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The Mary Poppins tour is one of the few shows that came through town where a lot of people I know attended. I know people who want to see The Lion King or Wicked and aren’t able to get ti…

Vows
Kathleen Marshall and Scott Landis By ERIC V. COPAGE

The couple's love affair has all the makings of a backstage romance like the ones in the old musicals that they know so well.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert to Open on Broadway March 6, 2011

Priscilla Queen of the Desert Will Strut to Broadway in Early 2011

Priscilla Queen of the Desert Heads to Broadway in 2011

Colman Domingo's A Boy and His Soul Extends Through November 1

Domingo's Solo A Boy and His Soul Extends Off-Broadway at Vineyard

Richard Griffiths Replaces Michael Gambon in Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art

Richard Griffiths Replaces Michael Gambon in Bennett's Habit of Art in London

Janson to Join Cast of London's Avenue Q

Eric Morecambe's Life to Be Celebrated in West End Play

North Shore Music Theatre latest

Reporter Steve Rosenberg has the latest on the shuttered North Shore Music Theatre. The property was sold yesterday.

Jackman and Craig: Chicago Cops, Broadway Stars by Richard Zoglin

Happy Journey of an Actor as Tragic Hero By MONICA DRAKE

After several screen credits and countless regional theater roles, John Douglas Thompson has become a Shakespeare specialist.

The Tangle of Branches in a Royal Tree By CELIA McGEE

Rosemary Harris has been watching a significant chunk of her life flash before her eyes, and it's played by Jan Maxwell in the Broadway revival of "The Royal Family."

The Health Care Monologues By SUSAN DOMINUS

Can Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman play about health care bring other voices to the debate?

ArtsBeat
NYMF: Five Questions About 'Fat Camp' By Erik Piepenburg

Q&A: Sex, Drugs and Electroshock Therapy: Wishful Drinking's Carrie Fisher on...Carrie Fisher

Michael Learned & Cathy Rigby: La Mirada's Women of Steel by Geo Hartley

The two leading ladies of La Mirada's Steel Magnolias talk about the upcoming show and their extensive theatre careers.

Photo Op: Rise and Shine: Behind the Scenes at Bye Bye Birdie's TV Debut on Good Morning America

5 Questions I've Never Been Asked: Mimi Imfurst

Lacking interest in "run-of-the-mill" impersonations" of Barbra, Judy and Cher, Imfurst does Anne Frank, Jon Benet Ramsey, Terri Schiavo and the Virgin Mary instead.

Are Artists, Arts Advocates and Arts Groups Ready for the GOP Takedown of the NEA?

CHESS REVIVAL WAS RIGHT MOVE FOR RICE By Mark Shenton

Natasha Lyonne: "I Can Appreciate That Fashion Exists for Really Skinny People"

PHOTO CALL: Love, Loss, and What I Wore Opens Off-Broadway

Photo Op: Stars Shine On Stage and Off at the Opening of Love, Loss and What I Wore

Fans' screams can be heard clear across Uptown. Or across a New York street. by Chris Jones

Superior Photos By: Joseph Marzullo & Tristan Fuge; Text by Dan Bacalzo

Liev Schreiber, LaChanze, Kathleen Turner, Michael McKean, Candice Bergen, Martha Stewart, Martin Short, Rosie O'Donnell, and Tyne Daly celebrate the opening nights of Superior Donuts and Love, Loss, and What I Wore.

PHOTO CALL: Lett's' Superior Donuts, with McKean, Opens on Broadway

PHOTO OP: Have a Donut! It's a Superior Opening for Tracy Letts' New Play

Photo Op: Have a Donut! It's a Superior Opening for Tracy Letts' New Play

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Superior Donuts - How Sweet It Is

PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Sept. 26-Oct. 2: Cops and Donuts

Donuts: is there anything they can't do? By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Review: "Superior Donuts" By: David Cote - Time Out New York

This witty, melancholy but hopeful chamber drama is a full-course meal served up by a crew of top chefs.

Superior Donuts - Review by Adam Feldman

Tracy Letts treads lightly into diner-counter culture.

Trevor Nunn stages the 1920s Tennessee 'monkey trial' by Celeste Biever

Inherit the Wind at the Old Vic is an elegant defence of tolerance. By Charles Spencer

Inherit The Wind by Gerald Berkowitz

Lawrence and Lee's 1955 courtroom drama is frequently revived in America but virtually unknown in Britain, a situation this barnstorming Trevor Nunn production should soon correct as the dir…

Inherit the Wind, Old Vic, London - Review by Michael Billington (****)

Inherit the Wind, at the Old Vic, SE1 by Benedict Nightingale (****)

Poetic Kevin Spacey brings life to Inherit The Wind By Henry Hitchings (**)

PRICK UP YOUR EARS: COMEDY THEATRE, LONDON By Paul Callan

Matt Lucas, in what is an inspired piece of casting, is memorable as the hapless and equally deserved Halliwell, who is caught up in the slipstream of Orton's talent.

Prick Up Your Ears by Mark Shenton

Daniel Kramer's smart, funny and eventually poignant production earns its keep by the fully inhabited strength of its two lead actors.

Prick Up Your Ears at the Comedy Theatre, review By Charles Spencer (***)

Prick Up Your Ears, Simon Bent's play about Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, lacks the wit and daring of Orton at his best.

Disappointing tale of a very average Joe By Rhoda Koenig (***)

Yeah but no, for Prick Up Your Ears By Henry Hitchings (***)

Prick Up Your Ears (**)

Matt Lucas doesn't disgrace himself but this play says little new about Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, writes Michael Billington

Prick Up Your Ears, by Simon Bent, Comedy Theatre - Review By Quentin Letts

This production forgets that loneliness and tension are often best conveyed by judicious silences rather than screaming.

Prick Up Your Ears
Review By DAVID BENEDICT

Simon Bent's new biodrama is darkly comic, as it should be, but helmer Daniel Kramer gradually pushes his smartly cast production into -- pardon the expression -- overkill.

Staccato rhythms and male competition, or: David Mamet phones it in by TOBY ZINMAN

School is a lame skit about recycling, and Keep Your Pantheon offers dismaying evidence that the great Mamet isn't above recycling old material himself.

Son of Pagliacci by DAN ROTTENBERG

To win the love of his clown father- as well as the audience- Lorenzo Pisoni drives his body through every pratfall in the standard clowning handbook. The result is exhausting.

Audience Rolls the Dice, and the Actress Takes Her Chances By JASON ZINOMAN

"Luck" at 59E59 Theaters is a sly solo piece about professional gambling which mixes memoir, philosophy and show business gimmickry.

THE TROUBLES by JESSICA BRANCH

While some may think The Pride of Parnell Street is overly sentimental, sentimentality is exactly the play's strength.

Animal Crackers
Chicago Review by John Olson

A Steady Rain - Review by OSCAR E. MOORE

Hugh Jackman & Daniel Craig, Hollywood He-Men, deliver powerful performances.

Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Hair Cast, et. al. Set for Only Make Believe Benefit

Charlotte Rae, Mary McDonnell, Randi Driscoll, et. al. Set for L.A.'s Laramie Project: 10 Years Later

McCormack, McDonnell, Rae, Lawrence Will Appear in CA Laramie Project Sequel

La MaMa's Annex Will Become the Ellen Stewart Theatre

Feinstein and Jackson CD Due in Stores Nov. 3; CD Signing in December

Cheyenne Jackson and Michael Feinstein's The Power of Two to Be Released November 3

Lea Salonga to Perform NYC Benefit for Typhoon Ondoy Victims

Tony Winner Salonga to Offer Special Performance to Benefit Filipino Typhoon Victims

Martha Plimpton, Steven Page, et al. to Appear in Cabinet of Wonders

Penny Arcade and Justin Bond to Host Hijinx with The YES Men

Ed Dixon, Scott Jaeck Head Inherit the Wind at Cleveland Play House

Megan Mullally to Guest Star on Parks and Recreation

Wood and Clarke Are Married to a Secret in Absence, a World Premiere in PA

Campbell Scott to Direct Reading of Michael Warner Solo Play

Free Obituary Reading, with Babatunde, Presented Oct. 2

Krakowski Will Pay Tribute to O'Day, Ann-Margret and Kitt in New Cabaret Act

Dallas, Goodman, Halliday, Ross and Silber Will Join deRoy at the Metropolitan Room Oct. 15

Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 3

Alexander and Channing Meet in The Breath of Life, Opening in Westport Oct. 3

Last Dance: Tony Winner Kulish Departs Billy Elliot Oct. 3

Tony Winner Krakowski Steps Into the Kennedy Center "Spotlight" Oct. 3

How to Be a Good Italian Daughter Plays Cherry Lane's Studio Theatre Beginning Oct. 3

Milburn and Vigoda's Long Story Short Sings a New Tune in CA Starting Oct. 3

Horrocks and Ovenden Star in Young Vic Revival of Annie Get Your Gun Beginning Oct. 3

Sweet! Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman Eye Musical Adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

David Greig, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman Working On Willly Wonka Musical

Shaiman and Wittman to Pen Score for Stage Version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Olivier Winner Douglas Hodge to Return to London's La Cage for the Holidays

Douglas Hodge to Return to West End La Cage aux Folles in November

Tim Robbins Curates WTF?! Festival, Featuring Sarah Silverman, Gore Vidal and More

Michael Arden, Jake Simpson, Jennifer Leigh Warren, et al. Set for Upright Cabaret

Arts, Briefly: Grown-Up 'Billy Elliot' to Return to Ballet
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF