Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 18

Guthrie's Happy Days, with Wingert and Ooms, Opens Feb. 18

Geva's Sweeney Todd, with Tewksbury, Sanders, McGowan and More, Begins Feb. 18

Connington's Zombie Plays Theatre Row Engagement Beginning Feb. 18

Arnaz and Jenkins Join Feinstein for Feb. 18 Johnny Mercer Celebration at Zankel Hall

"Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About" Debuts on PBS Feb. 18

Amy Carle Is New Point in Desire's Love Triangle at the Goodman

Converse, Mooney, Creaghan, Hanover, Kaminsky Swap Ghost Stories in FL Weir Starting Feb. 18

Marriott's Joseph Begins Feb. 18 in IL; Marc Robin Directs

In Paradise and She Plundered Him Open Off-Broadway Feb. 18

Beck, Greene and Zuaiter Are Betrayed for L.A. Theatre Works Feb. 18

LeBeauf, Warren and Gill Are Three Sisters, Opening in Harlem Feb. 18

TACT Offers "Arthur Miller and the Holocaust" Feb. 18 in NYC

Campbell and Soules Spar in Doubt for Gulfshore Playhouse Beginning Feb. 18

Bad Dates, with Haviland Morris, Begins Long Wharf Run Feb. 18

Taylor Hackford to Direct Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara at Geffen Playhouse

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

ORDER OUT OF 'ANARCHIST' By MICHAEL RIEDEL
ITALIAN THRILLER TO STAR IZZARD

Arts, Briefly: 'Next to Normal' Transfers to Broadway By PATRICK HEALY; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

In an unusual move, the producers plan to close the Longacre's balcony to create a more intimate feel by reducing the number of seats to 820, from a capacity of about 1,100.

Next to Normal, with Entire Arena Cast, to Play Broadway's Longacre

Next to Normal to Play Broadway's Longacre

Next to Normal Headed to Broadway's Longacre Theatre

Workshop May Present Play Critical of Israel By PATRICK HEALY

New York Theater Workshop is considering mounting a production of a Caryl Churchill play that at times paints heartless images of Israelis.

Arts, Briefly: No Teenage 'Rent' at California School
Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

Mirren to Grace D.C. Stage in Fall By Peter Marks

In something of a glittery coup for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren will be featured this September at the troupe's Sidney Harman Hall, in a visit by the …

Shakespeare Theatre's 2009-10 Season

Matt Dillon is headed to Steppenwolf for Nelson Algren celebration by Chris Jones

Champlin, Monley, Joshi, Duvall, Arcilla, Greaves Land Jobs-in Old Globe's Working

Long earns Goodspeed Award

Tony winner the first costume designer to win

Broadway Bears Raises Over $150,000 for BC/EFA; Spamalot Bear Is King

Op-Ed Columnist
Cheney and the Goat Devil By MAUREEN DOWD

I was dubious about Will Ferrell doing his Bush impersonation one more time on Broadway.

FIRST PERSON : Pia Glenn: Just Another Day in the (Oval) Office

Peter Filichia's Diary: Come Playbill Wiz Me

A superb celebration of Yiddish Theatre

Watch 'American Idol' Castoff Joanna Pacitti Tour Record Labels By Jocelyn Vena

Pacitti auditioned for executives in an episode of 'True Life' in 2002.

Hey, Mister Rodgers! By: Andy Propst

There's a renaissance of Richard Rodgers' music on the Broadway stage and the CD shelf!

CINDY ADAMS
NO 'DOUBT' OSCAR'S NOD HAS HER JITTERY

Upstaged: How to succeed on Broadway without really trying

Upstaged: Attend congress on saving small theaters!

BACKSTAGE: The Man With a 'Tale' That Just Keeps On Going By Jane Horwitz

Chazz Palminteri says about 80 percent of his solo show "A Bronx Tale" -- about growing up in a Mafia-run neighborhood in the early 1960s -- is true.

Dante's Ben Cunis and Paata Tsikurishvili by Joel Markowitz

A conversation with Synetic Theater Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili, director of Dante and Ben Cunis, co-adaptor, who appears in the title role.

VIDEO FEATURES : Boomtown! Impressionism - Aaron Lazar Interview

PHOTO OP : Waking Up with Chicago Star Tom Wopat

PHOTO CALL: Donald Smith Honored at the National Arts Club

Theater Review | 'In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)'
A Quaint Treatment for Women Wronged By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Sarah Ruhl's spirited and stimulating new comedy is a fanciful but compassionate consideration of the treatment, and the mistreatment, of women in the late 19th century.

RAISING IBSEN TO NEW HEIGHTS By FRANK SCHECK (*** 1/2)

TO say that director Lee Breuer's take on "A Doll's House" is "high concept" is putting it mildly. Back in Brooklyn, where it opened last night after a five-year international tour, "Mabou M…

Mabou Mines Dollhouse - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

The company is quite fine overall, but the real treat is Mark Povinelli's towering Torvald. Equal parts lust and disgust, he's the type of tiny tyrant you might struggle to slam the door on.

The Jazz Age
Review By BOB VERINI

There's a lot of jazz about F. Scott Fitzgerald's supposed homoerotic fixation on Ernest Hemingway (and Papa's ambivalent reaction to same), but it doesn't add up to a convincing portrait of…

William Faulkner Enters the Collapsable Hole Garage in Chuck.Chuck.Chuck. By Eli Epstein-Deutsch

Chuck.Chuck.Chuck. - Reviewed by NICOLE VILLENEUVE

The modular structure and stream-of-consciousness style of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" make the novel a daunting choice for theatrical adaptation. Yet Immediate Medium's new producti…

The Book of Lambert - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

Leslie Lee's play, receiving a fine -- and overdue -- world premiere at La MaMa, mines deep, starting in the recesses of the New York City subway and ending in the depths of its characters' …

Love/Stories (Or But You Will Get Used To It)
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Itamar Moses' amusing evening of short plays are characterized by frustrated love affairs and quirky metatheatrics.

American Rapture: The Lonely Soul of a Crowded Nation - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

While the umbrella title is ironic, an unusually high level of acting and careful direction make "American Rapture: The Lonely Soul of a Crowded Nation" very satisfying if not quite rapturou…

Conversations on Russian Literature (Plus Three More Plays) - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

Sometimes all you can really hope to take away from an evening or afternoon at the theatre is the memory of one astonishing performance. In David Johnston's two-handed 52-minute play of the …

Conversation With a Kleagle - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

Kevin B. Ploth has directed the 100-minute piece with appropriate intensity, but his staging of a largish cast isn't helped by the unevenness of the acting company.

Fresh Kills - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

Opening her play with an act of fellatio and ending it with a suicide, playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder is anything but timid. Unfortunately, the characters in her "Fresh Kills" remain fr…

In a Minor Key by J. Cooper Robb

Blackbird shows the aftermath of one man's sexual encounter with a young girl.

A Delicate Balance and Is He Dead?
Washington, D.C. Reviews by Susan Berlin

Dead Man's Cell Phone
Connecticut Review by Fred Sokol

Noises Off

Playwright/novelist Michael Frayn's farce still sends audiences into hysterics

Ruined's Women Face a Congo Civil War; Shipwrecked!'s Hero Wrestles with His Imagination By Michael Feingold

Russian Dress-Up For Uncle Vanya and Leah's Train By Alexis Soloski

John Zorn Scores Richard Foreman's Astronome By Tom Sellar

TV Preview: 'Something to Dance About': A Master's Life, With Missteps By Sarah Kaufman

"Great artists are not great saints," says one observer, talking about Jerome Robbins in an elegant, first-ever documentary about the famously hot-tempered Broadway hitmaker.

PBS show explores Jerome Robbins' dark genius By Sid Smith

Holiday bonanza on Broadway

Presidents Day weekend brought a box office boost to Broadway last week, with total sales rising almost $2 million to $14.4 million for 23 shows on the boards.

Victory Gardens appoints Jan Kallish as new executive director by Chris Jones

Jan Kallish Is Chicago Victory Gardens' New Exec Director

Paige Davis, Patrick Page, and Laura Osnes to Join James Barbour for Love Songs

Davis, Page and Osnes Set for Barbour's Love Songs Feb. 21

Barbour, Cuccioli, Earley and Schuck Will Be Among Paper Mill's 1776 Cast

Gaynor, Baryshnikov and Sayres to Make Barnes and Noble Appearances in March