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Never content to rest on its laurels, this year's splendid "Radio City Christmas Spectacular" builds on last year's reimagined and reinvigorated 75th-anniversary model.

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Songs of Speculation, Found in Unlikely Places By STEPHEN HOLDEN

When belting in the expansive chest voice that dominated Wednesday's show at the Metropolitan Room, Baby Jane Dexter exerted a formidable command.

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Andrea Marcovicci Sings Movies II - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

The has-no-bad-angles Marcovicci is singing better and better these days. In her latest show, she rises to her usual level and beyond it.

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Saturn Returns

Noah Haidle's brief, wistful and melancholy brings an astrological aspect into play.

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HEARING IS BELIEVING by MATT WINDMAN

Absurd comedy and melancholy are center stage in What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling.

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'Hairspray' at the Walnut: You can't stop the beat By Toby Zinman

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Culture Monster: Theater review: 'Joy Luck Club' at East West Players by F. Kathleen Foley

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Rollicking One-Man Show About More Than It's About By NEIL GENZLINGER

Mike Birbiglia's pacing is simply perfect in "Sleepwalk With Me," his funny, appealing one-man show at the Bleecker Street Theater.

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Gloomy Gorilla, Fruity Hats Add Spice to Vienna Theater Scene
Review by Larry L. Lash

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Hare Satirizes Sleaze, Czar Boris Intrigues: London Theater By Warwick Thompson

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The Blue Dragon
Review By BOB VERINI

Personal appearances by true theatrical visionaries are rare enough that attention must be paid, even when the work at hand is less than their seamless best.

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Culture Monster: Theater review: 'The Blue Dragon' at UCLA Live by Charlotte Stoudt

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Sex Without the Shame, but Not Without the Consequences By RACHEL SALTZ

"Sexual Neuroses," an Electric Pear production directed by Kristjan Thor, is a serious, thematically layered work that should be more interesting than it is.

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IF John McCain had won the election, Alan Cumming wouldn't be an American.

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Can't just drop in on a 6-hour show By Chris Jones

If you want to see "Gatz," the Elevator Repair Service show based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and coming to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art for three performances next weekend, start carvin…

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LIZA TAKES PAGE FROM HER OWN LIFE

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'American Buffalo' stars feast on diversity By Elysa Gardner

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Kalember psyched for comedic 'Dinner' role BY HEDY WEISS

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Life's not a beach for in-demand Morton By Carolyn See

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From 'CSI' to Steppenwolf, William Petersen's journey BY HEDY WEISS

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Karl Marx in a Tutu By TERRY TEACHOUT

I've seen my share of bad Broadway musicals, but I can't recall one that was quite so vulgar and bogus as "Billy Elliot."

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Billy Elliot: The Musical
Review by Matthew Murray

A hit in London, where it opened three years ago and continues to run, this show is comparatively lean pickings for Americans raised on dynamism-defining dance titles like On the Town, West Side Story, and A Ch…

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Broadway staging overwhelms 'Billy Elliot: The Musical' By CHARLES McNULTY

A smash in London ever since its West End premiere in 2005, "Billy Elliot" arrives at the Imperial Theatre with its parts intact but its spirit plasticized and pasted with glitter.

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'Rocky' in toe shoes By Howard Shapiro

Broadway's 'Billy Elliot' has all the right moves.

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Smashing 'Billy Elliot' Shows The Theatrical Powers Of Stephen Daldry By MALCOLM JOHNSON

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'Billy Elliot' is the Broadway season's first big musical hit By Jacques le Sourd

"Billy Elliot," the heavenly musical that opened last night at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, arrives with exquisite timing.

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Billy Elliot' is great fun, choreographed not to end BY ROBERT FELDBERG

It pumps fresh life into the crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned, traditional musical.

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A warmhearted 'Billy Elliot' dances to Broadway By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

It's not often that a musical comes along that is as ambitious as it is emotional - and then succeeds on both counts.

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Billy Elliot: The Musical
Review By DAVID ROONEY

Who would have guessed that a musical in which conservative economic policies deal a death blow to the working class could be such an uplifting experience?

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Billy Elliot: The Musical
Reviewed by: David Finkle

The Elton John-Lee Hall musical adaptation of the hit film about an English boy who decides to become a ballet dancer is gangbuster entertainment.

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Review: Billy Elliot By Thom Geier (B+)

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'Billy Elliot' musical taps into the hope and energy of youth By Elysa Gardner (*** out of four)

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An unbridled 'Billy Elliot' springs itself on Broadway by Chris Jones (*** 1/2)

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Review of Billy Elliot: The Musical by Matt Windman (4 out of 4 Stars)

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ELTON'S TINY-DANCER SHOW RAISES THE BARRE By BARBARA HOFFMAN (****)

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Fabulous film may be even better in musical stage production by Joe Dziemianowicz

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Billy Elliot: London's Hit Musical Scores on Broadway By Richard Zoglin

Billy Elliot does almost everything a musical should do, and more. It's a diplomatic triumph.

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Billy Elliot: The Musical - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

What could easily have become a feel-good treacle fest - particularly with Elton John composing the music - turns out to be one of the smartest and most satisfying Broadway musicals in years.

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'Billy Elliot,' Coal Miner's Son, Leaps to Heights: John Simon

"Billy Elliot" -- London's long-running hit with Elton John's music, finally replicated on Broadway -- really does have something for everyone, and that something is, gloriously, art.

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Review: 'Billy Elliot' BY LINDA WINER

Broadway's long, dark, dry spell of big, smart, smash musicals is officially over. "Billy Elliot," the 2005 London adaptation of the 2000 movie, finally arrived in a production as seriously thrilling as it is d…

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In Hard Times, Born to Pirouette By BEN BRANTLEY

Much of the power of "Billy Elliot" as an honest tear-jerker lies in its ability to give equal weight to the sweet dreams of terpsichorean flight and the sourness of a dream-denying reality.

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Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil
'Billy Elliot' - Early front-runner at next year's Tonys

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FOX411 By Roger Friedman
Elton John Taps Out Broadway Smash

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Elton John celebrates 'Billy Elliot' on Broadway By ERIN CARLSON

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PARALLEL SONS

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'Billy Elliot' Makes The Leap To Broadway by Jeff Lunden

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Audio Slide Show: Billy on Broadway

Stephen Daldry talks about directing the musical "Billy Elliot."

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Could Billy be the next to defy gravity?

The producers of "Billy Elliot" are currently in negotiation to bring the musical to Chicago. Here's why the show could be the next "Wicked."

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DOLLAR 'BILLY' LEAPS TO MINE By MICHAEL RIEDEL
B'WAY SUCCESS BEGAN IN THE BATH

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Two River Theater names managing director

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From the sky to the sea

Schramm stars in 'The Seafarer' after 'Wings'

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Peter Filichia's Diary: The Trial of Billy Elliot

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Gift ideas for theatergoers on your list
Linda Winer | Critical Mass

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The Curving Path to Road Show

Stephen Sondheim talks about his fascination with two American dreamers and how it led him and collaborator John Weidman down the long road to Road Show.

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DIVA TALK: Chatting with White Christmas' Kerry O'Malley Plus Fraser and Testa's Together Again

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Death Stalks ABC's 'Pushing Daisies' By Josef Adalian

According to industry sources familiar with the situation, ABC has decided not to produce any more episodes of the critically beloved show this season. Word of the show's apparent death began spreading around H…

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Arts, Briefly: Metropolitan Opera Still Looking for Savings By DANIEL J. WAKIN; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

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Met Opera to cut 'Ghosts' By RONALD BLUM

Cutting costs in the wake of the economic downturn, the Met is dropping next season's highly anticipated revival of John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles" that was to feature the company debut of Broadway…

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