'Dirty Dancing' to end Toronto run

Producer David Mirvish on Sunday announced a March 29 closing date for the Toronto run of "Dirty Dancing, the Classic Story on Stage." When it shutters, the tuner will have played 582 perfor…

Saving Federal Arts Funds: Selling Culture as an Economic Force By ROBIN POGREBIN

There was a whiplash quality to the action surrounding the preservation of $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts in the final version of the economic-stimulus bill.

Arts Ban in Stimulus Is Stupid Economics: Commentary by James S. Russell

Kenneth Branagh, Josh Hartnett, David Tennant, Jersey Boys Among Whatsonstage.com Winners

Arts, Briefly: Rambo-Inspired Show and More in the Wings
Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

Thriller - Live Extends West End Run at London's Lyric Theatre

New theater rises in Camden By Howard Shapiro

On Feb. 6, the theater opened Davis' slightly revised Mass Appeal, which will run through Sunday.

Obituary: Jean Martin: Actor of masterful portrayals in Beckett plays

Jean Martin's Broadway Credits

Zippel It Up! By: Brian Scott Lipton

Tony Award winner David Zippel will present his favorite songs as part of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series.

Even in a bad economy, the play's still her thing By ROBERT FELDBERG

Where Angels Fear to Tread: Chase Mishkin By Jesse Green

Following The Tapioca Miracle

Get inside the private readings of this miracle musical that is already amassing its group of true believers.

East West didn't say 'Ixnay' By Karen Wada

Paul Kikuchi has written six screenplays -- all unproduced, so far. But he landed a spot in the theater's David Henry Hwang Writers Institute and wrote his first play. It opens Wednesday.

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MATTHEW Modine, who's at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut rehearsing "To Kill a Mockingbird," is pleased that the production, set to open on Feb. 24, has already racked up the biggest advan…

I'm doing my bit to get America out of the recession - by going to every Broadway show I can by Joe Queenan

Bright spark: the rise of the lighting designer by Lyn Gardner

Lighting is integral to create interesting productions - it is the secret language of theatre

Sailor Man/ Rumspringa

A double feature, one an excellent reprise from the Fringe Festival

Arena Stage's 'Delicate Balance': Perfectly Weighted With Subtlety & Smarts By Peter Marks

Culture Monster: Review: 'Noises Off' at South Coast Repertory by Charles McNulty

If "Noises Off," Michael Frayn's perfect geometric proof of backstage zaniness, isn't the most ingeniously calibrated farce of the last few decades, then there's an Einstein writing screwbal…

'Noises Off' is an antidote for depression By PAUL HODGINS

Art Manke's SCR production is rough at times but smartly cast.

What You Will

This, cool and energetic, hip-hop Shakespeare is well worth the drive north on I-95 from Center City Philadelphia.

Spring Awakening

London welcomes the hit musical

A View from the Bridge

Ken Stott's Eddie Carbone is more sympathetic than some I have seen giving the play an interesting balance

Three Days of Rain

A new opportunity to see Greenberg's play with a talented, acclaimed cast led by James McAvoy

Sick

Misery Times Two By Scott Brown

Uncle Vanya's jumpy, star-studded Russian melancholy, and Lynn Nottage's grimly lyric Ruined.

For Valentine's Day, a Pair Of Songbirds at Kennedy Center By Nelson Pressley

Broadway lovebirds Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie wasted no time setting a Valentine's Day mood Saturday night at the Kennedy Center. As Mazzie trilled "Indian Love Call" from the stage, Da…

Florida's Carbonell Award Nominations Are Announced

London's Pizza on the Park Will Relaunch in March; McGovern, Marcovicci and More to Perform

London's Pizza on the Park, which in the 1980s and 1990s was London's leading musical cabaret venue, will permanently reopen in March as a supper club under the stewardship of American perfo…

Michael Cerveris, Jane Powell, Marian Seldes, et al. Set for Project Shaw's Dinner and a Shaw Gala

Your False Start Choices

Charles Busch's new play The Third Story may be confused and disappointing, but it does offer one interesting perception that fits in with the readers' comments I'm detailing today. Busch says that every script endures two false starts, and not until the third version does the story take flight. Maybe some of our musicals only went through Stage One and Stage Two.

Lights Up on Javier Muñoz, the New Tour Guide of In the Heights

Love, Loss, and What I Wore Reading, with Ferrera, Burns, Van Patten, Najimy, Offered Feb. 16

Brescia, Shindle, Bean, Harada and More Sing Thompson Tunes Feb. 16

Project Shaw's Buoyant Billions, with Batt, Cox, Irving, Dixon, Rowat, Presented Feb. 16

Reed, Marshall, Rideout and Schwartz Join deRoy at the Metropolitan Room Feb. 16

Gertner, Furman, Pazakis and Bahorek Sing Cronin Tunes Feb. 16

Wopat Returns to Broadway's Chicago Feb. 16; TV Appearance, Too

Dirty Dancing to end Toronto run

Today in Theatre History

So Inviting, That Dark at the Top of the Stairs, by Ben Brantley

Edgar Oliver's one-man show is a sweet and sinister memoir.

It Packs a Bit of a Punch, by Frank Scheck

It's nice that the Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street are offering a "Recession Special Double Bill" of two one-act plays for the price of one with their pairing of Fringe Festival favorite Sailor Man with the new Rumspringa. But cash-starved theatergoers could really save some money by skipping this wildly disjointed double-bill altogether.