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WITH IN THE HEIGHTS playing Broadway to some success, and Into the Hoods also doing good business in the West End, Tim joins guest presenter Will Segal to delve into the past, present and fu…

O'Malley Replaces Dilly in World Premiere of An American in Paris

Kilner, Rose et al. to Star in Schwartz's My Antonia at Rubicon

Kimbrough, Berresse, Cody, Anderson and More Join Encores! Nanette Cast

Michael Berresse, Charles Kimbrough Join Encores! No, No, Nanette

Charles Kimbrough and Michael Berresse Join No, No, Nanette at Encores!

Laura Jacqmin Wins Dramatists Guild's Wasserstein Prize

Jacqmin Wins Second Annual Wasserstein Prize

Rapp to Host Broadway Beauty Pageant; Contestants Announced

Anthony Rapp to Host The Broadway Beauty Pageant

Desperate Housewives' Andrea Bowen to Star in LATW's Speech & Debate

Birch, Bogardus, Brady, Desai, Winther to Appear in MCNY's New York Stories

Peters, Kent and Gomes Will Be Part of Prelude to a Dance Gala

Colella, Rigby, Hewitt, von Essen, Stout, Williamson Among Pittsburgh CLO Stars in 2008

Annaleigh Ashford Heading to Chicago Company of Wicked

MTC's 2008-09 Lineup Includes Works by Greenberg, Nottage, Whitby, Shanley & Krieger

Greenberg, Krieger, Nottage, Shanley, et al. Set for MTC's 2008-2009 Season

Christopher Cross
Review By STEVEN SUSKIN

Sitting comfortably on a stool with guitar in hand (backed by two musicians), he goes through 13 songs in gentle, nostalgic fashion.

Umbrella
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Two sad souls find one another in L. Pontius' promising but labored new play.

PHOTO CALL: 2008 Touring Broadway Awards

SPECIAL VIDEO: Tom Wopat on his Catered Affair Regular Joe Character

PHOTO OP: South Pacific Revival Goes on the Record

PHOTO CALL: Gone with the Wind Musical Hits London's West End

PHOTO CALL: Winningham and Federer Star in Old Globe's Glass Menagerie

ETCETERA: John Simon Happily Goes Home with Julie Andrews

Christopher Cross at the Café Carlyle
Reviewed by: Barbara & Scott Siegel

The 1980s pop singer simply hasn't mastered the art of cabaret.

A FOLLY OF A PIECE by Matt Wolf

There's a severe disconnect between the music and the book of The Black and White Ball. Too bad, when the music just happens to be that of Cole Porter.

Collela, Champlin, Hewitt, Rigby, von Essen, Williamson, et al. Set for Pittsburgh CLO Season

Wong, Scott and Sheffer to Read "Selected Shorts" at Westport May 19

Campbell Scott, B.D. Wong Set for Westport's Selected Shorts Reading

Shanley & Krieger Musical Romantic Poetry, Plus Greenberg and Nottage, Will Play MTC

Mitchell Will Direct Musical of Once in a Lifetime; Reading to Feature Borle, Morrison and Kritzer

Fuller to Stage Marymount-York Theatre Summer Revue

Glass Menagerie and DiPietro World Premiere Complete Florida Rep Season

Xanadu's Jackson Cast in "Shifting the Canvas"; Filming to Begin in June

Tony Winner Bosco and Oz Star Fowler Will Send Love Letters in May

Riding, Rowe, Jones, Strallen and Moore Set for A Spoonful ofStiles & Drewe

Henney, Logan, Wilder and Worth Will Join Ebersole, Wilson and Raines for Night Music Concerts

Gay Rap Opera Bash'd! Coming Off-Broadway

Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still Sets Dates for L.A. Debut

Brian Dennehy Coming to Broadway in O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms

Baltimore Centerstage's 2008-09 Season to Feature Caroline, or Change

CENTERSTAGE Announces 2008-2009 Season

Washington D.C.'s Studio Theatre Announces 30th Anniversary Season

Emick, Kennedy, Shindle, Spanger, Thoms, et al. to Join Schonfeld for 37 Notebooks Concert at Birdland

Annaleigh Ashford to Join Chicago's Wicked on June 3

Broadway's Ashford Will Join Cast of Chicago Wicked in June

Greenspan Leaps at Frogs to Create World Premiere of Old Comedy

New Media and Tours Among Topics for Upcoming AEA and Broadway League Negotiations

CROWDS GOING 'SOUTH' By MICHAEL RIEDEL
NEW 'PACIFIC' FINDS TREASURE AT BOX OFFICE

Broadway to Begin Labor Talks By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

Officials from Actors' Equity Association, the union representing actors and stage managers, are scheduled to begin contract talks with Broadway producers and theater owners on Friday.

Falls and Dennehy's Primal Desire Aiming for Broadway

CSC to Present David Greenspan's Adaptation of The Frogs

Cynthia Nixon: I had breast cancer By ELOISE PARKER

The Upper West Sider was diagnosed with the disease in 2006 while starring in the off-Broadway play "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie."
She kept her condition secret, even scheduling her surgery on a Sunday, to avoid missing a performance.

Peter Filichia's Diary: The Best Musical of 1957-1958

Room to stretch

Q & A: Faith Prince

Interview with Matt Cavenaugh of A Catered Affair By Beth Herstein

SPECIAL VIDEO: Harvey Fierstein on A Catered Affair's Uncle Winston

Daniel Reichard From 'Jersey Boys' on His New Role in 'Candide' and Always Playing the Virgin

The Conversation By Boris Kachka

Laurence Fishburne is letting Thurgood speak for itself.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Jerry Mitchell

For a leading theatre talent, director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell sure is spending a lot of time on television lately.

Puff Daddy: 'Broadway has changed my life'

The rap artist and entrepreneur formerly known as Puff Daddy has been bitten by the acting bug. He talks to John Hiscock

STAGE NOTES BLOG: Tax Day Bonus: B'way Hunks x 2

Backstage: Studio's Teachers of 'History' By Jane Horwitz

Floyd King and Tana Hicken Bring a Mature Perspective to a Boys' School Milieu

How Theater Failed America
Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Given its title and its many riffs on arts funding, Mike Daisey's latest monologue, "How Theater Failed America," might sound like a show made exclusively for legit insiders, but the piece s…

Theater Review | 'I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda'
A Refugee Wrestles With Her Memories By CARYN JAMES

Susan Heyward's vibrant performance is the best reason to see Sonja Linden's two-character play.

A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives By CARYN JAMES

Rebecca Schull takes on an admirable challenge as writer and star of "On Naked Soil: Imagining Anna Akhmatova," a biographical play about that great Russian poet.

Umbrella
Review By SAM THIELMAN

Even at 80 minutes, this little two-hander is long-winded, but the two cast members spend their stage time wisely and, quite literally, acting up a storm.

Umbrella - Reviewed by RON COHEN

Helen and Frank are not people you'd want to pass a night with on a rooftop. Even the 90 minutes spent with them in L. Pontius' dank drama "Umbrella" are pretty tough to take.

The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

As a multimedia exhibit, "The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether" at Theater for the New City can be considered moderately successful. As a play, it cannot.

33 Variations
Review By BOB VERINI

Part domestic drama, part historical investigation, this elegant and heartfelt work marks an auspicious beginning to La Jolla Playhouse a.d. Christopher Ashley's first season.

THEATER REVIEW: '33 Variations' at La Jolla Playhouse By Charles McNulty

Moisés Kaufman ponders intellectuals who embrace the beauty of the everyday.

What They Have
Review By BOB VERINI

Their clashes pop with wit and insight until the play turns cramped and inward at the halfway point, transforming an absorbing exploration of the psychological costs of success and failure i…

Shimmer and Awe, of the Acrobatic Variety By GIA KOURLAS

A visit from the Golden Dragon Acrobats, 16 performers from Hebei, China, is something special.

Two New Plays and the Perils of Autobiography by Michael Feingold

The Little Flower of East Orange and Marcy in the Galaxy show why not everybody's life is worth dramatizing

Sizwe Banzi is Dead Remains Alive by Alexis Soloski

Anthony and Cleopatra at the Duke: Asp You Like It by Alexis Soloski

Untitled Mars: Lost in Space by Alexis Soloski

The Conversation's Attempted Coppola Update by GARRETT EISLER

Negro Ensemble Company's WEBEIME
Sightlines: by TOM SELLAR

Almost a Play, Waste of an Evening By Matt Windman

Almost an Evening (*), The New Century (**)

The Happy Time, Lord of the Flies and Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Washington, D.C. Reviews by Susan Berlin

Actor Tim Starks in Serious Condition

Atkinson, Gill, Schramm, et al. Set for BTF Candida

Atkinson Is Candida for Berkshire Theatre Festival

Chicago's 'Wicked' snags the Broadway Glinda by Chris Jones

'Wicked' announces cast changes

Hard-hitting subjects to take Center Stage By Mary Carole McCauley

Two lighter shows bookend stimulating 2008-2009 lineup

Studio Theatre's New Season

We Left The Theater...Dancing by Army Archerd

Bernadette Peters kicks off Cerritos Center 2008-09 season By Chris Pasles

Strober and Mahowald Set for Westchester Beauty and the Beast

Gypsy, In the Heights and South Pacific Understudies to Take Centerstage April 20-21

Casting Complete for Regent's Park Staging of Gigi

Attenborough, Hendrickson, Long, Jermond and Vick to Star in West End's Dickens Unplugged

Today In Theatre History: APRIL 16

Liz Flahive's From Up Here, With Julie White as Mom, Opens Off-Broadway April 16

Ragusa, Watkins, Alex and McGowan Star in Paper Mill's Kate Beginning April 16

Bash'd to Receive June Off-Broadway Premiere at Zipper

Geffen Will Welcome Musical Nightmare Alley, Plus Premiere of New Margulies Play

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes

Goodman Theater Adds to O'Neill Festival
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Wooster Group, international troupes headed to Chicago by Chris Jones