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Saturday, March 20, 2010

    News:

    [ 411 ]  Rosie O'Donnell Back to Daytime TV by Roger Friedman

    [ 411 ]  Rosie O'Donnell: New Deal Reunites Her With Old Pals by Roger Friedman

    [ V ]  'Glee' not going legit By GORDON COX

    News that tuner licensing company Music Theater Intl. was in discussions to create a legit version of the buzzed-about show initially surface online, and were confirmed by MTI. But a rep for Fox said no talks had taken place with MTI or any other legit licensing company.

    Features:

    [ V ]  TV ads play up plays by Gordon Cox

    Starry casts make for splashy tube presence

    [ NYT ]  The Fine Art of Selling a Show By ERIK PIEPENBURG

    A look at some of the poster art ideas for the coming Broadway revival of "La Cage aux Folles."

    [ NYT ]  Interactive Feature: Ad Evolution: 'La Cage aux Folles'

    [ NYT ]  Loving Molly, and Getting Her to the Stage By STEVEN McELROY

    The play "Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins" has been the beneficiary of a string of fortuitous events, including the casting of Kathleen Turner in the one-woman show.

    [ NYT ]  A Night Out With | Alicia Silverstone
    A Vegan in Word and Deed By PATRICK HEALY

    The actress, best-known for playing the matchmaking high school princess Cher Horowitz in the 1995 movie "Clueless," is Broadway and has a new vegan cookbook.

    [ TM ]  Suzanne Brockmann: Looking Up By: Diane Snyder

    The popular romance novelist and husband Ed Gaffney discuss their new Off-Broadway play, Looking for Billy Haines.

    [ DCTS ]  Josh Kornbluth on Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?

    In a very funny video, Joel Markowitz interviews monologist Josh Kornbluth about his new show Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? playing through this weekend at Theater J.

    Reviews:

    [ NYT ]  Stranger Leaves the Guests Both Shaken and Stirred By JASON ZINOMAN

    The sparkling veneer of a respectful production of T .S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party," at the Beckett Theater, hides a much more brooding, sanctimonious and didactic play.

    [ BS ]  Miss Lulu Bett - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

    The tone of Kathleen Brant's direction skews the play's balance of comedy and drama toward a strained version of the former, rendering this staging of Zona Gale's 1920 Pulitzer Prize winner a disappointment.

    [ TM ]  Golden Age
    Reviewed by: Michael Toscano

    Jeffrey Carlson gives a richly nuanced performance as composer Vincenzo Bellini in Terrence McNally's somewhat unfocused new play about the 19th-century opera world.

    [ TNO ]  TOWN AND COUNTRY by CLIVE HIRSCHHORN

    Though hard to match against previous productions, London Assurance brings a colorful mix of characters to the table.

    [ TE ]  Looped - Reviewed by OSCAR E. MOORE

    The indomitable, feisty and brilliant Valerie Harper gives a comic and touching performance of epic proportions doing justice to that dame named Tallulah.

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