Saturday, January 29, 2005

[ B ]  Michael Ball Steps in for Ailing Michael Crawford in The Woman in White

[ P ]  Michael Ball to Fill in for Ailing Michael Crawford in London's The Woman in White

Nicole duFresne, 1976 - 2005:

[ NYT ]  An Actress Who Strode Boldly Through Life, to the End By MICHAEL BRICK and JENNIFER 8. LEE
Nicole duFresne, an actress and playwright with a boisterous laugh and a head full of ideas, had packed a lot into 28 years, including four cities, dozens of plays, theater companies, classes and political protests.

[ NYP ]  FROLIC TURNS INTO AMBUSH By LORENA MONGELLI
Nicole DuFresne loved to play in the snow.

[ NYP ]  KILLERS By MURRAY WEISS and RICH CALDER
These are the thugs cops are seeking in connection with the senseless murder of an aspiring actress and playwright gunned down on a Lower East Side street in a botched robbery.

[ DN ]  View to a killer BY CELESTE KATZ, ELIZABETH HAYS and ALISON GENDAR

[ ND ]  Cops seek 7 in L.E.S. shooting BY LINDSAY FABER, DEBORAH S. MORRIS, AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

[ P-I ]  'Memorial party' set for ex-Seattle actress killed in New York

Features:

[ B ]  Personal Favorites: The '70s by Ken Mandelbaum

[ P ]  Friends in the Footlights
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott.

[ P ]  The Cabaret Beat
Chatting with the author and star of Ghetto Superstar, Grease!'s Billy Porter.

[ NJ ]  Grandma's basement full of secrets BY PETER FILICHIA
Leslie Ayvazian had a feeling that when she went into the sub-basement of her grandmother's house in Leonia, she was going to find something special.

[ ND ]  A Brooklyn boy, once removed BY BLAKE GREEN
Donald Margulies says his new play, despite its obvious connections to his own life as a writer and native of Brooklyn, is not about him at all

[ PPG ]  Actor wraps up 'Producers' in Pittsburgh, where tour started 2 years ago By Christopher Rawson
Lewis J. Stadlen is a downtown kind of guy.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ BS ]  Putting Your Stamp on Your Career
No matter how new you are to the city, you have probably already deduced that the value of mass mailings is debatable.

[ BS ]  A Crank of Critics
Creatures kept in dark enclosed spaces develop all sorts of compensatory skills. Bats learn to find things in the dark with echolocation. Fish in caves lose their eyes and interpret the world through minute changes in pressure. Theatre critics, however, just get cranky.

[ NYT ]  A 'Spiritual Mother' of Spoken Word for a Hip-Hop Generation By FELICIA R. LEE
The poet Sonia Sanchez, who has inspired a generation of spoken-word artists, appeared at BAM on Friday in "Def Poetry Plugged In."

[ LAT ]  As tireless as her model By Charles McNulty
Tovah Feldshuh has had an extra-long-running role as Israeli leader Golda Meir, with whom she shares a certain grit and conviction.

[ LAT ]  That's how he likes it By David Gritten
Which would be: busy. As Sir Peter Hall works on multiple productions and a new theater, his 'As You Like It' hits L.A.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
SEE ALEX SOAR

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Legends Enshrined in the Theatre of Hall of Fame

[ B ]  PHOTO OP: Happy 17th Birthday, Phantom!

[ B ]  PHOTO OP: Getting Ready for a Fun, Fun, Fun Vibrations Bash

[ B ]  Video: Opening Night: Good Vibrations

"Hurlyburly":

[ B ]  Did Critics Get Hooked on the New Group's Revival of Hurlyburly?

[ NJ ]  Revival revels in sordid lives BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Hawke's soaring performance lifts wordy play

[ P ]  New Hurlyburly with Hawke, Shawn, Posey Extends Off-Broadway

[ B ]  PHOTO OP: Hot Party for Hurlyburly's Return

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Sex, Drugs and Lots of Hurlyburly at Opening of Off-Broadway Revival

[ TM ]  Photo File By: Joseph Marzullo; text by Michael Portantiere
Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale and cronies celebrate the opening of Hurlyburly. Plus: Kathie Lee Gifford schmoozes in Seth Rudetsky's Chatterbox.

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'SINGING FOREST'
Modern Neurotics Mingling With the Ghosts of Vienna By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
This head-scratcher from the playwright Craig Lucas attempts to dramatize Marx's axiom that history repeats itself.

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Barbara & Scott experience A Clockwork Orange, Belize, and Innocents, as well as a startling cabaret debut by Kate Pazakis at The Duplex.

[ TS ]  Jesters Find Sad Notes in Fiddler by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
A plain potato latke may be a beautiful thing, but it's even better with some sour cream and applesauce.
That's the lesson to be learned from casting Harvey Fierstein and Andrea Martin in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.

[ TB ]  The Producers
Pittsburgh Review by Ann Miner

News:

[ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

[ LAT ]  Robert Dwan, 89; Directed Groucho on TV, Radio Show By Dennis McLellan
Dwan, who became a close friend of Marx and traveled with him to Europe, also directed the comedian in "Time for Elizabeth," a play written by Marx and Norman Krasna that ran in summer stock in the late 1950s and early '60s, with Dwan managing the tours.

[ TM ]  Gershwin Theatre Offers Services for Special Needs Audiences

[ BS ]  Lortel Foundation Bestows Small-Theatre Grants

[ P ]  Please Hello! Pacific Overtures Will Get Cast Album

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 29

[ P ]  Jessica Molaskey Concludes Algonquin Gig Jan. 29

[ P ]  Strawberry Fields: Gilman's The Sweetest Swing in Baseball Opens in San Francisco

[ P ]  This Is Not a Con: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Offers Cheap Front Row Tix at Every Performance

[ P ]  Mary Poppins and Blood Brothers Extend London Bookings

[ P ]  Casting Complete for NYCO's Candide

[ P ]  Simon Russell Beale, Paul Rhys and John Shrapnel to Join Ralph Fiennes for U.K. Julius Caesar

[ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Jan. 22-28: Hot Young Things

[ P ]  Key Change: Broadway and National Tour Piano Men of Movin' Out to Trade Places

[ P ]  Cy Coleman Remembered on Jan. 28 "Theater Talk"

[ P ]  LuPone and Goldblum Guest on Feb. 3 "Will & Grace"

[ P ]  Andrea McArdle to Premiere New Show at Joe's Pub

[ P ]  Hairspray to Play Las Vegas

[ NYT ]  'Hairspray' Is Headed to Las Vegas This Year By JESSE McKINLEY

[ B ]  A Lighter Hairspray to Head to Las Vegas in Late 2005

[ B ]  David Esbjornson Named New Artistic Director of Seattle Rep.

[ P ]  In Last Week of Performances, Bug Recoups Its Investment; Closes Jan. 30
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Friday, January 28, 2005

[ NYP ]  ET TU, DENZEL? By MICHAEL RIEDEL
Denzel Washington is Broadway's new million-dollar man.

[ NYT ]  Actress Killed in Lower East Side Robbery By MICHAEL WILSON
The actress, Nicole duFresne of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was shot once in the chest after her fianc� was pistol-whipped and one of the men grabbed for her girlfriend's purse, the police said.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Meet Joel Markowitz -- and you'll never think of ushers in quite the same way again.

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Buckley, Greene, McArdle and Peters Remember Carson; Q Gals Reminisce as Tartaglia Departs the Avenue

"Hurlyburly" - Reviews:

[ DN ]  Great depth of depravity by Howard Kissel
I enjoyed Scott Elliott's revival of David Rabe's 1984 "Hurlyburly" every bit as much as I hated the original production.
Which is to say, enormously.

[ NYP ]  EARLY 'BURLY' BEST By FRANK SCHECK
The results, although occasionally riveting, demonstrate that the play (ill-served in a 1998 film version) is far from indestructible.

[ TS ]  Me decade effectively exposed by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
You know exactly the kind of world you're in from the minute you walk into the auditorium to discover Ethan Hawke passed out in his underwear on a sofa that, if it could speak, would probably shout "Help!"

[ USA ]  Revised 'Hurlyburly' is still highly charged
* * *1/2

[ SUN ]  Down & Out in the Hollywood Hills by JEREMY McCARTER
At an approximate ratio of one line of blow for every two lines of dialogue, you will see a substantial chunk of the Colombian economy consumed before the night is through.

[ HC ]  Revival Sharpens Rabe's Tale Of Hollywood Hollowness By MALCOLM JOHNSON
"Hurlyburly" proves more absorbing than ever.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'HURLYBURLY'
Getting Higher but Sinking Lower By BEN BRANTLEY
David Rabe's 1984 drama has been brought vibrantly and unforgivingly to life in the New Group's smashing revival.

[ BR ]  The attraction is quite mutual By ROBERT FELDBERG

[ ATW ]  Sex, Drugs and Delusions in Rabe's Hurlyburly
Review by Andy Propst

[ ND ]  'Hurlyburly' comes of age - and doesn't BY LINDA WINER

[ Y ]  Boys of 'Hurlyburly' Entertaining By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

[ TB ]  Hurlyburly
Review by Matthew Murray

[ CU ]  Hurlyburly

[ B ]  Hurlyburly
Review by William Stevenson

Other Reviews:

[ LAT ]  A seeker on a timeless quest By Daryl H. Miller
A Freud Playhouse revival gives a fresh spin to 'Pippin's' summer-of-love vibe.

[ LAT ]  THEATER BEAT: LaBute premiere hits home
"The Shape of Things"; "Nunsense" with Betty Garrett and Lee Merriwether; and "Love Tapes" by Penn Jillette and Steven Banks.

[ ATW ]  Two at La MaMa - 'Meringue' and Belize - Meditations on Love and Colonialism
Review by Andy Propst

[ USA ]  'Little Women' finds its voice
* * 1/2 out of four

Features:

[ DN ]  'Xposed' tells it 'Straight' By ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
There's more to Jai Rodriguez than meets the "Queer Eye."

[ DFP ]  Some new songs for Audra McDonald BY MARTIN F. KOHN
Long a champion of new music, Broadway star has added pop to repertoire
Thanks to John_C on All That Chat for the link!

[ BSUN ]  Powers brings her rich life and career to 'The King and I' By Jonathan Pitts

[ BG ]  'Quills' role is his most revealing By Louise Kennedy
The strangest thing happens when Austin Pendleton takes off all his clothes. He's still in costume.

[ BG ]  Tristine Skyler makes 'Room' for youth By Catherine Foster

[ BH ]  'Moon' walk: Robert LePage takes a light approach to weighty matters at the ART By Terry Byrne

[ INQ ]  Changing Skyline | A pesky preservationist, and time, help Boyd live on By Inga Saffron

[ BG ]  BEHIND THE SCENES: Vaudeville's exuberant star shines again
Schmoozing with Sophie: One-woman show on Sophie Tucker

[ BS ]  Two Different Solo Shows Set in Worlds Where Terror Is Commonplace
"Belfast Blues," evocatively subtitled "One Wee Girl's Story About Family, War, Jesus, and Hollywood," is ultimately a coming-of-age memoir.

[ BS ]  Getting Cast in Today's Musicals On and Off Broadway
As we always do once a year, Back Stage takes a look at today's musical productions with an eye toward filling you in on what you need to know to get cast in them.

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following articles!

[ LADN ]  Musical wizardry By Evan Henerson
Composer Stephen Schwartz casts his spell on L.A. this year with a classic and a current smash

[ PP ]  On Human Terms By: Jillian Kalonick
Blair Brown directs Leslie Ayvazian's newest play, a revised family history, at Passage Theatre.

[ HP ]  After the Lecturing BY D.L. GROOVER
Simple moments in Arthur Miller's drama will move you

News:

[ NYT ]  Version of 'Hairspray' Headed to Vegas

[ B ]  Late Fragments Postponed Indefinitely; Margulies and Rispoli Were to Star

[ P ]  Noted Director David Esbjornson Named New Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre

[ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly
Compiled By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Seattle Rep's New Director

[ V ]  Letts' 'Bug' recoups
Play ends run on Sunday

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
LIZA AT EASE

[ BS ]  New B'way Marketing Efforts Underway

[ BS ]  Equity, LORT Begin Talks
Affects Over 80 Regional Nonprofit Theatres

[ TM ]  Columbia University Announces Peter Brook Residency

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 28

[ P ]  Derek Jacobi Leads Don Carlos to London Jan. 28

[ P ]  Portland Stage Company Speaks The Foreigner's Language Jan. 28-Feb. 20

[ P ]  Charles Mee's Naughty Valentine to Paris Fêtes de la Nuit Starts World Premiere

[ P ]  American Conservatory Theater and Laura Pels Present Hilda in San Francisco

[ P ]  Texas Homos Tell Their Side of the Story Starting Jan. 28 in NYC

[ P ]  Tony Roberts, Alvin Epstein Among Stars in Irish Rep's Endgame in NYC

[ P ]  Outer Critics Circle Sets 55th Annual Awards Calendar for 2004-2005 Season
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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Reviews:

[ B ]  Were London Critics Moved by Kim Cattrall in Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Features:

[ TB ]  Cabaret Interview with Ute Lemper by Jonathan Frank

[ B ]  PHOTO OP: Keeping an Eye on Jai Rodriguez's Xposed Rehearsals

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Phantom, As Healthy as Ever, Enters Its 17th Year on Broadway

News:

[ B ]  Beale, Rhys & Shrapnel Join Fiennes for BITE's Caesar

[ P ]  Mamet's New Romance Gets Extended Before It Even Begins

[ B ]  Mamet's Romance Extends Before Beginning at the Atlantic

[ P ]  Mos Def and Beth Fowler Join Jan. 31 MCC Benefit

[ P ]  Brent Barrett Extends Chicago Engagement

[ P ]  Intrigue and Love Fill the Halls of Off-Broadway Jean Cocteau, Feb. 11-May 22

[ P ]  Peter Brook to Mount Tierno Bokar as Part of Columbia University Residency

[ P ]  Tommy Tune and Manhattan Rhythm Kings Play Palm Desert's McCallum Theatre Feb. 18-19

[ P ]  Robert Moses, a Towering NYC Figure, Is Deconstructed in Boozy, Feb. 13-March 5 in Soho

[ P ]  Wicked Is Part of Dallas Summer Musicals Series

[ P ]  Julie Andrews to Receive Goodspeed Award; Her Boy Friend Debuts in July

[ P ]  "Working in the Theatre" Seminar to Spotlight Off-Broadway Theatre Companies

[ P ]  Complicite Turns 21 With National Theatre A Minute Too Late Jan. 27

[ P ]  Wicked � at the Gershwin � to Become Most Accessible Show

[ P ]  Bacall, Errico, Kudisch, McKechnie, Murphy and More to Honor Comden and Green

[ P ]  Feinstein's Season to Include Two of Hairspray's Ednas Plus Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell

[ P ]  Reprise! Announces 2006 Season of Musicals in Concert

[ TM ]  Star-Studded Celebration of New Federal Theatre Set for February 13
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Features:

[ INQ ]  Death and dissension dogged Sondheim show the first time By Douglas J. Keating
It wouldn't take much for the revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle, opening Saturday at the Prince Music Theater, to go more smoothly than the original production did at its pre-Broadway preview here in 1964.

[ NYT ]  NEWS ANALYSIS
Surveying a Cultural Landscape Suddenly Without Beverly Sills By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Beverly Sills's resignation as chairwoman of the Metropolitan Opera may have practical consequences for the Met, the New York City Opera and the Lincoln Center cultural campus.

[ P ]  MARQUEE VALUE: Brooklyn Boy at the Biltmore

"The Exonerated":

[ NYT ]  Cross-Examination for a Drama That Puts the Death Penalty on Trial By ADAM LIPTAK
The impact of "The Exonerated," an Off Broadway play about six people released from death row, will only grow with a filmed version on Court TV.

[ NYT ]  Slide Show: Exonerated, or Just Freed?

[ DN ]  Six tales of life after Death Row by David Bianculli
"The Exonerated" certainly is worth watching, but it's not transcendent.

[ ND ]  Review: Death row as a two-way street BY ROGER CATLIN, THE HARTFORD COURANT

[ NYT ]  BOLDFACE NAMES
A Serious Reporter Would Ask About Jolie By JOYCE WADLER

[ P ]  Dennehy, Glover, Lindo and Sarandon are Exonerated in Court TV Adaptation, Jan. 27

Reviews:

[ CE ]  Chenoweth, Pops light up Carnegie Hall By Janelle Gelfand
Kunzel, who announced that Chenoweth will be his star in PBS' "A Capitol Fourth" again this July, kicked up his heels and led with swagger and a big grin.

[ CST ]  'Rainbow' needs some great and powerful editing BY HEDY WEISS
While Faith Prince and Tom Wopat are the two high-profile "stars" of the show, it is the introduction of two black performers -- jazz singer Barbara Morrison and pianist-singer Loston Harris -- that is the revelatory aspect.

[ ATW ]  Oranges Like the Sun: A South African Childhood Brought to Life with Literary Aplomb
Review by Andy Propst

[ NYT ]  CABARET REVIEW | MARLENA SHAW
An Unsweetened Voice of Bitter Experience By STEPHEN HOLDEN

News:

[ HC ]  Joanne Woodward Giving Up Westport Stage Post by Frank Rizzo
Plus a correction to Playbill's "Syncopation" story (second item).

[ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 27

[ P ]  Drugs, Sex and Hollywood Underscore Rabe's Revised Hurlyburly Off-Broadway

[ P ]  Will Amour Be Lovelier the Second Time Around? Griffin Will Stage Reconception for Goodspeed

[ P ]  Hello, Little Dream! Hoty and Cavenaugh Star in Anything Goes for Theatre Under the Stars in TX

[ P ]  Tony Nominee June Gable Serves Fresh Picon Pie Jan. 29; Molly Picon Musical Moves to Midtown

[ P ]  "Nora" Is Nigerian in World Premiere of OyamO's A Selfish Sacrifice, a Fresh Look at Ibsen Classic, at Denver Center

[ P ]  Dennehy Salesman to Play Six Months in London Beginning May 10

[ P ]  Tickets to Broadway's Streetcar with Richardson and Reilly Go On Sale Feb. 6

[ P ]  Disney's On the Record to Close July 31

[ P ]  Hartford Stage Has More Bad Dates for Annalee Jefferies as Solo Extends

[ P ]  Hairspray's Matthew Morrison Joins Cast of Piazza
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

[ P ]  Joanne Woodward to Step Down as Westport Playhouse Artistic Director

[ P ]  Visiting Mr. Green Playwright Has Reading of New Play Jan. 27

[ P ]  Bernadette Peters Launches New Concert Tour � with Gypsy Songs � Jan. 26

[ P ]  Jeffrey Wright Confirmed for This Is How It Goes

[ P ]  MARQUEE VALUE: All Shook Up at the Palace
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Features:

[ B ]  The Recent Unrecorded by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Q&A: Julie Halston by Tony Phillips

News:

[ B ]  Sally Murphy & Emily Skinner Join A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at Encores!

[ P ]  Nancy Dussault Stars in Maugham's The Constant Wife in Miami and Philly

[ P ]  King and I's Constance Towers Joins "General Hospital" Stars for Mrs. Harrison Reading Feb. 26

[ P ]  George Morforgen Joins Cast of Mint's The Lonely Way

[ P ]  De Haas Celebrates African-American Popular Song with Two Different Shows in February

[ P ]  Xposed Benefit � with "Queer Eye"'s Rodriguez � Welcomes Rosie Perez

[ P ]  Original Tony-Nominated Star Set to Return to Broadway's Movin' Out

[ P ]  Denver Center Season to Include Chita Rivera's One-Woman Show and Wicked

[ P ]  Wicked Tour to Go Hollywood in June

[ P ]  Rob Fisher to Depart as Musical Director of Encores! at End of 2005 Season

[ P ]  Full Casting Announced for Broadway's Julius Caesar
posted at 1/26/2005 01:31:15 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly
Compiled By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Rob Fisher, the longtime music director of the "Encores!" concert series at City Center, which revives rarely heard musicals by American composers, is stepping down.

"Fiddler on the Roof":

[ NYP ]  BOX OFFICE IS GOING THROUGH THE 'ROOF' By MICHAEL RIEDEL
THIS "Fiddler" is no longer teetering on the roof. Not only has Harvey Fierstein � the delightful and tender new Tevye in the $10 million revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" � restored the musical's "Jewish soul," he's also begun to restore its box-office luster.

[ NYT ]  BOLDFACE NAMES
Today He Would Have His Own Show on Fox By JOYCE WADLER
The FireBird restaurant, with its Czarist Russian theme and opulent red velvet walls, did seem a little peculiar for the "Fiddler on the Roof" party last Thursday, which celebrated HARVEY FIERSTEIN and ANDREA MARTIN, the new leads.

[ VV ]  Mainstream Musical Meets Fierstein, America's Beloved Outsider by Michael Feingold

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Have you ever been embarrassed to tell someone what show you were seeing next?

[ TM ]  Follow Spot By: Michael Portantiere
Mimi Hines returns to the stage in the L.A. Reprise! production of Pippin. Plus: What we lost in 2004.

[ TM ]  Sigourney Gets Leid! By: Michael Portantiere
At last night's "Luau -- Flea Style" event, Sigourney Weaver and other notables really got into the spirit of things.

[ B ]  Opening Night: Little Women

[ LAT ]  Globe of America seeks a shipboard Shakespeare By Don Shirley
David Fox-Brenton's theater company sees the Queen Mary as an ideal spot. Now all he needs is more money.

[ VV ]  P.S. 122'S New Aussie Artistic Director Arrives by Alexis Soloski
In a hallway at Performance Space 122, Melbourne native Vallejo Gantner searches for a surreptitious place to store the boxes ringing him . . .

[ VV ]  An Excerpt From Rob Handel's 'Aphrodisiac'

[ B ]  PHOTO OP: MTC's Winter Benefit was An Intimate Night

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Stars Raise a Glass to Ten Years of Playbill.com

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: More from the Playbill.com 10 Year Celebration

News:

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FDR JOKE A BLUE DEAL TO ED

[ B ]  Complete Cast Announced for Julius Caesar, Starring Denzel Washington

[ B ]  Broadway-Bound Purlie to Play Pasadena and Chicago

[ P ]  55 More: Billy Crystal Extends 700 Sundays on Broadway

[ B ]  Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays Extends for 55 More Performances

[ B ]  Ren�e Zellweger Pursued for Neil LaBute's This Is How it Goes at the Public

[ B ]  Barrett Foa Moves into a Starring Role in Avenue Q

[ P ]  Barrett Foa Will Replace John Tartaglia in Broadway's Avenue Q

[ P ]  Christmas Day! Avenue Q's New Mom Ann Harada Returns to Broadway

[ P ]  Wallace Shawn's Threepenny Opera Broadway-Bound for Next Season

[ USA ]  Actress Patsy Rowlands dead at 71
Her musical credits included playing Jack's mother in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, the duchess in Mike Ockrent's production of Me and My Girl, and a role in Sam Mendes' production of Oliver! at The London Palladium theater.

[ HS ]  Final bow for opera party girl June Bronhill by Alison Barclay
Bronhill, the celebrated Australian star of opera and music theatre, has died at age 75.
Thanks to young-walsingham on All That Chat for the link.

[ LAT ]  'Wicked' is coming to the Pantages By Don Shirley
The touring version of the Broadway hit about the formative years of the Wizard of Oz witches will play the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, June 17 through July 17.

[ P ]  Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70

[ P ]  NYC Theatre Interns Get Networking Group, Courtesy American Theatre Wing; High Schoolers Also Find a "Springboard"

[ P ]  Gordon Hunt to Direct Camelot at Hollywood Bowl

[ P ]  Broadway's Chicago Welcomes Carol Woods Jan. 31

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 26

[ P ]  There Will Be Trumpets: Revision of Groundbreaking Anyone Can Whistle Gets Philly Concert Staging

[ P ]  Broadway's Phantom of the Opera Turns 17 on Jan. 26

[ P ]  Original Tony Award Nominee Returns for L.A. Run of Sixteen Wounded

[ P ]  Noah Haidle's Rag and Bone with Annie Golden Makes World Premiere, Jan. 26

[ P ]  Gem of the Ocean to Close on Broadway Feb. 6

[ B ]  August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean to Take Final Bow on February 6

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Snowed In

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE LATE HENRY MOSS'
Confronting the Sins of the Father in a Posthumous Reunion By ANDREA STEVENS
Directors who choose the crutch of magical realism when approaching a Sam Shepard play would be better served by recognizing the magic of realism, as Cyndy A. Marion has skillfully done in "The Late Henry Moss."

[ TB ]  The Late Henry Moss
Review by Warren Hoffman

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE SHAPE OF A GIRL'
When Mean Girls Are Not Stopped By JASON ZINOMAN
Joan MacLeod's sober and gripping one-woman show adds to the growing consensus in popular culture that "sugar-and-spice and everything nice" might have been overstating the case.

[ TM ]  Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
PS Classics' cast album of the Lincoln Center Theater production of The Frogs has Michael Portantiere jumping for joy.

[ ND ]  One-woman blues resonate in 'Belfast' BY GORDON COX

[ VV ]  A White South African's Coming of Age
Sightlines: by Rachel Wetzsteon
Oranges Like The Sun

[ VV ]  Letting Shakespeare's Drama Peter Out by Michael Feingold
As You Like It

[ VV ]  Goodbye Civilization by Michael Feingold
Richard Foreman's The Gods Are Pounding My Head (Aka Lumberjack Messiah)

[ ATW ]  Harold Arlen's Centenary Celebrated on CD
Review by Andy Propst
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

News:

[ TM ]  Gem of the Ocean to Shutter; Doubt Will Be Walter Kerr's New Tenant

[ P ]  Report: Eamonn Walker Will be Washington's Antony in Julius Caesar

[ P ]  Ben Stiller Set, Jeffrey Wright in Talks for LaBute's This Is How It Goes

[ B ]  Will American Idol Fave Diana DeGarmo Be Beauty and the Beast's Next Belle?

[ B ]  Twelve Angry Men Extends Through April 3 at the American Airlines Theatre

[ P ]  Closing Arguments: Twelve Angry Men Announces Final Extension to April 3

[ TM ]  Clear Channel to Produce Upcoming Cirque de Soleil Tour

[ P ]  Clear Channel and Cirque Du Soleil Join Forces for New Tour

[ TM ]  MTC Announces Essay Contest for Brooklyn Boy Tix

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
JACKIE, JEWISH?

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
SPEAKING of narcissism or vanity, or just plain publicity, Deborah Gibson (perhaps still more famously known as '80s teen queen pop princess Debbie Gibson) has gone the way of so many, and shed her clothes for Playboy. The March issue hits newsstands Feb. 11.

[ BSUN ]  Hippodrome's first hurrahs By J. Wynn Rousuck and Edward Gunts
One year later, renovated theater fills the bill for a west-side revival

[ P ]  Dessa Rose's York Releases Solo Recording, "Let's Fall in Love"

[ P ]  77th Annual Academy Award Nominations Announced; "Aviator" Scores Ten Noms.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 25

[ P ]  John Rubenstein Stars in Counsellor-at-Law at St. Clement's in NYC Beginning Jan. 25

[ P ]  O'Connell and Thornton to Headline Keen's Pyretown, Jan. 25-Feb. 20, 2005

[ P ]  "Simple Joys": Reprise! Pippin�with Michael Arden�Begins Performances Jan. 25

[ P ]  Wicked's Chenoweth Returns to Carnegie Hall Jan. 25

[ P ]  Annual Kids' Night on Broadway Kicks Off Jan. 25

[ P ]  Thom Pain (based on nothing) Begins Off-Broadway with James Urbaniak, Jan. 25

[ P ]  P. Diddy Considering Bid for Lloyd Webber's London Theatres

[ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly
Compiled By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Attack on Christian Slater

Reviews:

[ DN ]  'Little Women' is a big letdown by Howard Kissel
Perhaps out of a desire to make the material acceptable to boys, the musical version of "Little Women," with book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Jason Howland, is as mechanical as an Erector Set and just as emotionally arid.

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Barbara & Scott agree to disagree about Little Women's book, but they both love Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern in the show. Also: A sad goodbye to Dick Gallagher.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'DIRTY WORKS'
For Audiences Whose Cups of Kindliness Are Overflowing By JASON ZINOMAN
If you like your theater crime-ridden, foul-mouthed and drained of human compassion, "Dirty Works" should be right up your very dark alley.

[ ATW ]  Sordid Lives Pointlessly Dead End in Dirty Works
Review by Andy Propst

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'LEAPFROG THROUGH TIME & SPACE'
The Two Ages of One Man Confronting Ghosts of Both By MARGO JEFFERSON
Phil Atlakson's new play uses television sets, slide projections and microphones in a fresh way that makes them feel essential to the story.

[ WP ]  'Lorenzaccio': Murder Most Medici By Peter Marks
Jeffrey Carlson is a dandy and diabolical Lorenzo in the Shakespeare Theatre adaptation.

[ BG ]  Black actors, directors take center stage By Ed Siegel
The African American Theatre Festival.

[ N&O ]  'Fiddler' respects tradition By ROY C. DICKS
Paul Sorvino, known for his many movie and television credits, infuses his first attempt at Tevye with great warmth and humanity.
Thanks to NYandNCWilliamG on All That Chat for the link!

Features:

[ BS ]  Theatre, Now and Then
Recently, playwright Edward Albee, actor Richard Thomas, and producers Elizabeth I. McCann and Martin Richards gathered at a midtown restaurant to talk. The freewheeling conversation covered the extraordinary cost of mounting a show, the evolving role of the producer, the need to develop young and multicultural audiences, and their own experiences in theatre early in their careers.

[ BS ]  Stage Veterans Reflect and Advise
When Frances Sternhagen auditioned for the film "Network," her performance moved Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky to tears. Despite her excellent audition, however, the part was given to Beatrice Straight. "I was told by my agent, 'They liked what you did, but you're not round enough,'" she recalled.

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ DFP ]  Beneath the comedy, Daniels writes deep BY MARTIN F. KOHN
Seven years in the making! Nine versions from first draft to final script! A cast of... six.
"Norma & Wanda" is no movie epic, it's the latest comedy by Jeff Daniels, a writer who clearly takes comedy seriously.

[ AAN ]  Purple Rose works up some sisterly laughs BY JENN MCKEE
'Norma and Wanda' offers physical comedy
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Monday, January 24, 2005

[ Y ]  Hollywood star Christian Slater escapes London knife attack
Slater, 35, was leaving the Gielgud Theatre in central London, where he has been starring in a stage version of the novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", when the attack happened, the BBC said.

[ TM ]  Loose Lips By: Brian Scott Lipton
Peter Strauss plays Freud, Laila Robbins waxes poetic, and Brett Somers will soon be reunited with Jack Klugman.

[ IBDB ]  Johnny Carson's Broadway Credits

"Little Women":

[ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jason Howland
Jason Howland has worn many hats in a so-far short theatrical career: producer, music director, conductor, playwright and now - with the current Broadway production of Little Women, the musical-composer.

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Little Women: Art Direction by God

[ B ]  PHOTO OP: Little Women Lands on Broadway

[ B ]  Were New York Drama Critics Astonished by Little Women?

[ CU ]  Little Women

Other Reviews:

[ B ]  CDs: Won't You Charleston with Me? by Ken Mandelbaum
THE BOY FRIEND (Sepia)
AFTER THE BALL (Sepia)

[ TB ]  Nunsense
Los Angeles Review by Sharon Perlmutter
The reason the new production of Nunsense at Theatre West is getting attention is its stars, Betty Garrett and Lee Meriwether. And that's a pretty good reason.

[ CU ]  Dirty Works

News:

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: Jan. 17-23

[ P ]  Once Broadway-Bound Syncopation to Land at Hartford Stage

[ P ]  Patti LaBelle Joins Wayne Brady in Los Angeles Run of Chicago Tour, Feb. 1

[ P ]  Shinn, Bonney and McKinley Discuss On the Mountain, for a Good Cause, Jan. 25 in NYC

[ B ]  Primary Stages to Present Works by Terrence McNally & Charles Grodin

[ P ]  Primary Stages Ends Season with Tony Winner; Lines Up New with McNally and Grodin

[ P ]  Blazer, Kritzer, Foa, Park and Dunn Read A Merry Jewish Christmas in NYC Jan. 24

[ P ]  New Voices Collective Sings of Love in My Funny Valentine Concert, with Songs by Lippa, Heisler, Goldrich, Feb. 7

[ P ]  Broadway All-Star Benefit for the Red Cross to Feature Sieber, McArdle, Bogardus and More

[ P ]  "Phantom" Rises to 7 in Box-Office Figures

[ P ]  "Broadway Spotlight" to Shine on Good Vibrations' Burgess Feb. 7

[ P ]  Through Snow, Show Went on on Broadway; Some Offer Ticket Exchanges

[ P ]  York Theatre to Present Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie in May

[ P ]  Marin Mazzie Guests on CBS Sitcom Jan. 31

[ P ]  Cassidy Brothers Part of MTC's Winter Benefit Jan. 24

[ P ]  "Brotherhood" Pilot - with Into the Woods' O'Malley - Picked up By Showtime

[ P ]  New Solo CD From She Loves Me's Mayes to Hit Stores in February

[ P ]  Chatterbox Goes Under the Bridge Jan. 27

[ P ]  Dick Gallagher, Award-Winning Off-Broadway Composer and Musical Director, Dead at 49

[ B ]  Tony-Winning Revival of Death of a Salesman Finally Heads to West End

[ B ]  Will P. Diddy Become a West End Theater Owner?
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[ DN ]  P. Diddy bidding for Lloyd Webber houses

[ V ]  Stage Holding exec solos
New venture will have offices in Netherlands, New York
Robin De Levita, the right-hand man of Dutch theatrical mogul Joop Van den Ende, will ankle April 1 as international exec producer and board member of Stage Holding to launch his own company.

[ V ]  West End opens door to B'way 'Salesman'
Pricey play will open a six-month run May 16 at Lyric
The Brian Dennehy/Robert Falls Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" has landed a West End perch nearly five years after the acclaimed production was first discussed for an Old Vic stand that didn't happen.

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
How well did you fare on this year's Broadway University midterm exam? It's time to check your answers.

[ R ]  Secret of Broadway Musical Hits -- Plot or Songs? By Claudia Parsons
"Every idea is improbable until it succeeds," said Laurence Maslon, author of "Broadway: The American Musical."

"Little Women":

[ Y ]  Broadway's Genteel 'Little Women' By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
"Little Women," under the direction of Susan H. Schulman, is tasteful if plodding, with a thorough, straightforward book by Allan Knee and a pallid, unsurprising score by Jason Howland and Mindi Dickstein.

[ NYP ]  SISTERS SING WRONG SONG By CLIVE BARNES
The score to "Little Women," with its Jason Howland music and Mindi Dickstein lyrics, is weak, generic and, when it's not unnoticeable, boring.

[ TB ]  Little Women
Review by Matthew Murray
The book is restless and the score, which vacillates in style between Music Theory 101 and reheated Jason Robert Brown, doesn't enhance the storytelling as much as distract from it.

[ B ]  Little Women
Review by Eric Grode
This chamber-size musical pulses with a generous affection for its source material and a refreshing realization that Broadway audiences don't always need to be wowed.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'LITTLE WOMEN'
A Tomboy With Gumption (and Her Sisters) By BEN BRANTLEY
Sutton Foster is a standout in this sketchy musical adaptation, which mostly rushes through Louisa May Alcott's evergreen novel.

[ ND ]  'Little Women' with big voices BY GORDON COX
The show inflates the novel's minute goings-on to a scale better visible from the balcony, and you can sometimes feel the strain.

[ HC ]  Staid 'Little Women' Has Little To Offer Audiences By MALCOLM JOHNSON
Certainly this is not a show for young children, nor for hip tweens and teens. Grown women with sisters may join together to take it in, and fans of McGovern will cheer, as they did at a preview performance. But the chances of this chamber musical surviving until Tony time are dubious at best.

[ SUN ]  Thoroughly Modern Marches by JEREMY McCARTER
�Did she pull it off?� the Broadway fan wants to know, wringing his Playbill.

[ NJ ]  Sister act BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Sutton Foster glows as Jo in musical 'Little Women'

[ TM ]  Little Women
Reviewed By: Marc Miller

[ Y ]  Foster Shines Again in 'Little Women' By BEN WALKER, Associated Press Writer
Sutton Foster bounds out the backstage door, signs some autographs and hops into a waiting car. A block from the Virginia Theatre, her baseball cap pulled down low, she blends into the panorama of West 52nd Street. "I have 1 percent recognizability," she says.

Other Reviews:

[ NJ ]  Hapless pair make for snappy comedy BY PETER FILICHIA

[ LAT ]  Grief and anger fuel fireside stories By Lynne Heffley
In 'Flight,' fact and fable, past and present intertwine in captivating tales told by mid-19th century slaves.

[ LAT ]  'Broadway' salutes Merman with sincerity and shtick By David C. Nichols

News:

[ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly
Compiled by BEN SISARIO
Grant for Musical Theater; Drama on 59th Street

[ V ]  Chichester fest plans to 'Succeed'
Production to kick off season on April 29

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
'PAL JOEY' REVISITED

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
WE HEAR . . .
John Stamos.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
TURN THE PAIGE

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 24

[ P ]  Amanda Green and Tom Kitt Appear at Birdland on Jan. 24 and 31

[ P ]  Company Manager William Conn Remembered at Jan. 24 Memorial

[ P ]  Equity-LORT Talks to Commence on Jan. 24

[ P ]  Comedy Cares II � to Benefit BC/EFA � Presented Jan. 24

[ P ]  Where the Boys Are: Avenue Q's Tartaglia and Spelling Bee's Ferguson Offer Solo Concerts at Joe's Pub

[ P ]  In His Centenary Year, Jule Styne Gets an Album of Hollywood Songs � With Broadway Stars to Sing Them
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Sunday, January 23, 2005

[ TB ]  Carson Was, A King of Broadway

[ NYT ]   Johnny Carson, America's Late-Night Host for Decades, Dies by RICHARD SEVERO
The "Tonight Show" TV host served a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years.
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"Donald Trump and producer Mark Burnett are reportedly considering creating a Broadway musical based on The Apprentice. The pair came up with the idea when neither one of them could find a match to set fire to a pile of money."
-Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live

"Little Women":

[ NYT ]  OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Broadway's Girl Power By CHRIS BOHJALIAN
Right now three Broadway shows are packing in the tweens, telling them to be true to themselves and not to let anyone stifle their dreams.

[ ND ]  BRINGING 'LITTLE WOMEN' TO LIFE BY BLAKE GREEN
A new musical version of the beloved young people's classic opens on Broadway

[ CPD ]  Couple toast their Broadway concoction
More than 30 investors from the Cleveland area and their families will be in Broadway's Virginia Theatre tonight for the official opening of the musical-theater version of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women."
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

[ P ]  Sing for Your Sister: Little Women Opens on Broadway

"Spamalot":

[ CT ]  By trimming the fat, 'Spamalot' adds flavor By Michael Phillips
Opening night, Act 1 was the act with the biggest dead spots. No more. On the recent Wednesday matinee Act 1 clocked in at a supermodel-skinny 49 minutes, Act 2, about an hour.

[ CT ]  Funny? Sure. But British, it ain't By Chris Jones
So it's not about irony or accent. It's more about anger. Classic British humor gets mad. "Spamalot" does not.

[ P ]  Last Night in Chicago for Broadway-Bound Knights as Monty Python's Spamalot Ends Debut

Features:

[ NYP ]  'BURLY' MAN By BARBARA HOFFMAN
He's played it gay, straight and somewhere in between. But nowhere before has Bobby Cannavale played a role as naked as the one in "Hurlyburly."

[ NYP ]  THE BUSIEST UNDERSTUDY By BARBARA HOFFMAN
There are plays, and then there's "Hurlyburly" - a 150-page doorstop of a drama. Clocking in at three hours, it's a marathon of monologues, especially for its four male leads.
Matthew Rauch should know: He's understudying all of them.

[ ND ]  FAST CHAT: Harvey Fierstein by Blake Green

[ WP ]  Top '40s: Reprising a Decade By Jacqueline Trescott
Kennedy Center Festival Revisits Era's Rich Artistic Bloom

[ WP ]  Mining Their Own Business By Peter Marks
Theaters Dig Into the Forgotten Past For What They Hope Will Be Gems

[ NYT ]  The Sweet Spell of Musical Success By JESSE GREEN
After an early version in an East Village chop shop, a new musical about an ancient childhood torture - the spelling bee - comes to Off Broadway.

[ NYT ]  Managing Risk, the Downtown Way By ADA CALHOUN
The avant-garde theater director Richard Foreman, whose shows have been staged with regularity by the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, explains what makes his latest retirement threat special.

[ NYT ]  THE COME-ON
Con Men and Wordsmiths By ZACHARY PINCUS-ROTH
It's in the nature of advertising to stretch the truth. But the advertisements for the Broadway musical "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" take the idea of artful salesmanship to heart.

[ NYT ]  An Impresario Explores Life Without P.S. 122 By PHOEBE HOBAN
After a bittersweet departure from P.S. 122, where he fostered the likes of Eric Bogosian and Spalding Gray for 21 years, Mark Russell is looking for a home.

[ HC ]  At 74, Rosemary Prinz Plays Teen At TheaterWorks by Frank Rizzo

[ LAT ]  Playing the anti-movie star By Choire Sicha
As the New York stage stakes a greater claim on his imagination, Ethan Hawke now makes films only when he finds them interesting. And that includes his new cop flick.

[ DN ]  Broadway bonanza BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ
Big musicals & big names set to make a splashy second act

[ NYP ]  DOWNTOWN, 'ANGRY INCH' FANS COME OUT AT MIDNIGHT By JOSHUA M. BERNSTEIN

[ BG ]  Playwright-actor Kani brings 'Truth' out of South Africa By Catherine Foster

[ USA ]  'Phantom' spotlights actor Butler By Susan Wloszczyna

[ ND ]  Photos: Canine casting call

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following articles!

[ PP ]  Art, politics don't mix for 'Trumbo' star Dennehy BY DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA

[ MST ]  Son's 'Trumbo' sheds light on blacklist writer by Rohan Preston
More from Dennehy.

[ ST ]  As Rep opens "Ma Rainey," playwright moves on By Misha Berson

[ MN ]  A playwright who loves to tweak the classics By Karen D'Souza
Ken Ludwig interview.

[ PPG ]  'Producers' tour comes full circle By Christopher Rawson
Company returns to starting point in Pittsburgh, this time with South Park's Harry Bouvy as Carmen Ghia

[ HChron ]  Art imitates life By EVERETT EVANS
Arthur Miller's 'After the Fall' shows the many sides of complicated lives
With Kate Shindle and Josie de Guzman.

Reviews:

[ P ]  ON THE RECORD: Wedding in Paris, Can-Can and Billy

[ NYT ]  CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Strange Languages Convey More Than Mere Words By MARGO JEFFERSON
The theatrical vision of "K. I. From 'Crime,' " performed in Russian by the Foundry Theater, turns a foreign language into a form of music.

[ TB ]  Sniper
Review by Matthew Murray

[ TM ]  The Gods Are Pounding My Head!
Reviewed By: Adam Klasfeld

[ NJ ]  Presenting Shakespeare as you like him BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
With his half century of experience, Sir Peter Hall has the wisdom and assurance to direct "As You Like It" without any fancy concepts or conceits.

News:

[ P ]  Richard Clarke, Broadway Character Actor, Is Dead at Age 70

[ IBDB ]  Richard Clarke's Broadway Credits

[ B ]  Composer/Musical Arranger Dick Gallagher Dead at 49

[ NYT ]  Preservationists Criticize Plans to Change Lincoln Center By ROBIN POGREBIN
Critics of Lincoln Center's proposed alterations to its north campus say the plan will mar Dan Kiley's original landscape design.

[ NYT ]  Design Deadline Is Postponed for Trade Center Theater Site By DAVID W. DUNLAP

[ TM ]  Behar, David, Quinn, et al. Will Show That Comedy Cares

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 23

[ P ]  Brooklyn Offers Actors' Fund Performance Jan. 23

[ P ]  The Rivals Bury the Hatchet as Beaumont Staging Ends Jan. 23

[ P ]  Nottage's Intimate Apparel Opens at Chicago's Steppenwolf Jan. 23

[ P ]  Radio Playbill Shines Spotlight on Brooke Shields Wonderful Town

[ P ]  Chicago Tryout of All Shook Up Ends Jan. 23; Broadway Beckons Feb. 20

[ P ]  Beauty's Meshach Taylor and Nine's Myra Lucretia Taylor Take Flight in L.A.

[ P ]  WBAI Salutes Jerry Orbach and Cy Coleman on Jan. 23 Show

[ P ]  Gareth Armstrong's Shylock Re-OpensPerry Street Theatre in Greenwich Village Jan. 22

[ P ]  Paul Sorvino Is Tevye In Fiddler for North Carolina Theatre

[ P ]  At Bat: Rebecca Gilman's The Sweetest Swing in Baseball Begins in CA

[ P ]  TACT Gives New Life to Harold Brighouse's Little-Known Zack Jan. 22-24 in NYC
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