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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at midnight (Broadway Time)

Arts, Briefly
A Role for John Malkovich: Unusual Subject, Unusual Play
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Burkhardt and Keeling to Guest Star in Barbour's The Holiday Concert at Sardi's

Keeling and Burkhardt to Guest at Barbour's Holiday Concerts

Spring Awakening Celebrates Second Broadway Anniversary Dec. 10

Bock's The Receptionist Opens at Trinity Rep Dec. 10

Chris and Gavin's Broadway Campaign '08 Plays the Beechman Dec. 10

Lively, Torti, Blanks and Seiden Sing in Smokey Joe's Café Beginning Dec. 10 in CA

Centerstage's Caroline, or Change, with Butler, McCreary, Mistretta, Greaves, Begins Dec. 10

Tveit, Spencer, Ripley Star in DC Run of Next to Normal, Opening Dec. 10

"Rosie the Riveter" Has a New Face in FL Premiere of Mezzulah, 1946, Starting Dec. 10

Taking Cue From Alger and Cohan, New Musical Bowery Boys Launches in Chicago Dec. 10

James and the Giant Peach, With Animation, Ripens at Philly's Arden Starting Dec. 10

Lopez, Garcia and Ortiz to Host In the Heights Workshop

Benford, Connolly, Pill and Perez Set for Free Reading of Social Services

Lark to Present Reading of Kapil's Agnes Under the Big Top, A Fairy Tale

Billy Elliot Star to Head to the Chatterbox Dec. 11

Luba Mason's "Krazy Love" Due in Stores in January 2009

Arnold, Casel, Duffy, La Touche, Murphy and More Will Be On Tap @ Joe's Pub

'Dirty Dancing': discount tickets by Chris Jones

Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Announces 2009 Season

Shakespeare season by Peter Filichia

Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Long Wharf Premiere of Athol Fugard's Coming Home

NY Mag Names Fela! Top Play for 2008; Actors LuPone, Esparza, Kazan, Marvel Also Cited

Billy, Catered Affair, Seagull, Road Show Among Associated Press' Top 10 of 2008

Reilly named Emelin's new executive director by Peter D. Kramer

DEATH CAMP FOR CUTIE By KYLE SMITH (** 1/2)

A better title for "The Reader" has already been used by another Kate Winslet film - "Hideous Kinky."

Innocence Is Lost in Postwar Germany By MANOHLA DARGIS

"The Reader" is a scrupulously tasteful film about an erotic affair that turns to love.

Thais
Reviewed by: David Finkle

The Metropolitan Opera's cheesy-looking production of Massenet's opera still works as a vehicle for star Renee Fleming.

Crafty sendup is anything but a drag By Louise Kennedy

You can go to a Gold Dust Orphans show, grab a drink or three, and have a raucous good time. But you can also watch it cold sober and have an even better time.

Masks That Reveal, Not Conceal By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

There is a moment in "The Only Tribe" when it seems as if there were going to be a giant brawl on the small stage.

Watch Out for Pipe Dreams: They Can Go Up in Smoke By RACHEL SALTZ

Daniel J. Travanti stars in Friendly Fire's bare-bones production of Eugene O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet."

Too Much Memory
Review By SAM THIELMAN

The result, though beautifully performed by Laura Heisler and Peter Jay Fernadez, loses the story's crucial ambiguity.

Too Much Memory - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson's contemporary version of "Antigone" wants to say something about politics and justice. But this retelling of the tragedy presents too many stereotypes to drive the issues home.

Too Much Memory

In case you're keeping a list of interesting smartly crafted and performed live theater offerings with tickets priced at a user-friendly $20, put this at the top of the list.

Too Much Memory
Review by Matthew Murray

Politics, like theatre, hasn't changed much in the last 2,500 years, but Too Much Memory gives both an invigorating new spin.

Too Much Memory
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson's vibrant re-working of Antigone successfully transposes the action to a modern setting.

Prayer for My Enemy - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

With this loony bunch, Craig Lucas is too obviously creating a microcosm of America. See how screwed up this country is, he metaphorically screams at us.

A family struggles to connect with each other By MICHAEL KUCHWARA

If "Prayer for My Enemy" ultimately proves too unwieldy for its own good, there are still the pleasures of watching these actors work their way through Lucas' thicket of words - as well as the evening's poignan…

Prayer for My Enemy
Review By DAVID ROONEY

Despite Bartlett Sher's customarily classy staging and a topnotch cast, most audiences will find themselves as unmoored as the characters.

MESSAGE LOST AMID THE MESS By FRANK SCHECK (**)

TO say a play is too ambitious seems churlish, but "Prayer for My Enemy" fairly begs the criticism.

Craig Lucas' 'Prayer for my Enemy' is unfocused by Joe Dziemianowicz (**)

The Silence and the Fury Within Six American Lives By BEN BRANTLEY

Anger is in the American bloodstream in "Prayer for My Enemy," the provocative, confused and confusing new play by Craig Lucas.

Prayer for My Enemy

Craig Lucas takes on the suburban American family and the effect of the Vietnam and Iraq wars on their innate dysfunctional tendencies.

Prayer For My Enemy
Review by Matthew Murray

Prayer for My Enemy is one of those plays that should only be examined whole - dissecting the individual pieces will only encourage your drowning in its stream of consciousness.

"Prayer For My Enemy" Works On Several Levels BY MALCOLM JOHNSON

Prayer for My Enemy
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Craig Lucas' thoughtful and engaging new play examines the damage we are capable of doing to one another, as well as our capacity for forgiveness.

Review: 'Prayer for My Enemy' BY LINDA WINER

In "Prayer for My Enemy," the multilayered, deeply unsettling and beautifully conceived new work at Playwrights Horizons, the small-town serenity barely covers the separate abysses where all six characters are …

Robert Prosky Dies at 77

Robert Prosky, Seasoned Actor of Stage, Film and Television, Dies at 77

Robert Prosky; D.C. Actor Appeared on 'Hill Street Blues' By Adam Bernstein

Appreciation: It Was Here Prosky Had True Presence By Peter Marks

Robert Prosky was round, and so was his talent. His name on a cast list was like the guarantee on the label of a premium brand: As you sat and waited for him to appear, you knew you could count on something sol…

PHOTO CALL: Dust Opens at the Westside Theatre

PHOTO CALL: The Black Monk Opens Off-Broadway

VIDEO FEATURES : Beyond Broadway: Home

VIDEO FEATURES : Spotlight On: Home

FEATURE : Musical Stocking Stuffers! Our Holiday CD Roundup

Fisher kept a dry sense of humor for 'Wishful Drinking' By Bob Minzesheimer

Peters' ode to a mutt BY MIKE KERWICK

Derek Jacobi : Olivier, Burton and me By Jasper Rees

Derek Jacobi talks about his illustrious acting career alongside Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton - and his new West End role as Malvolio in 'Twelfth Night'.

Doubt Director John Patrick Shanley: 'I Was Thrown Out of High School for Saying I Didn't Believe in God' by Irina Aleksander

Second to Nun By: Brian Scott Lipton

Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis talk about starring in the film version of Doubt.

'Boo, Hiss' Cry Fans as Villains Romp in Silly U.K. Pantos
Preview by Warwick Thompson

Backstage: Arena Stage Replaces 'Sweet Bird of Youth' With 'Looped,' Starring Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead By Jane Horwitz

ArtsBeat Blog
Theater for Holiday Haters 2: Jackie Beat and Mimi Imfurst By ERIK PIEPENBURG

The second entry in our series on holiday offerings for theater lovers who hate the holidays spotlights the drag queens Jackie Beat and Mimi Imfurst.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Marc Shaiman

Composer Marc Shaiman has a talent to stir up controversy, be it a live kiss with his partner on the Tony Awards or a public spat with fellow composer Michael John LaChiusa. But nothing tops his involvement in …

Peter Filichia's Diary: Gifts for Yours -- and You

Regional Theatre Holds Wake For Itself

Silicon Valley Theater Collapses, Blames 'Tarzan' Co-Producer By Philip Boroff

Broadway hit by downturn By Tom Leonard

America's economic woes have taken a heavy toll on Broadway, where the final curtain is coming down on 15 shows in the next six weeks.

Marketing Broadway: Selling Hope for a Song By PATRICIA COHEN

Some theater veterans are hoping that as portfolios go down, the appetite for entertainment will go up.

Thanks to Blagojevich, Second City goes back into rewrites by Chris Jones

Catch Me If You Can Musical to Premiere in Seattle in Summer 2009

PBS to Broadcast Kevin Kline Cyrano January 7

Kevin Kline Cyrano to Debut on PBS in January 2009

New Line Cinema to Produce Rock of Ages Film

Rock of Ages Is Headed to the Silver Screen

Off-Broadway's Rock of Ages Headed to the Big Screen

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab Extends to March 2009

Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab Extends Until March 1

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