Barb Jungr: The Men I Love by John Hoglund

... her best U.S. club outing to date. Seemingly, her next stop is a solo turn at Carnegie Hall

First-rate 'Quiet Man' speaks volumes about Irish culture BY HEDY WEISS

TUXEDO? CHECK. HORMONES? CHECK. DATE? By LOU LUMENICK (*** 1/2)

THE sight of William H. Macy sporting a Jew-fro as a divorced dad trying to help his nerdy son score with a prom date is among the myriad delights in the gut-bustingly funny "Bart Got a Room…

Yussef El Guindi Wins 2009 Osborn New Play Award for Our Enemies

Yussef El Guindi Wins ATCA's Osborn Award

Ars Nova and NBC Universal Sign "First-Look" Talent Deal

Perfect Crime's Russell Named Guinness Record Holder

Toxic Avenger Cast Recording Release Dates Set

Annaleigh Ashford, Jenn Colella, Kate Reinders, Kate Shindle, and More Set for NYMF's Best of the Fest Gala

English National Opera Announces 2009-2010 Season

Robert Foxworth, Melinda Page Hamilton Headline Old Globe's Cornelia; Updated Casting for The Price Announced

Raul Esparza, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, et al. Set for Atlantic Theater Gala

Easy Virtue, Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, to Get May 22 Release

Sex and the City 2 to Get May 2010 Release

Horton Foote to Be Honored at New Dramatists Spring Luncheon

the side project is the emerging theater of the year by Chris Jones

Theresa Rebeck to Read and Sign Three Girls at Playwrights Horizons on April 20

Natalie Toro to Play L.A. Cabaret Show on April 25

Ensemble Theater Summit in Hartford By Frank Rizzo

Tickets on Sale Tuesday for Int Arts Fest By Frank Rizzo

Petkoff, Moriber and Rosen Set for Jekyll & Hyde NYC Benefit Concert

Denver Center Opens Regional Premiere of Memory Play A Prayer for Owen Meany

Disney to Publish Little Mermaid Broadway Companion Book

Fat Pig, Speech & Debate and John Gabriel Borkman Announced for Aurora Theatre Season

Today In Theatre History: APRIL 3

Markham Joins Cast of Off-Broadway's Altar Boyz April 3

By Strouse! Bostwick, Edelman, Gravitte, Luker and Mason Sing at Carnegie Hall April 3

Jones' "ShowFolk" CD Gives Folky Touch to Spring Awakening, Rent and Wicked

Three-Actor Crime and Punishment Opens in Seattle April3

Crudup, Marvel and Wilkoff Perform 52nd Street's Can Do! at the Public April 3

Gross and Hinkle Are Surprised Siblings in Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair, April 3-May 3

On the Road Again: Waiting for Godot, With Glover, Goodman, Irwin and Lane, Begins on Broadway

Disney to Launch Discount Broadway Ticket Offer April 5

Shoshana Bean, Eden Espinosa, Stephen Schwartz to Play L.A. Ford Amphitheatre

Goodman Adds Good Negro to 2009-10 Season

Goodman Theatre Completes 2009-2010 Season

WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

Hot Seats: Top theater and comedy events this weekend

Theater Listings: April 3-9

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

reasons to be pretty
Review by Adam Feldman

LaBute takes the old saw that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and gives it new teeth.

Pretty Pictures By Joseph Marzullo; Text by Dan Bacalzo

Edie Falco, Dominic Fumusa, Laura Benanti, Gretchen Mol, Anson Mount, and Bryan Singer help Marin Ireland, Steven Pasquale, Piper Perabo, and Thomas Sadoski celebrate the opening of reasons to be pretty.

The Cast of "Reasons To Be Pretty" Has Reasons To Party

James Carpinello Rocks!, by Michael Portantiere

The star of Broadway's Saturday Night Fever is about to open in Rock of Ages, but PLEASE don't tell him to "break a leg." Plus: Capsule reviews of Hair and a bunch of other great shows.

Aaron Eckhart runs to 'Rabbit Hole'

Aaron Eckhart is in talks to star opposite Nicole Kidman in the bigscreen adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's Broadway play "Rabbit Hole."

A calming figure in a showy business: Matthew Dalco, 1962-2009

Dalco worked with companies in Australia and London and helped produce many of the world's most popular modern musicals, including Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Phantom Of The Opera, …

Matthew Dalco's Broadway Credits

Elaine Cancilla Orbach, Actor Jerry Orbach's Widow, Dies at 69

Elaine Cancilla Orbach Dies at 69

Elaine Cancilla's Broadway Credits

Road Show, Burstyn, Grisetti, Our Town, Jones, Fela! Among 2009 Lortel Nominees

Ellen Burstyn, Brian d'Arcy James, Annie Parisse, Thomas Sadoski and More Receive Lucille Lortel Nominations

2009 Lucille Lortel Nominees, Honoring Off-Broadway Excellence, Announced

John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin, Jayne Houdyshell to Star in Roundabout's Bye Bye Birdie

Stamos, Gershon, Irwin and Houdyshell to Headline Bye Bye Birdie Revival

Stamos, Gershon, Houdyshell, Irwin Will Put on a Happy Face in Broadway Birdie

Arts, Briefly: Say Hello to Stamos and Gershon in 'Birdie' Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Encores! Finian's Rainbow to Open at Broadway's St. James in Fall 2009

Producers Want to Move Encores! Finian's Rainbow to Broadway

Arts, Briefly: 'Finian's Rainbow' to Broadway By PATRICK HEALY; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

For 2009 Tonys, Lansbury, Cerveris, Sparks and Stormare Are "Featured," You're Welcome Is "Special"

Angela Lansbury to Be Eligible For Featured Actress Tony Award

Tony Administrators Rule on Will Ferrell, Angela Lansbury & More

Few surprises at Tony talks

Will Ferrell's 'Bush' deemed a special event

Tony Awards rule on Will Ferrell's specialness by David Cote

Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard to Produce New Musical The Burnt Part Boys

Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre to Co-Produce Burnt Part Boys

Three Companies Will Develop Burnt Part Boys Musical Toward 2010 NYC Run

New West Side Story Cast Album Will Be Recorded April 6

West Side Story Revival Cast Recording Release Date Set

New Broadway West Side Story Cast Album to Be Released June 2

Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark to Hold Open Casting Calls in Multiple Cities

Spider-Man Musical Seeks Stars at Open Casting Calls

Josh Bednarsky's Spider-Man Dreams Still Alive!

Leo Ash Evans, Jason Michael Snow, Barbara Walsh, et al. Set for Amas' Signs of Life

Jenni Barber, Nick Blaemire, Stephen Bogardus, Lisa Brescia, Patti Murin Set for The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown

McCarter Theatre kicks off new season by Lisa Rose

Sam Buntrock Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Will Power to Be Part of 2009-2010 Season

President Obama Gives Queen of England the Gift of Broadway

"The Sweetest Sounds": Obamas Present U.K. Monarch with iPod of Broadway Musicals

Exclusive Zac Efron: Why I said no to 'Footloose' by Nicole Sperling

We Spot the Hot Subway Hero in the Wild!

At The Show, Wish You Were Here By Frank Rizzo

We love the marketing campaign at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.

ABC's Pushing Daisies to Receive DVD Release

"Pushing Daisies" Season Two, with Chenoweth, to Get DVD Release

CINDY ADAMS

Peter Filichia's Diary: reasons to be applauding

FOX411 By Roger Friedman
Coyote Ugly Star Makes Broadway Debut

First You Shut Up, Then You Grow Up By BEN BRANTLEY

This wonderfully acted production of Neil LaBute's play may turn out to be the sentimental sleeper of the season.

Neil LaBute back with the incisive 'reasons to be pretty' by Joe Dziemianowicz (*** 1/2)

Neil Labute's 'Pretty' probes our ugly obsession with beauty By Elysa Gardner (* * * 1/2 out of four)

LaBute's Couples Curse, Punch, Holler in 'Pretty': John Simon

Neil LaBute's ferociously funny "Reasons to Be Pretty," about fragile human relationships and the seemingly inconsequential details that threaten or even wreck them, has traveled successfull…

LaBute examines explosive guy-girl relationships in play now on Broadway

This latest chapter is a more mature, more satisfying work about one man's decision to grow up and face the consequences of what he has done. His emotionally bruising journey to adulthood is…

reasons to be pretty
Review by Matthew Murray

The resulting play, which has been directed here by Terry Kinney and is fueled by a star-making performance from Thomas Sadoski, may be LaBute's tamest, but it's also his best.

Reasons to Be Pretty
Review By DAVID ROONEY

Nobody's going to call Neil LaBute a redemptive playwright, and even in this reflective mood, he's not exactly forgiving about men's failings and women's weaknesses. But there's compassion a…

Reasons to Be Pretty - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

In the transition to Broadway, there have been cast changes and script tightening-with mixed results. Still, there are plenty of reasons to see "Reasons."

Review: reasons to be pretty By Melissa Rose Bernardo (B-)

The ugly side of growing up BY ROBERT FELDBERG

Ultimately, though, the playwright delivers the goods, in a work that's lively and compulsively watchable and that offers a fresh take on the eternal matter of achieving adulthood.

reasons to be pretty
Reviewedby:David Finkle

A quartet of fine actors, led by Thomas Sadoski and Marin Ireland, partially redeem Neil LaBute's too-familiar battle-of-the-sexes play.

MANY REASONS TO BE WARY by Elisabeth Vincentelli (**)

Review of Reasons to Be Pretty by Matt Windman (2.5 out of 4 Stars)

If you've seen one Neil LaBute play, you've more or less seen them all.

Men Behaving Badly (and Predictably) By TERRY TEACHOUT

Neil LaBute, Off-Broadway's most prolific playwright, has finally made it uptown with "reasons to be pretty," his first semioptimistic play -- which turns out not to be a good thing.

MINING FOR TRAGEDY AND FINDING HOPE By LYNN NOTTAGE

Editor's note: Michael Riedel is on vacation. Guest columnist Lynn Nottage, whose play "Ruined" has again extended its run at the Manhattan Theatre Club, tells how she got that story.

The More She Drinks, the More She'll Spill By NEIL GENZLINGER

A one-woman show called "Shells" has developed a festively dedicated following by working the amorphous territory where cabaret, comedy and theater intersect.

Video: 'Shells'

Howard Kissel: The Cultural Tourist
Frank Loesser

Abba's 'Mamma' means business By ADAM DAWTREY, CHRIS JONES, DAVID BENEDICT

Show gives jukebox musicals a good name

Phyllida Lloyd directs a non-musical By DAVID BENEDICT

'Mamma Mia' helmer steering 'Mary Stuart'

'Tempest' bursting with magical possibilities BY HEDY WEISS

'For years now, the Steppenwolf ensemble has been raising the possibility of doing a Shakespeare play," said director Tina Landau.

Director immerses 'Twelfth Night' in water BY HEDY WEISS

Amy Spanger opens in new musical 'Rock of Ages'

When He Was 46 it Was a Very Good Year By WILL FRIEDWALD

Ervin Drake, about to turn 90, recalls the songs he wrote that made his career and became part of the soundtrack of his life.

Causes for Celebration! By: Joseph Marzullo, Tristan Fuge, & Brian Scott Lipton

Jessica Alba, Bobby Cannavale, Ernie Hudson, Mitzi Gaynor, BarBara Luna, Edward Norton, Laura Osnes, Phylicia Rashad, and Dallas Roberts are among the stars caught by our cameras.

PHOTO CALL: Star-Studded University of Michigan Anniversary Concert

PHOTO CALL: Legends! Benefit, with Busch and Lypsinka, at Town Hall

MARQUEE VALUE: A Little Night Music at London's Garrick Theatre

GROOVY PAD By JENNIFER CEASER

Will Swenson plays the high-spirited Berger in "Hair" on Broadway, but at home, he relaxes by playing guitar and hanging with his two sons.

Review: Hair (2009) By Melissa Rose Bernardo (A-)

PAGE SIX

THEY'VE both dished on their marriage in tell-all books -- which explains why Jane Fonda and Ted Turner have remained such pals.

ME AND BEETHOVEN DOWN BY ... by JESSICA BRANCH

Jane Fonda is alive and well and back on Broadway. The play's pretty interesting, too.

End Days
Reviewedby:Dan Bacalzo

Deborah Zoe Laufer's irreverent yet deeply felt comedy humorously navigates the uncertain terrain of faith, love, and science.

End Days - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

"End Days" by Debora Zoe Laufer is ferociously good.

End Days
Review by Sam Thielman

Two acts are too short a time to spend with Deborah Zoe Laufer's lovable characters in "End Days."

End Days

With the help of her fantastic cast, director Lisa Peterson keeps the play moving at breakneck speed but still gives the audience time to empathize and laugh

Jesus, Elvis and Hawking as Family Counselors By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Deborah Zoe Laufer's sour-sweet comedy often feels artificial in its depiction of a damaged family forging a path back to wholeness.

End Days
Review by Matthew Murray

Despite all the content and all the cleverness, there's a prevailing emptiness here that director Lisa Peterson's staging on Lee Savage's appropriately cramped cardboard-box-chic living room…

Kelli O'Hara
Review By STEVEN SUSKIN

To those who might have wondered whether Kelli O'Hara's recent successes in "The Light in the Piazza," "The Pajama Game" and "South Pacific" were due to strong material and skilled direction…

No Cartwheels (for Now), but Oodles of Spunk By STEPHEN HOLDEN

This radiant, wholesome singing actress with one foot in country music and the other in opera brings her all-American charm to the Café Carlyle for two weeks.

A LOT MORE THAN A PREGNANT PAUSE By FRANK SCHECK

The three-time Tony nominee has the sort of innate sweetness that can't be faked, and it comes through loud and clear in her debut engagement at the Cafe Carlyle.

Kelli O'Hara at the Cafe Carlyle by Matt Windman

John Tartaglia - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

So much of what John Tartaglia offered during his one-night Feinstein's at Loews Regency landing was cutesie-pootsie that it initially seemed a touch-and-go question as to whether what was r…

The Broadway Musicals of 1931 by Simon Saltzman

It was the great Depression Era, but what up-lifting musicals there were in 1931 to help make people forget.