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Pair of one-woman shows capture turmoil and trauma of Mideast life BY HEDY WEISS

Politically based portraits of Meir and women of Iraq share vitality, pain, complexity

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LAW IN ORDER by DAVID LEFKOWITZ

Thurgood Marshall was a towering figure in our legal history. But this one-hander Laurence Fishburne is more history by the numbers than flesh and blood drama

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Three New Productions Tackle Color Lines by Michael Feingold

Race and history trouble The Country Girl and Sound and the Fury; Thurgood gets them right.

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Deb Margolin's Time Is the Mercy of Eternity Sparkles by John Beer

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Yellow Moon's ADD Drama by GARRETT EISLER

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Vengeance Can Wait: A Short-Lived Joy
Sightlines: by Alexis Soloski

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John Turturro's Does Beckett Hamm I Am by Alexis Soloski

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Substitution

According to the the press materials, Anton Dudley wrote this play especially for Jan Maxwell who has repaid this questionable favor with a wonderful performance.

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THE CLANG OF IMPENDING DOOM by Bernard Carragher

This production of Endgame still stands up as original and unique as it was when it first premiered in 1957.

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Dear World

Dear World remains thin fare in a too large package, a musical in search of a raison d'etre. It died on Broadway almost 40 years ago, and I'm afraid it should have been tagged "do not resuscitate."

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One of a Kind

This family play incorporates music, dance and video. But what is most fascinating is the way it melds Jewish and African traditions of family, song, dance and storytelling.

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Stretch (a fantasia)
Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

Kristin Griffith gives a bravura performance as former Presidential secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfeld's structurally ambitious drama.

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Playwrights fest yields thrifty magic By BOB VERINI

COSTA MESA --The working motto for the scribes featured in this year's Pacific Playwrights Festival seems to have been: Dream big, but plan small.

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'Ballad' fails the legacy of Emmett Till by Chris Jones

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Cherry Docs - Reviewed by JERRY PORTWOOD

The neo-Nazi skinhead evokes both fear and fascination in popular culture. David Gow's two-person play Cherry Docs confronts this revulsion and attraction head on.

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The Hey You Monster: Pokin the Bears in a Zoo and Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter - Reviewed by JERRY PORTWOOD

Playwright Derek Ahonen's perspective on the family unit seems to be both sanguine and deeply cynical.

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Me - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

Through the filter of Kirk Wood Bromley's demented, genius brain, a story that has a placenta as a protagonist becomes all at once a witty musical, a lesson in Chinese mythology, and a dense philosophical journ…

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A Year in the Life of Twenty-Five Strangers Living in a City by the Lake - Reviewed by A.J. MELL

The title pretty much sums it up. Although the quick scene changes, dynamic cast, and vigorous direction from Shaun Colledge ensure that the results are never tedious, the end result is somehow less than the su…

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A Thoroughly Modern Oscar and Algernon By CARYN JAMES

Deep in the third act of the Pearl Theater Company's entertaining production of "The Importance of Being Earnest," I realized how much the sitcom "Frasier" owes to Oscar Wilde.

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Theater Review | 'Steve & Idi'
A Lesson Before Writing, Courtesy of Idi Amin's Ghost By CARYN JAMES

David Grimm's annoying new play is a self-indulgent work about how hard it is to be a writer.

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All Eyes and Ears - Reviewed by JERRY PORTWOOD

The narrative of Rogelio Martinez's new play, set in Cuba in 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro came to power, quickly becomes muddled with too many competing viewpoints, subplots, and biases to create a coherent…

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All Eyes and Ears

This new play commissioned by INTAR Theater takes a look at the fate of a Cuban family that was on the right side of the revolution.

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Politics, Sexual Intrigue and Lost Souls By Richard Seff

November, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and a preview of Port Authority.

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Air Farce One: A Trans-Atlantic Flight By TERRY TEACHOUT

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LIZ SMITH

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PHOTO OP:Bradley Whitford and Co. Soar at Boeing-Boeing's Opening

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VIDEO: Opening Night: Boeing-Boeing

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Alvin Colt, 91, Doyen of Broadway Costumers By STEPHEN MILLER

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Alvin Colt, Broadway Costume Designer, Dies at 91 By DENNIS HEVESI

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Obituary: Beverlee McKinsey, 72; veteran soap opera star By Mary Rourke

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Adding Machine Wins Four Lortel Awards, Including Best Musical

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York to Present Staged Concerts of Three Musicals in NEW2NY Series

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Robert Petkoff Joins Spamalot, Replacing Clay Aiken

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Further Travails of Scarlett and Rhett
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Pummeled by the critics, the London production of "Gone With the Wind" will have its running time trimmed by 15 minutes to three and a quarter hours.

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New Musical for Harry Connick Jr.
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

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NYTW Names William Russo New Managing Director

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Daniele, Leguizamo and Miranda Set for TeatroStageFest

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Old Milwaukee: Musical Happy Days Opens at CT's Goodspeed

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"Follow Me": Philharmonic's Camelot, with Kudisch, Mazzie, Byrne and Gunn, Begins

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Ivoryton's Glass Menagerie, with Phantom's Lockyer, Begins May 7

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Greenspan Rewrites Aristophanes for World Premiere, Old Comedy, in NYC

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Garrison, Hurt, Marvel, Tomei, Reeder, Plimpton and Ikeda Are Broadway's Top Girls

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Today In Theatre History: MAY 7

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Talk Show Watch: Melissa Errico on "Martha," Patrick Stewart on "The View"

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Free Reading of Matthew Passion to Be Presented June 18

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Last Chance to Get in the 2007-2008 "Playbill Yearbook" - See If Your Name Is on the List

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"The View" to Welcome LuPone, Peters and Ramirez Plus Passing Strange and In the Heights Casts

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Rita Gardner Will Be Part of Artist's Crossing Benefit Concert

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Tony Winner Neuwirth Will Sing Songs by Weill, Porter, Sondheim, Waits and Kander and Ebb at Feinstein's

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Masters Will Be Out On a Limb at the Bailiwick Studio

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KT Sullivan Sees Colored Lights in Chicago June 2-5

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Howard, Rashad and Rose Will Be Honored at Sardi's May 8

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Durang and Adrift in Macao Cast Set for Barnes and Noble Appearance

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Hairspray Cast Will Take Part in Free Creating the Magic Event May 29

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Cry-Baby's John Waters to Offer The Filthy World June 26 in Manhattan

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Milwaukee Rep Plans Eurydice, State of the Union, Trouble in Mind, Musical Dogpark

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Jones, Kolvenbach, Nottage, Wright, et al. Set for WHAT's 2008 Summer Season

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Joey Arias and Basil Twist to Collaborate on Arias With a Twist

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Brandauer, Reich, Stew, et al. Set for Lincoln Center Opening Nights Festival

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Tovah Feldshuh to Star in Golda's Balcony at Sarah Lawrence College

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Lucas, Murphy, Page, Pullman, Sarandon to Film Peacock

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Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Monsterface

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Pearl Theatre Company Announces 2008-2009 Season

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Bond, Buscemi, Cale, Lauper, O'Donnell, et al. Set for PS122 Gala

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DeLaria, Kron, Kudisch, Kurtz, Rogers, Rubin-Vega et al. Set for 13P Benefit

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LaChiusa, DeLaria, Kurtz and Rubin-Vega Will Be Part of 13P:Undone Benefit

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McAndrew, Page, Shimono, et al. to Appear at Old Globe This Summer

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MetroStage's New Season

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Brooke Shields to Present Tommy Tune With Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award

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Shields to Present Tune with Watt Lifetime Acheivement Award

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Talk Show Watch: Melissa Errico on "Martha," Patrick Stewart on "The View"

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Shaw to Join London's Chicago in June

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Thorson Joins Martin, O'Hare, Topol, et al. in London Revival of Gigi

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Cast Set for Joe DiPietro's World Premiere of F***king Men in London

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Public Theater to Present The Bacchae at the Delacorte in September

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Wilson to Star in Noel Coward 101 at the Algonquin; McClanahan Directs

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Welcome Home, Marian Anderson to Play Off-Broadway's St. Luke's Theatre

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Atlanta's Alliance Postpones King-Mellencamp Musical

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King-Mellencamp Musical Postponed
Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

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Mellencamp and King's Musical Ghost Brothers Postponed by Atlanta's Alliance

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