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Sunday, May 4, 2008 at midnight (Broadway Time)

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

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

David Lindsay-Abaire Wins Kleban Award for Most Promising Lyricist

Will Chase and Eden Espinosa to Join Broadway's Rent

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

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

"Family Guy" Teams with Manhattan Theatre Source for Spontaneous Combustion

JoBeth Williams to Headline the Atlantic's Body Awareness

Nora Dunn Joins Speech & Debate Cast

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

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

NYC's Secrets of a Soccer Mom Closes May 4

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

A Chorus Line National Tour Kicks Off in Denver May 4

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

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

Today In Theatre History: MAY 4

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

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

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

Tony Winner Menzel to Offer London Concert May 20

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

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

Kidman and Cunningham Working on Springfield Biopic

London Phantom to Close Briefly as New Sound System Is Installed

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

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

Rabbit Hole Cast Set for Hartford TheaterWorks Run

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

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

Kodjoe Exits Cat May 4, Revival Will End June 22

Panic Is Winner of 2008 Edgar Award for Mystery Play

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

Whittaker Joins Shrek the Musical Cast

Full Casting Set for ENO's Candide

Musicals Tonight Announces 2008-2009 Season

Arts, Briefly: Lincoln Center Summer
Compiled by PETER EDIDIN

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

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

Victory Gardens sells Greenhouse venue to developers

Leslie Uggams to Star in Pasadena Playhouse's Stormy Weather

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

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

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

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

2008 Summer Play Festival Selections Are Announced

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

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

'Phantom' sees Canadian dip

Road Grosses

Gypsy Cast Will Head Into the Recording Studio May 5

Gypsy Revival to Get New Recording With Cut Songs

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Hyde Pierce and Sara Ramirez to Announce Tony Noms

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS by MARK BLANKENSHIP

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

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

Babylon Babylon
Review by Amanda Cooper

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 prod…

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

Boy meets boy in Trinity Rep musical

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Authorial intense By Helen Shaw

Elevator Repair Service puts Faulkner on stage-verbatim.

Thurgood
Review by Adam Feldman

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

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