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Thursday, June 2, 2011

ArtsBeat: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Likes Jesse Eisenberg Play For Its New Season by Dave Itzkoff

"Asuncion," a play by and featuring Mr. Eisenberg, the Oscar-nominated "Social Network" star, will be presented by the theater company starting in October as part of its 2011-12 season.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Tony Bennett to Perform at Metropolitan Opera by Dave Itzkoff

The concert, scheduled for Sept. 18, will celebrate Mr. Bennett's 85th birthday and mark his debut on the opera house's stage.

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

ArtsBeat: Zach Braff Finds People for His Play 'All New People' by Dave Itzkoff

The "Hangover" star Justin Bartha will portray a heartbroken man whose solitude is interrupted by misfit characters played by Krysten Ritter, Anna Camp and David Wilson Barnes in the Second …

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Jerusalem' Gets Four-Week Extension on Broadway by Dave Itzkoff

The Tony-nominated play, which stars Mark Rylance as the manly, mangy, quasi-magical trailer denizen Johnny "Rooster" Byron, will run at the Music Box Theater through Aug. 21.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

ArtsBeat: A Murderous Malkovich in Lineup for BAM's 2011 Next Wave Festival by Dave Itzkoff

Highlights of this year's festival include "The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer," starring Mr. Malkovich as the Austrian criminal and author Jack Unterweger; and the last pla…

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Monday, May 23, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Merrily,' 'Pipe Dream' and 'Blondes' Are On for New Encores! Season by Dave Itzkoff

The 19th season of Encores! at New York City Center will open on Feb. 8 with a revival of "Merrily We Roll Along" directed by James Lapine, followed by new productions of "Pipe Dream" and "G…

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Friday, May 20, 2011

ArtsBeat: Lloyd Webber Pledges Funds from Picasso Sale to British Arts Groups by Dave Itzkoff

Andrew Lloyd Webber said he wouldl donate nearly $52 million to arts organizations in his home country, using money raised from the sale of a Picasso painting last year.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

ArtsBeat: In His Dreams? Not Quite. David Hyde Pierce Plans His Directing Debut by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Hyde Pierce, the Emmy- and Tony-Award winning star of "Frasier" and "Monty Python's Spamalot," talks about preparing to direct "It Shoulda Been You," a musical comedy that will feature T…

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Hat,' With Chris Rock, Extends Its Broadway Run by Dave Itzkoff

The Stephen Adly Guirgis play about the intertwined lives of a former drug dealer struggling with sobriety, his girlfriend and his sponsor will play through July 17.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

ArtsBeat: Off With Its Head: 'Wonderland' Musical to Close on Sunday by Erik Piepenburg and Dave Itzkoff

The costly production based on Lewis Carroll's novels will close on Sunday, not quite one month after it opened at the Marquis Theater.

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ArtsBeat: Neil Patrick Harris Will Return as Tony Awards Host by Dave Itzkoff

Neil Patrick Harris, a star of "How I Met Your Mother," who hosted the 2009 Tony Awards, the 2009 Emmy Awards and, for some reason, the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, will return as Tonys hos…

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Monday, May 9, 2011

ArtsBeat: Manhattan Theater Club Announces Its New Season by Dave Itzkoff

The theater company will present "The Columnist," David Auburn's first Broadway drama since "Proof," as well as "We Live Here," a new play by Zoe Kazan, and "Close Up Space," a new comedy fe…

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Friday, May 6, 2011

ArtsBeat: Fie on Badness! Jeremy Irons to Play King Arthur for One Night by Dave Itzkoff

The concert production of "Camelot," which also stars James Barbour as Lancelot and Melissa Errico as Guenevere, will be presented at the Shubert Theater on June 6 as a benefit for the Irish…

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

ArtsBeat: Man for Another Season: Frank Langella Returning to Broadway in 'Man and Boy' by Dave Itzkoff

In a Roundabout Theater Company revival of the Terence Ratigan play, Mr. Langella will play a ruthless 1930s financier who seeks the help of his estranged son.

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ArtsBeat: And the Award for Biting the Hand That Feeds It Goes to: 'South Park' by Dave Itzkoff

A story line in Wednesday night's "South Park" about the inherent meaninglessness of awards was just about the Comedy Awards, and not about the Tonys. Right?

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

ArtsBeat: The Tony Nominations: Who Got Snubbed This Year? by Dave Itzkoff

Daniel Radcliffe couldn't conjure up enough magic to secure a Tony nomination for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," making him one of the most glaring oversights of the mor…

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Creating a God, With Links to Olivier by DAVE ITZKOFF

Kenneth Branagh, often considered to be contemporary cinema’s leading interpreter of Shakespeare, has surprised many fans by directing a $150 million 3-D version of “Thor.”

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

ArtsBeat: Musicians Depicted in 'Baby It's You!' File Suit – Right Before Opening Night by Dave Itzkoff

Musicians including Dionne Warwick, Chuck Jackson and Beverly Lee, a founding member of the Shirelles, say their likenesses and life stories are being presented in the musical without their …

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

ArtsBeat: Public Theater Unveils Its 2011-2012 Season by Dave Itzkoff

Productions include "King Lear," starring Sam Waterston, as well as new works by Mike Daisey, Nathan Englander, David Henry Hwang, Richard Nelson, and Stew and Heidi Rodewald.

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Monday, April 25, 2011

ArtsBeat: Heavens! Fake Tickets Showing Up at 'Book of Mormon' on Broadway by Dave Itzkoff

At least five times in recent weeks, theatergoers have presented fake tickets to the hit musical "The Book of Mormon."

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Celebrational, Muppetational Jim Henson Show Coming to Museum of Moving Image by Dave Itzkoff

An exhibition coming to Museum of the Moving Image called "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" will open on July 16 and run through Jan. 16, 2012, and it will feature more than 120 works, includin…

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'High,' With Kathleen Turner, Will Close on Sunday by Dave Itzkoff

Matthew Lombardo’s play about a nun whose faith is tested while working with a young drug addict received mixed reviews after its Tuesday opening.

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ArtsBeat: River to River Festival Announces Lineup by Dave Itzkoff

The annual celebration of arts in lower Manhattan will feature Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Sean Lennon and Rosanne Cash, as well as a two-castle production …

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Once More, With Feeling: Joss Whedon Revisits 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog' by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Whedon, a creator of the online musical, discusses the making of the project, a possible sequel and his future Internet ambitions. (O.K., we asked about "The Avengers," too.)

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Friday, April 15, 2011

ArtsBeat: New Home for ‘Hot Chicks’ Comedy Sign by Dave Itzkoff

Amy Poehler helped bid farewell to the "Hot Chicks Room" sign that hung outside a new Upright Citizens Brigade theater in the East Village, and was given to a compost learning center on Gove…

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'The Mountaintop' Will Come to Broadway, With Jackson But Without Berry by Dave Itzkoff

Samuel L. Jackson will play the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play, but Halle Berry will not appear in the production, producers said, "due to child-…

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ArtsBeat: Sony Pictures Classics to Distribute Polanski's 'Carnage' by Dave Itzkoff

"Carnage," with a script by Roman Polanski and the "God of Carnage" playwright Yasmina Reza, will star Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly as the Brooklyn parents …

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ArtsBeat: The 'Modern Family' Musical is Not a Commentary on Anything by Dave Itzkoff

The events depicted here could only ever happen on television, not in real life.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Anything Goes' Extends Into 2012 by Dave Itzkoff

The Broadway revival of the Cole Porter musical, starring Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney and Joel Grey as Moonface Martin, will play at the Stephen Sondheim Theater through January 8.

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Kneel Before Zod: Michael Shannon to Play 'Superman' Villain by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Shannon, who is known for the unearthly menace he brings to his characters on television's "Boardwalk Empire" and off Broadway's "Mistakes Were Made," will play an evil tyrant from Super…

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Friday, April 8, 2011

Lennon's Letters to Be Collected in New Book by Dave Itzkoff

A new book containing the correspondence that John Lennon sent "to his friends, family, strangers, newspapers, organizations, lawyers and the laundry," will be released by Little, Brown in O…

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