Peter Filichia's Diary

Katharine Hepburn triumphantly returns to Hartford in the person of Kate Mulgrew.

The Crucible, Reviewed by David Finkle

SWEDE SMELL OF SUCCESS FOR REVIVED 'CHESS'

By MICHAEL RIEDEL
RIDING high from the worldwide success of "Mamma Mia!" (last week's North American gross: $3.5 million, thank you very much), ABBA boys Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have turned their attention to a new project: a revival of their 1988 Broadway flop, "Chess."
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Aftonbladet's Jens Peterson wrote: "Mindre schack. Mer karlet och politik. 'Chess" pa svenska ar ett lyft for musikalen."

On Stage and Off: Shows Must, and Did, Go On by Jesse McKinley

Theater Review | 'Cymbeline': Shakespeare's Game, Without a Score Card

Two Against Mob Rule Who Can Turn Up the Heat

By BEN BRANTLEY
Liam Neeson and Laura Linney bring a transfixing heat to Richard Eyre's otherwise merely sweaty revival of "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's play set during the Salem witch trials.

'Island' reunion a benefit

Original cast to offer matinee, evening perf May 12
The original cast of "Once on This Island," based on a Caribbean folk tale, is set to hold a two-perf reunion of the 1990 Broadway musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Tuner will have a matinee and evening performance May 12 at the Winter Garden Theater.

Variety Review: The Crucible by Charles Isherwood

Variety Review: One Mo' Time by Charles Isherwood

Neeson & Co. Cast A Powerful Spell

Four years after Arthur Miller wrote a play about a louse � a man who was a failure as a husband, a father and a salesman � he wrote a play about a hero. The hero was a man in Puritan Massa…

Dreamy Shakespeare in P.J.'s

Polly Bergen Comes to the Cabaret

As Ken Mandelbaum mentioned on March 1, Polly Bergen will come to Broadway�s [Read More]

Full Cast Announced for Golden Boy

Norm Lewis and William McNulty are set to appear in the Encores! production of Golden Boy opposite prev...[Read More]

Broadway Critics Check Out One Mo' Time

While One Mo� Time just opened at Broadway�s Longacre Theatre theater last night, it is not really new to Gotham theatergoer...[Read More]

NEESON, LINNEY BEWITCHING

By CLIVE BARNES
ARTHUR Miller's "The Crucible" was magisterially reignited at the Virginia Theatre last night in Sir Richard Eyre's slow-fused but fiery production, with a magnificently heroic Liam Neeson, faultlessly supported by Laura Linney, Brian Murray and many others.

A WORLD OF BARD THEMES IN THE GLOBE'S 'CYMBELINE'

By DONALD LYONS
'CYMBELINE" is one of those wild, late Shakespeare plays that take elements from earlier tragedies and comedies, and reshape, rejiggle and reimagine them into surprising new patterns.

Follow Spot

The Storefront offers a concert version of the cult musical Rags, starring Anne Runolfsson.

A Closer Look...at Los Angeles

Dreamgirls Headley, McDonald and White are in Dame Benefit March 18, w/Holliday Handy

MA's SpeakEasy Stages New Rock Musical, Hot Star, Nebraska, March 8-30

Bates and Langella Find Their Fortune on Bway, Beginning March 8

For 50th Production, TACT Does Shaw's First, Widowers' Houses, March 8-11

PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, March 2-8: No Column

Cy Coleman Returns to His Club Roots, Playing Joe's Pub March 8-9

Johnny Mercer Is a Dream for Petula Clark, Tyne Daly in L.A. Benefit March 8-10

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 8

"Rosie" Rises for Elaine Stritch March 8

Gelbart-Menken-Zippel Lysistrata, Dumped by Brustein, Gets MTC Reading March 11

Crucible's Miller, Linney and Eyre Talk to Charlie Rose March 7

L.A.'s Blank Readies Revised LaChiusa First Lady Suite w/ Jbara, Shindle March 7

New NYC Musical, Mister, With Rapp, Adds Blum and Alban

London Director Edward Hall Bounces Back

London's Mamma Mia: There You Go Again

Londons' Mousetrap Extends

Wait Til You See Him: SF's 42nd Street 'Moons' for Rodgers Starting April 19

PHOTO CALL: Stroman Makes Contact With Abbott Award March 3

PHOTO CALL: The Producers' Tony Winners Salute Stroman

PHOTO CALL: Gabrielle Is OK With Stroman and Brooks

Zoe Caldwell Reads Her "Cleopatra" for MTC March 25

Kushner's Kabul Makes Regional Premiere at RI's Trinity Rep, March 15-April 21

Cerveris Dons Drag Again on FOX-TV's "The American Embassy"

Together Again: PBS and CBS Will Televise Tony 2002 Awards

San Francisco's ACT Stages Its First Glass Menagerie March 29-April 29

Body of Off-Bway Playwright Leonard Melfi Found