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by Richard Ouzounian
NEW YORK — It's an X-rated show with a PG heart.
That's Debbie Does Dallas (), the classic 1978 porn film turned into an off-Broadway musical, which opened last night at the Jane Street Theatre. Before you question the plausibility of this, remember that we've already had stage hits called The Vagina Monologues and The Puppetry Of The Penis. Wasn't it time to — er — put them together? The original movie has gotten such a huge reputation over the years that it has practically become the Citizen Kane of skin flicks.
People have been debating whether to call Movin' Out a musical, a dancical, or a pop ballet. Forget those definitions.
All you need to know is that it's the hottest show on Broadway.
Master of musical screenplays had all the right `stuff'
From Canadian Press
Garth Drabinsky knows a thing or two about drama.
By Martin Knelman
Well, at least Garth Drabinsky wasn't in handcuffs, like his partner and co-defendant Myron Gottlieb, as they left a provincial courtroom, both charged with 19 counts of fraud that cost Livent investors and creditors half a billion dollars.
RCMP allege Drabinsky, Gottlieb and two others bilked $500 million
By Gillian Livingston, Canadian Press
Four former executives of Livent Inc., including co-founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, were charged with fraud today, accused of bilking investors and creditors of $500 million by falsifying financial statements at the now-defunct theatre company.
Toronto could take lessons from theatre on a shoestring
"Bat Boy" in Boston.
Richard Ouzounian
Theatre Critic
Darrin Baker is chopped-liver smooth as Barry, so adorable you'll want to eat him up on a cracker. But the second act reveals he also does blissfully silly drag, and can sing the evening's one serious song "Did I Ever Really Live?" with touching commitment.
Theatre promos pick critics' praise, skip pans
Amy Redford in the Canadian premiere of "The Shape of Things."
The writer and director has a mind like a carving knife and will talk about anything — except his family
Edie Falco reveals the mettle and determination behind playing Carmela Soprano
"Clothes make the man" should be Arturo Brachetti's mantra.
Broadway stages memorial to celebrate survival
Actress and husband turn play about firefighters into film
Actress and husband turn play about firefighters into film by Richard Ouzounian
Broadway stages memorial to celebrate survival by Richard Ouzounian
The Ibsen festival mixes plays, genres, languages
OSLO — Forget all those clichés about dour Norwegians and icy fjords.
The eighth biannual Ibsen Festival currently under way here is providing more heat — sexual, theatrical and intellectual — than you'd ever find on our side of the Atlantic.
Post-9/11 musical theatre favours soulless romps
STRATFORD, Ont. — Two playwrights: one at the beginning of her career, the other at the end of his.
Many a show has been ruined by the boor in the next seat
It was only a few minutes into the first scene of the opening performance of King Lear last night at the Stratford Festival when Christopher Plummer made his presence felt.
High expectations over Christopher Plummer's return
