Habit Forming: Whoopi Goldberg to Produce London Premiere of Sister Act

Sister Act: The Musical to Begin London Run in May

Metropolitan Opera Cancels Ghosts of Versailles Revival

John Cudia to Headline Phantom of the Opera Tour

Toronto's Sound of Music Gets Added Weeks, to March 2009

CBS' "Thanksgiving Day Parade" Broadcast to Feature Mary Poppins, Grease and Aiken

Dugan, Foote, Kerr, Preston and Rogers to Embark on Rough Crossing at Yale Rep

Dugan, Kerr, Rogers, Stuhr, et al. Set for Yale Rep's Rough Crossing

Bates, Kennedy, Thomas, et al. Set for Kennedy Center's The Trumpet of the Swan

Norman and Brown's Trumpet of the Swan to Feature Bates, Kennedy, Thomas and Willard

[title of show] Cast to Join NYC Gay Men's Chorus for December Holiday Concert

[title of show] Cast to Join NYC Gay Men's Chorus for Holiday Concert

Streep Eyeing Role in Film of "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat"

Barbara Cook CD Signing and Performance Canceled for Nov. 13

Equus Expands Student Rush Ticket Policy

The Office's Melora Hardin to Debut in Chicago

Melora Hardin to Join Broadway's Chicago on December 29

Daisey's If You See Something Say Something Filmed at Joe's Pub

PHOTO CALL: Saturn Returns Enjoys Starry Opening Night

PHOTO CALL: Revival of Rabe's Streamers Opens Off-Broadway

What Crisis? Producer Friedman Flourishes as Markets Crumble
Interview by Warwick Thompson

The Great White Way Impacted By The Wall Street Crunch By: Donna Karger

Weiner Named Chairman of TDF's Board of Trustees

Zoe Kazan, Charles L. Mee, Naomi Wallace Are Among 2009 Humana Fest Writers

Bogart, Kazan, Mee, Wallace, Yew, et al. Set for Humana Festival

Kennedy Chief Comes to an Opera's Rescue By Anne Midgette

Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser will help the New York City Opera find its footing after its season was suspended and its artistic director quit.

NEH Chairman Bruce Cole Will Leave Post in January By Jacqueline Trescott

Obituary: Nicolas Bataille by Ronald Bergan

Director of The Bald Prima Donna, the world's longest-running play at the same venue

Robin R. Farquhar, Executive Director of NC's Flat Rock Playhouse, Dead at 59

"Office" Star Hardin to Make Broadway Debut in Chicago

"Rosie Live" Variety Special to Feature Ne-Yo and Alanis Morissette

Rosie's Gala to Feature Tribute to Rivera with Neuwirth, Ebersole and West Side Story Cast

Ebersole, Neuwirth, O'Donelll, Rivera Set for Building Dreams for Kids Gala

Theater Director Resigns Amid Gay-Rights Ire By JESSE MCKINLEY

Theater exec Eckern, caught in Prop. 8 flap, resigns By Marcus Crowder

Supporters rally behind departed theater director By Jennifer Garza

Theater felt growing pressure before artistic director quit By Marcus Crowder

Culture Monster: Sacramento theater director who donated to Prop. 8 faced storm of criticism

Editorial: Bitterness serves no one's interest
OPPONENTS OF PROP. 8 NEED TO BUILD SUPPORT, NOT DRIVE IT AWAY

This won't help by Kel Munger

VIDEO FEATURES : In Rehearsal: On the Town at City Center's Encores!

Interview with Tony Yazbeck on On the Town by Matt Windman

Wink, wink, nudge nudge: Big-budget 'Dress for Dinner' brings back farce by Chris Jones

LIZ SMITH
NOTHING BUMPY ABOUT THIS NIGHT

FRESH FACE: Get to know the new Elphaba! Marcie Dodd's road to Wicked

Video Feature: Mary Me! By: Meredith Ganzman, Edward Highfield, and Jordan Neuren

Scarlett Strallen and Adam Fiorentino take over the leading roles in the Broadway production of Mary Poppins.

13: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown mines the thrilling, awkward, angst-ridden adolescent years in his new musical, 13.

Always the Twain shall meet during a busy stage weekend By Peter D. Kramer

Tarell McCraney, once an assistant to August Wilson, is a playwright to watch By Christopher Rawson

'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' starts its run here By Mary Carole McCauley

The Hippodrome launches the touring musical 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' - which is far from two sizes too small

No script, no problem By Wendy Rosenfield

Ask Matt Nelson, executive producer of this week's Fourth Annual Philadelphia Improv Festival, if he has seen growth in the city's improv scene since the first festival, and you get one word: astronomical.

Hard Work: It's Overratedby Simi Horwitz

'August' cast heads to London by Chris Jones

PHOTO CALL: The 24th Annual Artios Awards

PHOTO CALL: Hairspray Welcome Back Harvey Fierstein

Those Who Traffic in Spin Can Get Caught in the Cycle By BEN BRANTLEY

The creators of "Farragut North" are wagering that there are people still in the throes of election fever, hungry for another fix of strategy parsing.

'Farragut North' turns politics into power play by Joe Dziemianowicz (****)

HEAD 'NORTH' FOR POLITICAL INTRIGUE By FRANK SCHECK (***)

Review of Farragut North by Matt Windman (3 out of 4 Stars)

'Farragut North' examines political dirty doings By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

Even if you are exhausted after the recent never-ending presidential campaign - which seemed to have had a longer run than "Cats" - you will find yourself drawn into "Farragut North," Beau W…

'Law & Order' star shows dark side of White House race BY ROBERT FELDBERG

Take "Farragut North" as a well-crafted tale of mischief, manipulation and misdeeds, all in the cause of winning. Machiavelli would have approved.

Farragut North

John Gallagher Jr. is terrific as a cocky, egotistical Pol. So are his fellow cast members.

Farragut North
Reviewed by: David Finkle

Beau Willimon's political drama is so well-conceived and persuasively written that audiences will be jarred into shock and awe.

Farragut North
Review by David Rooney

Even for those of us who overdosed in recent weeks on a compulsive diet of MSNBC and CNN, and who may now be cautiously ready to renew our faith in the system, "Farragut North" is juicy ente…

Farragut North - Reviewed by DAVID A. ROSENBERG

Named for a Metro stop on the Washington underground, the one closest to K Street lobbyists and think tanks, "Farragut North" is a shallow play given an absorbing production.

Reviews: 'Farragut North,' 'Mindgame' BY LINDA WINER

The serious comedy, which Mike Nichols was originally rumored to be staging on Broadway before the election, opened instead at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theatre Company as a spy-versus-spy-ver…

Farragut North
Review by Matthew Murray

Even if the elections had gone a different way, Farragut North's leaps of fantasy would have left relevancy stranded in the dust with Bob Barr and Cynthia McKinney.

Shogun Macbeth
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Pan Asian Repertory's sometimes inspired production transposes Shakespeare's play to 12th-century Japan.

Shogun Macbeth - Reviewed by RON COHEN

The tale of bloody ambition fits comfortably in this feudal militaristic environment and at the same time is infused with intriguingly different cultural dimensions.

Shogun Macbeth
Review by Cindy Pierre

This production clearly has hard workers on its side, but the relocation of the story to 12th century Japan (Kamakura Period) is overwrought and inconsistent.

Did Someone Say an Impossible Dream? Not Anymore By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Brian Stokes Mitchell seized the moment on Tuesday evening when he opened a too-short five-night engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.

Brian Stokes Mitchell: Songs... I Like to Sing
Review By STEVEN SUSKIN

Mitchell's singing and acting abilities are no secret to those who have seen him onstage and in concert, but he is at his best in this perfectly assembled and performed 85 minutes.

Gethsemane
Review By DAVID BENEDICT

Given its highly pertinent subject -- fund-raising and its effect upon political parties -- "Gethsemane," David Hare's 14th play for the National Theater, is unsurprisingly swarming with str…

An Antiwar Revival By WILBORN HAMPTON

Joe Calacro's peculiar yet impassioned revival of "Bury the Dead" for the Transport Group Theater Company turns its attention to modern-day Iraq.

What You See By JASON ZINOMAN

With "The Footage," Joshua Scher has written a play, but you get the sense that he would have preferred it to be a movie.

A Steady Howl at the World By RACHEL SALTZ

For all its fights, blood and drunken vomit, "Made in Poland" is a talky, often didactic piece, and its punky rage wears thin,

Mountain Jews - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

From its title on, "Mountain Jews" is as devoid of plot and purpose as it is of taste.

Short Stuff 5: Plays by Women - Reviewed by NICOLE VILLENEUVE

These six one-acts are united by gender: All the contributing playwrights are women. But while the theme is a pertinent one - the gender divide in the field of playwriting is still painfully…

Twelfth Night
Review by Cindy Pierre

This production is contemporary, accessible, and plays up all the comedic overtones.

Liza Skinner stars as a swashbuckler in 'The Three Musketeers' by Peter Filichia

Vietnam-era play has lost much impact BY ROBERT FELDBERG

The revival of "Streamers," which opened Tuesday night at the Laura Pels Theatre, demonstrates how hard it is to recapture the past.

Perky 'High School Musical' Helps Ease Paper Mill's Fiscal Pain
Review by Philip Boroff

It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues and High School Musical
New Jersey Reviews by Bob Rendell

The Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Reviewed by: Brian Scott Lipton

This entertaining and fast-paced holiday extravaganza makes great use of the Rockettes.

CABARET REVIEW: Karen Mason returns with gutsy abandon By Howard Reich

Joanne Woodward and James Naughton to Headline Westport's A Holiday Garland

Naughton and Woodward to Wrap A Holiday Garland Around Westport

Tale of Two Cities' Lazar Joins Broadway Unplugged Line-Up

Brown, Cavenaugh, Kudisch, Lazar, Murney, et al. Set for Broadway Unplugged

Astin, Borle, Callaway, de Jesus, Huffman, et al. Set for Bound for Broadway

Agutter, Goodman, Hartnett, et al. Set for Old Vic's 24 Hour Plays

Cooper and Carney Will Join Oscar Winners Mirren and Irons in Taymor's "Tempest"

South London Theatre to Offer Jerry Herman Tribute

Jana Robbins to Direct Little Women Musical

Rock Experience The Hole to Play Laurie Beechman Nov. 15

A Night For Understudies And Standbys: Theater And Dance Shows Galore This Week By DONNA LARCEN

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Sarah Ruhl to Appear at Drama Book Shop on November 18

FX's Damages to Begin New Season on January 7

John Melendez and Ming Na to Star in Grease Benefit

Chernus, Rapp, Sparks to Appear in Astroland at the Kitchen

Cutrell Will Be Feelin' Frosty at Feinstein's in December

The Broadway Boys to Offer Holiday Concert at Birdland in December

Cook Celebrates New CD, "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," Nov. 13 at NYC Barnes & Noble

Engquist and Lebeaux Set for Free Songbook Concert Nov. 24

Memorial for Harry S. Gold, Disney Theatricals Executive, Set for Nov. 17

Cast Announced for World Premiere of Gurney's A Light Lunch at Flea Theater

New Grant Helps Human Race Create "Musicals in Development" Arm

Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 13

Daly Draws on Family Memories for New Musical Daly News, Starting Nov. 13

"Electricity": Billy Elliot-The Musical Opens on Broadway Nov. 13

Sheik and Pritchard Perform in Concert Nov. 13 at Town Hall

"This New Jerusalem": Menken and Rice's Updated King David Rules NYU Nov. 13-14

Nachtrieb's boom, with Krich, Garrison and Rives, Begins Seattle Rep Engagement Nov. 13

Pittsburgh Favorite Ruoti Is Lady With All the Answers, Nov. 13-Dec. 14

Tony Producers Dropped From Show
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Wasser Associates to Replace McCann in Managing Tony Awards