THEATER REVIEW | 'THE PAJAMA GAME'
A Test of Love for Labor and Management by BEN BRANTLEY
In this amiable reincarnation of a well-worn favorite, Karen Ziemba and Brent Barrett are perfectly cast as the classic American She and He.

City Center Revival: The Cat's 'Pajama' by HOWARD KISSEL
The City Center Encores! concert versions of great musicals often remind us that such shows hinged on one thing only: talent. This is certainly true of "The Pajama Game," which concludes a smashing revival tomorrow night (followed by a gala benefit Monday).

Newsday: Labor Meets Love At 'Pajama' Party by Gordon Cox
With Carrafa's help, director John Rando ("Urinetown") has put together a perfectly agreeable revival of the 1954 Broadway hit, whose unlikely subject is the negotiation over a 7�-cent raise for the workers in a Midwestern pajama factory.

AP: `The Pajama Game' Brings on the Fun by MICHAEL KUCHWARA
Fun seems to be the operative word for "The Pajama Game," a spirited 1954 concoction that is the last offering of the season for "Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert."

The Pajama Game
Reviewed By: David Finkle

Q&A: LaChanze by Paul Wontorek

Field Trip: Miller's Luck Returns to Broadway (Video)

Music Man Tour Controversy Heats Up

Cabaret Notes
Karen Akers puts on a swell show in the problematic Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.

Tunes and Tomes
The Spitfire Grill on CD, a tasty but not entirely satisfying meal.

The Adventures of Juno
"Radio Playbill" host Robert Viagas offers a history of Mark Blitzstein's ill-fated musical Juno, which has finally arrived on CD thanks to the Fynsworth Alley label

Talk Show Watch: LaChanze on 'Early Show', Stamos on 'Regis'

PHOTO CALL: Happy Birthday, Jimmy: Actors Fund Honors Producer Nederlander

PHOTO CALL: Sarandon and Simon Salute Jimmy Nederlander

San Diego's Globe Feels Schulner's Infinite Ache May 19-June 30

Tovah-Toting Kilt Closes Off-Broadway May 4, Bway Transfer Not Likely

Betty Buckley Headlines Goodman Theatre Gala May 4

Broadway's Hairspray Phone Sales Begin May 19; Box Office Opens May 20

San Fran's ACT Has the Pleasure of Seeing Dukakis May 4-June 9

Bacall, Peters, Daly Pay Tribute to Arthur Laurents, May 4

George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song Holds Open Auditions May 4

White, Anderson and Austin's "Songs for the New Millennium" at Kennedy Center

Randy Newman to Play Bay Street Theatre, May 4

Schedule of Upcoming Broadway Shows

Today In Theatre History: MAY 4

"Music Man" TV Musical Gets Monk, Garber, Baker and Shannon as River Citizens

Arachnophobes Beware: Spider-Man Live! to Spin Web Across North America in Fall 2002

Broadway Spotlight Series Begins May 6 with Felicia Finley

Into the Woods, Jr. Plays Kennedy Center May 3-12

New Musicals and Plays Emerge in CAP21 Blackjacks Festival, May 13-22 in NYC

Los Angeles Times: New Geffen Season Opens With 'Blue Sky'
Four West Coast premieres, including a new play by the Tony Award-winning book writer of the musical "James Joyce's The Dead," will be part of the Geffen Playhouse's 2002-03 season.
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Friday, May 03, 2002

Laura Branigan Set for Off-B'way's Love Janis

PHOTO CALL: The Man Who Had All the Luck Opens on Broadway

PHOTO CALL: Arthur Miller Joins The Man Who Had All the Luck

PHOTO CALL: O'Donnell and Mathis Are Broadway's Lucky Couple

PHOTO CALL: Swank, Chenoweth and Garber Have Luck at Bway Opening

PHOTO CALL: Burton, Lane, Wilson Join Luck's Mathis

Tony Eligibility: Lapine for Director and Burton for Leading and Featured Actress

PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, April 27-May 3: Season of Discontent

DIVA TALK: Praising Benanti and Foster, Plus News of LaMott, Eder, Kuhn and More

The New Yorker: LOVE BITES by JOHN LAHR
Behaving badly in "Private Lives."
Thanks to WilliamG on All That Chat for the link!

Thanks to AmericanTheater Web for the following links:

Boston Globe: 'Henry V' will reign on Common this summer, thanks to donations by Geoff Edgers
The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company announced yesterday that ''Henry V,'' scheduled to open July 19, will feature New York-based actor Anthony Rapp in the title role.

Boston Globe: Musical rings out with thrills in the throes of 'Passion' by Ed Siegel
Passion is no ordinary word, said rock singer Graham Parker, but it was left to Stephen Sondheim to prove that ''Passion'' is no ordinary musical.

Boston Globe: A dramatic turn for these political rivals by Maureen Dezell
How's this for inspired casting: Jim Rappaport and Kerry Healey, rival Republican candidates for Massachusetts lieutenant governor, will play Henry, King of England, and Katherine, his French love interest, in ''Henry V and the Law of War,'' an abridged rendering of William Shakespeare's ''Henry V.''

Houston Chronicle: Show will go on, cuss words and all by HARVEY RICE
CONROE -- The owner of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas has granted the rights to produce the musical to a local cast that walked out rather than remove profanity from the script.

Boston Herald: The physics of friendship: Len Cariou discovers the connection in `Copenhagen' by Terry Byrne
He's eager to get back to musical theater, he says, and ``since they don't write musicals for 60-year-olds, I'm hoping to have someone write one for me."
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New Bialystock & Bloom Face Critics in The Producers

Photo Op: Drama Desk Cocktail Reception - Photos by Bruce Glikas

Field Trip: INTO THE WOODS Opening Night Video

More Eligibility Decisions from the Tony Committee

Newsday: Subs and All, 'Producers' Still Producing Laughs by Linda Winer
To a world overwhelmed by urgent questions, let us add a few more. Can Max Bialystock ever be a nice man? Can Leo Bloom seem almost normal? And finally, for the jackpot, is one-out-of-two enough of a recasting slam dunk to keep Broadway's most awarded, most gleefully greedy, most publicly scrutinized musical a phenomenon for the rest of its investors' natural lives?

Newsday: Ricky Jay Has More Tricks Up His Sleeve by Gordon Cox
When Ricky Jay - who, as a magician, actor and scholar of sideshow arcana, is a real renaissance con man - hits his stride, he's truly astounding.

Star-Ledger: Actor reflects on 'Luck,' parenthood and hard work BY PETER FILICHIA
James Rebhorn, 53, is one of those actors whose name you may not know, but you never forget his face, from such films as "Meet the Parents," "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley." Now the South Orange resident is appearing on Broadway in Arthur Miller's first play, "The Man Who Had All the Luck," which closed after only four performances in 1944.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Backstage with ... Robert Goulet
Goulet, who has won a Grammy and a Tony, is starring in Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, which runs through Sunday at the Merriam Theater.

Yahoo/Backstage: Artists Remembered
A service in remembrance and celebration of theatre artists who died in the past season will be held at St. Clement's Episcopal Church (423 W. 46 St.) on Mon., May 20, at 7 pm.

Yahoo/Backstage: 'Naked Boys' No Longer Leaking
Contrary to popular perception, the relationship between Actors' Equity and theatrical producers isn't always filled with bitterness, disagreement, and rancor, at least where safe and sanitary conditions for performers are concerned.

York Theatre Presents Hammerstein Award to Cameron Mackintosh June 3

PHOTO CALL: On the Record: Sweet Smell of Success

Pre-Censored Text of Moli�re's Don Juan Opens at NJ's McCarter May 3

Lincoln Center Festival Presents a Chat with Sondheim and Weidman July 10

Michael Mayer, Harriet Harris and Simon Callow Guest on May 3 "Theatre Talk"

San Fran's NCTC Premieres Crowley's Band Sequel, The Men From the Boys in 2002-03

Eder to Be Profiled on Bravo Series and to Guest on "Rosie"

A Class Act Has Post-Bway Bow in CA May 3-June 16; Price Directs Picardo, Bullock

Today In Theatre History: MAY 3

Fortune's Fool Eligible for Best Play Tony; Langella, Silverstone Are Featured Performers

Into the Woods Records May 6 for Upcoming Nonesuch Release

Michael Stuhlbarg Added to Cast of Park Twelfth Night

Rain Delays Broadway Show League Opening Game to May 9

That Championship Season
Reviewed By: Brooke Pierce

Mourning Becomes Electra at ACT Theatre
Seattle Review by David-Edward Hughes

High School Influential by Hillary Rosner
Clifford Odets Via Bushwick and Stephen Haff

Annie's Hard-Knock Lives by Alexis Soloski
Reviews of Attempts on Her Life and Urban Transition: Loose Blossoms.
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A First-Raitt Memory by Peter Filichia
John Raitt has total recall of the highlights of his legendary career.

USA Today: Oscar's a winner for 'Producers' By Elysa Gardner
Before seeing him on stage Wednesday night, I would not have wanted to be Brad Oscar for all the tea in China.
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THEATER REVIEW | 'THE PRODUCERS': Replacements in Star Roles Feel Their Way By BEN BRANTLEY
Brad Oscar and Steven Weber, the replacements for Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, are hard-working and perfectly likable, but they don't meet the same standards of teamwork.

STILL SPRINGTIME FOR 'PRODUCERS' By CLIVE BARNES
WHAT happens to "The Producers" after the Producers have up and gone? Not Mel Brooks and his Gang of Twelve (the actual producers) - but Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. They were the Laurel and Hardy team who used to play those adorable rogues, Bialystock and Bloom, who realized that, with creative accounting, there was good money to be made from a bad flop.

Mel's Merry Musical Marches On by Howard Kissel
Because the Broadway season that just ended has generated so much excitement, you may have forgotten that last year, around this time, a musical called "The Producers" opened.

The Producers review by Charles Isherwood
From its leggy blond chorines to its goose-stepping pigeons, from its bevy of dithering queens to its battalion of leering old ladies, "The Producers" was, is and will continue to be a big, overstuffed box of theatrical treats. More than a year after taking Broadway by storm, it still provides a dizzying comic rush that sends audiences home with smiles of giddy, slightly guilty pleasure on their faces. Is it legal for Nazis to be this funny?

The Producers (05/02) by Ken Mandelbaum

Personally, I think the new leads of The Producers is more than suitable, with both Oscar and Weber giving performances that do the show proud. If you enjoyed the show with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick--as I did--you have nothing to fear from the new leads. If you have yet to see the show, you have no reason to worry.

ON STAGE AND OFF: Counting Down to Tony Night By JESSE McKINLEY

SLIM TONY PICKINGS By MICHAEL RIEDEL
PITY the 30 theater people who make up the Tony Award nominating committee.They've just slogged through a Broadway season stuffed with what Gannett theater critic Jacques le Sourd has aptly called "stinkers and clinkers."

THEATER REVIEW | 'RICKY JAY: ON THE STEM': Ghosts Up His Sleeve and a Million Tricks By BEN BRANTLEY

Up to His Old Tricks, Brilliantly by Robert Dominguez
If there's anyone who can sell a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge, it's Ricky Jay, the hucksterish sleight-of-hand artist and character actor best known as a regular in the films of David Mamet ("Heist").

Ricky Jay: On The Stem Review by William Stevenson
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Thursday, May 02, 2002

Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Take Over Playhouse 91

Jolson Replaces Shakespeare at Century Center

Radnor Steps in for Biggs in The Graduate

Did Man Get Lucky with NY Critics?

Photo Op: THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK Opening - Photos by Bruce Glikas

PHOTO CALL: Encores! The Pajama Game: Karen Ziemba

PHOTO CALL: Encores! The Pajama Game: Mark Linn-Baker

PHOTO CALL: Encores! The Pajama Game: Brent Barrett, Karen Ziemba

Off-Bway's Long-Running Syringa Tree Advertises "Last Weeks" Prior to Tour

Judy Kuhn Hosts Bound for Broadway Evening: Mac Rae to Star

Mr. Goldwyn Advertising "Last Weeks"; Tour May Follow

Roundabout, Goodman, Geffen, Globe Will Nominate Playwrights for 2002 Kesselring Prize

Berkeley Rep and Oregon Shakes Premiere Edgar's Two-Part Continental Divide in 2003

Josh Radnor is Bway's New Graduate June 11, as Biggs Takes Two Months Off for Pic

Suzan-Lori Parks to Appear on May 2 'Charlie Rose'

Willem Dafoe to Star on London Stage

London Art Extends To 2003

LaBute Play Begins Previews in London

Camera Obscura Staged at Almeida Rehearsal Room in U.K.

Maria Aitken To Return To West End

Madonna Proves She's Having Fun in London Stage Debut

West End's We Will Rock You Cancels More Previews

How To See Paltrow in London Proof

The Man Who Had All the Luck
Reviewed By: David Finkle

Enter the Guardsman, at the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Theater
San Francisco Review by Richard Connema

Philadelphia City Paper: High Drama by Frank Lewis
For reasons that remain unclear, Walnut Street Theatre informed City Paper last week that its critics would no longer receive free press tickets to shows.
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The Look Comes Together by Ken Mandelbaum

THEATER REVIEW | 'THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK'
Hints of the Future in an Early Arthur Miller Play by BRUCE WEBER
Chris O'Donnell is a natural for the lead role in Arthur Miller's 1940 play, which opened in a stirring and rich revival last night.

LUCKILY, MILLER GOT BETTER WITH TIME by CLIVE BARNES
Did it deserve to fail? Based on its revival, which opened last night at the Roundabout Theater, the answer is yes.

'Luck' Finally Smiles On Early Miller Play by Howard Kissel
As I sat enthralled by Scott Ellis' superlative production of Arthur Miller's 1944 flop, "The Man Who Had All the Luck," I found myself wondering, had I been a reviewer 58 years ago, whether I would have appreciated the play any more than my colleagues.

A Magical Tour Of B'way History by DENIS HAMILL
The old clich� that you can't cheat an honest man is bogus," says illusionist Ricky Jay. "In 'House of Games,'" the 1987 David Mamet film, in which Jay appeared, "we demonstrated on film how you could. If you're good, you're good. I do it every night onstage."

Newsday: Disney Shows Prepare to Take Flight by Patrick Pacheco
The theatrical division of Disney seems positively airborne as myriad projects, including musicals based on "The Little Mermaid" and "Pinocchio," move through development on their way to a Broadway opening.

Philadelphia Inquirer: The unconventional composer by David Patrick Stearns
Adam Guettel has a bright Broadway pedigree, but his own work fits into no easy category. His ever-mutating "Myths and Hymns" is set to open here.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: On Stage: Busy times in 'Burgh, on Broadway by Chris Rawson
Thanks to AmericanTheater Web for the link!

Buffalo News: A lunchtime filled with fun by KATHLEEN RIZZO YOUNG
The Irish Classical Theater Lunchtime Series is currently presenting "Lunch with Mr. Benny," Mark Humphrey's homage to Jack Benny. And from the moment Tim Newell enters the studio in his brown suit, looking for George Burns, he brings Benny to life.
Thanks to Janet for the link.

Playwright Leonard Melfi to Be Remembered at May 5 NYC Memorial

Annie Golden Returns to Joe's Pub, May 20 and June 10

Cast Set for EST's One-Act Marathon, Series A, May 8-19

Yours Sincerely: Rodgers & Hart's Spring Is Here Gets Recording Debut

David Mamet Deals Ricky Jay: On The Stem to Off-Broadway's Second Stage May 2

Fraser and Zien Together Again at Town Hall's 1951 Broadway by the Year Concert, May 13

The Game They're In: Encores! Puts on Its Pajamas, May 2-6

Play Ball! Broadway Show League Opens Softball Season May 2 in Central Park

PHOTO CALL: John Raitt Attends Pajama Game Rehearsal

Ute Lemper�Singer and Painter�Returns to NYC, May 2

Today In Theatre History: MAY 2

Follow Spot
More sought after than ever, Brent Barrett takes time off from Kiss Me, Kate in London to star in the Encores! production of The Pajama Game.

Keely Encore! by: Morgan Sills
The one and only Keely Smith returns to Feinstein's at the Regency with a swinging new show.

Drabinsky Sets the Stage for The Dresser

The Man Who Had All the Luck
Review by Adam Feldman

The Man Who Had All the Luck
Review by Matthew Murray

Star-Ledger: Center stage by Peter Filichia
Each January, the Paper Mill Playhouse traditionally presents a sex farce ("Out of Order," "It Runs in the Family") or a revival of a Broadway comedy ("Art," "An Ideal Husband" or this year's "I'm Not Rappaport"). But next January, the Millburn theater will present a cutting-edge African-American drama that played off-Broadway last season.

Yahoo/Variety: Off-Broadway Season Ends with a Whimper by Robert Hofler
The biz Off Broadway is way off.

AP: Baldwin to Teach Theater Class
Alec Baldwin will teach a theater class this summer at Southampton University.

Boston Phoenix: Getting physical BY IRIS FANGER
Len Cariou�s guide to Copenhagen
Thanks to John_C on All That Chat for the link.

David Letterman reported last night that the stage adaptation of Saddam Hussein's novel "Zabibah and the King" has been such a big hit in Iraq, it will be moving to Broadway this fall - with a new title: "Thoroughly Modern Zabibah"...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2002

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Lynn Ahrens

Carrie Strikes Back: New Stage Version of King Novel Planned

PHOTO CALL: Witchy Curtain Call: Into the Woods Takes Opening Night Bows

PHOTO CALL: Sondheim and Tunick Reteam on Into the Woods

PHOTO CALL: DeRosa, Williams, McMartin Go Into the Woods

PHOTO CALL: Family Affair: Benanti Brings Mom, Kimball, Sis to Woods Party

PHOTO CALL: Kids Show: Williams and Edelman Bring Brood Into the Woods

PHOTO CALL: Audra, Wildhorns, Mandy Go Into the Woods

George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song Holds Open Auditions May 4

Adler: The Pajama Game to See Broadway in Fall

Garth Drabinsky Snags Daniel Sullivan to Direct The Dresser for Toronto, Then Bway

PHOTO CALL: Bergen, Stamos Announce Drama Desk Nominees

Liz Callaway Cast in Broadway Musical The Look of Love
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Newsday: This Time, a Revival Finds 'Luck' by Linda Winer
The next time anyone questions the need for a few nonprofit theaters to have major Broadway resources, tell the skeptic how the Roundabout Theatre Company was able to showcase Arthur Miller's first commercial flop with the scale and polish reserved for the best of Times Square.
Newsday has started posting its reviews before noon on opening day...

Yahoo/Variety: Archerd: Sinatra musical set for Gotham bow in 2003 by Army Archerd
But who will play Frank Sinatra?
That's the first question to be answered as Tina Sinatra says, "We have finally found the right partner to entrust and work with to present a unique tribute to the memories that Frank Sinatra left for the world."

Donmar's Lobby Hero Set for West End

Chicago Critics Weigh In on Hollywood Arms

Were NY Critics Enchanted by Into the Woods?

CDs: Talk to Me, Baby by Ken Mandelbaum

Last Midnight by Ken Mandelbaum
Review: Into the Woods

Q&A: Stephen DeRosa by Paul Wontorek
Hysterical interview (naturally).

Field Trip: PRIVATE LIVES Opening Night (Video)

Photo Op: INTO THE WOODS Opening Night - Photos by Bruce Glikas

42nd Street Moon Presents Rodgers and Hart's By Jupiter
San Francisco Review by Richard Connema

Into The Woods
Review by Matthew Murray

Chicago Tribune/Newsday: Burnett's Family Saga Slips Through 'Arms' by Michael Phillips
This is a disappointing, wobbly piece, never resolving the issue of how rosy or harsh to make its story, how to bounce one mood off another.

USA Today: 'Arms' embraces Burnett's healing of laughter by Michael Bosilow

Callow, Coward, Cops by Michael Feingold

Yahoo/Backstage: Face to Face: Robert Falls, An American Realist

Chicago Sun-Times: Designer creates splendor on the set BY HEDY WEISS

Chicago Sun-Times: The smart sets BY HEDY WEISS
Here's a list of several current productions with sets worth the price of the ticket.

Chicago Sun-Times: Merritt Awards honor tops in their craft BY HEDY WEISS
Though I'm no fan of awards shows, I count the Michael Merritt Awards for Excellence in Design and Collaboration, now in its ninth season, as an exception. Named for the late Chicago designer and teacher who was best known for his work with David Mamet, it honors both the most accomplished veterans and upcoming talent in the fields of set, lighting, costume and sound design.

Beacon Journal: E.J. Thomas becomes `Cabaret' Friday by Kerry Clawson
Otterbein College graduate Christopher Sloan did his history homework to prepare for the complex role of the emcee in the second national tour of Cabaret.
And his cousins are pretty swell too...
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Toronto Star: Drabinsky: Broadway's long-distance producer
Wanted fugitive' won't accompany new show to N.Y. by Richard Ouzounian
Garth is planning to head back to Broadway with some big names in tow on both sides of the footlights (Dan Sullivan (Directing), Santo Loquasto (Costumes). Brian McDevitt (Lighting)). Will any of the Big 3 landlords rent Garth a house? Will the ad agencies work with him on a cash only basis? Will the unions negotiate with him? Will The New York Times sell him ad space? Will the US Attorney in Manhattan seize the production? These are all valid questions that will be answered come April 2003 as the production transfers from Toronto to NYC. Can Garth re-invent himself more times than Madonna?

A Theatrical Candle in a Shrine to Sept. 11
By PETER MARKS
"The Guys," a drama about a fire captain who gets help from a journalist to write eulogies for his colleagues lost on Sept. 11, has become another shrine for this grieving city.

THEATER REVIEW | 'INTO THE WOODS'
Sondheim Reprise Puts Music Ahead of the Journey
By BEN BRANTLEY
A bright and beckoning path cuts through the fairy-tale thicket of whimsy and woe of this new revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical, and it is the music.

MOVIE REVIEW | 'HOLLYWOOD ENDING'
There's Deceit, and Then There's Deceit
By ELVIS MITCHELL
Woody Allen's newest movie is best when it's spitting one-liners, but when the jokes die down, we're left with a stale project.

OPERA REVIEW | 'THE GREAT GATSBY'
Second Acts: Jay Gatsby's Self-Invention, Reinvented
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Opera lovers who missed the 1999 premiere of John Harbison's opera, and those who heard it and were disappointed, should experience this year's production at the Metropolitan Opera.

ARTS ABROAD
Staging 'Edward III,' by (They Think) Shakespeare
By ALAN RIDING
The Royal Shakespeare Company is staging its first production of "Edward III," only recently recognized by scholars and publishers as the 39th play in the Shakespearean canon.

Theater Review | 'The Marriage of Figaro': Figaro Outwits the Count, but Without a Single Aria

Theater Review | 'Xtravaganza': Saluting Spectacles of the Past

'Millie' tops Desk noms
'Success' also scores big while 'Mamma' sings softly
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" topped the Drama Desk nominations with an even dozen, while "Sweet Smell of Success" was right behind it with 11. The revivals of "Oklahoma!" and "Into the Woods" scored nine noms each.

Brit's a fit for 'Stage'
Pic adaptation of playwright Hatcher's work of same title

Peter Filichia's Diary
Can an actor be good when playing opposite a bad one? Filichia's readers respond.

Follow Spot
Here comes Thoroughly Modern Millie, leading the pack of Drama Desk Award nominees for the current season.

Island Magic
Composer Stephen Flaherty looks forward to the benefit reunion concert of Once on This Island by Michael Portantiere

Into the Woods
Reviewed by David Finkle

Lucky O'Donnell Fills Bill
Let's face it, playing a good guy blessed with a charmed life isn't much of a stretch for Windex-clean Chris O'Donnell. The actor � who makes his Broadway debut tonight in Arthur Miller's "The Man Who Had All the Luck," playing a mechanic who's driven insane by his Midas touch � hasn't exactly had to walk through life with a cloud over his head.

Into the Wood-Chipper With Revival of Sondheim

'Frasier' Star Sallys Forth

News Beat: Drama Desk Goes 'Modern'

'WOODS' HAS THE GOODS
By CLIVE BARNES
IT sure is revival time on Broadway, and last night at the Broadhurst Theatre we were once more happily lured "Into the Woods," Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's ornate fairy-tale thicket for grown-ups.

EVEN REVIVALS CAN'T REVIVE B'WAY BOX OFFICE
By MICHAEL RIEDEL
SPRING is usually a good time for the Great White Way. New shows are opening right and left, the industry is in the grip of Tony fever, audiences are shaking off the winter doldrums.

�OZ' GETS EARLY RELEASE
By DON KAPLAN
EMERALD City is closing its gates for good. The upcoming sixth season of HBO's long-running prison drama "Oz," will be its last.

Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins Reprise The Guys May 1-8 at NYC's Flea

Animal Houses: Broadway Goes Canine�and Bovine and Caprine

Look Who's Back!: Tony-winning Performers Return to Broadway

Chris O'Donnell Is The Man Who Had All the Luck on Bway, May 1

Principal Casting Complete for Kennedy Center Sweeney Todd

San Diego's Globe Aims for Smash With Hatcher-Shaw Adaptation May 26

PHOTO CALL: 42nd Street's Leads Celebrate 1st Birthday

PHOTO CALL: Those Beautiful Dames of 42nd Street

Come to the Cabaret, Where Katie Pees' All Over You! Debuts May 1

Blazer and Garrison Star in Long Wharf's Felliniesque Twelfth Night May 1-June 9

Musical Memphis, Mistress, My Antonia Sing at CA's TheatreWorks May 1-5

Seattle Rep Reads Musical Beowulf, Dietz's Van Gogh May 1-5

Today In Theatre History: MAY 1

Ahrens-Flaherty-McNally Musical, Man of No Importance, Begins Rehearsals Aug. 1

Butler, Latessa, Carpinello, Thorell Add Sheen to Bway-Bound Hairspray

Mind Games Plays London's New Ambassadors Theatre

Brits Abound On Broadway

Guettel & Lucas Included in Sundance Theatre Lab
Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas� The Light in the Piazza will be among the seven projects featured in the 2002 Sundance Theater Laboratory. Regina Taylor�s Crowns, Jose Rivera�s Adoratio...[Read More]

Kritzer to Star in Babes in Arms at Goodspeed
Leslie Kritzer is set to play Baby Rose in the upcoming Goodspeed Musicals production of Babes in Arms....[Read More]

An Inspector Calls Will Now Close on May 11
Though it announced a closing date of June 1, J.B. Priestley�s An Inspector Calls will now end its run at...[Read More]

Irving and Wopat to Star in The Guys
Amy Irving and Tom Wopat will be the next actors to step into the Flea Theater production of Anne Nelson�s The Guys. The duo will perform May 14 through June 14.

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I don't know what it is, but something's comin'. It's just around the corner. Maybe up... north?
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Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Forest Is Still Enchanting by Linda Winer
Williams adds to the magic of �Woods�
Newsday posts its rave review of �Into the Woods� more than five hours before the curtain goes up...

Broadway Grosses: Millie Jumps Up

Rando, Carrafa to Dance with Crawford and Vampires on Bway and CD

Drama Desk Noms Provide Lift for Broadway Musicals

PHOTO CALL: Charles Dickens Takes His Bow

PHOTO CALL: Garland, Callow, Ackroyd Bring Charles Dickens to Life

PHOTO CALL: Privates Lives of Charles Dickens

Report: Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart to film Lion in Winter

Sarah Brightman Delivers "Encore" CD April 30

Karen Akers Performs at Algonquin's Oak Room April 30-May 25

Broadway Grosses: April 22-28
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Drama Desk 2002 Nominations! (At the new cool Drama Desk website!)

Drama Queens (and Kings) by Michael Portantiere

Something Cool by Barbara & Scott Siegel

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Millie, Success Lead 2002 Drama Desk Nominations

Millie Tops 2002 Drama Desk Nominations

Yahoo/Hollywood Reporter: 'Great' honeymoon for Garrett by Nellie Andreeva
How sweet it is -- CBS has turned to one of its current stars, "Everybody Loves Raymond's" Brad Garrett, to portray one of its legendary stars, Jackie Gleason.

Yahoo/Hollywood Reporter: 'Lion' roars anew on Showtime by Jim McConville
Showtime has given the go-ahead to produce a remake of "The Lion in Winter" that will star Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart.

Star-Ledger: Cinderella role fits her like a glass slipper BY PETER FILICHIA
It's fitting that Laura Benanti plays Cinderella in the Broadway revival of "Into the Woods." In many ways, her life has been a fairy tale.

Chicago Sun-Times: Not so glad we had this time together BY HEDY WEISS
So why does "Hollywood Arms," which received its world premiere Monday night at the Goodman Theatre, feel like such a labored mix of sitcom, soap opera and earnestness--a drama at once seemingly authentic, yet strangely generic?

Chicago Sun-Times: 'Summertime' beckons as guilty pleasure BY HEDY WEISS
Just when you thought there wasn't another thought to be expressed about love, sex, relationships and that whole great morass of the head and heart (and other organs), the Lookingglass Theatre Company, wildly and ingeniously directed by Joy Gregory, has staged "Summertime." This big, brazen, often irritatingly bombastic spectacle by Charles L. Mee races headfirst into the whole minefield yet again.

Photo Op: John Raitt @ PAJAMA GAME Rehearsal - Photos by Bruce Glikas

SWEET SMELL CD Release Party - Photos by Bruce Glikas

William Gibson's Golda's Balcony, Revised Version of Earlier Work, Premieres in MA May 3

Today In Theatre History: APRIL 30

Dracula Still Hoping to Take a Bite Out of Bway in 2002-2003

Cape Cod Theatre Project Lines Up McSweeny, Mason, Barre for 2002

Stoppard Trilogy, The Cost of Utopia, To Premiere at London's National

Stratford Theatre May Be Saved

U.K. Inspector Set to Close Even Earlier

Surviving Grace's Grace
Interview with Doris Belack.

Private Lives
Reviewed By: Barbara & Scott Siegel

...and then you go on: An Anthology of the Works of Samuel Beckett
Review by Matthew Murray

Los Angeles Times: Tempest in Britain's Theater Teapot by DAVID GRITTEN
The Royal Shakespeare and other companies are in turmoil as artistic directors exit left and right.

Washington Post: Backstage: 'Polk County' Musicians Delight in Not Playing By the Script by Jane Horwitz

Thanks to the American Theater Web for the following articles:

Bergen Record: Luckily, the master sat in by JIM BECKERMAN
"The Man Who Had All the Luck" is Arthur Miller's first play.
It's also Chris O'Donnell's first play. And the Hollywood star famous for "Batman Forever" and "Vertical Limit" admits he has a thing or two to learn about the theater.

Bergen Record: A beautiful Thirties model is the director's driving force by ROBERT FELDBERG
As a director, Scott Ellis usually deals with people. But in staging a revival of "The Man Who Had All the Luck" - Arthur Miller's first play, initially produced on Broadway in 1944 - he's had to get into cars.
Actually, it's one car, a 1930 Marmon.

Seattle Times: Despite fine efforts, O'Neill's 'Electra' showing its age by Misha Berson
Review of ACT�s "Mourning Becomes Electra" starring Jane Alexander.

Seattle Times: Beckett beckons: Broadway headliner Bill Irwin stages his take on the playwright in 'Texts for Nothing' by Misha Berson

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Producer sees future for John Denver tribute show by Monica L. Haynes, Staff Writer
When "Almost Heaven: Songs and Stories of John Denver" closed its six-week run on Saturday at the Denver Center in Colorado, producer Harold Thau's work had just gotten started.
posted at 4/30/2002 10:55:21 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Theater Review | 'Attempts on Her Life': The Cigarette Unsmoked, the Messages Unheard

Theater Review | 'Illyria': Shakespeare Set to Music, Song After Song After...

Lab to test 'Light'
Guettel play among 7 set for Sundance lab
Seven projects have been announced for the Sundance Institute's annual Theater Laboratory, skedded for this July in Park City, Utah.

Astaire nominees tapped
Ceremony to be May 16 at Hudson Theater

B'way ups and downs
'Millie' makes headway, 'Smell' stats slide

'Goat,' 'Urinetown' land Outer Critics kudos
'Oklahoma!' nabs five awards

Dramatic Pause For Madonna
The first three nights of previews for Madonna's new play have been postponed, sparking rumors of trouble in the high-profile production. "Up for Grabs," by Australian playwright David Williamson, starring Madonna as a ruthless art dealer who manipulates three clients, was scheduled to hold its first previews next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Those performances have been canceled, with the first preview now scheduled for May 13.

JUDAS! - 'PARKING LOT' HITS THEATERS
By MEGAN TURNER
GRAM O'Dope and Jack-Daniels-and-Coke Girl are coming soon to a theater near you.For 16 years, fans of "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" have belonged to an exclusive sub-culture, with bootleg copies of the 15-minute guerrilla documentary "starring" these cult characters available only on the underground circuit.
Coming soon to a (legit) theatre near you!

Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia suggests an unexpected nominee for best musical of the current season.

Follow Spot
Oklahoma! and Urinetown score big among this year's Outer Critics Circle Award winners.

A reader wrote (thank you!) to mention that some years ago, "The Little Prince" was sold on the New York Stock Exchange. This was in reference to yesterday's story in The New York Times about selling shares in artistic endeavours. I had known about that, but forgot about it. The writer of the email went on to say,

"I believe they raised the money but alas, it takes more than money to get a show to Broadway. The show never officially opened."Amen!

I also received an interesting insight regarding the Clive Barnes' review of Private Lives.

I swear he, or whomever writes for him, just paraphrased Brantley.Hmmm... Here are the reviews -- judge for yourself: Brantley -- Barnes. There may be a point. Except I read Barnes before Brantley.

I am still having problems with spammers/hackers using our server to bounce email off of it. The result of that is that any forms (contact, blind, add a star... etc...) are still down until I figure a patch. You can always email directly, of course.
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Dramatic Pause for Madonna As London Delay Stirs Rumors by Ellen Tumposky
The first three nights of previews for Madonna's new play have been postponed, sparking rumors of trouble in the high-profile production.

Drama Desk Award Nominations Announced Today

Once Upon a Tuesday: Into the Woods Opens April 30

Sharon McNight Is Sophie Tucker in Musical, Red Hot Mama, at York April 30-June 9

Guettel and Lucas' New Musical, Piazza, Workshopped at Sundance

Gleason-Helmed A Letter From Ethel Kennedy Begins at MCC, April 30-June 1

The Present Company Examines 9/11 with Stories About What Happened, May 9-June 1

Bryan Batt Takes Beauty Hiatus May 5-July 9

The Season of the Solo Show

Animal Houses: Broadway Goes Canine�and Bovine and Caprine
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Monday, April 29, 2002

PHOTO CALL: Private Lives Takes Their Opening Night Bows

PHOTO CALL: Rickman and Duncan Lead Coward's Private Lives

PHOTO CALL: Supporting Lives: Fielding, Godley and Belcourt

PHOTO CALL: Davies Directs Rickman and Duncan's Private Lives

PHOTO CALL: Filmdom's Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson Catch Private Lives

PHOTO CALL: British Lives: Henry Goodman and Simon Callow

Maltby and Shire's Take Flight Hopes to Land in 2003; Producer Questions Critical Climate

Annual "Best Plays" Tome Now Available in Stores

Hagen, Andreas Salute Eric Bentley at Jean Cocteau Rep Benefit May 13

Into the Woods, Chris O'Donnell to Appear on 'Rosie'

Jimmy Carter Gets Second Term Off-Broadway
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2002 Astaire Award Nominations Announced

New York Critics Charmed by Private Lives

Tonys '02 #13 by Ken Mandelbaum

Photo Op: Private Lives Opening - Photos by Bruce Glikas

Photo Op: 42ND STREET One Year Anniversary - Photos by Bruce Glikas

Hillary Clinton & Co. at METAMORPHOSES - Photos by Bruce Glikas

Mary Tyler Moore @ ALLERGIST'S WIFE - Photos by Bruce Glikas

Private Lives
Review by William Stevenson

CBS Stalls on McEntire "Annie Get Your Gun"; No Production in Near Future

LuPone, Reinking and Stroman Headline May 26 92nd Street Y Lecture

Berkeley Rep's 2002-03 Season includes Premiere Menocchio and Rushdie's Haroun

"What Makes Him Great": Sondheim Celebrated May 6 at Lincoln Center

Rayner Replaces Matt Damon in Final Week of London Youth

Three Previews Canceled for Madonna's West End Debut

Brian Stokes Mitchell Guests on NBC's 'Crossing Jordan' April 29
Also, William Michals (Chauvelin in Scarlet Pimpernel, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast) is appearing on the ABC soap "All My Children" as an ER doctor today and tomorrow.

Oklahoma! Leads the Pack of 2002 TDF/Astaire Award Nominees

Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia suggests an unexpected nominee for best musical of the current season.

Follow Spot
Oklahoma! and Urinetown score big among this year's Outer Critics Circle Award winners.

Private Lives
Review by Matthew Murray

Coward's Classic, Classily Done by Howard Kissel

Limerick's Dead Man Talking by Robert Dominguez
A bizarre and meandering memory play, "Pigtown," traces the tumultuous history of the Irish city of Limerick through the 20th century. This production, although set in one particularly colorful location, is all over the map as a drama.

Newsday: The Sophistication of 'Private Lives' by Linda Winer
The revival of Noel Coward's comedy is elegant and refreshing

Chicago Sun-Times: Classic 'Fair Lady' feels brand new BY HEDY WEISS
Last year, director Gary Griffin staged a revelatory revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures," and those who were lucky enough to catch it are still talking about the way it brought the musical's dense structure and rarefied poetry into brilliant relief through the most minimal means.

Grand 'Family' to spend time with by HEDY WEISS
�The Royal Family," George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's flamboyant comedy about a New York theatrical dynasty in the 1920s, may just be the biggest, most self-reflective Valentine of them all. And who better to assemble the lace and glue and glitter required to construct such a love letter than the Steppenwolf Theatre, which prides itself on its own extended family of thespians.

Star-Ledger: 'Stories' offer rich theatrical tapestry BY PETER FILICHIA
Here's a lovely little play about a lovely little town.

Yahoo/Hollywood Reporter: Real woofer for Fox, Regency by Zorianna Kit
20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises have jointly paid mid-six against high six figures to option an untitled pitch, described as a live-action dog musical, that Daniel Bernstein will write with Jonathan Treisman producing.

Maxim Online's Girlfriend of the Day: Melissa Errico
Thanks to Eyebrows on All That Chat for the link.
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'Goat,' 'Urinetown' land Outer Critics kudos
'Oklahoma!' nabs five awards
Announcing its awards for New York's 2001-02 theater season, the Outer Critics Circle gave its top honors to Edward Albee's "The Goat" and Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann's "Urinetown," naming them best Broadway play and musical, respectively.

B'way flapper vs. tough Times
'Millie' eyes Tony race with aid of road allies
Required reading for those interested in this year's Tony race. Actually, any year's race. It could be a whole new ballgame.

Broadway grosses
Biz up as roster grows

Road grosses

THEATER REVIEW | 'PRIVATE LIVES'
Take Hate, Add Love and Shake Tenderly
By BEN BRANTLEY
In this revival of No�l Coward's best-known work, starring Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman, the erotic bloom is restored to one of the funniest comedies of the 20th century.

Grammys Chief Quits Under Fire
By NEIL STRAUSS
Michael Greene, who as president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ran the Grammy Awards ceremony for 14 years, resigned on Saturday.

The Force Returns, With Caution
By RICK LYMAN
As they gear up for the opening of "Star Wars: Episode 2 � Attack of the Clones," George Lucas and his team of marketers understand that the series needed some repair work.

ARTS ONLINE
Selling and Collecting the Intangible, at $1,000 a Share
By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
Mark Napier has succeeded in selling three $1,000 shares in "The Waiting Room," an interactive, animated painting that has been hung, so to speak, in a private corner of the Net.
Could this be the next way to finance shows? Have any shows already gone this route?

Trouble In the Bedroom
Anyone even vaguely familiar with the work of Mike Leigh will have a fair idea what to expect from the title of the Leigh play opening at the new Theater Row Complex on 42nd St. "Smelling a Rat," as it's called, offers comedy as the merciful salve of Leigh's unsparing view of human relations.

Oklahoma!, Urinetown Top Outer Critics Awards
Trevor Nunn's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! topped the list of winners for this year's Outer Critics Cir...[Read More]

'PRIVATE' FIRST CLASS
By CLIVE BARNES
THEY can't live with one another and they can't live without one another. Sounds familiar?Of course, it's Elyot and Amanda again, the battling lovers of Noel Coward's "Private Lives."These two have probably appeared on Broadway almost as often as Damon Runyon, and they returned last night to the Richard Rodgers Theatre, once more to spread their wayward magic.

The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Reviewed By David Finkle

Follow Spot
Treat Williams spends his lunch hour reading Arthur Miller at the National Arts Club.

Broadway Bound by Barbara & Scott Siegel

Family Values
Currently featured in The Man Who Had All the Luck, Sam Robards discusses his past, his parents, and his profession by Michael Buckley

Family Stories: A Slapstick Tragedy
Reviewed by Caroline Burlingham Ellis

A Qualified Success by Brooke Pierce

SpeakEasy Has Bat Boy, Class Act, Shape and Rude Entertainment in MA

McAnuff Helms La Jolla Tartuffe With Mays May 14-June 16

John, Jane, Hal and Rick Are New Stars of Bway's Cabaret April 29

Goodman Bears Carol Burnett's Arms, as Play Opens April 29

Bergen and Stamos to Announce Drama Desk Nominations April 30

Schedule of Upcoming Broadway Shows

Today In Theatre History: APRIL 29

Oklahoma! is Big Winner in Outer Crix Awards; Ruehl, Lithgow, Foster, Bates Are Golden

Sh-K-Boom's release of The Last Five Years has been selling very well. It debuted this week at #18 in Billboard's Chart for Top Internet Albums. In fact, Sh-K-Boom has gone to a second pressing of the Jason Robert Brown musical less than two weeks after its release. Although it is sold out in many stores (more are on the way this week) it is available if you click on the CD cover at the top of this page. It begs the question: "How can a show's CD sell so well and yet the two person musical close so quickly?" Sounds like a producing mistake to me.

Boobs! The Musical... has a backers audition today at Chelsea Studios. In this climate of off-beat musicals going mainstream, perhaps this is your chance to get in on the ground floor of the next Urinetown? Perhaps.

Here is some of the info I received from the producers of Boobs!

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Sunday, April 28, 2002

San Diego Union-Tribune: TAKE IT OFF, MATE! by Robert P. Laurence
An American 'Monty' in London is doing very well, thank you

Los Angeles Times: What the Riots Sparked by CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
The ideas born in those turbulent days continue to inform L.A.'s creative activity.

Los Angeles Times: The Determined and the Furious by MIKE BOEHM
With a solid plan and a do-it-yourself ethic, six L.A. newcomers launch the Furious Theatre Company.

Miami Herald: This mad cat's becoming a true force in theater BY CHRISTINE DOLEN
Ask people to describe Paul Tei's acting style, and they all come around to some version of the same word: edgy.

Seattle Times: Making it there: Ex-Seattleites biting into Big Apple stage scene by Misha Berson

San Jose Mercury News: Adventurous stage by Karen D'Souza
Extreme theater pushes the envelope of performance and sucks the audience into a place where spectacle reigns.

Thanks to American Theater Web for the above articles.

Letters: Movies Into Musicals

Witchy Woman by Blake Green
Actress-singer-dancer and ex-beauty queen Vanessa Williams goes 'Into the Woods' and comes out her glamorous self

When the Show's the Star by Linda Winer
THE BROADWAY SEASON officially ends Wednesday, the last moment for Tony Award eligibility. Revving to dash under the wire are high-profile revivals of "Private Lives," "Into the Woods" and Arthur Miller's first play, "The Man Who Had All the Luck."

Hand Injury Knocks Jude Law Out of London Faustus

U.K. Theatre Company Wins Export Award

Lobby Hero Transfers to West End's Ambassador Theatre

Denise van Outen Returns to London Chicago

Another mistake in the Post's Reba McEntire article (see link below): Writer Michael Giltz claims Reba is 57, but she's actually 47. Ouch. Strike two...
posted at 4/28/2002 12:38:54 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Straight to the Heart of No�l Coward's Wit by MATT WOLF
Excerpts from a conversation with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan, who will appear together in the Broadway production of No�l Coward's "Private Lives."

An Archaeologist on a Musical Dig by ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Robert Kimball, curator of the American Musical Theater Collection at Yale University, understands the magic of lyrics.

Arthur Miller: Waiting for One Bad Thing, Long Ago by MEL GUSSOW
Arthur Miller reflects on "The Man Who Had All the Luck," his first Broadway play and a failure, and its revival almost six decades later.

A Moo Moo Here and a Moo Moo There by BARRY SINGER
You might say that the musical revival of "Into the Woods," opening on Tuesday at the Broadhurst Theater, has been re-embroidered rather than re-invented.

Karen Akers: Cherishing the Touch of a Song by MATTHEW GUREWITSCH

ON STAGE, IT'S REVIVAL OF THE FITTEST by CLIVE BARNES
The trouble with the theater today is that there are too many revivals, right?
Wrong.

�FULL' SPIN by FARRAH WEINSTEIN
John Stamos still has clean-cut good looks, but in "Cabaret", he reveals his inner Emcee.

REBA STICKS TO HER GUNS by MICHAEL GILTZ
Reba McEntire triumphed on Broadway in the role of Annie Oakley and says she'll reprise the role for CBS,"down the road, absolutely."
Post blooper of the day: "And the reviews of Susan Lucci and Cheryl Tiegs, who also played Oakley..."

Family Values by Michael Buckley
Currently featured in The Man Who Had All the Luck, Sam Robards discusses his past, his parents, and his profession.

Radio Playbill Previews Tony Nominations April 30-May 5.

The Honeymooners: Rickman and Duncan Open in Broadway's Private Lives, April 28

Eric Grode's STAGE TO SCREEN: Stoppard's "Raiders" & Oklahoma! Star's New Film

Akers: Mastrantonio to Star in Roundabout's Nine

Molly Ringwald Leaves Cabaret April 28

NYC's Irish Rep Wallows in Finn's Pigtown, Opening April 28

Smell of the Kill Closes on Broadway, April 28

Public Hosts Annual 'New Works Now!' Festival of Readings, April 28-May 12

Today In Theatre History: APRIL 28
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TBA - Monsoon Wedding

TBA - The Night of the Hunter

TBA - The Opposite of Sex [Namco]

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TBA - The Princess Bride

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