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NEW York City Ballet's supersized Jerome Robbins Celebration offers 33 Rob bins ballets, from his first, 1944's "Fancy Free," to his last, "West Side Story Suite" in 1995.

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Starting Over, Meeting Strangers and Not Giving Up By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Karen Akers performed songs of loneliness, loss and aging with impeccable enunciation at the Oak Room on Wednesday.

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Karen Akers: Move On
Reviewed by: Barbara & Scott Siegel

The cabaret artist's often triumphant new show at the Algonquin Hotel may be her most personal statement.

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A Shakespeare Toga Party By TERRY TEACHOUT

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Off-Broadway Goes Bollywood With Kooks in 'Rafta': John Simon

Scott Elliott has directed with his customary know-how, but, finally, there is something amiss when the flushing of a toilet comes almost louder and faster than the bona fide laugh lines.

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John Lithgow tells 'Stories by Heart' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Sometimes, stories are the best medicine. It's no wonder why Lithgow feels compelled to share them.

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'Dream Man': Gay phone sex operator By F. Kathleen Foley

Jimmy Shaw plays a gay phone sex operator in a still-timely tale at the Skylight Theatre.

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REVIEW: 'A House With No Walls' at the New LATC By Philip Brandes

The wounds of slavery are ripped open in Thomas Gibbons' thoughtful drama.

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REVIEW: Leslie Jordan's 'My Trip Down the Pink Carpet' By David C. Nichols

The veteran actor follows up his 2004 solo show with an anecdote-rich 'My Trip Down the Pink Carpet.'

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The visual and rhythmic pleasures of East West Players' anime and hip-hop-influenced "Pippin" almost permit one to overlook the production's undercooked execution. But for all the eye candy, the ear and mind ar…

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Theater Beat: 'And Her Hair Went With Her,' 'Blue Night in the Heart of the West,' '1001' and 'I'd Rather Be Right.'

Tracie Thoms and Tonya Pinkins are wicked talents. Also reviewed: 'Blue Night in the Heart of the West,' '1001' and 'I'd Rather Be Right.'

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Cardenio
Reviewed by: Sandy MacDonald

Stephen Greenblatt and Charles L. Mee's take on a "lost" Shakespeare work ends up being three hours of only marginal amusement.

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Wedding crashers By Louise Kennedy

Modernity collides with Elizabethan sensibilities in 'Cardenio,' a play at the ART based on a lost Shakespeare work

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Smith hams it up appropriately in one-man show about Roosevelt by Michael Sommers

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SOLO PORTRAIT OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT BEARS UP By FRANK SCHECK (** 1/2)

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Theater Review | 'The Bully Pulpit'
The Amazing Adventures of a Gregarious Dissident By ANDY WEBSTER

Theodore Roosevelt was never one to reflexively conform to party ideology, as Michael O. Smith demonstrates in his informative one-man show.

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On the street where they live BY MISHA DAVENPORT

'Avenue Q' residents not quite kid-friendly

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Penguin spreads its flippers By Peter D. Kramer

Joe Brancato likes producing new works at his charming Penguin Rep theater in Stony Point - so much so that he's willing to take an old play and have it rewritten to start his company's 31st season.

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Terrence Howard, star of stage and screen, would rather be singing By Nekesa Mumbi Moody, The Associated Press

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"Spring Awakening" gets new leading man BY MICHAEL KUCHWARA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It's another day of rehearsal for Kyle Riabko, the young Canadian musician set to take over the pivotal role of Melchior, the thoughtful student heartthrob of "Spring Awakening," last season's Tony-winning best…

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A draw for playwrights BY HEDY WEISS

Creativity comes in small packages at Collaboraction's Sketchbook Festival

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More absurdity for Ed O'Neill in David Mamet's 'Keep Your Pantheon' By Sean Mitchell

The former 'Married . . . With Children' star takes to the stage for the one-act farce set in ancient Rome.

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THE PERSONAL FILE: Jason Robert Brown

Yes, there are times when the music stops.

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All Over the Map By: Tristan Fuge, Sharon Lesley, and Zachary Stewart

Red Dog Howls in Los Angeles, Working in Sarasota, and A Midsummer Night's Dream in San Francisco.

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Cancer behind her, she's front & center by Michael Daly

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The Unsinkable Julie Andrews by Army Archerd

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'First Musical' has lasting value by Joe Dziemianowicz

The most star-studded show this side of the Tonys could be the presentation of "Pamela's First Musical" on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Town Hall.

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Mamie Gummer: Streep's daughter steps out By Donna Freydkin

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Laura Linney: Versatile star takes a turn to the dark side By Elysa Gardner

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Life in the Theatre: Arthur Laurents

Meet acclaimed writer and director Arthur Laurents, a 2008 Tony Award nominee for direction of his masterpiece, Gypsy.

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"Make It So"

Patrick Stewart's varied career has carried him from young character player to commander in the far reaches of space to his current role as Broadway's Macbeth.

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DIVA TALK: Chatting with Tony Nominees Butler, LuPone, O'Hara, Prince and Russell

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Depressed about lawsuit, Shapiro wrote drama about Beethoven

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Peter Filichia's Diary: The Movies in Your Minds

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Have We Reached the Stage Where Being Gay Is Not Even an Issue? by David Sheward

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Recoups Investment

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Case builds against theater duo By RICHARD OUZOUNIAN

Prosecutors take aim at Drabinsky, Gottlieb

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Danny Glover returns to 'Boys'

Lonny Price to direct Athol Fugard adaptation

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Redgrave's New Show By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder

Lynn Redgrave has a solo work in progress about her mother, Rachel Kempson, and her relationship with Shakespeare.

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'GREASE' GETS HICKS By BARBARA HOFFMAN

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B'WAY PLUNGE SUIT By DAREH GREGORIAN

"He didn't break every bone in his body, but he came close," said his lawyer, Mark Manus.

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Injured Actor Files Petition By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

An actor who was injured on the set of "Disney's The Little Mermaid" has asked for a court order to preserve a prop in the show as evidence for a potential lawsuit.

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TONY LANDSLIDE: 'CRY-BABY' BY 1 By MICHAEL RIEDEL

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Raúl Stops the Show, by Michael Portantiere

Three-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza will recreate his thrilling performance of "Being Alive" from Company in an upcoming New York Philharmonic concert titled Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers. Plus: Reviews of Attack of the Theater People and other new books and CDs.

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