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The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire will produce one of the first post-Broadway productions of the John Waters musical "Hairspray," the suburban theater has announced.

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Arts, Briefly: Brooklyn Center Announces Fall Season
Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

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Midtown International Theatre Festival Announces 2008 Award Nominations

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Austin Art Student Elissa LaFleur Sheppard Wins Broadway.com/JetBlue Rent Contest

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Cabaret Society in Désir By Alexis Soloski

See a fake Josephine Baker and a real cat

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The Signature Theatre Revives The First Breeze of Summer By Michael Feingold

Thirty-three years after its premiere, Summer faces a different climate

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'As U2 Like It' at the Falcon Theatre By David C. Nichols

The Troubadour Theater Company revamps the Bard's comedy as a freewheeling musical sendup.

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Her Naked Skin

Rebecca Lenkiewicz has crafted a realistic political play detailing some of the events in the campaign to secure female suffrage in the UK.

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Timon of Athens
Review By KAREN FRICKER

It's hardly Shakespeare's most coherent or elegant text, but "Timon of Athens" emerges as a play for today in Lucy Bailey's strikingly imaginative production for the Globe.

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Liz McCartney: Rosemary and Time - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

While McCartney's singing as Rosemary Clooney was perfection - the kind of homage not everyone can pay in terms of imitating (and more) a very particular voice - the show itself, directed by Kelley McKinnon, wa…

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One Nation Under - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

Andrea Lepcio has an ear - for poetic language that feels real, for richly varied voices, and for the secrets that pave the way to tragedy.

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Camp Summer Camp - Reviewed by PAUL MENARD

Sadly, long before the evening's DJ starts spinning for the after party, this experiential performance piece has degraded into disorganized, coercive nonfun.

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Noon Day Sun - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

If more is done to make the ending as strong as the wind-up, "Noon Day Sun" could yet become an incredibly effective play.

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Gigi
Review by David Benedict

Of the nine Oscars won by "Gigi," none were for originality. Exactly half a century later, its Parisian Eliza Doolittle-esque plot of a young girl and an older man looks no better.

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Beethoven, As I Knew Him
Review by Bob Verini

Part concert, part lecture/demo and part -- a small part -- dramatized play, Hershey Felder's "Beethoven, As I Knew Him" makes up in passion what it may lack in warmth.

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Playbill Boston publisher helps local arts groups look to the East By Geoff Edgers

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Backstage: 'Ace's' Reworked Flight Path By Jane Horwitz

Musical Journeys to Signature Theatre for Complete Makeover

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VIDEO INTERVIEW: Meet a New Spring Awakening Star Every Day. First Up: Gabriel Violett

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Vanities Fare By: Terri Roberts

Jack Heifner and Judith Ivey discuss transforming Vanities from a play into a musical.

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Audio Slide Show: Theatrical Revival

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A Los Angeles Theater Is Renovated, Relieving Headache-Inducing Quirks By ZACHARY PINCUS-ROTH

The Mark Taper Forum will reopen with a revival of John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves" after a yearlong, $30 million renovation.

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Garage Theatre Group Sets Season

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Peter Filichia's Diary: It's in the Cards

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PAGE SIX

THERE'S a lot less of Richard Griffiths to love.

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LCT3 Musical Clay Sets Off-Broadway Dates at the Duke

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Lincoln Center's Clay to Play Duke Beginning October 6

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Horton Foote Play Coming to Broadway
Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Lincoln Center Theater will present Horton Foote's "Dividing the Estate" this fall at the Booth Theater.

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Full Cast Set for the Roundabout Underground's The Language of Trees

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Burke, Gold, Hayden et al. Set for Roundabout's The Language of Trees

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Michael Hayden Among Cast of Language of Trees for Roundabout Underground

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David Rasche Replaces Craig Bierko in MTC's To Be Or Not To Be

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David Rasche Replaces Craig Bierko in MTC's To Be or Not to Be on Broadway

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Bierko Withdraws from To Be or Not to Be; Rasche Joins Cast

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Haley Joel Osment to Join Broadway Revival ofAmerican Buffalo

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"Sixth Sense" Star Osment to Make Broadway Debut in American Buffalo

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OSMENT: I SEE B'WAY AUDIENCES By MICHAEL RIEDEL
YOUNG STAR OF 'SIXTH' SENSE' IN MAMET PLAY

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Dolly Parton, '9 to 5' actor are fine By Diane Haithman

Country star arrives in L.A.; Mark Kudisch falls but is back in rehearsals.

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Vanities Will Arrive on Broadway in Winter 2009

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Vanities Musical Headed to Broadway in February 2009

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Vanities to Begin Broadway Previews on February 2

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Butler, Foote, Gasteyer, Ivey, Smith, Sun, Voytko, et al. Recieve Jeff Award Nominations

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Cate Blanchett Coming to BAM and Kennedy Center in A Streetcar Named Desire

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Break Out to Play Union Square Theatre

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Break Out, from Creators of Jump, Headed Off-Broadway

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Break Out, from Jump Creators, to Play Off-Broadway's Union Square

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Gasteyer, Griffin, Ivey, Letts and Smith Among 2008 Jefferson Award Nominees

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Harris and Chalke to Host Creative Arts Emmy Awards Sept. 20

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Allen to Set Sail in World Premiere of Sea Change in Los Angeles

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Tix for Broadway Shows Will Soon Be Available on New York-Bound Flights

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Norment Begins a Secret Journey at Berkshire Theatre Festival Aug. 26

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"I'd Do Anything" Winner Prenger Joins Cast of London's Les Miz Aug. 26

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"Grapes of Wrath" CD Event, with Tony Winner Clark, Presented at Barnes & Noble Aug. 26

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Clear the Tracks!: LuPone Gypsy Arrives on CD Aug. 26

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Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 26

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Talk Show Watch: Kristin Chenoweth on "Jimmy Kimmel," Daniel Radcliffe on "Conan O'Brien"

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Halston, Benjamin, Korbich, Ziemba and More Will Help Raise Funds for NYMF's About Face

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Martin, Brady, Torres and Greaves Cast in NYMF's Bubble

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Broadway Cares Auctions "Project Runway" Drag Designs

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Toronto Engagement of Jersey Boys Extended

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Irons, Lehrer, Norris, Roeder, Stoltenberg and Walker Set for Second City at Alliance

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Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Partial Comfort's Kidstuff Premiere

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'Chat' with the Jersey Boys

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Linn Maxwell to Star in Lilli Marlene at the Abingdon

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Lilli Marlene, Featuring WWII Hits, to Play Off-Broadway's Havoc Theatre

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Chester Theatre Company: This new 'House' barely stands By Jeffrey Borak

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'Bash'd' takes on anti-gay violence By Matt Windman (***)

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THE SIEGEL COLUMN By Barbara & Scott Siegel

The Siegels try on Summer Shorts 2, give Dog Day Afternoon a pet, and give hell to Give 'Em Hell, Harry!.

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Hamlet

This production will be coming to London in November and it will be fascinating to see how David Tennant's Hamlet matures. He already speaks the verse beautifully and clearly, and the depth of emotional content…

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