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Saturday, August 23, 2008 at midnight (Broadway Time)

Kristin Chenoweth's A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas to Be Released on October 14

Arts, Briefly: A New Streetcar By JULIE BOSMAN; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Arts, Briefly: San Jose Repertory Gets a New Director By JULIE BOSMAN; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Lombardo is leaving New Rep for San Jose By Megan Tench

Chicago's ATC Gets New Exec Director, New Actors and Adds Celebrity Row to Season

PHOTO CALL: Patrick Stewart Visits 80 Days at the Irish Rep

Witches of Eastwick Tour, with Marti Pellow, Launches in U.K. Aug. 23

Babalu-cy!, with Purnhagen, Begins Performances Aug. 23

Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 23

"A Faded Bouquet": Grey Gardens Opens at TheatreWorks Aug. 23

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Original Rent Stars Pascal, Rapp & Rubin-Vega to Judge Broadway.com Video Contest

Franz, Sternhagen, et al. Set for Free Reading of Against the Rising Sea

Chad Allen to Star in Sea Change

When a Bureaucratic Error Spins Out of Control By SYLVIANE GOLD

Like all good theater, "Ten Percent of Molly Snyder" at Penguin Repertory Company will make you think.

Scenes That You Can Cozy Up To By ANITA GATES

"Over the River and Through the Woods" at the John W. Engeman Theater benefits from a committed cast of veteran performers.

For a Good Time, Let the Dance Numbers Move You By SYLVIANE GOLD

There are plenty of forgotten musicals that would reward the loving care expended in a Goodspeed revival. But from the available evidence, "Half a Sixpence" is not among them.

Elizabeth Rex
Review By SAM THIELMAN

Long live Stephanie Barton-Farcas.

Paper Dolls and Reasonable Doubt
FringeNYC Reviews by Matthew Murray

Memo to the Jeffs: Chicago theater needs no dividing line by Chris Jones

Three Condos: Anita Gillette Stars in Three One-Acts in NYC

The onetime Broadway ingenue is making merry with Jamie Farr in the Florida-set sunset-years comedy Flamingo Court.

MY NEW YORK: See the Sights with Gypsy Star Laura Benanti!

Audio Slide Show: Alive and Real

A New Play and Much Else to Worry About By ERIK PIEPENBURG

NICKY SILVER is visibly anxious. About what, he's not sure.

Got tu Have a Primer to Get '[title of show]' By ERIK PIEPENBURG

To ensure that no theater reference goes unappreciated in their musical, the creators and two of the co-stars of "[title of show]" created a cheat sheet.

A horse is more than a horse in 'Equus'
Linda Winer | Critical Mass

The Great Web Way: Broadway sites to behold

Internet addresses for Broadway musicals are getting as elaborate as the shows themselves.

Broadway season: Feast and famine By DAVID ROONEY

Season shaped by high-profile shows, dropouts

Broadway tickets available in planes By GORDON COX

In-Flight Box Office aims to lure tourists

Letter
More Seating, Worse Music

Letter
Orchestrations: Who Writes the Songs

NYC PICKS: Walk on the bio side by LINDA WINER

Theater Listings

Hot Seats: Theater and comedy picks for this weekend

IT'S A NEW $TAGE FOR HARLEM By DAVID SEIFMAN

Many of his musicals were set in exotic locales, but Richard Rodgers never forgot his Harlem roots.

Historie of the Barber-Surgeons, with Louryk, Landon, Bay and More, Presented Aug. 22

Chicago's Wopat Returns to the Metropolitan Room Aug. 22-23

Three Changes, Silver's New Play About Disrupted Family, Begins in NYC Aug. 22

Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 22

Vanities, a "Cheer"-ful New Musical, Begins Pre-Broadway Run in CA Aug. 22

Stratford's 2009 Phèdre Is a Co-Pro With A.C.T.; McKenna Will Star

'Today' producer takes BMG gig

Beisler to work on film, TV and theater projects

High School Drama Teacher Creates Musical Theatre Sensation in "Hamlet 2"

The Rest Was Silence, but Then Came the Sequel By STEPHEN HOLDEN

"Hamlet 2" belongs to the school of free-for-all satiric farce whose creators ball up wads of ideas, apply chewing gum and hurl them against the wall to see what sticks.

Hamlet 2
Reviewed by: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

If you like snarky, frat-boy humor, as well a naked butt or two and a splashy musical finish, then you might love this satiric film about a desperate drama teacher.

Hamlet and Jesus return in rockin' musical sequel By Roger Ebert (***)

Shakespeare 2.0: The bard on the big (and small) screen By Susan King

Musical travels familiar roads By Jeffrey Borak

In "Greetings From Niagara," the last of the six mini-musicals that make up "See Rock City and Other Destinations," a new, generally unchallenging, musical at Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab, a r…

Coward in minor 'Keys' By Jeffrey Borak

If there was meant to be a playful, mischievous Champagne twinkle in Coward's eye, it is hard to find on the BTF stage.

A look back at Berkshire 2008 summer theater season season

8th Fringe Update

Red tape in the green barn By Peter D. Kramer

Not everything is as it seems in "Molly Snyder," a brisk, well-acted and laugh-out-loud comedy directed by Thomas Caruso.

Born Yesterday still fresh and funny by John Watters

'Born Yesterday' still feels current today By KATHI SCRIZZI DRISCOLL

Born Yesterday
Reviewed by: Sandy MacDonald

Leslie Kritzer and Michael McGrath give crackerjack performances in the Cape Playhouse's snappy production of Garson Kanin's political satire.

Victory at the Dirt Palace
Review By SAM THIELMAN

It's a startling contrast -- mostly, it illustrates how trivial the play's pompous windbags actually are -- but Shaplin and director Whit MacLaughlin make the gonzo satire work in its own weird way.

Victory at the Dirt Palace - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

Directed with crisp intensity by Whit MacLaughlin, "Victory at the Dirt Palace" whips through a tumultuous 24 hours in the lives of a veteran news anchor and his ambitious daughter.

Revival's anything but a 'Breeze' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

"The First Breeze of Summer" appears awfully patchy today, but assessing its merits is difficult because director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's revival is so poorly done in so many respects.

'Summer Breeze' By Matt Windman (** 1/2)

Lee Blessing's 1975 classic becomes tangled in clichés

The First Breeze of Summer

This unwieldy but intriguing family drama seems at times to be as purposefully disjointed as it is meandering meaningful but under the splendid direction of Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the disparate sections are fus…

The First Breeze of Summer
Review By DAVID ROONEY

Actor-turned-director Ruben Santiago-Hudson is a skilled and sensitive guide of a large cast; his efforts help counter a certain long-windedness and locate the universal themes in this overstuffed but affecting…

Past echoes in the present in 'First Breeze' By JENNIFER FARRAR, Associated Press

"The First Breeze of Summer," a powerful drama written in 1975 by Leslie Lee, is nearly as relevant today as it was three decades ago.

The First Breeze of Summer
Reviewed by: David Finkle

The Signature Theatre Company starts its season with a superlatively acted and directed production of Leslie Lee's vital 1975 family drama.

The First Breeze of Summer - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

Signature Theatre Company couldn't have chosen a finer play, cast finer actors, or more strongly begun its season-long salute to the Negro Ensemble Company than with director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's spiritually…

The First Breeze of Summer
Review by Matthew Murray

In Ruben Santiago-Hudson's arresting production, it's a powerful, balanced examination of the wounds that time causes rather than heals.

Review: 'The First Breeze of Summer' BY LINDA WINER

Lee's multigeneration family drama, which kicked off the company's yearlong tribute to the historic Negro Ensemble Company last night, is an engrossing, delicately structured, loving and clear-eyed look at a mi…

'A First Breeze' Blows Through Again By ERIC GRODE

"First Breeze" is the sort of sprawling, loose-limbed ensemble piece that has all but vanished from the stage today. Its reappearance, lumps and all, is as welcome a gift to parched theatergoers as the cool gus…

'First Breeze of Summer' has strife by Joe Dziemianowicz (*** 1/2)

GET WIND OF 'FIRST BREEZE' By FRANK SCHECK (*** 1/2)

Family's Future in Grandma's Flashbacks By BEN BRANTLEY

The Signature Theater Company offers a smooth revival of "The First Breeze of Summer," Leslie Lee's less-than-smooth drama of a denial-plagued family in close quarters.

FRESH FACE: The First Breeze of Summer's Next Top Ingenue, Yaya DaCosta

Daniel Radcliffe Talks about His Broadway Debut - and His Nude Scene By David Chiu

Talking to 'Blonde's Bailey Hanks By Matt Windman

DIVA TALK: Chatting with Ace's Jill Paice Plus News of Ripley, Dandridge and Bundy

'Bartholomew Fair, NJ,' hits home

Peter Filichia's Diary: 19 Plays in 74 Hours

Broadway fans still not warming up to Holmes By Courtney Hazlett, The Scoop

Dale, Kushner, Rose, Streep, et al. to Read at 92nd Street Y

Sex and the City's Miranda to star in ITV1 Quentin Crisp drama by Tara Conlan

Also joining the cast of An Englishman in New York are a number of other American actors, including Denis O'Hare, who plays Rob Lowe's manager in US drama Brothers and Sisters.

Dancing with the Stars Exclusive: Cast Revealed

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