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[ P ] South Pacific Is Big Winner in Outer Critics Circle Awards

Winners of the 58th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced May 12. Top prizes went to August: Osage County, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, Dividing the Estate, Adding Machine, South Pacific and The Homecoming.

[ B ] South Pacific and August: Osage County Top Outer Critics Awards

[ TM ] Outer Critics Circle Winners Announced

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[ STARS ] Ticky Ticky Tock... Please Make it Stop! by Matthew Murray

[ NYP ] 'MERMAID' ACTOR HAS OPERATION By AUSTIN FENNER, BRIAN HAMACHER AND DAN MANGAN

The "Little Mermaid" actor who broke both wrists in a 20-foot fall onto a Broadway stage underwent surgery yesterday, as a friend revealed the veteran performer also suffered compressed vertebrae in the plunge.

[ NYT ] 'Little Mermaid' Actor Has Surgery on Wrists By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

[ DN ] Hurt 'Little Mermaid' Broadway actor on mend after surgery By Joe Dziemianowicz, Elaine Ramirez and Jane H. Furse

[ B ] Cast Member Adrian Bailey Injured Onstage at The Little Mermaid

[ P ] Little Mermaid's Bailey Injured Prior to May 10 Performance

[ NYT ] Arts, Briefly
Encores! For Bernstein By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

[ V ] 'Strange' soundtrack on iTunes

"Passing Strange" will be the first Broadway tuner to release its original cast recording exclusively on iTunes, more than a month before the CD arrives in stores.

[ FOX ] FOX411 By Roger Friedman
BROADWAY RIDDLE

Final item.

[ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary: Once Was Enough!

[ NJ ] Actor keeps 'Seagull' from earning its wings

[ JN ] Dreaming of Tonys By Jacques le Sourd

Here's a personal little wish list for tomorrow's Tony Awards nominations - 10 things I'd like to see on the nominees' roster this year.

[ BR ] A strong Tony field in play, musical revivals By ROBERT FELDBERG

[ DN ] Broadway is poised to nominate its best and brightest by Joe Dziemianowica

[ NJ ] Stage awards make an entrance by Michael Sommers

[ SD ] Pipeline to Broadway By James Hebert

Playhouse, Globe shows are likely Tony contenders, again - it's 'terrific and important' but there's a bigger picture

[ NYT ] PBS Revives a Show That Shines a Light on Reading By MICHAEL DAVIS

In keeping with the original show's ties to theater (many in the cast, like Morgan Freeman, had stage backgrounds), the new head writer is a Tony-Award-nominated playwright and lyricist, Willie Reale, with experience in children's theater ("A Year With Frog and Toad").

[ WP ] If It's Sunday, Then I Must Be . . . By Nelson Pressley

Repertory Actors On the Challenges & Joys of Double Duty

[ BSUN ] Marshall's complex relationship with Baltimore
Critical Eye By Mary Carole McCauley

[ L-B ] Q & A: Glenn Carter by Matt Wolf

Glenn Carter is arguably the best known of the quartet of Britons who make up the Four Seasons in the U.K. premiere of Jersey Boys.

[ NYP ] GINA GERSHON By LARRY GETLEN

The multi-talented performer finds musical inspiration in Snoopy and thinks TV brings in creepy fans

[ NYT ] Musical Goes Silent, Its Star Felled by Illness By ANITA GATES

The world premiere run of "Pure Heaven" was postponed after the lead lost her voice.

[ HC ] A Show For Teen In Us All By FRANK RIZZO

Tony-Winner Brown Puts Angst, Trauma Of '13' On Chester Stage

[ NYer ] THE TALK OF THE TOWN: INK
Mamet Talk by Lillian Ross

David Mamet on David Mamet.

[ BG ] Dramatic license By Sam Allis

With no script to follow, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt learned to improvise: He co-wrote a comedy inspired by the Bard's notorious lost play, 'Cardenio'

[ CST ] Eddie Izzard's moment BY MARY HOULIHAN

[ BS ] Fight Club by Brooke O'Neill

Ever want to parry like Charlie Sheen in The Three Musketeers?

[ NYT ] Comings and Goings
Shakespeare in England, in Luxury By HILARY HOWARD

Watch the English countryside roll by while having brunch on the Orient Express.

[ G ] 'Mayor of London? That'd be fun' By Maddy Costa

His Billy Elliot musical has gone global, Kate Winslet's in his next film, and he's plotting a return to theatre. So why does Stephen Daldry need more challenges?

[ AJC ] 'It's alive!' By Wendell Brock
MARIETTA-BORN SHULER HENSLEY IS A SCREAM IN HIS OWN MANSION --- AND IN HIS BROADWAY ONE --- WHERE HIS MONSTER WINS AWARDS

[ MH ] Puppet passion: 'Avenue Q' has gone from wild idea to theatrical triumph BY CHRISTINE DOLEN

[ NYP ] PERFECTLY CAST 'NO, NO' A FEAST FOR THE AYES By CLIVE BARNES

Anyone for Broadway?

[ CU ] No, No, Nanette

[ TNO ] TAP YOUR TROUBLES AWAY by MERVYN ROTHSTEIN

No, No, Nanette the last production of this year's City Center Encores! season is perfectly okay. But did Nanette really need another encore? Shouldn't Encores! be willing to take more chances?

[ NJ ] Sandy Duncan's eye-opening revelation by Vicki Hyman

[ LAT ] REVIEW: 'Of Mice and Men' By Charles McNulty

It's still George and Lennie, but in this Pasadena Playhouse production, they're Mexican farmworkers.

[ V ] Of Mice and Men
Review By BOB VERINI

The Pasadena Playhouse has transposed "Of Mice and Men" to reflect the vast wartime influx of Mexican migrant workers freeing whites for factory duty, and there's one sure measure of its success: You never want to see the play done any other way again.

[ NYT ] In a Fantasy Realm With Joys and Disappointments By SYLVIANE GOLD

In José Rivera's new play, "Boleros for the Disenchanted," the dreams of lovers and emigrants commingle in the story of Flora and Eusebio.

[ TB ] Boleros for the Disenchanted
Connecticut Review by Fred Sokol

[ TM ] Old Comedy After Aristophanes' Frogs
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

David Greenspan's adaptation of the classic Greek comedy is given a labored production by Target Margin Theater.

[ CU ] A Seagull in the Hamptons

Given that Chekhov is Chekhov, now and forever, let me conclude that meeting Chekhov either halfway or completely reconsidered with a virtually new text is probably better than not meeting Chekhov at all.

[ CU ] The Lady From the Sea

This is a classic production of a classic play, with excellent writing and a strong cast.

[ V ] Beethoven, As I Knew Him
Review By BOB VERINI

"Beethoven" is stimulating as a visually-embellished lecture-demo at the Old Globe, though as a play it leaves one wanting more character and depth.

[ NYT ] There's a New Thane in Town, a New Lady, Too By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Adrian Noble's production of Verdi's "Macbeth" returned to the Met with new singers in the four main roles.

[ NYP ] CONSUMMATE COMEDY By FRANK SCHECK (***)

"Rafta, Rafta . . . ," a major hit at the National Theatre and the winner of this year's Olivier Award for best new comedy, has made a smooth transition to off-Broadway.

[ NYT ] Back From the '80s, Eyeing Other People's Money By AILEEN JACOBSON

Would Larry the Liquidator have been able to take over Yahoo?

[ NYT ] Doubling Up for Shakespeare's Twin-Laden 'Comedy of Errors' By NAOMI SIEGEL

[ NYer ] Diehards by John Lahr

Caryl Churchill and Samuel Beckett on separation and suffering.

[ V ] Michael Feinstein: 50 Years of Alan & Marilyn Bergman
Review By STEVEN SUSKIN

Feinstein makes a good case for the team.

[ P ] ON THE RECORD: Sondheim's "Evening Primrose" and Kelli O'Hara's "Wonder of the World"

[ NYT ] Focused Food, Center Stage By DAVID CORCORAN

Theater Square Grill and Bistro in Newark is impressive on many counts. But the most impressive may be its theatrical sense of pace.

[ NYT ] Vows
Jill Furman and Richard Willis By DEVAN SIPHER

Jill Furman, a producer of the Broadway musical "In the Heights," believes in big dreams and bright lights. So when it came to love she refused to settle for less.

[ NYT ] Weddings & Celebrations: Abigail Herron, Donald Fried

[ NYT ] Footnotes
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Alan Alda writes a play for the World Science Festival, "The Sound and the Fury" extends and more theater news.

[ V ] East 4th district gets makeover

Area to receive $16 million facelift

[ NJ ] Premieres highlight State Theatre season BY PEGGY McGLONE

[ TM ] Theresa Rebeck to Give Free Lecture on May 28

[ P ] Aristophanes' Frogs Leaps Into NYC in World Premiere, Old Comedy

[ P ] Mamet's Duck Variations and Pantheon Begin L.A. Run May 11

[ P ] Today In Theatre History: MAY 12

[ P ] Clark, Walsh and Damiano Explore Inner Voices at the Zipper Beginning May 12

[ P ] Reprise Presents Carol Burnett in Conversation May 12; Vicki Lewis Guests

[ P ] Two Nights in London: Starry Chess Concerts Play Royal Albert Hall

[ P ] James, Edelman, Kudisch and Murney Sing the Broadway Musicals of 1965 May 12

[ P ] Preview of Room 16, with Abramovitz, Hawks, Pariseau and Routman, Offered May 12

[ P ] Tony Winner McKechnie Makes a Splash May 12

[ P ] 26th Annual Elliot Norton Awards Held May 12

[ TM ] Kyle Riabko and Alexandra Socha to Be New Spring Awakening Stars

[ B ] Newcomers Kyle Riabko and Alexandra Socha Land Leading Roles in Spring Awakening

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[ NY ] Tony Predictions: Song-and-Dance Division

[ P ] Keeping Score

Music director Rob Fisher says Ralph Burns was one of the reasons why it was easy for Encores! to say "yes, yes" to No, No, Nanette.

[ DN ] Say yes to 'No, No Nanette' by Joe Dziemianowicz

[ JN ] Say yes to 'Nanette' By Jacques le Sourd

[ YN ] 'No, No, Nanette' giddily celebrates 1920s musical theater By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

[ BS ] No, No, Nanette (in Concert) - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

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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