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Fizzy as strawberry phosphate, chic as bathtub gin, and despite plot lines thinner than Kate Moss on a hunger strike, "No, No, Nanette" offers the most glamorous, well-choreographed event of the Encores! season.

[ V ] No, No, Nanette
Review By DAVID ROONEY

Walter Bobbie's sparkling staging whips up a lighter-than-air cocktail of tuneful songs, romance and endearingly creaky comedy that sends nostalgic theatergoers out on a cloud.

[ NJ ] Begging for more at 'No, No, Nanette' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Bobbie instills in his company a genuine sense of joyfulness that warms the audience in its glow.

[ NYT ] Roaring Twenties Speakeasies With Tubs Full of Ginger Ale Fizz By BEN BRANTLEY

The Encores! "No, No, Nanette" is secondhand nostalgia, a reworking of a 1970s take on the 1920s.

[ NYT ] How to Deal With Midlife: Keep Dancing By STEVEN McELROY

It's been four years since Bill Irwin last presented a full evening in clown mode. He's ready for more.

[ NYT ] The Play Is Over, but the Party Lingers On By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Some of Off Broadway's most prominent houses are moving beyond the usual slate of plays, musicals and talkbacks.

[ NYT ] Audio Slide Show: Stage Scene

Mark Blankenship takes a virtual tour of a party at E:Bar.

[ TIMES ] An older, and wiser, Ruthie Henshall returns to the West End in Marguerite by Matt Wolf

Does the new role for bubbly Ruthie Henshall reveal a hint of sadness?

[ ND ] Fast chat: Peter Gallagher BY JOSEPH V. AMODIO

[ LAT ] East West Players put their own spin on 'Pippin' By Zachary Pincus-Roth

Hip-hop moves meld with the understated style of anime.

[ V ] 'Working' class heroes returned By GORDON COX

'Heights' composer helps Schwartz musical

[ V ] 'Pamela's First Musical' serves legacy

May 18 perf an ambitious fund-raiser

[ V ] Man behind scenes makes his move

Steven Hoggett melds directing, choreography

[ V ] SoCal tests musical festival

Event taking place in theaters and schools

[ V ] Iraqi town stages 'Mud' trio play

'People' satirized hardships of post-invasion life

[ B ] MY NEW YORK: Jersey Boys Star Sebastian Arcelus Shares His NYC Hot Spots!

[ P ] PHOTO CALL: The 39 Steps Reopens on Broadway

[ B ] PHOTO OP: The 39 Steps Celebrates a New Broadway Home

[ B ] PHOTO OP: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Stars Get Immortalized at Sardi's

[ P ] PHOTO CALL: A Chorus Line Kicks Off National Tour in Denver

[ HChron ] An American in Paris By EVERETT EVANS

The Alley builds a new home for George and Ira Gershwin's fascinating rhythms and embraceable rhymes

[ HChron ] The Gershwins: golden boys By EVERETT EVANS

[ CDH ] Styx's DeYoung shows his stage chops in 'Hunchback' By Jack Helbig

[ G ] Q&A: Greta Scacchi
Interview by Rosanna Greenstreet

[ FT ] Golden Globe By Ian Shuttleworth

According to its artistic director, Shakespeare's Globe - which was completed in 1997, the brainchild of American actor and director Sam Wanamaker - was never really meant to be anything like the success it has been.

[ B ] PHOTO OP: A Gaggles of Celebs Tip Their Hats for Top Girls

[ R ] Intellect outweighs story in "Girls" revival By Frank Scheck (Hollywood Reporter)

[ NYT ] Enemies Face to Face, Exchanging Tales of Loss By NEIL GENZLINGER

"The Fever Chart," a well-made trilogy by Naomi Wallace, explores that cauldron that is the Middle East.

[ NYT ] Close Your Eyes and Smell the Brine By NEIL GENZLINGER

In the Acting Company production of Orson Welles's "Moby Dick Rehearsed," gung-ho actors bring everything to life with no more than some crates and ladders for scenery.

[ NYT ] Questions of Freedom, Set in Black and White By ANDREA STEVENS

In his furious satire "The Unconquered," part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, the British playwright Torben Betts shakes the daylights out of the smarmy idea of freedom.

[ BS ] Camelot (in Concert) - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

The emphasis is on the gorgeous score, given full-bodied performance by the Philharmonic under the baton of Paul Gemignani, featuring the original sumptuous orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang. But Lonny Price's production does little to rebuild the thin and scattered book.

[ BS ] Alexander Gemignani - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

While it is possible for singers to do an act devoid of any extended interplay with the audience, it's tricky and demands more intimate-room savvy than Gemignani has at the moment. He's better advised to master the basics first, which the current on-the-job-training engagement will barely get him started doing.

[ BS ] Rachel York - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

York is so profligate when tossing around the vocal and physical dynamics that there isn't much room for genuine feelings to push through.

[ BS ] The 1959 Broadway Songbook - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

Let's hope the Lyrics & Lyricists deciders -- these days looking around determinedly to refresh a long-running house attention-getter -- don't try something like this again.

[ NYT ] One Duo Celebrates the Songs of Another By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Alan Bergman sang on Thursday at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in a show celebrating his 50-year collaboration with his wife, Marilyn.

[ TB ] Shakespeare Theatre Opens 2008 Season with The Comedy of Errors by Bob Rendell

[ CU ] Boeing, Boeing

Exactly the bowl of delicious frothy ice cream we need to lift our spirits at a time when the daily headlines give us little to laugh about. Its arrival on our shores is as well timed as the entrances and exits through its seven doors.

[ NY ] This Is Your Captain Speaking By Jeremy McCarter

Boeing-Boeing comes out of storage, and the great Mark Rylance nearly gets it airborne.

Plus Endgame and Thurgood.

[ P ] First Preview of Saved Is Lost; Musical Will Start May 10

[ B ] New Musical Saved Postpones First Preview Performance

[ TM ] Playwrights Horizons Cancels First Preview of Saved

[ P ] Riabko and Socha Will Be Spring Awakening's New Melchior and Wendla

[ V ] Road shows stay even

Road Grosses

[ NYT ] Summer Stages

A look at summer festivals from Arizona to Wyoming.

[ NJ ] BergenPAC announces new season BY PETER FILICHIA

[ TM ] The Harder They Come to Receive West End Transfer

[ P ] The Harder They Come to Play West End's Playhouse Theatre

[ P ] Oscar and Shiffman to Populate Irma Vep at DC's Arena

[ TM ] Brad Oscar and J. Fred Shiffman to Star in Arena Stage's Irma Vep

[ TM ] Dratch, Essman, Gold, Kind, Shepherd, Wong Set for May 12 Celebrity Autobiography

[ P ] Wong, Kind and Rudetsky Read Final Celebrity Autobiography May 12

[ P ] Tate, Annis, Dillon, O'Dowd and Rowan to Meet Under the Blue Sky in London

[ TM ] Annis, Atkins, Fiennes, Hart, Manville, et al. to Return to UK Stages This Summer

[ V ] Sony to distribute live event shows

Sony plans to digitally film and distribute sports and other live events to theaters in Japan, the company announced on Friday.

[ ND ] Good show, Charlie Brown! BY ROBERT KAHN

[ TM ] Mark Pinter to Star in Three On a Couch

[ TM ] Howard, Rashad, Rose Receive Sardi's Caricatures

[ TM ] Busch, Finley, DeWitt, Hoffman, Musto, et al. Set for Broadway Bingo

[ P ] Magic Theatre Will Spike Its 2008-09 Slate With Premieres by Wright and Suh

[ P ] Geva's "Cinematic" Pride and Prejudice Will Feature Wells and Wolf

[ P ] "Sopranos" Stars Grimaldi, Cerbone and Lisi Will Be Part of Reading of Messina's Homeland

[ P ] A Chorus Line Tour Launches "Be the One" Online Competition

[ P ] Connor and Iacono Will Be Part of Free Felix Garden Reading May 12

[ P ] Striking Twelve and Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler to Make TX Premieres

[ P ] Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" Appears on TCM May 12

[ P ] Line-Up for One Man Talking Solo-Fest Announced

[ P ] Santiago-Hudson Joins ABC Crime Pilot "Castle"

[ P ] PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, May 3-9: One and Done

[ P ] Davies, Ryan and Mitrovich to Star in L.A. Premiere of Love, Janis

[ P ] Elizabeth Ashley Will Remember Tennessee Williams at NYC Eccentricities Chat

[ P ] Lansbury, Lane, Albee and O'Brien Offer "Celebrity Doodles" for Barrow Group

[ P ] Airaldi, Derrah, LeBow and MacDonald Will Demonstrate When It's Hot, It's Cole Beginning June 26

[ P ] Schmucks, Scorched, Hysteria and Stoppard to Play Philly's Wilma

[ P ] List Project Founder Johnson Will Take Part in Betrayed Post-Show Discussion

[ P ] Manville to Return to London's National Theatre in Her Naked Skin

[ P ] Brief Encounter Extends West End Run; Director Rice to Guest Star

[ P ] Passing Strange, Top Girls' Mary Beth Hurt and More Irving Berlin Featured on Playbill Radio

[ P ] Today In Theatre History: MAY 10

[ P ] Hatcher's Eight-Actor Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Premieres May 10

[ P ] A.R.T.'s Cardenio, with Kelley, Solis, Baskin, Wilson, Rideout and LeBow, Begins May 10

[ P ] Graae, Gravitte and Raines Get Up Close and Personal with Jerry Herman May 10

[ P ] It's a War of the Mama Roses, with Nevins, Brinberg and Skye, Beginning May 10

[ P ] Kathleen and Rob Marshall Receive Richard Rodgers Award May 10

[ P ] Cavanagh, Hammond, McGrath and Pinkham Join Bay Street-Williamstown Beyond Therapy Cast

[ P ] Prinz, Jimenez, Mufson and More Set for Voices of Swords at Off-Broadway's Urban Stages

[ P ] Fiennes, Hart and Logan to Star in U.K. Premiere of2,000 Feet Away

[ TM ] Nathan Lane to Depart November on July 13

[ P ] Farr and Gillette to Star in Off-Broadway Comedy, Flamingo Court

[ TM ] Jamie Farr and Anita Gillette to Star in Flamingo Court

[ TM ] York Theatre to Produce Enter Laughing, Vaudeville Man in Fall 2008

[ NYT ] Elaine Dundy, Author of 'The Dud Avocado,' Is Dead at 86 By WILLIAM GRIMES

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[ STARS ] Tony Nominations Announced on Tuesday, Whoopi to Host Telecast; Drama Desk Awards May 18, Meet the Nominees; Yes, Yes, Nanette; Broadway 1965; More
by Ellis Nassour

[ TB ] Encores! No, No, Nanette
Review by Matthew Murray

No, No, Nanette's warming score, and the insinuating tap soundtrack destined to linger in your ears for the foreseeable future, are great ways to make yourself happy - if certainly not smarter.

[ TM ] No, No, Nanette
Reviewed by: David Finkle

Rosie O'Donnell and Sandy Duncan lead Encores! diverting and snappily cast revival of the jazz-age musical comedy.

[ ND ] Rosie dances some spark into slow-mo 'Nanette' BY LINDA WINER

But mostly, this is a so-so-"Nanette." Director Walter Bobbie ("Chicago") and choreographer Randy Skinner ("42nd Street") play the style straight and white-bread square. This turns out to be more admirable than essential.

[ P ] Tony Winner Lane Is Currently Playing Final Eight Weeks in November

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[ STARS ] No, No, Nanette is the Bee's Knees, by Michael Portantiere

Perfectly cast, thrillingly choreographed, and beautifully costumed, No, No, Nanette is one of the best shows in the history of the invaluable City Center Encores! series.

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[ NYP ] NOMINATION DROPPERS By MICHAEL RIEDEL
SECRECY CRUMBLES AS TONYS APPROACH

[ BS ] Actors' Equity: We Put the "No-Fun" in Union (Okay, So We Spotted Them the F) by Andrew Salomon

[ DN ] Howard Kissel: The Cultural Tourist
Philosophical Aspects of "No, No, Nanette"

[ TM ] Peter Filicha's Diary: But They DID "Want to Be Happy"

[ NJ ] Wedding bells ring for Two River star by Peter Filichia

In the next seven weeks, Erin Weaver will get married 21 times.

[ P ] DIVA TALK: Chatting with Emily Skinner Plus Maureen McGovern on CD and News of Buckley

[ NYT ] A Story Shared by Father and Son, and Now by Audiences By MELENA RYZIK

Actor John Lithgow brings his family's tradition of storytelling to the stage.

[ LAT ] Tracie Thoms takes the stage in 'And Her Hair Went With Her' By Greg Braxton

Complex African American characters draw her to the part in Zina Camblin's play.

[ LAT ] Kathleen Chalfant, 'Red Dog Howls,' tackle the Armenian genocide By Patrick Pacheco

The veteran actress plays a 91-year-old survivor in the play.

[ TM ] Forever DeYoung By: Dan Bacalzo

Former Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung discusses his musical adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, now at Chicago's Bailiwick Repertory Theatre.

[ P ] Rose in Full Bloom

Hold your hats and hallelujah, Patti's gonna show it to you.

[ YN ] Morgan Freeman returns to Broadway to show his vulnerability By MARK KENNEDY

Morgan Freeman has returned to Broadway with one goal in mind: to try to kill the Morgan Freeman you know and love.

[ USA ] 'Jersey Boys' gets a Vegas theater all its own By Elysa Gardner

[ DN ] On stage & CD, send in the crowns by Joe Dziemianowicz

Being a princess isn't easy, and a new kids musical and the debut album by a Broadway star explore that idea.

[ CT ] Eddie Izzard: Sorry no stilettos, let's talk about God by Chris Jones

[ CT ] 'Our Town' director David Cromer does this town proud by Chris Jones

[ G ] We need concrete proposals for renovating the West End by Michael Billington

Lord Lloyd Webber's speech to the Lords identified the problems in the West End but failed to offer solutions

[ G ] The RSC should celebrate its new star by Matt Wolf

When an actor explodes into stardom the way Jonathan Slinger has, it seems churlish not to allow his audience to thank him properly

[ NYT ] Video
Urbaneye: 'Camelot'

Broadway comes to the New York Philharmonic in the form of "Camelot." Melena Ryzik reports from the opening night and gala.

[ NYT ] That Congenial Spot Revisited, With a World-Class Orchestra Playing Along By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

A major selling point of this "Camelot" is the chance to hear this winning 1960 score sumptuously performed by the New York Philharmonic under the musical theater maestro Paul Gemignani.

[ NYP ] IT'S A CAMELOT OF GREAT-SOUNDING SINGING By CLIVE BARNES

[ TM ] Camelot
Reviewed by: Brian Scott Lipton

Opera superstar Nathan Gunn all but steals the New York Philharmonic's luxurious revival of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical.

[ DN ] Shining moments brief in N.Y. Philharmonic's 'Camelot' by Joe Dziemianowicz

To make the material work requires a luscious, elegant presentation. But the performance at Lincoln Center is a hodge-podge.

[ V ] Camelot
Review By STEVEN SUSKIN

Director-adapter Lonny Price, who is generally expert at this type of venture, seems somewhat defeated by the combination of his ill-starred star and the problematic show.

[ USA ] 'Top Girls' sets the table for feminism By Elysa Gardner (* * * 1/2 out of four)

[ BN ] Churchill's 'Girls' Revisits Thatcherite England: John Simon

Plus "Endgame."

[ WSJ ] Seven Girls Grumbling, Four Boys Whining By TERRY TEACHOUT

"Top Girls," "Glory Days."

[ TNO ] YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY by BILL STEVENSON

Over the centuries, women have given up a lot to succeed-as Caryl Churchill's Top Girls clearly points out.

[ NYT ] No Sex, Please, We're British Indians By BEN BRANTLEY

This tale of a beleaguered honeymoon exposes its characters' foibles with gentleness and compassion.

[ TM ] Rafta, Rafta
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Ayub Khan-Din's hilarious and touching comedy about marriage features a gifted cast.

[ CU ] Rafta, Rafta

To paraphrase the famous commercial about Levy's rye bread, you definitely do not have to be Indian to have a rip-roaring time with the Dutts and the Patels of Ayub Khan Din's family comedy.

[ BS ] Rafta, Rafta... - Reviewed by DAVID A. ROSENBERG

Ayub Khan-Din's adaptation of Bill Naughton's "All in Good Time"is shot through with the laughter and sadness of humanity. Especially at a time when questions of immigration are in the forefront, this reminder that we all live and love and suffer and triumph equally is most welcome.

[ NJ ] Indo-British families worth visiting by MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ TB ] Rafta, Rafta...
Review by Matthew Murray

[ V ] Flora, the Red Menace
Review By BOB VERINI

Espinosa is the real deal. Just as Kelli O'Hara went from Reprise's "Sunday in the Park With George" to conquer Broadway in "South Pacific," Espinosa could be the answer to a prayer for those eager to revive "Funny Girl."

[ LAT ] REVIEW: 'Flora, the Red Menace' By Charles McNulty

Despite the casting of Eden Espinosa and Manoel Feliciano, Reprise Theatre Company's remount of this 1965 Kander & Ebb show fails to bloom.

[ NYT ] Verdi Versus Shakespeare: With 'Macbeth' It's a Draw By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

With two gripping productions of "Macbeth" in New York right now, the good news is, there's no need to choose.

[ BS ] F*ck Me, B*at Me, L*ve Me - Reviewed by PAUL MENARD

It's pretty hard to make sex boring. Yet despite the massive quantities of condoms, lube, and dangling genitalia flaunted across the stage, Kevin Podgorski's new play manages to make the titillating tiresome.

[ NYT ] Theater Review | 'Stretch (a Fantasia)'
Nixon's Secretary on Her Days of Glory and After By NEIL GENZLINGER

Kristin Griffith gives a commanding performance in this inventive play about President Richard M. Nixon's loyal-to-the-end secretary.

[ BS ] Stretch (a fantasia) - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

Susan Bernfield's new play at New Georges is a terrifically engaged journey through the landscape of American dreams and disaffection that discovers personal service as the invisible chain that links us all.

[ NYT ] Theater Review | 'Eccentricities of a Nightingale'
A Heroine's Inner Flame, Fueled by an Excess of Feeling By RACHEL SALTZ

One of the pleasures of this excellent production is how clearly and sympathetically it renders the character of Alma.

[ LAT ] 'Lady' at the Lankershim Arts Center By Charlotte Stoudt

What opens as three buddies' hunting-trip reunion veers into a meditation on war and middle age.

[ LAT ] Theater Beat: 'Glass Menagerie' by Actors Co-op in Hollywood

Also reviewed: West Coast Ensemble's 'The Sweetest Swing in Baseball,' 'The Brain From Planet X'

[ CU ] The Sweetest Swing in Baseball

Rebecca Gilman's haunting comedy is an exploration of success, identity, and the nature of insanity.

[ USA ] 'Boeing' flies high as a farce ( * * * 1/2 out of four)

[ BS ] The 39 Steps - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

As Broadway becomes more reliant on huge spectacle, this inventive adaptation of a classic film demonstrates that two planks and a passion for fun beat a soulless multimillion-dollar blockbuster any day.

[ CST ] The Belts From Brazil By Roger Ebert (***)

David Mamet's "Redbelt" assembles all the elements for a great Mamet film, but they're still spread out on the shop floor.

[ V ] Creatore's 'Flamingo' to fly in July

Jamie Farr, Anita Gillette to star in comedy

[ V ] Cast draws near to '2000 Feet Away'

Fiennes, Hart, Logan to headline play

[ P ] York Season Will Feature Murphy and Wiley in Vaudeville Man Plus Enter Laughing

[ V ] STC's Blanchett, Upton import talent

Past productions include Hoffman, Weaving

[ V ] Tania Camargo joins Soho Rep

Theater's new exec director replaces Conley

[ P ] Today In Theatre History: MAY 9

[ P ] Jaradoa's Small of Her Back, with Rivera and O'Grady, Begins May 9

[ P ] National Tour of A Chorus Line Officially Opens in Denver May 9

[ P ] Mamet's Samurai Flick "Redbelt" Opens Nationwide May 9

[ P ] Prior to Broadway, Musical 13 Comes of Age at Goodspeed May 9-June 8

[ P ] Keenan-Bolger Is Among the Saved in Musical About Devout High Schoolers

[ P ] Catered Affair and Adding Machine Discs on Sale Via Web May 9; Solos by Butler and Jenkins, Too

[ NYT ] Hanon Reznikov, a Force Behind the Living Theater, Dies at 57 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

[ NYT ] Beverlee McKinsey, 72, Actress in Decades of Soap Operas, Is Dead By MARGALIT FOX

[ NYT ] Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

[ LAT ] Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil
Tonys 2008: Can Whoopi Goldberg outdo Rosie O'Donnell as host?

[ NYT ] Theater Listings

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

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[ P ] Tony Rulings: Glory Days Not Eligible for Nomination But Gypsy's Laurents Is

[ B ] Tony Committee Makes Final Eligibility Decisions for 2007-2008 Season

[ TM ] Tony Awards Committee Announces Final 2008 Eligibility Decisions

[ P ] John F. Altieri, Jersey Boys National Tour Actor, Dies at 38

[ B ] John Altieri, Jersey Boys National Tour Player, Dead at 38

[ TM ] Jersey Boys Actor John Altieri Dies at 38

[ B ] FRESH FACE: Boeing-Boeing's Bubbly Kathryn Hahn Kisses and Tells

[ P ] ASK PLAYBILL.COM: The Dance Arranger

[ P ] "I'd Do Anything": Rudetsky Recap Five

[ P ] PHOTO CALL: No, No, Nanette at City Center Encores!

[ AMNY ] Not the 'Top' girls, but not bad By Matt Windman (** 1/2)

[ B ] VIDEO: Opening Night: Top Girls

[ P ] PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Top Girls - Tony Girls?

[ TONY ] Boeing-Boeing
Review by David Cote

This is silly, sexy, supersonic fun.

[ TONY ] Endgame
Review by David Cote

Endgame is a sardonic tragedy about many deep things-the curse of living, the cruelty of time, the pain of love-but what comes across forcefully in this version is how much it is an extraordinarily sad depiction of fathers and sons.

[ TONY ] Yellow Moon
Review by Helen Shaw

In a tidy 90 minutes, without a set or large cast, Yellow Moon tucks a grand romantic tradition into a wry, modern packet.

[ TONY ] Steve & Idi
Review by Helen Shaw

Steve & Idi is insulting, intellectually lazy and a rank waste of talent.

[ TONY ] All Eyes and Ears
Review by Diane Snyder

Eduardo Machado's production skims over the familial relationships, and tentative performances keep the characters' struggles on simmer instead of boil.

[ TONY ] Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Review by Garrett Eisler

The Actors Company Theatre's revival certainly deserves attention from Williams enthusiasts. But this tepid production, with its stiff formality and low-stakes tenor, doesn't make a strong case.

[ TONY ] Substitution
Review by Andy Propst

Dudley careens between metaphysical symbolism and made-for-TV bathos.

[ TNO ] JUST A PAWN IN THE GAME by JESSICA BRANCH

This production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood , expertly reveals the stark universality of the destructive quest for power at all costs.

[ P ] Liz McCartney Will Star in Urinetown at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma; Season Announced

[ TM ] McCartney, McGowan, Van Duyne, et al. Set for Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma 2008 Season

[ P ] Porter, Bowen, Leigh, Ballard, Lakin and More Set for L.A. Premiere of Dog Sees God

[ TM ] Bowen, Lakin, Porter, et al. Set for L.A. Premiere of Dog Sees God

[ P ] Eric Bogosian Will Lend a Taste of Bitter Honey to LAB Benefit Readings

[ TM ] LAByrinth to Present Eric Bogosian's Bitter Honey May 21-22

[ P ] Eskelson, Moss-Bachrach, McNamara and Waterston to Star in Berman's Perfect Couple

[ TM ] Eskelson, McNamara, Moss-Bachrach, Waterston Set for Berman's A Perfect Couple

[ B ] Nominate the Best of Broadway for the 2008 Broadway.com Audience Awards

[ TM ] Cavanagh, Hammond, McGrath, Pinkham to Join Burton and Finneran in Beyond Therapy

[ TM ] Hairspray to Host Inside Broadway's Creating the Magic on May 29

[ P ] Winners of Theatre World Awards to Be Announced May 15

[ P ] Butterell to Direct and Choreograph Star Is Born Workshop

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[ HC ] "Superstar" Doesn't Age Well In Tired Production By FRANK RIZZO

Christ, is he old.

[ B ] Whoopi Goldberg Will Host 2008 Tony Awards

[ TM ] Whoopi Goldberg to Host 62nd Annual Tony Awards

[ P ] Whoopi Goldberg Will Host 2008 Tony Awards

[ TS ] Theatre Titans Stage Legal Fight by Richard Ouzounian

Aubrey Dan sues David Mirvish over purchase of Canon and Panasonic Theatres.

[ P ] Mirvish Plans to Buy Toronto's Canon and Panasonic Theatres; Dancap Bristles

[ P ] Rock On! After Hit Toronto Run, We Will Rock You Will Close - and Re-Open

[ P ] August: Osage County Recoups Initial Investment

[ NYT ] Eddy Arnold, Country Singer, Dies at 89 By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN

[ IBDB ] Eddy Arnold's Broadway Credits

[ LAT ] Obituary: Elaine Dundy, 86; author wrote about life with Kenneth Tynan By Elaine Woo

[ LAT ] Book excerpt: 'The Dud Avocado'

From the beginning of Elaine Dundy's best-known book

[ TM ] Top of the World By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

Alec Baldwin, Charles Busch, Keith Carradine, Kate Mulgrew, and Daphne Rubin-Vega grace the opening of Top Girls; while Danny Aiello, Lewis Black, Judy Gold, Andrea McArdle, John McDaniel, Maureen McGovern, and Sue Simmons enliven the MAC Awards.

[ NYT ] Interactive Feature: Untangling 'Top Girls'

Audience members share their thoughts on the Broadway production of "Top Girls."

[ NY ] Does Everyone Except Ben Brantley Hate 'Top Girls'?

[ NYT ] Ladies Who Lunch? Nope, Here's to the Power Players By BEN BRANTLEY

Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" opened in a well-acted revival directed with intelligence and sensitivity by James Macdonald.

[ JN ] Dazzling 'Top Girls' By Jacques le Sourd

"Top Girls" is absolutely riveting, from the first scene to the last, which comes nearly three hours later.

[ NYP ] UP THE LADDER, IN SKIRTS By CLIVE BARNES (***)

It's a provocative play, one that - 26 years later - makes one think and think again.

[ SUN ] Top Marks for 'Top Girls' By ERIC GRODE

[ AP ] In 'Top Girls,' Caryl Churchill dissects woman and power By MICHAEL KUCHWARA

Manhattan Theatre Club has assembled a top-notch company of actresses for its compelling revival of what is one of Churchill's most intellectually bracing plays.

[ BS ] Top Girls - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

James MacDonald's first-rate revival of Caryl Churchill's play is a soaring symphony of ideas and cultures.

[ V ] Top Girls
Review By DAVID ROONEY

But while the play remains inextricably keyed into the zeitgeist of Thatcher's Britain, its originality is undiminished in MTC's incisively acted Broadway production.

[ HC ] Plimpton Stands Out In Surreal, Ambiguous 'Top Girls'By MALCOLM JOHNSON

[ DN ] These '80s characters are 'Top Girls' by Joe dziemianowicz

Though the play is overly talky and circuitous, incisive performances by seven actresses in the Manhattan Theatre Club production make it a fine final entry to the 2007-08 Broadway season.

[ ND ] Review: Biltmore's 'Top Girls' BY LINDA WINER

At a recent preview, despite my good seat, I had trouble hearing stretches of the play. Seven spectacular actresses - including Elizabeth Marvel, Martha Plimpton and Marisa Tomei - are perhaps too devoted to delivering the foreign, class and regional English dialects.
And this is a play that needs to be heard, really heard, on all its witty and wistful levels.

[ TB ] Top Girls
Review by Matthew Murray

[ BR ] Theater review: "Top Girls" BY ROBERT FELDBERG

Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" seems as interesting a piece of dramatic construction as when it opened off-Broadway 25 years ago, but time hasn't made it any more persuasive.

[ TM ] Top Girls
Reviewed by: David Finkle

Caryl Churchill's complex play about British women has lost some of its topical impact over the past 26 years.

[ NJ ] 'Girls' can't quite reach top by Michael Sommers

[ B ] WORD OF MOUTH REVIEW: Julie, Kathleen & Susan Take On Top Girls

[ DCTS ] Glory Days is Over

Joel Markowitz ponders what happened to the show that started in a DC area theatre, and how it reflects on Washington's critics and reputation.

[ P ] Glory Days Stars Head to the Chatterbox May 8

[ DN ] Broadway musical 'Glory Days' closes on opening night By Joe Dziemianowicz

Make that Glory Day.

[ NYT ] 'Glory Days' to Close By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

[ WP ] Signature's 'Glory Days' Ends One-Day Broadway Run By Nelson Pressley

[ B ] PHOTO OP: Ah, To Be Young Again! Glory Days Opens on Broadway

[ NJ ] Jersey author gets inside the Beale world by Peter Filichia

[ NYP ] 'FUTURE' KING GOES BACK TO 'CAMELOT' By BARBARA HOFFMAN

[ P ] At the Helm

Do British directors approach the job differently than Yankee directors? American actors share their stories.

[ P ] PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Christine Baranski

Television comedy mainstay Christine Baranski, back on Broadway in Boeing-Boeing, has not been neglecting the theatre in recent years.

[ NYT ] Disney's Newly Crowned Prince, Plucked From a London Stage By BROOKS BARNES

A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.

[ DN ] Remembering Paul Robeson by Howard Kissel

[ BS ] Talk Back: Arts and the $600 Proposal by Robert L. Lynch

[ NY ] Step It Up and Kick: The Rockette Auditions

[ LAT ] 'Of Mice and Men' at Pasadena Playhouse By Mindy Farabee

IF DIRECTOR Paul Lazarus had had his way, there would have been no "Of Mice and Men" opening at the Pasadena Playhouse this weekend.

[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Espinosa Is Flora, the Red Menace in Los Angeles

[ TB ] The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East
Review by Matthew Murray

Naomi Wallace's unassuming triple bill, which The Public Theater is producing as part of its new Public Lab workshop series, brings the lilt of lyricism to mundane events, finding in their echoes a region and people you might have thought you understood but that you don't really know. The catch is, neither do they.

[ TM ] The Fever Chart
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Naomi Wallace's stunningly poetic one-acts explore Middle East political tensions and human connections.

[ V ] The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East
Review By SAM THIELMAN

For all its problems, "The Fever Chart" is a good, bite-size introduction to Wallace, whose playwriting career is likely to produce more and better work in the future.

[ BS ] The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

Naomi Wallace's play is profoundly depressing, less because of its stories than its stereotypes. It presents three extended scenes that share only one vision: the perspective that sees persecuted Palestinians, aggressive Americans, innocent Iraqis, and whatever-adjective-is-bad Israelis.

[ CU ] The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

Like everything in the LAB series, this has a very limited run and is still a work in progress.

[ BS ] The Unconquered - Reviewed by PAUL MENARD

Torben Betts' play comes off more as a flawed theatrical experiment rather than a successful piece of experimental theatre.

[ CT ] '9 Parts of Desire' at MCA: Raffo gives women of Iraq many voices by Chris Jones

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