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"We don't ever speak about the BTF and the history of the BTF without mentioning Bill Gibson's name," said Kate Maguire, current artistic director at the BTF, in an interview on Friday.

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Editorial: William Gibson

The writer, who died Tuesday at the age of 94, leaves behind a great body of work and a theater, the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, that will long bear his stamp.

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Australia
Reviewed by: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

Hugh Jackman's considerable sex appeal can't save Baz Luhrmann's bloated film about an unlikely Down Under romance.

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THE TWO OF CLUBS By Barbara & Scott Siegel

Just some of the recent acts playing the Big Rooms: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Chita Rivera, and Steve Tyrell

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Broadway Unplugged
Review By ROBERT L. DANIELS

In the treasured tradition of such lusty baritones as Alfred Drake and John Raitt, among others, performers and gypsies sang with Merman-esque grandeur in the fifth annual edition of Broadway Unplugged, the onl…

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Show Tunes in Zany, Chatty, Romantic and Distinctly New York Hues By STEPHEN HOLDEN

"Together Again," a revue of the songs of the theater composer Rusty Magee, is part memorial, part living room musicale.

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Music Review | Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch
A Fat Box of Money Joins the List of Seasonal Treats By STEPHEN HOLDEN

When Christine Ebersole liberates her inner nightingale in "Winter Wonderland," the amiable new holiday show at Birdland, she instantly transforms into a musical comedy whirlwind.

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I Hear America Singing By Eric Grode & Dan Kois

Road Show almost gets its motor running this time. Plus: Cedric the Entertainer plays Mamet cool.

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Southern Comforts, The Seafarer an Mauritius by Bob Rendell

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A Christmas Eve Turning Grimmer With Each Hand By ANITA GATES

"The Seafarer," by Conor McPherson, is at the George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, through Dec. 14.

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In a Poker Game With the Devil, Count Luck Out By Sylviane Gold

"The Seafarer," by Conor McPherson, is at TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl St., Hartford, through Dec. 21.

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Xanadu
Reviewed by: Rob Stevens

The national tour of the Broadway musical adaptation of the notorious 1980 film flop is a sublimely cast funfest.

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Cape Disappointment
Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

The Debate Society's latest offering is more notable for its design and its acting than its storylines.

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A Smooth Snow Job By TERRY TEACHOUT

Broadway's "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" is a genuinely old-fashioned musical, knowing but not condescending.

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Getting It White By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

Danny Burstein, Brian d'Arcy James, Blythe Danner, Christine Ebersole, Sutton Foster, Ana Gasteyer, Beth Leavel, Joan Rivers, Vanessa Williams, and more stars come out for the opening of Irving Berlin's White Christmas.

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PHOTO OP : White Christmas's Broadway Debut Warms Up a Frigid Night

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FEATURE : Broadway.com Opening Night Special: White Christmas

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PHOTO OP : A Big Helping of Grease on Thanksgiving

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Letter
From Page to Stage: Re-imagining Literature

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ON THE SCENE: "ROAD SHOW" OPENING NIGHT

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PAGE SIX

DANIEL Radcliffe, whose character in "Equus" is hung up on horses, went with the whole cast and crew of the Broadway show to see real ones at Lionshare Farm in Greenwich, Conn., owned by Peter Leone, an Olympic…

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From Dracula to Nixon

Frank Langella has an affinity for playing outsiders and flawed individuals, he says. His latest cinematic outlier is President Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."

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Hollywood's Bull Market in Ego By DAVID CARR

Blanchett, DiCaprio, Hathaway, Hoffman, Langella, Penn, Pitt, Streep, Winslet: The Carpetbagger asks who will walk the red carpet with a statue at stake?

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Reese Witherspoon, Kristin Chenoweth forging family ties in 'Four Christmases' movie by John M. Urbancich

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Chenoweth Has Christmas Covered By Ellen McCarthy

It will be, we predict, a Kristin Chenoweth Christmas.

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FEATURE : 10 Broadway Reasons To Be Thankful

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FEATURE : Memories of Gerald Schoenfeld from Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Elizabeth Ashley & More

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Comeback queens Tina Turner, Liza Minelli and Stockard Channing to play NYC shows BY PATRICK HUGUENIN

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TREASURED ISLAND By JENNIFER CEASER
CHRISTOPHER SIEBER'S LAKESIDE CABIN IS FIT FOR A FAIRYTALE

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FRESH FACE : Claybourne Elder

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Q&A : Campbell Scott

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Back to Normal By: Dan Bacalzo

Tom Kitt talks about the development of the rock musical Next to Normal, now receiving a Washington D.C. premiere at Arena Stage in revised form.

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On the Milk Train By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

Sean Penn, Alison Pill, James Franco, Josh Brolin, and Gus Van Sant discuss the making of the film Milk.

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Video Feature
Meeting Christopher Gattelli By: Valerie Smaldone and Joe Tavano

The noted choreographer and director talks about his experiences as a childhood actor, working with Rosie O'Donnell, picking the kids for the Broadway musical 13, and realizing his dream of staging Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.

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Behind Enemy Lines By: Brian Scott Lipton

Jonathan Groff leaves musical theater behind to star in the new play Prayer for My Enemy and the film Taking Woodstock.

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Five Card Studs: Harvey Fierstein's Poker Game by Spencer Morgan

Every week these beaux of Broadway deal and dish for high stakes

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Dreams Come True By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

Clay Aiken, Linda Dano, Fran Drescher, Jane Fonda, Carlos Gomez, Tom Hulce, Michael Mayer, Terrence McNally, and Chita Rivera help make Rosie O'Donnell's Building Dreams For Kids gala a smashing success.

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PHOTO OP : Broadway Stars Shine at Rosie O'Donnell's Benefit Gala

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Rosie Live: Words Fail Me by James Poniewozik

Rosie is just too Broadway for America. And Broadway people in the entertainment business-people like Rosie who literally appear on Broadway, or simply old-fashioned showbiz types who love a big gala stage show-often fail to understand that Broadway is no longer mainstream American entertainment.

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