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Thursday, October 2, 2008 at midnight (Broadway Time)

LAT Review of the World Premiere of Itamar Moses' Back Back Back at the Old Globe by Charles McNulty, Times Theater Critic

Follies - The Lyric Stage Company of Boston Reviewed by David Hurst

A Chorus Line - The Boston Opera House Reviewed by David Hurst

The Light in the Piazza - SpeakEasy Stage Reviewed by David Hurst

Handel's Messiah Rocks - Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College Reviewed by David Hurst

Cirque du Soleil's Kooza - Grand Chapiteau at the Bayside Expo Center Reviewed by David Hurst

The New York 40 Adam Rapp: Playwright, daydreamer by Helen Shaw

Russian Roulette, by David Cote

Philadelphia's ingenious Pig Iron Theatre Company performs brain surgery on Chekhov.

Music Man

Photos of shows written by the composer Jason Robert Brown.

If Only the Cool Kids Could See Him Now (at Least Hear His Songs), by Bruce Weber

Adolescent anxiety is the subject of 13, Jason Robert Brown's new Broadway musical.

Richard III Haunts West End Theatre Beginning Oct. 2

Elaine Paige Memoir, Memories, Arrives in U.K. Stores Oct. 2

Ludwig's Three Musketeers Kicks Off Seattle Rep Season Oct. 2

Malick and Shaughnessy Star in Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas Reading Oct. 2

Little Shop of Horrors Takes Root at Engeman Oct. 2

Parson-Directed Radio Golf Completes Wilson Cycle at Pittsburgh Public Oct. 2-Nov. 2

Graff, Ashmanskas, Brescia, Osnes, von Essen Explore Broadway: Three Generations Oct. 2-5

Free Bryant Park Concert, The Bernstein Songbook, Offered Oct. 2

Soho Rep Offers New York Premiere of Controversial Blasted Beginning Oct. 2

Off-Broadway Revival of Blessing's Two Rooms Begins Oct. 2

Boys' Life, with Biggs, Coiro and Scanavino, Begins Off-Broadway Run Oct. 2

Seagull Revival, with Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard, Opens on Broadway Oct. 2

Rob Guest, Australian Stage Star, Dies at 57

Hoffman and Collette to Voice "Mary and Max" Film

Latta, Bates, Chadsey and Wool to Explore Love in Blind.ness at PS 122

Let The Names Begin by Army Archerd

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STAGE THROAT

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Midwest Resident Theatres Explored on Oct. 3 "Theater Talk"

Gervais, Goldberg, Philbin, Pinette, Springsteen Set for NYCF's Stand Up For Heroes

Arnold, Lamon, Milo Set for Engeman's Little Shop

American Idol's Anwar Robinson to Star in Syracuse Stage's Godspell

Aiello, Cook, Cooper, Drake, et al. to Appear at Theatre Museum Awards

Di Mabro, LaBarrie, Nugent, et al. Set for London's Rue Magique

Arias with a Twist CD Is Now Available

Lilies Reading Will Feature Domingo and Keenan-Bolger Oct. 20

Chalfant Will Join Glover in Culture Project's Emmett Reading

Sadly, Hartford's Artworks Is No More
Frank Rizzo | TICKER

Halbach and Rakel Cast in Off-Broadway's The Affair in 22B

Pastore and Aiello to Star in Off-Broadway's Lamppost Reunion

Vincent Pastore to Star in Lamppost Reunion Revival

Who's Who of Elizabethan England Is Cast in Marlowe Murder Mystery School of Night, at Taper

Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Mark Taper's The School of Night

Never Forget Cancels Transfer to London's Lyric Theatre; Tour Planned

Julie Andrews to Receive 2008 National Arts Lifetime Achievement Award

James Earl Jones to Be Honored with 2008 SAG Life Achievement Award

James Earl Jones to Receive SAG's Lifetime Achievement Award

Mary Testa and Alison Fraser: Together Again - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

This show, which deserves better than a two-night booking, is a retrospective of songwriter Rusty McGee, and I challenge anyone to rack his or her brain for a better pair to demonstrate how vital the late tunes…

Punch Lines, Torch Songs and Plenty of Scatting By STEPHEN HOLDEN

On Monday evening at Smoke, Lea DeLaria and a jazz trio performed two sets of songs that focused on material from her new album.

Review: The English Channel By Rob Weinert-Kendt

Review: Close Ties By Alexis Soloski

Review: Irena's Vow By Alexander Nazaryan

In Conflict, A Soldiers' Play By Alexis Soloski

Equus, The Tempest, and The Glass Cage-Old Texts That Need Some Old-Style Theatrical Flair By Michael Feingold

Lost Universe: The World Goes Round by David Anthony Fox

I thought Prince's mission was to cultivate interesting new work. Nothing here qualifies.

Rock in a Hard Place: Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll by Mark Cofta

Supporting performances, particularly by Mary McCool as a frisky academic and Ryan Farley as Jan's closest friend, emphasize the human dimensions of a typically dizzying Stoppard script.

Stage by J. Cooper Robb

Rock 'n' Roll; Herringbone

Without its high roller, 'Legally Blonde' falls flat By Mary Carole McCauley

Musical based on hit Witherspoon film isn't as charming

"FANCY BOYS FOLLIES - XXX Rated" - Review by Oscar E Moore

Perhaps if you saw this show on Fire Island, at midnight, in a bar, drunk or stoned you could appreciate the cockamamie shenanigans goings on. No pun intended.

The Canterville Ghost
Review by Fred Sokol

A Cause for Celebration: Return of The Colored Museum and the Crossroads Theatre Company by Bob Rendell

Flip Side
Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

For all its yearning, "Flip Side" plays like a romp.

Cosmic questions by Peter Filichia

'Defying Gravity' weighs the value of life in a space-age society

Aliens with Extraordinary Skills

A highly entertaining piece of work, but it is unlikely to move anyone to outrage or action.

Aliens With Extraordinary Skills
Review By SAM THIELMAN

At last, a play for the Moldovan balloon wrangler in all of us. Saviana Stanescu's "Aliens With Extraordinary Skills" is about as structurally sound as an old cobweb, but, like a cobweb, it's hard not to take a…

Aliens with Extraordinary Skills
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Saviana Stanescu's whimsical romantic comedy follows a pair of illegal immigrants trying to find love and permanent residency in the U.S.

Kafka on the Shore
Review By STEVEN OXMAN

Audacious in its ambition but not fully satisfying in its execution, Frank Galati's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's vastly evocative novel "Kafka on the Shore" possesses plenty to admire but not quite enough to…

Joe's Garage
Review By TERRY MORGAN

Pat Towne and Michael Franco's adaptation of "Garage" into a two-act musical is properly respectful of its source material, and the world premiere production by the Open Fist Theater Company is lively and provo…

The Civilians' This Beautiful City
Review By BOB VERINI

Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis weave first-person interviews in Christian boomtown Colorado Springs, conducted by theatrical community activists the Civilians, into a fascinating crazy quilt on faith's role in Ame…

Turn of the Century
Reviewed by: Jonathan Abarbanel

Rachel York and Jeff Daniels give dazzling star turns in this entertaining but not-yet-ready-for Broadway musical about a pair of songwriters transported back in time.

Creditors
Review By DAVID BENEDICT

It's a test of controlled power, and Alan Rickman's grippingly acted production for the Donmar Warehouse pulls it off with exhilarating intensity.

LAST CHANCE: Fela!, What's That Smell, English Channel and NYMF

Shindle to Host "Next Broadway Sensation" Finale Oct. 3

Kate Shindle to Host NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation Finals on October 3

Cyclone and the Pig-Faced Lady - Reviewed by A.J. MELL

Any musical that rhymes "coup d'état" with "Wonderbra" obviously has something going for it, though this fantasy of Coney Island in the 1920s works better as a live-action cartoon than as an evocation of…

That Other Woman's Child - Reviewed by LISA JO SAGOLLA

A foot-stomping, Bible-pounding, down-home country musical set in the back hills of Kentucky, That Other Woman's Child features a delightful score of bluegrass dance tunes and country-western ballads, anthems, …

Idaho!
She Can't Believe She Said That!
Reviews by Matthew Murray

Enter Singing: Giant Bedbugs, Fancy Boys, Bank Robbers, Potato Farmers By ANITA GATES

There are two big messages in this year's New York Musical Theater Festival: Nobody wants to be in 2008 New York. Everybody is gay.

Wig Out! Gets Two-Week Extension at Vineyard Theatre

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