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Business-as-usual in a good way, this typical evening of genteel audience grilling and occasional song should pull in plenty of prior converts and their friends on the road for months to come.

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The Arabian Nights
Review By DENNIS HARVEY

Applying the writer-director's signature polyglot style to a few of the "thousand and one" tales, this ingenious entertainment travels to co-producers Kansas City Rep and Chicago's Lookingglass Theater Company'…

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The Family Reunion
Review By DAVID BENEDICT

One-part Greek tragedy rewrite, one-part country-house mystery, one-part social satire, this forbidding cocktail of metaphysics needs a firm directorial hand. Mercifully, the Donmar Warehouse revival has an A-g…

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Big Ideas, Small Stages By Eric Grode

Where the curtain goes up on eye-opening work.

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Capital Campaign By Leonard Jacobs

The D.C. theatre market is all about being a self-starter.

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Langella's Shrewd Nixon Matches Wits With Sheen's Playboy Frost By Rick Warner

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Langella is perfectly clear: Nixon role proves haunting By Anthony Breznican

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Backstage: Bill Berloni Trains Rescue Dogs for the Stage and Screen By Jane Horwitz

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Loose Lips By: Brian Scott Lipton

Hunter Foster gets ready for a Dust up; Jackie Hoffman hits Bottom; and Simon Jones prepares to show his Spirit.

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Peter Filichia's Diary: Broadway University Pop Quiz

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Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77 By TIM WEINER

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John Barrowman "flashes" on BBC Radio 1: a load of fuss about nothing? by John Plunkett

Torchwood star "flashes" on BBC shock! But John Barrowman was on the radio when he exposed his "fruit and nuts" so no-one saw anything. I could not even draw you an artist's impression. So why is everyone apolo…

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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

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Trouble in San Jose
Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

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Editorial: A sad loss of a venerable SJ theater group

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Atlanta's role in 'Tarzan' blamed in theater's downfall By Wendell Brock

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More Guys, More Dolls
Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

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Bierko, Graham, Grant, Platt Set for Broadway's Guys and Dolls

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Bierko and Grant Will Create Chemistry in Guys and Dolls

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Craig Bierko and Kate Jennings Grant to Star in Guys and Dolls

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Pennette pinned to trio of projects By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER

Pennette also is expanding to stage: Scribe is close to signing on to write the book for a musical based on "The Flintstones."
The legit production, aimed at Broadway, will come from Warner Bros. Theater Ventures. Pennette was brought in by Marks, who's writing the music and lyrics with Jake Anthony. Gary Griffin ("The Color Purple") is directing.

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