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 …
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 09:00PMTERRENCE 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"...
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 09:00PMAfter "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…
Linked From www.armyarcherd.com at 09:00PMThe revival of the sex farce has revealed a deadpan performance related to Stan Laurel.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMBoeing-Boeing, Marc Camoletti's 1960s farce, comes in for a return landing on Broadway with political incorrectness and slamming doors intact.
Linked From Playbill at 09:00PMThe year's top Broadway musicals may be hip, but they're old-fashioned, too.
Linked From Newsweek at 09:00PMBroadway's newest It boy is no stranger to gold lamé.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PMHighlights include marriage, impending fatherhood and a nomination for 'Passing Strange.'
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMStarring role in 'Little Shop of Horrors' is good fit for diminutive actor
Linked From NJ.com at 09:00PMFrom "Birdie" and "Annie" to "Marty" and "Minsky's," composer Charles Strouse writes the songs that put on a happy face.
Linked From www.tdf.org at 09:00PMBroadway vet Brad Oscar and DC fave J. Fred Shiffman talk about teaming up for Arena Stage's The Mystery of Irma Vep
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PM'SNL' veteran Darrell Hammond to star in 'Beyond Therapy'
Linked From Boston Globe at 09:00PMKaye musical taps into the many layers of multifaceted performer
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 09:00PMAfter years in the desert, downtown legend Joey Arias comes home.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PMThe first season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival started inauspiciously, under showery skies that, as the run continued, delivered deluges and forced performances indoors.
Linked From The Journal News at 09:00PMAlec Baldwin, Timothy Busfield, Bobby Cannavale, Kathie Lee Gifford, Priscilla Lopez, Andrea McArdle, Mercedes Ruehl, Denzel Washington, JoBeth Williams and other stars make the scene.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMEdward Albee shapes a portrait of sculptor friend Louise Nevelson in Occupant.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PMMercedes Ruehl performs with unimpeachable conviction in Edward Albee's touchingly modest tribute to the sculptor Louise Nevelson.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 09:00PMIt's riveting. Put it on your must-see list immediately.
Linked From lohud.com at 09:00PMRuehl and company have given Albee's vision of Nevelson a marvellous second chance.
Linked From news.yahoo.com at 09:00PMA quirky study of a distinctive artist, Edward Albee's "Occupant" is a delightful biography of the great American sculptor Louise Nevelson.
Linked From NJ.com at 09:00PMOverriding mundane biographical details, it brings a piercing clarity to Nevelson's life and ambition and shows us who she was as an artist.
Linked From NorthJersey.com at 09:00PM'Occupant' Portrays Louise Nevelson With Humor, Gusto
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:00PM"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.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:00PMIt 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.
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 09:00PMIt's not lively (though there's an eye-popping late surprise), but a real-life biography marks an interesting departure for the absurdist Albee.
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:00PM"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…
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMMercedes 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…
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:00PMThere is enough interplay for two plays, but not enough play for one, no matter how much stage space it occupies.
Linked From Bloomberg at 09:00PMMercedes Ruehl stars as sculptor Louise Nevelson in this unsatisfactory bio-play.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMAlbee 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…
Linked From Backstage at 09:00PMTony 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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMAt some point, though, Danza becomes the talented kid who effortlessly entertains the packed living room for 35 minutes, but obliviously continues.
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMPay no attention to this review, because nothing in it will adequately convey the demented brilliance of "Jollyship the Whiz-Bang."
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 09:00PMJones and his cohorts deliver a deliriously naughty mash-up of nautical spoofery, sick humor and indie-rock thrills.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PM"Len, Asleep in Vinyl" is a slight but thoroughly entertaining new one-act by Carly Mensch.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 09:00PMEverything that charms, and most of what works, in Carly Mensch's slight intergenerational comedy is incidental to its central story.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PMEdward Allen Baker's entertaining play about a very dysfunctional family whipsaws from melodrama to dark comedy.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMPlaywright 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.
Linked From Backstage at 09:00PMEdward 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…
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMAlanna Ubach's appealing solo show features a variety of uncannily spot-on portraits.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMMelly Still's over-produced, under-directed staging is so busy underlining its zeitgeist credentials that much of the play's depth is lost.
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMThere's a sex symbol, a secret weapon, and forbidden romance. Then why is "Frequency Hopping" so frequently uninteresting?
Linked From Backstage at 09:00PMAlso reviewed: 'Groundlings Key Party'; 'Macbeth3' by LA Women's Shakespeare Company
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMPuritans breaking into power ballads makes heady sense in Mark Governor's rock musical "shAme."
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMAn uneven ensemble works hard to enliven the proceedings, but is ultimately defeated by the material.
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMPEOPLE and places - you're never far from either in the ballets of Jerome Robbins, even in works that might at first seem plotless.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 09:00PMThe company's "Definitive Chopin" program brings us closer to Jerome Robbins's heart than any other this season.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMYes, the lady is a vamp: Kitt plays it and kids it, making for a delicious time.
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMMarguerite 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.
Linked From Theater News Online at 09:00PMSaved is not quite faithful to its source material; rather, it is full of real faith.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PMLaBute'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.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PMIt comes as a delightful surprise that Ensemble Studio Theatre's playfest actually gets more fun as it goes along.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PMAny power the material may possess is diluted by distracting multimedia flourishes, clunky sound effects and a gimmicky, button-pushing ending.
Linked From Time Out at 09:00PMRaleigh 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.
Linked From www.newsobserver.com at 09:00PMUS shows 'Architecting,' 'In Conflict' included
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMGaye biopic secures rights to artist's catalog
Linked From Variety at 09:00PMPeter helps celebrate the career of Charles Strouse, who turns 80 this weekend.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:00PMPatrick 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…
Linked From timessquare.com at 09:00PMSteven 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.
Linked From timessquare.com at 09:00PMChatting with South Pacific's Loretta Ables Sayre Plus News of Cates and Hart
Linked From Playbill at 09:00PMHow Best Musical nominees' songs are selected, ordered, and rehearsed for the Tony Awards TV broadcast.
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