Most Recent Bway Jesus Christ Superstar Will Travel With New Luggage in 2002

LCT�s Morning�s at Seven Begins at Lyceum on March 28

Hairspray Eyes Seattle's Fifth Avenue for Pre-Bway Run, Then Neil Simon?

PHOTO CALL: The Women Are a Good Thing for Elliott's New Group

PHOTO CALL: It's a Good Thing: Goldberg and Linklater Open Play Dec.16

NYC Buys Bway Theatre Tickets to Bolster Post-Attack, Post-Xmas Economy

Afghans in America: Kushner's New Homebody/Kabul Opens in NYC, Dec. 19

Lester Persky, Producer of Bway's Slapstick Tragedy and "Hair" Film, Dead at 76

Pepe Directs U.S. Preem of Further at MTC, Beginning Jan. 15; Cast Set

DC's Off-Bway-Style Studio Theatre Plans $9.5 Million Expansion of Complex

Briah at OOB's La MaMa, Conflates Culture Clashes and Creation Stories, Dec. 20-30

No Jesus, But Marys and Josephs, Come to L.A.'s Catechism for Free Through Jan. 20

Glitter and Risqu�: Chenoweth is Fanny Hill in NYC Musical Readings Dec. 20

Hot Flash: Menopause the Musical Eyeing Off-Bway in Spring 2002

Maybe Baby, It's Tori: Spelling Steps into L.A. Two-Hander Jan. 24-March 23

Charles Busch Guests on PBS� �Theater Talk,� Dec. 21

TURBAN SPRAWL by DONALD LYONS

It's 1998 in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the Taliban rules with an iron fist.In the desperate, frantic world of Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul," one woman is swallowed up in its depths and seem…

Bringing Afghanistan To Our Door

You have to give Tony Kushner points for having started a play about Afghanistan three years ago, when it was hardly at the center of anyone's consciousness, though we were bombing it in an…

Spelling to be Coronet's 'Baby'

Thesp to replace Simpson in vignettes about singles

Road grosses

Biz off; Fla. 'Kate' great

Broadway grosses

B.O. up; '42nd' 907g

Bomb-itty team pacts across MTV platforms

Deal marks cabler's first multi-platform development deal
MTV has pacted with the Bomb-itty boys to develop a theatrical film, a TV series and a made-for-TV pic based on their Off Broadway show "Bomb-itty of Errors."

Michael Crawford by Paul Wontorek

Pine Cones and Holly Berries by Ken Mandelbaum

Tori Spelling to Star in L.A. Maybe Baby

Tori Spelling, best known for playing the virginal Donna on Beverly Hills, 90210, is set to star in Charlie Shanian and Shari Simpson�s Maybe Baby, It's You at Los Angeles� Coronet Theater.

London Critics React to RNT South Pacific

The highly anticipated Royal National Theatre production of Rodgers and Hammerstein�s South Pacific, directed by Trevor Nunn, opened last week at the Olivier Theatre.

Hairspray Looks to Seattle Before Broadway Bow

Plans for the upcoming Broadway production of Hairspray are firming up. The musical will likely tryout at Seattle�s 5th Avenue Theatre in May or June.

Group to Give 150,000 Tickets to Victims' Families by JESSE McKINLEY

The ticket giveaway is part of a continued push to provide emotional solace to victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 as well as economic stimulus to New York cultural institutions.

THEATER REVIEW | 'HOMEBODY/KABUL'

One Woman's Quest, Fraught With Cultural Land Mines by BEN BRANTLEY
Tony Kushner's exciting if still unfulfilled new play is infused with the contradictory, impossible love of the world.

Caird Out as Director of Bway-Bound Dance of the Vampires

Archive Import - Comment

Jason Robert Brown dropped his 1000 closest friends an email sharing some great news. TIME magazine has named his show, The Last Five Years one of the ten best theater experiences of 2001. Last Five Years is opening off-Broadway in March 2002.
TIME Magazine: Best + Worst 2001

OB's Fantasticks Donates Some Costumes to NYC Museum, Others Sold on Ebay

OB Spitfire Grill Cooks Up Cast Album; Release Expected in 2002

Schreiber Othello Will End on Dec. 30 as Scheduled

Nathan Lane Cuts Back to Six Producers Shows Per Week

Enid Graham Joins Fortune's Fool Cast

Morning's at Seven to Open at the Lyceum in April

Broadway Grosses: Magic Needed at Rocky

TRUCE IN B'WAY WAR? By MICHAEL RIEDEL

It appears we may never get to see Stephen Sondheim and Scott Rudin go mano a mano in the courtroom.Though neither side is commenting, word around Broadway is that Sondheim's camp is puttin…

Summer of '42 review by Charles Isherwood

WWII on the Hormone Front by Robert Dominguez

SOME OF '42 LIKE THE FILM By DONALD LYONS

Remember the 1971 movie, "Summer of '42," about a young boy on a summer vacation island who has a crush on a war bride?

Summer of '42 Review by Ken Mandelbaum

THEATER REVIEW | 'SUMMER OF '42': The Ravages of Puberty Painted in Pretty Pastels by Bruce Weber

Painted with pastels, awash in remembrance and melancholy and humming with palliating jingles, the new musical "Summer of '42" arrived at the Variety Arts Theater on Tuesday.

Betty Buckley Is Buffalo's Buffalo Gal at Studio Arena

It's D-Day for Summer of `42; New OB Musical Opens at Variety Arts Dec. 18

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Co. Extend Contracts in Bway Hit Proof

Nathan Lane Cuts Back to Six Producers Shows Per Week

PHOTO CALL: I May Be Marion the Librarian But My Husband Works with Dominatrices

PHOTO CALL: Three Dominatrices and a Wannabe Make Up Psych

PHOTO CALL: Simpson and Sigourney Celebrate Psych Opening

PHOTO CALL: Psych Takes Opening Night Bow Dec. 16

OB's Fantasticks Donates Some Costumes to NYC Museum, Others Sold on Ebay

OB Spitfire Grill Cooks Up Cast Album; Release Expected in 2002

Broadway Grosses: December 10-16

$180,221

Martha Plimpton Joins Murray's Hobson in Choice Atlantic OB Revival, Dec. 19

Morton and Murphy Expose Eady and Murray's Brutal Imagination Dec. 19

Prince and the Pauper With Kudisch Plays St. Paul Dec. 19-Jan. 1

PHOTO CALL: Allergists' Wife, de Shields, Jones Break Biltmore Ground

PHOTO CALL: Dig and Throw! MTC Breaks Ground at the Biltmore

PHOTO CALL: MTC's Stars Bring the Biltmore Back to Life

Mills and Easton Go Bonkers for Bennett in Jan. 7 NY Public Library Readings

Enid Graham Joins Fortune's Fool Cast

Enid Graham has joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Fortune's Fool, according to a production spokesperson.

Nathan Lane Reduces Performance Schedule

Under the advice of doctors, Tony winner Nathan Lane will begin playing a reduced performance schedule of six performances a week.

Alex Jennings to Star in My Fair Lady in the West End

Acclaimed actor Alex Jennings will be the next Henry Higgins in the West End production of My Fair Lady. Jennings is scheduled to replace the revival�s original lead, Jonathan Pryce, on Apr…

Broadway Grosses: Magic Needed

Oh, what a Horror! Since the revival of The Rocky Horror Show reopened at the Circle in the Square on October 30, the show has been an underdog (in terms of gross) every week.

Morning's at Seven to Open at the Lyceum in April

The Lyceum Theater will serve as the venue for the upcoming Lincoln Center Theater production of Paul Osborn's Morning�s at Seven.

Backward glances in London

Legit commentary

Chi media gets smell of musical 'Success'

Show starts perfs Dec. 23 at Shubert

Spelling to be Coronet's 'Baby'

Thesp to replace Simpson in vignettes about singles

A Dream Deferred No Longer

Eric Krebs has gotten Langston Hughes to write a musical. Not in so many words, notes and dance steps, but the producer has reached far back into the poet and novelist's little-known work for stage, created almost 30 years before his death in 1962, and brought forth "Little Ham."

Goodspeed to tune up two '70s tuners for '02
'King of Hearts,' 'Baker's Wife,' 'Dames at Sea' among slate
Two musicals that didn't make it on Broadway in the 1970s will get another chance from Goodspeed Musicals in 2002.

SOME OF '42 LIKE THE FILM by DONALD LYONS

REMEMBER the 1971 movie, "Summer of '42," about a young boy on a summer vacation island who has a crush on a war bride?

TRUCE IN B'WAY WAR? by MICHAEL RIEDEL

IT appears we may never get to see Stephen Sondheim and Scott Rudin go mano a mano in the courtroom.Though neither side is commenting, word around Broadway is that Sondheim's camp is puttin…

To Stay or Go? City Opera Is Deciding on Its Home by ROBIN POGREBIN

The New York City Opera's future is now the center of attention in the debate about Lincoln Center's proposed $1.2 billion redevelopment plan.

THEATER REVIEW | 'SUMMER OF '42'

The Ravages of Puberty Painted in Pretty Pastels by BRUCE WEBER
Painted with pastels, awash in remembrance and melancholy and humming with palliating jingles, the new musical "Summer of '42" arrived at the Variety Arts Theater on Tuesday.

As City Ticket Plan Grows, Some Off Broadway Grouse by JESSE McKINLEY

Some Off Broadway producers have voiced concerns that their theaters are missing out on the city's purchase of tickets to Broadway shows.

Chicago Sun-Times: Secrets of their 'Success'