Hair in the Square by Hairbroadway

Hair in the Square Shot in Times Square by Apples and Oranges during a cold and Snowy/Rainy day in February, we talked to a number of people people about their personal experience with the …

Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me Extends Off-Broadway Through June 7

Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me Extends Through 6/7

Birbiglia Will Sleepwalk Off-Broadway Through June

Mattie Hawkinson to Join William L. Petersen in Victory Gardens Blackbird

Hawkinson Will Join Petersen for Chicago Blackbird; Tix on Sale March 3

Ruffalo, Hamilton and Yager to Reprise Roles in This Is Our Youth

L.A.T.W.'s This Is Our Youth to Feature Ruffalo, Hamilton and Yager

Jackie Hoffman, Nellie McKay, and More Set for Big Gay Variety Show

Hoffman and McKay Set for Big Gay Variety Show Benefit

René Augesen, Charles Dean, Jack Willis, and More Set for A.C.T.'s War Music

"Iliad" to Unfurl With Music and Movement in A.C.T. World Premiere, War Music; Cast Announced

Estelle Parsons to Be Honored at Women's Project Gala

Women's Project to Honor Oscar Winner Estelle Parsons March 2

Lou Diamond Phillips to Star on Sci-Fi Channel's Stargate Universe

King and I's Phillips Lands Role on New Series "SGU: Stargate Universe"

Composers of Wicked, Hair to Join Songwriters Hall of Fame

Gere and Gaynor to Be Honored By Boston Youth Moves; Rivera to Present

Theodore Bikel, Sheldon Harnick and More to Celebrate Sholom Aleichem's Birthday

Nick Mennell, Greg Mullavey, Armin Shimerman, and More Set for L.A. Misalliance

Tin Pan Alley Rag, Filled With the Music of Joplin and Berlin, to Get NYC Bow

Enter Laughing Stars to Head to the Chatterbox Feb. 26

Shrek's Foster to Be Honored with Sardi's Caricature

Electric Pear Presents Synesthesia Beginning Feb. 25

Chicago's About Face Postpones Show, Launches Emergency Fundraising Campaign

American Musicals Project Concerts to Feature Yazbeck, Jacoby, Bergen, Mason and More

We're King of a Big Deal, Featuring Wicked and Rent Stars, to Play the Beechman

Jackie Mason Will Offer a Park Avenue Workshop at Feinstein's; Season Schedule Updated

Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum Postpones 2009 Production of McDonagh's Inishmore

Playwright Mamet's Daughter Joins Cast of "Ab Fab"; Burrows to Direct

Mamma Mia!'s Johnson Pens New Play for Bristol Old Vic; New Artistic and Executive Directors Appointed

Ordway Lines Up August, South Pacific and Little House for 2009-2010

Arena's 2009-10 Season Will Boast Piazza, Quality of Life, Stick Fly, Hines and More

Maurice Hines, Kenny Leon, JoBeth Williams, and More Set for Arena Stage

Famed Gossip Columnist Liz Smith Dropped From the NY Post

Center Theatre Group Postpones Taper Production of Lieutenant of Inishmore

Some Thoughts on Damon Runyon: The Chronicler of Prohibilton Era Broadway's Hustlers, Gamblers and Showgirls who inspired Guys and Dolls -- a Curtainup Prequel

It's Time to Try Defying Inequality; photo feature by Michael Portantiere

Major Broadway, film, and TV stars come together with political types and other notables at the Gershwin Theatre in opposition to Prop. 8 and in support of gay marriage.

ArtsBeat Blog: Scenes From the 'Defying Inequality' Benefit By Patrick Healy

PIVEN'S POISONAL PLEA By MICHAEL RIEDEL
GOING BEFORE B'WAY UNION TO DEFEND 'SUSHI SICKNESS'

Oscar-Winning Smash Slumdog Millionaire May Be Headed to the Stage

Culture Monster: First family of arts lovers by Mike Boehm and Chris Jones

Pass Me the Tums, Part 1 By Frank Rizzo

Most theaters across America are reporting they are reconfiguring expenses for the year with actions ranging from reduction or freeze in salaries, cutbacks in travel, implementing ticket dis…

Culture Monster: Taper postpones 'Lieutenant of Inishmore' by Lisa Fung

Taper pushes 'Inishmore' to 2010

Economy cited as reason for play's delay

Culture Monster: Pasadena's Boston Court theater eliminates unintended freebies

'Post' drops legendary gossip columnist Liz Smith By Amy Westfeldt, Associated Press Writer

The Post Finally Pushes Liz Smith All the Way Out the Door

Backstage: Arena Stage Is Singing Quite a Few Broadway Tunes By Jane Horwitz

Arena Stage's New Season

Peter Filichia's Diary: Miller and His Music

Sizing up a mother's sacrifice

Answers About Broadway, Part 2 By ERIK PIEPENBURG

Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik, authors of the newly revised "Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time," answered readers' questions about Broadway's history: the best, the overra…

'Palestine's' Next Stage By Peter Marks

George Ibrahim tugs down at the top of his turtleneck and points to the bare skin of his throat. "This," he says in accented English, "is what kasaba means in Arabic. Center of breathing. Center of life."

Casting Call: Anika Noni Rose for The Wiz By Adam Feldman

Casting has not yet been announced, so for the pivotal role of Dorothy, may we suggest: the exquisite Anika Noni Rose.

Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil
Will Ferrell is Broadway box-office champ as George W. Bush - a Tony (and Emmy) ahead?

Munchkin hopefuls strut stuff at Garden seeking part in 'Oz' play BY Sarah Armaghan

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With David Cromer

Rising Chicago director David Cromer (Our Town, Adding Machine) makes a bigger impression each time he comes to New York.

USNAVI 2.0

Javier Muñoz, who put the "study" in "understudy," moves on up "In the Heights."

Anna Gunn's many angles By Diane Haithman

The 'Deadwood' and 'Breaking Bad' actress plays a photojournalist confronting ethical issues and war-zone injuries in Donald Margulies' play 'Time Stands Still.'

Irons Tries Love, Sarandon Gets Jitters on Stage: Broadway Buzz By Zinta Lundborg

Who are you to play Rod? BY DAREL JEVENS
BLAGOJEVICH MUSICAL | Ex-gov becomes fodder for quick-witted improv star

'Stories' colors Spalding Gray's works in new ways By Jenna Scherer

Run Through: Jeffrey Koon

Streetcar's Stanley Kowalski feels the Philly love.

Their Space by Christopher Wink

Six teens from different background tell each others' oral histories in this new stage production.

VIDEO FEATURES : Beyond Broadway: The Savannah Disputation

Photo of the Day: That Pretty Pretty

PHOTO CALL: Rooms: a rock romance Photo Op

Trick of the Day: Todd Robbins By Adam Feldman

Trick of the Day: Asi Wind By Adam Feldman

Rosie O'Donnell stops drinking at son's request

TV Review: America By BRIAN LOWRY

Rosie O'Donnell brings her considerable wattage as producer, co-writer and star to "America," an unabashed message movie about the plight of kids in foster care.

SING, SING, SING, SING by MERVYN ROTHSTEIN

Broadway by the Year is back for its ninth season. The year in question for the first concert was 1924, and it was every bit as good or better than previous musicals in the series.

The Broadway Musicals of 1924
Review By ROBERT L. DANIELS

PHOTO CALL: Broadway by the Year Revisits Musicals of 1924

PHOTO CALL: This Beautiful City Opens Off-Broadway

Opening-night party: This Beautiful City By David Cote

Colorado springs to life in 'This Beautiful City' by Joe Dziemianowicz (***)

Theater Review | 'Three Sisters'
Dying Dreams in Old Russia as Reimagined in Harlem By NEIL GENZLINGER

This is a production that, like the Yankees, has an assortment of stars but somehow never feels like a team effort.

Three Sisters at Classical Theatre of Harlem By Christopher Grobe

Theater Review | 'The Book of Lambert'
Longings of the Lost, Mistaken for Love By RACHEL SALTZ

Leslie Lee's play, which has been reworked and updated, feels overlong and overcrowded with ideas.

Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Intiation) - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

Both director-designer Richard Foreman and composer John Zorn vividly bring out the work's dark themes with uncommon candor, lucidity, and depth. But together they are often overstimulating,…

Human Jukebox - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

Despite the title, Joseph Keckler is much more than a human jukebox.

Zombie - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

This world-premiere, hourlong solo piece about a serial killer understandably will have a limited audience, but it's hard to quibble about its... execution.

PLOT WITH A PINCH OF ASSAULT By FRANK SCHECK (1/2 *)

The current offering, Sheila Callaghan's "That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play," is the sort of deliberately provocative but juvenile effort the Rattlestick seems compelled to champion.

SHAKE SPARE: LESS IS MOOR By FRANK SCHECK (*** 1/2)

YOU don't find Shakespearean productions more low-concept than the Theatre for a New Audience's "Othello."

Plague Over England
Review By KAREN FRICKER

This West End transfer of the first full-length play by Nicholas de Jongh, theater critic for London's Evening Standard, dramatizes -- sort of -- a key period in the early gay rights struggl…

The Story of My Life Leaves Out Whatever Might Give It a Story or a Life By Michael Feingold

Brainy Playwright Offers Up Five Short Pieces with Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used to It ) By Eric Grode

The Urge to Speak Is Strong in Telephone By Tom Sellar

Fresh Kills' Facile Morality Tale Offers Cheap Laughs By Garrett Eisler

The Chocolate Factory Serves Up Multimedia Pasta with redevelop (death valley) By Eli Epstein-Deutsch

Mental State by J. Cooper Robb

A trio of young adults grapple with the impact of bipolar disorder in Jump/Cut.

Hooking Marlon By: Zachary Stewart

A new biography of Marlon Brando and Carrie Fisher's memoir Wishful Drinking provide inside glimpses into Hollywood royalty.

Chicago attorney lead producer of "Spiderman" by Chris Jones

Ralph Covert musical postponed by Chris Jones

Barbour's Love Songs Extended at Sardi's

James Barbour's Love Songs to Extend through March

Simon Russell Beale, Rebecca Hall, Josh Hamilton, Sam Mendes to Appear at Shakespeare Society

Public Theater's 2009 Shakespeare Lab Will Be Tuition-Free

New Plays by Staub, Demos-Brown, Horovitz, Lewis, Laufer, Rosendorf Read in FL Stage Fest

Songwriters Hall of Fame to Honor Schwartz, MacDermot, Rado and Ragni

Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 25

Avow, with Franz, Bove, Farnham and Graham, Opens Off-Broadway Feb. 25

Chicago Engagement of Chicago, with d'Amboise and O'Hurley, Begins Feb. 25

Broadway Unbound Panel, with Avenue Q and [title of show] Creators, Offered Feb. 25

It's a Second Coming for Nine's Burch Beginning Feb. 25

Mother's Sickbed Is Focal Point of The Patient Hour, Opening in Toronto Feb. 25

Abraham, Antaramian, Buck, Shafir Are Scorched in Philly Feb. 25-March 29

Alley's Man Who Came to Dinner, with Black and de Guzman, Opens Feb. 25

Theresa Rebeck's Bad Dates Opens at Long Wharf Feb. 25

Betrayal, with Casebier, Podulke and Christopher, Opens at Seattle Rep Feb. 25

Arts, Briefly: 'The Wiz' Eases Onto Encores! Schedule
Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

Arts, Briefly: Broadway's 'Spider-Man' Spins a Start Date By PATRICK HEALY; Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

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