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Sunday, May 4, 2008

    Features:

    [ BSUN ]  A song in their hearts By Jonathan Pitts

    At Baltimore County's musical theater program for disabled adults, learning dialogue is secondary to learning to believe in themselves

    [ NYP ]  SUMMER STAGES By MARSHA LEBEDEV BERNSTEIN
    DAY CAMPS HELP KIDS GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER

    [ HC ]  Theater Of Color By FRANK RIZZO

    Broadway and Regional Companies Courting The African American Audience

    [ CT ]  'Ballad of Emmett Till' comes to stage at a momentous time By Chris Jones

    [ V ]  Ifa Bayeza tells tale of Emmett Till By STEVEN OXMAN

    [ BG ]  As one curtain goes down By Megan Tench

    Nicholas Martin reflects on his Huntington tenure before moving to the next stage

    [ BG ]  The Martin years By Louise Kennedy

    [ LAT ]  'Jersey Boys' juggernaut takes on Vegas Strip By Paul Lieberman

    [ JN ]  Singing praises of an unsung star By Peter D. Kramer

    She created a character who's known by millions - the mischievous Eloise of the Plaza - but many people don't know Kay Thompson. Playwright and actress Ruth Williamson is out to change that - and Williamson's friend Michael Bush is out to help her.

    [ HC ]  All Smiles In Hartford's River City
    Frank Rizzo | TICKER

    Hartford fell under the spell of Harold Hill.
    But was the infatuation with "The Music Man" a clever con or the real thing?

    [ NYT ]  On Broadway, Revivals Aren't Only for Shows By GLENN COLLINS

    After a two-year and $12 million reconstruction, the Longacre Theater has been given an entirely renovated interior and a spruced up exterior.

    [ NYT ]  Slide Show: Restoring the Longacre

    [ NYT ]  Fading Sounds of an Elegant Manhattan By STEPHEN HOLDEN

    The Waldorf-Astoria hotel is ending a tradition of live piano and song in its cocktail terrace between the Empire and Hilton Rooms.

    [ B ]  VIDEO: STREET POLL: Miley, Carson, Obama?! Fans Pitch B'way's Next Big Solo Show

    [ V ]  Can 'Top' pop on Broadway?

    Caryl Churchill gets her 'Girls' on stage

    [ V ]  Producers seek 'Glory' on Broadway

    John O'Boyle, Ricky Stevens prep musical

    [ HC ]  What Would Ted Neeley Do? By FRANK RIZZO

    He's Twice As Old As Jesus When He Died, But Actor Is Still 'Superstar'

    [ LAT ]  THE PERSONAL FILE: Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash

    [ B ]  MY NEW YORK: Family Fun with Mary Poppins Dad Daniel Jenkins

    [ AMNY ]  David Greenspan talks about 'Frogs' By Matt Windman

    [ NYT ]  Faves, Hot and Cool

    Neil LaBute, Michael Barker, Diane English, Larry Charles and Tamara Jenkins all share their favorite summer movie picks.

    [ NYT ]  When Off Meets Off Off, Creative Ferment Is On By Charles Isherwood

    This spring the barrier between the worlds of Off and Off Off Broadway seems to be becoming more porous.

    [ NYT ]  Shakespearean Brushes Up His Playwriting By CELIA McGEE

    Stephen Greenblatt, one of the country's top Shakespeare scholars, has written his first play, "Cardenio," a collaboration with Charles Mee.

    [ BG ]  'Redbelt' master By Lynda Gorov

    Tough guy David Mamet makes with the kind words

    [ LAT ]  David Mamet and the way of the 'Redbelt' By Chris Lee

    [ TM ]  Daytime Drama By: Tristan Fuge and Brian Scott Lipton

    Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot, Marisa Tomei, Harvey Fierstein, Elizabeth Ashley, Bill Pullman, Bobby Steggert, and a slew of stars celebrate their Drama Desk Award nominations.

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Drama Desk Nominees Cocktail Reception

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

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP: BC/EFA's Record-Setting Easter Bonnet Bash

    Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

    [ FW ]  'Angels' in the opera By MARK LOWRY

    Fort Worth Opera opens its festival with 'Angels in America.' Playwright Tony Kushner talks about this intriguing interpretation of his work.

    [ G ]  'Theatre? It's an indissoluble equation'
    Interview by Andrew Dickson

    On the eve of his appearance at the HighTide Festival, Tom Stoppard talks about the state of new writing and the solitary life of the playwright

    [ O ]  Secrets and Liza

    Oscar-winner, alcoholic, drug addict, four failed marriages, messy affairs... sometimes it seems as if Liza Minnelli's whole life has been lived in the public gaze. And yet, do we really know her? Even after meeting 'Liza with a Zee' on the eve of a British tour, Lynn Barber found it difficult to get to the heart of the matter

    [ G ]  Fighting talk

    This month, The Birthday Party returns to the same theatre where it opened exactly 50 years ago. Slated by the critics, it nearly ended Harold Pinter's career. So how did it go on to become such a classic, asks Michael Billington

    [ SHT ]  Actress Judy Kaye just can't satisfy her appetite for 'Sweeney Todd' By Jay Handelman

    "Les Liaisons Dangereuses":

    [ B ]  VIDEO: Opening Night: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Kiss Kiss Tell Tell

    [ TM ]  Court and Spark By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

    Sigourney Weaver, Tracey Ullman, and Julianna Margulies join Laura Linney, and company for Les Liaisons Dangereuses; while Maria Bello, Kerry Butler, Cheyenne Jackson, and Leslie Uggams applaud Laurence Fishburne in Thurgood.

    [ LAT ]  Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil
    Laura Linney lusts after Tony Award in 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'

    [ HC ]  Decadent Theatrical "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" By MALCOLM JOHNSON

    Parisian Drama Retold In Style

    [ NY ]  Performance Enhancement By Jeremy McCarter

    Both The Country Girl and Les Liaisons Dangereuses give virtuoso actors a chance to triumph.

    [ TONY ]  Les Liaisons Dangereuses
    Review by David Cote

    Baroque-era sexual intrigue never seemed so vanilla.

    "Thurgood":

    [ B ]  VIDEO: Opening Night: Thurgood

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP: All Rise for Laurence Fishburne in Thurgood

    [ TNO ]  LAYING DOWN THE LAW by Bill Stevenson

    Thurgood is a riveting one-hander about Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court. Lawrence Fishbourne gives a towering performance as the powerful justice.

    [ TONY ]  Thurgood
    Review by Adam Feldman

    One wishes that Stevens had devoted less time to Marshall's public trials and more to his private tribulations.

    "The Sound and the Fury":

    [ TONY ]  Authorial intense By Helen Shaw

    Elevator Repair Service puts Faulkner on stage-verbatim.

    [ TONY ]  The Sound and the Fury (August Seventh, 1929)
    Review by David Cote

    For all of Collins & Co.'s deliberate obfuscations and juggling of roles among multiple actors, there are moments of shocking clarity that break your heart; so much, everything, is signified.

    Other Reviews:

    [ NYT ]  Weill's Operatic Impression of New York City Life, From the Stoop Up By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

    The themes of regret, jealousy, immigration and domestic violence central to "Street Scene," Kurt Weill's 1947 opera about life in a New York tenement, are still relevant.

    [ NYT ]  A Tribute to Robbins and His Artistic Partners, Past and Present By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

    A series of different American Ballet Theater men is gracing various City Ballet lineups of Jerome Robbins's "Fancy Free" this season.

    [ BS ]  Sunrise at the Quarry - Reviewed by RON COHEN

    The intensity and fragility of youthful friendship are movingly evoked in this new play that was developed in improvisations and then worked into shape by writer Nick Sanzo.

    [ INQ ]  Frenetic actors in search of a play By Wendy Rosenfield

    Maybe you've never heard of Dear World, Bristol Riverside Theatre's current production. Chances are, you know its source material, Jean Giraudoux's postwar dig at French war profiteers, The Madwoman of Chaillot.

    [ BG ]  In 'Paris,' a classic romance for a new age By Louise Kennedy

    Boy meets boy in Trinity Rep musical

    [ NJ ]  Days of our lives, envisioned by Beckett BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

    Belgrader's sensitive direction helps the actors steadily walk a fine line between tragedy and comedy as they plumb the serio-comic implications of Beckett's study in mortality. The results are a memorable production of a mournful masterpiece.

    [ TONY ]  Crooked
    Review by Adam Feldman

    These lonesome and damaged people, at once strange and totally credible, have marvelous dimension in Liz Diamond's polished, multifaceted production for Women's Project.

    [ TONY ]  Time Is the Mercy of Eternity
    Review by Adam Feldman

    Although Margolin has dissected her own play into four barely interrelated scenes, this gambit does not make the evening as a whole more endurable.

    [ TONY ]  Honor
    Review by Raven Snook

    For its latest opus, the team musicalized Shakespeare's pastoral romantic comedy As You Like It, setting it in feudal Japan with samurai in place of French royalty. If that reframing sounds bizarre, that's because it is-but it also works.

    [ TONY ]  The Castle
    Review by Diane Snyder

    At a time when rehabilitation and second chances aren't popular philosophies of justice, this uneven but still effective production proves that there's hope for redemption.

    [ TONY ]  Babylon Babylon
    Review by Amanda Cooper

    Despite boasting a stage filled with figures in provocative costumes, Babylon Babylon feels slow and tame.

    [ TB ]  My Fair Lady Score Soars, but the Production Waivers at the Paramount by David-Edward Hughes

    [ TNO ]  BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS by MARK BLANKENSHIP

    From a distance, this production of Macbeth is less dynamic than originally thought.

    [ TONY ]  The Country Girl
    Review by Adam Feldman

    In Nichols's account of this talky backstage drama, there's not much life in the wings; the play flaps and flaps, but doesn't take flight.

    [ TONY ]  Cry-Baby
    Review by David Cote

    This multimillion-dollar spectacle dresses and sneers like a leather-jacketed outcast, but turns out to be as squeaky-clean and edgeless as a country-club preppy.

    [ HC ]  Beckett's 'Endgame' Teaches Dark Lessons, But Not Well By MALCOLM JOHNSON

    News:

    [ DN ]  Jo Piazza: All set for 'Louse-wives of New York'

    [ P ]  Hyde Pierce and Ramirez Will Announce Tony Nominees; Tony Preview Concert Planned

    [ TM ]  Pierce and Ramirez to Announce Tony Award Nominations; Lopez to Host Special Concert

    [ B ]  David Hyde Pierce and Sara Ramirez to Announce Tony Noms

    [ P ]  Jackson, Gasteyer and Graff Will Join Krakowski and Hayes in Encores! Damn Yankees

    [ B ]  Jackson, Gasteyer and Graff Join Cast of Encores! Damn Yankees

    [ TM ]  Gastetyer, Graff, Jackson to Join Hayes and Krakowski in Encores' Damn Yankees

    [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Batter Up in Encores!
    Compiled by PETER EDIDIN

    [ P ]  Reza's God of Carnage Recoups Investment But Will Not Extend London Run; Aims for Broadway

    [ TM ]  London's The God of Carnage Closes June 14; Aims for Broadway in 2009

    [ TM ]  Gypsy Revival to Get New Recording With Cut Songs

    [ P ]  Gypsy Cast Will Head Into the Recording Studio May 5

    [ V ]  'Phantom' sees Canadian dip

    Road Grosses

    [ TM ]  Haylie Duff to Star in MTV's Legally Blonde Reality Competition Series

    [ P ]  "Whipped into Shape": Legally Blonde MTV Reality Show to Debut June 2; Duff Hosts

    [ TM ]  2008 Summer Play Festival Selections Are Announced

    [ P ]  Black Suits, Tio Pepe and Esther Demsack Among 2008 SPF Productions

    [ P ]  Pritchard, Sheik, Rapp and Jarrow Set for NYMF's Broadway Battle of the Bands

    [ TM ]  Gregory, Pritchard, Rapp, et al. to Participate in NYMF's Broadway Battle of the Bands

    [ P ]  Leslie Uggams Will Play Lena Horne in 2009 Pasadena Run of Stormy Weather

    [ TM ]  Leslie Uggams to Star in Pasadena Playhouse's Stormy Weather

    [ CST ]  Victory Gardens sells Greenhouse venue to developers

    [ CT ]  Victory Gardens is selling the Greenhouse, its long-time home by Chris Jones

    [ NJ ]  Crossroads Theatre revives a trio of its best works for next season by Peter Filichia

    [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Lincoln Center Summer
    Compiled by PETER EDIDIN

    [ TM ]  Musicals Tonight Announces 2008-2009 Season

    [ TM ]  Full Casting Set for ENO's Candide

    [ P ]  Whittaker Joins Shrek the Musical Cast

    [ P ]  Yazbeck, Blackwell, Butler, Young, Grové Will Sing Broadway Karaoke May 5

    [ P ]  Panic Is Winner of 2008 Edgar Award for Mystery Play

    [ P ]  Kodjoe Exits Cat May 4, Revival Will End June 22

    [ P ]  Mamet's "Redbelt" Opens in New York and Los Angeles May 2

    [ P ]  Butler, Prince, Kritzer, Evans, Russell and Shindle Will Perform at Actors Fund Gala

    [ P ]  Rabbit Hole Cast Set for Hartford TheaterWorks Run

    [ P ]  Babel Readies World Premiere of Stomp and Shout (an' Work It All Out)

    [ P ]  Louisiana's River City Rep Gets Oscar Nominee Avery for Member of the Wedding

    [ P ]  London Phantom to Close Briefly as New Sound System Is Installed

    [ P ]  Kidman and Cunningham Working on Springfield Biopic

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, April 26-May 2: Three, and 13

    [ P ]  Seasons of Love: Big Give, a Rent Cocktail Party, Will Benefit Ubuntu Education Fund

    [ P ]  Tony Winner Menzel to Offer London Concert May 20

    [ P ]  Tony Predictions, The 39 Steps and an Irving Berlin Tribute Featured on Playbill Radio

    [ P ]  Noroña and Espinosa Are Mexican-Rooted George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men

    [ P ]  "It Was a Very Good Year": The 1959 Broadway Songbook Presented May 3-5

    [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 4

    [ P ]  Cabin Fever: Boeing-Boeing, with Whitford, Rylance and Baranski, Opens on Broadway

    [ P ]  Arden, Blaemire, Cavenaugh, Osnes, Shindle and Strole Offer Tales From the Bad Years May 4

    [ P ]  A Chorus Line National Tour Kicks Off in Denver May 4

    [ P ]  STAGE TO SCREENS: Chats With Whitford, Hurt, Howard, and Kodjoe

    [ P ]  NYC's Secrets of a Soccer Mom Closes May 4

    [ TM ]  Mike Daisey's How Theater Failed America to Transfer to Barrow Street Theatre

    [ P ]  Broadway's 2006-2007 Season Contributed Billions to NYC Economy

    [ P ]  Nora Dunn Joins Speech & Debate Cast

    [ B ]  JoBeth Williams to Headline the Atlantic's Body Awareness

    [ P ]  "Family Guy" Teams with Manhattan Theatre Source for Spontaneous Combustion

    [ P ]  Bailiwick, Circle Theatre, Dr. Moreau, Cabaret Among Non-Equity Jeff Nominees

    [ B ]  Will Chase and Eden Espinosa Sign On for Final Months of Rent

    [ TM ]  Will Chase and Eden Espinosa to Join Broadway's Rent

    [ B ]  David Lindsay-Abaire Wins Kleban Award for Most Promising Lyricist

    [ P ]  Oni Faida Lampley, Actress Who Was Also Award-Winning Playwright, Has Died at 49

    [ NYT ]  Peter Howard, 80, Dies; Put Music on Broadway By DENNIS HEVESI

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