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The Troubies' latest production, "As U2 Like It," continues their artistic winning streak, succeeding in conveying the gist of the Shakespeare source material amid a constant flurry of songs, quips and physical…

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'ELIZABETH': OFF WITH ITS HEAD By FRANK SCHECK (**)

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Antsy Adolescents Romp at Edinburgh Festivals By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Significant shows at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festival Fringe considered the anxieties and preoccupations of contemporary youth.

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The Plot's a Tangle; Its Setting, Not at All By BEN BRANTLEY

Nature takes its course in high style in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's inspiriting production of "Cymbeline."

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Bury the Dead
Review By BOB VERINI

Shaw's message -- men should fight and die for what matters to them, not for someone else's trumped-up cause -- comes through forcefully, even in this very inconsistent Actors' Gang revival.

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REVIEWS BY DAVID HURST

Donna Lynne Champlin; Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano; Summer Shorts 2 Series B

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Shake, rattle and roll! By James Hebert

Playhouse's 'Memphis' uses story of rock's beginnings - 'when all the rules were changing' - to examine race, and more, in America

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The doctor will see you now by Allan Brown

A mix of Shakespeare fans and Doctor Who fanatics are queueing around the block to see David Tennant in Hamlet, but at the stage door the teenagers rule

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Josh Hartnett cruises onto stage in Rain Man by Lesley White

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David Beckham musical set for West End stage By Henry Winter

Such is old 'Goldenballs'' phenomenal appeal to the public that a librettist is talking to West End producers this week about staging a musical entitled David Beckham - The Theatre of Dreams.

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Exit, the king: Is Alan Ayckbourn set for one glorious final act? By Lucy Powell

He has fallen out of fashion in the West End, suffered a stroke and entered his last season in charge at Scarborough theatre. But could Britain's most prolific playwright, Alan Ayckbourn, enjoy a last hurrah?

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In the context of big-city theater, he isn't much more than Little Mouth on the Prairie By Dominic P. Papatola

The woman on the phone simply wanted to know why I couldn't be nicer.

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The Season in Theater

A Tale of Two Cities, Mandy Patinkin in The Tempest, and more.

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Vulture's Fall Recommend-o-Matic: Theater

Scientology or Sondheim?

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TomKat Takes Manhattan By Lane Brown

Tom Cruise recalls the fall he and Katie Holmes spent in New York.

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The Equines of 'Equus' By Rebecca Milzoff

A chat with Daniel Radcliffe's six onstage companions.

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'Billy Elliot': The Musical: The Primer By Katherine Ward

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Top Girl By Boris Kachka

Elizabeth Marvel on rats in the theater (human and otherwise).

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Sexed-Up Chekhov By Boris Kachka

When they wanted virile, they called in Peter Sarsgaard.

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Raúl Esparza, Always Grateful By Jeremy McCarter

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This Could Drive a Person Crazy By Jeremy McCarter

After a decade's gestation and four titles, Stephen Sondheim's Road Show finally rolls into town.

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First lady, second take By Terry Byrne

With director's help, playwright reworks 'Eleanor'

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A Theatrical Tribute to Fela Kuti By VALERIE GLADSTONE

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LIZ SMITH

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PAGE SIX

IT'S a classic battle of old vs. new feminism over Joanna Murray-Smith's play "The Female of the Species."

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PAGE SIX

CHRISTOPHER Plummer will never forget the one-night stand he picked up in a bar before he was to perform "Henry V" in 1956 - because it helped make William Shatner a star.

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THE PERSONAL FILE
'Dirty Sexy Money's' Craig Wright

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Purchase's new music man By Peter D. Kramer

As the new executive director of the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Wiley Hausam has four venues to fill with music, opera, dance and theater, a task he began contemplating soon after his appointme…

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'Hamlet 2' rocks with racy musical numbers By SANDY COHEN

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STAGE TO SCREENS: Chats with Maura Tierney, "Hamlet 2" Creator Fleming & Actors Astin, Strole

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A Night Out With | Hunter Parrish
Bowling for Broadway By LESLEY SAVAGE

Hanging out with Hunter Parrish, the newest cast member of "Spring Awakening" on Broadway.

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Peter Filichia's Diary: We're Giggin'

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'Vanities' the musical is a friendship revisited By Jan Breslauer

Jack Heifner's story of three women coming of age in the 1960s and '70s gets another look, a fourth scene and some fresh perspective at the Pasadena Playhouse.

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Footnotes
Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

The New York-bound production of "Vanities - A New Musical" announced Feb. 2 as the date of its first preview.

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Obituary: Kathryn Skatula, 54, Actress

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Biggs, Coiro and Scanavino to Star in Second Stage's Boys' Life Revival

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Jason Biggs, Rhys Coiro and Peter Scanavino Headline Boys' Life at Second Stage

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Biggs, Coiro, Federer, March, Scanavino, et al. Set for Second Stage's Boys' Life

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Casting Notes
Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

Second Stage Theater has found the three main dudes for its production of "Boys' Life."

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Jeff Award nominations keep large and midsize theaters separate BY HEDY WEISS

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'Miz,' '80 Days' and 'Requiem' top Jeff nominations

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

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

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

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Lombardo is leaving New Rep for San Jose By Megan Tench

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

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

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

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

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Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 23

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

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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

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

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

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Chad Allen to Star in Sea Change

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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.

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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.

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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.

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