Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Parties at Sardi's, by Michael Portantiere

Two-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein and the new music director of the New York Pops make the scene at the theater district's most venerable hangout. Plus: Catching up with Charles Busch, The Importance of Being Earnest at Paper Mill, the live-performance Rent DVD, and a bunch of new recordings.

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An Ogre's Magic Is Flagging in Producing Ticket Sales By PATRICK HEALY

Box office business for the big-budget musical "Shrek" has been in a downward spiral as ugly as the ogre of the title.

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Broadway Officials Warn That Ticket Tax Would Cripple Theater Industry By PATRICK HEALY

Industry leaders attended a legislative hearing in Albany to sound off on a proposed tax on theater tickets, which would raise prices about 8 percent.

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Kennedy Center: 'Crisis' Counselor By Jacqueline Trescott

The Kennedy Center is aggressively moving to broaden its role beyond a center for the performing arts by announcing a new program to share its years of management and fundraising experience …

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Ticketmaster, Live Nation may merge

Deal could be announced next week

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SONGWRITER DENIES RAPE By BRUCE GOLDING

An Academy Award-winning songwriter accused of drugging and raping an aspiring actress claims the woman agreed to have sex with him inside his Upper East Side apartment.

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Al Pacino to star in 'King Lear'

Michael Radford to direct film

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HABEAS CORPUS by ROGER B. HARRIS

Word has it that West End and TV star Sheridan Smith will play Elle in the London bow of Legally Blonde later this year.

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PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda has had 46 years to rest up for her triumphant Broadway return this year.

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Edward Albee: Part-time pussycat By Charles McNulty

The playwright fills his works with piercing observations. He's strongly opinionated, it's true. Then again, he seems to feel pretty affectionate toward the rest of us cats.

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Off-Broadway review: "The Third Story" BY ROBERT FELDBERG

The tedious comedy, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, is made up of four separate, very slight stories that are tangled together. Amusement is modest.

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THEATER REVIEW | 'DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS'
A New Look at an Old Farm Threatened by Heat By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Two of today's foremost young stage actors, Carla Gugino and Pablo Schreiber, are utterly riveting in this major new revival at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.

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White People
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

J.T. Rogers' heavy-handed examination of race prejudice holds few surprises.

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White People
Review by Matthew Murray

The hypersensitive could undoubtedly point to the events described in Rogers's play as demonstrating how far we have yet to go, but the off-the-shelf familiarity of every aspect of White People makes it feel like it's really only standing still.

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White People

I saw W. T. Roger's 8-year-old play in what was still a room full of white people and wonder how it would play in the Obama White House

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The Father of Analysis, in Therapy at Last By ANITA GATES

"Freudian Slips" is an uneven little comedy written by Marvin Lifschitz, a practicing psychotherapist.

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Enjoy
Review By DAVID BENEDICT

It still won't win prizes for shapeliness, but this blisteringly well-played production triumphantly vindicates Bennett's prescient vision, pungent characterization and glorious, laugh-aloud…

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The Dome
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

This collaboratively created music-theater piece has plenty of charm.

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Room for Cream Season One: The Box Set! By Alexis Soloski

Downtown's favorite lesbian serial stirs it up again

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The Go-To Two: Ken Rus Schmoll and Anne Kauffman By Alexis Soloski

These top downtown theater directors are not that scary!

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Ford's Curtain Rises Once More By WILLIAM TRIPLETT

After a long-overdue renovation, the reopening of the storied Ford's Theater kicks off a four-month, city-wide celebration of Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial -- curse or no curse.

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Classic Acts By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

James Barbour, Stockard Channing, Gavin Creel, Paige Davis, Bailey Hanks, Cady Huffman, Mark Indelicato, Andrew McCarthy, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Donna Murphy, Chita Rivera, Sam Waterston, an…

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