much stage space it occupies.

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Edward Albee's Occupant
Reviewed by: David Finkle

Mercedes Ruehl stars as sculptor Louise Nevelson in this unsatisfactory bio-play.

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Edward Albee's Occupant - Reviewed by DAVID A. ROSENBERG

Albee is questioning once again the obsession with biographical facts that he finds get in the way of an artist's work, but this time he closes off dramatic conflict in favor of a biographic…

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Soft Shoe With Stamina and a Smile for the Ladies By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Tony Danza performed a one-man vaudeville turn, in which the hyperkinetic star dashes from trick to trick hardly pausing for breath, at Feinstein's on Wednesday.

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Tony Danza: I Could Have Danced All Night
Review By STEVEN SUSKIN

At some point, though, Danza becomes the talented kid who effortlessly entertains the packed living room for 35 minutes, but obliviously continues.

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Seafaring Puppets Rock on a Trip to Party Island By NEIL GENZLINGER

Pay no attention to this review, because nothing in it will adequately convey the demented brilliance of "Jollyship the Whiz-Bang."

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Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Review by David Cote

Jones and his cohorts deliver a deliriously naughty mash-up of nautical spoofery, sick humor and indie-rock thrills.

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Remembering Too Well Back When Rock Mattered By ANITA GATES

"Len, Asleep in Vinyl" is a slight but thoroughly entertaining new one-act by Carly Mensch.

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Len, Asleep in Vinyl
Review by Rob Kendt

Everything that charms, and most of what works, in Carly Mensch's slight intergenerational comedy is incidental to its central story.

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The Framer
Reviewed by: Barbara & Scott Siegel

Edward Allen Baker's entertaining play about a very dysfunctional family whipsaws from melodrama to dark comedy.

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The Framer - Reviewed by RON COHEN

Playwright Edward Allan Baker, known for gritty depictions of the lower-middle-class denizens of Providence, R.I., doesn't hesitate to pile on the drama.

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The Framer
Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Edward Allan Baker should stop trying to be a poet. He's got the seed of a good play in "The Framer" -- about a dying man trying to reconcile with his wife -- but he smothers it with awkward…

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Patriotic Bitch
Reviewed by: Sandy MacDonald

Alanna Ubach's appealing solo show features a variety of uncannily spot-on portraits.

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The Revenger's Tragedy
Review By DAVID BENEDICT

Melly Still's over-produced, under-directed staging is so busy underlining its zeitgeist credentials that much of the play's depth is lost.

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Frequency Hopping - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

There's a sex symbol, a secret weapon, and forbidden romance. Then why is "Frequency Hopping" so frequently uninteresting?

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THEATER BEAT: 'A New Brain' at Rude Guerrilla Theater Company

Also reviewed: 'Groundlings Key Party'; 'Macbeth3' by LA Women's Shakespeare Company

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Rockin' till it's scarlet in the face By Charlotte Stoudt

Puritans breaking into power ballads makes heady sense in Mark Governor's rock musical "shAme."

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Alexandros
Review By JULIO MARTINEZ

An uneven ensemble works hard to enliven the proceedings, but is ultimately defeated by the material.

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THIS 'GATHERING' IS SUPERB By CLIVE BARNES

PEOPLE and places - you're never far from either in the ballets of Jerome Robbins, even in works that might at first seem plotless.

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A Night for Robbins to Give Chopin a Twirl or Three By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

The company's "Definitive Chopin" program brings us closer to Jerome Robbins's heart than any other this season.

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Eartha Kitt
Review By STEVEN SUSKIN

Yes, the lady is a vamp: Kitt plays it and kids it, making for a delicious time.

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WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, MOMMY? by CLIVE HIRSCHHORN

Marguerite is a real mess. It's one thing to remove the comedy from musical-comedy. But the creative team hasn't found anything to replace it with.

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Saved
Review by Adam Feldman

Saved is not quite faithful to its source material; rather, it is full of real faith.

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Reasons to Be Pretty
Review by Helen Shaw

LaBute's analysis of the male obsession with beauty has an overprocessed quality to it-chewing over its tiny cud of meaning until all we're left with is pap.

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Marathon 2008: Series B
Review by Helen Shaw

It comes as a delightful surprise that Ensemble Studio Theatre's playfest actually gets more fun as it goes along.

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The Euthanasist
Review by Raven Snook

Any power the material may possess is diluted by distracting multimedia flourishes, clunky sound effects and a gimmicky, button-pushing ending.

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Raleigh native is Broadway-bound By Orla Swift, Staff Writer

Raleigh native Lauren Kennedy is back on the road to Broadway, this time in a new musical based on the 1976 Off-Broadway comedy "Vanities," about three former Texas cheerleaders.

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Edinburgh Fringe Fest sets '08 slate

US shows 'Architecting,' 'In Conflict' included

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F. Gary Gray to direct 'Marvin' movie

Gaye biopic secures rights to artist's catalog

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The Party's on the Strouse

Peter helps celebrate the career of Charles Strouse, who turns 80 this weekend.

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The Best of Broadway

Patrick Stewart, Laurence Fishburne, Patti LuPone, Tom Wopat, Lin-Manuel Miranda, S. Epatha Merkerson, and a host of other 2008 Tony Award nominees answer a difficult question: What's the be…

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Brava Barbra!

Steven Brinberg, who has brought his uncanny impersonation of Barbra Streisand to several corners of the world, returns to NYC with a salute to the Tony Awards at Birdland.

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Diva Talk, by Andrew Gans

Chatting with South Pacific's Loretta Ables Sayre Plus News of Cates and Hart

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Ask Playbill.com: Tony Logistics, Part One

How Best Musical nominees' songs are selected, ordered, and rehearsed for the Tony Awards TV broadcast.

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