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Two items on Talkin' Broadway that are worthwhile reading before the message falls off the board:

Casting Directors

A BY JEEVES cast member's point of view...

The Public's Stake in a Cultural Crossroads by EVAN and FREDA EISENBERG

Making the public spaces at Lincoln Center perform on the same level as the artists who tread its stages is crucial to the redevelopment of the center.
� Slide Show: Plans for Lincoln Center

Theater's Quicksilver Truth: All Is Change by MATTHEW GUREWITSCH

The bond of actor and audience in the Off Broadway play "Metamorphoses" shows what can be done only on the stage.

The Ecstasy, and Agony, Linking Dance and Sport by JUDITH JAMISON

A new work for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates the strength and style of Florence Griffith Joyner.

tick, tick...BOOM! Advertises Final Weeks

Jonathan Larson�s tick, tick�BOOM! is advertising "Final Weeks!" in The New York Times.

Dates and Gala Set for The Guys

Dates have been announced for the Bat Theatre Company production of Anne Nelson�s The Guys, starring Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver.
Off-B'way's Little Ham Extends Run

Little Ham, a musical story of love and loyalty set in the heyday of the 1930s Harlem Renaissance, is extending its run at the Hudson Guild Theatre.

Barbara Cook Returns with Mostly Sondheim

Barbara Cook�s acclaimed concert Mostly Sondheim is coming to Broadway. The show will run Sunday and Monday nights at the Vivian Beaumont Theater from December 30 through February 11.

Summer of '42 Will Now Open on December 18

Summer of '42 is moving up its opening date at the Variety Arts Theater. The new musical, which was scheduled to open on January 10, will now make its off-Broadway bow on December 18.

Bea Arthur Ready for February Broadway Bow

Bea Arthur�s solo show has set Broadway dates. The newly titled Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends, with Billy Goldenberg at the Piano will begin performances at the Booth Theatre…

Pullman and Ruehl Set to Star in B'way's Goat

Mercedes Ruehl and Bill Pullman are set to star in Edward Albee�s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? on Broadway, a production spokesperson confirmed.

TAKING A SHINE TO STAR QUALITY by CLIVE BARNES

So many stars are shoved before our eyes these days that we all could rank as amateur astrologers.

Peter Filichia's Diary

Cell phone discussions of Alan Alda in Q.E.D., James Hindman in Roadside, Baby Jane Dexter at Arci�s Place, and Margo Martindale in Shove.

Follow Spot
The Gershwin masterpiece Porgy and Bess will be telecast Live from Lincoln Center on March 20, 2002.

Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts
Kristin Chenoweth prepares to be Marian to Matthew Broderick's Music Man; further delays for Carnivale; a Hart-felt tribute to Miss Kitty.

New Comedy, Carl the Second, to open Dec. 2 in NYC

Leguizamo Lets Loose on Bway as Solo-Show Sexaholix... Opens Dec. 2

Star Messengers to Shine at La MaMa E.T.C. Dec. 2-16

Death Lives: Yeston and Stone Make Progress on Their Musical Holiday

Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: Holiday Gift List

Loverly: Julie Andrews Is a 2001 Kennedy Center Honoree

Off-Bway's Good Times Blues Adds 3 PM Sat Mat Beginning Dec. 1

"Laramie Project" to Open Sundance Film Fest Jan. 10, 2002, Prior to HBO Presentation

It's Curtains Up for New Kander and Ebb Tuner; Next Workshop in Feb. 2002

'Match Me, Sidney': Sweet Smell Company Raising Roof in Rehearsals Toward Dec. 23 Chi Bow

Pop Songwriter Webb Working on Dog w/ Stone, Bronx w/ Palminteri

Parks Meets Peer as Playwright Suzan-Lori Adapts Ibsen for Public

Mrs. Feuerstein Opens Off-Broadway Dec. 1

First-Ever Prof. Women's Lortel Award Given to Foundry Founder Melanie Joseph, Dec. 6

Musical Hairspray Begins Open Casting - Where Else? - But Baltimore Dec. 6

Auction of 1000 Stars Sells TV, Film, Theatre on Yahoo! for Actor's Fund Benefit Dec. 1-14

Try and outbid me for my Oklahoma tix! I bet you can't!

Rachel Gurney, of Broadway, London and "Upstairs, Downstairs," Dead at 81

MultiStages Premieres Bellitto's Novel Nov. 30-Dec. 23 at HERE

Barbara Cook Back on Bway Dec. 30, Singing Mostly Sondheim at Beaumont

Flower Drum Song Definite For Fall 2002

Stritch Show Extends to Jan. 6; Broadway Details Firm Up

DIVA TALK: Mason on Disc, Marcovicci at the Algonquin and More...

Bea Arthur Is Just Between Friends at Bway's Booth, Jan. 29

We are critics, hear us roar

When KATE TAYLOR started her job, they said theatre criticism was dead. They were wrong

An actor's life

Michael Simkins
In acting, perhaps more than in any other profession, you form rapid and intense relationships with people you have only just met. The us-against-the-world syndrome is a necessary part of the job of getting a show on, and in all the excitement and height...

An actor's life

Michael Simkins
I had a friend, another actor, round to see me after curtain down the other night. I'd got him his ticket, so I was primed with a glass of wine when he arrived at the stage door. He liked the show, and my performance, but at the end of his largely posit...
[Thanks to Sarah Chagal for pointing out Michael's column]

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