0092: A Tale of Two Scotts: Lisa chats with Composer/Lyricist Scott Alan. by MusicalTalk

Lisa chats to Broadway musical theatre songwriter Scott Alan. They discuss everything from song influences, song meanings and flying. We also get to hear songs from Scott's first album - w…

Stage and TV Star Estelle Getty Dies at 84

Estelle Getty, Star of "Golden Girls," Dies at 84

Estelle Getty Dies at 84

Estelle Getty of 'Golden Girls' dies at 84 by BOB THOMAS

Estelle Getty on Broadway

Estelle Getty on IMDB

Estelle Getty on Wikipedia

Gladys Nederlander, 83, Show Producer, Is Dead By BRUCE WEBER

The cause was heart failure, said her husband, the theater owner and producer Robert E. Nederlander.

Gladys Nederlander's Broadway Credits

Obituary: Larry Haines

Tony Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner Larry Haines Dies at 89

A. Larry Haines' Broadway Credits

AT LAST, WIFE GETS $CREWED By DAREH GREGORIAN
YOUTUBER LOSES BID FOR HUBBY'S MILLIONS

B'WAY HUBBY BRINGS DOWN CURTAIN ON UNTAMED SHREW By ANDREA PEYSER

So I asked Philip, minutes after a judge granted his divorce on grounds that wife Tricia was cruel and inhuman, if he would remarry.
"Are you available?" he said without missing a beat.

Man wins divorce from angry wife in YouTube video By Jose Martinez

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A MEMORIAL service for the longtime lover of Alfred Hitchcock star Farley Granger had a Hitchcockian twist itself.

Broadway Grosses: July 14-20

Broadway Grosses: Musicals Hot for Summer; Passing Strange Says Good-Bye

Broadway hit with heatwave

Box office saw sales increase

DeGarmo, Leung, Henry, Torres and More Will Join Creel in Godspell Revival

Moss Will Join Piven and Esparza in Broadway's Speed-the-Plow

Square Peggy By Emily Nussbaum

On Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss plays one of TV's newest nerd girls-but with an unsettling twist.

At home on stage
The itinerant theatre Q takes up residence in Palo Alto by Rebecca Wallace

Closing the season will be the world premiere of "My Strange Nation, The Music of Susan Werner."

Omigod! Bailey Is New Star of Broadway's Legally Blonde; Three Finalists Also Land Roles

Bailey Hanks Wins MTV Legally Blonde Search; Starts as Elle Woods on July 23

Bailey Hanks to Be Legally Blonde's New Elle Woods

MTV winner Bailey Hanks gets her 'Blonde' moment By Elysa Gardner

PHOTO OP: Laura Bell Bundy Bids Farewell to Legally Blonde

Casting Call for Teenagers With Talent and Character By GINIA BELLAFANTE

ABC's new talent competition has a misleading title: winners will not to be featured in "High School Musical 3" but in a music video that will run during the credits.

High School Musical: Get in the Picture
Review By BRIAN LOWRY

In terms of execution, ABC's latest audition show is no better than -- and actually has much in common with -- NBC's soon-forgotten reality program finding stars for the "Grease" stage reviv…

Weak bow for 'Musical' series

ABC show falls victim to slow Sunday

Arts, Briefly: Sunday Ratings By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by Julie Bloom

Gas prices not seen impacting arts attendance so far By Mike Boehm

Some arts patrons are leaving their cars behind. Others can't.

High-School Musical: When Your Drama Teachers Go to School

In July, about 450 middle and high-school drama teachers from around the country flocked to Times Square for the eighth year of a program put on by Broadway Teachers Workshop, where they lea…

Joss Whedon on 'Dr. Horrible,' Stephen Sondheim, and Bad Horse

ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Ship of Dreams By Seth Rudetsky

Hair Today By: Dan Bacalzo

Director Diane Paulus discusses the Public's revival of Hair in Central Park, singing "Sodomy" at age nine, and where naked cast members hide their microphones.

Danity Kane's Aubrey O'Day Makes A Great 'Snotty Brat' In 'Hairspray' Opening Night By Christina Garibaldi

With 52 friends and family members in the audience, the 'Making the Band' alum didn't miss a beat.

PHOTO OP: Danity Kane's Aubrey O'Day Gets a New 'Do for Hairspray

The Ballad of Ellen Foley By Michael Martin

Q&A: Estelle Parsons Is One Tough Mother in August: Osage County

PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Drew Lachey

MY NEW YORK: Hot Fun in the City with Avenue Q's Carey Anderson

VIDEO: Opening Night: [title of show

PHOTO CALL: San Diego's Old Globe Enjoys The Pleasure of His Company

PHOTO CALL: Ebersole and Suskin Join Strouse at Barnes and Noble

PHOTO CALL: Musical A Tale of Two Cities Prepares for Broadway

Abba's appeal is strong, inexplicable By PHIL GALLO

'Mamma Mia!' shows band's staying power

'Mamma Mia!' opens Deauville

Musical to kick off festival on Sept. 5

Mamma Mia! Film Opens Strong with $27.6 Million at Box Office

Mamma Mia! Tour, with McMonagle, Coomer and Dawson, to Play Chicago's Auditorium Theatre

MITF 2008 Roundup
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Reports on The Wendy Complex, Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants, and Daguerreotypes.

Those Whistling Lads!: The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker - Reviewed by HARRY FORBES

Though the show is a little heavy on the exposition, Dorothy Parker's surefire material and an adept cast help the play, under Bricken Sparacino's direction, flow well, some rough patches no…

Scandal in Manhattan - Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY

When broad comedy fails to catch fire, it can be hard to assess the reasons, but in this case a flaccid script and sloppy direction leave the cast adrift, forcing them to fill in unmotivated…

The Higher Education of Khalid Amir - Reviewed by IRENE BACKALENICK

"The Higher Education of Khalid Amir" takes off with a series of hilarious scenes and characters.

Interning - Reviewed by PAUL MENARD

The cast members do the best they can with the material, but Owusu's muddy script falls flat, especially under Rye Mullis' cartoonish direction.

10-Speed Revolution - Reviewed by MARC MILLER

The cast has energy to spare, but John Heimbuch's violent, nihilistic comedy suffers from a bad case of ADD.

Courting Mae West - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

Courting Mae West would not be without its excitement, nor is LindaAnn Loschiavo's play of the same name. Yet though it has all the witty banter and innuendo that's expected, too many storyl…

Around the World in 80 Days - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

"Around the World in 80 Days" matches form and content brilliantly as five actors playing 39 roles perform Mark Brown's adaptation of Jules Verne's adventure story of a race against time aro…

Around the World in 80 Days

Director Michael Evan Haney has five capable actors playing more than thirty roles in the globe-trotting yarn, as compactly adapted by Mark Brown at the Irish Rep.

PHOTO CALL: Irish Rep Goes Around the World in 80 Days

Gate/Beckett: I'll Go On - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

Barry McGovern is a masterful Beckett interpreter whose one-man show "I'll Go On" blends Beckett's words with George Carlin's comic timing. The laugh-till-you-hurt/hurt-till-you-laugh result…

I'll Go On
Review By SAM THIELMAN

"I'll Go On" is about as good as it gets, with McGovern wringing laughs from some of Samuel Beckett's bleakest passages.

GO ON AND SEE BECKETT By FRANK SCHECK (*** 1/2)

Eh Joe / I'll Go On
Reviewed by: David Finkle

Liam Neeson and Barry McGovern give indelible portraits in Lincoln Center Festival's productions of these Samuel Beckett works.

The Time of Mendel's Trouble - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

Anything would be better than this amateurish mess of paranoid political satire, which is the theatrical equivalent of a punishment from God.

Dog Day Afternoon - Reviewed by HARRY FORBES

One can't help but admire how resourcefully this 16-person ensemble dramatizes the events - character-heavy and action-packed as they are - of the famous 1975 film, even as it inevitably fal…

Ain't Misbehavin' - Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY

Harlem Rep makes clear its association with the City College of New York's Department of Theatre and Speech but still purports to be a professional theatre. On the basis of this production, …

Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh
Review By SAM THIELMAN

"Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh" returns to the Gotham stage after a well-reviewed first run last year, but it still needs the help of a dramaturg who's not afraid to employ the guillo…

East 14th: True Tales of a Reluctant Player
Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Plays don't work like TV shows or standup routines, so why didn't Don Reed get some help?

The Female of the Species
Review By DAVID BENEDICT

Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy ingredients are certainly bold, but the satirical farce meal she serves up is less than satisfying.

Zorro the Musical

What this musical has first and foremost, is action: magical disappearances and witty exchanges.

Shadow Lawn Stage offers a neatly acted 'Odd Couple' by Peter Filichia

The Violet Hour

This literate, funny yet poignant play has enough going for it even without the surprise element.

Review: Kicking a Dead Horse By Matt Windman (**)

Cheryl B. Engelhardt - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

When a tunesmith has a highly personal style, the potential exists for the songs to begin to sound alike after the fifth or sixth or even the third or fourth ones.

Mint's New Season to Include Glass Cage and Mrs. Holroyd

Bamman, Serralles, Toibin, Wetherall, et al. to Be Part of Mint's 2008-2009 Season

Alan Cox to Join Stacy Keach in National Tour of Frost/Nixon

Carradine seeking SAG board spot

Actor part of Membership First majority

Corrections

Goodspeed Musicals Will Present Premiere of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

Blue Man Group to Open 2008 IT Awards; Nominations Announced

Mac, Paley, Nguyen, Steggert, et al. Receive IT Awards Nominations

Ortega, Ramirez, Reyes, Velez, et al. Recieve ALMA Nominations

Oscar Nominee Blethyn to Take Manchester Menagerie on U.K. Tour

Xanadu's Testa Will Present Her Sleepless Variations at the Barrington

White, Brier, Rudetsky, Ralston and More Will Be Part of Obama Fundraiser, Spare Some Change

Florence and Nostrand Join Cast of Off-Broadway's Fantasticks

Jenkins and Stanton's Stage Comedy, Love Child, Added to Primary Stages Season

Jenkins and Stanton's Love Child Added to Primary Stages Season

Jenkins & Stanton's Love Child Joins Primary Stages Season

Carroll, Ryan, Silvers and More Will Join Feldshuh in Irena's Vow

Full Cast Announced for Irena's Vow

Cason, Clark, Ledisi, Nager, Roberts and More to Star in Reprise's Once on This Island

Principal Cast Announced for Reprise's Once on This Island

Barrington's Spelling Bee, with Baysic, Mastro and Wilfert, Will Play North Shore in August

Full Cast, Creative Team for NSMT's Spelling Bee

O'Hara, Cavanaugh, Benanti, Huffman, Rubin-Vega and Young Will Perform at Ross School Benefit

Benanti, Cavanaugh, Huffman, O'Hara, Rubin-Vega, Young to Appear at Ross School

Marguerite Cast Recording to Get July 28 Release

New Musical Marguerite to Play Tokyo in 2009

Brunstetter, Callaghan, et al. Win Samuel French Short Play Festival

Jacoby, Murray, von Essen, et al. Set for Sacramento Music Circus' Sweeney Todd

Do Not Disturb One-Acts to Play 59E59 Theaters

Greeley, McCarthy, Walker, Butler and More Will Join McKechnie in Reagle's Nanette

Hairspray's Angel, Godspell's Creel and More to Sing at "Broadway in Bryant Park"

Jarrow Workshops Big Money at Williamstown July 21

Bean and Damiano Will Join Zarley for "Here I Am" Celebration

"Happy Days" Star Winkler Will Be Captain Hook for U.K. Peter Pan

Molloy, Arrow, Watson, Foster and More to Star in Cape Rep's Ragtime

Porter, Pettiford, Simpson and Mae Set for Escape to Catalina Island Revue

Kind Replaces Phillips in Casa Mañana's Damn Yankees

Friedman's "Musical" Will Be Screened Outdoors July 22

Happy Hour: Plays About Drinking Plays West Side Dance Project Through Aug. 11

Duerr to Star in Punishing Blow, Penned by "Ethicist" Writer Cohen

Plimpton, de Haas, Foa, Gemignani and Long Join Line-Up for Variations on Shakespeare Concert

Higgins and Russell Beale Have A Slight Ache Beginning July 21 in London

Gate Theatre's New Season Will Include Adaptations of Ibsen and Schnitzler

Russell Beale Will Narrate Oedipus Rex in Philharmonia Orchestra Opening Concert

Talk Show Watch: Nathan Lane on "Letterman," Jennifer Hudson on "Regis"

Today in Theatre History: JULY 22

Primary Stages Brings Buffalo Gal to Off-Broadway's 59E59 Theaters Beginning July 22

Drama Desk Winners Receive Trophies July 22

Keeling and Spencer Are Danny and Sandy in Broadway's Grease Beginning July 22

"Let the Sunshine In": Hair Begins Central Park Run July 22

Annie Get Your Gun, with Colella and Ashford, Begins Pittsburgh CLO Run July 22

Pop Star Fergie In Talks to Join Cast of Nine Feature Film