Saturday, March 20, 2004

Features:

[ ND ]  Rearranging Priorities BY BLAKE GREEN
Anne Heche, who opens in "Twentieth Century," has left the tabloids behind and is focused on her career

[ NYT ]  Once a Singer From Texas, Now a Texan Who Sings by MEL GUSSOW
At 56, Betty Buckley is less a diva than someone who, in her words, is "singing when I want to and not singing because I've got to."

[ NYT ]  A One-Woman Show Learns to Share by JESSE GREEN
In "Well," Lisa Kron cannily drags her unwitting stage persona out of the land of interior narrative into the much more complicated, and even dangerous, drama of community.

[ NYT ]  Excerpt: "Well"

[ NYT ]  David Auburn's Burden of 'Proof' by ZACHARY PINCUS-ROTH
David Auburn follows the enormous success of his drama "Proof" with "The Journals of Mihail Sebastian," a one-man portrait of a Holocaust survivor.

[ CST ]  Stage direction made Adam Rapp upbeat by Mary Houlihan

[ USA ]  Robbins' view of war: 'Embedded' by Elysa Gardner

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features and reviews:

[ RMN ]  'Hairspray's' two-part harmony by Lisa Bornstein
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

[ SS ]  Husband-and-wife team's bliss is no act by Jack Zink
Bruce Adler and Amy London.

[ LADN ]  'Odd Couple' still odd ... but different by Alessandra Djurklou
Barbara Eden and Rita McKenzie play the strange pair at Cerritos Center

[ LADN ]  'Great support brings laughter, not poignancy to 'The Underpants' by Rob Lowman
With Anthony Crivello, Meredith Patterson, Dan Castellaneta and Amy Aquino; directed by John Rando.

[ OCR ]  'The Underpants' doesn't quite fit by PAUL HODGINS

Other Reviews:

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | 'BROADWAY BY THE YEAR'
On One Town Hall Evening, It Was 1935 All Over Again by STEPHEN HOLDEN
The second "Broadway by the Year" concert of the season, at Town Hall on Monday, yielded quite a few memorable performances.

[ INQ ]  Theater lifer, raconteur tells all by Desmond Ryan
David Rogers is a veteran, Tony-nominated lyricist, so it's fitting that the words matter more than the music in his one-man show Naked on Broadway: A Lifetime With David Rogers.

[ TNR ]  Devious Plot by Lawrence F. Kaplan
"Embedded."

[ CU ]  Frozen

[ CU ]  Bee-Luther-Hatchee

[ CU ]  Ordet

[ ATW ]  A Trip Back to When 'Movies Were Movies' with Silent Laughter
Review by Andy Propst

News:

[ NYT ]  Memorial for Uta Hagen

[ TS ]  CanStage has can-do attitude by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
Theatre company on a tear with new shows, world tour

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 20

[ P ]  Spiders Play Has Off-Broadway Legs Beginning March 20

[ P ]  Viola's Secret: Tony Winner Davis Stars in Intimate Apparel Off-Broadway, March 20

[ P ]  Off-Broadway Theatre Company to Offer Shakespeare � For Kids

[ P ]  Ted Sperling's Beyond the Rainbow � with Victoria Clark � Plays 92nd Street Y March 20-22

[ P ]  Gypsy Co-Star to Chat on CBS's "News Sunday" March 21

[ P ]  Friedman and Strathairn Are Arendt and Heidegger in Off-Broadway's Hannah and Martin, March 20

[ P ]  "Star Trek" and "Nanny" Stars Head Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues in CA, March 20-April 25

[ P ]  Musicals in Mufti Puts Its Best Foot Forward March 19-21
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Friday, March 19, 2004

[ B ]  Naughton Joins the Cast of B'way's Prymate
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Features:

[ P ]  Sondheim Hit Parade
Assassins, the legendary Stephen Sondheim�John Weidman musical that got away from Broadway, makes its highly anticipated debut this month

[ P ]  Something From Nothing
Brent Carver muses on life and [King] Lear

[ B ]  Photo Op: A Hot Opening for MCC's Frozen

[ B ]  Photo Op: Benson's Heart Opens Off-Broadway

[ TM ]  Photo File by: Michael Portantiere
Douglas Sills, Deborah Cox, Susan Sarandon, Kevin Bacon, and Governor George Pataki are among the stars of our latest photo feature.

Reviews:

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Filmdom's Tim Robbins and Robby Benson have plays on the boards, and Oscar winner Rita Moreno is headlining at Feinstein's.

News:

[ P ]  Leiber and Stoller Complain About Jailhouse Rock Musical

[ P ]  Lipman Goes, Holden Returns for London Millie

[ P ]  Joan Cullman, Tony-Winning Broadway Producer, Dead at 72

[ P ]  Vogel's Hot 'n' Throbbing, Baltimore Waltz and Oldest Profession Slated for Signature in 2004-05

[ P ]  Beard of Avon Scribe Takes on Salem Witchhunt in World Premiere Safe in Hell

[ P ]  New Yale Rep Season Gets Clean House, Jenny Chow, Miss Julie and Final Wilson Cycler

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, March 13-19: Last Minute Show Shopping

[ P ]  McDonagh's Bloody The Lieutenant of Inishmore May See MCC Stage in New Season

[ P ]  FDR's Former Attorney General Gets a New Assistant in World Premiere, Trying, at Victory Gardens in Chi

[ B ]  August Wilson Ends 10-Play Cycle with Radio Golf

[ TM ]  Signature Theatre Company to Celebrate Paula Vogel

[ TM ]  Patrick Wilson Withdraws from Kennedy Center's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Features:

[ B ]  The Critics Take Aim at Assassins---Part One by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
How has Best Foot Forward affected musical theater? Filichia buckles down and counts the ways.

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Midler's Divine Kiss My Brass, Luker's Beautiful "Home" PLUS News of Gypsy and Sunset

News:

[ B ]  Wilson Withdraws from Kennedy Center's Cat

[ P ]  Patrick Wilson Withdraws from Kennedy Center Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

[ P ]  August Wilson's Radio Golf to Premiere in 2005; Gem of the Ocean Heads to Broadway

[ B ]  Signature Announces Plans for Vogel Season

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Frozen
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TM ]  Silent Laughter
Reviewed By: David Finkle
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News:

[ NYP ]  A 'MINISTRY' OF FEAR by MICHAEL RIEDEL
After Actors Equity protests, Kim Hughes was replaced as director of "The Ministry of Progress."

[ NYT ]  Joan Cullman, 72, Broadway Producer, Dies by BEN SISARIO
Joan Cullman produced several Tony-nominated plays and musicals, including "Skylight" and "Sweet Smell of Success."

[ IBDB ]  Joan Cullman's Broadway Credits

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
HUGH Jackman has declared that he is not gay. Jackman, who plays swishy showman Peter Allen in Broadway's "The Boy From Oz," says he has been battling gay rumors ever since he took the role.

[ BSUN ]  'Cry-Baby' on Broadway selects song-writing team by J. Wynn Rousuck
Waters explained that Schlesinger and Javerbaum submitted two songs - "One Tear" and "Girl, Can I Kiss You with Tongue?" ("That one won my heart," the filmmaker said.)
I want to hear Hugh Jackman sing it � that'll settle the matter once and for all! ;-)

[ Y ]  'Cry Baby' Set to Be Written for Stage by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Writer
"I have already seen a treatment, which I like, and it's pretty far along," Waters said.

[ B ]  Javerbaum & Schlesinger Unite for Cry-Baby

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
"It's a musical with singing and dancing, but the stars in it are not basically thought of as singers and dancers," said Fisher Stevens. "Like James Gandolfini."

[ NYT ]  CAIRO JOURNAL
Who Messes With Egyptian Minds? Satirist Points at U.S. by NEIL MacFARQUHAR
A show called "Messing With the Mind" now playing in Cairo focuses on the American occupation of Iraq and possibly beyond with biting sarcasm.

[ P ]  Roger and Brad! Broadway's New Producers Are Old Friends to the Smash Show; Bart and Oscar Start April 6

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 19

[ P ]  According to Goldman Explores Tension Between Home and Hollywood in Philly World Premiere, March 19-April 18

[ P ]  Barbara Cook Sings Broadway March 19-April 18

[ P ]  Kristen Johnston, Brian Murray, Sam Waterston to Star in Summer Much Ado

[ P ]  Off-Bway's Melting Pot Stages Musical Reading Series; Vanishing Point Appears April 26 with Starry Trio

[ B ]  Johnston, Murray & Waterston Set for Much Ado

Features:

[ NJ ]  Deadly irony for director BY PETER FILICHIA
David Saint is directing a musical in New Brunswick he couldn't bear to see in New York.

[ ND ]  THEATRICAL THERAPY: In the spotlight, rockin' and rollin' BY JIM MERRITT
For most regional theater actors, performing brings adulation, new friends and applause. But it's also theatrical therapy for the 44 adults and children with developmental disabilities and mental handicaps working onstage and off for this production of "Grease."

[ DN ]  It's some groaning board! BY REBECCA LOUIE
The Korean cast of "Cookin'" suffers for their art, with everything from sore muscles to a fractured neck.

[ DN ]  Home theater goes live by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
In David Wise's nostalgic one-man show "Momma's Knishes," the Dodgers are still playing in Brooklyn, the Nazis are rising in Europe, actual knishes are baking in the oven.
And Wise is performing in an audience member's apartment.

[ DN ]  A Latino write of passage by CARRIE MELAGO
Inside a cold classroom with peeling paint and a dangling lightbulb, playwright Juan Shamsul Alam intently watched actors run through the lines to his newest play, "Fuego."

[ BH ]  Color adjustment: 'Blue Man Group' freshens up its act by Terry Byrne

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
HERE'S A DELIGHTFUL snippet of conversation between the Oscar-nominated Alec Baldwin and Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn about acting, as seen in Show People magazine.
Last item.

"Frozen" - Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'FROZEN'
Cold Murder of a Girl Thaws Feelings Locked in Ice by BEN BRANTLEY
For a play centered on a serial murderer of little girls, Bryony Lavery's humane, intelligent drama is striking for its sustained aura of ordinariness.

[ DN ]  Icy gripper asks, sinner or sicko? By Howard Kissel
Sometimes it's easier to build up tension in a play than to resolve it. That's the case with Bryony Lavery's "Frozen," a riveting, chilling examination of a man who molests and murders young girls.

[ ND ]  Frozen in a moment of lost-child agony BY LINDA WINER

[ NJ ]  Cast brings warmth to 'Frozen' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ Y ]  'Frozen' Is Harrowing by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

[ B ]  Frozen
Review by William Stevenson

[ ATW ]  Fine Acting in a Somewhat 'Frozen' World by Andy Propst
XM Satellite Radio

[ SUN ]  Dreaming a Lively Dream by JEREMY McCARTER
A triumphant "Midsummer", a frosty "Frozen".

Other Reviews:

[ NYP ]  'KITCHEN' A DELECTABLE TREAT by DONALD LYONS
'MY Kitchen Wars," which just bowed at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, is an amusing, affectionate, acerbic and altogether delightful memoir of food writer Betty Fussell, whose book of the same title came out in 1999.

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | MELISSA ERRICO
It's Not All in the Phrasing by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Ms. Errico mastered the complicated phrasing of the songs she performed at the Algonquin on Tuesday, but lacked the spontaneity needed to make the songs come alive.

[ INQ ]  Too bad this Tracy is no Hepburn by Desmond Ryan
"The Philadelphia Story," with Jessica Boevers.

[ TB ]  Silent Laughter
Review by Matthew Murray

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE PAGANS'
A Soap Opera in County Clare by ANITA GATES
Ann Noble's melancholy Irish family drama bursts onto the small stage of the June Havoc Theater with potently credible family relationships.

[ DN ]  A 'Tragedy' that Rex its appeal by Howard Kissel
'Small Tragedy," the title of Craig Lucas' new play, is a misnomer. "Minuscule Tragedy" might be more apt. Come to think of it, so might "Nonexistent Tragedy."

[ ND ]  Bawdy, boyish sprites bring 'Dream' to life BY GORDON COX

[ ND ]  Cardiac-arrested development BY JEREMY CAPLAN
In recent years, the Cherry Lane Theater has hosted some outstanding original comedies. The cozy theater's string of comic successes ends abruptly with "Open Heart," a semiautobiographical show by 1970s teen idol Robby Benson that interweaves a stale string of syrupy songs with sophomoric skits.

[ ATW ]  Review: Open Heart by Andy Propst

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Baywview Releases Novello and 1953 Discs
XM Satellite Radio
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Thursday, March 18, 2004

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
Tee Time by JASON ZINOMAN
August Wilson's "Radio Golf"; replacements confirmed for "The Producers"; Sam Waterston does Shakespeare in Central Park.
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[ P ]  Fountains of Wayne Composer and "Daily Show" Scribe Write Songs for Bway's Cry-Baby, the Musical
This is great news. Adam Schlesinger is a major talent; the latest Fountains of Wayne CD is a total delight. And if someone who is actually having hits can write a successful show, there may be hope for Broadway's future after all...

Features:

[ TM ]  Loose Lips by: Brian Scott Lipton
Lipton catches up with Rebecca Luker, Victoria Clark, et al. and tells us not to expect to see Camelot return to Broadway any time soon.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Benson Shows NYC His Heart at Opening of New Musical

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ OCR ]  Life's not a cabaret, but it comes close by DANIELLA WALSH
In his new work, performance artist Tim Miller examines how musicals have shaped his identity.

[ OCR ]  For your Edna-fication by STACY DAVIES
Dame Edna brings her brand of heavily sequined camp to the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

News:

[ P ]  Elegies to a Theatre: William Finn Work Is Canon Theatre's Farewell, March 26-28

[ P ]  Wicked Witches, "Queer Eye" Guy and New Edna Sing at Miscast Benefit, April 19

[ P ]  Wayne Cilento Set to Choreograph Revival of Dance Hall Musical Sweet Charity

[ P ]  Claire Bloom to Star in Premiere of Barry's Whistling Psyche in London, May 7

[ P ]  Art, Life & Show-Biz Revisit Off-Broadway, April 18-May 16

[ NJ ]  Center stage by Peter Filichia
Edward Herrmann, Robert Cuccioli and Dana Reeve will perform at the 10th edition of "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," the 14th annual fund-raiser that the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey offers each spring.

[ TM ]  Actress Mercedes McCambridge Dies at 85

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Open Heart
Reviewed By: David Finkle
Leaving the theater, my dumbstruck companion wondered aloud, "How does something like this get on?"
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[ B ]  Stars Sign Up for Reefer Madness on Showtime

[ P ]  Tony Winner Cumming and Producers' Weber Set for Showtime Reefer Madness Musical

[ P ]  Producer Tepper to Launch Summer Theatre Festival

[ P ]  Walter Bobbie Cast in Encores! Bye Bye Birdie; Jerry Zaks Now Directing

[ P ]  Giving Regards to Cohan, Yankee Doodle Dandy!, the Musical, Gets World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue

[ P ]  Period of Confinement? For Pregnant Actresses, Life Is a Cabaret in Hot Mamas, April 3 & 5 in NYC

[ P ]  Closer's Hinds and Private Lives' Duncan Cast in HBO's "Rome"

[ P ]  Steppenwolf's Gary Sinise to Head Cast of "CSI: New York"

[ P ]  Julie Andrews to Sing in "Princess Diaries" Sequel
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Features:

[ B ]  Replacements: The Early '90s by Ken Mandelbaum

[ CP ]  The Great Coleman by Steve Cohen
With a career that's the stuff of legend, award-winning composer Cy Coleman returns to Philly with a world premiere.

News:

[ P ]  Michael Ball and Petula Clark Star in Sunset Boulevard in Concert; Radio Broadcast, Too

[ P ]  Wicked National Tour to Launch Spring 2005

[ P ]  Food for Thought Season Offers Robert Cuccioli and Kathleen Turner in Streetcar

[ P ]  "Oz"-Flavored Was, the Musical, Premieres in Ohio Fall 2004; Green Gables Musical Also Slated

Reviews:

[ B ]  Open Heart
Review by Ricky Spears
What a joyous surprise to temper New York's tempestuous spring weather.

[ ATW ]  Double Infidelity:Double Your Pleasure
Review by Laura Shea
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[ HC ]  Westport Theater Productions Go On The Road by Frank Rizzo
In addition - and only available to Westport theater's subscribers and donors of $100 and more - Paul Newman will play the title role in "Trumbo" at the Ridgefield theater for six performances, July 13 to 15 and July 19 to 21.

Features:

[ B ]  Ask a Star: Randy Graff

[ INQ ]  Yiddish-theater show teams pro and novice by Douglas J. Keating
Cy Coleman and Avery Corman on "The Great Ostrovsky."

[ DN ]  A Homer town girl by JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ
After 15 years of lending her voice to spunky Lisa Simpson on the hit cartoon series "The Simpsons," Yeardley Smith is telling her own story.

Reviews:

[ DN ]  Benson, down beatin' path by Howard Kissel
The title Robby Benson has chosen for his quasi-autobiographical musical, "Open Heart," suggests both the event that prompted the show - open-heart surgery - and the psychological state that would likely follow such ordeals. The show itself by no means lives up to its title.

[ TB ]  Open Heart
Review by Matthew Murray
There's little doubt that Robby Benson feels better for having written his new musical Open Heart. Whether audiences, for the most part, will be glad he wrote it is much harder to determine.

[ NYP ]  CHARMING PERSONALITIES SOUL OF 'HEART' by DONALD LYONS

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM'
Bending Genders in Midsummer Dreams by MARGO JEFFERSON
The much-touted, all-male Watermill Theater-Propeller production of Shakespeare's comedy is absolutely exhilarating.

[ Y ]  A Boisterous, Likable 'Midsummer' by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

[ TM ]  A Midsummer Night's Dream
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ KCS ]  These �Blues' are more than all right by ROBERT TRUSSELL
The good times roll in Mo Rep's bouncy tribute to American art form

[ CP ]  The Great Ostrovsky
Review by Steve Cohen
As sweet, light and fizzy as a chocolate egg cream, The Great Ostrovsky captures the spirit of the American Yiddish theater in the 1920s.

[ INQ ]  Musical captures a 'Wild Party' of lonely debauchery by Douglas J. Keating
Lippa's "Wild Party," with Jessica Leigh Brown and Jennie Eisenhower.

[ BG ]  Going to this 'Cabaret' is sharply exhilarating by Sally Cragin
With Nicole Van Giesen.

[ CU ]  Broadway By the Year - 1935

[ NYT ]  CABARET REVIEW | BARBARA CARROLL
Finding Her Inner Raconteur on Top of the Vocals and Piano by STEPHEN HOLDEN
The piano bar chanteuse Barbara Carroll has reinvented herself as a quietly elegant all-around entertainer at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.

News:

[ ND ]  A union fight over a music machine by Gordon Cox
Plus Andre De Shields on "Prymate."

[ Y ]  Julie Andrews Sings in 'Diaries' by BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
Musical scenes she shot recently for "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement" may not feature the soaring tones of "The Sound of Music," but Andrews' singing still brought tears to the eyes of even hardened stage hands.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
LIZA Minnelli was touched the other night at '21' when Fred Ebb (of Kander and Ebb) threw her an intimate surprise birthday dinner.

[ * ]  Missouri Repertory Theatre Presents It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 18

[ P ]  Greg Hicks� RSC Macbeth to Open March 18

[ P ]  Cue the Custard Pie! Silent Laughter, a Silent Movie Comedy on Stage, OpensOff-Bway March 18

[ P ]  Swoosie Kurtz Opens in Lavery Drama Frozen Off-Broadway, March 18

[ P ]  Arena Stage Reading Series Has New Plays by Cruz, Blessing, Ruhl and Hanrahan, March 18-21

[ P ]  Reefer Madness: Marijuana-Logues Explores the Pursuit of Pot, Starting March 18 in NYC

[ P ]  Dreams This Way, Evening of Short Musicals from Raw Impressions, Plays March 18-April 3 in NYC

[ P ]  Weaver and Lithgow Star in Gurney's Mrs. Farnsworth, March 18

[ P ]  Mercedes McCambridge, Imposing Character Actress of Stage and Film, Is Dead at 85

[ B ]  Stage/Screen Star McCambridge Dead at 85
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004

[ Y ]  Actress Mercedes McCambridge Dies at 85 by BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer

[ IBDB ]  Mercedes McCambridge's Broadway Credits

Features:

[ B ]  Stage Notes: 03/17/04 by Paul Wontorek
Sweeney Todd; Caroline, or Change; Idina Menzel.

[ B ]  First Person: Cooking Up Challenging Roles for Women by Dorothy Lyman

[ TM ]  Wolfe at the Door
David Finkle reviews the career of George C. Wolfe, who will resign his position as The Public Theater's producer next season.

[ TB ]  What's New on the Rialto: Interview with Robby Benson by Beth Herstein

Reviews:

[ B ]  DVDs: To This We've Come by Ken Mandelbaum
THE CONSUL (VAI)

[ SUN ]  Bugging Out by JEREMY McCARTER
Great waves of creepiness are emanating from the Barrow Street Theatre.

News:

[ B ]  MCC Makes Plans for McDonagh's Lieutenant

[ B ]  Wintertime Scraps Extension; Will Close 3/21

[ B ]  London's Stones in His Pockets to Close May 1

[ TM ]  Lucille Lortel Awards Ceremony Set for May 3

[ P ]  Martin Composes New Tune for Mufti's Best Foot Forward

[ P ]  Storybook Characters Sing as Big River, Frog and Toad, The Little Prince Set for Boston

[ P ]  David Parsons to Choreograph Broadway-Bound Masada; Creative Team Announced

[ P ]  Robbins' Iraq War Satire Embedded Extends to April 11

[ P ]  Wintertime Cancels Extension, Ends Off-Broadway March 21

[ P ]  London Stars Take Part in Gielgud Centenary Celebration

[ P ]  Cape Cod's WHAT Has New Hoppe and Private Lives, Public Places in 2004

[ P ]  Bright Ideas, Plaid, Morrie and More Set for Laguna Playhouse 2004-2005 Season

[ P ]  Off-Bway's 2004 Lortel Awards Held at Minetta Lane May 3; Nominees Announced April 6

[ P ]  Westport Announces Truncated Season of McGuinness and Moliere

[ P ]  Cochran Steps Into Goodman's Proof, as de Shields Exits for Broadway's Prymate.

[ P ]  Bug's Tracy Letts Is George in Atlanta's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, March 17-April 18

[ P ]  Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore's Broadway Barks 6! Set for July

[ P ]  Tony Winner Julie Taymor to Direct Metropolitan Opera's Die Zauberflöte

[ P ]  Tony Winner Des McAnuff to Helm Wozzeck in 2007

[ P ]  Mary-Louise Parker Set for New Musical-Comedy Film

[ P ]  Gypsy Offers Wednesday Night Q&A Sessions
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Since this is the most important of all holidays around my house, I thought the first few stories of the day needed a color that was, um, a wee more appropriate... sorry, boss...

[ NYT ]  Irish Masterpiece Returning to Its Bleak Home by BRIAN LAVERY
The Irish theater director Garry Hynes has begun a project to stage all seven plays by John Millington Synge, including his masterpiece, "Playboy of the Western World."

[ TS ]  A toast to Ireland's finest exports by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
10 brilliant writers to lift a glass to

Other Features:

[ NYT ]  Lisa Simpson's Voice Steps Out on Her Own by ANITA GATES
Yeardley Smith's stage show, "More," at the Union Square Theater, is about one woman's seemingly insatiable desire for ever increasing doses of fame, praise and love.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
It's off to the races as Filichia attends six shows in six cities in four states in seven days.

[ ND ]  Dinner? Theater? BY ERICA MARCUS
New York is overrun by shows about food

[ ND ]  Where dinner's cooking onstage by JOAN REMINICK, SYLVIA CARTER, ERICA MARCUS

[ BH ]  Five minutes with: Darren Holden of `Movin' Out' by Dean Johnson

[ INQ ]  Playwright finds a fight to survive in Galapagos by Douglas J. Keating
Not many plays can trace their origin to a National Public Radio report, but then where else on the dial would one hear about an incident in the Galapagos Islands?

[ ND ]  Balancing the score by JEFF PEARLMAN
It�s a challenge, but more women are finding it possible to play two great roles: mom and opera star

[ VV ]  Spalding Gray 1941-2004
Remembering an artist who relied mostly on his own story by Mark Russell

[ B ]  Photo Op: A Diva-licious Party for Aida's Deborah Cox

[ B ]  Photo Op: Embedded Opens with a Bang

[ LAT ]  Railroad play seems to be right on time by Glenn Frankel
"The Permanent Way," which asserts that trains in Britain symbolize a "national breakdown," taps a vein of anger.

Reviews:

[ PW ]  A Fine Balance by J. COOPER ROBB
Tony Award-winner Cy Coleman's latest effort is weak on story but strong on song.
I saw The Great Ostrovsky last night, and this review sums up my feelings pretty well.

[ ND ]  'Moby Dick' flounders BY GORDON COX

[ DN ]  Wit to 'Enth' degree
In finale, art imitates art - brilliantly by David Bianculli
Larry David & David Schwimmer as 'The Producers' in a double-twist wrap.

[ VV ]  The Destiny of Us
Craig Lucas troubles the theatrical waters: Now he's even made Oedipus more complex by Michael Feingold
Small Tragedy

[ VV ]  Fleet Street Blues
Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase by Charles McNulty
Sweeney Todd

[ VV ]  Culinary Arts
Stomp-meets-Kodo banging, plate juggling, martial arts, and acrobatics by David Ng
Cookin'

[ VV ]  Rummy and Co. Sink Robbins's Satire With Obvious Duplicity by Alexis Soloski
Embedded

News:

[ NYT ]  Genevi�ve, 83, French Singer Who Mutilated English on TV, Dies by CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
Genevi�ve was the French chanteuse best remembered for her ability to mangle the English language during regular appearances on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show."

[ SD ]  McAnuff tapped to helm 'Wozzeck' by Preston Turegano
San Diego Opera has hired La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director Des McAnuff to direct a new production of Alban Berg's brooding and violent 1925 work, "Wozzeck," for the company's 2007 season.

[ DFP ]  Big names in theater to honor Detroiter BY MARTIN F. KOHN
Woodie King Jr., Ruby Dee, Glynn Turman and Ted Lange are among the film and theater artists expected to roast and toast Detroit playwright Ron Milner on Sunday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the two links above.

[ CST ]  'Crowns' brimming with unrealized potential BY HEDY WEISS
A review, but it ends with an item mentioning that Andre De Shields has withdrawn from a Chicago production of "Proof" to appear in Broadway's "Prymate."

[ B ]  Scary Spice Confirmed for April Start in Rent

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
Tony Kushner (second item).

[ BH ]  Curtain up! Hub stages rev up for theater boom by Robert Nesti
The local performing arts scene is about to get an extreme makeover. In the next 18 months, eight new theaters with more than 4,000 seats will open in Greater Boston.

[ TM ]  Brown, Guettel, and LaChiusa Discuss Musical Theater at Drama Book Shop

[ TM ]  TM to Present Producers' Panel Discussion at Ars Nova

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 17

[ P ]  Art and Politics Collide in Miami Bow of A Picasso, with Lucie Arnaz Working for the Nazis , April 13-May 2

[ P ]  Tempest-Inspired Prairie Musical Returns to Chicago, March 17-April 4

[ P ]  Robby Benson Offers an Open Heart Off-Broadway, March 17

[ P ]  Jessica Boevers Is Tracy Lord in Walnut Street's Philadelphia Story, March 17-April 25

[ P ]  The Heat Is On: Scary Spice Joins Broadway's Rent April 16

[ P ]  Cursed 1933 Gershwin Musical Pardon My English Hopes for Better Luck with Encores! In 2004

[ P ]  Lisa Kron Plumbs a New Well as Lastest Show Begins at Public Theater, March 16
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004

[ B ]  Fresh Face: Stephanie D'Abruzzo by Kevin Manganaro

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
It's all Greek to them: Barbara & Scott report on Small Tragedy and on cabaret singer Carol Savvas's show at Mama Rose.

[ NYT ]  PUBLIC LIVES
Taking a Chance, a Big Voice Makes It to the Top by GLENN COLLINS
Danette Ellen Sheppard is the first featured vocalist in the 134-year history of the Greatest Show on Earth.
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Features:

[ B ]  A Wicked Signing at Borders

News:

[ DN ]  Rush & Molloy
What underused Broadway understudy...
Thanks to MikeR on All That Chat for the link.

[ P ]  EST to Found Fund in Honor of Actor Robert Pastorelli

[ P ]  Edge Theatre to Premiere New Rapp, Healy Plays, Beginning March 31

[ P ]  Avenue Q Stars Heads to the Chatterbox March 18

[ TM ]  Ziemba, May, Bogart, et al. Headline "Musicals in Mufti"
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Features:

[ B ]  Obscure Recordings: Clara and Beg, Borrow or Steal by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  Follow Spot by: Michael Portantiere
Robby Benson stars in Open Heart, Ken Jennings and company evoke Silent Laughter, and Patti LuPone sings of love in Newark, NJ.

News:

[ P ]  Dennehy Doubler Hughie/ A Pound on Demand Adds Benefit Performance

[ P ]  Lyricist-Actor David Rogers Tells Showbiz Tales in Naked on Broadway, in Philly, March 16-April 4

[ P ]  Linden and Murray Star in U.S. Premiere of Halpern & Johnson, March 16-April 4 in Miami

[ P ]  Famous Widow Alma Mahler to be Focus of Stagework Alma � Widow of the 4 Arts in L.A.

[ P ]  Westchester's Hudson Stage Has Sternhagen and Sommer in March 19 Reading of Where's Annie?

[ P ]  Drood Tony Nominee Heads to Le Jazz Au Bar in April

[ P ]  Flower Drum Song Star Celebrates "Making It on Broadway" Tome June 10

[ P ]  Marcovicci Offers Encore of Frank Loesser Program; Evenings to Be Recorded Live

[ P ]  Rent's Anthony Rapp to Host "Bingo Night" Benefit for Edge Theater Company

[ P ]  Cast Set for Off-Broadway's Engaged to Run April 20-May 16 at Lucille Lortel Theatre

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: The Play's the Thing
posted at 3/16/2004 12:03:25 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

News:

[ P ]  Mark Medoff's Prymate to Jump to Broadway's Longacre May 5

[ B ]  Medoff's Prymate to Land at Longacre in May

[ P ]  Off-Broadway's Intimate Apparel Delays First Preview to March 19

[ B ]  Roundabout's Intimate Apparel Delays Previews

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
INSIDERS at "Aida" are hailing new headliner Deborah Cox as an improvement over Toni Braxton, who had the title role last year.

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: March 8-14

[ P ]  DC's Signature Theatre Has LaChiusa's Highest Yellow and Barclay's One Red Flower in 2004-05

[ WP ]  Backstage: Source Money Woes Put Renters in a Pinch by Jane Horwitz
Signature's season; Joan Van Ark; Sutton Foster.

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Plans Shaping Up For Broadway 2004-2005 and More
XM Satellite Radio

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Is a Revisical Headed Your Way?
XM Satellite Radio

[ B ]  Killer Tickets Now on Sale for Assassins at 54

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 16

[ P ]  tick, tick . . . BOOM! � with Hanlon, Litzsinger and Bienskie � Opens at George Street Playhouse March 16

[ P ]  The Ballad of John and J. Edgar: St. Germain Drama Ears on a Beatle Begins March 16

[ P ]  Jewish Mothers and Daughters Learn from Each Other in Off-Bway's From Door to Door, Starting March 16

[ P ]  Wicked Offers Actors' Fund Performance March 28

[ P ]  Rebecca Luker Sings Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and More on New CD, "Leaving Home," in Stores March 16

[ P ]  Will Cy Coleman and the Bergmans' Like Jazz, "a New Kind of Musical," Find a Broadway Home?

[ P ]  New Rivera Work Adoration and Latino Plays Sing at "Songs from Coconut Hill" Fest, March 22-April 4

[ BS ]  Swayze Adds Another Film to 'Dance' Card

Features:

[ ND ]  We hardly knew ye
One-woman play reveals self-consciously crafted persona by Steve Dollar
Andrea Reese wrote and stars in "Cirque Jacqueline."

[ BG ]  A Doctor for a Song by Janice Page
Singers from Julie Andrews to Cher and Frederica von Stade applaud Boston throat specialist and music lover Steven Zeitels for his voice-saving innovations.
Thanks to JohnT on All That Chat for the link!

[ BS ]  Funny, You Don't Look ....
Can Jewish characters be played successfully by non-Jewish actors? It couldn't hurt.

[ BS ]  Catching Up With ... Victor Williams
Known for his role as Deacon Palmer, the jovial best friend on the sitcom King of Queens, Victor Williams is returning to his theatre roots this month with a directorial debut

Reviews:

[ INQ ]  'Ostrovsky' is Yiddish theater over lightly by Desmond Ryan

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'MOBY DICK'
Mateys, Call It the Great Leviathan by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Storytelling is elevated to high art in Theater Triebwerk's luminous and engrossing production of Herman Melville's epic of deadly obsession and vengeance.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'DOUBLE INFIDELITY'
Amorous Liaisons Across Class Lines by WILBORN HAMPTON
The Pearl Theater Company has mounted a diverting production of "La Double Inconstance," or "Double Infidelity," by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE ROARING GIRLE'
Chasing Fame and Fat Pockets in Elizabethan London by D. J. R. BRUCKNER
The Foundry Theater Company's cutting adaptation of this 1611 comedy suggests that today's New Yorkers would be right at home in London 400 years ago.

[ USA ]  Off-Broadway orchestrates fine, offbeat performances
USA TODAY's Elysa Gardner looks at notable off-Broadway and regional theater productions.

[ ATW ]  Public Production 'Embeds' Audience in Wicked Satire
Review by Andy Propst

[ TB ]  Embedded
Review by Matthew Murray

[ CU ]  Embedded

[ ATW ]  NYCO's 'Sweeney': An Old Friend with New Highlights
Review By Andy Propst
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Monday, March 15, 2004

Reviews:

[ TM ]  The Gay Divorce
Reviewed By: Marc Miller

[ TM ]  Embedded
Reviewed By: Adam Klasfeld

Features:

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Aida Celebrates Its Newest Leading Lady

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Wicked Stars Gather to Sign Memorabilia for Fans

News:

[ P ]  Seasoned Cast Gathers for EST Benefit Reading of Orpheus, March 22

[ P ]  Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker to Star in Sedaris' "Strangers With Candy" Film

[ P ]  Full Cast for Worth Street's Normal Heart Announced; Begins April 6

[ P ]  All-Star Cast Brings Fuddy Meers to London's Arts Theatre

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Robbins Invades the Public; Embedded Opens in NYC

[ P ]  Russell & Krieger's Musical, Everything's Ducky, Is Now Lucky Duck, Getting New Wings at Old Globe

[ P ]  Musical Men Brown, Guettel and LaChiusa Talk and Perform at Drama Book Shop, March 15

[ P ]  Ziemba, Bogart, Vidnovic, Harriell, de Haas and May Part of Musicals in Mufti Season

[ P ]  Araca Group and East of Doheny Team Up to Present New "My Man Godfrey" Musical

[ P ]  Seven Paula Vogel Students Premiere Work in Provincetown, March 20

[ B ]  Full Cast Announced for Off-B'way's Normal Heart

[ B ]  Anker & Praed to Headline Beautiful and Damned

[ B ]  Scoundrels Sets Dates for Pre-B'way Tryout in CA

[ TM ]  Old Globe Sets Run of Yazbek's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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Reviews:

[ B ]  CDs: Such Interesting People Live on Christopher Street by Ken Mandelbaum
WONDERFUL TOWN (DRG)

News:

[ P ]  Atlanta's Alliance Has Three Premieres, Including Day of the Kings, Gilman's Lonely Hunter, Color Purple

[ P ]  National Theatre's Pillowman and Democracy Set for Broadway in Fall

[ P ]  Taboo's Jeffrey Carlson Cast in McCarter Theatre's Candida

[ P ]  The Con Is On: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the Musical, Plays Old Globe Sept. 15-Oct. 24 Before Bway

[ P ]  Will Brooks' Young Frankenstein Play Seattle?

[ P ]  Gordon Hunt to Direct Mame Concert at Hollywood Bowl

[ P ]  Regional Hit, Bee-Luther-Hatchee, Gets NYC Premiere Through April 4

[ P ]  Peter Frechette Part of Free Reading of Eden Lane March 15

[ P ]  Brooklyn � with Choreography and Direction By Jeff Calhoun � Is Headed for Broadway

[ B ]  Hollman & Lindsay-Abaire Ready Godfrey Tuner
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Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia lists the theater connections of some favorite villains from the Batman TV series of the 1960s.

"Embedded":

[ NW ]  'You Can't Be Polite in a Satire' by Jennifer Barrett
Oscar winner Tim Robbins courts controversy again in his new play, "Embedded," which opens in New York this week

[ Y ]  Robbins Play Strenuously Unfunny by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
"Embedded"? Embalmed is more like it.

[ NJ ]  First an Oscar, now a rapier BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Performed with energy and confidence by a capable cast of fresh faces, "Embedded" never ceases to make keen-witted mockery of what Robbins aptly terms a "prime-time war."

[ SUN ]  Not-So-Smart Bomb by JEREMY McCARTER
"Embedded" mounts a three-pronged assault on its audience's intelligence.

[ ND ]  Reportage that well misses its deadline
Tim Robbins says "Embedded," his political vaudeville that opened last night at the Public Theater, is a "rude satire" with a "punk sensibility." If only.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'EMBEDDED'
Prowling for Laughs From Today's Foreign Policy by BEN BRANTLEY
Tim Robbins's sincere but unoriginal revue of the war in Iraq as seen at the Public Theater testifies to the difficulties of keeping satire fresh in the 21st century.

[ DN ]  Tim Robbins' Iraq is a crock by Howard Kissel
"Embedded," written and directed by Robbins, is just a screed against the war in Iraq. To be a drama, there would have to be believable characters and some semblance of conflict.

[ NYP ]  STRANGE 'EMBEDDED' FELLOWS by DONALD LYONS
"Embedded" is neither bitingly satirical nor passionately angry. Whether you agree with it is irrelevant. It's just a bore.

[ B ]  Embedded
Review by William Stevenson

Other Reviews:

[ TM ]  Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
Charles Wright assesses All in Good Time, a new memoir by the popular radio personality Jonathan Schwartz.

[ TM ]  San Francisco
Dr. Faustus
Reviewed By: Stephanie von Buchau

[ ND ]  A complex hairpin turn from Craig Lucas BY LINDA WINER

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | BLOSSOM DEARIE
She's Hip and Minimal, and Back in the Saddle Slinging Barbs by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Ms. Dearie returned to her home away from home at Danny's Skylight Room on Saturday to deliver scathing interpretations of smartly written satires.

News:

[ NYT ]  Dana Broccoli, 82, Producer Involved in James Bond Films, Is Dead
She was the creative force behind turning "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" into a musical, for which she served as lead producer. It opened in London's West End in 2002 and is scheduled for Broadway in 2005.

[ IBDB ]  Dana Broccoli's Broadway Credits

[ NYT ]  Survey Finds Post-9/11 Times Harder for City's Artists by JESSE McKINLEY
The report, conducted by the arts coalition DowntownNYC, was based on answers from 175 working artists about their current economic status.

[ V ]  'Godfrey' tuner a go
Hollmann, Lindsay-Abaire commissioned on prod'n
The musical version of "My Man Godfrey" has received the go-ahead from the Araca Group and East of Doheny. The new association gives the companies a mutual first-look deal to co-produce and co-finance prospective theatrical productions over the next two years.

[ V ]  L.A. 'Boheme' bows out big
Road Grosses

[ V ]  Biz even; 'Fiddler' 664g
Broadway Grosses

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 15

[ P ]  It's a Match! PS Classics Will Record New Fiddler on the Roof Cast Album

[ P ]  Phyllis Newman to Host Jule Styne Salute March 15

[ P ]  Illyria Benefit Concert Features Creel, Foa, Jenkins and Jackson

[ P ]  Roz Ryan Returns to Chicago March 15

[ P ]  Brent Barrett Is Hollywood Hunk Among Princesses in Musical Reading in NYC, March 15-19

[ P ]  Sherman Yellen's December Fools Gets NYC Reading With Wicked Star March 15

[ P ]  Paul Rudd Heads Into Sam Shepard's True West Reading in Boston, March 15

[ P ]  Star Added as NBC TV Cast Reads Earnest at "Frasier Goes Wilde" Benefit, March 15
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Sunday, March 14, 2004

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following articles:

[ DP ]  Denver-born 'Brooklyn' gets its shot on Broadway by John Moore
"Brooklyn," Sibling's debut production last May, opens on Broadway Oct. 21, it will be announced this week. Rehearsals begin July 5.

[ P ]  Stage of healing by John Moore
After years of abuse, a search for solace
Martin Moran.

[ IS ]  Five things you should know about singer Sarah Brightman by Elana Ashanti Jefferson, The Denver Post

[ BEE ]  Homemade 'Dish' by Jim Carnes
Luke Yankee and his mother, the late actress Eileen Heckart: Yankee's one-man show, "Diva Dish," is full of stories about his mother and her famous friends.

Features:

[ TS ]  Behind Hairspray's joyous hold by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
If you'd like to have an insight into why Hairspray is such a uniquely joyous musical, try spending some time with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

[ ND ]  Remembering Gray, Gutierrez by Linda Winer

[ P ]  CHANNELING THEATRE: Chats with Intimate Apparel's Viola Davis and New York Newcomer, King Lear's Geraint Wyn Davies

[ ND ]  Marked man by BLAKE GREEN
The makeup expertise of Angelina Avallone is well- represented in four shows on Broadway, but you'll have to go Off- Broadway to view her talents as a tattoo artist.

[ NJ ]  A tale of love and loss BY PETER FILICHIA
Swoosie Kurtz is the daughter of a World War II bomber pilot who named her after his airplane "Swoose" (half swan, half goose), from a lyric in a then-popular song. And while her unique name helped the Omaha native be immediately remembered when she started out as an actress, she earned her way into the public consciousness.

[ NYT ]  Common of Earthly Delights by JAMES TRAUB
Times Square turns 100 next month. Now, as in the beginning, it's a noisy realm of desire and commerce � and when its present-day expression no longer satisfies, it, too, will pass.

[ NYT ]  QUESTIONS FOR JONATHAN SCHWARTZ
That Old-Time Radio
The legendary New York disc jockey still carries the torch for Sinatra and the standards, but that doesn't mean he resists all innovation � he says satellite radio rocks.

[ NYT ]  F.Y.I.
Unstarving Actors by MICHAEL POLLAK
Q. If you're an actor, do you get a special rate in theater district restaurants?

[ ND ]  FAST CHAT: John Waters by Karin Lipson

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Elaine Paige.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: New Craig Lucas Work Small Tragedy has NY Premiere on March 11

[ CT ]  Crowning achievement by Michael Phillips
Regina Taylor has spent her life telling stories. Now 'Crowns,' her tale of strong women and strong faith, is one of the hottest titles in regional theater.

[ CT ]  Where have you seen her before? by Michael Phillips
Opening this week at the Goodman, "Crowns" shows off the writing and directing side of Regina Taylor's multidirectional resume.

[ CST ]  A little 'Hatitude' BY MARY HOULIHAN

News:

[ B ]  Hairspray's Gambatese Gets All Shook Up

[ CT ]  Where for art thou, principles? by Chris Jones
Shakespeare Theater, Quaker partnership crosses troubling line

[ HC ]  Agency Needs Work On Show by Frank Rizzo
Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre and Goodspeed Opera House aren't the only arts groups that have works-in-progress.
Sometimes that also applies to governmental agencies.

[ CT ]  Master's range was all of music by Howard Reich
In the final weeks of his life, which he spent at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the magnificent composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson would not stop working.

[ ND ]  Mamma mia! ABBA duo plans new show by Gordon Cox

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 14

[ P ]  It's War at the Public Theater as Tim Robbins' Political Satire, Embedded, Opens March 14

[ P ]  DeRoy to Host MAC/ASCAP Songwriters Showcase; Woman in White's Zippel is Special Guest

[ P ]  Alex Baldwin and Anne Heche of Twentieth Century on "Radio Playbill" March 15-28

[ P ]  Davey Marlin-Jones, Director, Professor and Arts Critic on Local TV, Dead at 71
posted at 3/14/2004 09:52:28 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

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TBA - Monsoon Wedding

TBA - The Night of the Hunter

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