Sunday, December 23, 2001 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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The American Theater Web

Once again, we look to Andy Propst's outstanding website, The American Theater Web for the following stories:

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CARYN JAMES'S PICKS

At Its Absolute Best in a Time of Terror
Network and cable news coverage on Sept. 11 and the days following were defining moments in the year in television.

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Leaping From One Void Into Others by HERBERT MUSCHAMP

New York is far from absorbing the piece of world history that crashed into it in September. But the pressures to make sense of Ground Zero are great.

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Walking Onto a Bare Stage (and Into Scrooge's Skin) by PATRICK STEWART

WHAT compels actors whose work is customarily an ensemble or collective activity to venture out onto an empty stage and face an audience quite alone, and often with material personal and pe…

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A NIGHT OUT WITH

George Hamilton: Glowing in the Dark

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Confronting the Zeitgeist When Life Overtakes Art by JACK HITT

ART imitates life. That's been the working theory, anyway. The artist is supposed to find a way into the realm of the imagination and, there, transmute messy quotidian reality into coherent…

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The Mysterious Gift of a Voice, Here and Then Gone by CRAIG WOLFF

IN the uneasy passing of her childhood hour, Julie Andrews loved to watch her mother practice the piano. Her mother's playing had both a vigor to it, and grace. She could play hell-bent, th…

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OFF-BROADWAY'S ON THE MONEY AGAIN by CLIVE BARNE

Broadway always ends the year with a whimper - it expires around mid-November and doesn't stir until early March. Off-Broadway, on the other hand, goes out with guns blazing.

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Pssst...

SHOWBIZ SCRIBBLER GOES FROM BOFFO TO BUST
Sweet Smell of Success

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L.A. Times: YEAR IN REVIEW: THEATER

It Was a Season for All Tastes
The good-time "Flower Drum Song" offered a song and a smile; the unrelenting "Joe and Betty" was a dark pleasure.

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The Arizona Republic: Lighting expert turns spotlight on others

All Michael Eddy wants for Christmas are 300 stage lights, a really good light board, a coordinated follow-spot operator...

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Denver Post: 'Skull,' Titanic' top list

It was a year of change at The Denver Post with the Sept. 1 retirement of longtime theater critic Sandra C. Dillard, but some good can come out of chaos. For Post readers, it created a uniq…

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Houston Chronicle: The Alley's Everyman

From Scrooge to Nixon, actor James Belcher shows his versatility in all roles

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Minneapolis Star Tribune: Theater review: An electric, splendid 'Prince & Pauper'

What a rewarding surprise. "The Prince & the Pauper," which opened Friday in St. Paul, is perhaps the most electric and resonant musical to grace the Ordway Center stage in several years --…

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