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Thursday, March 22, 2007

    Features:

    [ B ]  FRESH FACE: Beth Cole Goes Boating With Philip Seymour Hoffman

    [ P ]  Stars Ribbed at "Broadway Night": Excerpts from Spelling Bee Special Event

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Stay for the Opening Night Festivities

    [ P ]  MARQUEE VALUE: The Glass Menagerie at London's Apollo Theatre

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Roundabout Goes "Beyond The Velvet Rope"

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Nothing Like a Dame 2007

    Reviews:

    [ TM ]  Fugue
    Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

    Deirdre O'Connell is absolutely brilliant in the New York premiere of Lee Thuna's play.

    [ TM ]  Prometheus Bound
    Reviewed by: David Finkle

    The Aquila Theatre Company's production of this classic Greek tragedy is, by turns, astonishingly strong and startlingly deficient.

    [ CU ]  Our Leading Lady

    If Charles Busch hadn't gone mainstream with The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and were still acting in his own shows as a drag diva, he would have been a great Laura Keene.

    [ TB ]  Mezzulah, 1946
    Pittsburgh Review by Ann Miner

    [ TB ]  SOUND ADVICE: SUMMER, SONDHEIM, SALONGA & SANDY by Rob Lester

    News:

    [ P ]  NYC Bow of William Finn Revue Make Me a Song Is Postponed

    [ B ]  William Finn Off-Broadway Revue Make Me a Song Postponed

    [ TM ]  New York Premiere of William Finn Revue is Postponed

    [ P ]  Fiddler on the Roof to Play West End

    [ P ]  Public Theater Will Stage Winter Miller's In Darfur in April

    [ B ]  Public Theater to Present Winter Miller's In Darfur

    [ TM ]  Kristine Nielsen Set for Not Waving Reading

    [ B ]  Carlo Alban's Intríngulis Joins LAByrinth Season

    [ P ]  Cult Film "Donnie Darko" to Hit the Stage for New American Repertory Theatre Season

    [ P ]  Howard Katz Star Alfred Molina to Appear on NY1's "On Stage" March 24

    [ P ]  Inge Festival Will Honor Fiddler Writers Bock, Harnick and Stein

    [ P ]  Betty Buckley to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Bistro Awards

    [ P ]  Fiery Actress Profiled in Theresa Gambacorta's La Magnani, Starting March 22 in NYC

    [ P ]  Esparza, Walsh, D'Abruzzo to Sing in Salon-Like Benefit in NYC April 2

    [ P ]  Pierce, Lansbury, Mahoney, Schreiber to Be Featured on TV Spring Preview

    [ P ]  Fame Becomes Me's Ashmanskas Cast in "All My Children" Role

    [ P ]  Reddin Targets Politicos in City Theatre Commission, Missionary Position

    [ P ]  Understudies Will Steal the Spotlight At This Performance March 25 and 26

    [ P ]  Calvin Berger and Main-Travelled Roads Win 2007 Richard Rodgers Awards

    [ P ]  Dramatists Guild to Offer A Conversation with Sarah Ruhl March 26

    [ P ]  Callaway and Evan Will Join Bricusse, Schwartz and Wildhorn for Composer's Cruise

    [ P ]  Shepard, Martin, DeLillo and More to Appear at PEN World Voices Fest

    [ P ]  "Theater Talk" Will Talk Radio March 23

    [ P ]  Karen Mason's Timeless to Be Filmed for TV Broadcast

    [ P ]  Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, Tarzan and Beauty Hop Back onto Billboard Chart

    [ P ]  Vilma Ebsen, Brother Buddy's Dance Partner, Dies at 96

    [ TM ]  Ashley, Dukakis, Holbrook to Be Part of Hartford Stage Season

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      • [ DN ]  A 'Grease' trap for musical fans By DAVID BIANCULLI

      Broadway reality show: Hopelessly revolting

      [ NYT ]  Jerry Orbach Is a Step Closer to a Corner Bearing His Name By PATRICK McGEEHAN

      Mrs. Orbach and Mr. Orbach's sons, Tony and Chris, attended last night's meeting armed with petitions signed by hundreds of Mr. Orbach's fans, former colleagues and neighbors, including the cast of "Jersey Boys" and 35 police officers from the Midtown North Precinct.

      [ LAT ]  OBITUARY: Calvert DeForest, 85; cult hit on Letterman's show as Larry 'Bud' Melman By Dennis McLellan

      At DeForest's request, there will be no funeral service, but donations may be made in his name to the Actors' Fund of America, 729 7th Ave., 10th floor, New York, NY, 10019.

      Features:

      [ TM ]  Maye Time By: Peter Filichia

      Singer Marilyn Maye, who returns to the Metropolitan Room this week, has been delighting audiences and record buyers for over 50 years.

      [ TONY ]  On the offensive By Diane Snyder

      Playwright-novelist Adam Rapp lets down his guard with Essential Self-Defense.

      [ B ]  FIRST PERSON: Adam Rapp: Finding My Theater Family

      [ P ]  With Curtains, Kander Writes a Love Letter to Theatre - and to Absent Friends

      [ USA ]  'Magical Thinking' opens artistic doors By Elysa Gardner

      [ LCJ ]  Humana Festival of New American Plays
      East Coast meets West Coast to create 'Batch' By Judith Egerton

      [ TM ]  Guys and Dames By: Joseph Marzullo and Michael Portantiere

      Jennifer Holliday, Beth Leavel, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marc Kudisch, Audra McDonald, Polly Bergen, and other stars shone at the first three of this week's big theater events.

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Kate Mulgrew Bows in Charles Busch's Our Leading Lady at MTC

      Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

      [ ST ]  He sings! He dances! Veteran actor York is the king of "Camelot"! By Misha Berson

      [ DMN ]  Director Wilson on playwright Wilson By LAWSON TAITTE

      From a bit of criticism, the director and the playwright built a fruitful relationship

      "Fugue" - Reviews:

      [ CU ]  Fugue

      Though the advance promotional materials describe Lee Thuna's Fugue as a comedic drama, this is a far cry from what most people think of as a comedy.

      [ NJ ]  'Fugue' is a puzzle for characters and audience BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

      [ V ]  Fugue
      Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

      You can see where "Fugue" is headed from the moment it begins.

      [ TB ]  Fugue
      Review by Matthew Murray

      Other Reviews:

      [ V ]  Prometheus Bound
      Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

      Here's hoping David Oyelowo gets an extension on his visa. The British thesp -- best known Stateside for the BBC spy series "MI-5" -- is in New York for only a limited run of writer-director James Kerr's new translation of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound," but his performance could generate months of buzz.

      [ ATW ]  Classic Prometheus Bound Rings With Contemporary Relevance
      Review by Andy Propst

      [ NYT ]  A Hopeful Passage to Safety Turns Into a Deadly Ordeal By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

      "Lifeboat," a production of the Catherine Wheels Theater Company of Scotland, meets its challenges splendidly.

      [ CU ]  The Caretaker

      David Bradley is best known to cinema audiences for his portrayal of Filch the School caretaker in the Harry Potter films. What director Jamie Lloyd has given us is probably the clearest, most lucid Caretaker ever.

      [ BR ]  'Leading Lady' cries out for drag artist By ROBERT FELDBERG

      The big mistake Charles Busch made in his new play, "Our Leading Lady," was to have the title role played by a woman.

      [ SUN ]  Charles Busch's Antebellum Alter Ego By JOY GOODWIN

      Despite the trappings, Mr. Busch's play can't sustain interest over its two sluggish hours.

      [ TONY ]  Our Leading Lady
      Review by David Cote

      Charles Busch's semicampy love letter to theater folks upstaged by history is curiously but effectively divided into a silly first act and a somber second one.

      [ NYP ]  'SHREW'-D CASTING By FRANK SCHECK

      [ TONY ]  As You Like It
      Review by Robert Simonson

      [ NJ ]  A pack of guys BY PETER FILICHIA

      Hip is happenin' as NJPAC revives famed Vegas act

      [ TB ]  Pride's Crossing and The Rat Pack - Live at the Sands
      New Jersey Reviews by Bob Rendell

      [ TONY ]  Jack Goes Boating
      Review by David Cote

      Robert Glaudini's Jack Goes Boating is as bobbingly gentle as its title suggests.

      [ TONY ]  Tea and Sympathy
      Review by Adam Feldman

      "When you talk about this--and you will--be kind," implores Laura in the play's famous curtain line. This production earns no such favors.

      [ TONY ]  Stay
      Review by Adam Feldman

      Beyond its angelic visitations, the play is essentially about the imperatives of human kindness, and Thurber's distinct voice makes it one-of-a-kind.

      [ LAT ]  Chita Rivera: 'Irrepressible' hardly even begins to describe her By Chris Pasles

      [ TONY ]  Blindness
      Review by Helen Shaw

      Nothing can shut out Joe Tantalo's wham-bam-screw-you-ma'am pillage of José Saramago's deft 1999 political allegory, because Blindness is so accursedly loud.

      [ TONY ]  Chicken
      Review by Jeff Lewonczyk

      In the not-so-subtle symbolic economy of Mike Batistick's new play Chicken, a cock is the convenient stand-in for masculine pride.

      [ VV ]  Comforter Zone by Michael Feingold
      Tea and Sympathy; 1001 Beds

      [ VV ]  Lawrence Wright Makes a Monologue Out of Terror by Alexis Soloski
      My Trip to Al-Qaeda

      [ VV ]  Liev Schreiber Puts the Torque in Bogosian's 1987 Play by Michael Feingold

      [ VV ]  A Sober Drama About the Birth of AA by Andy Propst
      Bill W. and Dr. Bob

      [ VV ]  Taking Melville and Welles to Sea by J. Hoberman
      Moby Dick-Rehearsed

      [ VV ]  The Things We Do for Love by Joseph McCombs
      Tall Grass

      [ PCP ]  Loose Change by David Anthony Fox

      For those interested in contemporary musical theater, Caroline, Or Change is a must

      News:

      [ P ]  Lost Mark Twain Play Is He Dead? Aiming for October Broadway Opening

      [ P ]  Aaron Sorkin Joins McAnuff on Flaming Lips Musical

      [ P ]  Hornsby and Chapman Collaborating on New Musical

      [ P ]  MAC Nominations Announced; Mason and Rudetsky to Receive Special Awards

      [ TM ]  2007 MAC Award Nominees Announced

      [ TM ]  Allison Janney to Star in The Autumn Garden at Williamstown; Season Schedule Changes Announced

      [ P ]  Janney, Naughton, Foster and More Join Williamstown Fest

      [ TM ]  Ashley, Dukakis, Holbrook to Be Part of Hartford Stage Season

      [ HC ]  Olympia Dukakis Joins Hartford Stage Lineup by Frank Rizzo

      [ P ]  Olympia Dukakis to Star in Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore 

      [ P ]  Three-Actress Version of Eve Ensler's The Good Body Starts Hartford Stage Summer

      [ TM ]  Kaufman, Kron, Kiki & Herb to Headline Arena's 2007-2008 Season

      [ P ]  Arena to Stage Tectonic's 33 Variations, Christmas Carol 1941 and Arthur Miller Fest in New Season

      [ TM ]  Ayckbourn, Hands, et. al to Participate in Brits Off Broadway Festival

      [ P ]  Full Lineup Announced for Brits Off-Broadway Festival at 59E59

      [ TM ]  Gary Beach to Host Mr. Broadway Pageant

      [ P ]  Gary Beach to Host Mr. Broadway 2007

      [ P ]  Nothing Like a Dame Raises Hundreds of Thousands for Newman's Health Initiative

      [ LAT ]  Dumb Doras and Donalds rejoice by Liane Bonin

      Friday and Saturday, "The MisMatch Game," a live-action takeoff on the '70s television show, will return to the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre. Consider it a witty, ribald antidote to today's dreary TV numbers games.

      [ ATW-XM ]  Broadway and Beyond: Weekend Theatergoing Options Across the U.S.

      [ P ]  Buckley, Glover, Kimball, Larsen and More Set for Memphis Reading

      [ P ]  Siblings Clash in Laura von Holt's Giants, at HERE April 6-28

      [ P ]  Five Story Walkup - With LaBute, Guare Works - Starts 13th Street Rep Benefit Run March 21

      [ P ]  LuPone, Rebeck, Chisholm Among New England Award Winners

      [ P ]  Parker, O'Brien, Hughes, Margulies, Lucas to Toast Sullivan at Mr. Abbott Ceremony

      [ P ]  Buscemi, Bon Jovi, Sigler, Rockwell, Perabo, Quinn Join Imperioli for Studio Dante Benefit Honoring Voight

      [ P ]  Ripley and Skinner Will Sing at Darlene Wilson Memorial

      [ P ]  Tony Winner Hollman's Wild Goat Musical Among Four Shows in Kansas City Fest

      [ P ]  Benefit Performance of Jack Goes Boating Offers Chance to Meet Artists

      [ P ]  An American Wife Gets World Premiere March 21 at PA's Northeast Theatre

      [ P ]  "Streisand-Live in Concert 2006" Due in Stores in May

      [ P ]  Singing a Song While Solving a Crime: Curtains Opens March 22

      [ P ]  "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Patti LuPone Guests on March 22 "Ugly Betty"

      [ P ]  Gay Marshall Is Alive and Well . . . and Singing at the Zipper March 22

      [ P ]  Original Grease Star Heads to the Chatterbox March 22

      [ P ]  Pendleton to Direct NYC Reading of Loose Ends with Campbell and Kramer

      [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 22

      [ LAT ]  San Diego's Old Globe theater announces 'A Catered Affair' By Diane Haithman

      [ P ]  Fierstein-Bucchino Musical A Catered Affair Headed for Broadway; Doyle Will Direct

      [ B ]  A Catered Affair, New Fierstein/Bucchino Musical, Aims for Broadway

      [ TM ]  New Fierstein-Bucchino Musical A Catered Affair, Directed by Doyle, is Broadway Bound

      [ TM ]  Benanti, Chenoweth, Esparza, et al. Set for Benefit Performance of Seth Rudetsky's Broadway 101

      [ P ]  Color Purple Producer Sanders Partners With Disney on Film and Theatre Company

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