Saturday, February 9, 2008 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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First Preview of Dead Man's Cell Phone Canceled

The spokesperson said that as of press time, the Feb. 9 matinee is expected to be presented at Playwrights Horizons.

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Shapiro turns down a.d. gig at Theater By FRANK RIZZO

American Repertory had offered job to 'Osage' helmer

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Last Dance: A Studio Tears Up Its Floors By JENNIFER DUNNING

The places where cultural history was made in New York City have largely disappeared, and on Friday another institution was lost.

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Kneehigh has that movie feelin' By DAVID BENEDICT

Old-style cinemaplex readies 'Brief Encounter'

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A Soaring Musical Fable for The Kids By Nelson Pressley

'Up in the Air' Gets Top-Flight Treatment

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Encores! strikes up the band By GORDON COX

These days it's not uncommon for an Encores! production to get an encore.

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Review: 'Applause' at New York City Center BY LINDA WINER

In corniest show-biz tradition, Ebersole was terrific - dramatically and vocally - as the aging actress overshadowed by the ambitious young Eve Harrington (Erin Davie). Almost as newsworthy …

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Ebersole Rises to Win 'Applause' By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

Not only did she go on, the actress triumphed, even though her considerable star wattage was operating at less than full strength.

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An Indomitable Diva Played by, Well, an ... By BEN BRANTLEY

Is this a show that is more than a period piece, a work destined to outlast the era of its birth? I say, regretfully but emphatically, no.

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Encores! Applause
Review by Matthew Murray

Despite being based on the classic-of-classic backstage film All About Eve and the original story by Mary Orr, this is one of those rare shows that has a pulse but no sign of any blood.

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The sound of one hand clapping BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

This awfully patchy backstage musical about aging star Margo Channing (Ebersole) being undermined by an ambitious schemer needs everybody performing at full throttle to put it over.

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Not much 'Applause' for 'Applause' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall's attempt to freshen the show backfired. She padded out the title number with anachronistic melodies from other musicals, and made a showstopper …

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MUSICAL SEDATION INSTEAD OF OVATION By CLIVE BARNES

As staged by Kathleen Marshall, there were some nice turns on view from Kate Burton, Chip Zien, Michael Park and, particularly, Mario Cantone and Tom Hewitt. But frankly, without La Bacall, …

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When Audiences Get In on the Act By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Theater that invites the audience to get in on the act may be poised to become a more prominent component of the theatrical scene.

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Slide Show: Behind 'The Masque'

A look at an interactive production of "Masque of the Red Death" in London.

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Hemingway, Your Letter Has Arrived By CHARLES McGRATH

Though no one talks about them much, Ernest Hemingway wrote two plays.

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It's Not Just Cruel; It's Unusual, Too By MARK BLANKENSHIP

The Hotel Savant theater company is giving Antonin Artaud's play "The Cenci" its first major New York production in more than 30 years.

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39 Steps, 2 Actors, Countless Roles By ALEXIS SOLOSKI

Arnie Burton and Cliff Saunders play dozens of characters, sometimes more than one in the same scene, in "Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps."

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A Hitchcock-&-Bull Story

The 39 Steps, Hitchcock's classic whodunit, takes to the stage in an Olivier Award–winning comedy adapted by Patrick Barlow and directed by Maria Aitken.

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Rites of Passing By Amanda Cooper

Indie rocker and musical-theater newbie Stew tries Broadway on for size.

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Stew's Brew

Songwriter-musician-actor Stew's alternative rock finds a home on Broadway in his acclaimed "autobiographical fiction" called Passing Strange.

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Feminine product By Helen Shaw

Director Romeo Castellucci explores the dark side of the female psyche.

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Photo File By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Kathleen Turner, Mariska Hargitay, Chloe Sevigny, Anabella Sciorra, and Andrea McArdle are among the stars on the town this week.

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It's Tough for Women, and Here's the Grim Proof By NEIL GENZLINGER

"Hey Girl!" is a series of stage tableaus devoted to women or, more precisely, the history of the oppression of women.

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Brainpeople
Review By DENNIS HARVEY

Though lately Jose Rivera has penned such straightforward screenplays as "The Motorcycle Diaries" and "Trade," the wilder reaches of the playwright's imagination are operating full force in …

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Some Girl(s)

Neil LaBute directs his Some Girl(s) for the first time and gives it the sly sizzle it deserves, principally emanating from its star Mark Feuerstein.

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Roosters

Milcha Sanchez-Scott's play has been kicking around for over twenty years. With its macho themes and multicultural appeal it is not hard to see why feisty Theatre Exile has taken a chance an…

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Cherubina

Playwright Paul Cohen has tapped into the true story of Elisa, a frustrated poet and crippled schoolteacher, to create an intense three-character drama infused with emotion and radiating int…

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The Lifeblood

Glyn Maxwell's penetrating retelling of the last days of Mary Stuart, not only offers valuable insights on the nature of power and its abuse, but also gives the audience ninety minutes of ri…

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The Jesus Factor
Review By SAM THIELMAN

"The Jesus Factor" has a lot of laughs and plenty of grist for the lefty comedy mill, but it's not as observant as Jon Stewart or as good humored as, well, anybody.

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Hunting and Gathering
Review by Adam Feldman

Berman's comedy is relatively mild, with a bittersweet finish; full of believable moments and well-measured observations, it rarely reaches for a big emotional pull.

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The Maddening Truth
Review by David Cote

Despite a nervy, supple performance by the outstanding Lisa Emery, David Hay's work amounts to little more than a scrupulous book report on a historical figure.

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Offending the Audience
Review by Helen Shaw

Clearly neither they nor Simpson believe in the ascetic manifesto they spout-all 18 actors palpably want us to have a good time. So why do it?

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Deathbed
Review by Helen Shaw

Director Wendy C. Goldberg actually moves things along too quickly (a rare complaint) and so never gives Schultz's screws time to turn.

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Conjur Woman
Review by Rob Kendt

Stunning and impenetrable in equal parts, Beatrice Manley's rough-hewn folk opera is better appreciated as a creepy-crawly blues gig than as a play.

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THE TWO OF CLUBS

Scott and Barbara Siegel report on Betty Buckley's show at Feinstein's, Chita Rivera's recent appearance at Birdland and a few more musical notes.

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BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY by Robert Cashill

In Bruges can't quite escape the feeling of being a second-hand knock-off Pulp Fiction. Much of the script seems calculated to shock.

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Obituary: Robert Guy Barrows, 81; TV writer, UCLA drama instructor

Robert Guy Barrows, a former UCLA instructor of playwriting and theater arts who wrote for television in the 1960s and '70s and was repeatedly arrested on obscenity charges while producing B…

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